CLOSE TO THE EDGE

This album still amazes me each time i hear it. I feel the same sensations i felt when i heard it for first time but once i find something different. The complexity of the album doesn´t fight with emotion and that is the secret of this album. The song "Close to the Edge" is one of the topics of all history of progressive rock. Chaos and harmony mixed, torment and peace. Sometimes it seems like each musician was playing a different song, but when i pay attention, i find there is an incredible harmony in all that "madness". Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford, all of them are terrific playing their instruments and the voice of Jon Anderson sounds as one more instrument. "And You and I" is another incredible song, with not the complexity of "Close to the Edge", this songs shows the "other side of Yes", coz if something sounds like a mark of the band, it has got to be with fast changes... graduality is not a word in the music of Yes. "Siberian Khatru" is a strange but magical piece: the guitar of Steve Howe sounds sometimes funky and that shows how open-minded were the musicians of the seventies.