Product Description
Rare Actual 1974 Japanese First Pressing ~ With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics, Picture Labels Are Clean. The Superb Seventh Album By Yes & The Only Yes Studio LP To Feature Patrick Moraz On Keyboards, ‘Relayer’ Is A Prog Rock Masterpiece!
Jon Anderson – Lead Vocals
Steve Howe – Guitars / Vocals
Patrick Moraz – Keyboards
Chris Squire – Bass / Vocals
Alan White – Drums / Percussion
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Wonderful sound quality!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Outer artwork is beautiful, inner gatefold has foxing.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
The Gates Of Delirium (21:55)
Side 2:
Sound Chaser (9:25)
To Be Over (9:08)
Geoff –
Phenomenal, adventurous, multi-textured masterpiece! 'Relayer' was the first album that Yes made after keyboardist Rick Wakeman quit in 1974 due to disagreements over the epic 'Tales From Topographic Oceans'. His replacement, Patrick Moraz, plays stupendously and it is a shame that this was to be the only studio Yes album on which he performed. It contains what is arguably their best work, "The Gates of Delirium" which is a phenomenal, adventurous and multi-textured masterpiece, clocking in at over 21 minutes. The performance by the quintet is impeccable and the rousing 'battle' sequence midway through is particularly powerful. This segues into the beautiful "Soon" denouement, on which Jon Anderson sings like an angel. Side 2 begins with the staggering "Sound Chaser", featuring some of Chris Squire and Alan White's finest rhythm section work. As if that wasn't enough, Steve Howe adds an amazing, angular lead guitar break like no other. When Yes toured for 'Relayer', they would open with 'Sound Chaser' and the collective noise of jaws dropping in the audience would, at times, almost drown out the band! The third and final number, "To Be Over", is a most melodic and refined piece which Mr. Howe rates as his favourite Yessong. It has the same symphonic qualities of “And You And I” (from 'Close to the Edge' album). All in all, 'Relayer' is easily one of the most essential of Yes' recordings and the listener will further warm to it upon every successive listen.