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Chris Squire: Fish out of Water

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1975
Time:
 43:31
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Chris Squire
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: chrissquire.net
Appears with: Yes, Rick Wakemann
Purchase date: 2002.07.08
Price in €: 9,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Hold Out Your Hand (Ch.Squire) - 4:13
[2] You by My Side (Ch.Squire) - 5:00
[3] Silently Falling (Ch.Squire) - 11:27
[4] Lucky Seven (Ch.Squire) - 6:54
[5] Safe [Canon Song] (Ch.Squire) - 14:56

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


CHRIS SQUIRE - Bass, Guitar, Arranger, Vocals
BILL BRUFORD - Percussion, Drums
PATRICK MORAZ - Organ, Synthesizer, Bass, Keyboards
MEL COLLINS - Saxophone
BARRY ROSE - Organ, Keyboards, Pipe Organ

ANDREW PRYCE JACKMAN - Piano, Conductor, Electric Piano, Orchestration
ADRIAN BRETT - Leader, Woodwind
JIM BUCK - Horn, Leader
JULIAN GAILLARD - Strings, Leader
JIMMY HASTINGS - Flute
ANDREW JACKMAN - Piano, Keyboards, Electric Piano
DAVID SNELL - Harp, Leader
JOHN WILBRAHAM - Leader, Brass, Overdubs

GREG JACKMAN - Engineer
NIGEL LUBY - Assistant Engineer
GRAHAM PRESKETT - Mastering
PHIL CARSON - Overdubs, Mastering
TREVOR SPENCER - Mastering
PETER SINFIELD - Technical Assistance
BRIAN LANE - Photography, Cover Photo

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1975 LP Atlantic 18159
1975 CD Arista AMCY19
1998 CD Wea International 81500


The Yes bassist/ vocalist's sole solo album. Originally released in 1975 on Atlantic, it contains five tracks, including 'Hold Out Your Hand' and 'You By My Side'.

British prog-rock group Yes' founder & bassist Chris Squire's lone solo effort. 'Fish Out of Water', released in 1975, features fellow Yes-man Bill Bruford on drums & percussion. This recording effectively demonstrates just how much Squire contributes to Yes' signature sound. 'Fish...' found a big audience on American FM radio and was a college favorite with tunes like 'Hold Out Your Hand', 'You By My Side' & three more.



Yes-like in every possible aspect, Chris Squire's Fish out of Water is an album that's typical of his band's progressive formula: softened keyboard extensions à la Patrick Moraz, steady yet atmospheric percussion work from Bill Bruford, and a smattering of flute and saxophone that accompanies a small orchestra, which includes effective horn and harp work. Squire's guitar playing is standard, coming to life the most on "Silently Falling" and "Lucky Seven," with the former boosted by a rather dazzling synthesizer solo from Moraz. Even though there are few surprises laid out on the album's five tracks, the elemental composition of pure '70s progressive rock is strewn across each song from start to finish. Squire even sounds like Jon Anderson, especially on "Hold out Your Hand," and each of the song's melodies cater to Squire's vocal ascent. Fish out of Water harbors some firm instrumental and vocal cross-breeding while remaining well within the prog rock norm.

Mike DeGagne - All Music Guide
© 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Von allen Yes-Soloalben, die Mitte der Siebziger erschienen, ist Fish Out Of Water ('75) das progressivste und düsterste. Basser Chris Squire, der bei Yes mit seinem sehr dominanten, gleichzeitig rhythmischen wie melodischen Spiel ein unersetzlicher Stützpfeiler ist und nach Paul McCartney als wichtigster Tiefton-Innovator im Rockzirkus gilt, experimentiert auf der Scheibe mit abgefahrenen, völlig atypischen Songstrukturen und Melodien, die sämtliche Grenzen der Mainstream-Komponierkunst sprengen. Wie wichtig Squires Backing-Gesänge für Yes sind, unterstreicht die Tatsache, dass seine Leadvocals auf Fish Out Of Water klingen, als würden sie von jemandem vorgetragen, der sein ganzes Leben nichts anderes gemacht hat, als hinter einem Mikro zu stehen. Viel wichtiger ist jedoch, dass die Songideen durchweg hochklassig sind und den Boden für ein enorm abwechslungsreiches, spannendes Album bereiten. Die exzellenten Gastbeiträge von Yes/King Crimson-Drummer Bill Bruford und dem damaligen Yes-Keyboarder Patrick Moraz verkommen da fast schon zur Nebensächlichkeit.

Michael Rensen - Amazon.de
 

 L y r i c s


HOLD OUT YOUR HAND

You can feel it coming with the morning light
And you know the feelings, gonna make you feel.
Alright
Almost close enough to,
Hold out your hand
Span the distance
Store resistance,
To attack is to retreat
All you've got to do is
Hold out your hand
For the treasures of the universe, are lying at your feet.

You can hide it, lose it, but it's always found.
You can laugh it off, but it always comes,
Back on you, so true.
True is true enough to
Hold out your hand.
Forward motion
Life promotion
To reverse is to repeat
All you've got to do is
Hold out your hand
For the treasures of the universe, are lying at your feet.

Hold out your hand
Span the distance
Store resistance
To attack is to retreat.
Almost close enough to
Hold out your hand
For the treasures of the universe, are lying at your feet.


YOU BY MY SIDE

You know I love you.
I can't be without you.
When I'm alone, I still feel this way about you.
Everything's clear
Here is here
And everything is as it appears to be so

Here am I dreaming
I stand by myself
Look and it's easy to see, that,
I'm not the only one reaching for a new kind of wealth
Reaching with nothing to hide
And you by my side.

You know we love you
We can't be without you
When we're aat home, we still feel this way about you
Everything's clear
Here is here
And everything is as it appearsto be so,

Here we are dreaming
We stand by ourselves
Look and it's easy to see, that,
We're not the only ones reaching for a new kind of wealth
Reaching with nothing to hide
And you on our side.


SILENTLY FALLING

Silently falling down,
Bringing hope of the future to the children.
Fills the air with a magic sound.
Giving light to sight that cannot see,
Hopefully, hopefully

Don't believe in miracles,
I do believe in love.
Don't advise you to stick to rules,
There ain't no need to push and shove
Or in the end you'll reflect the pool
Reaching for the sky above

I know there's something,
I don't know how long its taking in coming,
I still sing the song.
All of the pieces fit,
The puzzle carries on.

Silently circling around
Giving scope to our imagination
Stills the sea, restore the crown
Breathing life to life that could not be,
Hopefully
Eventually

Silently falling
Falling down


LUCKY SEVEN

In the shadows of the fading light
Nothing in sight, nothing in mind.
NOthing gained when you're feeling restrained
The more you look, the more you find
Take a bite from the apple of life's not as bad, as its right, as its
right, and I think you could be,

Lucky tonight

By the fates that drive us on
Upon the sea we swiftly sail
In the wake of the carnival trail
The more we try, the less we fail
You and I, the more we strive in our search for truth, love and honesty
could be,
Lucky tonight

From the trees by the silvery sands
To the ice of the golden midnight lands
Runs a thread of the tears that are shed
With laughter on the other hand
Keeping up with the plans and the schemes, chasing dreams, hard to tell
what it means, but I think we could be,

Lucky tonight


SAFE (CANON SONG)

When your saviour lets yo down
Who will mind
When your lover turns around
YOu will find joy in the morning.
Love in the stars
Peace and understanding, standing right beside you when you're walking
down the street.

Walk in time
Standing beside you
To shelter your heart's
Like a ship in a harbour, blown in by the storms that surround us, and you
will be,

Safely where nothing can ground us and you will be,
Safe with me

When you face the doors of doubt
Have no fear
When the changes come about
I'll be near
I'll be waiting beside you
To shelter your heart's
Like a ship in a harbour, blown in by the storms that surround us, and you
will be,
Safe with me.

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