TORMATO

Dear friend, you write: It essential that reviews do not simply say "this album is great", or "this album sucks", without the reviewer expanding WHY they have come to this conclusion. Reviews should BE OF REAL USE AND INTEREST TO OTHER PROGRESSIVE MUSIC FANS, WHO CAN THEN BENEFIT BY FINDING NEW AVENUES FOR THEIR MUSICAL EXPLORATION. Thus, i will try not to use the word great in my review. Album Tormato is considered by most of the fans to be weak, but IT IS NOT TRUE. Yes, it contains shorter songs, yes, there are no complex conpositions as close to the edge, but there are a lot of perfect and catchy and enjoyable songs. I can hardly tell which one is the best. I like them all and they are all different. To name some of them: Circus of heaven is a fragile piece of music, beautiful melody driving us to the clean land of childhood; Future time might have been easily a longer track, but it is compressed to the classical song form introducing the unique music and masterships of YES; onward is a soft ballad with a special atmosphere which is hardly to hear elsewhere. It is really an unique album, one of my most favorites of yes (CTTE, Fragile, Tormato, 90125, magnification). yes album are all different and unique, but this one is outstanding even in the context of YES discography. It resembles me ATTWT by genesis, which as well contains short songs. To conclude, i do not understand people who on the one hand admire close to the edge and on the other hand name tormato a crap. it is snobish and not fair. In my opinion, if the yes musicians had wished they would have made short songs from close to the edge theme, or one big composition made of themes present on tormato. It is their freedom and i am happy they have produced some many faces and forms of their talent. Thanks.