Yes pupils, followers or clones.

The Argentinian band Espiritu's album "Libre Y Natural" may have what you're looking for.

The vocalist has a tone similar to Anderson's, but slightly nasal, and the lyrics are in Spanish.

The track "La Fabrica Del Suenos" definitely has a Yes-like sound to it!

Thank you. You guys are incredible. Do you have any idea of how many years it would have taken me to find out about all these by myself? Thanx again!

Edited by Tormato - August 31 2006 at 15:34

OK,first of all,I ain't a YES-fan - I adore GENESIS,and I'm interested in GENESIS CLONES(have found dozens of them ).But I've found some YES-related bands ,which impressed me more than the Original One!!!

MAGENTA "Seven" - !!!!!!
AD INFINITUM "Ad Infinitum" - !!!!!!
EPISODE "Into the Epicenter"/"Starlight Tales"
TAI PHONG "Tai Phong"/"Windows"
DRUID "Towrad the Sun"/"Fluid Druid"
GLASS HAMMER "Shadowlands"
K2 "The Book of the Dead"

and yeah,you can always hear a lot of YES in ATOLL,GROBSCHNITT,YEZDA URFA,FLOWER KINGS,SPOCK'S BEARD etc


btw,just listened to MINDGAMES' last album - very much YES-influenced,but great after all!!!

Tormato wrote:        Of course I'm also checking new or not so new stuff. Since I started to come to this place I'm spending more money than I did in a looong time, in buying music. I've discovered Radiohead's  "Kid A" and the following album(didn't know the "creeps" were prog!), and Nightwish (once). curiously, I was fascinated by Nightwish's "Once" for a couple of weeks, I heard it a lot, and then suddenly, for no reason, I lost interest.

I can think of a lot of reasons for losing interest in Nightwish. Kid A/Amnesiac are amazing though. Enjoy your new Yes clones!

MattiR wrote: Rocktopus wrote: Voivod and Enslaved have both said themselves that they're influenced by Yes, but you might not be able to hear it.  You're right, though it's worth remembering there are other influences in music of Voivod and Enslaved. It's interesting that for instance Enslaved is (was?) black metal band. And they like/love Yes Clones of Yes? I recommend all of you an excellent French band ATOLL, especially: “Musiciens – Magiciens” [1974] ---> lots, lots of Yes. Just discover it! “L'Araignée-Mal” [1975] “Tertio” [1977] I think a superb example is also German GROBSCHNITT (not all albums!), for instance "Rockpommel's Land" [1977].  I disagree... Rockpommel's Land doesn't sound like any Yes album (maybe just some tunes)... Maybe it's the inffluence or the stuff of the 70's (almost every band sounds like other one in that or these album/song) but I don't find any common points between Grobschnitt Rockpommel's and Yes... BTW I think that Ring of Myth sounds more like a Yes homage than many other bands mentiones here... Peace & love.-.-.-.-.-.-

Heptade wrote: Druid was pretty damn close too.

I think you're wrong, my friend. Druid are superficially like Yes in the bass tone, the high pitched vocals and slightly dreamy lyrics and that's it.

The instrumental styles are NOTHING like Yes and the compositions very different. I saw them several times in 76/77, shared beers with them after gigs and got to know two of them quite well. They liked Yes, but never consciously set out to imitate them. They were admirers of many other bands as much or more than Yes.

Listen to Toward the Sun and tell me one Yes track that sounds remotely like ANY of the tracks. I can't find even one.

I like Yes very much but I also like Druid for their musicianship and musicality, not because they were a Yes clone. They were not and I feel to label them as such is a mistake.

Magenta's 'Seven' album has a bit of a Yes feel to it to my ears.

I'd suggest Badger's first album.  Their second and final LP doesn't sound like the same band.  I'd also suggest the first two albums by Flash.

Just give up now. I've searched high and low and no one compares. My simultaneous great and bad fortune was that Yes was the first prog band i heard. And as they are way out there as no 1 it was slightly down hill after that. These days i have given up comparing to Yes, it is futile, and it has allowed me to enjoy many bands on their own merits.

I agree with Ed.