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Yes Album Listening Guides – Tales From Topographic Oceans Part 4 – Sid Smith talks about the context – 597

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The hugely knowledgeable Sid Smith joined us again this week to chat about the context of Tales from Topographic Oceans. Sid wrote the sleeve notes for the Steven Wilson remix of Tales which was released by Panegyric in 2016.

He also wrote the remarkable book, ‘In the Court of King Crimson – An Observation over Fifty Years’, so we were delighted to be able to ask him about the relationship between Crimson main man, Robert Fripp, and Bill Bruford.

  • Why did Fripp want Bruford?
  • Why did Yes decide to push the boundaries even further with Tales?
  • How influential was the album?

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Yes Album Listening Guides – Tales From Topographic Oceans Part 3 – Chris Dale talks about the keyboards on Tales – 594

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This week Mark and I welcomed the knowledgeable Chris Dale back onto the show for the third time. If you haven’t listened to the episodes where Chris talks about the Birotron (the infamous rarest musical instrument in the world) and the other keyboards on Tormato, then you may want to catch up with those before listening to this latest installment.

The Birotron – episode 503

The other Tormato keyboards – episode 531

This time the focus is the keyboards on Tales from Topographic Oceans and, as usual, Chris uncovers some truly amazing facts and insights. After all, he does own Rick Wakeman’s double mellotron, so who coud be better placed to share the sectrets of that instrument and its unique contributions to Tales?

  • What keyboards did Rick Wakeman use on Tales?
  • What makes that double Mellotron unique?
  • Which aspects of Tales does Chris think are great?

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Yes Album Listening Guides – Tales From Topographic Oceans Part 2 – Simon Barrow helps us to conceptualise the concept – 592

Tales From Topographic Oceans
Tales From Topographic Oceans

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This week we are joined by Yes book author, Simon Barrow, to talk about the concept behind Tales From Topographic Oceans. We get into a lot of detail as you would expect and explore some pretty fascinating areas of concept music – whatever that actually is!

  • What is a concept album?
  • Is Tales a concept album?
  • Does it even matter?

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Some of Kevin’s copies of Tales

The actual footnote Jon Anderson based the concept of Tales on:
10-6: Pertaining to the shastras, literally, “sacred books,” comprising four classes of scripture: the shruti, smriti, purana, and tantra. These comprehensive treatises cover every aspect of religious and social life, and the fields of law, medicine, architecture, art, etc. The shrutis are the “directly heard” or “revealed” scriptures, the Vedas. The smritis or “remembered” lore was finally written down in a remote past as the world’s longest epic poems, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Puranas are literally “ancient” allegories; tantras literally mean “rites” or “rituals”; these treatises convey profound truths under a veil of detailed symbolism.

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Yes Album Listening Guides – Tales From Topographic Oceans Part 1 – 591

Tales from Topographic Oceans

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This week we are starting a new project – The Yes Album Listening Guides. Eventually this will be a series of books and I explain more with Mark in this episode.

  • What is this new book series going to be about?
  • What is the first album?
  • How can I be involved?

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Some of Kevin’s copies of Tales

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Why did Yes stop playing sides 2 and 3 of Tales From Topographic Oceans? 478

Tales from Topographic Oceans

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Tales From Topographic Oceans
Tales From Topographic Oceans

It’s been a week for thinking deeply…or maybe not. Anyway, Mark and I have been listening to the oft maligned sides 2 and 3 of Tales from Topographic Oceans which have not been played as often as sides 1 and 4. Why not I hear you cry. Or maybe I don’t. In any case, that’s what we will be banging on about in this episode

  • Why abandon sides 2 and 3?
  • Are they really that bad?
  • What was it like to be an early audience member?

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