Show Notes
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Jeffrey Crecelius, and Doug Curran It was a great pleasure, as usual, to welcome Simon Barrow onto the YMP to help us talk about the new Pete Roth Trio album, Group Chat. Mark knows about jazz but I certainly don't, so I relied on the other guys' understanding of the genre but, as will become clear, it's a bit of a mistake to try to categorise Bill Bruford's new-ish collaboration with guitarist Pete Roth and bassist Mike Pratt. Roth says it's 'near-jazz, near-rock' but listen without prejudice, as they say, and we will all enjoy this highly creative and collaborative endeavour. Simon also shared some items in the chat and afterwards including: Jam-Bot: Virtual Virtuosity and Embodied Performance
A Microtonal Poke in the Eye for AI?
With Feeling: Performance, Humanity and Technology
Our own Mark Anthony K's latest release is now available on Bandcamp - Racing From Time, a great 4-track EP.
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Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Jeffrey Crecelius, and Doug Curran This week, Mark and I continue our deep dive into The Syn by listening to the oldest songs on the compilation album, Flowerman - Rare Blooms from The Syn 1965-69. We discovered some fascinating music along with information on how it came about via the very good sleeve notes in the album. As with Yes, there are plenty of surprising twists to the tale of The Syn, even in the comparatively short spell they were active in the 60s. After our overview from Streve Nardelli last week, we enjoyed listening to the surviving output from those days.
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius This week, Mark and I begin a mini-series in which we will explore The Syn, the band that is deeply-connected with the origins of Yes. The story will evolve as we go but, to set the scene, we had a conversation about our 2018 interview with The Syn's lead singer, Steve Nardelli. Once we have finished talking about the parts of the interview that were the most interesting for us, I play the whole interview so you can make your own mind up. In future weeks, we will be listening to all sorts of The Syn music, so if you'd like to follow along, just search YouTube - almost all the music we will be talking about is there. In what ways were The Syn important in the early development of Yes?
Produced by Joseph Cottrell, Wayne Hall, Doug Curran and Jeffrey Crecelius
This week I report back on my trip to see Jon Anderson and the Band Geeks at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. As you'll hear, I had a wonderful time and met some old and new friends. I also find time to torture Mark by making im answer the quiz questions from last week. See if you can do better than him. After he has a go, I reveal the winner of the competition to win a CD copy of the expanded From A Page album. How is Jon's voice?
Mark and I were preparing to enjoy another round of our Yes Guess Who game this week. Unfortunately, Mark was ill and couldn't join me to record. Happily he is home now and on the mend. So I decided to change this episode into a version of the quiz you can join in with yourself. I even have an actual prize to give away. I have a 'spare' copy of the expanded From A Page album on CD which could be yours if you can answer my somewhat obscure and devious Guess Who questions. To continue our celebration of the first 15 years of the YMP, I have come up with 15 dastardly questions, the answers to which are all Yes musicians. If you would like to have the chance to win the fabulous prize (and I may well add in some lovely YMP goodies as well), please send your 15 answers by email to YMP Towers - that's [email protected] in time for us to do the draw on next week's episode.