Yes new album "Fly from here"-latest news

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: I know you all have been talking about it but I saw this blurb yesterday   Producer Trevor Horn, who helped Yes score a massive hit with 1983's "Owner Of A Lonely Heart," has been asked to produce the forthcoming Fly From Here, Yes' first collection of original songs in 10 years. The album will also mark the official debut of Benoit David, who replaced original frontman Jon Anderson several years ago. [RollingStone.com] Ah this will be great to hear new Yes after so many years and about time too! As long as Howe, Squire, and White are on it I could care less about the rest. I am sure Benoit sounds great (Anderson's voice is raspy these days) and Rick replaced by Oliver will not hurt either.   Great to hear this news!

thehallway wrote: A 5-song album!!!! It'll be like Going For The One

Only insofar as it'll be a Yes album with 5 songs on it. The considerable involvement of Horn and Downes coupled with the fact that the epic title track will be a reworking of a Drama-era demo suggests that it could be more reminiscent of Drama than anything else, though if they pull off anything even half as good as that album I'd be amazed, quite frankly.

thehallway wrote: The Hemulen wrote: thehallway wrote: A 5-song album!!!! It'll be like Going For The One Only insofar as it'll be a Yes album with 5 songs on it. The considerable involvement of Horn and Downes coupled with the fact that the epic title track will be a reworking of a Drama-era demo suggests that it could be more reminiscent of Drama than anything else, though if they pull off anything even half as good as that album I'd be amazed, quite frankly. One of them is big (think Awaken)...... the others around 6 minutes! And with Howe at the writing helm, I'm thinking it's going to be a little more in the progressive style of Yes than Drama was.  Add to this the blood of a Wakeman..... and I think we have another GFTO. Obviously there are strong connections to Drama though.

Call me a sceptic if you like, but I've yet to see sufficient peer-reviewed evidence to persuade me that progginess is passed on genetically. Besides, Downes is providing most of the keys on this album, not Wakeman jr. Of course,
Howe was also one of the main songwriters on Drama (which I actually maintain is a pretty proggy album, especially on the opening and closing tracks). I'd actually take Machine Messiah and Tempus Fugit over the majority of GFTO any day.

Either way, we've no way of knowing how this album's going to turn out so it's best not to waste too much time and effort speculating. All I'll say is, despite a few glimmers of hope here and there, Yes haven't really produced any decent new material for decades, and the fact that they're falling back on an old Drama-era demo as their title track for this new album doesn't exactly fill me with hope.

I'll buy it either way, it looks like it's gonna be a real controversial release but I imagine there will be some good songs. Title track is pretty much guaranteed to be njoyable, albeit not innovative.

So has any of the tracklist been confirmed yet?

cstack3 wrote:   At Horn’s insistence, “Fly from Here” will feature [...] Geoffrey Downes on keyboards, as opposed to Wakeman, Squire said.

"Drama"....what an appropriate name!  More like "Drama Queens"!!  

Edited by cstack3 - March 31 2011 at 12:35

Did Oliver get the axe? He's not in picture or in press release which says Downes is now in Yes on keys.

cstack3 wrote: twosteves wrote: Did Oliver get the axe? He's not in picture or in press release which says Downes is now in Yes on keys. Ollie did get axed, see this:  http://heavyrocktheplaylist.blogspot.com/2011/03/yes-new-album-fly-from-here-out-in-july.html Maybe the music will be OK (I like Drama, but it is not my favorite Yes album), but we'll have to wait and see.  Squire seems to be the engineer of these moves, a bit heartless in my eyes.  Ollie was a nice bridge to the distant past of Yes.

This source you posted earlier says that Trevor Horn insisted on replacing Wakeman with Downes.

Epignosis wrote: cstack3 wrote: twosteves wrote: Did Oliver get the axe? He's not in picture or in press release which says Downes is now in Yes on keys. Ollie did get axed, see this:  http://heavyrocktheplaylist.blogspot.com/2011/03/yes-new-album-fly-from-here-out-in-july.html Maybe the music will be OK (I like Drama, but it is not my favorite Yes album), but we'll have to wait and see.  Squire seems to be the engineer of these moves, a bit heartless in my eyes.  Ollie was a nice bridge to the distant past of Yes.   This source you posted earlier says that Trevor Horn insisted on replacing Wakeman with Downes.