Thursday 3 January 2013

LINK: More on Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow sequel

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Former Yes singer Jon Anderson has spent the last six years working on a sequel to his first solo album, Olias of Sunhillow.

Jon describes the album, to be called The Songs of Zamran: Son of Olias as a slow baking cake.

“It is ongoing. I have written the story now five times. It is driving me crazy,” the former Yes singer tells Noise11.com.

In the six years so far he has been working on Zamran Jon has released other music. “I put out an album called Survival and Other Stories last year. Then I put out a piece of music called Open. Open is a 22-minute work and it explains where I am going musically and how Zamram will eventually appear. It’s not ready yet. It’s like a cake. I have all the ingredients but I haven’t put it in the oven yet,” he said.

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