GiGinJapan Artwork of Japanese CDs (mostly) Yes / Osaka 2022 / 2CDR / Amity
Live at NHK Osaka Hall, Osaka, Japan 8th September 2022
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With the 50th anniversary of the daimyo board “Kiseki”, YES’s Japan tour was realized for the first time in three years. All performances of the latest original recording will be released together!
This time’s Japan tour consisted of five performances, and this work is the third in a series of five. It is the best audience recording of the performance “September 8, 2022: NHK Osaka Hall”. This time, a concentrated release of 5 works with all performances at once. First of all, let’s check the position of each live album on the schedule.
・September 5 “TOKYO 2022 1ST NIGHT”
・September 6 “TOKYO 2022 2ND NIGHT”
*September 8: NHK Osaka Hall ← This work
*September 9 “NAGOYA 20222”
・September 12 “TOKYO 2022 FINAL NIGHT”
* Note: “*” marks are the same recording artist collection as this work.
A total of 5 performances. As you can see, all three performances in Tokyo are “Orchard Hall”, arranged as the beginning of the visit to Japan and the additional final performance. In the meantime, performances in Osaka and Nagoya were held. This week, such two West Japan performances will be released at the same time, but in fact, these two works are also sister works by simultaneous recording artists. And that taper is Mr. “West Japan’s strongest taper” who is familiar with our shop. If you have caught your eye in this article, I think you have experienced some kind of “strongest” Mr.’s work, but these two works do not stain the gold signboard … No, it is a superb recording that makes it shine even more.
In fact, the sound of this work is “just like a soundboard”. Although it is a cliché of Mr. “Strongest”, there is no other way to express it. A very thick core with zero sense of distance, fine details, a wonderful sense of separation, sharp contours, and a quiet and quiet atmosphere. It seems that new equipment was introduced with the new corona wreck, but perhaps because of that, the sound board-like direct feeling is more amazing than ever. The five works that will be released at the same time this time are all masterpieces, and considering the performance quality of each song, I can not assert the best. However, if you want a sound suitable for “sound board replacement” and “official replacement”, this work would be the best.
And the superb sound depicted is a full show centered on the complete reproduction of the Daimyo board “Kissei”. The last day of the additional performance “TOKYO 2022 FINAL NIGHT (Amity 692)” was a special set, but the basics of the other 4 performances are the same. Only one place changed daily. Let’s organize that set here.
– [Crisis] complete reproduction
・Close To The Edge／And You And I／Siberian Khatru
●Others
・Third album: Yours Is No Disgrace / Starship Trooper
・Fragile: Heart Of The Sunrise / Roundabout
・Other: To Be Over (★: Howe’s solo) / Wonderous Stories / On The Silent Wings Of Freedom / Does It Really Happen? / The Ice Bridge
* Note: “★” marks are daily songs.
… and it looks like this. The daily change was Steve Howe’s solo time, and “To Be Over (first day in Tokyo, this work, last day in Tokyo)” or “Clap (second day in Tokyo, Nagoya)” was replaced. Of course, the valuable one is “To Be Over”. From around the “FULL CIRCLE Tour” in 2003, he has occasionally been featured in solo time, but Japan is the first time on this tour. Moreover, it is also the revival for the first time in 11 years. Another intensely fresh one is “On The Silent Wings Of Freedom”. This is the opening of the tour overseas, but this is the first revival in 35 years. Of course, this is the first time that it will be performed in Japan.
“Anyway, it’s a live album with a wonderful sound.” While it is a soundboard-class listening response, the natural sense of balance of the ensemble and the (light) pouring interval that is unique to the scene are beauty points that cannot be found in the line. This is the best masterpiece (in terms of sound) of the 5 series this time. A 2-disc set where you can enjoy the latest YES’s “crisis” reproduction live with such beautiful dynamic sound. Please enjoy it to the fullest.
★ The best audience recording of “September 8, 2022: NHK Osaka Hall” performance. The latest recording by master craftsman “Western Japan’s strongest taper”, with a very thick core with zero sense of distance, fine details, a splendid sense of separation, sharp contours, and a quiet surrounding atmosphere … “It’s just like a sound board”. It is a powerful recording that cannot be expressed. You can fully experience valuable songs such as the complete reproduction of “Crisis”, the rare “On the Silent Wings of Freedom”, Howe’s solo version “To Be Over”, etc. with the superb sound of the sound board barefoot.
Amity 690
