THE YES ALBUM

"The Yes Album" is the third album of Yes. The last album with Tony Kaye (keyboards) and the first with Steve Howe (guitar). With Steve Howe the arrangements will become complex and all those elements of classical music that will be typical of the Yes style will arrive. Of course, here and the "The Yes Album" still proves immature (because it still suffers from the style of the first two albums) but it should be noted that here it seems to be in the presence of another band, compared to that of the first two albums. "The Yes Album" is, in my opinion, a new beginning. The real beginning of this immense band. The more Rock and psychedelic elements are left aside, as new elements are inserted in the rhythms, sound and ideas. Meanwhile, avoid the song form. Rather it aims at something that is a set of riffs and sounds that dilates the pleasure of listening in the listener. In fact there is the perception that the songs are longer than they are. But without this situation making everything heavy. Steve Howe marks the compositions (because, as mentioned, the simple concept of song is overcome) with a series of jazzy riffs that fit perfectly into the musical fabric already started with the first two albums. The vocal parts become more complex and not at all Rock and the keyboards are more varied and are used more to give thickness to the sound or (the piano) to replace the guitars, in certain moments of the album. In addition, the band sounds freer and with that magic that is not perceived in the first two albums. Here all the colors, smells, emotions are perceived in an almost perfect way (And with the arrival of Rick Wakeman And "Fragile" this will reach its peak). "The Yes Album" is the first example of "Yessound" and what Yes was capable of producing in that 1971. But also one of the albums where the meeting between the tradition of what we now call classical music, Jazz and Rock can manage to produce. Immortal and magical crossover music.