Yes - Close To The Edge - Live

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1 Close to the Edge: The Solid Time of Change/Total Mass Retain/I Get Up
2 And You and I/Cord of Life/Eclipse/The Preacher the Teacher/Apocalypse
3 Siberian Khatru
4 America [*]
5 Total Mass Retain [*]
6 And You and I: Cord of Life/Eclipse/The Preacher the Teacher/Apoca ...
7 Siberia [#/*]

Yes - Yessongs (73)

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Parte 1
Parte 2

01 - Opening (Excerpt From Firebird Suite )
02 - Siberian Khatru
03 - Heart Of The Sunrise
04 - Perpetual Change
05 - And You And I
06 - Mood For A Day
07 - Excerpts From The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
08 - Roundabout



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01. I've Seen All Good People
02. Long Distance Runaround The Fish
03. Close To The Edge
04. Yours Is No Disgrace
05. Starship Trooper

Yes - Tormato (78)

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01- Future Times # Rejoice
02- Don't Kill The Whale
03- Madrigal
04- Release, Release
05- Arriving Ufo
06- Circus Of Heaven
07- Onward
08- On The Silent Wings Of Freedom

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans (74)

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01 - The Revealing Science Of God (Dance Of The Dawn)

02 - The Remembering (High The Memory)

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03 - The Ancient' (Giants Under The Sun)

04 - Ritual (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)

Bill Bruford - Bruford Tapes (79)

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01-Hell's Bells
02-Sample and Hold
03-Fainting in Coils
04-Travels With Myself - And Someone Else
05-Beelzebub
06-The Sahara Of Snow - Part One
07-The Sahara Of Snow - Part Two
08- One of a Kind (Part Two)
09-5G

Atoll - Rock Puzzle (79)

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1 L' Age d'Or (Dans 8000 Ans)
2 L' Ultime Rock
3 Kaelka
4 Smarto Kitschy
5 Eau (H20)
6 Garces de Femmes
7 La Maison de Men-Tää
8 Puzzle
9 L' Ultime Rock [Studio Z Version]
10 Puzzle [Studio Z Version]
11 Atari, That's a Game! [Smarto Kitschy-American Mix]
12 Here Comes the Feeling
13 No Reply
14 Eye to Eye

Atoll - Musiciens Et Magiciens [1974]

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French progressive rock group Atoll fashioned their music around Yes' and Genesis' repertoire, employing lush tapestries of classically oriented string work to light melodies and intricate song structures.

1974's Musiciens-Magiciens is among the band's strongest releases, laying out breezy, energetic passages that use a moderate amount of keyboards and strong dosages of guitar to create busy semi-suites that hold together quite well.

All the vocals are in French, but the instruments are what truly steal the show, especially in the 11-plus minutes of "Le Baladin du Temps," a concept piece which is broken up into three separate parts.

The final track, entitled "Je Suis D'ailleurs," has the band creating some rather spirited musical drifts and variations through the use of animated rhythms and resilient textures, much like Ange does, another French progressive band.

While Atoll's composition rarely strayed throughout their short lifespan, Musiciens-Magiciens remains one their best albums, mainly because the group was just starting out and their music and images sound fresh and inventive.

The release of Musiciens-Magiciens that appears on Musea contains four live bonus tracks, with two of them repeats of the album's original cuts.

Purists should be aware that the recording of the live tracks is very poor and of the lowest quality, but the original seven cuts sound quite good.

Rick Wakeman - Tapestries (96)

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01 Fremiet's Cat
02 Time Will Tell
03 Fountains Of Love
04 A View From A Window
05 Les Vendanges
06 Summer's End
07 Clair De Lune
08 A Brighter Dawn
09 The Blue Lily
10 Tapestries
11 The Garden Party
12 Portraits In A Gallery
13 The Daydream
14 The Storyteller


This is the second of Rick and Adam's albums for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the CD booklet features images from tapestries in the museum's collection.

Like the first, Romance of the Victorian Age, this is a piano-based collection, though there are slightly more other instruments added here.

Also like the first, Rick and Adam's compositions alternate, but this one also features a classical adaptation, a version of Debussy's "Clair de Lune" arranged by Rick.

Again like the first, the album begins with its liveliest piece, here Rick's "Fremiet's Cat," and thereafter features mainly slower and more contemplative music, with simpler and more restrained pieces (mainly Adam's) contrasting with more complex ones (mainly Rick's).

And finally, like the first, this one features fine playing by both men. But overall, the first one is better.

Rick Wakeman - Softsword (91)

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01 Magna Charter
02 After Prayers
03 Battle Sonata
04 The Siege
05 Rochester Collage
06 The Story Of Love
07 March Of Time
08 Don't Fly Away
09 Isabella
10 Softsword
11 Hymn Of Hope


Based on music Wakeman wrote for the finale of a Dickens Festival in Rochester-upon-Medway, England, this is an unclassifiable melange of an album, stylistically similar to Phantom Power or Time Machine.

If the songs fit into a storyline, this is not explained in the liner notes.

There are songs based on historical topics (but with lyrics grounded in modern idiom), sad and pleading love songs, and several instrumentals, a couple of which feature some good keyboard playing.

Rick Wakeman - Silent Nights (85)

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01 Tell 'Em All You Know
02 The Opening Line
03 The Opera
04 Man's Best Friend
05 Glory Boys
06 Silent Nights
07 Ghost Of A Rock 'N' Roll Star
08 The Dancer
09 Elgin Mansions
10 That's Who I Am


Wakeman's first of many albums for President Records, this was recorded with a rock band featuring Rick Fenn of Mason-Fenn on guitar, ex-Strawbs bass player Chas Cronk, and perennial Wakeman sideman Tony Fernandez on drums.

Seven tracks feature lead vocals by Gordon Neville, who is less strident than the average Wakeman vocalist.

Wakeman himself sings/narrates on the comical "The Dancer."

With Wakeman's career on the skids as it was, the lyrics to "Ghost of a Rock n' Roll Star" ("He's an aging man without a future plan / He was a star but now they've all forgot") sound autobiographical.

There's no bombast here, but no excitement either. Wakeman's own performance is good, especially on the delicate instrumental "Elgin Mansions."

Ad Infinitum - Ad Infinitum (99)

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01 - Ad Infinitum
02 – Immortality
03 – Waterline
04 - Physician Heal Thyself
05 - A Winter's Tale
06 - Rain Down
07 – Overland
08 - All Hallows Eve
09 - Neither Here Nor There
10 - Ad Infinitum (reprise)


Sounding very much like an album from 20 years previous, Ad Infinitum's debut is filled with such staples of the progressive rock sound as time shifts, intellectual lyrics, and layers of intricately played guitars and Mellotrons. There is even the cover art by Roger Dean.

The result is an album that while far from original is nonetheless a strong addition to the prog-rock canon.

At times, the group does hover a bit close to sounding like a cover band, but it's usually only for a brief period such as the introduction to the title track that sounds uncomfortably similar to Pink Floyd's "Shine on You Crazy Diamond."

For much of the album, the fact that the band melds together the styles of various progressive artists means that the music comes across as an interesting hybrid rather than simply a carbon copy.

"Overland" in particular sounds like a meeting of the members of the classic lineups of Yes and Genesis and like the rest of the album is recorded far better than those bands ever were.

Progressive fans wary of new releases that falsely claim to be throwbacks to the golden age of prog-rock should have no complaints about this one.

Yes/ABWH - An Evening Of Yes Music Plus (89)

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01 - Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra
02 - Time And A WordOwner Of A Lonely HeartTeakbois
03 - The ClapMood For A Day
04 - Gone But Not ForgottenCatherine ParrMerlin The Magician
05 - Long Distance Runaround
06 – Birthright
07 - And You And I
08 - Starship Trooper


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01 - Close To The Edge The Solid Time Of ChangeTotal Mass RetainI Get Up I Get DownSeasons Of Man
02 - Themes SoundSecond AttentionSoul Of The Warrior
03 - Brother Of Mine The Big Dream Nothing Can Come Between UsLong Lost Brother Of Mine 04 - Heart Of The Sunrise
05 - Order Of The Universe Order ThemeRock Gives CourageIt's Hard To Grow The Universe
06 – Roundabout

Burdened by all sorts of legal proceedings regarding the name Yes, Anderson-Brufod-Wakeman-Howe embarked on their one and only tour in 1989.

It was billed as "An Evening of Yes Music Plus," which provided the title to this live set, and also embroiled the group in much of their legal battle.

The CD here represents a live return to form for this lineup.

They were essentially the Yes of old, while the "YesWest" lineup were off doing their more pop-oriented approach to music.

This double disc really does hold up well, even as a Yes album.

The recordings here are quite well-done and focus more on the prog side of the musical structures.

The material chosen is based mostly on classic Yes material, but includes quite a few cuts that were featured on ABWH's studio release.

The only major complaint on this disc is that Tony Levin (who performed on the studio CD and most of the tour) was ill during the recording of this show, and therefore not featured here.

However, Jeff Berlin certainly does an admirable job of filling his shoes.

Nektar - Dream Nebula (Best Of 1971 To 1975) (98)

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01 – Prelude
02 - Astronauts Nightmare
03 - Warp Oversight
04 - The Dream Nebula (Part 1)
05 - It's All In the Mind
06 - A Tab In The Ocean
07 - Do You Believe In Magic (Single Version)
08 - New Day Dawning
09 - Wings (Single Version)

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01 - Cast Your Fate
02 - King Of Twilight
03 - Remember The Future (Part 1)
04 - Oop'S (Unidentified Flying Abstract)
05 - Fidgety Queen
06 – Recycle
07 - Cybernetic Consumption
08 - Recycle Countdown
09 - Auomation Horroscope
10 – Recycling
11 - Flight To Reality
12 - Unendless Imaginations

Progressive rock is one of the most misunderstood and maligned styles of popular music.

Its sound has been defined by a few of the most popular artists of its brief early-'70s heyday, including Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Genesis.

This has not only caused prog-rock to become a love-it-or-hate-it subgenre, but also overshadowed the contributions of many less commercially successful groups who created their own distinctive sounds.

Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite (89)

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1 A Fortune in Lies
2 Status Seeker
3 The Ytsé Jam [instrumental]
4 The Killing Hand
5 Light Fuse and Get Away
6 Afterlife
7 The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
8 Only a Matter of Time

Dream Theater's first official release gave an indication that this was a talented band that combined the styles of Yes, Rush, and Queensrÿche.

The latter seemed to be too big of an influence at this stage of their career.

Vocalist Charlie Dominici's voice is not powerful enough to carry out the band's otherwise convincing intensity, and his attempt to sound like Queensrÿche's Geoff Tate was unsuccessful.

The music here is not as heavy as it would become in the '90s but could still be classified as progressive metal.

Guitarist John Petrucci and drummer Mike Portnoy established themselves as competent musicians, but their individual styles were not yet refined.

The band's originality does shine through on "Light Fuse and Get Away," "The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun," and "Only a Matter of Time."

The odd-meter measures and numerous time changes gave the group a complexity that hadn't been experienced for an entire decade in the rock genre.

"YTSE Jam" was essentially their answer to Rush's "YYZ" and became a staple in the band's live set.

The session was marred mostly by subpar singing, too many metal clichés, and poor production.

There is, however, enough interesting playing to make it a worthwhile listen for fans of this genre, and is certainly essential for Dream Theater fans.

Yes – Drama (80)

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1 Machine Messiah
2 White Car
3 Does It Really Happen?
4 Into the Lens
5 Run Through the Light
6 Tempus Fugit

For this one album, ex-Buggles Geoffrey Downes and Trevor Horn were drafted in to replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman.

It rocks harder than other Yes albums, and for classically inclined fans, it was a jarring departure; but it was a harbinger of Yes and Asia albums to come.

A newly emboldened Chris Squire lays down aggressive rhythms with Alan White, and Steve Howe eschews his usual acoustic rags and flamenco licks for a more metallic approach, opting for sheets of electric sound.

Prime cuts include the doom-laden "Machine Messiah" and the manic ska inflections of "Tempus Fugit."

Despite the promise of this new material, the band soon fell apart; Horn went into production, Howe and Downes joined Asia, and Squire and White toyed and then gave up on a pair-up with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, which was to be titled XYZ (i.e., Ex-Yes and Zeppelin).

Castanarc - Journey To The East (84)

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Track Listings
1. Peyote (4:40)

2. Traveling Song (2:08)

3. Am I (3:30)

4. Goodbye to All That (5:50)

5. Rhyme (2:11)

6. The Fool (8:40)

7. Soon (3:04)

8. Journey To the East (7:30)

Total Time: 37:33
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Line-up/Musicians
- Mark Holiday / vocals

- David Powell / keyboards

- Paul Ineson / electric guitars

- Neil Duty / bass, electric, & acoustic guitars

- Dave Kirkland / drums & percussion
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CASTANARC's "Journey To The East"" is a real classic and is one of those light hearted progressive rock recordings with highly memorable songs.

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Standout for me here is the absolutely beautiful soft voice of Mark Holiday who I would say has one of the top voices.

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CASTANARC are a neo-prog act but never get too synthy for my liking instead delivering a gentle but complex offering which I am sure will please all prog heads.

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They never get too loud or out of control and keep focus on building vocal harmonies and beautiful sonic architecture.

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At times I think "Journey..." carries a slight Alan PARSONS touch. "Journey To The East" is a real cult prog classic and is a great album to sit and listen to.

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Obscure neo-proggers from the UK mid-80's scene, CASTANARC only stuck it out for four albums.

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The sound is a mixture of GENESIS and YES, but the vocalist sounds so much like John Waite that if you're a fan of his or the BABYS, it can tend to be a distraction.

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However, the music is more keyboard-oriented and less guitar-dominant than MARILLION, and reminds at times of SAGA. Overall, CASTANARC is a fairly decent neo-prog band, comparable in quality to PALLAS or PENDRAGON and not as good as JADIS.

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"Journey To The East" is a real cult prog classic and is a great album to sit and listen to.

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