", "Side one was the commercial or easy-listening side of, (a. One was 15. "Tales From Topographic Oceans" is an amazing LP! The phenomenal success of Wakeman’s solo career with The Six Wives Of Henry VIII had created its own momentum and, not unreasonably, there was demand for a follow-up. [68] It was remastered again by Bill Inglot in 2003 as an "expanded" version on Elektra/Rhino Records, which features a restored two-minute introduction to "The Revealing Science of God" not included on the original LP (this restored intro version was also featured on the box set "In a Word: Yes (1969–)" released the previous year) plus studio run-throughs of the same track and "The Ancient". Visit our corporate site. When Yes went off the road in January 1974, Wakeman staged and recorded Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. The punch Yes delivered came not from a single source but rather their collective force. Journeying deeper into the making of the album, he and Anderson were bumping heads. [74] The band spent £5,000 on a hot air balloon which was decorated with the album's artwork and tethered in each city they performed in the US. [8] One riff that Howe played for Anderson was rejected at first, but it was later incorporated into "The Ancient" as by then, the two sought for a different theme that would suit the track. “By the time we got to the second side, I think we really wanted to go off somewhere else altogether if we could. (12 September 2013) Retrieved on 12 May 2016. Well, Rick Wakeman had the answer. [58], In his negative review for Rolling Stone, Gordon Fletcher described the record as "psychedelic doodles" and thought it suffers from "over-elaboration" compared to more successful songs on Fragile and Close to the Edge. [47] It reached number 1 on the UK Album Chart for two weeks and peaked at number 6 on the US Billboard Top LPs chart. In rehearsal I tended to know exactly where we were going, to a point. In 2006, he clarified that his total dislike of the album is "not entirely true" and thinks there are some "very nice musical moments in Topographic Oceans, but because of the format of how records used to be we had too much for a single album but not enough for a double, so we padded it out and the padding is awful ... but there are some beautiful solos like "Nous sommes du soleil" ... one of the most beautiful melodies ... and deserved to be developed even more perhaps. There, in Bill Bruford’s London flat in early March 1973, along with dozens of other friends celebrating Bruford’s wedding earlier in the day, Jon Anderson sat perched on an open windowsill talking with Jamie Muir. Of course, other sessions hadn’t always been plain sailing, but nobody in the band was quite prepared for how choppy the waters had now become. [73] The band brought four times as much stage equipment than their previous tours which included an elaborate stage designed by Roger Dean and his brother Martyn with fibreglass structures, dry ice effects, a rotating drum platform surrounding White, and a tunnel that the band emerged from. “Some guys in the band were like, ‘Hold on a minute.’ They were fine with a double album but were, you know, ‘Just four songs?’ But Jon and I did manage to sell the idea.”. [19] The "Young Christians see it..." section of the song originated from a take recorded during the Fragile recording sessions that was previously unreleased until the album's 2015 reissue, which contained the track named "All Fighters Past". An epic release, it meshed adventurous solo excursions with tightly knit arrangements. “It was a time of spreading our wings, a wonderful project where we went to the end of the earth to do it. Tales from Topographic Oceans is the sixth studio album from the English progressive rock band Yes, released on Atlantic Records. “I actually wanted to record Tales From Topographic Oceans in a tent in this beautiful wood that I’d found, miles from anywhere. Tales from Topographic Oceans is where they took this gambit to the limit, 4 songs on four sides, and were vindicated by the end product. 1-Jon Anderson Interview: August 15, 1972 (13:53) Have you got anything else?’ and I’d play him another tune. To help achieve the right sound he wanted out of his guitars, Howe played several recordings by classical guitarist Julian Bream to Offord as a guide. Roche, Peter. [33] Howe plays a Danelectro electric sitar, lute, and acoustic guitar on the track. He’s just an amazing keyboard player. "I think there was a psychological effect of, "Oh, we're doing a double album. With the idea in mind Anderson found himself "caught up in a lengthy footnote" in Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) by Indian yogi and guru Paramahansa Yogananda which described four bodies of Hindu texts, named shastras,[3] that Yogananda described as "comprehensive treatises [that cover] every aspect of religious and social life, and the fields of law, medicine, architecture, art..." that "convey profound truths under a veil of detailed symbolism". Yes. Het album is gebaseerd op het boek Autobiography of a Yogi van de Indiase yogi en goeroe Paramahansa Yogananda. So the idea of ... a sort of magical landscape and an alternative landscape ... that informed everything: the album cover, the merchandising, the stage. But I got sort of hip." As hard as it was, and it was hard, nobody wanted to bottle out of what we’d committed ourselves to do. By Alan Shulman. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Apesbrain, Feb 7, ... (and I mean that separately from what one thinks of the quality of each song). [39] Painted using watercolour and ink, the front depicts fish circling a waterfall under several constellations of stars. Bath According to Howe, the track was originally 28 minutes in length but six minutes were cut due to the time constraints of a vinyl record. Side one is a difficult thing to play and side four, you’ve got the whole Ritual thing at the end, which is quite a thing to put together, where you’ve got the drums playing the lead melody. Even when the ideas perhaps aren’t entirely coming off, I still admire and enjoy the sheer uncompromising strangeness of it. Never the easiest of jobs, the arrival of Wakeman in 1971, who understood the nuts and bolts of the music, had improved the pace with which loose ends and threads might be put to use or dispatched. [47] The North American leg included two sold out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City that grossed over $200,000. Tracks tend to wander a bit ... and the music therefore is perhaps not as focussed as it might be." Please refresh the page and try again. [77] Wakeman declined to attend rehearsals for their next album and confirmed his exit on 18 May 1974, his twenty-fifth birthday. This was the place where Yes either fulfilled all of the promise shown on their previous five albums or slid off the rails in a fit of artistic hubris, especially on the part of lead singer Jon Anderson and guitarist Steve Howe, who dominated the composition credits here. [9] When they pitched the concept to the rest of the group Howe recalled some resistance, "but Jon and I did manage to sell the idea ... sometimes [we] really had to spur the guys on". Have you got anything else?' After Tait explained to Anderson that the idea would not work, Tait "built it anyway". Perhaps not surprisingly, remixing the album in 5.1 surround sound was no easy task for Steven Wilson. Tales from Topographic Oceans was released in December 1973 to pretty universal condemnation by the music press. Tales from Topographic Oceans (Deluxe Edition) - Album by Yes | Spotify. Topographic Oceans is, by design, an ambitious record, intended even before writing and recording to be a double album filled with only four side-long tracks. Dean thought the idea still did not work and used the original for the album's advertisements and posters. [8], "Ritual" relates to the tantras, literally meaning "rites" or "rituals". and I'd play him another tune". [70], Tales from Topographic Oceans was reissued with new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes completed by Steven Wilson in October 2016 on the Panegyric label. But there was perhaps another, more significant factor. Het is het zesde studioalbum van de groep. The Remembering 20:26 side three: 1. [15] The group were split in deciding where to record; Anderson and Wakeman wanted to retreat in the countryside while Squire and Howe preferred to stay in London, leaving White, who was initially indifferent, as the tie-breaking vote. [34] Howe's outro guitar solo was more improvised and jazz-oriented at first, but the rest of the group felt dissatisfied with the arrangement. Back then the passage had been given a much rockier treatment but had ultimately failed to find a suitable home. Sign up below to get the latest from Prog, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! The ongoing Vietnam War at the time provided a source for its lyrics. Then we’d have the quarter-inch tapes hanging from the wall and Eddy would then stick it together with Sellotape and that was how we made albums in those days. There was often a feeling that disaster was almost about to strike, but we got there in the end. IFounded by Jon Anderson and Chris Squire in 1968, the band created some of the most sublime prog-rock of the seventies, with ground-breaking albums like Tales From Topographic Oceans, Fragile, Tormato and the album that for many people is the definitive prog rock album - Close To the Edge. Anderson was determined their music should avoid showboating licks for their own sake. In some respects, this was business as usual for the group. Copy. [15] Anderson ranked the solo as one of Wakeman's best works. Yogananda wrote the smritis were "written down in a remote past as the world's longest epic poems", specifically the Mahabharata and Ramayana, two Indian epic poems. And that lack of bucolic charm? “Management and the record company were saying, ‘Why didn’t you just do another Fragile?’ I just had the feeling that if we don’t try something in this lifetime then, okay, we’re just rock stars, and I personally don’t think that way… You’ve got to do things that are a little bit different in this lifetime. When the band played the four-sided opus live, many fans found it a challenge. He thought "Ritual" brought the "first enjoyable moments" of the entire album, "where Alan's driving drums have something to grip on to and the lyrics of la la la speak volumes. [8], Yes regrouped at Manticore Studios in Fulham, then owned by fellow progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, to start rehearsals and develop the material Anderson and Howe had outlined. As Tales… slowly progressed during the summer and early autumn, Wakeman, when not supplying keyboards to Black Sabbath, who were working in the adjacent studio, was also busy scoring his next solo project, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. “We’d spend all day going over things and we’d get to dinner time and then get some rest. Ertegun informed Anderson that "tobographic" sounded like "topographic", so Anderson changed the title accordingly. [61] Tom Von Malder, for The Daily Herald, thought Yes "seldom disappoints", but named Tales an exception, with "Ritual" being the only track that lives up to the strong material on Close to the Edge and Yessongs as it is the "most cohesive, most lyrical of all". The album's design was discussed during an in-depth conversation Dean and Anderson had in 1973 during the band's flight from London to Tokyo via Anchorage, Alaska, during the Close to the Edge tour. Het dubbelalbum (twee elpees) is het meest controversiële van de band, doordat er drastisch werd afgeweken van de tot dan toe bekende Yes-stijl. Share. “Going on the road playing side one and side four is really nostalgic,” says White. We just knew we had a big landscape we could explore. Released 26 October 1973 on Atlantic (catalog no. There was some trial and error initially. Wakeman’s oft-quoted assertion that the album suffered from too much padding because of a lack of real musical substance became received wisdom in discussions of the band’s work. Examiner.com. I knew there were going to be some solos from Steve, and in the first movement there were solos from Rick, and in the second movement. [4] Anderson described it as "a calm sea of music" and aimed to get the band to play "like the sea" with "rhythms, eddies, swells, and undercurrents". But he couldn’t see where the band was going. “I thought it was great. 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is a four-suite, progressive, poetic tapestry depicting the human perception of time and memory, from simple everyday awareness right through to … Het is een prachtplaat waar zoveel meer nog te ontdekken valt. Pinhdar release new video for the moody Parallel, Esthesis release live in the studio video for The Awakening, Steven Wilson releases Nile Rodgers remix of Personal Shopper. Rock critics fall into different camps, each loving a particular aspect of the music and deriding everything that doesn’t exemplify their obsession. 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Jon Anderson on Classic Artists: Yes DVD. Thank you for signing up to Prog. However, changes in the personal and social interactions between the band took their toll in the confines of Morgan. [63], Retrospectively, Bruce Eder of AllMusic thought the album contains "some of the most sublimely beautiful musical passages ever to come from the group, and develops a major chunk of that music in depth and degrees in ways that one can only marvel at, though there's a big leap from marvel to enjoy. Jon provides great detail about the meaning of the album. Copy the following link to share it. We had to find a way of joining the jigsaw puzzle together to make it work.”, With much of that puzzle now in place, albeit somewhat loosely, Yes transferred to Morgan Studios in Willesden. Side one set the scene so much. Every hour that swept by on the studio clock not only broke down into minutes and seconds but pounds and pence as well. [11] Anderson gained confidence towards a double from the success of Yessongs, their first live album released that May as a triple that contained almost 130 minutes of music. “In those days it was like rolling the dice, whether you could mix it well on the first take or the 20th take. A hungry beast, Tales… called upon all of their songwriting resources, meaning that many items that had been discarded from their previous writing sessions were now re-examined and press-ganged into service. Tales from Topographic Oceans is the sixth studio album from Yes, released in the UK on December 14, 1973 (January 9, 1974, in the US). [31] The track includes a keyboard solo from Wakeman that Anderson wrote in the album's liner notes, "bring alive the ebb and flow and depth of our mind's eye". They’d experienced the nitty-gritty of putting records together. "[15] The lyrics contain several translations of the word "Sun" or an explanation of the Sun from various languages. Anderson suggested that Howe pick several themes from the album and combine them, which Howe did with "a more concise, more thematic approach". Discovering a reference to the different levels and divisions within Hindu scriptures in a footnote led to a ‘Eureka!’ moment for Anderson as the group toured Japan. All lyrics by Jon Anderson and Steve Howe. Yet this time it was different. There was a big, red double-decker bus coming towards us and I ran out and stopped the bus [laughs]. Just close your eyes, give it a listen, and find yourself transported away … That faith was something shared by Howe. Want to thank TFD for its existence? I had such great faith in doing it.”. [22], When the band settled into Morgan Studios, Lane and Anderson proceeded to decorate the studio like a farmyard. Interestingly, some of the background noise includes Steve Howe playing the acoustic section of The Ancient. [71], Yes had planned to start touring the album with an American leg from October 1973, but it was cancelled to allow more time for the band to complete it. [11], Yes spent five months arranging, rehearsing, and recording Tales from Topographic Oceans. “There were a lot of bands up there soloing forever but that wasn’t what I wanted to do. BA1 1UA. Tales from Topographic Oceans on brittiläisen Yes-yhtyeen kuudes studioalbumi.Alun perin levyn julkaisi tupla-LP:nä Atlantic Records 7. joulukuuta 1973. Anderson described the night as "magical [that] left both of us exhilarated for days". [16], Phil Carson, then the London Senior Vice President of Atlantic Records, remembered that, during a dinner with Anderson and Nesuhi Ertegun, Anderson was originally going to name the album Tales from Tobographic Oceans and claimed he invented the word "tobographic", a word that summarised one of Fred Hoyle's theories of space. [26] He also spent time with Black Sabbath, playing the Minimoog synthesiser on their track "Sabbra Cadabra". Having written Roundabout and Close To The Edge together, there was a real bond between the pair. yes - tales from topographic oceans (Atlantic, 1973) Although Roger Dean had created sleeves for a number of other bands during the late sixties, it was his collaborations with Yes which brought his other-worldly designs to the fore and became a crucial element in the packaging of that band’s early seventies releases. [15] He believed the group were "on the same page" and supported it at the time, but later saw Wakeman's criticisms as the end of a period of "illusive harmony" that existed in Yes since Fragile (1971). Although it was not a part of the original design, Anderson persuaded Dean to incorporate it after it was painted, so Dean drew it on a clear cel and had it photographed with and without the slipstream. Tales From Topographic Oceans (complete album) - Yes - YouTube. I'll defend Topographic Oceans to the death, though, even though it's the weakest album in the run from Yes Album to Going For the One. Although they’d always built their albums from a patchwork quilt of takes, Tales… had without doubt been the most arduous recording in the band’s career. He felt he wanted to move in his own direction.”. The Revealing Science of God 0:00 side two: 1. “You could say to another member, ‘Well, you don’t like this bit but have you got a part worked out yet? Brilliant in patches, but often taking far too long to make its various points, and curiously lacking in warmth or personal expression". One was 19 and one was 12", which required editing to fit a single album or extending the arrangements to fit on a double. "[59] For New Musical Express, Steve Clarke, who had listened to the album for two months and saw the band perform the album live once, declared the album "a great disappointment", coming from the strength of Close to the Edge and notes the "colour and excitement" that the group usually puts on their albums was missing. Conventional wisdom might be that with this album Yes roundly achieved the latter, but I’m happy to see a growing number of those like me that appreciate its beauty and ambition. [11][13] Though he considered "Ritual (Nous sommes du soleil)" as a strong track and good melodies and themes throughout the album, Wakeman remained displeased with the "padding" that was added. Rated #511 in the best albums of 1973. [54] Chris Welch reviewed the album for Melody Maker and wrote: "It is a fragmented masterpiece, assembled with loving care and long hours in the studio. We could really stretch out and no less so than on side three, when most of the beginning is a stretch-out of some mad, really quite wacky ideas – some quite Stravinsky, some quite folky. That some were struggling was, of course, a cause for concern but, he argues, the way around that was to overcome the doubt by diving in. Loader Icon. Tales From Topographic Oceans, an Album by Yes. I don’t think we’d be the same group without it.”, In 2016, as Yes toured America, The Revealing Science Of God and Ritual resurfaced. As seasoned and successful professionals, there was no naivety about what was involved. Then he brought some palm trees in. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. We’d be able to record there and have all these natural sounds around us. [65], In 1990, Anderson felt pleased with three quarters of the album, with the remaining quarter "not quite jelling", but felt the too soon release deadline given to the band resulted in a lack of time to listen and alter the music properly. [66] The album was first remastered for CD by Joe Gastwirt in 1994. Even with so many previous surround sound remixes of classic material under his belt, Wilson recalls how daunting it was to delve into the source tapes and make sense of what were in effect micro-managed moments and decisions taken on the fly 43 years ago. Fletcher singled out the acoustic guitar section from "The Ancient" as the album's high point. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. The opening track of the album begins with natural sounds of waves crashing on the shore of the ocean with atmospheric accompaniment from guitarist Steve Howe, then transitions to 20 minutes of what it means to continually seek for and discover a higher power (in this case, God). He pointed out "the playing is virtuosic throughout, the singing innovative and often complex, and the lyrics mystical and poetic. Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Tales from Topographic Oceans is the sixth studio album from the English rock band Yes, released as a double album on 7 December 1973 by Atlantic Records. But from Anchorage to Tokyo, I couldn't stop talking. Convinced he’d found the structural framework within which to place the large-scale ideas and concepts he’d been mulling over, he found a willing ally in Steve Howe. [21] Squire worked in the studio for as long as sixteen-hour days, seven days a week on the album. 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