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“I’m not using conventional chord sequences but things that give me a fresh feeling and opportunities to improvise”: Steve Howe’s new solo album, Guitarscape, is a love letter to the instrument that has held his attention for so long

Guitarscape benefits from a fresh compositional outlook provided by writing on keyboards, and an instinctive songwriting partnership with his son, Dylan

Guitar World · Jul 18, 2024

Steve Howe announces new solo album Guitarscape

Yes guitarist Steve Howe teams up with son Dylan on drums for new solo album to be released in September

Louder · Jul 16, 2024

“A lot of the music I’ve made has had the goal of achieving something similar to Yes”: Steve Howe was the middle ground between Moby and his punk-hating guitar teacher

Electronica, ambient and rock artist still listens to Close To The Edge once a month

Louder · Jul 15, 2024

“We didn’t force a connection, it just happened.” Steve Howe remembers a fledgling Yes supporting Jethro Tull in America in 1971

Supporting an already-established Jethro Tull in America helped Yes in their way to star status

Louder · Apr 15, 2024

“The priorities of the first Asia were to make it a success. Yet when we had it, we were so stupid it was unbelievable:” How the supergroup admitted mistakes and worked them out via their patchy Phoenix album

It was the first studio project featuring all four original members since their gradual disintegration in the 80s. And even if it wasn’t their best work, it was an essential element in moving forward

Louder · Apr 11, 2024

“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay to hear the band they loved, so they put up with me. It’s not like you’re joining the Sex Pistols”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes – and how it later made 90125 possible

Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart

Louder · Apr 9, 2024

“When working on material we could ask, ‘What would we have done in the days of Close To The Edge?’ Maybe sometimes we didn’t ask that question enough”: Steve Howe’s favourite Yes songs

Guitarist lists his five of the best – and explains why they’re all from the 70s

Louder · Apr 8, 2024

"We get halfway through, just before the solo, and all the power goes off on stage": The night a furious Ray Davies cut a Yes set short before aiming blows and kicks at Rick Wakeman

In late 1971, Yes and The Kinks hooked up for a short run of shows in New York, but brotherly love between the bands was in short supply

Louder · Apr 3, 2024

"Leslie said to the audience 'There’s a technical hitch,' and he touched the microphone and the guitar. And that was it": The tragic story of Stone The Crows, Scotland's great lost band

With musical talent to spare and Led Zeppelin’s manager behind them, Stone The Crows should have been a success story. Instead it’s one of tragic death and unfulfilled potential

Louder · Feb 29, 2024

"Keith had so much criticism after that 3 album. He was susceptible to that kind of thing." Robert Berry on his work and relationship with Keith Emerson

Three years after the release of The Rules Have Changed, Robert Berry revisited the music he made with Keith Emerson for a brand new recording, Third Impression

Louder · Feb 12, 2024