Walls Of Light (Ascend Again)

[inelegy]

What if "Heaven and Earth" had an epic? Surely it would've been a better album, right??

I mean we're prog fans, and if there's one thing we know as irrefutable fact: LENGTH MEANS QUALITY.

"Music by the yard!" we cry out (with apologies to Andy Partridge).

"Volume, volume, volume!" we chant in close harmony, to the music of a Mellotron and a Portuguese guitar with a weird tuning.

"Size matters!" we say, before realizing how that could be misconstrued.

So, after toying with the idea of curating an epic out of the least offensive bits of H&E, today I sat down to do exactly this.

The results are, admittedly, mixed. It doesn't hang together like the best Yes epics, but it's about as cohesive, perhaps, as the jumble that is "That, That Is." Part of the problem is conditioning brought on by months of listening to the various sections as standalone songs.

Maybe it could be heard as a medley of sorts that, in another (arguably worse universe), could've been performed live by Geoffrey Downes' YES (featuring no one of note or particular merit).

Whatever the case, here's "Walls Of Light (Ascend Again)"-- a concise guide to recent Yesmusic in just over twenty-one minutes.

https://mega.co.nz/#!vI8UWQjA!sS-38K3RndkDgjlNH30L01SKu8WGJSXYZ-twjGFHSxo

See this as your chance to experience H&E without risking the embarrassment of someone overhearing you listening to "Step Beyond" and think you're an age-inappropriate fan of The Wiggles.

(And, yes, the Mega link is safe. The only virus you'll get is an infection of dire 21st century Yes music.)

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Post by inelegy
What if "Heaven and Earth" had an epic? Surely it would've been a better album, right??
I mean we're prog fans, and if there's one thing we know as irrefutable fact: LENGTH MEANS QUALITY.
"Music by the yard!" we cry out (with apologies to Andy Partridge).
"Volume, volume, volume!" we chant in close harmony, to the music of a Mellotron and a Portuguese guitar with a weird tuning.
"Size matters!" we say, before realizing how that could be misconstrued.
So, after toying with the idea of curating an epic out of the least offensive bits of H&E, today I sat down to do exactly this.
The results are, admittedly, mixed. It doesn't hang together like the best Yes epics, but it's about as cohesive, perhaps, as the jumble that is "That, That Is." Part of the problem is conditioning brought on by months of listening to the various sections as standalone songs.
Maybe it could be heard as a medley of sorts that, in another (arguably worse universe), could've been performed live by Geoffrey Downes' YES (featuring no one of note or particular merit).
Whatever the case, here's "Walls Of Light (Ascend Again)"-- a concise guide to recent Yesmusic in just over twenty-one minutes.
https://mega.co.nz/#!vI8UWQjA!sS-38K3RndkDgjlNH30L01SKu8WGJSXYZ-twjGFHSxo
See this as your chance to experience H&E without risking the embarrassment of someone overhearing you listening to "Step Beyond" and think you're an age-inappropriate fan of The Wiggles.
(And, yes, the Mega link is safe. The only virus you'll get is an infection of dire 21st century Yes music.)

As I said at the time, I now (and still) consider your FFH redux to be definitive. I'll listen to this with "intrst."