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  JON ANDERSON Olias of Sunhillow reviews and MP3
Olias of Sunhillow is one of my favourite albums for many, many reasons chiefly because it is the first time where Jon Anderson really lets his mystical side go absolutely out of control.
Olias of Sunhillow however was one of the most rewarding and satisfying solo albums I ever purchased.
Olias is Jon’s first solo album, and I’m not quite sure, but I think with Olias Jon tries to prove that he IS the voice of Yes,, and if I’m right he does so with flying colors.
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  Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Olias of Sunhillow [+] by Jon Anderson [+] 
The music is written and performed almost entirely by Anderson, who dubs vocals, plays guitar and harp, and adds percussion and the occasional synthesizer to flesh out his ideas so that at no point does the music lose its spellbinding effect for lack of sonic detail.
Olias of Sunhillow [+] is faithful to the spirit of Yes [+], though decidedly more airy than that band's visceral style -- its closest comparison would be Fragile's "We Have Heaven" or Going for the One's "Wonderous Stories" (which was clearly influenced by this record) on the vocal tracks, and Vangelis on the instrumental tracks.
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 Olias of Sunhillow Music at Shop Ireland
Olias of Sunhillow is the most treasured album in my collection.
The lyrics sometimes seem a bit nonsensical to me, but I've come to see that they have a poetic quality of tone (maybe carefully chosen for their tone) and imagery that add much to the musical masterpiece.
The odyssey of the doomed planet Sunhillow and how Olias, one of its leaders, creates a ship, "The Moorglade", that he uses to escape his world, accompanied by many tribespeople.
www.shopireland.ie /music/detail/B000005S6X/Olias-of-Sunhillow-   (654 words)

  
 Olias Of Sunhillow
is a concept album, telling a story loosely based on Roger Dean's cover to Fragile of Olias who builds a ship (the Moorglade) to rescue his people from a doomed planet.
At the beginning, I had only scant knowledge of keyboards or percussions, but I did not seek to play something so definite that it would have required a great technique, I let myself go and my ideas were bounded by the limits of my possibilities while always pushing these limits a little further back.
"Olias of Sunhillow" is by far what gave me the most, speaking on the individual and personal level.
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 Olias Of Sunhillow
1976 erschien Jon Andersons Solo-Album Olias Of Sunhillow.
Diese Volksstämme werden von den drei Rittern Olias, Qoquaq und Ranyart mit dem Moorglade Mover auf den rettenden Planeten Asguard gebracht, wo sie selbst wieder in das Weltall entschwinden.
Jede der Völkerschaften sandte durch ihre Lieder ein eigenes Licht zu den Sternen.
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 OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Olias Of Sunhillow - Japanese - VINYL LP - Promo more of this title
Olias Of Sunhillow - Japanese - VINYL LP more of this title
JON ANDERSON Olias Of Sunhillow (Original 1976 UK LP, in stunning gatefold picture sleeve with integral inner flyer and original lyric inner sleeve.
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 Jon Anderson-Olias Of Sunhillow // disappointing - AudioReview Forums
Olias has put me under on at least three occasions whilst listening on headphones.
PS - I was in one of those earthy/hippy stores one time and was over heard by the store's owner (I was musing to my wife) "Who the hell pays $300 for a frikken wind chime?" He introduced himself and asked if I owned any new age jazz albums, and I said "Yeah, two".
Olias was released in 1976 and guess what.............................
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 Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow - lyrics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Total relating appointed close factors of what we regard as the answer lies there, and is one hand raised high in the dark.
Olias awoke from a dream and drank his soul into the ocean that sailed past the brink of his window that long summer.
Olias shines as clear as his sons emotions retrace him.
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 SoundChaser.Org :: The Definitive Internet Yes Source :: View topic - _Olias of Sunnhillow_ by Phillip K. Dick Pt 12
That night I lay awake worrying at the problem of the meaning of Olias, the story that the British singer had told me. The visions of London at war had left me in an apocalyptic frame of mind.
There was a sound like white noise from the surf of an ocean beyond my bedclothes topography and the fish bore me and the entire landscape away through space and time.
All the might of the Empire's armies were powereless to stop the forces of disorder that their invasion had begun.
www.soundchaser.org /forum/viewtopic.php?p=16858   (3967 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Olias of Sunhillow: Music: Jon Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
He has issued numerous solo albums over the years, Olias Of Sunhillow reached #47 on the Billboard charts in 1976.
Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow uses multi-layered vocals to replicate the feel of airy Yes of the period, lots of harp and gauzy sound, the kind tha Anderson's voice shines best through.
You dance with Ranyart and watch Olias as he builds the Moorglade, clasped with the skins of the fish of the plain.
www.amazon.com /Olias-Sunhillow-Jon-Anderson/dp/B000CSUMDA   (1128 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Olias of Sunhillow: Music: Jon Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Because, however you may scoff at the times and the preoccupations of the spaced-out, "Olias of Sunhillow" is actually a remarkable achievement.
Anderson, accustomed to singing or arranging, but never possessing many actual instrumental skills beyond the tambourine, taught himself to play a huge range of instruments for the album, some familiar, some exotic; he built himself a recording studio to do it in; he played everything and sang everything on the recording and he produced it.
Olias of Sunhillow is the most treasured album in my collection.
www.amazon.co.uk /Olias-Sunhillow-Jon-Anderson/dp/B000005S6X   (1529 words)

  
 Ground and Sky review - Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Olias is a concept album that renders the mythic themes of Noah's Ark set in space.
Olias features Anderson at the height of his lyric-writing; heavily abstract yet hopeful, but not trite and overly-sugary like his later efforts.
I am somewhat suspicious at the claims that Anderson played everything of the exotic blend of instrumentation provided here (one senses a strong Vangelis presence, and he is thanked on the liner notes), but until other evidence surfaces, that's how the album is credited.
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 EMforum.nl / Olias of Sunhillow
Anderson did nothing after which would suggest that he did this on his own, and his lack of instrumental virtuosity is well known.
And Olias Of Sunhillow is not my favourite album by Anderson,yet not the worst he has released...
Olias is a good album and the artwork is sensational epecially on the vinyl issue.
www.emforum.nl /viewtopic.php?id=2672   (155 words)

  
 eBay - olias of ..., CDs, Records items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW " Idem" LP rare on ATLANTIC
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 eBay: SUNHILLOW, CDs, Vinyl, Musik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
ION ANDERSON (YES) Olias Of Sunhillow mit Übersetzung
Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow - LP
OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW ANDERSON, JON GÜNSTIGandNEU @ CAIMAN!
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@ALBUM: Olias of Sunhillow Jon Anderson [These lyrics are (C)1976 Topographic Music Ltd.] [This album is currently out of print in the US.
@SONG: Dance of Ranyart + Olias (To Build the Moorglade) + Olias awoke from a dream and drank his soul into the ocean that sailed past the brink of his window that long summer.
First we hold your hand as we lay silent as the dawn Words are told your eyes we will stay silent as the dawn @SONG: Transic To + The Flight of the Moorglade + And the slightest confrontation way dissolved before the start each man belonged to each as one clear hand.
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 YesNet: reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After buying every YES album I decided it was time to buy Jon's Olias of Sunhillow and Chris Squire's Fish Out of Water and Howe's Beginning's Etc,Etc,.
I can't say enough about how great an album like Olias is. It predates new age music but it was done with that Yes cosmic sound and energy with the greatest vocalist in Prog rock history.
I was not impressed with the 20 dollar shirt but the 30 dollar shirt had the triangle design from the Olias cover.
www.yesworld.com /reviews/DJA2004/0110r20.html   (526 words)

  
 'Olias of Sunhillow' by Jon Anderson from The Portsmouth Chorus.
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 Olias of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After just one listen I went through such an emotional implosion I faked sick from 9th grade for 3 days just to listen to it continuously...
There is something so "otherworldly" about this music - like your listening to another (space-) cultures music from a place that is non-existant.
For example, "And You And I" is unequivocally genious, but collaboratively so, no matter how much Jon brought originally to the sessions.
www.firstmusicreview.com /Olias_of_Sunhillow_B000005S6X.html   (548 words)

  
 All Good People - The Family of Yes! - Olias Of Sunhillow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I don't know, Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn from Mike Oldfield came before Olias, and they were certainly new-age to a extent.
Olias does have an "other-worldly" feel to it.
Olias is great and so is Change We Must.
www.allgoodpeople.net /showthread.php?t=555   (1975 words)

  
 Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow | Best price for Music on CD Album
He must have been communing with the Muses, because he brought to earth one of the best pieces of music ever put to vinyl.
If you stopped making solo albums after OLIAS - if your stellar career had only been one album long - you have done more for the transendence of your fans than you could ever possibly know.
This album is without a doubt one of the masterpieces of the fantasy prog-rock movement of the mid 1970's.
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 Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Music: Olias of Sunhillow [CD]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I bought Olias of Sunhillow after being a huge YES fan for years including Jon Anderson's better solos: Change We Must, Deseo, Song of Seven, and Animation.
Olias is a concept album constructed as a whole.
The music leans towards what would be later called 'New Age'but with the use of very various instruments and without a minimalistic approach of music.
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 Rock Lyrics: Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow lyrics
Rock Lyrics: Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow lyrics
Olias awoke from a dream and drank his soul into the ocean
Olias shines as clear as his sons emotions retrace him.
lyrics.rockmagic.net /lyrics/anderson_jon/olias_of_sunhillow_1976.html   (372 words)

  
 Jon Anderson : Olias of Sunhillow - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Inspired by the artwork of Roger Dean and the writings of Ver Stanley Alder, Jon Anderson developed an entire story around the idea of an interstellar exodus from Sunhillow, writing this album around the narrative (named for the spaceship's architect, Olias).
The idea may seem overly ambitious, but Anderson fills the record with enough magical moments to delight fans of Yes' mystic side.
Olias of Sunhillow is faithful to the spirit of Yes, though decidedly more airy than that band's visceral style -- its closest comparison would be Fragile's "We Have Heaven" or Going for the One's "Wonderous Stories" (which was clearly influenced by this record) on the vocal tracks, and Vangelis on the instrumental tracks.
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 Yes in the Press: Review: Olias of Sunhillow - Progrography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Although the stunning artwork is provided by Dave Roe, the album's theme was inspired in part by the work of Roger Dean, and it's not a stretch to say that Olias of Sunhillow looks and sounds like Dean's previous Yes artwork come to life.
Since Anderson himself handles all the instruments, the album is an airier affair than Yes, and yet at the heart of these songs is the same captivating, intoxicating core that the singer brought to that band.
(In fact, there's little that separates this album from a song like "Wonderous Stories.") Olias of Sunhillow is the one Anderson album most likely to please Yes fans, immersed as it is in their mystical aura.
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 Olias Of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson CD
Olias Of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson CD Artist
European remaster Yes singer Jon Anderson's solo debut is a progressive rock masterpiece, featuring layers of vocals and New Age synthesizers in the service of a science fantasy concept album about a space age Ark rescuing a planet's population from oblivion.
Anderson declaims the lyrics ("Sound out the galleons!") in the classic prog rock style which he helped originate, while OLIAS OF SUNHILLOW's inspired energy, musical taste, and artistic confidence is all the more remarkable for the vocalist apparently playing all the instruments himself.
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 Olias of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson : Music CD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 Sequel to Olias?
So what ever happened to this sequel of 'Olias of Sunhillow'?
I've been working on this piece of music for a year now, and it will be ready next summer, I believe.
I did an album years and years ago called "Olias of Sunhillow" where I performed all the music, and I'm getting back to that place again.
www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/alt.music.yes/messages/471236.html   (218 words)

  
 Olias Of Sunhillow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Album:Olias Of Sunhillow Artist: Jon Anderson 1976 Atlantic CD Japan: AMCY-18 Band Members: Jon Anderson- all vocals and instruments Written and Produced by Jon Anderson Tracks: 1.
Meeting (Garden Of Geda) / Sound Out The Galleon 03:34 3.
Dance Of The Raynart / Olias (To Build The Moorglade) 04:19 4.
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