L'artista è un uomo generoso, l'arte non condivisa non ha ragione d'essere. L'arte eleva l'uomo dalla sua condizione materiale, l'arte è una illusione, l'arte nasce dall'amore per la vita, ma soprattutto dalla paura della morte, dalla sua natura oscura... ma l'arte è un dono, la musica è un dono ed ogni grande composizione dona "gioia e benessere". Ecco, per me la musica è tutto questo... Vagando per le recensioni di DeBaser ho scoperto con sgomento che non esisteva una recensione del "The Yes Album", mi vedo costretto, quindi, a scriverla io.
"The Yes Album" è un disco strepitoso, suonato in modo sublime, nulla ha da invidiare ai due album successivi degli Yes, strepitosi anch'essi. D’accordo “Close To The Edge” è un capolavoro, ma trovo “The Yes Album” superiore a “Fragile”, più omogeneo... Steve Howe entrava a far parte degli Yes e dall’incontro tra il rock e la sua chitarra Jazz nascevano sonorità melodie e assoli irripetibili, basterebbe citare il solo brano d’apertura dell’ album “Yours Is No Disgrace” per ascoltare un autentico capolavoro, fatto di chitarra suonata magicamente con ripetuti assolo, stilisticamente molto differenti tra di loro, cori strepitosi e melodie fortunatissime. L’album si conferma strepitoso anche con il terzo brano, suddiviso in 4 parti “Starship Trooper- Life Seeker-Disillusion-Würm”, con un cantato melodioso e con la solita chitarra di Howe, che funabolico, tra rock e jazz, ci regala note calde, virtuose, ma mai noiose. Il brano “The Clap”, pur dimostrando l’ ecclettismo di Howe, a mio giudizio risulta come un “pesce fuor d’ acqua” e interrompe la continuità dell’ album.
Concludo con l’ultimo brano dell’album “Perpetual Change”, capolavoro assoluto di armonia tra cantato, chitarra, tastiere e batteria, nello specifico in questo brano la chitarra Jazz di Howe si fa sentire, con due assoli dalle note calde e precisissime, come solo i grandi sanno fare. Per amore della verità, voglio precisare, che considero questo album un “capolavoro”, pur non essendo un fanatico degli Yes, ma piuttosto dei Genesis, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin...
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01 Yours Is No Disgrace (09:41)
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no disgrace
Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no, yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth
Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear
Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face
Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human, silly human race
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place
If the summer changed to winter, yours is no, yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Yours is no disgrace
Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are
Lost in summer, born in winter, travel very far
Lost in losing circumstances, that's just where you are
05 A Venture (03:18)
Once a peaceful man laid his old head down by a river,
Thought about his childhood life, his father and forgiver,
Who couldn't hide away, hide away.
He controlled his horses with a handclap or a whisper,
Drink he couldn't combat but in all he was no sinner,
Couldn't hide away, hide away.
He told all his sons of all the antics of a venture,
Then he told another one who drove himself to drink
Not to hide away, hide away.
Better men have realised alone is not a venture,
A peaceful man would realise alone is no adventure,
Just to hide away, hide away.
He told all his sons of all the antics of adventure,
Then he told another one who drove himself to drink
Not to hide away, hide away.
06 Perpetual Change (08:55)
I see the cold mist in the night
And watch the hills roll out of sight
I watch in every single way
Inside out, outside in
Every day
The sun can warm the coldest dawn
And move the movement on the lawn
I learn in every single day
Inside out, outside in
Every way
And there you are
Making it up that you're sure that it is a star
When all you see
Is an illusion shining down in front of me
And then you say
Even in time we shall control day
When what you see
Deep inside the day's controlling you and me
And one peculiar point I see
As one with many ones of me
As truth is gathered, I rearrange
Inside out, outside in
Inside out, outside in
Perpetual change
And there you are
Saying we have the moon, so now the stars
When all you see
Is near disaster gazing down on you and me
And there you're standing
Saying we have the whole world in our hands
When all you see
Deep inside the world's controlling you and me
Who'll see perpetual change
You'll see perpetual change
And there you are
Making it up that you're sure that it is a star
When all you see
Is an illusion shining down in front of me
And then you say
Even in time we shall control day
When what you see
Deep inside the day's controlling you and me
As mist and sun are both the same
We look on as pawns of their game
They move to testify the day
Inside out, outside in
Inside out, outside in
All of the way
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Di simak14
In dieci minuti c'è tanta di quella musica che molti gruppi non la compongono in una carriera.
L'uso di strumenti sempreverdi rende questo disco ancora attualissimo nei suoni.
