Yes: Tales from topographic oceans

(1973, Atlantic)


    Tracklist:
  1. The revealing science of God (Dance of the dawn)
  2. The remembering (High the memory)
  3. 'The ancient' (Giants under the sun)
  4. Ritual (Nous sommes du soleil)
Band members:
Jon Anderson - Vocals
Steve Howe - Guitars
Chris Squire - Bass guitar
Rick Wakeman - Keyboards
Alan White - Drums

    Rating:
    Now this may look like a mini cd, but if you noticed on the cd list I stated that this is a double cd. Well.. imagine that there are two tracks on each :)
    This is a huge piece of music, about 80 minutes and none of them are wrong in any way. If you think this has any structure of any kind, and that they "do the same riff over and over again" in each song, forget it. Nothing on this album is simple, I dunno if words can explain an album such as this. The music often breaks out into long soloing of one of the intruments (not necessarily the guitar), like many King Crimson albums it takes an open mind to understand, although it has a light and happy feel all over it, so it never gets "too" experimental if you know what I mean.
    A masterpiece album made for listening, not reading about.





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