Steve Howe - Beginnings (1975) [Japan (mini LP) SHM-CD 2011]

Posted By: Andi_Deris

Date: April 12, 2016

Beginnings is the title of Yes guitarist Steve Howe's first solo album. It was released in 1975. The five Yes band members each released a solo album in 1975/6. Members Alan White and Patrick Moraz from that line-up guest on Beginnings, while Howe performed on White's Ramshackled album. The album also features former Yes band-member and drummer Bill Bruford on "Pleasure Stole the Night" and "Break Away From It All". There are also members of the English medieval progressive rock band Gryphon, Graeme Taylor, Malcolm Bennett, Dave Oberlé on one of the songs.

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Track Listing

01. Doors Of Sleep (4:11)
02. Australia (4:15)
03. The Nature Of The Sea (3:58)
04. Lost Symphony (4:43)
05. Beginnings (7:35)
06. Will O' The Wisp (6:01)
07. Ram (1:55)
08. Pleasure Stole The Night (2:58)
09. Break Away From It All (4:23)

Produced by Steve Howe & Eddie Offord

Line-up

• Steve Howe (Yes, Asia, GTR, Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe, Bodast, Tomorrow, The Syndicats, Explorer's Club) - guitars, bass, steel, vocals, mandolin, Moog, organ
• Alan White (Yes, Circa, White, The Syn, Plastic Ono Band) - drums (1, 2, 4-6)
• Graeme Taylor (Albion Band, Gryphon, Home Service) - guitar (3)
• Patrick Moraz (Refugee, Yes, The Moody Blues, Mainhorse, Vímana) - piano, harpsichord, Moog, Mellotron (4-6)
• Bill Bruford (The Breed, Savoy Brown, Mabel Greer's Toy Shop, Yes, King Crimson, UK, Genesis, Earthworks, Chris Squire, Bruford, Kazumi Watanabe, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, Gong, National Health, Steve Howe, Gordian Knot, Annette Peacock) - drums (8, 9)

• Malcolm Bennet - bass, flute (3, 8)
• Dave Oberlé - drums (3)
• Colin Gibson - bass (4)
• Bud Beadle & Mick Eve - saxophone (4)
• Patrick Halling, William Reid - violin (5)
• John Meek - viola (5)
• Peter Halling - cello (5)
• Chris Laurence - double bass (5, 8)
• James Gregory - flute, piccolo (5)
• Sidney Sutcliffe - oboe (5)
• Gwyd Brooke - bassoon (5)

Notes

Series: YES Solos Collection
Comes in a CD-sized papersleeve album replica (gatefold), with obi-strip and insert of notes mostly in Japanese.
Manufactured By Warner Music Japan Inc. WQCP-1017

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