“You’ll understand why” going into the bizarre guitar solo is the high of this album for me and it gives me goosebumps. Oh and “standing on sacred ground”
I've seen Yes a few times with Rick Wakeman on keyboard. One time they had a rotating stage in the middle of the arena, not a bad seat on the house...back in those days it was "festival seating", first come, first serve. What a great time it was. Love how at your age you enjoy this band...so much more to explore. Thanks for the reaction 👍🔥
Wakeman was occupied with other plans when they made this album. So instead of hiring yet another keyboard player they decided to replace the keyboards with an orchestra. (Except some bits by Tom Brislin, and Alan White on this track), They hadn't used an orchestra since Ttime and a word. I think it worked fine. A very different Yes album. It's not a rock band backed by an orchestra. The band members are more like part of the orchestra. A bold move. And some georgeous melodies.
You finally got to my favorite piece on the album! If you enjoyed it, you might want to "watch" it played on the Symphonic video so that you can see the orchestra and band members really get into it. It's a highlight of the video for me.
Hope you are staying safe! Such fantastic songs! The later day albums with Jon Anderson such as KeyStudio and Magnification and very underrated Yes albums. I consider them just as good as their earlier works with him.
Goosebumps every time I hear In the Presence of. I love Steve's playing so much on this one. In fact besides the melodies Yes have produced over the years I think it has been Steve's playing that has kept Yes music so interesting for me. I have several of his solo albums in the series of "Homebrew" and there you can hear how much of Seve's "sketches" were used for Yes tunes. Anyway, another great album on the already impressive list of great Yes-albums!
"In the Presence of" emptiness. A bang and the first light shines, the notion of everything, and forms come together to align. Beginnings lead to endings for all, but "Time is Time". And what becomes of us, the universe pays no mind. Say Yes to Peace.
You should check out "In The Presence Of" on the Symphonic Live DVD. It's amazing. The whole DVD is probably the greatest concert I've ever seen and I've seen lots. As to the meaning of the words, the title suggest it is about God but knowing him, it is probably aimed at his wife.
Time Is Time: Chris Squire purchased a Warwick Corvette 4 string fretless bass specifically for this song. Hear how he slides up and down the fingerboard?
One reason why I love that album, it is one of the rare Yes albums that has an appeasing, calming mood to it. The older albums are excellent but so full of energy and drive that they can be quite exhausting (when I listen to Relayer or Topographic, I'm drenched when it finishes). This album is one of the rare yes albums that has this calm and fulflling feel to it (maybe Going for the one when one removes that song from the album or some songs on the Steve Howe album have that quality).
In the live version he opens the song by saying “god is all around us” and he continues with his poetic talk before the song opens. I love that they sing about love and god and all of that but I really really enjoy it when they tackle something negative (that, that is is a bit tough though) so him talking about people fooling themselves to serve their egos is such a cool thing to sing about. Especially since most of this album didn’t have any lyrically direction like the Ladder was pushed to have
YES. Most affirmative band ever. For me In The Presence Of is definitely directed at "source", whatever a person might consider that to be. It is a reminder that everything came from the same source, and everything is sacred. To stand on this planet incarnate is to not only be standing on sacred ground, but to be sacred ourselves. And Time Is Time is to remind that our time here is sacred too, and oh so fleeting. It is such a sweet lullaby, but not about a child going to sleep. Instead Jon and Yes are reminding us that each of us will experience "night has come at last to shine on you again". Each of us will pass. Again. Death has no more permanence than life, and each without the other lose their meaning. We come, we go, we come again. Magnification is the best late era Yes album. And it is already over twenty years old. But it projects the essence of Yes clear and to the heart. The most positive, affirmative band ever, to repeat myself. Blessings.
Hi JP. Thanks for this reaction! Now I know I've probably mentioned it before, but something I'd love to see you react to is the DVD concert release of Yes performing this live in Holland called Symphonic Yes. It has In the Presence Of and Magnification and others off this album PLUS long classics like Close to the Edge, Gates of Delirium, and Ritual/Nous Sommes Du Soleil (forgive the spelling but it's fantastic!) With a full Orchestra of Dutch orchestra members really enjoying the performance. You'd love it. And if the logistics of reacting to a long concert video are too much, then enjoy it yourself. 🙂
I've attended a Polish concert from this tour, when I was a teenager. The single greatest concert experience in my life. Gates of Delirium were fantastic with the orchestra
This was a welcome arrival in 2001, at the start of a new century - truly an album for its time. I'll have to look into their Symphonic Live album, released the following year - no doubt a followup after their first album with a symphony orchestra.
Two great late period tracks. I love this album. It is not rocker, but it is pleasant and beautiful. It moves me emotionally even 21 years after I first heard it. The only thing sad is that it is Jon Anderson's last album with Yes. JP, I hope you do all the Yes albums, even the bad ones. They will be fun to discuss as long as everyone is respectful of different tastes and musical views. Most of viewers seem to fall in this category. I recommend doing one from the 90's as I don't think you done one from that decade yet granted Magnification just missed the cut. The 90's album will be interesting as they are all very different as the members change in typical Yes fashion on every album.
The studio tracks on Keys to Ascension is the best Yes stuff outside of the 70s, if you're looking for a place to go next. It's the full classic lineup on that one.
The album is an amazing creation. I feel sad for those who can;t appreciate it, the are missing something, probably just lost in the Matrix. Note, there is a shortened (probably edited) version of the album out there which is of the band only without the orchestra, which I prefer and listen to regularly which I wouldn't do otherwise with the full orchestra.. It is definitely worth a listen for comparison to get the in your face feel for the the band performance. The instrumentals are clearer and fully up front, producing something to be in awe of. Who does stuff like this (let alone think of it) except Yes. The album is a work of art but the band only version for regular listens to experience the Yes we know.
In the presence, started a bit by the numbers but gradually amped up to 11. Both tracks made my Saturday morning a little better, I’ve needed some space lately, so I’m catching up now. This helped my calm. Glad you are well.
Im lazy today, so i will write this in my language: Ciertamente In the Presence Of es quizás, unánimamente, la última gran canción de Yes por la gran cantidad de fans que les encanta. Creo que Fly From Here, el siguiente, es un disco mucho menos disperso, coherente y mejor, pero la emoción de In the Presence Of no es superada o reemplazada. Heaven and Earth tiene algunas canciones lindas (To Ascend por ejemplo) pero es un punto bajo junto a Union y Open your Eyes. The Quest es una mejora y Dare to Know o A Living Island son algunas de sus mejores canciones, pero, nuevamente, In the Presence Of es mejor. De las canciones épicas que te falta por escuchar, Mind Drive es inevitable, y por supuesto Fly From Here. Endless Dream es entretenida, pero la considero inferior a estas
Mind Drive is a phenomenal song, I agree. In fact I think KeyStudio is an often overlooked album that deserves to be listened to regularly. I like most songs on that album a lot.
Justin, I recommend you watch YES acoustic on CZcams. They perform Time is Time, and it's quite lovely, as is all their acoustic playing. A really great video : )
I have loved Yes since 1972, when I first heard them. I've loved all their incarnations and changes, with one exception. When they don't have Anderson, they are not Yes. For example, Drama, and all the stuff after Magnification. So this one is really the last Yes album for me. Their later, Anderson-less work, strikes me as uninteresting. Glad you like these tunes. The last and best.
Interesting, these tracks are like a microcosm of the LP, basically 50/50. For me this disc has been hit and miss. And I may be old school, but tunes remeniscent of 'old' Yes' (pre Tormato), i've really enjoyed. The american 80's Yes stuff, not so much. Here, ITP, is like the good old days, it had scope, depth, a beautiful piece that took me back. TiT, this I thought rather generic, not particularly Yes-ish at all, twee, could've been anyone. That said, the strings playing out at the end, really rather lovely.
Try Fly From Here (Return Trip); this is the best version of a song written by the Drama lineup but released much later. And on this version, Trevor Horn does the vocals overlaid on the music that was made before Chris Squire died. That truly is the last good true Yes song ❤ I never really liked their post-Rabin stuff, and this song reminds me why. It just meanders without focus. But Fly From Here is also a Return to Form
ABSOLUTELY agree with Fly From Here (Return Trip). "Fly from Here (Suite)" is absolutely fantastic and you can tell the group had decades to perfect it and the closer to the album (Into the Storm).
@@keithbk I was just listening to Into the Storm. What a fantastic song that rarely gets mentioned. The whole album is the last great album Yes did for me, outshining much of their 90s and 00s stuff 😎
Afternoon, Justin. So glad you're both safe and well After The Ordeal (saw your Twitter posts). In The Presence Of is one of the band's greatest tracks, and stands comparison with classic era Yes music. I would say the same of Give Love Each Day. Time Is Time is mellow and melodic and a pleasant ending to probably Yes's strongest late album imho (I also rate Talk). Check out the live version of Presence, which I saw them play on the Yes Symphonic tour. P.S. my song ref After The Ordeal is of course by Genesis.
The concert dvd from this tour is fantastic. Tom Brislan played keys on it. He toured with Renaissance (I saw them open for Steve hacketts band in Quebec City). He's currently in Kansas (the band, not the state).
From this album on I've always felt the band was mostly going through the motions, their youthful inspiration spent. "Fly From Here" has some good moments but that was an old Buggles piece that got resurrected. I can't remember a single song from their last 2 albums. And Anderson's solo work with his ambivalent lyrics has worn thin for me as well.
you'd think with western music that math wise all the scale,chords,and combos of harmony etc would be used up by now prog never fails to go there now a sitar tho,anything goes lol
We were desperate for this LP to be a return to form and it was. But this ain't much cop really is it? Yeah Reheated. But i love the album. A Flower? Wot moves *me* to tears? Five Iron Frenzy : On Distant Shores.
Good stuff. Love Jon Anderson . He did some great stuff with Vangelis. Friends of Mr Cairo is great. If your taking suggestions, you should check out Airbag, from Norway. Great modern prog. Porcupine Tree and Big Big Trains Grand Tour album.
I believe this track was written by the late great Alan White. Incidently " if we were flowers we would worship the sun" one of if not the best lines written in prog.
Hi Justin, I wanted to kindly ask: can you listen to the album "The Quest" by Yes sometime? It's not very popular and I know there were a lot of questions about "The Ice Bridge" (which you've already heard) and Francis Monkman's song - "The Dawn of Man", but I don't think the album is that bad. Maybe not exactly what you expect from YES, but I listen to the album more often and enjoy it.
I agree, it's growing on me as well, I think the key is to not compare it to their previous work. They're not spring chickens anymore so it's mellowness is quite natural. The ice bridge is an excellent re-arrangement of that Monkman tune & really love Dare to know, The Western Edge & A living Island
I remember how they couldn't stop making a big deal about how Alan was the key writer on the first part of "In the Presence Of" (he would even come out front in concerts to play the piano part -- something Chris never did on "Onward".) As if they felt a dire need to make up for years of not recognizing Alan's contributions to the writing. The second half of the song is one of the few times post 1978 that Yes recaptures the old mojo. The album is almost worth owning for that part alone (all bow down to Steve Howe's psychedelic slide guitar magic.) "Time is Time" probably holds the title of "Most Throwaway Song on a Yes Album."
Time Is Time is the perfect coda to In The Presence Of, and both pieces together make an apt finale to the criminally unsung Magnification recording. In time it will be recognized as on a par with the band’s earlier classics.
Nice end to the album. BTW, if you feel like doing lighter music for a few days after Ian visited, I will understand. Go with what works for you. Be self indulgent if you need to.
I love the music of IN the Presence but your question is very relevant. Who is it to? It is worship. However, in so many previous Yes tracks it seems that he worships the sun, eg. Awaken. This troubles me as a Christian. Idolatry is such an alluring sin but it does absolutely nothing for me. His equivocation troubles me, which is sad because the music is tremendous.
and yet Malachi 4:2 says "But to you who fear My name 'The Sun of Righteousness' shall arise With healing in His wings" One can also quite easily make the case that millions of Christians are guilty of idolatry, in many forms, but I wouldn't worry about issues like this. It's just not that important.
"In the Presence of" is the last GREAT piece from Yes
The piano at the beginning of In The Presence Of is played by the late Alan White. R.I.P. Alan. We miss you!🎹🥁⚘⚘⚘
Piano at the beginning played by Alan White.
“You’ll understand why” going into the bizarre guitar solo is the high of this album for me and it gives me goosebumps. Oh and “standing on sacred ground”
I've seen Yes a few times with Rick Wakeman on keyboard. One time they had a rotating stage in the middle of the arena, not a bad seat on the house...back in those days it was "festival seating", first come, first serve. What a great time it was. Love how at your age you enjoy this band...so much more to explore. Thanks for the reaction 👍🔥
YES 'In the Round' 1979, was my first YES Concert : )
@@Lightmane , same.
Mine was the final show of the tour, at the Hollywood Sportatorium.
@@IllumeEltanin cool. Last time I saw YES was right after Chris Squire died. Outdoor concert in Chicago, by Lake Michigan. Toto opened for them.
Wakeman was occupied with other plans when they made this album. So instead of hiring yet another keyboard player they decided to replace the keyboards with an orchestra. (Except some bits by Tom Brislin, and Alan White on this track), They hadn't used an orchestra since Ttime and a word. I think it worked fine. A very different Yes album. It's not a rock band backed by an orchestra. The band members are more like part of the orchestra. A bold move. And some georgeous melodies.
You finally got to my favorite piece on the album! If you enjoyed it, you might want to "watch" it played on the Symphonic video so that you can see the orchestra and band members really get into it. It's a highlight of the video for me.
This ☝️
Hope you are staying safe! Such fantastic songs! The later day albums with Jon Anderson such as KeyStudio and Magnification and very underrated Yes albums. I consider them just as good as their earlier works with him.
And it just gets better and better every time you hear it! Thanks, JP!
Light is the metaphoric term for consciousness.
Justin, you gotta do the studio tracks from Keys to Ascension next. The last true Yes tracks featuring Jon, Chris, Steve, Rick and Alan
Goosebumps every time I hear In the Presence of. I love Steve's playing so much on this one. In fact besides the melodies Yes have produced over the years I think it has been Steve's playing that has kept Yes music so interesting for me. I have several of his solo albums in the series of "Homebrew" and there you can hear how much of Seve's "sketches" were used for Yes tunes. Anyway, another great album on the already impressive list of great Yes-albums!
"In the Presence of" emptiness. A bang and the first light shines, the notion of everything, and forms come together to align. Beginnings lead to endings for all, but "Time is Time". And what becomes of us, the universe pays no mind. Say Yes to Peace.
I was so happy that their last album with Jon was such a mature perfect 2K gorgeous album. Live with the orchestra was pure heaven.
Justin there is only one word for In The Presence Of...masterpiece!😎
Absolutely!🤩
@@TigerMtnKing 😎
You should check out "In The Presence Of" on the Symphonic Live DVD. It's amazing. The whole DVD is probably the greatest concert I've ever seen and I've seen lots. As to the meaning of the words, the title suggest it is about God but knowing him, it is probably aimed at his wife.
Another Masterpiece!!! Love 💕 in the Presence....and Time is Time sounds very Beatles like.
Time Is Time: Chris Squire purchased a Warwick Corvette 4 string fretless bass specifically for this song. Hear how he slides up and down the fingerboard?
One reason why I love that album, it is one of the rare Yes albums that has an appeasing, calming mood to it. The older albums are excellent but so full of energy and drive that they can be quite exhausting (when I listen to Relayer or Topographic, I'm drenched when it finishes). This album is one of the rare yes albums that has this calm and fulflling feel to it (maybe Going for the one when one removes that song from the album or some songs on the Steve Howe album have that quality).
In the live version he opens the song by saying “god is all around us” and he continues with his poetic talk before the song opens. I love that they sing about love and god and all of that but I really really enjoy it when they tackle something negative (that, that is is a bit tough though) so him talking about people fooling themselves to serve their egos is such a cool thing to sing about. Especially since most of this album didn’t have any lyrically direction like the Ladder was pushed to have
YES. Most affirmative band ever.
For me In The Presence Of is definitely directed at "source", whatever a person might consider that to be. It is a reminder that everything came from the same source, and everything is sacred. To stand on this planet incarnate is to not only be standing on sacred ground, but to be sacred ourselves.
And Time Is Time is to remind that our time here is sacred too, and oh so fleeting. It is such a sweet lullaby, but not about a child going to sleep. Instead Jon and Yes are reminding us that each of us will experience "night has come at last to shine on you again". Each of us will pass.
Again. Death has no more permanence than life, and each without the other lose their meaning. We come, we go, we come again.
Magnification is the best late era Yes album. And it is already over twenty years old. But it projects the essence of Yes clear and to the heart. The most positive, affirmative band ever, to repeat myself.
Blessings.
This song is superb. The reason why I love Magnification so much. Yes at their best. A bit to religious for me, but so great.
Like "The Big Generator," "Magnification" is a Masterpiece!
Hi JP. Thanks for this reaction! Now I know I've probably mentioned it before, but something I'd love to see you react to is the DVD concert release of Yes performing this live in Holland called Symphonic Yes. It has In the Presence Of and Magnification and others off this album PLUS long classics like Close to the Edge, Gates of Delirium, and Ritual/Nous Sommes Du Soleil (forgive the spelling but it's fantastic!) With a full Orchestra of Dutch orchestra members really enjoying the performance. You'd love it. And if the logistics of reacting to a long concert video are too much, then enjoy it yourself. 🙂
I've attended a Polish concert from this tour, when I was a teenager. The single greatest concert experience in my life. Gates of Delirium were fantastic with the orchestra
Big fan of Magnification!!! Love, love, love it.
This was a welcome arrival in 2001, at the start of a new century - truly an album for its time. I'll have to look into their Symphonic Live album, released the following year - no doubt a followup after their first album with a symphony orchestra.
Hey Justin! Thank you!!😎
Two great late period tracks. I love this album. It is not rocker, but it is pleasant and beautiful. It moves me emotionally even 21 years after I first heard it. The only thing sad is that it is Jon Anderson's last album with Yes. JP, I hope you do all the Yes albums, even the bad ones. They will be fun to discuss as long as everyone is respectful of different tastes and musical views. Most of viewers seem to fall in this category. I recommend doing one from the 90's as I don't think you done one from that decade yet granted Magnification just missed the cut. The 90's album will be interesting as they are all very different as the members change in typical Yes fashion on every album.
The studio tracks on Keys to Ascension is the best Yes stuff outside of the 70s, if you're looking for a place to go next. It's the full classic lineup on that one.
Keystudio : )
The album is an amazing creation. I feel sad for those who can;t appreciate it, the are missing something, probably just lost in the Matrix. Note, there is a shortened (probably edited) version of the album out there which is of the band only without the orchestra, which I prefer and listen to regularly which I wouldn't do otherwise with the full orchestra.. It is definitely worth a listen for comparison to get the in your face feel for the the band performance. The instrumentals are clearer and fully up front, producing something to be in awe of. Who does stuff like this (let alone think of it) except Yes. The album is a work of art but the band only version for regular listens to experience the Yes we know.
A recommandation : David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Earthbound . Essencial song for those who love music. (And David Sylvian or Robert Fripp)
Glad you have been checking out this album. It is kind of slept on. Saw them on this tour and these songs were great live.
In the presence, started a bit by the numbers but gradually amped up to 11. Both tracks made my Saturday morning a little better, I’ve needed some space lately, so I’m catching up now. This helped my calm.
Glad you are well.
Im lazy today, so i will write this in my language: Ciertamente In the Presence Of es quizás, unánimamente, la última gran canción de Yes por la gran cantidad de fans que les encanta. Creo que Fly From Here, el siguiente, es un disco mucho menos disperso, coherente y mejor, pero la emoción de In the Presence Of no es superada o reemplazada. Heaven and Earth tiene algunas canciones lindas (To Ascend por ejemplo) pero es un punto bajo junto a Union y Open your Eyes. The Quest es una mejora y Dare to Know o A Living Island son algunas de sus mejores canciones, pero, nuevamente, In the Presence Of es mejor. De las canciones épicas que te falta por escuchar, Mind Drive es inevitable, y por supuesto Fly From Here. Endless Dream es entretenida, pero la considero inferior a estas
Mind Drive is a phenomenal song, I agree. In fact I think KeyStudio is an often overlooked album that deserves to be listened to regularly. I like most songs on that album a lot.
Cet album est rempli de grâce et de beauté. Merci de me l'avoir fait découvrir
Justin, I recommend you watch YES acoustic on CZcams. They perform Time is Time, and it's quite lovely, as is all their acoustic playing. A really great video : )
I have loved Yes since 1972, when I first heard them. I've loved all their incarnations and changes, with one exception. When they don't have Anderson, they are not Yes. For example, Drama, and all the stuff after Magnification. So this one is really the last Yes album for me. Their later, Anderson-less work, strikes me as uninteresting. Glad you like these tunes. The last and best.
Great album, amazing songs, wonderful review.
Justin, here's my recommendation for which YES album you should react to next. Pick 5 albums and make a poll, and see what happens.
Nice ending to one of the last good Yes albums. Time for Fly from Here with Benoit David. RIP Alan and Chris.
What a brilliant couple of tracks here JP and whets the appetite to hear more of the album. All the best from the UK
Interesting, these tracks are like a microcosm of the LP, basically 50/50. For me this disc has been hit and miss. And I may be old school, but tunes remeniscent of 'old' Yes' (pre Tormato), i've really enjoyed. The american 80's Yes stuff, not so much. Here, ITP, is like the good old days, it had scope, depth, a beautiful piece that took me back. TiT, this I thought rather generic, not particularly Yes-ish at all, twee, could've been anyone. That said, the strings playing out at the end, really rather lovely.
Try Fly From Here (Return Trip); this is the best version of a song written by the Drama lineup but released much later. And on this version, Trevor Horn does the vocals overlaid on the music that was made before Chris Squire died. That truly is the last good true Yes song ❤
I never really liked their post-Rabin stuff, and this song reminds me why. It just meanders without focus. But Fly From Here is also a Return to Form
Oh I have to add: the Drama lineup even performed parts of this suite in 1980
ABSOLUTELY agree with Fly From Here (Return Trip). "Fly from Here (Suite)" is absolutely fantastic and you can tell the group had decades to perfect it and the closer to the album (Into the Storm).
@@keithbk I was just listening to Into the Storm. What a fantastic song that rarely gets mentioned. The whole album is the last great album Yes did for me, outshining much of their 90s and 00s stuff 😎
Afternoon, Justin. So glad you're both safe and well After The Ordeal (saw your Twitter posts). In The Presence Of is one of the band's greatest tracks, and stands comparison with classic era Yes music. I would say the same of Give Love Each Day. Time Is Time is mellow and melodic and a pleasant ending to probably Yes's strongest late album imho (I also rate Talk). Check out the live version of Presence, which I saw them play on the Yes Symphonic tour.
P.S. my song ref After The Ordeal is of course by Genesis.
The concert dvd from this tour is fantastic. Tom Brislan played keys on it. He toured with Renaissance (I saw them open for Steve hacketts band in Quebec City). He's currently in Kansas (the band, not the state).
Yoe really should listen to the Talk LP, absolutely wonderful. Somewhat of a cross between the 90251 Yes and what went before.
I'm not a flower, but i do worship the sun. : ) Genesis and YES forever!!
From this album on I've always felt the band was mostly going through the motions, their youthful inspiration spent. "Fly From Here" has some good moments but that was an old Buggles piece that got resurrected. I can't remember a single song from their last 2 albums. And Anderson's solo work with his ambivalent lyrics has worn thin for me as well.
you'd think with western music that math wise all the scale,chords,and combos of harmony etc would be used up by now
prog never fails to go there
now a sitar tho,anything goes
lol
We were desperate for this LP to be a return to form and it was. But this ain't much cop really is it? Yeah Reheated. But i love the album.
A Flower? Wot moves *me* to tears? Five Iron Frenzy : On Distant Shores.
Jon can write some deep lyrics, love these songs and the whole album.
Good stuff. Love Jon Anderson . He did some great stuff with Vangelis. Friends of Mr Cairo is great. If your taking suggestions, you should check out Airbag, from Norway. Great modern prog. Porcupine Tree and Big Big Trains Grand Tour album.
Very nice. Check out The Ladder and Mind Drive by Yes
I believe this track was written by the late great Alan White. Incidently " if we were flowers we would worship the sun" one of if not the best lines written in prog.
I cringed first time I heard that one.
BTW congratulations on the 25k! When we getting Tommy?
Hi Justin, I wanted to kindly ask: can you listen to the album "The Quest" by Yes sometime? It's not very popular and I know there were a lot of questions about "The Ice Bridge" (which you've already heard) and Francis Monkman's song - "The Dawn of Man", but I don't think the album is that bad. Maybe not exactly what you expect from YES, but I listen to the album more often and enjoy it.
I agree, it's growing on me as well, I think the key is to not compare it to their previous work. They're not spring chickens anymore so it's mellowness is quite natural. The ice bridge is an excellent re-arrangement of that Monkman tune & really love Dare to know, The Western Edge & A living Island
Hoping you and yours are safe
That asian dessert is probably "green tea" ice cream.
I remember how they couldn't stop making a big deal about how Alan was the key writer on the first part of "In the Presence Of" (he would even come out front in concerts to play the piano part -- something Chris never did on "Onward".) As if they felt a dire need to make up for years of not recognizing Alan's contributions to the writing. The second half of the song is one of the few times post 1978 that Yes recaptures the old mojo. The album is almost worth owning for that part alone (all bow down to Steve Howe's psychedelic slide guitar magic.) "Time is Time" probably holds the title of "Most Throwaway Song on a Yes Album."
Time Is Time is the perfect coda to In The Presence Of, and both pieces together make an apt finale to the criminally unsung Magnification recording.
In time it will be recognized as on a par with the band’s earlier classics.
Nice end to the album. BTW, if you feel like doing lighter music for a few days after Ian visited, I will understand. Go with what works for you. Be self indulgent if you need to.
🥘 😋
Time to tackle KeyStudio?
I love the music of IN the Presence but your question is very relevant. Who is it to? It is worship. However, in so many previous Yes tracks it seems that he worships the sun, eg. Awaken. This troubles me as a Christian. Idolatry is such an alluring sin but it does absolutely nothing for me. His equivocation troubles me, which is sad because the music is tremendous.
and yet Malachi 4:2 says "But to you who fear My name 'The Sun of Righteousness' shall arise With healing in His wings"
One can also quite easily make the case that millions of Christians are guilty of idolatry, in many forms, but I wouldn't worry about issues like this. It's just not that important.
@@Lightmane Excellent reply!
@@johnpeniell9709 thanks 🙂