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Fly from Here
Fly from Here is the twentieth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes. It was released on 22 June 2011 by Frontiers Records, and is their only album featuring lead vocalist Benoît David and keyboardist Oliver Wakeman. Its ten-year gap from Magnification (2001) marks the longest between two Yes studio albums to date. Yes reformed in 2008 after a four-year hiatus with a line-up of David, Wakeman, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, and drummer Alan White. The band prepared material to record for Fly from Here during breaks in touring in 2010 and 2011, during which they enlisted former Yes frontman Trevor Horn as producer. After songs contributed by Wakeman were scrapped in favour of expanding the song "We Can Fly" into a 24-minute six-part "Fly from Here" suite, the band replaced him with former Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes as he co-wrote much of the new material.
Fly from Here received mixed to positive reviews from music critics, and peaked at No. 30 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 36 on the US Billboard 200. Yes promoted the album with a video release of "We Can Fly" and worldwide tours in 2011 and 2012, during which David was replaced by singer Jon Davison after he contracted respiratory illness. An alternative version of the album titled Fly from Here – Return Trip, featuring new lead vocals and mixing from Horn and instrumental parts, was released on 25 March 2018 during the band's fiftieth anniversary tour.
In September 2004, the Yes line-up of singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and drummer Alan White began a five-year hiatus. By March 2008, plans for their Close to the Edge and Back Tour in celebration of the band's fortieth anniversary were in progress. Wakeman was advised not to participate for health reasons and recommended his son Oliver Wakeman as a replacement, which the band accepted. However, all plans were cancelled in May 2008 after Anderson had an asthma attack and was diagnosed with respiratory failure. With further time required for Anderson to recover, Squire, White and Howe wished to waste no more time and continued with rehearsals for a rescheduled tour with Oliver Wakeman in the line-up. In June, during their search for a new singer, Squire invited Benoît David, a Canadian singer who fronted the Yes cover band Close to the Edge, to join the band. Squire found out about David after he saw a video of the group performing on YouTube and was impressed with his ability to sing in a style similar to Anderson. Yes toured worldwide from November 2008 to December 2010, during which they agreed to start work on a new studio album, the band's first since Magnification (2001).
Yes started on the album in March 2010 during their stay in Phoenix, Arizona, during which ideas of songs from Howe, Squire, and Wakeman were selected to develop further with the intention of Howe and Wakeman as co-producers with Wakeman as recording engineer. Wakeman recalled a period of "lovely integration" between the three of them during this time, although Squire wanted greater involvement in the production and David was unsure if the decision for the band self-produce was right. Wakeman then suggested that Yes contact producer and former Yes frontman Trevor Horn, who had replaced a departing Anderson in 1980 and sung on Drama (1980) with Geoff Downes, his partner in The Buggles, on keyboards, to bring more validity to the album.
Horn accepted the invitation, and the group initially planned to work with Horn only on "We Can Fly", a song that originated from a demo titled "We Can Fly from Here" that Horn and Downes had recorded prior to their arrival in Yes. The song was performed live during the Drama tour in 1980, and the band rehearsed it for a short while with session drummer Paul Robinson. When Yes disbanded in 1981, Horn and Downes recorded a second demo of "We Can Fly from Here", this time as a two-part song that was released on a reissue of The Buggles's second album Adventures in Modern Recording (1981). Before David put down his vocal tracks, Horn recorded vocals himself for him to use as a guide, so David could "sing it exactly the same way".
The first recording sessions took place in October and November 2010 at SARM West Coast Studios in Los Angeles, and lasted around six weeks with Horn present for two. Horn left for a month to work on other commitments, during which the band worked on "We Can Fly", "Into the Storm", "Hour of Need", and "The Man You Always Wanted Me to Be", plus songs that Wakeman had been involved with, namely "Gift of Love" (a Squire/Wakeman co-write, related to "The Game" on Heaven & Earth), "To the Moment", and "Words on a Page". Wakeman had started on two more, "From the Turn of a Card" and "Credit Carnival", which he later recorded on Ravens and Lullabies with Gordon Giltrap. The Wakeman-led material was released on the EP From a Page (2019).
By the time recording picked up with Horn in the first week of January 2011, the band had discussed Horn's suggestion of expanding "We Can Fly" into a longform piece and decided to pursue it; Howe said "We couldn't turn that down. It was too good an offer". Wakeman resisted the idea, as the band was midway through recording enough material that they and Horn had agreed to. This resulted in Wakeman's songs being scrapped to make room for the 24-minute six-part "Fly from Here suite", with the two "We Can Fly from Here" demos plus an unreleased third used as the basis of the "We Can Fly", "Sad Night at the Airfield", and "Madman at the Screens" sections. The reissue of Adventures in Modern Recording also contained "Riding a Tide", another Buggles demo that was reworked into "Life on a Film Set". "Sad Night at the Airfield", "Madman at the Screens", and "Life on a Film Set" were all written for the second Buggles album, but Downes has described them as "heavily influenced by our stint in Yes at the time." Further contributions to the "Fly from Here" suite were made by Squire and Howe, the latter contributing the two-minute instrumental section "Bumpy Ride".
The band agreed that an album with partial contributions from Horn made little sense, so they enlisted Horn to produce the entire record. During the Christmas break, Wakeman learned that the band had been working with Downes more over time and wanted to bring him in as full-time keyboardist. Howe said that as a co-writer of the "Fly from Here" demos, Downes was better suited to the rest of the album's material. Horn later wrote that he convinced the band to have Downes return as they wrote the song together. Wakeman left, taking the tracks that he worked on with the band with his collaborations with Gordon Giltrap and his solo album Cultural Vandals.
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Fly from Here
Fly from Here is the twentieth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes. It was released on 22 June 2011 by Frontiers Records, and is their only album featuring lead vocalist Benoît David and keyboardist Oliver Wakeman. Its ten-year gap from Magnification (2001) marks the longest between two Yes studio albums to date. Yes reformed in 2008 after a four-year hiatus with a line-up of David, Wakeman, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, and drummer Alan White. The band prepared material to record for Fly from Here during breaks in touring in 2010 and 2011, during which they enlisted former Yes frontman Trevor Horn as producer. After songs contributed by Wakeman were scrapped in favour of expanding the song "We Can Fly" into a 24-minute six-part "Fly from Here" suite, the band replaced him with former Yes keyboardist Geoff Downes as he co-wrote much of the new material.
Fly from Here received mixed to positive reviews from music critics, and peaked at No. 30 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 36 on the US Billboard 200. Yes promoted the album with a video release of "We Can Fly" and worldwide tours in 2011 and 2012, during which David was replaced by singer Jon Davison after he contracted respiratory illness. An alternative version of the album titled Fly from Here – Return Trip, featuring new lead vocals and mixing from Horn and instrumental parts, was released on 25 March 2018 during the band's fiftieth anniversary tour.
In September 2004, the Yes line-up of singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, and drummer Alan White began a five-year hiatus. By March 2008, plans for their Close to the Edge and Back Tour in celebration of the band's fortieth anniversary were in progress. Wakeman was advised not to participate for health reasons and recommended his son Oliver Wakeman as a replacement, which the band accepted. However, all plans were cancelled in May 2008 after Anderson had an asthma attack and was diagnosed with respiratory failure. With further time required for Anderson to recover, Squire, White and Howe wished to waste no more time and continued with rehearsals for a rescheduled tour with Oliver Wakeman in the line-up. In June, during their search for a new singer, Squire invited Benoît David, a Canadian singer who fronted the Yes cover band Close to the Edge, to join the band. Squire found out about David after he saw a video of the group performing on YouTube and was impressed with his ability to sing in a style similar to Anderson. Yes toured worldwide from November 2008 to December 2010, during which they agreed to start work on a new studio album, the band's first since Magnification (2001).
Yes started on the album in March 2010 during their stay in Phoenix, Arizona, during which ideas of songs from Howe, Squire, and Wakeman were selected to develop further with the intention of Howe and Wakeman as co-producers with Wakeman as recording engineer. Wakeman recalled a period of "lovely integration" between the three of them during this time, although Squire wanted greater involvement in the production and David was unsure if the decision for the band self-produce was right. Wakeman then suggested that Yes contact producer and former Yes frontman Trevor Horn, who had replaced a departing Anderson in 1980 and sung on Drama (1980) with Geoff Downes, his partner in The Buggles, on keyboards, to bring more validity to the album.
Horn accepted the invitation, and the group initially planned to work with Horn only on "We Can Fly", a song that originated from a demo titled "We Can Fly from Here" that Horn and Downes had recorded prior to their arrival in Yes. The song was performed live during the Drama tour in 1980, and the band rehearsed it for a short while with session drummer Paul Robinson. When Yes disbanded in 1981, Horn and Downes recorded a second demo of "We Can Fly from Here", this time as a two-part song that was released on a reissue of The Buggles's second album Adventures in Modern Recording (1981). Before David put down his vocal tracks, Horn recorded vocals himself for him to use as a guide, so David could "sing it exactly the same way".
The first recording sessions took place in October and November 2010 at SARM West Coast Studios in Los Angeles, and lasted around six weeks with Horn present for two. Horn left for a month to work on other commitments, during which the band worked on "We Can Fly", "Into the Storm", "Hour of Need", and "The Man You Always Wanted Me to Be", plus songs that Wakeman had been involved with, namely "Gift of Love" (a Squire/Wakeman co-write, related to "The Game" on Heaven & Earth), "To the Moment", and "Words on a Page". Wakeman had started on two more, "From the Turn of a Card" and "Credit Carnival", which he later recorded on Ravens and Lullabies with Gordon Giltrap. The Wakeman-led material was released on the EP From a Page (2019).
By the time recording picked up with Horn in the first week of January 2011, the band had discussed Horn's suggestion of expanding "We Can Fly" into a longform piece and decided to pursue it; Howe said "We couldn't turn that down. It was too good an offer". Wakeman resisted the idea, as the band was midway through recording enough material that they and Horn had agreed to. This resulted in Wakeman's songs being scrapped to make room for the 24-minute six-part "Fly from Here suite", with the two "We Can Fly from Here" demos plus an unreleased third used as the basis of the "We Can Fly", "Sad Night at the Airfield", and "Madman at the Screens" sections. The reissue of Adventures in Modern Recording also contained "Riding a Tide", another Buggles demo that was reworked into "Life on a Film Set". "Sad Night at the Airfield", "Madman at the Screens", and "Life on a Film Set" were all written for the second Buggles album, but Downes has described them as "heavily influenced by our stint in Yes at the time." Further contributions to the "Fly from Here" suite were made by Squire and Howe, the latter contributing the two-minute instrumental section "Bumpy Ride".
The band agreed that an album with partial contributions from Horn made little sense, so they enlisted Horn to produce the entire record. During the Christmas break, Wakeman learned that the band had been working with Downes more over time and wanted to bring him in as full-time keyboardist. Howe said that as a co-writer of the "Fly from Here" demos, Downes was better suited to the rest of the album's material. Horn later wrote that he convinced the band to have Downes return as they wrote the song together. Wakeman left, taking the tracks that he worked on with the band with his collaborations with Gordon Giltrap and his solo album Cultural Vandals.