CIRCUS Magazine
September 13, 1976


Next Yes LP Due At Year's End

Yes aren't performing any of
the material they've written
for their next album onstage
this tour, so Yes fans will
just have to wait until November or
December when the album is planned
for release. The recording will be-
gin in September, after the tour is
completed, but so far no studio has
been picked to record at. Studios in
America and Europe are being con-
sidered, and Chris Squire even sug-
gested that the band may cut it in
the Bahamas.

  "We've pretty well prepared most
of the music for the album," says
Squire. "We've each written a sec-
tion, and it's gonna be a Yes album.
What I mean is that it's gonna be an
album where the theme is the music,
and not particularly a story line
that's running with it.

  "There's not actually a concept as
such. It's gonna be very much a 'Yes
playing as a band' album. What I'm
saying is that there is no theme
other than what Yes is and what Yes
is playing.

  "We've got some good things or-
ganized, and a lot of it's pretty well-
rehearsed as well. You can't really
talk about music before, because it
might change anyway, but the feel-
ings have been laid down, and the
things we've done, demos and that,
all point to a very solid album. Every-
one has some very good music that
we all want to play, so that's what
the next album's gonna be."

  Squire promises that the next Yes
album will rock a lot more than some
recent Yes records, where sometimes
difficult concepts tended to bog the
music down in a mire of space and
philosophy. It will be the first Yes al-
bum where each member will con-
tribute one part to the whole.

  "Everybody's always had the free-
dom to contribute," insists the bass-
ist, "it's just whether the desire was
always there from everybody to do
it. We've done a couple of concept
albums that were initially Jon's, and
we followed that path, and now we're
changing again."