Yes Album Listening Guides – Tales From Topographic Oceans Part 2 – Simon Barrow helps us to conceptualise the concept – 592

Produced by Joseph Cottrell and Ken Fuller This week we are joined by Yes book author, Simon Barrow, to talk about the concept behind Tales From Topographic Oceans. We get into a lot of detail as you would expect and explore some pretty fascinating areas of concept music - whatever that actually is! What is a concept album? Is Tales a concept album? Does it even matter? Let us know if you agree with us! Some of Kevin's copies of Tales The actual footnote Jon Anderson based the concept of Tales on:10-6: Pertaining to the shastras, literally, “sacred books,” comprising four classes of scripture: the shruti, smriti, purana, and tantra. These comprehensive treatises cover every aspect of religious and social life, and the fields of law, medicine, architecture, art, etc. The shrutis are the “directly heard” or “revealed” scriptures, the Vedas. The smritis or “remembered” lore was finally written down in a remote past as the world’s longest epic poems, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Puranas are literally “ancient” allegories; tantras literally mean “rites” or “rituals”; these treatises convey profound truths under a veil of detailed symbolism. Simon Barrow at a Yes concert! Available now! TormatoBook.com YMP Patrons: Producers: Joseph Cottrell Ken Fuller Patrons: Jim Morrison Jon Pickles Declan Logue Gary Betts Alan Begg Michael Handerhan Barry Gorsky Steve Perry Doug Curran Martin Kjellberg Todd Dudley Rachel Hadaway Lind Paul Hailes Craig Estenes Mark James Lang Steve Rode David Bob Martilotta John Holden Stephen LambeDem Fred Barringer Scott Colombo Chris Bandini David Heyden John Thomson Mark Baggs John Cowan John Parry Dave Owen Simon Barrow Steve Scott Terence Sadler Steve Dill Robert Nasir Fergus Cubbage William Hayes Geoff Bailie Steven Roehr Lobate Scarp Geoffrey Mason David Watkinson Tim Stannard Robert VandiverBrian Sullivan David Pannell Jamie McQuinnMiguel Falcão Paul Tomei Michael O'Connor Our (not really) new Facebook YMP Discussion Group is open to anyone to join but I’ll be adding rules and joining requirements when I have time (one day…). One of the advantages of the new format is that all members of the group have the same ability to post content, so it’s a bit more egalitarian, or somesuch. Please do search for the group and join in. Become a Patron! Please follow/

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Yes Album Listening Guides – Tales From Topographic Oceans Part 2 – Simon Barrow helps us to conceptualise the concept – 592 is an episode from YMP Classic Feed – Yes Music Podcast by Kevin Mulryne.

This episode is 53:06 long.

This episode was published on Aug 11, 2023.

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