Album: Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Artist: Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
1989 Arista
CD: ARCD85-90126

Band members:
Jon Anderson: vocals
Bill Bruford: drums, percussion
Steve Howe: guitars, vocals
Rick Wakeman: keyboards
Tony Levin: bass, vocals

Additional musicians:
 Matt Clifford: keyboards, orchestration, vocals
 Milton McDonald: rhythm guitar

Produced by Chris Kimsey and Jon Anderson


Tracks:
1. "Themes" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford] (5:58)
    i. "Sound"
    ii. "Second Attention"
    iii. "Soul Warrior"
2. "Fist of Fire" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford] (3:27)
3. "Brother of Mine" (10:18)
    i. "The Big Dream" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford]
    ii. "Nothing Can Come Between Us" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford]
    iii. "Long Lost Brother of Mine" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford/Downes]
4. "Birthright" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford/Bacon] (6:02)
5. "The Meeting" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford] (4:21)
6. "Quartet" (9:22)
    i. "I Wanna Learn" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford]
    ii. "She Gives Me Love" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford/Dowling]
    iii. "Who Was the First" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford]
    iv. "I'm Alive" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford]
7. "Teakbois" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford] (7:39)
8. "Order of the Universe" (9:02)
    i. "Order Theme" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford]
    ii. "Rock Gives Courage" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford/Lawrence]
    iii. "It's So Hard to Grow" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford]
    iv. "The Universe" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford]
9. "Let's Pretend" [Anderson/Howe/Wakeman/Bruford/Vangelis]


Notes (****): Anderson, unhappy with YesWest, put together this quasi-reunion of the Fragile line-up. While credited to the whole band, the music was mainly by Anderson and Howe. (5) was based on a prior solo piece of Wakeman's. (9) was left over from an abandoned Jon & Vangelis album.

On tour, Levin got ill, so with some dates cancelled, the band went into the studio to record a single version of "I'm Alive". Oliver Wakeman has reminisced about those sessions, which he visited: he was learning about guitars from Howe, while Dylan Howe was getting drumming trips from Bruford. Jeff Berlin stepped in for a number of dates, and thus appears on An Evening of Yes Music Plus. (HP, 2 Nov 2019)

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