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YES and projects with several Yesmen	Jon Anderson	Chris Squire	Steve Howe	Alan White
Rick Wakeman	Bill Bruford	Tony Kaye	Peter Banks	Patrick Moraz
Trevor Horn	Geoff Downes	Trevor Rabin	Billy Sherwood	Igor Khoroshev
Anderson & Wakeman	Asia	CIRCA: Yoso	Oliver Wakeman Benoît David	Others associated with the band

Bruford has retired from performance. He continues to run his Summerfold and Winterfold labels, teach and to do speaking engagements. In his autobiography, he says:

Truth be told, I haven't really enjoyed my music-making for quite a while [...] There are bits of the procedure that are intensely agreeable: the watching as arms and legs produce genuine surprise; the applause at the end of the concert; the camaraderie of fellow musicians; the fleeting moments when everthing comes into focus live or on record [...] Like all occupations, there also exists the extremely disagreeable. But neither the agreeable nor disagreeable circumstamces surrounding the music-making should be confused with the pure enjoyment of the music-making itself. We musicians go a long way, literally, in seach of that most intense of feelings. Until recently, I've always found just enough petrol to keep going, but not a drop more. Now I'm running on empty.

To an interviewer in 2009, he said that he plays practices drumming, but not as much as he used to, in order that he can still teach. He talks further about his life now he's retired in an Aug 2009 interview with ProgressiveEars.com, saying, "No time yet to think of 2010, I'm too exhausted from being retired."

That said, Bruford does have one occasional job playing in Soul House, backing singer Ann Bailey (has done sessions for Martine McCutcheon, Damien Wilson, Donna Summer, Right Said Fred, Kurd Maverick & Eddie Thoneick). The band played a Surrey, UK gig in May 2009 and have another on 9 Apr 2010, with Bailey (lead vocalist), Bruford (drums), Tom Cheek (bass), Andy Smith (keys), Jim Cheek (sax), Tom Walker (guitar), Sonia Griffiths (backing vocals), Kate Cameron (backing vocals), Matijn Van Galen (trumpet). (The 2009 line-up, who can be seen on YouTube, was mostly the same, but with Graham Brierton on bass instead of Cheek, and Elliot May on backing vocals instead of Griffiths.)

Classic Rock Presents... Prog magazine claimed that Bruford may come out of retirement for a project with Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin, but Bruford has categorically denied this. His webmaster responded to a fan with this message (18 Mar): "Your message has been passed to Bill. He retired from public performance 15 months ago and isn't joining any band. Perhaps sales are down at Classic Rock?!" (See main page for more.)

pianocircus playing the music of Colin Riley featuring Bill Bruford
Bruford's last project of new music was with composer Colin Riley (MySpace page; Brunel Univ. page) and keyboard collective pianocircus (MySpace page; have worked with Brian Eno, Yumi Hara Cawkwell). Bruford and Riley met in the latter half of 2006. They played a show (described by Riley as more like an "open rehearsal" and by Bruford as "under-rehearsed") in Sep 2007 in London. After an opening set by pianocircus, Bruford and pianocircus (4/6 of the usual group, performing on keyboards) performed 6 pieces by Riley (with some improvised parts), who conducted.

Re-issues and archival releases
Now out is an archival live Moraz-Bruford release entitled In Tokyo (Winterfold, BBWF011CD), a 1985 live recording that has previously been bootlegged. Tracks: "Blue Brains", "Hazy", "Eastern Sundays", "Cachaca", "Galatea", "The Drum Also Waltzes", "Flags", "Children's Concerto", "Jungles of the World", "Temples of Joy". The album omits part of the set, namely "Impromptu, Too", "Machines Programmed by Genes", "Serenade" (from "Time for a Change"). 6 of the tracks on In Tokyo are those previously used as bonus tracks on the Winterfold re-releases of the prior Moraz-Bruford albums.

The latest album on Summerfold is a re-release of One (BBSF024CD), the 2000 album by Pete Lockett's Network Of Sparks featuring Bill Bruford (free sample track available at All About Jazz).

As for future bonus tracks, in a May 2004 interview, Bruford says, "I have one or two strange bits and pieces up my sleeve and a fair amount of recorded live stuff. [...] I do have some very exciting playing from the Bruford group". In a Dec 2003 interview with Voiceprint radio, Bruford was asked whether he has any unreleased material in the archives for Winterfold. He replied:

Somewhat. The bands I'm in always tended to be playing new material, which [...] was likely to be recorded for some upcoming album. If that album never got made, then you find that that album is available in stocks... the material is available in some live concert. For example, the Stewart/Berlin/Holdsworth or John Clark group was working on a fourth studio album after Gradually Going Tornado, but it never got made. So there are some demos from rehearsal rooms and things which are just great and several tunes played live that were also very interesting. However, the only minor fly in the ointment back then of course is that the recording... bootleg recordings were pretty low quality. There's usually some guy just sticking up a cassette in a venue somewhere and not terribly great. And we didn't spend a lot of money recording things live all the time. Now, of course, with portable recording systems, everybody records everything. You record the rehearsal room. You record walking in to the rehearsal room. One of the nightmates in King Crimson was that everything was always recorded [...] The opposite problem occurred in the mid-seventies with Bruford, which was that almost nothing was recorded. So a lot of material went past, but we can, sure, find things

Phil Manzanera's website had described a possible archival collection entitled Rare Two including material with Bruford, but news of the release was withdrawn. In Apr 2003, bassist Bill MacCormick answered a question about the relevant sessions on the Phil Manzanera/Roxy Music forum saying:

Some of the early sessions for the Listen Now album [...] involved Bill Bruford + Phil, [Brian] Eno and me (not sure about Eddie [Jobson] though he certainly played on other sessions).  These tracks were never used though I believe Phil still has the 24-track masters somewhere.  Every now and then we talk about what we might do with them.  We haven't come up with an answer yet.

Dust is a collection of rarities from Adrian Belew. While once planned as a boxset, instead the collection of 85 tracks is being released as a series of downloads ("Dust particles") available from StoreBelew. Some of these features Bruford and Levin, including "Dust" (unreleased 1983 King Crimson song from sessions for Three of a Perfect Pair) and "Manhattan/Neurotica" (recorded by Belew/Bruford/Levin in 1982). At one stage, it was announced that the set would include an early version of "Heartbeat" and other outtakes from Beat.

A cover of King Crimson's "Starless" by Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy and Randy George is due as a bonus track on Morse's next release. Bruford describes the version as "brilliant". John Wetton also did King Crimson and UK material with iCon in 2009.

UK
News about archival and remastered UK releases is under Jobson. Meanwhile, Jobson's new band UKZ play UK, King Crimson and Bruford material live—see here.

Other news

Bill Bruford's Earthworks' "Footloose and Fancy Free" is available (barring a temporary glitch at the beginning of Apr) on Microsoft's Rock Band Network for download and play on Rock Band. This is the first jazz piece for the game. The piano part is played by the 'guitar' in the game, while the saxophone part becomes a 'vocal' part, as can be seen in this YouTube preview. Bruford's tenure in Genesis was covered by Live 1972-2007 (EMI). This 10CD/3DVD set includes the live albums Live, Seconds Out (with Bruford), Three Sides Live, The Way We Walk and Live At The Rainbow 1973. Coinciding with his retirement from making music, Bruford has written his autobiography, "Bill Bruford: The Autobiography—Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks and More" (Jawbone Press; 336 pages; ISBN: 1906002231). The entire first chapter is available from Bill's site, with another chapter previewed at All About Jazz. The book is out in the US, Canada and the UK, and comes with an offer for a free copy of An Introduction to Winterfold or An Introduction to Summerfold. The book has gone into a second printing. An Italian translation is now available, with deals for Spanish and Japanese versions being finalised. In Jan 2009 comments to All About Jazz discussing his retirement from live performance, he said: I will also still write and talk on The Pleasures and Perils of Playing Percussion in Public (!). My US agent, Laurel Wicks at Ted Kurland Associates, is already soliciting book-reading/guest speaker engagements at North American colleges for after the book release as we speak. Bruford attended the 2009 Groznjan International Summer Percussion Camp as a non-performer to promote the book and discuss issues raised therein. He has been doing further non-performing Evenings with Bill Bruford, mainly at academic institutions, but some are open to the public. Bruford has done some teaching at the Academy of Contemporary Music (Guildford) and Kingston University.

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Since Back Against the Wall, Kaye has been working on multiple projects with Billy Sherwood that also include further Yesmen and so are covered here. These chiefly include CIRCA:, a new band project also with Jay Schellen and Jimmy Haun; their second album (CIRCA: HQ) is now out. Kaye, Sherwood and Haun are also working with Bobby Kimball (ex-Toto; vocals) in Yoso. Kaye also guests on a post-Conspiracy album by Sherwood and Schellen. Kaye also played on the Beatles tribute album, Abbey Road, organised by Sherwood—details here.

In May 2007, Kaye said on his MySpace blog that he has "been working on [a] project called End Of Inocence that is an orchestral interpretation of 9-11-2001." In an interview published Mar 2008, Kaye talks further about the project, saying:

I’m working on an instrumental album based on the events of 9/11. My wife co-wrote and sings on one of the songs. It’s mostly orchestral and I’d like to have an actual orchestra perform it, but they are very expensive.

In a Dec 2008 interview on Yesfans.com, Kaye talked more about the project:

It's an orchestrated work. I started writing it the day after 9/11 happened, and went into the studio and started writing a piece that actually musically follows what happened that entire day. [...]

it has 'Floyd-ey' YES-like moments [...] Band moments. [...] I keep reviewing and re-doing things, and it's getting closer to what I hear in my head. I think it's very different to do an orchestral album without an orchestra; Because of the purity of what it is. I'm a big fan of Trevor [Rabin], and what he's achieving now. But you see, he has the money to do it right, to get that purity of sound. [...]

to be totally authentic, I think to have a one-hundred piece orchestra is the way to go. But it's really a work in progress, and of course the subject matter is rather difficult [...] because of the intensity and the gravity of what it was [...]

Some of it is more melodic, it has Floydian rock and roll moments which kick-up the symphonic parts. [...]

I actually go between liking it and sort-of not liking it, which is why I keep going back to re-vamp it. It IS pretty dark and intense subject matter. I like playing inspirational music, but I also like to play with a song; With the lyrics, which this doesn't have. It's purely instrumental. It's not finished, not quite yet, but it's getting there. [...]

Some of it is pretty complex, and some of it is quite simple. It balances-out.

In a May 2010 interview, Kaye talked more about "The End of Innocence": "I've been working on a project for quite some time [...] making a video, putting it to images [...] more of an orchestral piece of the day of 9/11 [...] and a little bit beyond, going into the repercussions of the day [...] I started writing it just after the day [...] I went to the studio that night and wrote the first piece [...] I've been working on it for years and years". He went on: "The visuals [...] have really changed it to something I'm really interested in working on right now". He also described the visuals as being very "political".

Due late Sep 2010 is a special and a deluxe re-release of David Bowie's Station to Station. The special editions includes, on two additional CDs, a complete live set from the accompanying 1976 tour, on which Kaye played keys; tracks: "Station to Station", "Suffragette City", "Fame", "Word on a Wing", "Stay", "Waiting for the Man", "Queen Bitch", "Life on Mars?", "Five Years", "Panic in Detroit", "Changes", "TVC 15", "Diamond Dogs", "Rebel Rebel", "The Jean Genie". (Two of these tracks were previously included on the 1991 release of the album.) The deluxe edition has 5 discs, adding a different mix of the album and a single edits EP.

Kaye's wife is singer Daniela Torchia (MySpace page). Her debut album Have No Fear was executive produced by Kaye. Kaye also plays keys on the song "I Promise You". There is a Spanish-language version of the album entitled Sin Miedo. See Yescography for details. On his MySpace page, drummer Paul Cassarino (stage production for CIRCA:) says he is, "Currently, working along side Tony Kaye [...] and his wife Daniela Torchia's solo project." I am unclear whether this is the 9/11 project, another album from Torchia or something else.

Kaye is also executive producing other artists. He was playing piano, Hammond and synths in The Neil Deal, a tribute band for Neil Young and Crazy Horse based in Los Angeles, CA, but seems to have left in 2007. The rest of the band are Dennis Neil (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica), Jim Altman (ex-Steve Vai, ex-Eric Burdon; guitar, backing vocals), Bruce Spiegel (bass, backing vocals), Bert Wolf (drums). The band play regularly in California. Their live set included "After the Gold Rush", "Alabama", "Barstool Blues", "Cinnamon Girl", "Cortez the Killer", "Cowgirl in the Sand", "Down by the River", "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere", "Harvest Moon", "Heart of Gold", "Helpless", "Hey Hey My My", "Hurricane", "The Loner", "Long May You Run Mr. Soul", "Mansion on the Hill", "Needle and the Damage Done", "Ohio", "Old Man (Look at My Life)", "Only Love Can Break Your Heart", "Out on the Weekend", "Over & Over", "Powderfinger", "Rockin' in the Free World", "Sedan Delivery", "Southern Man", "Sugar Mountain", "Tell Me Why", "Walk On", "Welfare Mothers", "When You Dance I Can Really Love", "After the Garden". The band were recording a studio album; it is unclear whether Kaye will be on this.

Harmony in Diversity and Self-Contained
Harmony in Diversity has been an improvisational trio with Peter Banks (guitar, MIDI guitar), Nick Cottam (Pulse Engine; bass) and Dave Speight (a.k.a. Jick; drums). The new trio have been compiling an album, a follow-up to the group's debut Trying: Banks blogged in Apr 2008 about "the Harmony In Diversity project I have and the tracks are being worked on and assembled by H.I.D bassist Nick Cottam, who has done an outstanding job and continues to work on this up coming release." Speight's MySpace reported, "The latest HiD live album is currently being mixed and will feature live recordings captured in the UK and Eastern Europe in 2006/2007." Sound samples from Trying and from recent shows with the new line-up can be heard at their website, and at Speight's and Banks' MySpace pages.

In 2007, Banks put up a call for collaborators on his MySpace blog, reading:

 Diligence, tenacity, precision, a driven confidence, iconoclastic lateral thinking and er....stuff.

Pete Banks is looking to hear from musicians who like breaking rules, for his HARMONY IN DIVERSITY project. The gigs will be 80% improvised, no prisoners will be taken. If you're interested in playing between the lines, if you are in the London area I would like to hear from you.

Call today!
44-776-694-2372

Banks was planning a number of projects with Gonzalo Carrera (dB-Infusion, Whimwise, Karnataka, Wild Turkey; keys), including live work in London: they initially talked about a duo, Harmony in Diversity II, with the same improvisational ethos as its namesake. The pair were also planning live work as Self-Contained, playing rock instrumental material composed by Banks. In Apr 2007, Banks said he, Carrera and Dave Wagstaffe (Landmarq, Oliver Wakeman; drums) were planning some London gigs of composed material. However, these plans have stalled. Banks guested with dB-Infusion a few years ago, and he may guest on their next album.

Banks has also talked of wanting to assemble an instrumental band to play material from his 1990s solo albums: in a Nov 2006 interview, he said, "I'd like to put an instrumental band together and go and play my stuff, and do some covers of different songs and pieces, instrumentally, and put a whole different spin on it."

Yes & related collaborations
In an interview for Guitar Player (Sep 2006 publication date, but conducted in the first half of the year), Banks says, "I may be doing something with former King Crimson violinist David Cross, and there are two potential projects involving former Yes personnel that I'm sworn to secrecy about for now." One of these Yes-related projects was probably a reference to early ideas around what became CIRCA: (with Sherwood, Tony Kaye and Alan White), but Banks ultimately was not involved with this. The other may have been writing with Jon Anderson. Banks and Anderson were writing some new material together, but the collaboration was abandoned—details also on main page.

Flash & re-releases
Banks and former Flash road manager George 'TheMiz' Mizer, through their production company AdequateSounds, are trying to arrange a release entitled In Public, an archival 16-track recording of a complete 1973 Flash concert recorded by the Record Plant. Banks blogged in Apr 2008 about the album, describing it as "a forth coming CD called FLASH "In Public" we have had many offers for a JAPAN release but this is worth a wider release. So we shall see what comes ." An edited version of one track ("There No More", a.k.a. "Room with a View", originally 18 min.s long) can be heard on Banks' MySpace page.

Esoteric are re-releasing remasters of The Two Sides of Peter Banks and the original Flash albums. The Two Sides of Peter Banks (eclec2165) and Flash (eclec2166; with bonus track of the single version of "Small Beginnings") are out, with In the Can due around Jun and Out of Our Hands to follow.

Ray Bennett (now on guitar) and Colin Carter (vocals) are continuing with their Flash reunion, without Banks. They release a new album this year and are playing Progday with a 5-piece line-up.

Other news
Banks' compilation release Can I Play You Something? has been re-released in digital form as The Roots of Yes 1964-68.

Banks was planning a project with singer Reggie King (ex-The Action). In a Nov 2006 interview, Banks talks of producing King and assembling a backing band: "I'm hoping to put a special band together, can't say too much about it because I've not spoken to Reggie about it. [...] I'm hoping to tempt him into the studio. It would involve people who played the Marquee in the late 60s, like Phil Collins, Chris Squire, Stevie Winwood, this kind of thing. But we're still discussing things."

Banks was announced to be guesting on a number of tracks on the next studio album by Yesterdays, now expected around 2009, but I am unclear whether this is still happening. Harmony in Diversity's Speight has, however, been working with them. (Banks' Harmony in Diversity were supported by Yesterdays at MiniProg Festival in Budapest in Feb 2007.)

In an interview in Record Collector (circa Oct 2006), Banks says, "I have almost enough material for a solo album too, but I'm not sure I want to release one, as I burned myself out on the previous one. If I did, it'd be live-in-the-studio with my wish-list of players. It's been suggested to me to do an album of Yes pieces, but why? I don't want to repeat something I did 200 years ago."

Some while back, Banks recorded parts for three tracks on Ant-Bee's planned album Electronic Church Muzik (as Billy James, Ant-Bee co-wrote Banks' autobiography "Beyond and Before"). Other guests include Daevid Allen (Gong), Gilli Smyth (Gong), Jan Akkerman, Napoleon Murphy Brock (ex-Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention; vocals), Don Preston (ex-Mothers), Bunk Gardner (ex-Mothers), Rockette Morton (ex-Capt Beefheart's Magic Band), Zoot Horn Rollo (ex-Capt Beefheart's Magic Band), Moogy Klingman (ex-Todd Rundgren; keys), Roger Powell (ex-Todd Rundgren; keys) and members of the the Alice Cooper Group. At last report, Ant-Bee is still working on the album.

He said in the aforementioned Nov 2006 interview that he wanted to write another book: "not a biography, about music in general and the way I view it now and the way it was. I'm pretty opinionated and want to get it out of my system."

Peter Banks has a MySpace page. This may feature some archival recordings Banks has, including The Syn live in the 1960s.

Recent work
In the MorazNews interview, Moraz says:

there are quite a lot of recordings and works which have never been released, and there are also some new productions, recent works, in the "classical" section and also in the "prog-rock and avant-jazz fusion" section. Of course, I have quite a lot of projects already "earmarked", so-to-speak, for the coming years.

Moraz has done music for a forthcoming DVD release called "Transmuteo" by Jean-Luc Bozzoli; trailers featuring Moraz' music are now online. In his interview for Innerviews, Moraz expands:

it’s a story made up entirely of visuals and music, with no story or words. [...] The music will have a very symphonic approach and some of the pieces are very emotional.

Moraz and Ronnie Ciago (percussion) have been working on an album together; one piece with Ciago appeared on Moraz's solo album Change of Space. Moraz played on sessions for bassist Dave LaRue (The Dixie Dregs, John Petrucci) for a second solo album which has yet to appear.

Longer term plans
Moraz has talked of multiple further projects, but many of these appear to be some way from producing any output. He has plans for a third "Future Memories" show, which he discusses in a new interview on a forthcoming DVD release of the first two "Future Memories" TV programmes (see below). For some years, Moraz has been working on an "electro-ethnic" solo album, A Way to Freedom. In an interview circa May 06 (Notes from the Edge #299), Moraz said:

A WAY TO FREEDOM seems to be taking a long time to come out. It's not the lack of material, but more about the inherent inertia which has surrounded the project from the beginning. I have lots and lots of recorded material already, but I never seem to be able to put the finishing touch to the production as a whole. Especially now that I have all these [re] releases [...] coming out [see below] [...] It is still a work in progress and I cannot announce its release yet. But it will come out in the not-too-distant future.

Moraz has expanded "Modular Symphony (1st Movement)" from his 1987 Human Interface album into an entire piano conerto, which he intends to release at some point according to a Mar 2005 interview.

Although he has no immediate plans, in his Mar 2005 interview, Moraz talked of his willingness to do a video or film project based on his solo album The Story of i. In his NftE interview (Jan 2001), he said, "I've also been writing and researching some stories. I'd like to do a movie of THE STORY OF I either in 3-D computer graphics, an animated version, or the real thing. I have also written a couple of other movie scripts; one is a science fiction story and the other is about the life and times of a composer who lived three hundred years ago." In an earlier interview (Oct 2000), he said: "I have just about 30 other projects that I have already composed, I've composed hundreds of pieces of music in the last 9 years. [...] I have also, maybe, studying to get a commission for a symphony orchestra perhaps in europe for next year [2001]." At some point, he has been planning to do a charity Christmas album.

In the 2005 interview, Moraz mentioned too his desire to do some live shows with flautist Syrinx to play music from their album Coexistence/Libertate, although again there are no specific plans at present. Moraz has said he may collaborate with Annie Haslam in the future.

Re-releases and previously unreleased archival material
Released in 2009 was The Grandfather Paradox: A Journey Through 50 Years of Minimalistic Music (Barely Breaking Even, BBE120CCD), presented by Henrik Schwarz, ÂME & Dixon. This 2CD compilation album has one disc where the music has been mixed by Schwarz, ÂME and Dixon, and a second where the music has just been compiled. Both discs include a Patrick Moraz track, "Metamorphoses 1st Movement (Live)". There appears to be a (possibly digital only) shorter version too.

In an Oct 2006 interview with the Francophone Yes fanclub, Nous Sommes Du Soleil, Moraz was asked whether there might one day be a release of a Dec 1987 live-in-the-studio performance in support of Human Interface. Moraz replied yes:

Oui, celui-là j’en ai le master sur DAT et je vais le mastériser avec Jean Ristori dans les semaines à venir. Bien que la partie électronique de la musique soit très similaire à l’album de studio de « Human Interface », ayant tout joué « live » en direct,  avec l’aide d’ordinateurs et de « midi » cependant, le son lui, est plus « urgent », peut-être un peu moins sophistiqué que sur l’album de studio, et les tempi sont dans certains cas plus rapides ! Et puis les lignes improvisées sont évidemment différentes de celles de l’album de studio. [...] J’ai retrouvé des enregistrements inédits de pièces pour pianos préparés que j’avais enregistrés ultérieurement et que j’ai mis en bonus sur le CD.

Other news
Moraz is one of many musicians to appear in Dianna Dilworth's documentary film about the Mellotron, "Mellodrama: The Mellotron Documentary".

Trevor Horn Official site; SPZ website; ZTT Records website
Us/The Producers
The Producers consists of Trevor Horn (bass, vocals), Steve Lipson (worked with Grace Jones, S Club 7, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Annie Lennox, Will Young; guitar), Lol Crème (Art of Noise, ex-10cc; guitar, vocals), Chris Braide (Malmo, written for Cheryl Cole, Glenn Tilbrook, Clay Aiken, Will Young, Kylie Minogue, S Club 7; keys, vocals) and Ashley 'Ash' Soan (Rick Wakeman's English Rock Ensemble, ex-Del Amitri, ex-Squeeze, worked with Will Young, Enrique Iglesias, Robbie Williams; drums). Braide is the main vocalist, but Horn and Crème sing lead on some songs.

The band began as a low-key, live, covers project, but then began recording their debut album in Dec 2006 at Hook End Studios. In Mar 2008, the band announced they had finished mixing it and that release under the title Studio 1 would follow on Stiff Records (a sister label to ZTT). Album tracks for Studio 1 were to be: "Freeway", "Waiting for the Right Time", "Watching You Out There", "Your Life" (Horn on lead vocals), "Barking Up the Right Tree", "You and I", "Stay Elaine", "Man on the Moon" (Braide on lead vocals), "Music From BelAir" (inspired by Horn's time as a homeowner in California). A song entitled "Seven" (in 7 time about an escort agency, with Horn on Vocoder) was played live; I presume it is included in that list under some other name. However, by Jun 2008, the band were back recording and the album was entitled Watching You Out There and to be released on a different label. Braide then left the group and the band, under the leadership of Horn and Crème, changed their name to Us with an album due called The Path of Sydney Arthur, a concept piece based around the fictional life story of a man born on the same day as the first Moon landing; an associated short video promoting the new album name appeared on MySpace. "You and I" was confirmed for The Path of Sydney Arthur. It was unclear how much of the material or recordings for Studio 1 were to be carried over to The Path of Sydney Arthur given Braide's departure, but some of the Braide co-written material was expected to be used. Braide then re-joined for what was described as a one-off show by The Producers in Oct 2009. In a late 2009 interview, asked about The Producers, Horn said: "we are called 'Us' now. Domain names became a problem when you googled and around 3,000 came up! We are just finishing off an album, but we did a few quiet one-off gigs recently, hoping to do more in the new year."

Braide then returned again for another show as The Producers in Jan 2010 (approximate set: unidentified song, "Freeway", "Man on the Moon", "Rubber Bullets" (originally by 10cc), "Your Life", "Watching You Out There", "Slave to the Rhythm" (with guest vocalist; originally by Grace Jones), "Space Oddity" (originally by David Bowie), "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (originally by Tears for Fears), "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (originally by Yes), "I'm Not in Love" (originally by 10cc), unidentified Producers song, "Video Killed the Radio Star" (originally by The Buggles), encore: "Freeway" again). On stage at the Jan 2010 show, the band said they were still working on an album and they were aiming for a 2010 release (suggesting a return to the original line-up).

Gary Langan (ex-Art of Noise, worked with Yes) mixed and engineered for the band. The debut single was "Barking Up the Right Tree" (3:21; Crème on lead vocals, Horn on double bass), backed with "Freeway" (5:55; Braide on lead vocals), out (Stiff Records, CDBUY270). The single was co-written and co-produced by all five of the band. A number songs could be heard on their their MySpace page, which has since disappeared, and at the Stiff Records website. The band is managed by Luke Mitzman (Lipson's stepson).

Lipson, Crème, Soan and Langan all commonly appear on Horn's productions. For example, they all worked on Escala's eponymous debut; Horn and Lipson worked together on Jeff Beck's new album; Soan appeared on the Horn-produced Aviv Geffen; and Horn, Soan, Braide and Crème are all on Robbie Williams' Reality Killed the Video Star.

Production and solo work
Trevor Horn did a film score in 2007 for the forthcoming drama/comedy "Young Americans" (formerly "Kids in America") from Universal Pictures, but said in a May 2008 interview that he wasn't particularly interested in doing many more films. The film, starring, co-written and co-executive produced by Topher Grace and written by the writers of That '70s Show, is now expected in 2010. On the 2008 film "Wanted", the score was by Danny Elfman. Elfman wrote and sung "The Little Things" (3:27), the song over the closing credits, and Horn produced the vocal sessions. The piece is the first of 15 tracks on the soundtrack release, Wanted (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Lakeshore Records, LKS 340212).

On 21 Feb 2009, they—Wetton (bass, vocals), Downes (keys, backing vocals), McDowell (electric 'cello), Kilminster (guitars, backing vocals), Riley (drums), Helder (backing vocals, shakers)—played a special sold out concert at St Mary-Le-Bow Church in London for an audience of 200, which was recorded for a live DVD ("Urban Psalm") and CD release: see press release here. Set: "Countdown to Zero"/"Go", "I've Come to Take You Home" (Helder on flute at end), "Twice the Man I Was", "Elstree", "Angel" (Kilminster on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Riley and Wetton sat out), "Voice of America", "The Die is Cast", "To Catch a Thief" (Icon II: Rubicon; duet with Helder); interval; "Starless" (Helder sat out), "Paradox/Let Me Go", "Meet Me at Midnight" (Kilminster on acoustic guitar, Wetton on vocals only), "Raven" (3; duet with Helder, Wetton on vocals only, Kilminster on backing vocals only, Riley sat out), "True Colours", "Heat of the Moment" (acoustic; Wetton on acoustic guitar and vocals, Kilminster on acoustic guitar, Riley sat out), "Rubicon", "Don't Go Out Tonight", "My Own Time", "Days Like These"; encore: "In the End" (Icon; Wetton on vocals only, duet with Helder, who also played flute), "Rock and Roll Dream". The DVD was mixed in Aug. There is a limited, signed edition (1000 copies) of this that has been sent to all members of the audience first, with remaining copies now available to buy exclusively online. Attendees have also been given a link to download a 2006 performance of the band live in Japan; this is also available in a bundle pack for purchasers. Artwork and sleeve notes are by Nick Shilton. A full commercial release will, it seems, follow in 2010. A live CD will also follow.

On his website forum in Jan 2010, asked about iCon, Wetton said:

No live plans for iCon right now, Mike---we have a couple of releases which are currently under discussion, but I don't see why there will not be more live in the future. One thing I have learned about iCon, is that it must remain special.

There is also a plan being considered for a joint Asia/iCon/Steve Howe Trio/Carl Palmer Band tour for 2010. See under Asia for details.

Downes (on Hammond) and Wetton are among guests on a charity EP by It Bites to raise money for the Cumbria Flood Recovery Fund, a re-recording of their hit "Calling All the Heroes". Also participating were Marillion, Jem Godfrey (Frost*, ex-Atomic Kitten), Jason Perry (A), Dick Nolan and former It Bites member Francis Dunnery (ex-The Syn). The EP was recorded on 4 Dec at Wetton and Downes' studio near Milton Keynes; there is an accompanying video produced by Russell Cherrington (University of Cumbria). The single was released digitally in the UK only (on iTunes).

Anneke van Giersbergen covered "To Catch a Thief" from Icon II: Rubicon on her solo album Pure Air (Agua Recordings), with Wetton guesting on vocals. See Yescography for details. Van Giersbergen guested on the original version.

Again in his Feb 2007 blog, Downes described a new project also involving Tony Levin (bass), Michael Holmes (IQ), Nick D'Virgilio (Spock's Beard, ex-Genesis), Thomas Lang (ex-John Wetton; drums), Rob Aubrey (worked with Wetton/Downes; engineer). Downes writes:

[In Feb 2007] We [Downes, Holmes & Aubrey] were working on a few tracks that they have been putting together at their respective studios. At the moment it's what you might call a 'virtual' project, with people sending in their stuff/parts from all over the World. [...] It's a fairly interesting but low-key kind of project, and the material - quite different and unusual, but at the moment is still very much a kind of 'work-in-progress' type of thing. Any of you prog-heads out there will probably love it all and lap it up

In 2009, Aubrey described a project called Pulse as being close to completion with Levin (bass), Holmes (guitar), D'Virgilio (drums, vocals) and Lang (drums), but did not mention Downes.

Other news
The Buggles news is under Horn, including a re-release of Adventures in Modern Recording with bonus tracks. Downes also plays on an Enrique Iglesias project being produced by Horn—details under Horn.

News about Asia Featuring John Payne and associated releases is on the Asia page.

Rabin is also currently recording material for an upcoming instrumental solo album. The new music—which he describes as, “jazzier than rock, with a bluegrass Dobro kind of feel”— features him playing nearly every instrument.

In an interview published Mar 2008, Tony Kaye said, "I think [Rabin i]s working on a jazz album. [...] I think he's doing all the instruments himself." Talking to Innerviews back in late 2003, Rabin said he hoped to record a new solo album soon. "But if I get a call from someone I'm excited about working with, it's very difficult to turn down." He continues "I've got quite a lot of material together that I'm happy with. When I get enough together I'll start to do an album." In an Aug 2002 interview for Notes from the Edge, he said:

I've got enough material for about half an album at least [...] I just haven't got time to get around to it.

I think I'd sing on it, but it would be far more instrumental. The previous solo albums were very much singer-songwriter efforts with me delivering a lyric and performing as a guitar player [...] Now, I think it would be a little more eclectic and a lot more natural maybe. It wouldn't stick to a certain genre. I wouldn't do what I'm expected to do. I think it would be a lot freer.

Film scores etc.
Rabin's latest score is for "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film is due out 16 Jul 2010. A soundtrack album is now out (digital only); tracks: "Sorcerer's Apprentice" (3:14), "Story of the Prime Merlinian" (4:02), "Note Chase" (0:38), "Dave Revives Balthazar" (2:41), "Classroom" (1:24), "The Urn" (1:39), "The Grimhold" (1:39), "Morgana Fight" (2:59), "The Ring" (1:43), "Walk in the Rain" (0:42), "Merlin Circle" (2:01), "Dave has Doubts" (0:53), "Becky and Dave on Rooftop" (1:23), "Car Chase" (3:53), "Seeing Veronica" (0:55), "Story of Veronica" (1:43), "Horvath Made Off with the Grimhold" (1:12), "Kiss from Becky" (0:33), "Bull Fight" (2:10), "Balthazar Saves Veronica" (1:12), "Sorcerer's Apprentice Suite" (2:28), "Fantasia Original Demo" (4:21). Rabin and Andu Summers both appeared at a benefit screening of the film in July 2010 in Burbank, CA. Summers and Rabin both very briefly and separately played a bass guitar signed by Sting that was being auctioned.

Rabin did the score for Disney's "Race to Witch Mountain" (remake of the 1975 film; now out), now out. The former was recorded around early Feb 2009 by a 78-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony, conducted by orchestrator Gordon Goodwin, and a 24-person choir conducted by music librarian Marshall Bowen. The score producer was Paul Linford, who also handled additional arrangements. The scoring mixer was Steve Kempster, with Robbie Boyd, the music editor; Larry Mah, the ProTools recordist; and stage recordist Adam Michalak. (Trevor Horn visited one of the scoring sessions.) The soundtrack, Race to Witch Mountain, has received a digital release only. The 19 track album opens with 3 tracks not by Rabin, with the rest from his score: "Emergency" (Steve Rushton; 2:59), "Boogie Woogie Saturday Night" (Brokedown Cadillac; 3:30), "Southern Nights" (Brokedown Cadillac; 3:53), "Into the Fridge" (6:50), "), "Long Goodbye" (3:01), "Siphon Searches" (4:00), "Make Me a Believer" (4:09), "Bump and Run" (1:14), "Unidentified Main Titles" (3:10), "Jack and Kids Escape" (2:58), "Tell Mr. Wolf I Meant It" (0:50), "Train Wreckage Survey" (0:46), "Burke's Deal" (4:19), "Tracking the E.B.E.'s" (2:13), "Stand Off" (1:48), "Tunnel Flight" (2:17), "Excess Baggage" (2:08), "Convention Escape" (3:12), "Meet the Press" (1:36).

Trevor Rabin has also done the score for another Disney film, "G-Force" (now out; #1 at the US box office in its opening week). Here, Rabin takes over from former collaborator Harry Gregson-Williams, as he has moved to another Disney project. Tommy Vicari and Steve Kempster were mix engineers, while Linford, Goodwin and Don Harper also return. The score includes one track, "Mexicano", credited to Trevor and son Ryan Rabin.

Rabin also worked on "12 Rounds", directed by Reny Harlin. This was recorded around Dec 2008, again by the Hollywood Studio Symphony (including Jon Lewis, trumpet; Wayne Bergeron, trumpet; Cécilia Tsan, 'cello; Bill Booth, trombone; Bob Sanders, bass trombone; Jim Self, tuba), while the studio team included Linford, Kempster, Tom Hardisty, Peter Rotter, Robbie Boyd and Erik Swanson.

Rabin has also done the theme for the National Basketball Association. Turner Network Television's coverage of the NBA will continue to use the theme for the 2009-10 season, making it the longest theme used in NBA history.

Rabin was a speaker at the Fimucité (Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife/Tenerife International Film Music Festival) in Jun in Tenerife, Spain. The festival included a performance of Rabin's film music by the Tenerife Film Orchestra & Choir, a 90-piece orchestra and 60-member choir; set (conducted by Joel McNeely): "Gettysburg/Virginia" (from "Remember the Titans"), "Closing Cards (Overture)" (from "The Great Raid"), "Launch" (from "Armageddon"), "Aftermath" (from "Deep Blue Sea"), "Ben" (from "National Treasure"), "The Game" (from "Remember the Titans").

Rabin scored "Get Smart: The Movie". There is a 20-track release, Get Smart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varèse Sarabande, 302 066 904 2). The score incorporates the original TV show's theme, by Irving Szathmary, with the album including several re-interpretations in different styles. The score was performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony, conducted and orchestrated by regular Rabin collaborator Gordon Goodwin, as well as using electronic elements, guitar and percussion. It was produced by Linford. A sequel is planned with Rabin to do the music again. Rabin won his 11th BMI Award for the score.

The track is also included on the digital-only Classic Rock Covers Classic Rock compilation, which includes several other tracks from Sherwood's tribute projects.

In an Apr 2008 interview, Sherwood said he is working on a tribute to The Police, saying, "I was planning on kind of inviting just like great guitar players to come on and play some great solos and play over the top of the stuff and keep the music kind of pure."

Other news
Sherwood announced in Mar 2010 that he would be producing, co-writing and performing on the next solo album by John Wetton (Asia, ex-UK, ex-King Crimson), a project Wetton refers to as "Battle Lines II". Production on the album begins at Sherwood's studio in California on 15 Oct 2010. Guitarist John Mitchell (Arena, It Bites, Frost*, A) is rumoured to be involved too. Wetton has guested on many of Sherwood's tribute project and Sherwood is a long-time fan of Wetton's work in King Crimson, UK, Asia etc. In an interview around Apr 2010, Wetton said:

Billy and I have been doing lots of stuff together already, mainly for the cover or tribute albums he was doing a few years ago. I was very impressed by the way he did these [...] I saw something in him apart from being the producer. He’s a prog fanatic and kept sending me all sort of songs. So [...] it’s time to do a solo album again and in October I will hook up with Billy to see what will happen.

[...] I’m hoping it will turn out to be something in the vein of my album ‘Battlelines’…that will be our main aim.

Having previously mixed their latest album, Sherwood is guesting at a live show by Bando do Sol in Sorocoba, Brazil on 28 Aug. They will be playing with an orchestra (Orquestra Sinfônica de Sorocaba), and the show is to be filmed for DVD release. Tracks are planned to include [SPOILERS—highlight to read] "Cut the Ties" (originally by CIRCA:), "To Seek the Truth" (Yoso), "Red Light Ahead" (Conspiracy) and material by Yes, all in the second hour of the show with Sherwood. The first hour will be without Sherwood and feature the band's new album. Further shows in Brazil may follow.

Sherwood is a guest vocalist on two tracks ("The Challenge", "Going Home") on the concept album Shackleton's Voyage by Eureka (MySpace page), now out on InsideOut. Eureka is Frank Bossert's project and he plays guitars, keys, bass, mandolin, drums and percussion on the album; both tracks on which Sherwood guests can be heard on his MySpace page. Other guests include choir band Kalema with lead singer Martje Johannsen, Troy Donockley (Iona, Mostly Autumn) on Uilleann pipes and whistling, and Yogi Lang (RPWL) on Moog. The album is being mastered.

The Future is the debut solo album from Air Supply's Graham Russell. Sherwood, who worked with the band in the 1990s, co-wrote two songs: "Let Yourself Go" (written by Russell/Jonni Lightfoot/Stina/Sherwood) and "Our Love" (Russell/Mike Zerbe/Lightfoot/Jed Moss/Jeff Allman/Stina/Louis Clarke/Sherwood). He also mixed three tracks. The second album from Julia Francis is entitled Lucky Penny and has additional engineering and production from Sherwood and Ted Stockwell (Treason, ex-White). The album was co-produced by Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes) and Mike Hoffmann (EIEIO); players include Vinnie Colaiuta (ex-Frank Zappa, ex-Asia, worked with Sherwood; drums), Ben Smith (ex-Heart, ex-Cyndi Lauper; drums), Andy Stoller (ex-Tracy Chapman; bass) and Jeff Fielder (Sera Cahoone; bass). The record was mastered by Joe Gastwirt (worked with Yes, CIRCA:).

Sherwood and Bob Kulick head up Fearless Music West, a spin-off from Jamie Lamm's New York-based Fearless Music, doing music for commercials.

Sherwood has been working with Bob Cesca (cover art for Yes and Conspiracy) and his production studio Camp Chaos. Sherwood composed the theme song for Camp Chaos's anime series "Kung Fu Jimmy Chow" (for Heavy.com; lyrics by Cesca) and for their series "Superficial Friends" (also for Heavy.com). In an Apr 2008 interview, he said he had "recently completed" another.

On his MySpace blog in May 2007, Sherwood recounted how he met Malcom McDowell prior to recording Back Against the Wall: "I met Malcolm while doing a session for him and Brian Johnson {acdc singer} BJ wrote a broadway play which he had cast MM in. I did the session". Sherwood's role in this session or any further details are unknown.

Work began late in 2003 on a new World Trade album. In a Jun 2004 interview, Schellen says, "We [Sherwood and Schellen] have recently begun a new World Trade record with Bruce [Gowdy], it truly sounds amazing. [...] [Gowdy] sounds better than ever. The sound is more powerful and explosive than before, with all the hallmark vocals and melodic lead guitars. The partnership is strong and this record is going to be a monster!" It appears the project stalled. In a Jan 2006 interview, Sherwood is asked whether World Trade is now defunct and replies, "It lives on in my mind and in Bruce Gowdy's mind and in Jay Schellen's mind. We talk about it, but life gets busy and it just doesn't seem like it's something we ever focus on. Two of the tracks on the new Conspiracy project [now to be released under another name—see CIRCA: page for details] were written by Bruce and me with the idea that maybe we would start working on a new World Trade record. But Bruce got really swamped, and so did I, and it fell on the back burner. But those two tracks blend in perfectly, so there's a World Trade flavor to the new Conspiracy record." In Jun 2007, Sherwood said, "Bruce and Jay and I always speak of doing another record so, you never know."

In Dec 2009, Sherwood said that, "I got a message from a guy who has a "reissue" label and he wants to reissue "world trade 1" and "world trade euphoria" along with a few bonus tracks and a booklet etc... Should be cool !!"

The original incarnation of The Key—Sherwood, Jimmy Haun (CIRCA:; guitar), Mark T. Williams (drums)—recorded an album in 1991, Delta Sierra Juliet, which was never released. Sherwood has said they hope to release it one day, but in May 2007, Sherwood wrote on his MySpace blog that, "The original "Key" record with myself, Jimmy haun, Mark Williams won't be released, it was on Impact/MCA a now defunct record comapny." To ProgressiveEars.com in Feb 2009, he said the album "is caught up in ownership issues and most likely will never see the light of day". However, the rights to The World is Watching, The Key's 1997 album, have reverted to Sherwood and guitarist Marty Walsh and Sherwood continued that he is "Thinking of sprucing it up and re-releasing it via my on line store".

Khoroshev has been working with Holly Knight (worked with Tina Turner, Rod Stewart, Heart).

Any news, additions or corrections, please e-mail Henry Potts. Thanks.