C'est le premier album studio avec Alan White à la batterie, lequel a remplacé Bill Bruford. Tales from Topographic Oceans. Side one (dauntingly titled “The Revealing Science of God”) starts with a Buddhist-like chant that draws us up from the primeval ocean and resolves into a heraldic 3-note guitar figure. 3:30 / b. He notes that while Howe "set a new standard for rock guitar", he thought Wakeman's parts were not used properly and that the keyboardist was instead "relegated to the role of sideman". 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. [60], A review from Alan Bisbort printed in The Daily Tar Heel had a headline that deemed the album "cosmic hokum". He stressed that nothing depicted in the design is made up, and that everything is of a particular thing. [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. And I said 'poetic', which means this is not a geology paper - Yes have observed myths and dreams from all over the world in telling their tale, Egyptian, Mayan, Aztec, as well as modern meditations, … [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. Later that day, he found out his solo album Journey to the Centre of the Earth had entered the UK chart at number one. [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. '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 the oldest ages of the earth. These are, specifically: Brimham Rocks, the last rocks at Land's End, the Logan Rock at Treen and single stones from Avebury and Stonehenge. [62] Holly Spence, in the Lincoln Evening Journal, called Tales a unique and creative album that displays an "inventive combination of sounds and rhythms" that is more interesting than the "dull repetitive noise" that she thought was typical of rock music at the time. 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). "[40] The original pressing of the sleeve included a slipstream in the background by the fish that was removed from future reissues. Rated #511 in the best albums of 1973. [31] White came up with the chord basis of an entire section of the song on the guitar, which he does not play confidently, but Anderson told him to "keep playing" so it could be developed further. During one show, the structure around White that opened and closed failed to operate, leaving him trapped inside. Clarke concluded with a hope of Yes making a return to "real songs" which demonstrate their musicianship better. [37] Each of them carried a loose narrative thread that Dean did not continue for Tales from Topographic Oceans. [8], The album was packaged as a gatefold sleeve designed and illustrated by Roger Dean, who had also designed the art for Fragile, Close to the Edge (1972), and the band's first live album, Yessongs (1973). Squire believed Lane did so as a joke on Anderson as he wished to record in the country. Tales From Topographic Oceans is an album you can’t be ambivalent about. » Pendant la production de l'album, Anderson discute avec Vera Stanley Alder, un peintre et auteur de plusieurs livres sur la spiritualité qui ont une profonde influence sur Anderson, pour des clarifications sur ses interprétations des Écritures de Yogananda. [26] He also spent time with Black Sabbath, playing the Minimoog synthesiser on their track "Sabbra Cadabra". [11], Yes spent five months arranging, rehearsing, and recording Tales from Topographic Oceans. 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[14][10] Roughly one month into rehearsals, the band took a break from recording, during which Anderson vacated to Marrakesh with his family and wrote lyrics. [47] The North American leg included two sold out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City that grossed over $200,000. [44] Two more radio broadcasts of the album aired on Your Mother Wouldn't Like It with Nicky Horne on 9 November, and Rock on Radio One with Pete Drummond on 10 November. It topped the UK albums chart and reached #6 on the Billboard 200 Top LP’s chart during a chart stay of 27 weeks after its US release in January 1974. [20] Anderson brought in flowers, pots of greenery, and cut out cows and sheep to make the studio resemble a garden as a typical studio did not "push the envelope about what you're trying to create musically". According to the documentary Classic Artists: Yes, Jon Anderson was originally going to call the … [21] Squire worked in the studio for as long as sixteen-hour days, seven days a week on the album. [15] Howe is particularly fond of his guitar solo at the beginning, which to him was "spine-chilling ... it was heavenly to play". Robert Sheldon for The Times termed the music as "rockophonic", and selected "The Ancient" as a piece of music that "will be studied twenty-five years hence as a turning point in modern music". Have at it. 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). It is the first Yes studio album to feature drummer Alan White, who replaced Bill Bruford in the previous year. [4] Regarding its title, Anderson said: "It's always delicate to start talking about religious things ... [the track] should have just been "The Revealing". [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. If one can grab onto it, Tales is a long, sometimes glorious musical ride across landscapes strange and wonderful, thick with enticing musical textures". [26] Author and critic Martin Popoff called the album the "black hole of Yes experiences, the band dissipating, expanding, exploding and imploding all at once", though he thought it contained "some fairly accessible music". Yes frontman Jon Anderson devised the concept album during the band's 1973 Japanese tour when he read a footnote in Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda that describes four bodies of Hindu texts about a specific field of knowledge, collectively named shastras: the śruti, smriti, puranas, and tantras. # #-----# Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:23:37 -0500 From: TitanObel Subject: y/yes/tales_from_a_topographic_ocean.tab Yes "Tales from Topographic Oceans" (guitar parts by Steve Howe; Words by Jon Anderson) (acoustic guitar tab) transcribed by Torsten Lasse contact: uzsrbw@uni-bonn.de File name: "yes-tales_from_t_o.txt" ((Version 1)) These transcribtion contains several … Genres: Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog. By this time, the line-up had stabilised with singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and drummer Alan White, who had replaced original member Bill Bruford after the album was recorded. Looking back on it now, one cannot help Tales from Topographic Oceans was reissued in 1994 and 2003; the latter included previously unreleased tracks. [22], When the band settled into Morgan Studios, Lane and Anderson proceeded to decorate the studio like a farmyard. [4] Anderson recalled he "became engrossed" with the idea of a "four-part epic" concept album based on the four texts, though he later admitted that he did not fully understand what the scriptures were about. [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. Reviewer page. Tales From Topographic Oceans is the fifth in a series of remixed and expanded Yes classics. Howe recalled: "Jon would say to me, 'What have you got that's a bit like that...?' [57] Steve Peacock reviewed the album and a live performance of it for Sounds using the headlines "Wishy washy tales from the deep" and "Close to boredom". [77] Wakeman declined to attend rehearsals for their next album and confirmed his exit on 18 May 1974, his twenty-fifth birthday. 『オリコンチャート・ブックLP編（昭和45年‐平成1年）』（オリジナルコンフィデンス／1990年／, "Rick Wakeman on His Tumultuous History With Yes, Playing on Bowie's 'Space Oddity, "Progressive or Excessive? [10] Wakeman continues to hold a critical view. 6 in the US, where it went gold in 1974 for selling 500,000 copies. CD. Tales from Topographic Oceans est le sixième album studio du groupe de rock progressif britannique Yes, sorti le 14 décembre 1973 au Royaume-Uni et le 9 janvier 1974 aux États-Unis sur le label Atlantic Records. An edition with new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes by Steven Wilson arrived in 2016. [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". We started talking about meditation in music—not the guru type but some really heavy stuff. so I'd play him something and he'd go: 'that's great. After pitching the idea to guitarist Steve Howe, the two developed the album's themes and lyrics that took shape as a double album containing four side-long tracks based on each text. Together they used the spare time in between gigs to hold writing sessions in their hotel rooms lit by candlelight, sharing musical and lyrical ideas that suited the album's concept. [20] At the time of recording, heavy metal group Black Sabbath were recording Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) in the adjacent studio. comment. “To me, Tales From Topographic Oceans was a very free spirited album. The UK leg saw Yes sell out the Rainbow Theatre in London for five consecutive nights, marking the first time a rock band achieved the feat. [17] Wakeman jokingly nicknamed the album Tales from Toby's Graphic Go-Kart. 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. As was often the case in progressive rock’s heyday, many of the critics were unabashed in their unkindness and Tales from Topographic Oceans remains a wedge issue to this day with fans in online discussions. But I got sort of hip." [8], "Ritual" relates to the tantras, literally meaning "rites" or "rituals". It isn't reality". [7], Despite the mixed opinions, Anderson wrote in the album's liner notes that Squire, Wakeman, and White made "important contributions of their own" to the music. 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. The set was altered as it progressed, with "The Revealing Science of God" dropped for some early shows in 1974 and "The Remembering" removed completely from March. 6:17 / c. 3:21 / d. 4:30 / e. 2:55), (a. [19] Wakeman recalled the addition of white picket fences and his keyboards and amplifiers placed on stacks of hay. Offord placed them on-top of his car in order to find his car keys, and proceeded to drive away, forgetting about the tapes. The landscape comprised amongst other things, some famous English rocks taken from Dominy Hamilton's postcard collection. Bisbort wrote about his criticisms of its concept and the idea of the group, "who went East, got a shot of knowledge, came back West, had lots of money at their disposal ... and decided to cut an album guaranteed to give shortcut answers to the question for the multitude". Send Private Message. 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. D'une durée de plus de 81 minutes, il comprend quatre pièces réparties sur deux disques, chacune occupant une face de 33 tours. [6] Anderson spoke about his meeting with Muir: "I felt I had to learn from him. [18] Anderson had thought of recording under a tent in a forest at night with electrical generators buried into the ground so they would be inaudible, but "when I suggested that, they all said, 'Jon, get a life! C'est le premier album studio avec Alan White à la batterie, lequel a remplacé Bill Bruford. L'album se classe à la première place des charts britanniques et à la sixième place du Billboard 200 aux États-Unis. It then unfolds like much of TFTO. Atlantic / Elektra / Rhino. These earlier works are more accessible, and Tales is an acquired taste for the complex detailed progressive rock lover. Dean thought the idea still did not work and used the original for the album's advertisements and posters. Jon Anderson wanted the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza with the sun behind it, and Alan White suggested using markings from the plains of Nazca. He did not dismiss the album entirely, and recognised the group's musical talents. Tales from Topographic Oceans, has been, is, and probably will always remain the most controversial album in Yes’s huge back catalog, but to the avid Yes fan, the album and the tour that ensued were perceived as nothing but triumphant. Jon est introduit aux écrits de Paramahansa Yogananda par Jamie Muir, alors percussionniste de King Crimson, lors de la réception de mariage de Bruford le 2 mars 1973. 4:40 / b. When you list all the qualities that you despise and you realize you're describing yourself. Tales from Topographic Oceans is the sixth studio album by English progressive rock band Yes, released on 7 December 1973 by Atlantic Records. 1 Surround Sound from the original studio masters by Steven Wilson and is fully approved by Yes. Howe's guitar adopts the same tone as Wakeman's keyboards, which bored Clarke, but Anderson was praised in helping carry the music through with his "frail, pure and at times very beautiful" voice. [48] The album was certified Gold in the UK on 1 March 1974[45] and in the US on 8 February 1974, the latter for 500,000 copies sold. 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. 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