TORMATO

Yes

Symphonic Prog

3.01 | 1823 ratings

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I remember being incredibly disappointed when this album came out, the production was awful and the good songs were thin on the ground and lacking melody,

Don't Kill The Whale was alright, the recorded version of Madrigal was no match for the live version they played on the Tormato tour, on which Anderson was accompanied by Rick Wakeman on Grand Piano (much better than the electric sounding harpsichord on here ) and Steve Howe on Guitar, a real missed opportunity, On The Silent Wings of Freedom is head and shoulders above anything on the album and is a classic Yes song.

Future Times/Rejoice - Release, Release and Onward all suffer form being average and lack melody, Circus of Heaven is Jon Anderson at his most embarrassing lyrically and musically, probably one of the worst yes songs he was involved with.

Arriving UFO is just nonsense and a very poor song

Fortunately Yes produced "Drama" after this and while some hardened Yes fans had credibility issues Horn and Downes replacing Anderson and Wakeman, the album was light years ahead of this in quality.

Time has not been kind to Tormato, barring one track it is an album best forgotten

karlthec | 2/5 | 2018-8-28

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