Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (album)

Occupation

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is the name of the debut album by the British progressive rock band Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe, an offshoot of the band Yes, from the year 1989.

Formation

As the work on the 1987 Yes album Big Generator inclined towards the end, had been building up great frustration about his position in the band's Jon Anderson. In the 70 years he had been accustomed to lead the band, now is a new member Trevor Rabin (vocals, guitar) profiled as a bandleader and Anderson pushed with the support of bassist and founding member Chris Squire, the management and record company Atlantic Records page. Its position in the band had been reduced to the function as a singer. Rabin had increasingly approached with his own, already finished songs to the band, without referring to Anderson's more open, experimental procedure of consideration. In Rabin's more concise songs the other participants saw greater commercial potential.

But Anderson wanted to, as he stated, do not submit to the dictates of sales and left the band after the completion of the Big Generator tour for the second time since 1980 (see Paris Sessions ). He founded with Bill Bruford, Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman the Yes offshoot Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe to return to the classic, characterized by longer pieces Yes music.

He then took with his former Yes colleague Bill Bruford ( until 1972 when Yes) Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman (both until 1980 when Yes) contact, in putting forward a concept for a new band, a band under his direction. Bruford, first in the belief that he should be involved on a solo project Andersons, consented, as Anderson and later Howe, had the musical idea for a first album already largely together. Also, the fact that his ex- King Crimson colleague Tony Levin was an excellent bass player available, contributed to his decision.

In addition to Anderson brought especially Steve Howe material for the debut album of the new band, some of whom had been scheduled to take a second album - project of his previous band GTR (the base to " Birthright " is by Steve Howe and GTR vocalist Max Bacon ).

The band spent five weeks in Paris to develop the new material and einzuspielen itself. Then the musicians then flew to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, to record the album in the AIR Studios of Beatles producer George Martin. Situated in London's AIR Studios some guitar parts yet been included. Some of these parts (especially on "Fist of Fire" and "The Meeting " ) were deleted from the technicians Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero them later, without the knowledge of Steve Howe. He made his anger about this and about the guitar sound a whole in some interviews publicly air. The offer Anderson to leave the album unreleased, he refused, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe so that could be published.

The album, much closer to the Yes sound of the seventies, and by the longer pieces, the instrumental passages and the moderate progressive rock alignment roughly comparable to 'Yes' Going for the One, has sold approximately 750,000 times. Then started the four musicians with the support of Tony Levin (or Jeff Berlin ), Bass, Julian Colbeck, keyboards and Milton McDonald, guitar and vocals to a successful world tour that lasted from 29 July 1989 to March 23, 1990 and 74 concerts included. A planned follow-up album, entitled Dialogue never came about because ABWH and Yes merged and published to eight an album called Union ( 1991).

Title list

  • Sound
  • Second Attention
  • Soul Warrior
  • The Big Dream ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford )
  • I Wanna Learn ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford )
  • She Gives Me Love ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford / Dowling )
  • Who Was the First ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford )
  • I'm Alive ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford )
  • Order Theme ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford )
  • Skirt Gives Courage ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford / Rhett Lawrence)
  • It's So Hard To Grow ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford )
  • The Universe ( Anderson / Howe / Wakeman / Bruford )

Notes:

Bill Bruford is mentioned only for financial reasons as co-writer of the songs, with the formation of the pieces he had nothing to do. In fact, he was paid for his work and involved by the mention of his name as a song writer in the profits of the plate.

  • In Fist of Fire was a guitar figure, which was heard over the entire length of the song in the background, deleted. The original recording is on the Yes box set In a Word: Yes to hear.
  • Long Lost Brother of Mine was created in collaboration with Steve Howe, Geoffrey Downes, who is responsible for the end of the piece and the chorus. It first was titled Never Stop Learning ( under this title is to listen to Steve Howe's rarities album homebrew ) was then renamed Lost in America and was intended for the Asia- album Astra. Lost In America is documented on the sampler Wetton / Downes of 2001. In addition, it should also be in the Albert Brooks movie Lost in America ( upside down in America, 1985) are used. The original was done by John Wetton and Geoffrey Downes. Later, Howe worked around the text and called the piece ( Have you ) Love forgotten. Also in the genesis of Brother Of Mine includes Steve Howe Idea At The Full Moon, which can be heard on Steve Howe's rarities album Homebrew. Jon Anderson placed At The Full Moon at the beginning of Brother of Mine (now under the title: The Big Dream) and finally wrote the intro to the whole song.
  • An original version of Birthright is called Red And White. They can also be heard on homebrew. Even older is the version of This World 's Big Enough, the Max Bacon einsang in the winter of 1987 for a second GTR album.
  • The ideas for The Meeting are from Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman. A piece called Nina on Wakeman The Family Album ( 1987), the original version of The Meeting represents a part that Steve Howe grossed for this song on the lute, was subsequently deleted without his knowledge by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero.
  • A portion of I Wanna Learn from Quartet is based on a song called More About You, who can also be heard on homebrew. Another part of I Wanna Learn goes back to the song The Go Between, which can be found on Howes album Hombrew 2
  • Some parts of Order Of The Universe comes from the song Barren Land (also on Howes homebrew album). The original idea for Barren Land dates back to 1982 and part of it was to the Asia- title Lying to yourself ( on the EP Aurora, 1986). Steve Howe had planned to turn it into a song for the Asia- album Astra.
  • A song called Children of Light was recorded but did not land on the album. Anderson had already written him in the later seventies. In the eighties it had been intended for a Jon & Vangelis album, which was, however, not been established. The song appeared in 1996 ultimately on the Yes album Keys to Ascension 2, with a new finish called Lifeline of Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman.

Review

With a running time of 59:05 is Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe one of the first albums in music history, the greater the capacity of the CD (a total of about 74 minutes) were cut. Apart from the double and triple albums Yessongs, Tales from Topographic Oceans and Yesshows it is the longest album that a Yes - musicians had published until then.

The album marked only partly a return to Yes - Seventies style. Although Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is quite comparable with the less violent albums such as Going for the One, but there is here some stylistic innovations that were not possible a decade earlier. So, there are many significant borrowings from Latin pop and ethno - range, the just took his first boom in the late 80s. This concerns especially the songs " Teakbois " and " Birthright ". The former is dedicated to the reggae singer Bobby Dread, the latter deals with the first atomic bomb tests of the British government in 1954 at the Australian Woomera and the fate of the Aborigines. This newly adapted styles ensured prompt for criticism by some Yes fans, actually picking up different styles ( esp. country music, European classical music, jazz) had already been a trademark of the band in the seventies, so that the orientation is not such a radical step was, as she may have appeared to some.

Against the background of legal battles between Yes and Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe 's text "She Gives Me Love " from " Quartet" is interesting, which contains numerous references to melodies, song titles and lyrics of Yes:

She give me love / When love had gone away / When the pressure came so fast / She give me love / Long distance runaround ( song titles from the album Fragile ) / And in between the pressure / I was Summoned

What happened to this song / We once knew so well / Signed promise for moments / Caught within the spell ( text lines from the song The revaling science of God from the album Tales from Topographic Oceans )

How did we dance on the south side of the sky ( song titles from the album Fragile ) / We saw the flags flying on the moon / And thru the gates of delirium ( song titles from the album Relayer ) so fast / Believing in the light was a beginning / only to believe in you / Only to believe in you

A river, a mountain to be crossed / The sunshine ... ( text lines from the song South Side of the Sky from the album Fragile ) / Soon, oh soon the light ( line of text from the song Gates of Delirium from Relayer album )

She give me love / When I was losing almost / I was awakened (Song title from the album Going for the One) by the dream / She was the love for me / The first and last / And all that I remembered / What the roundabout ( song title from the album Fragile ) only to believe in you

In and around the lake / In and around the lake / In and around the lake ( text line from the song Roundabout from the album Fragile )

These allusions, together with the Roger Dean cover and designed by Roger Dean and Martyn Dean stage decoration underline once again clearly the claim of the band to be the " only true " Yes.

Singles

1 " Brother of Mine" (edit) ( 6:30 ) / " Vultures ( in the City )" ( 5:49 ) 1989 Arista, 7 ": AS1- 9852

Note:

  • " Vultures ( in the City ) ", the B-side of the single " Brother Of Mine ", goes back to a Steve Howe song called " Rare Birds "

2 "Order of the Universe" ( Short Edit ) ( 4:40 ) / "Order of the Universe" (Long Edit) ( 5:59 ) / "Order of the Universe" ( Album version ) ( 9:02 ) 1989 Arista, CD: ASCD - 9869

The European version of the single contained other pieces:

  • "Order of the universe" (Long Edit) ( 5:59 ) / " Fist of Fire " ( 3:27 ) / "Order of the universe" ( Short Edit ) ( 4:40 ) 1989 Arista, Cd -single 662 618

Was on the cover:

"Seven Principles of the order of the universe

George Ohsawa "

3 Quartet ( I'm Alive ) [ Anderson / Bruford / Wakeman / Howe ] ( 3:27 ) 1989 Arista, CD: ASCD - 9898 (Promo)

This is not only a section of the album version of " Quartet ", but a remixed and about 80 seconds longer pop version of the play, produced by Chris Kimsey, Jon Anderson and Michael Hutchinson, mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero. The version can be heard as a video clip in the accompanying appeared to LP video " The Big Dream".

Band Members

  • Jon Anderson - Vocals
  • Bill Bruford - drums
  • Rick Wakeman - Keyboards
  • Steve Howe - Guitar

With

  • Tony Levin - Bass, Chapman stick, vocals
  • Matt Clifford - keyboards, programming, orchestration, vocals
  • Milton McDonald - Guitar
  • Deborah Anderson - Backing Vocals
  • Tessa Niles - backing vocals
  • Carol Kenyon - backing vocals
  • Frank Dunnery - Backing Vocals
  • Chris Kimsey - Backing Vocals
  • Emerald Community Singers, Montserrat - Backing Vocals

Cover

The cover was designed by fantasy artist Roger Dean, who had come in the seventies many of the classic Yes albums. This should provide the public with the message, Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe had the " only true Yes" - Yes even had in the 80s modern graphic artists facing (see 90125, 9012Live: The Solos, Big Generator). The title of the album covers are " Blue Desert " and " Red Desert ".

Trivia

In an ironic response to the in the 80s rather on Pop-Rock/AOR oriented music of Yes Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe was given the catalog number 90126, which of Yes (1983 ) alludes to the title ( and catalog number) of the Atlantic album 90125.

Live

  • Themes was 1989 - 1990 played live 72 times and can be heard on An Evening of Yes Music Plus ...
  • Brother Of Mine was 1989 - 1990 played live 71 times and can be heard on An Evening of Yes Music Plus ...
  • Birthright was 1989 - 1990 played live 72 times and can be heard on An Evening of Yes Music Plus ...
  • The meeting was in 1989 - played live in 1990 and 2004, 106 times and can be heard on An Evening of Yes Music Plus ...
  • Quartet was played live in 1989 1 times
  • Teakbois was 1989 - 1990 played live 71 times and can be heard on An Evening of Yes Music Plus ...
  • Order Of The Universe was 1989 - 1990 played live 72 times and can be heard on An Evening of Yes Music Plus ...
  • Let's Pretend was played live in 1989 1 times

Sources and links

  • Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is mentioned in all Yes biographies. A comprehensive bibliography, the volume can be found on the pages of the English Progressive Rock Bibliography ( http://www.progbibliography.de ).
  • Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe reviews on the Baby Blue Pages
  • Album ( Progressive Rock )
  • Album 1989
  • Yes
Record label Arista Records Genre Steve Howe (musician) Electronic keyboard Yes (Band) GTR (Band) The Beatles Bass guitar Union (Yes album) Geoff Downes Asia (Band) Yessongs (album) Fragile (Yes album) Roger Dean (artist)
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