Label: Inside Out Music (Europe), 19658777552
Style: Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 47:08, 16:30
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 329, 125 Mb
Mirror to the Sky is the their first studio album with American drummer Jay Schellen as a full-time member following the death of long-time Yes drummer Alan White in 2022 (and the first without White since 1972's Close to the Edge), to whom the album is dedicated; Schellen had frequently filled in as drummer for White since 2016, and had performed percussion as a guest on the band's previous album, 2021's The Quest.
Yes started work on the album shortly before the release of The Quest in October 2021. Like for its predecessor, guitarist Steve Howe resumed his role as producer, and the FAMES Orchestra in North Macedonia provided orchestral arrangements by Paul K. Joyce on some songs. It received positive reviews from critics, some of whom considered the album superior to its recent predecessors.
On 10 March, Yes officially announced Mirror to the Sky on social media and their official website YesWorld, revealing the cover art, release date, and track listing. They announced that the album will be dedicated to White. On the same day, the opening track, "Cut from the Stars", was released as a digital single. The second track, "All Connected", was released as a single on 26 April.
The artwork was produced by the band's longtime cover artist Roger Dean. His design was inspired by a story that video game designer Henk Rogers had told him, which involved Rogers paddling to the middle of a lake at night during a camping trip. When the ripples of the water had settled, Dean said that "the lake became a perfect mirror to a very brilliant night sky", an experience that Rogers said was like being in space. The idea caught Dean's imagination and wanted to portray such a concept into one of his designs. He added: "I started with a horizon low down with a lot of sky but then I realised, no, I'll show with ocean in the main area with a sky just a sliver, enough to show it is mirrored. Then I decided to put in a rock formation–a viewing point for the sky." An early design of the band's logo for the cover featured a colour scheme and texture based on the Nebra sky disc, an artefact from the Early Bronze Age discovered in Germany in 1999 that Howe had suggested to Dean. It was not used as the colours did not complement the rest of the design.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_to_the_Sky)
01. Cut From the Stars (05:26)
02. All Connected (09:03)
03. Luminosity (09:01)
04. Living Out Their Dream (04:46)
05. Mirror to the Sky (13:54)
06. Circles of Time (04:55)
01. Unknown Place (08:15)
02. One Second Is Enough (04:04)
03. Magic Potion (04:10)
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