Where are they now? - Others
associated with Yes
(in alphabetical order)
This page last updated: 23 Apr 2025
On this page: Damion
Anderson - Deborah Anderson - Jade (Anderson) Hawkins - Tony
Anderson - Clive
Bayley - Jeff Berlin - Tom Brislin - Matt
Clifford - Julian
Colbeck - Roger
Dean - Marjorie DeLuca - Francis Dunnery - Jonathan
Elias - Bruce Gowdy
- Larry Groupé - Jimmy Haun - Aaron Horn
- Iain Hornal
- Dylan Howe
- Zoë Street Howe - JJ
Jeczalik - Eddie Jobson - Sidonie Jordan - Paul K
Joyce - Gary Langan - Alex
Lasarenko - Tony Levin - Milton McDonald - Frank
Macchia - Mark Mancina - Lou Molino - Eddie
Offord - Lee Pomeroy - Steve Porcaro - Graham
Preskett - Alex Proyce - Ryan Rabin - Randy
Raine-Reusch - Curtis Schwartz -
Bobby
Sherwood - Jay Schellen - Michael Sherwood - Pete
Sinfield - Carmen Squire - Nikki Squire - Vangelis
- Adam
Wakeman - Benjamin Wakeman - Jemma
Wakeman - Tim Weidner - Steven Wilson - Casey Young
| Deborah
Anderson - Jon's daughter;
backing vocals on ABWH. MySpace
page; Deborah
Anderson Photography; Twitter;
Facebook Deborah's photography project on the history of Barbados, entitled "A Love Letter to Barbados", was exhibited at the Photoville Festival 2023 (3-18 Jun, New York, NY). She has an exhibition entitled "Faces of Leica LA" from 4 Nov 2023 at 743 Santeria Street, Los Angeles, CA. Deborah made "Women of the White Buffalo" (89 minutes; trailer; Twitter), a feature documentary film about the Lakota women living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, narrated by Rita Coolidge. Deborah directed and edited, with the screenplay by her and Charlotte Chatton (Brian Chatton's daughter). The film is produced by Deborah Anderson, Adam Schomer, Charles Barsamian and Kumiko Hayashi, and co-produced by Rachelle Garzia, Matthew Rebula and Chatton. The associate producers are Carol Iron Rope Herrera and Linda Livingston, with executive producers including Julian Lennon and The Edge. The film premièred Nov 2019 in Beverly Hills, at the 24th Red Nation International Film Festival. There was a crowdfunding campaign for a final edit and self-distribution. The film was released 12 Apr 2022 in 68 territories on Google Play, Apple TV, Vudu and Amazon. She previously exhibited photos of the project. Dad Jon Anderson wrote and performed the theme song with Delacina Chief Eagle, who appears in the film. (Jon has an older song called "White Buffalo", but I presume the song for the film is different.) Deborah said, "His voice is also featured throughout th[e] [...] film." Jon was interviewed about the film here in early 2021. The score was by Jennie Muskett (scored Spooks). Deborah continues to do photography for her father. She
has done photos for his forthcoming album
True with the Band Geeks. |
Berlin crowdsourced a Jack Bruce tribute album called Jack Songs (and formerly called Songs for a Wailer), with 10 tracks, 8 by Bruce and 2 originals by Berlin. Berlin described the project: "I've arranged every song with fresh interpretations making sure that each song retained the original spirit that Jack included in every tune he wrote." The album was delayed from an initial planned date in Sep 2021, coming out around early Aug 2022, and available from Berlin's website. Berlin plays bass throughout, with a "bass relay" on "Smiles & Grins" of Tony Levin (on Chapman stick), Billy Sheehan, Michael League, Mark King, Ron Carter, Marcus Miller, Nathan East and Geddy Lee (ex-Rush). On vocals are Berlin, Sammy Hagar, Alex Ligertwood, Ron Hemby, John Cowan, Gabriela Sinagra, Michael Dearing and Gumbi Ortiz. On guitars are Alex Lifeson (ex-Rush), Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (Asia), Johnny Hiland, Eric Johnson, Scott Henderson and John McCracken. On drums and percussion, there is Bruce Guttridge, Gary Husband, Quintino Cinali, Gregg Bissonette and Ortiz. On keys, there's Berlin, Pat Coil, Mariano Agustoni and Michael Whittaker. Plus, on horns, Don Aliquo (alto), Max Abrams (tenor), Tyler Jaeger (alto), Tyler Summers (trumpet) and Emmanuel Echem (trumpet). The album was engineered and produced by John McCracken.
Brislin is in Kansas and has been touring with them since 2019.
Touring continued in 2023 and continues in 2024 in celebration of
the band's 50th anniversary from Jun. There were regular 2024
dates through to 11 Dec on their 50th anniversary tour, and they
were then scheduled to play a classic Kansas set for dates from 23
Jan 2025-22 Mar 2025. The rest of the band have been Phil Ehart
(manager, but often not touring for health reasons), Rich Williams
(guitar), Billy Greer (bass, vocals), Joe Deninzon (violin), Eric
Holmquist (drums) and Ronnie Platt (vocals). Zak Rizvi (guitar)
re-joined the band, from the 26 Apr 2024 show onwards. Dan McGowan
filled in for Greer at some shows in May 2024. Greer was due to
return to the band on 12 Jul 2024, but he then retired from the
band in Sep 2024, with McGowan replacing
him permanently. At 2 Jan 2025 shows, Scott Bernard substituted
for Williams, who had travel issues. Platt then had health
issues, which led to some shows being cancelled, but he has
returned to the band, who continued touring from 4 Apr 2025.
Brislin's first album with the band was The Absence of
Presence (InsideOut Music), released Jul 2020. The rest of
the band were Ehart (drums, percussion), Williams (guitar), Greer
(bass, vocals), David Ragsdale (violin, backing vocals), Platt
(vocals) and Zak (Zarak) Rizvi (guitar, backing vocals), but Rizvi
left in Apr 2021 and Ragsdale left in May 2023. The album was
produced by Rizvi and co-produced by Ehart/Williams. Tracks:
The album has 4 pieces from Rizvi but with lyrics by or
largely by Brislin—"Throwing Mountains" (title and lyric
ideas by Ehart), "The Absence of Presence" (title and
lyrical concept by Ehart), "Jets Overhead" and "Animals on
the Roof"—while "Memories Down the Line" and "The Song the
River Sang" are complete songs Brislin wrote for the band.
Brislin also composed the instrumental "Propulsion 1",
which was written several years earlier. Platt is the main
vocalist on the album, but Brislin sings lead on "The Song
the River Sang" and provides backing vocals for much of
the album. Brislin said in an Aug
2021 interview that the band will make another
album. In a Feb
2023 interview with Yesshift, Brislin said, "I am
working on new music for Kansas. We will have another
album one of these days." |
1. "Cold Grey Morning"Disc 2: 9. "Point of Know Return" |
Brislin was one of two keyboardists on Invention of
Knowledge by Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt (Transatlantic, The Flower Kings): see under
Anderson for details. Brislin (keys, backing vocals) also
joined Stolt (guitars, backing vocals, keys) in The Sea Within (Twitter), which
includes two more performers who were on Invention of
Knowledge, Jonas
Reingold (The Flower Kings, Steve Hackett,
Karmakanic, worked with The Syn; bass) and Daniel
Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation, Transatlantic,
ex-The Flower Kings; vocals, guitar), plus Marco
Minnemann (Levin Minnemann Rudess, Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, Mike
Keneally, In
Continuum, worked
with Eddie Jobson, UK, Trey
Gunn, Alex Lifeson, Joe Satriani; drums, percussion,
guitar, backing vocals). Their debut album, also called The
Sea Within (details
in Yescography), was released Jun 2018. Anderson
guested on 1 song. Gildenlöw withdrew from the band before live
work; the band played live thrice. There was a Jul 2018 show at
the Night
of the Prog festival, Loreley, Germany, with Pete Trewavas (Marillion, Transatlantic) subbing for
Reingold, who was otherwise committed. They played twice on the Cruise to
the Edge 2019, with Stolt, Reingold, Brislin, Minnemann and
Casey McPherson (Flying Colors).
The band were already considering a second album, according to
Stolt in a May
2018 interview, based around an expected core of Stolt,
McPherson, Reingold, Brislin and Minnemann, with Gildenlöw
possibly just guesting. When he was asked about more touring in
his Feb 2019 interview, Brislin noted, "With my new position in
Kansas, Jonas playing bass for Steve Hackett, and a new iteration
of the Flower Kings, we're going to put our heads together to see
where the Sea Within fits in to everything. We all believe that
there's a lot of potential yet to explore."
There was plans last year [2019]. We were all on the boat [...] We had a kind of a band meeting and we were talking about, ‘OK, shall we try make something next year, and shall we try write some songs etc.?’ But I think pretty much it stopped there and I don’t know if it has anything to do with the corona or band members being busy with other stuff, but I’m thinking, I mean, now we have this situation where no-one really can go out and play [...] There should be time, but I think probably the reality is that we have so many other things to do, so it’s just sitting there, waiting to be made, but I can’t tell really when. He said more in a Jan
2021 interview: It’s strange time for all of us. It’s about a couple of different things, we have other projects, but it’s also about survival. So we need to find ways to get the money in. Transatlantic for me is a good way of that, and The Flower Kings [...] So sometimes I have to give priority, you know, and which I kind of regret sometimes, but it’s reality. [...] Sometimes I’m too much of a dreamer. So I just think about all these projects with other people that I want to do and it just goes on and on and on. Sometimes you spend a lot of time on projects that don’t generate a lot of money. There’s other stuff, even like The Sea Within, there was a plan for a second album. We haven’t made much progress to be honest, but there are songs and so we got to just say, Okay, let’s do this now, and start sending out files and, Can you sing on this? Can you play drums on this? And then once we get to that point then you can move forward. In an Aug
2023 interview, with Yesshift, he said: "I hope
for a second album, but I... Being realistic, the way
things are right now, y'know, with Tom with Kansas and
Jonas playing with Steve Hackett and I try to slim down a
little bit [...] I decided to cut down a little bit and
concentrate on the Flower Kings, try to concentrate on
making this album with Jon [the follow-up to Invention
of Knowledge] and [a project with Doane Perry]." Asked about The Sea Within in a May 2021 interview with the New Ears Prog Show, Minnemann said, "[W]e keep in touch, obviously, and we have plans, y'know, for making those albums, y'know, and doing it further". But he then spoke about enjoying focusing on his main projects (McStine & Minnemann, The Aristocrats) during the pandemic. He continued, "I don't want to kind of right now detour to kind of release another bunch of albums with someone else to confuse [...] people", preferring to concentrate on the next two McStine & Minnemann releases. |
In his May 2018 Yes
Music Podcast interview, Brislin said he and Jon Anderson
have been and are looking for further ways to work together.
Likewise, in this
Jul 2018 interview, he said, "Jon Anderson and I had been
talking about ways to work together ever since my tours with Yes
in 2001."
| Julian Colbeck -
additional keys live with ABWH Colbeck is CEO of Keyfax music production company. |
| Roger
Dean - cover artist. Homepage
Dean's next book is called "The Secret Path", the same
name as his 2022 exhibition with his daughter Freyja. It
is due Sep 2025. Dean continues to work regularly with Yes and friends. He did the cover for Mirror to the Sky, the latest Yes album: see on main page. Other recent work has been for Downes Braide Association (DBA), including Celestial Songs, and Rick Wakeman's Yessonata. He did the cover for Focus 12, out Jul 2024. Dean has been doing regular videos of his painting live or Q&As. Dean joined Yes on their 2022 UK tour, exhibiting art and
directing the live shows. He exhibited on tour with
Yes in 2024. He was to exhibit with Asia
in 2024 as well, but had to pull out of that tour. He was
also exhibiting at Ubicua Gallery,
London in May 2024. Asked in an Oct
2024 interview about what he is working on for the
future, Dean replied: He was working on Henk Rogers' moonbase project, with a prototype to be built in Hawaii. He continues to work on his film project, "Floating Islands"—details on main page. He also talked about making a film to show people how we could live in the future in this Feb 2018 YouTube video. |
Francis Dunnery continues to record and tour as a solo artist. He
guested on the Downes
Braide Association album Celestial Songs.
Dunnery has also been working with Dave Kerzner
(Sonic Reality,
working with Simon Collins, Billy Sherwood, Steve Hackett,
worked with Steven Wilson, Jon Anderson, ex-Giraffe) on
the Sonic
Elements projects, appearing on IT - A
Celebration of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: see
details on the main page.
| Larry Groupé
- orchestral arrangements/conducting on Magnification/YesSymphonic.
Official website;
Current
projects Groupé writes music for film, TV, CD-ROMs etc. He did the score for "The Outpost", the film drama directed by Rod Lurie. There was a limited edition CD (1000 copies) and digital release of the score album, The Outpost (La-La Land Records, LLLCD 1537), with 17 tracks and a 43:22 duration. The album includes the endtitles song "Everybody Cries", performed by Rita Wilson. It was produced by Groupé, Steven Wayne Thomas and Dan Goldwasser. Tracks:
|
Haun is in Arc
of Life with Billy
Sherwood, Jon
Davison, Jay
Schellen and Dave Kerzner (In
Continuum, Mantra Vega, worked with Francis Dunnery, Jon Anderson,
Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, Genesis, ex-Giraffe),
although the band has now paused: see main page
for details. Sherwood, Haun and Schellen are also in CIRCA: with Tony Kaye,
with a new album "nearly complete" according to a Mar 2023
interview with Sherwood by Aymeric Leroy (author of "Yes").
Haun did the music for "Hanky Panky", a 2023 horror film
co-directed and starring his daughter Lindsey Haun.
Haun plays on the 14-track JJ Chardeau's Ombres
and Lumières, out 14 Jul 2023 on Cherry Red (LR2301),
the second part of Chardeau's rock opera Magical
Musical Man. Others performing include Guy Allison (ex-World Trade), Pat Mastelotto (ex-King Crimson), Danny Seraphine and Jason
Scheff (ex-Chicago), John Helliwell (ex-Supertramp), Jerry Goodman
(ex-Mahavishnu Orchestra) and Dave Gregory
(ex-XTC).
Haun has and continues to work with Jon Anderson on projects. Material initially written with Haun is used on 2 songs on True, Anderson's album with the Band Geeks. In a Jun 2023 Patreon call, Anderson played a song he did with Haun that he said would be part of his Zamran project, while Haun has said other material may appear on Anderson's 1000 Hands: Chapter Two. They released a song on social media in 2023 called "Building" that has been re-worked into "Build Me an Ocean" on True. See details under Jon Anderson.
In a Mar
2020 interview, Haun described multiple projects:
He also said that he and Billy Sherwood
had talked about re-recording some Lodgic material.
More generally, he continues to do music for adverts, TV and film as a freelancer. He stills works with Jonathan Elias.
Several years ago, Haun wrote some material with Noella Hutton
that she was now recording on a new album.
Aaron Horn has several music projects. He has had multiple
releases under the Opal Blue name: "Do You Know?" (Crate Classics)
was released as a digital single on 30 Jan 2025 and more followed in the rest of the year.
Before that, in Nov 2024, had come the 12-track album All the
Love Within (Crate Classics), which had been preceded by
various singles. Before that was the Micro Dawn EP in
2023.
"Six Compact Dimensions, a Theory of" (7:54) is a digital single
released by Horn, Alex Praeger and A Theory on 12 May 2023.
"Momentum Flipped, a Theory of" (4:16) followed 2 Jun 2023. These
were then included on the 4-track EP A Theory of, released
30 Jun 2023.
Crate Classics (also stylised CRT CLSSX; Bandcamp;
SoundCloud)
is a production duo and label (Crate Classics Records) from Aaron
Horn and Jamie Rodigan
(SoundCloud). Missing is releasing
an EP, Missing Melting Pot, through Crate Classics
Records. The first general release single is "Ode to Joy (Burnin Up)",
by Missing ft. MC DT,
out 20 Oct 2023. The b-side is "Stone Ginger Wine" by Missing and
Crate Classics, ft. MC DT and Jodian Natty.
Recent releases include, on 18 Aug 2023, the Rudeboy Sound
Remix EP released on Bandcamp. "Pretty Nana" (music
video) by Yung
Saber X Scorcher
X Scrufizzer was
produced by Crate Classics.
Aaron had an arranging credit on "Love is a
Battlefield" on his dad Trevor's Echoes: Ancient and
Modern, out Dec 2023: see under
Trevor Horn for details.
Horn also curates sonic experiences, including gong baths. He
also has a podcast.
In a Jan
2024 interview, he said he has "gone back to college to
study as an osteopath".
Ally and dad Trevor's PA, Suzanne, have had a band together
called The Hornettes.
She has been managing director of SPZ.
Will said in a Feb
2017 interview that he was writing a memoir about being
transgendered.
Hornal works with Jeff Lynne's ELO (see
details under Lee Pomeroy, with whom he plays) and 10cc, led
by Graham Gouldman.
Hornal is also in Gouldman's spin-off band, Heart Full of Songs.
Big Horizon
is a new band consisting of several members of the ELO touring
band, namely Hornal, Pomeroy, Mike Stevens (sax, guitar, keys,
vocals), Don Hepburn (drums) and Jo Webb. They have recorded some
material, with their debut release being the digital single "In the Beginning"
(3:56), out digitally 19 Apr 2024. Their second single was "From the Inside Out"
(4:00; video).
An 11-track album, also called In the Beginning,
was released 8 Nov. They played a sold out, debut show at Pizza
Express Holborn, London, on 8 Nov. They played Birmingham on 30
Jan 2025.
Hornal was a featured vocalist on the forthcoming solo
album To the Far Away from Dave Bainbridge. Bainbridge
plays guitars, mandolin and bouzouki, while also guesting are
Sally Minnear, Lynn Caldwell (lyrics), Frank van Essen, Jon Poole (Lifesigns, The Cardiacs), Troy Donockley (Nightwish, Iona; Uilleann pipes, whistles,
vocals), Nigel Cameron, Martin Nolan (Iona)
and Julie Cameron-Hall (violin).
Hornal released his 11-track solo album Fly Away Home
in Apr 2021, produced by Hornal and Jo Webb (Jeff
Lynne's ELO). Webb also mixed and mastered, and plays
guitars and keys. Graham Gouldman (10cc)
guests on vocals on "The One to Blame".
| Zoë Howe - Steve's
daughter-in-law; Dylan's wife; YouTube;
Patreon Zoë Howe works as a music journalist, author, radio DJ and drummer. She has been doing a series of talks with Ajay Tegala, e.g. this 19 Dec 2024 event. |
|
Due to persistent demand since announcing my retirement from concert touring, I have decided to perform a one-off concert with a full band on October 7 [2018] - headlining the last night of ProgStock 2018 [...] I shall be playing the music of ‘UK’ with a virtuoso lineup of playersThe band was with Marc Bonilla (ex-Keith Emerson Band; bass, vocals), Alex Machacek (guitar), Thomas Lang (drums). Jobson said this would likely be his last live performance. The piano improvisations were recorded in 2016 using a crowdfunding model (YouTube preview here). There was a Jobson fan convention in Japan in Nov 2022. Performing were tribute band UKY, and Jobson joined them for a performance of "Caesar's Palace Blues".
1971-1979 The Band Years (Globe Music
Media) was released Oct 2018; details
in Yescography. The liner notes of this
album announced subsequent releases:1980-1989 The Solo YearsHowever, these have yet to appear. |
an album does need to be an expression of where you are musically, sonically, socially, politically etc. at the time. 'Legacy' was started in 1995 and much of it was conceived then; unfortunately, the sonic choices I would make in 2007 are quite different from the ones I made in 1995. Furthermore, a solo album would be a different animal than a UK album - even if I did compose all of it myself. Songs were written with John in mind, not to mention possible guitar parts for Holdsworth, Fripp and others.And:There is also an ownership issue with some of the recordings which will render some performances unusable.
It is clear to me that any usable compositional ideas and performances that, legally, I still have full rights to should be reviewed and probably reworked to reflect twelve years of further technical and musical growth.
Archival/online/re-releases
In the 1980s, Jobson worked on a follow-up to his 1983 The Green Album, to be called
The Pink Album, but the
project was never finished. To a fan after an Apr 2011 UK show,
Jobson said he had plans to release the album.
Phil Manzanera's 11CD 50 Years of Music box set, due 1 Nov 2024, includes all 10 of his solo albums, including his first two, Diamond Head (1975; including the 2 bonus tracks on the 2011 re-issue) and Listen Now (released as by Phil Manzanera/801, 1977; including the 4 bonus tracks on the 2015 Japanese re-issue), on which Jobson performed. (The latter album also features Francis Monkman, who wrote the basis of Yes's "The Ice Bridge".)
In an interview around Jan 2018, Jordan described her current
activities:
I am currently working with a very talented artist/producer/engineer named "Cade Roberts" in Oklahoma for TV and movie sync deals. We are also producing a track together for a wonderful Americana/Alt Country artist named "Edan Archer," and I hope to do more tracks with her and keep working with Cade. I also hope to continue working with Jez Larder from Skyline Studios in the UK, who I have worked with on and off for over 15 years.
[...]
I am planning a track with my old studio mate Ric Parnell from Atomic Rooster/Spinal Tap and am working with Mark Murdock (Cymbalic Encounters and Brand X) [ex-Empire] on some retro tracks he has written.
I presume the reference to Murdock was to Jordan guesting with
The New Empire: see
under Banks.
Langan and JJ Jeczalik played 2 London dates 4-5 Jan 2023 as Art
of Noise: Revision. They play in London again on 21 Mar 2025, with
Paul Morley.
no
current info
One of Levin's main
project is Stick Men (YouTube),
with Levin (Chapman Stick), Pat Mastelotto (KTU, ex-King
Crimson, The Flower Kings; acoustic and
electronic drums and percussion) and Markus Reuter (works
with Mastelotto; U8 Touch Guitar, live
looping). On 1 Apr 2022, the band released the 30-minute EP
Tentacles,
written and produced by the band. Tracks:
They toured western North America Feb-Mar 2023 and then Europe later that year. They toured North America again in summer 2024. They will be on the Mar 2026 Cruise to the Edge. |
The Levin Brothers toured in 2022. There was a West Coast tour in
Jan 2024 by Band of Brothers, consisting of the Levin brothers,
Tony and Pete, and the La Barbera brothers, Pat and Joe.
King Crimson and related projects
| King
Crimson's final live line-up consisted of Robert
Fripp (guitar), Levin (bass, Stick, upright electric bass,
backing vocals), Pat
Mastelotto (KTU, ex-King
Crimson, The Flower Kings; drums,
percussion), Gavin Harrison (ex-Porcupine Tree;
drums, percussion), Mel Collins (ex-21st
Century Schizoid Band, worked with Chris Squire; saxes,
flutes), Jakko Jakszyk
(ex-21st Century Schizoid Band, worked with Dave
Stewart; vocals, guitar) and Jeremy Stacey (Steven Wilson,
ex-The Syn, ex-Squackett, ex-Chris
Squire, ex-Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds; drums,
percussion, keys). The band's final years were focused on
touring the back catalogue with no plans for a studio
album, but they did play some new material live. |
The band played its final dates in 2021 in North American and
Japan. In a Jul
2022 interview, Fripp pretty much ruled out King Crimson
ever touring again. In a Mar
2023 interview, Levin said, "when I last was with him
[Fripp] — the tour ended in Japan [...] — we had a nice talk about
the future and what might happen. His words to me were that he had
no plans for King Crimson doing anything else, but he would let
King Crimson speak to him if it chose to. I interpreted that to
mean there are no plans and probably won't be anything else, but
it's not impossible that there might be." In an interview in Prog
#154 (Nov 2024 issue, out Oct), Jakszyk was asked if King Crimson
was now over. He replied, "The honest answer is, you'll have to
ask Robert. [...] One of the things we have been doing of late is
recording studio versions of the new material. We've used the live
recordings as a template, and I've done guitars, overdubs and
backing vocals. Whether that comes out as a King Crimson album or
whether it lies in the vaults, I don't know."
District 97 cover "Matte Kudasai" on their live album Live
for the Ending, due 14 Feb 2025.
Other collaborations and sessions
Levin is part of Peter Gabriel's band along with drummer Manu
Katché and guitarist David Rhodes. They were recording a new
album, i/o, in 2021/2; Levin said in Sep that he finished
his recording work for the album in May 2022. Levin plays on every
track of the new album. Gabriel said they worked on 17 songs in a
10 day period. First single "Panopticom (Bright Side Mix)", with
contributions from Brian Eno and Ríoghnach Connolly (The Breath; backing vocals), was released
digitally 6 Jan 2023. This date was the first full moon of the
year and a new song was released each subsequent full moon. Songs
came in a Brigh Side and a Dark Side mix. The album was released 1
Dec 2023. The Bright-Side Mix made #2 in the UK midweek album
chart, with the Dark-Side Mix at #47 (4 Dec). The album made #1 in
its first full week in the UK album chart (8 Dec) and #99 in the
US. It was also top ten in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Netherlands,
France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Switzerland. The album came 4th
in Prog magazine's 2023 critics' choice and 2nd in their readers'
poll. The band had 22 European tour dates from 18 May-25 Jun 2023,
with North American touring following. Rehearsals began late Apr.
Opening night (18 May, Krakow, Poland) set: "Washing of the Water"
(acoustic version), "Growing Up" (acoustic version), "Panopticom",
"Four Kinds of Horses", "i/o", "Digging in the Dirt", "Playing for
Time" (new version), "Olive Tree", "This is Home", "Sledgehammer",
intermission, "Darkness", "Love Can Heal", "Road to Joy", "Don't
Give Up", "The Court", "Red Rain", "And Still", "What Lies Ahead",
"Big Time", "Live and Let Live", "Solsbury Hill"; encore: "In Your
Eyes", "Biko".
Levin plays on 6 tracks of Mark Wingfield's The
Gathering (MoonJune Records), which was released 17
May 2024. Wingfield performs on guitar and soundscape, while the
album is also with Gary Husband (worked with Allan
Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, Jack Bruce, Billy Cobham; keys,
drums), Asaf Sirkis (Soft Machine, worked with Tim
Garland; drums) and Percy Jones (ex-Brand
X; bass).
Levin guests on 2 tracks of Quartet Diminished's fourth album, Deerand
(MoonJune Records), now out (with 2LP following around 1 Dec
2024). The band are Ehsan Sadigh (electirc guitar), Soheil
Peyghambar (bass clarinet, soprano sax), Mazyar Younessi (piano,
chants) and Rouzbeh Fadavi (drums). Marks Reuter (Touch guitar U8,
soundscapes) also performs. The album was produced by Reuter and
Quartet Diminished.
In an Aug
2023 interview, with Yesshift, Roine Stolt
(The Flower Kings, Anderson/Stolt,
Transatlantic) mentioned a project led by drummer Doane
Perry (ex-Jethro Tull) and keyboardist
Vince DiCola (music for "Rocky IV", "The
Transformers: The Movie") with him and Steve Hackett (ex-Genesis, ex-GTR, ex-Squackett) on guitar,
and Levin and Leland Sklar on bass. Stolt is trying to get
InsideOut to release the project.
|
Levin is guesting on the Sonic
Elements Genesis tribute album: see
on main page for details. Levin played on It All Comes
Down to Mood by Pat
Leonard (ex-Toy Matinee, worked
with Pink Floyd, Elton John, Madonna), released
Jun 2024. Others guests include Tim Pierce, Wendy
Melvoin, John Patitucci, Aaron Stirling, Martin Barre (ex-Jethro Tull), James Harrah, Ian
Anderson (Jethro Tull),
Anna Mjoll, Gerry Leonard and Paul Franklin. Levin has done numerous other sessions. His website lists many
further session appearances. |
He has been playing with Take That and Jeff Lynne's ELO: see details under Lee Pomeroy, with whom he plays.
Molino appears on Trevor
Rabin's solo album, Rio.
Offord lives in South Carolina and
had retired from the music business.
|
Pomeroy is in Headspace
with Adam Wakeman and Damian Wilson: see details below. He is on
Rick Wakeman's prog rock album, A Gallery of the
Imagination: see
here. He plays live with Rick, with UK dates in 2024
and an Oct 2025 tour forthcoming: see
here. Pomeroy is also a member of It Bites, who are
working towards a new album. Pomeroy (bass) and Milton McDonald
(ex-ABWH; guitar) have been part
of Take That's touring band since 2006. The Take That
backing band then became the core of the touring band for
Jeff Lynne's ELO from 2014, which includes, among others,
Pomeroy (bass), McDonald (lead guitar, backing vocals), Iain Hornal (ex-Yes
feat. Anderson Rabin Wakeman; backing vocals,
guitar) and Melanie Lewis-McDonald (Milton's wife;
backing vocals). They continue with ELO through to
the band's planned final show in London on 13 Jul 2025.
Pomeroy, Hornal and some other members of the ELO touring
band have formed new band Big Horizon: see
under Hornal. |
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Porcaro released his debut solo album, Someday/Somehow,
in 2016, which was co-written and co-produced by Michael Sherwood (worked
with Yes, Jon
Anderson, ex-Conspiracy; Billy's
elder brother). Asked about whether he and
Sherwood were thinking of a follow-up in a Jul
2018 interview, Porcaro replied: "Yes, absolutely. I
have my own studio; I can record when I want. Given the
way the music industry is, I can't survive off my own
music, but that doesn't deter me from making new music.
Will it be an album or a handful of songs released one at
a time? I don't know. I love working with Mike Sherwood
[...] I can't wait to do more, and I think I'm writing the
best stuff I've ever written." M Sherwood then passed away
in late 2019. |
Preskett
writes
music for TV, film and adverts, as well as doing session work.
No current info
Schwartz writes and performs his own music. He is working on Yes's next
studio album. He mixed Steve Howe's Guitarscapes: see under Howe.
He mixed and mastered John Lodge's forthcoming Love will
Conquer All EP: see under
Davison.
| Michael Sherwood-
backing vocals on Union; Billy's
brother. Michael
Sherwood's Tangled Web (Homepage) Michael Sherwood passed away on 5 Nov 2019. One of his last recordings was an organ solo for the track "God from the Machine" on Cosmologica from Circe Link and Christian Nesmith. He had been planning to release a 1990s project with Michiko Freemond called Milk, with the band also including Juliana DiMaggio Diaz, Fren Asken, Dean Chrysler Cameron and Robin Bissell. Steve Porcaro had talked of more solo work with Sherwood after Michael and Jimmy Haun had appeared on his 2016 solo album. Michael Sherwood and Haun had also been working on a solo album by Jon Anderson, with long-time collaborator Jonathan Elias, but the project stalled: see under Anderson for details. |
Sinfield died on 14 Nov 2024 following some years of declining
health.
Sinfield's work with Italian band PFM is included on the 4CD The
Manticore Studio Albums (Manticore, MANTB41016)
compilation due 18 Apr 2025. This brings together their four
albums between 1973 and 1977.
Carmen Squire works regularly as a voice actor and is signed with
the Yakety
Yak voice-over agency. She provided spoken word for the
track "The Humming" on Tim Saul's 2023 album Thresholds.
She also sings on Love & Resistance's "Crooked Man" single
(Jan 2023).
| Nikki
Squire - Chris's
ex-wife. Facebook, Twitter,
YouTube,
Instagram Nikki told one fan in Mar 2018 that she was "very involved in a writing a new album". "Gaia (Mother of Heaven)" was released on Bandcamp and as a video to YouTube in Dec 2018. The music was written by Nikki with the late Nigel McLaren and then re-worked by Nikki and Mark J, with a lyric by Nikki. The song is credited to N Squire/Mclaren, produced by Mark J/N Squire, mixed by Mark J, mastered by Kevin Metcalfe and with video production by Laurie Goodwin. In May 2019, she was reportedly remixing songs from Coming Home, their second album, released 1994. There is also some unreleased Esquire material from over the years which could be released. Nikki was interviewed in Notes from the Edge #232, in which she discussed some other possible forthcoming projects. |
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Wilson and
Wakeman have also released a series of mainly
acoustic albums. Can
We Leave the Light on Longer? was released 12
Jan 2024 on vinyl, CD and digital. It was performed by
Wilson (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Wakeman (piano,
vocals, Hammond, acoustic & electric guitars, bass,
percussion), with also appearances by Pete Riley (drums),
George Hogg (trumpet) and an 18-piece choir. Tracks:
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| Adam Wakeman (keys,
vocals) is in Snakecharmer,
with Neil
Murray (ex-Whitesnake, ex-Company Snakes,
ex-National Health, ex-Brian May, ex-Jon Lord, ex-Black
Sabbath; bass), Laurie
Wisefield (ex-Wishbone Ash,
ex-Tina Turner; guitars), Harry James (Magnum,
ex-Thunder; drums, vocals), Chris Ousey (Heartland,
ex-Virginia Wolf; lead vocals) and Simon McBride
(lead guitars, vocals). The band perform Whitesnake material
and other songs from the members' back catalogues. They
played the UK in 2017/8 and have released two studio albums.
Those two, remastered and with Japanese bonus tracks, are
joined by two live shows recorded in Milton Keynes (on 26
Jan 2014 and 17 Jan 2015) for the 4CD Anthology
release, out in 2022 on Cherry Red (SOUM500COMP). |
No current info
Jem is a songwriter, pianist and vocalist. She works as a
videographer and designer for Surrey web design company 1minus1.
Weidner has been working with Trevor Horn as
an engineer, mixer, programmer and/or performer on a variety of
projects, including Trevor Horn's Echoes:
Ancient and Modern and live—see details under
Horn.
Wilson remains busy as a solo artist as well
as doing remixing for other acts. His most recent album as a
solo artist was The Harmony Codex, out 29 Sep 2023
on Virgin, which has contributions from Ninet Tayeb, Adam
Holzman, Craig Blundell, Nils Petter Molvaer and Nate Wood.
Formats include the usual, plus a 3-disc box with the
original album on CD, a CD with remixes/reimaginings, and a
Blu-ray. In a 2022
interview with friend of the site Innerviews, he
described the project thus: "It's much more epic and
uncompromising. It's more complex and unpredictable to a
degree. [...] It's going to maintain a lot of the musical
vocabulary from The Future Bites, but it's going
back into a more conceptual world, which is less about
concise pop songs and more about experimentation. So, in the
most simplistic terms, it might be somewhere between Hand.
Cannot. Erase. and The Future Bites, but not
like either of those records." Tracks:
His next solo album will be The Overview, described as "space themed" and due 21 Mar 2025 on Fiction Records. Tracks: "Objects Outlive Us" (23 minutes), "The Overview" (18.5 minutes). Performers include Craig Blundell (drums), Adam Holzman (keys), Randy McStine (worked with Dave Kerzner; guitar) and Rotem Wilson (Steven's wife; vocals on "The Overview"). Andy Partridge (ex-XTC, worked with DBA) contributed lyrics to "Objects Outlive Us". Wilson will tour behind The Overview, and also playing material from The Harmony Codex, with 28 European dates 1 May-13 Jun 2025. The live band will be with Nick Beggs, Adam Holzman, Craig Blundell and Randy McStine (Porcupine Tree, In Continuum). Wilson remixed Gentle Giant's Interview, which is being re-released on CD, Blu-ray and 180g vinyl. This made 9th in the reissue section of Prog magazine's 2023 critics' choice. He has also remixed ABC's The Lexicon of Love for a 40th anniversary Blu-ray edition: see under Trevor Horn, the original producer, for more. Wilson did a new remaster for The Yes Album (Super Deluxe Edition), Fragile (Super Deluxe Edition) and a forthcoming Close to the Edge (Super Deluxe Edition): see details on main page. |
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