New guest appearances by Wakeman, Moraz, Downes, Sherwood and Davison

[bondegezou]

There's been a bunch of new Yesman guest appearances announced recently. dbar has already mentioned Glass Hammer's At the Gate, due October, with Jon Davison guesting. Davison and Billy Sherwood both appear on Dave Kerzner's new solo album The Traveler: Billy on bass on 3 tracks plus Jon singing on another track. The album is available now digitally, and ships physical copies next month. More at http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/wnyesm.htm#aspb

Finally, we have yet another covers project from Cleopatra Records. Synthesizer Classics features famous keyboardists (well, mostly famour + one unknown) covering classic synth tracks. This includes 3 Yes keys players: Rick Wakeman doing Space's "Magic Fly", Patrick Moraz doing Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene (Pt 4)" and Geoff Downes doing Vangelis's "Pulstar". More at http://www.bondegezou.co.uk/wnyesm.htm#synthc

[Mr. Holland]

Thanks for the updates Henry!

[pianozach]

Cool.

[Soundwaveseeker]

Ooh, Synthesizer Classics sounds like something cool to add to the collection. Synth prog, synth pop, electronic music, Kosmische musik, all cool. You can't go wrong with synth. Vangelis Pulstar by Geoff Downes? Wow, he was the right guy to do that one. Ironic because Pulstar = Francis Monkman = The Ice Bridge. That was a deliberate selection, I'm sure. Didn't know about this album and don't recall any announcement about it - bang, it's there. A surprise release.

[Davy]

No doubt I'm missing some good music, but I'm just not interested in following these guys outside of Yes anymore, except maybe Trevor's new album and DBA. Kudos to you guys though that enjoy it!

[Gilly Goodness]

DBA. September can't come soon enough 🧡

[rabin105]

Ooh, Synthesizer Classics sounds like something cool to add to the collection. Synth prog, synth pop, electronic music, Kosmische musik, all cool. You can't go wrong with synth. Vangelis Pulstar by Geoff Downes? Wow, he was the right guy to do that one. Ironic because Pulstar = Francis Monkman = The Ice Bridge. That was a deliberate selection, I'm sure. Didn't know about this album and don't recall any announcement about it - bang, it's there. A surprise release.

perhaps yes can rework pulstar for the next album

[bondegezou]

"Pulstar" is a tune by Vangelis, but Monkman did a piece that was very heavily influenced by "Pulstar" on the album that had his original of "The Ice Bridge". Here it is:

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