Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

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Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is the self-titled album by four alumni of the progressive rock group Yes: Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe. The project began in 1988 when Yes was in its 1980s line-up featuring Trevor Rabin. At that time vocalist Jon Anderson began to feel artistically limited in the band's current format. He then regrouped with Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman and Bill Bruford of Yes’ "classic" line-up. Bruford, who had at various times been a member of King Crimson, recruited Crimson bandmate Tony Levin as the group's bassist. The group were unable to use the name Yes for legal reason. The group rehearsed and composed their material in Paris and then flew directly to the island of Montserrat to record. Many of the tracks on the album (specifically "Teakbois") carry Latin and Caribbean influence. "Let's Pretend" was co-composed by Vangelis in 1986, and was a previously unreleased piece by the group Jon & Vangeli. The artwork for the album was created by artist Roger Dean, best known for designing album covers for Yes in the 1970. It features two painting, the front titled "Blue Desert" and the back titled "Red Desert". These are the two largest paintings ever painted by Roger Dean, both measuring 9’ x 6’. Most releases of this album represent only a truncated version of "Blue Desert". There wa, however, a special release with a gatefold cover, though "Blue Desert" was horizontally inverted in that version. The album was one of the first original recordings to take advantage of the extended time limit on compact discs clocking at almost 60 minute. Until then, only compilations or double albums on single discs utilized the extra time space. The song "Birthright" concerns the British nuclear tests at Maralinga. Track listing "Themes" – 5:58 "Sound" "Second Attention" "Soul Warrior" "Fist of Fire" – 3:27 "Brother of Mine" – 10:18 "The Big Dream" "Nothing can Come Between Us" "Long Lost Brother of Mine" "Birthright" – 6:02 "The Meeting" – 4:21 "Quartet" – 9:22 "I Wanna Learn" "She Gives Me Love" "Who Was the First" "I’m Alive" "Teakbois" – 7:39 "Order of the Universe" – 9:02 "Order Theme" "Rock Gives Courage" "It’s So Hard to Grow" "The Universe" "Let’s Pretend" – 2:56 Personnel Jon Anderson - lead vocal, backing vocals Bill Bruford - drums Rick Wakeman - keyboards Steve Howe - guitar with Tony Levin - ba, Chapman stick, vocals Matt Clifford - keyboard, programming, orchestration, vocals Milton McDonald - rhythm guitar Deborah Anderson - backing vocals Tessa Niles - backing vocals Carol Kenyon - backing vocals Frank Dunnery - backing vocals Chris Kimsey - backing vocals Emerald Community Singer, Montserrat - backing vocals Rhett Lawrence - co-writer, "Rock Gives Courage" .

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