From A Page
Yes
From a Page is an album by the English progressive rock band Yes, originally released as a surprise mini-album in October 2019 and subsequently expanded into a full 15-track double album in April 2026. The music originates from sessions held in 2010, when the lineup of Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White, vocalist Benoît David, and keyboardist Oliver Wakeman convened in Phoenix, Arizona to write material for what would eventually become the 2011 album Fly from Here. When producer Trevor Horn joined those sessions and steered the band toward incorporating Drama-era material — ultimately leading to Geoff Downes replacing Wakeman — a collection of Wakeman-penned songs was left behind. Years later, following Chris Squire's death in 2015, Wakeman assembled and completed the recordings as a tribute, with the approval of Howe and White, making it the only studio document of that particular lineup.
The original four tracks — "To the Moment," "Words on a Page," "From the Turn of a Card," and "The Gift of Love" — range from a forceful six-minute opener to a nearly ten-minute prog epic, and were widely praised by Yes fans and critics as bearing all the hallmarks of classic Yes while being notably keyboard- and piano-forward due to Wakeman's compositional dominance. The 2026 expanded edition, overseen by Wakeman and remastered by Karl Groom, greatly deepens the release by adding alternate versions of three songs that ended up on Fly from Here — restoring Wakeman's original keyboard parts in place of Downes's — plus a studio recording of Squire's "Aliens" and a full disc of demos, including "Updraft," which became the foundation for the "Army of Angels" section of "Into the Storm." Packaged in a clamshell box with Roger Dean artwork, the expanded edition effectively transforms what was a curio EP into a fully realized alternate-universe Yes album from one of the band's more overlooked eras.
From A Page
Yes
From a Page is an album by the English progressive rock band Yes, originally released as a surprise mini-album in October 2019 and subsequently expanded into a full 15-track double album in April 2026. The music originates from sessions held in 2010, when the lineup of Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White, vocalist Benoît David, and keyboardist Oliver Wakeman convened in Phoenix, Arizona to write material for what would eventually become the 2011 album Fly from Here. When producer Trevor Horn joined those sessions and steered the band toward incorporating Drama-era material — ultimately leading to Geoff Downes replacing Wakeman — a collection of Wakeman-penned songs was left behind. Years later, following Chris Squire's death in 2015, Wakeman assembled and completed the recordings as a tribute, with the approval of Howe and White, making it the only studio document of that particular lineup.
The original four tracks — "To the Moment," "Words on a Page," "From the Turn of a Card," and "The Gift of Love" — range from a forceful six-minute opener to a nearly ten-minute prog epic, and were widely praised by Yes fans and critics as bearing all the hallmarks of classic Yes while being notably keyboard- and piano-forward due to Wakeman's compositional dominance. The 2026 expanded edition, overseen by Wakeman and remastered by Karl Groom, greatly deepens the release by adding alternate versions of three songs that ended up on Fly from Here — restoring Wakeman's original keyboard parts in place of Downes's — plus a studio recording of Squire's "Aliens" and a full disc of demos, including "Updraft," which became the foundation for the "Army of Angels" section of "Into the Storm." Packaged in a clamshell box with Roger Dean artwork, the expanded edition effectively transforms what was a curio EP into a fully realized alternate-universe Yes album from one of the band's more overlooked eras.