Tales From Topographic Oceans

by Yes

Tales From Topographic Oceans cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 October 1973
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:03:47
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Perhaps the most fiercely debated, staggeringly ambitious double album in the history of progressive rock, Yes presented four sprawling, side-long suites based on Hindu scriptures. 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is a remarkably complex, incredibly epic symphonic prog masterwork, driving highly technical, shifting time signatures through deeply philosophical, wonderfully lush conceptual fantasy.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, fantasy, technical, progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) (22:22)
  2. The Remembering (High the Memory) (20:38)
  3. The Ancient / Giants Under the Sun (18:35)
  4. Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil) (21:32)
  5. Dance of the Dawn - Previously Unissued (23:21)
  6. Giants Under the Sun - Previously Unissued (17:17)

Credits

  • Yes - primary artist, music by, producer [produced by]
  • Brian Lane - coordinator [co-ordination]
  • Roger Dean - design [cover], illustration, design/illustration
  • Alan White - performer
  • Chris Squire - performer
  • Jon Anderson - performer, words by
  • Rick Wakeman - performer
  • Steve Howe - performer, words by
  • Eddy Offord - producer [produced by]
  • Guy Bidmead - tape op [tapes]

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