TORMATO

Tormato remains at a distance of 34 years, a very interesting album showing how the Yes wanted went forth from the popular cliché progressive - experimental, of success and quality, to try something new for themselves rather than for the public, just as they had done a few years before with Tales From Topographic Ocean, including labor costs only years after its publication. There are burrs (eg grinding and upset On The silent wings of freedom, really bad!) This is obvious, we were in the punk era and Yes tried the magic that led them to compose Going For The One, the absolute masterpiece , l 'apex of their magnum opus. But this magic struggled to come out and Tormato certainly is not the best work of Yes Yet it is the songs of the bonus tracks (some published some not because it is simple incisions test ...), which makes us understand how , with the usual workings of hours of dining and multitrack overdubs, the new songs would have produced something more like the same Going for the one that horrible Drama album without Anderson and Wakeman doing misercordia penalty and at the same time. ... That is, at the bottom of the magic even more tired and sluggish, but was still present between Squire and Anderson's two founders, broke out for the first time, the friction which then led to the present output of Anderson from Yes and painful ballet new singers who try to imitate the great master uvula gold with ridiculous falsetto voices and more out of tune .... Too bad the album post Tormato has never seen the light and that the ideas in gestation were badly distributed between Drama and Anderson's solo album, but without the glue that made him immortal Yes, without the desire of daring and break out these great musicians have shown so far (1978-79). However Tormato + Bonus Track album is a must for those who know and love Yes and progressive Rock. And 'the album that marks the end of the classic progressive as commonly understood in the 70's.