Yes reported to be recording new album!

What news. I so would love to see another YES album and I know damn well it would be a killer. Those guys are't dumb. No, they are only the best Progressive Rock Band I have ever heard, bar none. I can't wait to see them live in August. I tip my hat to this band. What a treasure they are.

Even as it prepares for its 40th anniversary tour this summer, Yes is working on new material, frontman Jon Anderson has revealed to Billboard.com.

Anderson says the progressive rock heroes are preparing four new songs of the "opus" variety -- lengthy, multi-movement compositions along the lines of "Close to the Edge" and "Tales From Topographic Oceans."

"They're very, very different," Anderson says. "It'll be interesting when we perform them, because we know that we want to try and perform them in a unique fashion."

But Anderson adds that he's not sure those songs will wind up comprising Yes' first set of new material since 2001's "Magnification."

"Putting together an album really isn't logical anymore," he notes. "Putting together a large piece of music or something that is really a jump in a musical direction takes a lot of commitment from everybody.... But maybe during the tour we will discuss making some new music."

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Anderson says he'd also be amenable to some sort of reunion of the Yes lineup that made the group's triple-platinum 1983 smash "90125" as well as 1987's "Big Generator" and 1994's "Talk."

He and Trevor Rabin, the guitarist and co-producer in that incarnation of the band, have been in discussions about "maybe touring some of that '80s-period music, because it was very special."

But Anderson says he and Rabin aren't necessarily thinking about resurrecting that version of Yes as a recording entity.

"I wouldn't do it, like, Yes," Anderson explains. "I'd do it like me and Trevor aspiring to be the two of us making music and see what we come up with.

The Yes anniversary tour kicks off July 12 at the Festival d'ete de Quebec in Quebec City. [billboard]


There ya go.  I think I'll pass. 

As scary as it seems, I can only can only come up with excitement. Yes rocks, what can I say.

King By-Tor wrote: madness. I am both worried and excited. It's a rollercoaster ride of emotions right now.

i am more worried then exited. . .

The LADDER and MAGNIFICATION were a good return to form, especially the last one , so why not be optimistic? Steve Howe seems in great form after what i heard on PHOENIX.......Daddy Wakeman or Junior, does it even really matter?  Jon Anderson hasn't lost his voice....

laplace wrote: exactly. =) also I want to see you defending the new album in the forums, that's always entertaining ;)

oh hell  yeah.. I will I'm sure

laplace wrote: do it do it do it do it =P As little as I value post-Relayer Yes material it'll be a joy to listen to a band who *once* knew how to make good symphonic rock compared to every attempt at it I've heard so far this year - Magenta, Moongarden, RPWL, The Tangent et al have left me all completely unmoved and I'd rather hear Fails from Topographic Oceans, part II by far. o:) now call me a nostalgia junky

I couldn't agree more...  some of my biggest disappointments.. and my most prized drink coasters .. are what passes for modern symphonic prog... christ...  it was perfected over 30 years ago... I'd rather listen to some REAL progressive rock that that retreaded sh*t  like TFK.

Does Anderson @ co include Rick Wakeman? (not junior). If so, very intrigued.

madness.

I am both worried and excited. It's a rollercoaster ride of emotions right now.