what happened to Horizons?

[YesWill]

sorry if this was discussed in the old forum, but I missed everything there between Sept-Nov last year....

Over the last few years there has been a lot of conjecture in the forums about the unfinished piece Horizons from the H&E sessions. You know, the 17-minute masterpiece. Did we learn anything more about this from the band or other sources in conjunction with the release of The Quest? Were parts of Horizons used on TQ? Is it still floating around somewhere? Is it all just a dream?

[Ash Armstrong]

It's on Jon and Vangelis's third album, Private Collection. Beautiful piece of music.

[josuev80]

It’s on the other side of the album that has Time.

[YesWill]

It’s on the other side of the album that has Time.

actually Time Horizon wouldn't be a bad name for a Yes album...

[soundchaser09]

I wish we had more information on that, yeah I think it was Geoff who talked about Horizons in an interview.

[Soundwaveseeker]

It's on Foxtrot, the acoustic piece on side 2 right before Supper's Ready

[rabin105]

sorry if this was discussed in the old forum, but I missed everything there between Sept-Nov last year....

Over the last few years there has been a lot of conjecture in the forums about the unfinished piece Horizons from the H&E sessions. You know, the 17-minute masterpiece. Did we learn anything more about this from the band or other sources in conjunction with the release of The Quest? Were parts of Horizons used on TQ? Is it still floating around somewhere? Is it all just a dream?

Honestly I am surpised as much as anyone this hasnt been released my guess is maybe its to painful for Davison and Downes to release this as its the last thing they were working on with Chris Squire

[yamishogun]

Were parts of Horizons used on TQ? Is it still floating around somewhere? Is it all just a dream?

I have a friend who told me that - and he should know - Horizons was broken down and sold for parts in order to help finance The Quest.

[yesmike0215]

If I remember correctly, Squire mentioned that a lot of what was “Horizons” ultimately became Subway Walls. Unless there’s another longer track they were working on?

[Ceasar’s Palace]

Then there is also according to Jon D. a longer version of Light Of The Ages. Maybe a reissue in time? I mean, in Time.

[Mr. Holland]

Honestly I am surpised as much as anyone this hasnt been released my guess is maybe its to painful for Davison and Downes to release this as its the last thing they were working on with Chris Squire

My guess is, parts were used for other songs or could it be, it was transformed to either "A Living Island" or "The Ice Bridge", but that it was decided to leave Squire's part's out, or perhaps there was too little from Squire to.be able to use ? Horizons was a Davison/Downes track.

This is from Henry's site from 2019:

One report had an album planned to be out by mid-2019. Rumour from the 2018 Cruise suggested that Yes were planning to use recordings of two songs with Chris Squire (both on bass and vocals), both of which were started on before Heaven and Earth was released. One of these is "Horizons", a long piece (although exactly how long varies from report to report). This is the Downes/Davison piece not finished in time for Heaven & Earth; it may have a central role and it seems Horizons may also have been a working title for the album project. Rumours from the summer 2019 tour point to this song being on the new album. An Aug 2017 backstage report from North Carolina had that Howe and Davison have been writing together extensively (with Davison very positive about the results), plus that Downes also has some material under consideration, so the band were then said to be looking at an album with "Horizons", some Howe/Davison tracks and a few Downes tracks.

The Quest has two Davison/Downes tracks, namely A Living Island. The song is 7 minutes long (which coincides with Henry's text that says "a long piece, al though exactly how long varies from report to report). Now The Ice Bridge is also a 7 minutes Davison/Downes piece (remember Downes thought at least it was his untill the whole Monkman thing happened), so that one could also be a reworked Horizons (all eyes to the east, onward to the sunrise).

Just speculation of course, but a possibility.

[Grey Wolf]

It's exploring the outer solar system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons

[downbyariver]