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Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow

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Artist: Jon Anderson
Title: Olias of Sunhillow
Released: 1976
Label: Atlantic Records
Time: 44:08
Producer(s): Jon Anderson
Appears with: Yes, Jon & Vangelis, Rick Wakeman
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: ****...... (4/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  1998.04.04
Price in €: 10,83
Web address: www.jonanderson.com











 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Ocean Song (J.Anderson) - 3:04
[2] Meeting (Garden Of Geda) / Sound Out The Galleon (J.Anderson) - 3:34
[3] Dance Of The Raynart / Olias (To Build The Moorglade) (J.Anderson) - 4:19
[4] Qoquaq En Transic / Naon / Transic To (J.Anderson) - 7:08
[5] Flight Of The Moorglade (J.Anderson) - 3:24
[6] Solid Space (J.Anderson) - 5:20
[7] Moon Ra / Chords / Song Of Search (J.Anderson) - 12:48
[8] To The Runner (J.Anderson) - 4:29

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Jon Anderson- All vocals and instruments, Arrangement

Ken Freeman - Strings
Brian Gaylor - Synthesizer

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1976 LP Atlantic 18180
1976 CD Arista AMCY18
1998 CD Atlantic 80273
2006 CD Wounded Bird 8180



This Yes vocalist's debut solo album is his most pleasing. A near-impressionist piece of music, it has elements of mysticism and science fiction interwoven like a lost Tale from Topographic Oceans.

Bruce Eder, All-Music Guide



Inspired by the artwork of Roger Dean and the writings of Ver Stanley Alder, Jon Anderson developed an entire story around the idea of an interstellar exodus from Sunhillow, writing this album around the narrative (named for the spaceship's architect, Olias). The idea may seem overly ambitious, but Anderson fills the record with enough magical moments to delight fans of Yes' mystic side. The music is written and performed almost entirely by Anderson, who dubs vocals, plays guitar and harp, and adds percussion and the occasional synthesizer to flesh out his ideas so that at no point does the music lose its spellbinding effect for lack of sonic detail. Olias of Sunhillow is faithful to the spirit of Yes, though decidedly more airy than that band's visceral style -- its closest comparison would be Fragile's "We Have Heaven" or Going for the One's "Wonderous Stories" (which was clearly influenced by this record) on the vocal tracks, and Vangelis on the instrumental tracks. Although the album is effective in its entirety, "Sound Out the Galleon," "Olias (To Build the Moorglade)," and "Solid Space" are some of the more memorable excerpts. The arrangements incorporate elements of the four tribes of Sunhillow, the most noticeable being Oriental elements that prefigure Vangelis' own China (especially on the opening "Ocean Song"). While there are several songs that could have easily fit in Yes' own catalog, and the lyrics continue to mine the mystical musings that Yes fans had come to enjoy, Olias of Sunhillow is not the missing Yes album some might hope it to be, though it does deliver on the promise that the Jon & Vangelis collaborations seemed to hold. If possible, pick up the LP version of this release, since the packaging is stunning and features terrific artwork by Dave Roe.

Dave Connolly, All-Music Guide

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Ocean Song

(Instrumental)


Meeting (Garden Of Geda)

(Instrumental)


Sound Out The Galleon

Sound out the galleon to travel to cross
close the space between pastures
as rightly attained.
As old stands to plunder
expectant as one dear companion can utter
the right we achieve.

Climb summer mornings and tell me of days past
did we all to sing of the praises of love
And is one hand raised high in the dark.

Total relating appointed close factors
of what we regard as the answer lies there,
and is one hand raised high in the dark.

                    There stands Olias to outward to build a ship
                            Holding within all we hope to retain.
             The frame will be so built to challenge the universe
                 clasped with the skins of the fish of the plain.

Mastered volcano erupt with the pleasure
and sing to the power, we will sail to the East,
and all hands shall rise to the call

                   DO GA RIYTAN SHA TOO RAYTAN

                         GAN MATTA SHA PA
                      MUTTO   MATTO   MUTTO

                      RADAN ATTO RADDAN ATTO
                    STOU TO MUTTO SHA GO TEKA
                           SHA GO TEKA
                              D E I

Sighting our vision Ranyart will precision us
from all our points to our destined recall
and shall all but rejoice to it all.

         There stands Qoquaq and shall point to the four corners,
                          reaching out faster shall overtake you.
                            To bring you to safety to travel away
           from this moment that's rightly attained as your view.

                      So sound out the galleon to travel to cross
                                 close the space between pastures
                                             as rightly attained.
                                        As old stands to plunder
                        expectant as one dear companion can offer
                                            the right we achieve.


Dance Of The Raynart

(Instrumental)


Olias (To Build The Moorglade)

Olias awoke from a dream and drank his soul into the ocean
that sailed past the brink of his window that long summer.

             Then build the ship the Moorglade Mover
             to sail a silence which nobody knows...

Olias shines as clear as his sons emotions retrace him.
(As one delivers always one will shine over you)

I've sailed and always will to parts of Sunhillow
(Ride on Olias remember your begotten father)

I've trailed and sailed a silence which nobody knows
(Ride on Olias remember your begotten sons)

lay lay lay lay
lay lay lay lay


Qoquaq En Transic

(Instrumental)



Naon

                       To move we delight
                     Call his name, his name
                        We chase as we run
                        the motion decide
                     Call his name, his name

                       Arya Arya Arya Arya
                       Arya Arya Arya Arya

                       O lend a clear light
                       we motion the stars
                     Call his name, his name
                        we chase as we run
                        to move we delight
                     Call his name, his name
                      we chase a clear light
                         the ocean decide
                     Call his name, his name

                       Arya Arya Arya Arya
                       Arya Arya Arya Arya

                       O chase as we ride
                        O motion the stars
                Call his name, his name, his name...

                     First we hold your hand
                            as we lay
                              silent
                           as the dawn

                     Words are told your eyes
                           we will stay
                             silent
                           as the dawn


Transic To

(Instrumental)


Flight Of The Moorglade

And the slightest confrontation
way dissolved before the start
                             each man
                             belonged
                                       to each as one clear hand.
Asking only comfort creation
he divided to the heart
                             each man
                              open
                                         set sights to new lands.

                       and do remember you

The first to venture
first to gain
exploring daylight
clearer than the Talloplanic view

                    and there they were inside
                the Moorglade to move and to chant
                  all through force to position

            as rhythm raced inside the ship came alive
             and was struck to the soul of perception

                   and raised our head to space
                  beyond all the mass mountains
                     the sun they were headed
                           h e a d e d

Word of life rejoice the sunlight
course the flower to open wide
                               open
                            they ride
                                          climb into the dark sky

                  such a moment kindly lingered
                  they set sail from Tallowcross

(A light to lead you
is taken from the massland to the East.
As words are spoken
all courage be the token
as the feast.)

                        Wide Eyed Removing
               the precious moment we have seen...


Solid Space

Hold my life
cross the path
course and curl my dreams away

Fast the soul
make the break
as even as the stars that form the way

                              Rider

                                   Turn a mountain send them lost
                                   among the flowers of the young

                                   Turn a mountain send them lost
                                   among the flowers of the young


                      Rider    Rider   Rider

Hold my life
cross the path
course and curl my dreams away

Fast the soul
make the break
as even as the stars that form the way

              Rider   Rider   Rider   Rider   Rider



Moon Ra

Worlds that lie between
are simply seconds of words we do not mean.
Cast a pastel sky
or simply wonder until the day you die.

Eyes have never seen
so pass your future caressing all you've been.

all you say
all you dreamed
all memory awaken


Chords

Olias all surrounding the storm
To caress all who fall,
amidst, loves light
shine out
call
so brightly to each tribe came release
higher dreams o'er took the smallest hands
crystallized inside a sleep
close your eyes
only wait for the call
close your eyes
the Moorglade she will sail to the north
all around will delight our eyes
now as one
we'll sound our lives to the sun
as we wait for the call
to ascend to the stars
all to enter your heart
to your love
to your love
to your love
to your love

Through change of dawn
see, peace will come
peace will reign
all along our days
see your love
see your love
see your love


Song Of Search

(Instrumental)




To The Runner

                      Hold come a day dream
                      Ask a flower to kneel
                    as you pray to the runner

                       Spurn all ye kindle
                  and cradle his sweet pleasure
                         as you just look
                 farther and farther beyond him,
                      beyond him, beyond him

                   Call for the giver, the taker
                            rejoicing
                         as you just look
                 farther and farther beyond him,
                      beyond him, beyond him

        Spurn all ye kindle and cradle his sweet pleasure

                            In it all
                        to the devil take
                            In it all
                        to the devil take

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