Following the success of his award-winning The Tormato Story, Kevin Mulryne returns with the first in a new series of Yes Album Listening Guides.

 

Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Kevin has chosen to tackle perhaps the most divisive Yes album of all time. 

 

1973’s Tales from Topographic Oceans saw Yes climb to uncharted heights of musical and thematic invention. Depending on your point of view, this culminated in a work destined to define the excess of the whole prog rock movement or be crowned as its most glorious pinnacle.

 

Kevin has spoken to many people who worked with the band in the period Tales was created as well as Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman. He has also consulted highly-regarded Yes instrument experts and collectors. 

 

Never before has the music of Tales come under such intense scrutiny. Kevin has travelled down unending rabbit holes to uncover previously hidden details about this seminal work.

 

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Kevin Mulryne is founder and joint host of the weekly Yes Music Podcast, which is now in its second decade. He is also an audio expert, an audiobook producer and narrator.