Yes Announce Trevor Horn To Produce New Album 'Fly From Here'
Friday, 01 April 2011
Written by Jon Stickler
The world's most quintessential Prog Rock band YES, announces their highly anticipated new album 'Fly From Here'. This marks the first album in ten year with legendary, 2-time Grammy Award winning producer, Trevor Horn.
Horn and YES bassist Chris Squire re-discovered the track 'Fly From Here' which has never been recorded as a studio track. “Chris and I were talking one evening about a song ‘'Fly From Here'’ that we never recorded,” explains Trevor Horn. “I said I was prepared to spend two weeks with ‘YES’ recording that song. When I arrived in America to record it, I was taken prisoner by the band and only allowed my freedom again in return for producing the whole album. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse!!!”
'Fly From Here' encompasses YES’ signature brand of mysticism and grand-scale compositions. Maintaining a complex, symphonic sound that features the beautiful harmonies and strong heavy riffs they are known for. “The new album represents the best of YES from the 70s and the 80's with a current twist,” states Squire.
YES are the pioneers for the use of synthesizers and sound effects in modern music, which produced such timeless, symphonic-rock masterworks as "Roundabout," "Close To the Edge," and "Awaken". YES continued to push the cutting edge of art-rock music to their limits, selling over 30 million albums, reaching platinum status multiple times worldwide.
YES’ powerful mainstream progressive compositions have influenced a generation of musicians with a hugely successful and indelible catalogue of music with hit albums such as 'Drama Fragile', 'Close To The Edge' and '90125'. Classics such as 'Roundabout,' a seminal hit which consistently appears on “the best songs of all-time” lists, and the group’s #1 hit 'Owner of a Lonely Heart,' which Horn is responsible for. Taken from the YES album '90125', this single would form part of a unique double, which would see YES and Horn top both the UK and US charts simultaneously.
'Fly From Here' will be released on Frontiers Records July 2011. More details about the album, its packaging and YES’ live plans for the rest of the year will become available shortly.
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