Lost Tapes of Opio

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Lost Tapes of Opio
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Studio album by
Released1996
Label Opio Foundation
Jon Anderson chronology
Toltec
(1996)
Lost Tapes of Opio
(1996)
The Promise Ring
(1997)

Lost Tapes of Opio is the tenth solo album by Yes lead singer Jon Anderson, released in 1996.

Yes (band) English rock band

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford. The band has undergone numerous formations throughout its history; nineteen musicians have been full-time members. Since June 2015, it has consisted of guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes, singer Jon Davison, and bassist Billy Sherwood. Yes have explored several musical styles over the years, and are most notably regarded as progressive rock pioneers.

Jon Anderson English singer

John Roy Anderson, known professionally as Jon Anderson, is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes, which he co-founded in 1968 with bassist Chris Squire. He was a member of the band across three tenures between 1968 and 2008. Anderson is a current member of Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.

Contents

About the album

Lost Tapes of Opio was originally a music cassette-only release in 1996 of material recorded in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was released through Anderson's Opio Foundation with proceeds going to UNICEF.

UNICEF development policy organization of the UN

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), originally known as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children and mothers in countries that had been devastated by World War II. The Polish physician Ludwik Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder of UNICEF and observed as its first chairman from 1946 to 1950, when he had to flee the United States in the wake of McCarthyism. Rajchman is to this day the only person that served as UNICEF's Chairman for longer than 2 years. On Rajchman's suggestion, the American Maurice Pate was appointed its first executive director, serving from 1947 until his death in 1965. In 1950, UNICEF's mandate was extended to address the long-term needs of children and women in developing countries everywhere. In 1953 it became a permanent part of the United Nations System, and the words "international" and "emergency" were dropped from the organization's name, though it retained the original acronym, "UNICEF".

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Release"
  2. "Eireland"
  3. "Miraval"
Side two
  1. "Longwalker Speaks"
  2. "Homage to Sun Ra"
  3. "Opio Symphony - The Heralding; Spring Dance Eternal; Earth Awakening"

All music performed by Jon Anderson.

Re-release

The album was re-released as The Lost Tapes of Opio on CD by Voiceprint as part of The Lost Tapes series in 2006 with a different track order:

  1. "Release" (27:24)
  2. "Homage to Sun Ra" (9:36)
  3. "Miraval" (8:21)
  4. "Eireland" (7:40)
  5. "Opio Symphony" (8:55) - 1st Movement: The Heralding; 2nd Movement: Spring Dance Eternal; 3rd Movement: Earth Awakening
  6. "Longwalker Speaks" (17:36)

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