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Yes - Fly From Here (CD/DVD Digipak)

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First studio album in many years. Reconstituted line up features Jon Anderson sound-alike Benoit David on vocals and the return of keyboardist Geoff Downes. The band enlisted Trevor Horn to produce. They dusted off an old Yes "Drama"-era tune which was never recorded but performed live. It was reworked and expanded into an epic piece that forms the core of the album.

This is the deluxe digipak edition that comes with a bonus DVD featuring a "making of" documentary.
  • Style:Progressive Rock
  • Record Label:Frontiers Records
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Great album! I miss Anderson & Wakeman, but this album is so good I forget that they're not there! Benoit & Downes are doing a great job. Cool dvd as well, showing interviews and the making of the album. A great buy for Yes fans & prog fans in general!
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Im going to be honest, This is a excellant cd the production is fantastic....The firsts 4 or 5 tracks are great BUT, (IMO) the remaining cd to me weakens a little. Except for the Last #11 track which to me is the best track on the cd... I havent bought a Yes cd in over 15 or so yrs. but Im not dissappionted at all .Its a great outing indeed..I just felt the middle of the cd got lighter.....B.Ricci
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Surprisingly credible album is in many ways more musically consistent than many of Yes's efforts from 1990 on. In that time, the band released nothing to match their 70's classics, but instead a series of albums of variable worth (Union, Talk, Open Your Eyes, Keys to Ascension, The Ladder, Magnification), all of which feature a few great tunes sandwiched among filler. The new album fits the pattern. The 6-part title suite is the clear high-point, expanding well upon the unreleased 1980 Drama outtake. The remaining tracks range from decent proggers (Life on a Film Set, Into the storm) to bland throwaways (Hour of Need, The Man You Want Me To Be). Intriguingly, the best tracks all have Horn/Downes writing credits, demonstrating the Drama prodigals were a lot more invested in this project than the core trio of Howe/Squire/White. Benoit David acquits himself nicely, mainly by not trying to be Jon.
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Fly from Here is the best Buggles CD since their first, enhanced by their singer from Mystery replacing Trevor Horn vocals, with back up musicians Howe and Squire from the old progressive rock band Yes. (The drums could be played by anyone.) Written by Horn/Downes except one excellent Howe tune, the CD is a mixture of pop (fair to poor) and a few excellent more progressive tunes. They also threw a bone to the backup band with an acoustic guitar tune by Howe and another weak tune with truly embarrasing lyrics by Squire, both throw aways. Three tracks are excellent, and the rest make you wonder about what might have been. Sad that backup musicians Squire and Howe seem to hit the creative brick wall with no joint compositions on this CD. The singer does a great job of hitting the pristine high notes similar to Trevor Horn in both Buggles and Yes work, sounding nothing like Jon Anderson. Unfortunately it appears that the print shop accidently packaged this music in a Yes cover by mistake as the music on this CD has none of the original spirit and energy of this band.
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