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Fish Out Of Water (Deluxe Expanded Edition) |  | Artist: Chris Squire
Label: Sanctuary
Category: Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 12160
Format: CD+DVD, Enhanced, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5050749415455
ASIN: B000PKHC56
Release Date: August 13, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Hold Out Your Hand | | • | With You By My Side | | • | Silently Falling | | • | Lucky Seven | | • | Safe (Canon Song) | | • | Lucky Seven |
Disc 2
| • | Hold Out Your Hand | | • | You By My Side | | • | Interview | | • | Audio Commentary |
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It's the packaging that sets this apart August 17, 2007
Dr. D. B. Sillars
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
Surprisingly, "Fish Out Of Water" is the only solo album to date from the Yes bassist. Recorded during the band hiatus between "Relayer" and "Going For The One" when all members recorded a solo album, this still stands up pretty well. Though lyrically the subject matter is more "straightforward" than Jon Anderson's oblique opaqueness, musically this is as solid and sweeping as the best of Yes music. Squire's pumping bass is well to the fore throughout and is ably supported by a host of excellent musicians. These include fellow Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz on Hammond and bass synthesiser, Mel Collins, playing some wonderful sax, the ever impressive Jimmy Hastings on flute and surprisingly ex-Yes drummer Bill Bruford. It was so good at the time to hear the old Yes rhythm section back together again!
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br /Opening with "Hold Out Your Hand" which could have been a Yes classic in the making, this grand opening shows how important Squire was to the Yes sound. With Barry Rose on church organ this is a stirring and emphatic start and sort of pre-empts "Parallels" from "Going For The One". Though Anderson is renowned for his vocal arrangements within Yes, Squire's multi-tracked vocal parts on this album are quite spectacular.
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br /A highlight for me is "Lucky Seven". Beginning with a nice electric piano intro from Squire's ex-Syn partner, the late Andrew Jackman this leads into a typically tight and inventive bass part with Bruford equally sharp on drums. Mel Collins really shines on this with some beautifully lyrical sax soloing.
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br /This newly remastered version is released on Squires own label and the care that has gone into putting all this together is clearly evident. The album is packaged in a beautiful glossy fold-out digipack which house the CD and bonus DVD. The latter includes promos for two songs from the album, an interview with Squire as well as his commentary on the album. The booklet includes all lyrics, credits and some enhanced artwork based on the original album design. To be honest the remastering doesn't really add much compared to the existing CD version. This isn't the sonic revelation some may be looking for. Maybe there is a bit more openness in the sound and there are some instruments which appear clearer in the mix, but to my ears the full symphonic grandeur of the recording isn't done full justice. Maybe I was just expecting too much, considering it was recorded over 30 years and mostly in Squire's own studio. But overall this is a nicely done, quality package of one of the better solo albums to come out of the Yes camp. Now if only Jon Anderson would produce a deluxe version of "Olias Of Sunhillow"!
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Fresh Fish August 18, 2007
Martin (UK)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought this album on vinyl when it was originally released and it immediately became and has stayed as one of my favourite albums. This new version has been put together with thought and attention and the remastering has not taken anything away from the original but has given the songs a deserved upgrade in sound quality to modern standards. The DVD is excellent and in his video commentary Chris shows with his generous compliments of others involved in the project that this was a combined effort in crafting his music into the finished album. The interview is also excellent and Chris tells of his musical influences, technical details regarding his studio and instruments plus tales of the time of the recording in detail and with humour.
What Squire brings to the Yes table July 2, 2007
U Dick (Stevenston, Ayrshire)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is an excellent album. Yes bassist Chris Squire created a solo work as grandiose as much of his work with that band but with a twist. His virtuoso bass work is very much to the fore and an orchestra accompanies him much of the time rather than synths or guitar. The best thing about this work is that you get to hear plenty of Squire`s wonderful singing voice, which blends perfectly with Jon Anderson in Yes, but here he shows what an excellent lead singer he is in his own right. The highlights for me are the spacey prog of "Hold out your hand", the quasi jazz/classical fusion of "Silently falling" and the over-the-top "Safe (Canon song)". This has been due the remastering treatment for a long time and the bonus DVD with the rare promos for "Hold out your hand" and "You by my side" will be most welcome. The only pity is that Squire has never made a follow up. This CD, much like Jon Anderson`s "Olias of Sunhillow" and Steve Howe`s "Beginnings", shows what talents Chris brought to Yes in the mid 70`s.
Andrew Jackman tribute August 17, 2007
Lloyd Ezra Fortune (Norfolk, England.)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
A clinical approach would give this album / package 4 stars, but it gets the 5th beacuse of its uniqueness.
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br /Fish Out Of Water will never be repeated quite simply because - as comes over in the DVD interview - it is not strictly a solo album, but a wonderfully successful pairing of Squire and his old pal from the Syn and from childhood the late Andrew Jackman.
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br /Jackman's orchestrations are so much what FOOW is all about that it seems a little unjust not to credit him on the front cover. Squire, it seems, offered to share his name with Jackman as co-composer, but Jackman modestly declined, accepting just arranger's tag. A footnote on this tastefully presented remaster dedicating it to AJ's memory would have been appropriate, I think.
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br /On the DVD Squire's running commentary on the entire album - while it plays in the background in real time - is a bold experiment. It works to an extent, but would have been both so much more valid, and fluid, had Jackman been around to enter dialogue with Chris. It is certainly a tall order for anyone to perform an off the cuff monologue for 40 minutes, so there are a few awkward pauses in the commentary. However if you already love this album you will no doubt listen to the many titbits with interest... such as how he achieved that unusual, haunting bass effect right at the end of the album.
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br /For me there is a lot more clarity in this remaster over the original CD. I am noticing more little touches, and an overall freshness to the sound.
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br /As a PS Chris mentions he is working on a long awaited second 'solo' album that he suggests will also have an orchestral leaning, and links with FOOW in that he is collaborating with the contemporary Syn keyboardist. However there was only one Andrew Jackman, and so there will surely only ever be one Fish Out Of Water.
Fantastic CD-DVD package August 13, 2007
Fleece (Scotland)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I originally bought this CD on a Jap import in the early 90's.
br /Once I heard this remastered deluxe package was coming out I had to get it.
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br /Comparing the remastered version to the original, I cannot honestly hear
br /any improvement in the sound. I was more expecting a major improvement along the lines
br /of the Led Zeppelin Remasters or more recently the excellent Genesis stereo remixes. I guess
br /it comes down to available budget etc. Now I haven't heard the more recent Wounded Bird
br /Records version so please don't let this put you off.
br /The DVD more than makes up for this.
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br /As for the DVD you get the following :-
br /Promo videos for Hold Out Your Hand and You By My Side in pretty good quality for the age.
br /41 minute interview with Squire conducted in Nov 2006. Some great anecdotes!
br /52 minute film of Squire doing an audio commentary with more insight
br /into the making of the album, backing tracks, recording process - everything you pretty
br /much needed to know.
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br /Parallels was originally intended for FOOW but due to time contraints of
br /vinyl ended up on Yes - Going For The One.
br /Brian Lane took the cover photograph at the Detroit Hilton elevator doors -
br /Always wondered about that cover.
br /Squire also talks a little about his upcoming solo album and how he has 29 min of
br /musical ideas (as at Nov 06)and how although not aiming at another orchestral
br /influenced album it is leaning in that direction but different.
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br /I can highly recommend this package. Of the Yes solo albums from the mid 70's this is generally
br /regarded the best. Probably as Squire says it is
br /the most Yes like due to Brufords jazz drumming and also having Patrick Moraz on keyboards.
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br /One of the best 70s prog albums!!!
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