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Sound Chaser: Steven Wilson's Yes Mixes Debut on Vinyl

May 14, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

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As part of Yes' 50th anniversary celebration, Rhino is readying a new five-album box bringing Steven Wilson's recent, acclaimed remixes of the band's storied catalogue to vinyl.  Due on June 29, Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes features Wilson's remixed versions of: The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close To The Edge (1972), the double album Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973), and Relayer (1974). Each remixed album is a vinyl debut, having previously appeared only in deluxe CD/Blu-ray or DVD-Audio packages.

To mark the occasion, longtime Yes collaborator Roger Dean has created new artwork specifically for this box set.  Not only has Dean designed the slipcase, but he's reimagined the famous art for each individual album.  Close To The Edge and Tales From Topographic Oceans will boast all-new cover art, while the remaining three covers have been reworked by Dean for this project.

Wilson's remixes have brought new attention to these classic albums, Illuminating long-buried details and putting the spotlight on the contributions of each band member on such classic songs as "Roundabout," "I've Seen All Good People," and "Close to the Edge."  These five albums find the line-up shifting with each musical change.  Yes's third studio release, 1971's The Yes Album, featured vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.  The release nine months later of Fragile welcomed keyboardist Rick Wakeman to the fold.  That line-up returned for 1972's Close To The Edge, but a year later, drummer Alan White made his Yes debut with Tales From Topographic Oceans. Patrick Moraz joined on keyboards for Relayer in 1974.  The one constant remained the group's desire to push the envelope of prog-rock forward.

Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes is due from Rhino on June 29.  You'll find pre-order links for this set below!

Yes, The Steven Wilson Mixes (Atlantic/Rhino, 2018) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

LP 1: The Yes Album (originally released as Atlantic 2400 101 (U.K.)/SD 8283 (U.S.), 1971 - this mix released on Panegyric GYRBD40106 (U.K.), 2014)

  1. Yours is No Disgrace
  2. The Clap
  3. Starship Trooper (Life Seeker/Disillusion/Würm)
  4. I've Seen All Good People (Your Move/All Good People)
  5. A Venture
  6. Perpetual Change

LP 2: Fragile (originally released as Atlantic 2401 019 (U.K.)/SD 7211 (U.S.), 1971 - this mix released on Panegyric GYRBD50009 (U.K.), 2015)

  1. Roundabout
  2. Cans and Brahms (Extracts from Brahms' 4th Symphony In E Minor, Third Movement)
  3. We Have Heaven
  4. South Side of the Sky
  5. Five Percent for Nothing
  6. Long Distance Runaround
  7. The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)
  8. Mood for a Day
  9. Heart of the Sunrise

LP 3: Close to the Edge (originally released as Atlantic K 50012 (U.K.)/SD 7244 (U.S.), 1972 - this mix released on Panegyric GYRBD50012 (U.K.), 2013)

  1. Close to the Edge (The Solid Time of Change/Total Mass Retain/I Get Up I Get Down/Seasons of Man)
  2. And You and I (Cord of Life/The Eclipse/The Preacher The Teacher/The Apocalypse)
  3. Siberian Khatru

LPs 4-5: Tales From Topographic Oceans (originally released as Atlantic K 80001 (U.K.)/SD 2-908 (U.S.), 1973 - this mix released on Panegyric GYRBD80001 (U.K.), 2016)

  1. The Revealing Science of God
  2. The Remembering
  1. The Ancient
  2. Ritual

LP 6: Relayer (originally released as Atlantic K 50096 (U.K.)/SD 18122 (U.S.), 1974 - this mix released on Panegyric GYRBD50096 (U.K.), 2014)

  1. The Gates of Delirium
  2. Sound Chaser
  3. To Be Over

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Steven Wilson, Yes

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Bill Davis says

    May 14, 2018 at 11:49 am

    Hi Joe - just a quick correction. In the second paragraph, you have the title of the album as "Tales from Topography Oceans" rather than "Topographic."

    Of course, Rick Wakeman referred to the release with some disdain at the time as "Toby's Graphic Go-Kart."

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    • Avatar photoJoe Marchese says

      May 14, 2018 at 3:33 pm

      Thanks, Bill! Caught the typo a while ago, but I appreciate your eagle eye! 🙂

      Reply

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