Jon Anderson from YES and Sean McKee new song!

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   Performed at NAMM 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9mljkTUADk

Jon Anderson sounds as great as ever! Mr. Sean McKee plays some new guitar with a touchscreen and plays a great solo, he also posts the following comment explaining the song's origins and purpose:

Jon and I have been working on an exotic, longer form concept album made
 up of epic length songs that is nearing completion, when the 
opportunity came about to get involved in the early stages of this new 
digital audio workstation company, Lumit Audio, to help guide the 
company and software from experienced professionals' point of view. They
 are just out of college and have some fantastic new ideas about how 
audio software should work, mainly being easy, fast and fun, and that 
you can learn in an afternoon, while still offering pro features, and 
very slick touchscreen interface when run on Windows machines such as 
Surface Pro 4. The composition of this song had one simple rule, that we
 each individually spent one day learning the software, writing our 
parts, and recording them in Lumit. We collaborated with the company's 
brand ambassador, Serbian EDM producer Milojko Jaric (a.k.a. Freaked 
Frequency/Molok) to create a hybrid of styles combining progressive rock
 and orchestral styles with ethnic and electronic flavor. We literally 
did this over the first weekend of the new year, and it sounds great, 
which is a testament to the quality of Lumit. I did all my parts with 
the new Lineage MIDI Guitar from Inspired Instruments (www.lineageguitar.com)
 makers of the You Rock Guitar. Lineage is a big step up. It is simply 
the most incredible way for guitarists to express themselves with synth 
and sampled sounds, with perfect tracking, no false triggers or latency.
 I've got MIDI pickups on a few other guitars, but Inspired Instruments 
are the only ones that let me pull off a notey solo like I did in this 
song, without all the usual side effects associated with traditional 
MIDI guitars. The built in touchscreen gives some really cool options 
for modulations via XY pad, switchable whammy bar and other methods. The
 build quality and feel and look of the Lineage is top notch, beautiful,
 modern and classic at the same time. I'm doing things that were 
impossible before and having a lot of fun. Cliff Elion, inventor, sat 
with me to go over the features, and there was more than a few times a 
light bulb went off in my head and a big smile appeared on my face when I
 thought about the possibilities...  The album Jon and I have been 
working on absolutely wouldn't be possible with Inspired Instruments, as
 I composed all the orchestral parts via their guitars, and if you're 
looking for a MIDI guitar, the Lineage is the best you can get.

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relayerofdelirium Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: February 10 2016 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 25	Topic: Jon Anderson from YES and Sean McKee new song! Posted: February 10 2016 at 18:55
	Performed at NAMM 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9mljkTUADk Jon Anderson sounds as great as ever! Mr. Sean McKee plays some new guitar with a touchscreen and plays a great solo, he also posts the following comment explaining the song's origins and purpose: Jon and I have been working on an exotic, longer form concept album made up of epic length songs that is nearing completion, when the opportunity came about to get involved in the early stages of this new digital audio workstation company, Lumit Audio, to help guide the company and software from experienced professionals' point of view. They are just out of college and have some fantastic new ideas about how audio software should work, mainly being easy, fast and fun, and that you can learn in an afternoon, while still offering pro features, and very slick touchscreen interface when run on Windows machines such as Surface Pro 4. The composition of this song had one simple rule, that we each individually spent one day learning the software, writing our parts, and recording them in Lumit. We collaborated with the company's brand ambassador, Serbian EDM producer Milojko Jaric (a.k.a. Freaked Frequency/Molok) to create a hybrid of styles combining progressive rock and orchestral styles with ethnic and electronic flavor. We literally did this over the first weekend of the new year, and it sounds great, which is a testament to the quality of Lumit. I did all my parts with the new Lineage MIDI Guitar from Inspired Instruments (www.lineageguitar.com) makers of the You Rock Guitar. Lineage is a big step up. It is simply the most incredible way for guitarists to express themselves with synth and sampled sounds, with perfect tracking, no false triggers or latency. I've got MIDI pickups on a few other guitars, but Inspired Instruments are the only ones that let me pull off a notey solo like I did in this song, without all the usual side effects associated with traditional MIDI guitars. The built in touchscreen gives some really cool options for modulations via XY pad, switchable whammy bar and other methods. The build quality and feel and look of the Lineage is top notch, beautiful, modern and classic at the same time. I'm doing things that were impossible before and having a lot of fun. Cliff Elion, inventor, sat with me to go over the features, and there was more than a few times a light bulb went off in my head and a big smile appeared on my face when I thought about the possibilities... The album Jon and I have been working on absolutely wouldn't be possible with Inspired Instruments, as I composed all the orchestral parts via their guitars, and if you're looking for a MIDI guitar, the Lineage is the best you can get.

Easy Money Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 11 2007 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 10671	Posted: February 10 2016 at 20:42
	mmmmmmm ... switchable whammy bar

octopus-4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 14317	Posted: February 11 2016 at 00:37
	When is the album coming out?
	I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution

Nebulous Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: November 27 2013 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 3	Posted: February 14 2016 at 09:31
	Sounds more like a sales pitch for the instrument than the introduction of an upcoming album :-)

relayerofdelirium Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: February 10 2016 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 25	Posted: February 15 2016 at 08:51
	The video was posted by the manufacturer of the instrument, so that makes sense. From McKee's comment, it reads to me like Anderson and McKee were working on an album when they got involved with these companies and an EDM producer and did a little side project, so maybe this song has nothing to do with the album but was just made in a day for a tech demo? Another site calls this just that. Good stuff either way.