Turbulence: Steve Howe: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Turbulence

2. Hint Hint

3. Running The Human Race

4. The Inner Battle

5. Novalis

6. Fine Line

7. Sensitive Chaos

8. Corkscrew

9. While Rome's Burning

10. From A Place Where Time Runs Slow

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Album Description

Originally released in 1981, featuring Yes Colleague Bill Bruford along with Billie Currie. Remastered and features full Roger Dean artwork. 10 tracks.

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3.6 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Steve Howe's Masterpiece, Feb 25 2003

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Howie "tomas" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turbulence (Audio CD)

When this album was first released, one reviewer called it, "The Future Of Guitar Instrumental Albums".

In the inervening years, nothing has managed to even come close.

The songs are elegant, witty, and beautifully arranged. Each piece is cleverly constructed with just the right amount playfulness. One senses that Steve was having the time of his life making this, and that he was a very happy man.

A couple of the songs wound up on Yes' UNION album (re-arranged, of course), but they are better served as backdrops for Steve's brilliant guitar work.

The thing that makes this album so perfect is that it transcends the typical "guitar album": set up a simple foundation and then solo over it until you have "made the point" (this describes his failed QUANTUM GUITAR in a nutshell).

With TURBULENCE, Steve is concentrating on songcraft, not on virtuosity. The guitar playing is done at the service of the composition, and nothing is wasted. Everything is where it should be.

Bold, brash, grandiose numbers are contrasted by simple, sensitive ballads. It's truly a very moving work, and deserves to be in everyone's collection.

If you're remotely interested in what one can accomplish with the guitar, then this is an album you cann't pass up.

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4.0 out of 5 stars GETS BETTER AS YOU LISTEN!!!, Mar 31 2002

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Tim A. Lau (FELTON, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turbulence (Audio CD)

OK IM AHUGE YES FAN. THIS DISC LIKE MANY YES
OR YES SOLO DISCS TEND TO GROW ON YOU AS YOU
LISTEN. I PARTICUALLT ENJOY THE SONG CORK SCREW
ABOUT THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE.IT ALSO GIVES ME A
BIT OF INSIGHT ON HOW SOME FINE YES PEICES ARE STRUCTURED.
UNLISTENABLE COME ON.PUT YOUR INTELLIGENCE WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very exciting music, Nov 16 2001

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TMI (Surrey, British Columbia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turbulence (Audio CD)

(...)I rate it as one of my three favourite releases of the 90s. I will concede that the drums and keyboards don't offer much (thus only 4 stars), but the compositions themselves and Howe's guitar textures are brilliant (ok--he's not Chris Squire or Tony Levin when it comes to bass, either). But the minor deficiencies of the album are outweighed by the strength of the pieces themselves. Most of the tracks --Hint hint, Running the human race, Novalis, Fine line-- transport me to the stratosphere. They reach the area in my spine that the best Yes music does. Even the tracks that show up Andersonified on Union are better here. So what if there are no vocals? I, personally, do not subscribe to theory, as many do, that music is subservient to lyric or dance. Music is much more than merely a beat to dance to or a vehicle for rhetoric. Music is, well, music...

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4.0 out of 5 stars Unlistenable?!
I read the below reviews that deemed this album unlistenable. So I naturally dug this CD out of my collection to test it on my own ears and see if I was mistaken many years ago... Read more

Published on Oct 12 2001 by J. GARRATT

3.0 out of 5 stars Faultlessly played, but uninspiring
It's probably just me, but I cannot find anything to love on this album. It's got so much going for it: Bill Bruford and Steve's immaculate playing, for starters. Read more

Published on Jan 26 2001 by Gavin Wilson