Olias of Sunhillow

Jon Anderson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 28, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Wounded Bird Records
• ASIN: B000CSUMDA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (113 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,157 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ocean Song

2. Meeting (Garden Of Geda)Sound Out The Galleon

3. Dance Of Ranyart Olias (To Build The Moorglade)

4. Qoquaq En Transic Naon Transis To

5. Flight Of The Moorglade

6. Solid Space

7. Moon Ra, Chords, Song Of Search

8. To The Runner

Editorial Reviews

Jon Anderson is widely known as the lead singer for Yes. He has issued numerous solo albums over the years, Olias Of Sunhillow reached #47 on the Billboard charts in 1976.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

63 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anderson Has Done Us Proud, October 30, 2002

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Carlo Matthews "carlo" (Been Moving Around) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olias of Sunhillow (Audio CD)

This swirling, organic mass of an album is the masterpiece Anderson has never managed to match. At the height of his creative powers, even if not of his instrumental skills, Anderson produced a landscape that carefully reflected his own peculiar musical culture. No other album is as Andersonian as Olias. Spacey yet earthy, grandiose yet humble, poetic yet strangely inarticulate, mystical yet accessible, self-indulgent yet awe-inspiring, this is an effort in passion, originality, and creativity that would leave many other contenders biting the dust in the ambitious musical environment of the 1970's.

Olias glides along seamlessly from one piece to another, showcasing Anderson's uncommon gifts for melody/harmony as well as for songwriting. Together with arrangements that veer from the rustic to sci-fi, the music appears to travel through Earth and Space, incarnating the elements of the material and ethereal worlds. The scope of the music is cinematic, freely pursuing concepts to every corner of its vision and fashioning an experience that is as breathtaking for its range as it is for its depth. Few works of modern music have found such a powerful communion between form and content, where both are truly inseparable, interdependent, as in Olias. One can only wonder what the rest of Yes would have done with the wealth of ideas in this record.

Anderson has done us proud.

77 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the ULTIMATE piece of music in this genre, February 24, 2004

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Robert J. Salo (Anaheim Hills , Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olias of Sunhillow (Audio CD)

Jon Anderson is lucky that he has YES to do. Because he is so spaced out I dont think he could function in our world if he had to be like the rest of us. I dont know what the instrumentation is on this album but nothing sounds like guitars and drums.....more like harps and bells and lots of voices and harmonies and I must say that it is the best piece of modern music that these ears have heard. I got the album years ago and it was a little much for me. I was expecting something like a YES album. But now after all these years I am completely BLOWN AWAY by this guy! From waaaaay out in the cosmos somewhere Jon Anderson conceived of and recorded this awesome work that I dont think has a peer in "modern" or " rock" or "progressive" music. It is entirely in a class by itself. It would be impossible to make a follow up album to something like this so its all your going to get------so...............what are you waiting for?

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Prog Masterpiece!, February 18, 2005

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J. Anderson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olias of Sunhillow (Audio CD)

If you have followed Yes throught the years, you are aware of the abstract images that Jon Anderson conjures up with his lyrical genius. This LP is way over the top! He manages to tell a story here, and still stay true to his "mystical" style of writing. This album is not just good Progressive music, it's a celebration of what Progressive music is all about. Moving, and awe inspiring. Nobody paints a mental picture like Jon. The fact that this gem has made it to CD after all these years is incouraging. In a day when music is all about pain, rage and anger, this LP brings back memories of a time when music was artisic, and uplifting...not primal therapy for the socially disturbed. Like other works of it's kind, this was music for the mind, written from the heart. I said the same thing about Chris Squire's "Fish Out OF Water". They do not make music like this anymore. Buy it now before it dissapears completely.