This page last updated: 18 Feb 2012 

YES and projects with several Yesmen	Jon Anderson	Chris Squire	Steve Howe	Alan White
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Bill Bruford	Rick Wakeman	Trevor Rabin	Billy Sherwood	Igor Khoroshev Oliver Wakeman
Benoît David	Asia	CIRCA:	Anderson & Wakeman	Others associated with the band

David has been the lead singer in Yes. He has been replaced by Jon Davison (Glass Hammer). See main page for more.

David is the lead vocalist in Mystery (SoundCloud page). The band is based around Michel St-Père (guitars, composer, keys) and David (vocals). Their next album, with a working title of The World is a Game, is due early 2012. St-Père was mixing and adding final parts to the album in Jan 2012 and said on Facebook on 23 Jan, that they had finished 5 out of 6 pieces. On 2 Feb, he said the album mix was "almost done", although he was still working on two pieces into mid-Feb. Also on the album are Nick D'Virgilio (ex-Spock's Beard, Big Big Train, Sonic Elements, ex-Genesis, ex-Tears for Fears, worked with Chris Squire) on drums, David Myers (ex-The Musical Box, worked with The Samurai of Prog) on keys and Antoine Fafard on bass and classical guitar. The band hope to tour in support of the album, including Europe. Planned tracks (order and final names to be determined) according to a Jan 2012 Facebook update:

• "Pride" (2 parts, ~11 min.s duration): St-Père said it "is a piece that I wanted to offer to YES before Trevor was brought into the project".
• "Dear Someone" (~5 min.s)
• "Time Goes By"
• "Superstar" (~7 min.s)
• "The World is a Game" (~8 min.s): St-Père: "It is a song that Benoit and I had made a demo for about 10 years ago, but it has received a major facelift. It is possible that this one will end up being cut into 2 parts, one that will open the album and the second part will find its way a little later onto the album."
• "Another Day" (20 min.s): the last song to be written for the album
  

Work took place on the album in Apr/May 2011 with several Facebook updates from St-Père, e.g. 20 Apr: "In the studio working on the next Mystery". 9 May: "Just finished another song with Mr. David for the new mystery, sounds really good." And 29 Apr:

Took a break from studio this week and been listening to the first 4 songs for the next Mystery

David was working with St-Père in Sep 2011, when St-Père also tweeted:

There is a 19 minute song for the new MYSTERY album, I do not know if it will be 19minute when it is all mixed but it will be a long one

The main recording for the album took place in Oct: Fafard recording in London, while D'Virgilio's sessions were all at the beginning of the month. David finished his vocals for the album on 25 Oct. St-Père said on Facebook on 3 Oct:

DAY 1 Mystery recording

Today 3 songs will be recorded on drums [...] about 30 minutes of music , one of the 3 pieces is a 20 minute long piece that might end up being split into a few songs like we did with Through Different Eye, not sure yet

A Facebook update on 17 Oct from St-Père had more:

Yesterday I went to Benoit’s house to give him the latest rough mixes from the album [...]

We are super excited about the album, right now we have 57 minutes of Music, I still need to include a small acoustic guitar piece (from which the long 18 minute song is based on)  So no matter how we will edit everything, the album will be around this length

So far we have 6 songs, but probably the long 18 minute song will be cut into several parts like we did we Through Different Eyes  on One Among the Living.

Drums are all done [...] [Fafard] is already at work in his London UK studio.

A few other musicians will bring their own sound to the project as well,  Most of the acoustic guitars have been recorded last week and I think I can keep most of the clean electric guitar parts I recorded for the demo, and will redo all Distorted guitars and a few clean parts once I will receive the bass parts from Antoine.

It is hard to describe the overall sound and mood of the album right now,  but it is definitely Mystery sounding.  Kind of a sad feeling throughout the album,  I would think it is more prog than One Among the Living  but I am not the best to judge this I guess.

[...] the album has to be delivered to the label in December and we are right on target right now

In a 16 Nov Facebook update, St-Père said:

Their previous album was One Among the Living (Unicorn Records UNCR-5080, dur. 69 min.s), with Steve Gagné (drums), Benoît Dupuis (keys), Dean Baldwin (guitar), François Fournier (bass). Tracks (all music & lyrics by St-Père, unless otherwise stated):

1. Among the Living
2. Wolf (lyrics co-written by David)
3. Between Love and Hate
4. Until the Truth Comes Out
5. Kameleon Man (lyrics co-written by David; Moog solo by Oliver Wakeman)
   
6. Through Different Eyes
   i) When Sorrow Turns to Pain
   ii) Apocalyptic Visions of Paradise
   iii) So Far Away
   iv) The Point of No Return
   v) The Silent Scream
   vi) Dancing with Butterflies
7. One Among the Living
8. The Falling Man
9. Sailing on a Wing
   

Samples are available from Unicorn Records. Details in Yescography. Guests on the album included Fafard, Oliver Wakeman, Daryl Stuermer (ex-Genesis, Phil Collins), John Jowitt (ex-Frost*, IQ, Arena; bass), Claire Vezina and Richard Lanthier (April Wine, Close to the Edge). The band played a few live dates in support of the album.

David was singing with tribute band Close to the Edge (MySpace page), who perform the music of Yes from 1971-4. The rest of the band were Richard Lanthier (bass, Moog Taurus, backing vocals), Phil Charmettant (guitars, lap steel, backing vocals), Simon Mercure (keys, backing vocals) and Pierre Dragon (drums). Given David's commitments to Yes, the band went on hiatus and have now re-emerged with a new lead vocalist and new guitarist.

In the Mar 2011 interview, asked about making a solo album one day, David says, in between Yes and Mystery, he cherishes the dream of doing an album in French.

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