Olias of Sunhillow
by Jon Anderson
- Type: Album
- Released: 9 July 1976
- Label: Atlantic
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 44:11
- Community rating: 3.7/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Written and entirely performed by the Yes frontman during the band's solo hiatus, 'Olias of Sunhillow' is a remarkably intricate, beautifully celestial progressive rock concept album. The record relies on highly ethereal acoustic folk guitars and wonderfully lush, futuristic synthesizers to forge a profoundly uplifting, intensely spiritual fantasy narrative.
Genres
Descriptors: fantasy, forest, conceptual, progressive, sci-fi
Tracklist
- Ocean Song (3:05)
- Meeting (Garden of Geda) / Sound out the Galleon (3:34)
- Dance of Ranyart / Olias (Build the Moorglade) (4:19)
- Qoquaq 脣n Transic / Naon / Taransic C枚 (7:08)
- Flight of the Moorglade (3:24)
- Solid Space (5:21)
- Moon Ra / Chords / Song of Search (12:48)
- To the Runner (4:29)
Credits
- Jon Anderson - primary artist, performer, written-by, music by, words by, other [story]
- Hipgnosis - art direction
- Richard Manning - artwork [portrait colouring]
- Jeff Cummings - artwork [portrait]
- John Martin - coordinator [co-ordination], technician [equipment, goodies]
- Brian Gaylor - electronics
- Mike Dunne - engineer
- Dave Roe - illustration [illustrated by], design [designed by]
- Brian East - mastered by