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Music : Olias of Sunhillow
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Olias of Sunhillow by: Jon Anderson List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £6.87 You Save: £3.12 (31%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0766482318827 Label: Elektra Manufacturer: Elektra Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Elektra Release Date: February 26, 1996 Studio: Elektra Sales Rank: 43793 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Captain's Log...... Good going all the wayThis has remained my favourite Jon Anderson creation. I was there at it's birth, my older brother bought it, when it came out. Each member of Yes released a solo album, this was far the best.When he was playing it I grew to love it more and when he was out, then I was playing it. Jon Anderson at his magical best. It is like being in the dwarves mine in Snow White, gems are everyway, some hidden and but the majority are there on view. Hey-Hoy Rating: - Jon's Masterpiece.....I remember the afternoon that I first heard this album, together with "Voyage Of The Acolyte" by Steve Hackett. These two albums have been played many times over the last thirty plus years and have stood the test of time incredibly well, becoming long term favourites. Recorded during a time when the members of Yes pursued their own projects, the music on this album is extremely hard to categorise, having an eastern, almost mystical quality to it that makes it quite unique in the scheme of things. The layers of instruments are quite complex and very different to anything around at the time. Jon used the shape and sounds of words as well as their meaning, which often explained the strangeness of his lyrics on this and many ... Read More: Rating: - Get over it, alreadyThe name of this album might be enough to raise an eyebrow or two amongst non-progrock fans (yes, I know you're out there), let alone all the negative associations that (for whatever reason) adhere to the uncrowned king of obscurantist hippydom, Jon Anderson, lead singer with that most classical of prog-groups Yes. And true enough, the package carries all his hallmarks: impenetrable, rambling lyrical imagery, the Tolkien- or Bradburyesque fantasy narrative concept, the mystically symbolic and self-referential album artwork. You might even find a satisfactory reason for why it all has to be like this, if ever you get to see the contemporary promotional interview Anderson did on BBC2's long-running album show `The Old Grey Whistle Test'. The ... Read More: Rating:  - And the word was Quaquoc, and behold, it was good...In the middle of the 70's, when prog-rock superstars Yes took a break from the band and released solo albums, not many would think that Jon Anderson would come up with one of the best of the solo efforts. Yes is known for its virtuoso musicians, whereas Anderson was just the singer, and for many, an odd one at that. What Anderson did for his 1st solo album was unexpected: instead of calling John Entwhistle (Squire's hero) in to play some thundering and fast bass runs, and instead of calling Jimmy Page and Bill Bruford and Keith Emerson (or even better, Manfred Mann, an under-appreciated keyboards virtuoso) to try to make a Yes album without the Yes guys playing, he locked himself in the studio, surrounded by all sorts of exotic instruments, and ... Read More: Rating: - The Solo BestThis is where you really discover how pretentious Jon Anderson can be, or perhaps he really has remained in the hippy timewarp. (I really am one to cast nersturshums, or however you spell it). The lyrics are as expected high blown crap, the music is over produced and far too flowery. The concept gives even Tales from Topographic a run for its money, (One day whilst I was leafing through some huge tome noone has ever heard of.) BUT... despite all this and more this is a lovely album and that is the correct way to see this as lovely. It is gentle mind soothing music. It is not great, it is not as good as anything by seventies Yes, (up to Relayer) but it is worth having and listening to, especially if you are a sad mind blown ex hippy. You and ... Read More: |
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