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The Ladder

Label
Eagle Rock (US)/ Eagle Records
Release date
26 Oct 2009
Running length
11 tracks
Running time
61:59

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Homeworld (The Ladder) 9:30 15,849
2 It Will Be A God Day (The River) 4:52 147
3 Lightning Strikes 4:35 12,834
4 Can I? 1:31 8,099
5 Face to Face 5:30 10,737
6 If Only You Knew 5:41 9,140
7 To Be Alive (Hep Yadda) 5:06 8,403
8 Finally 6:00 8,236
9 The Messenger 6:37 13,519
10 New Language 9:17 8,301
11 Nine Voices (Longwalker) 3:20 8,165

About this album

The Ladder is the sixteenth album by progressive rock band Yes and was released in 1999. The follow-up to 1997’s tepidly-received Open Your Eyes, The Ladder was seen as a conscious return to the classic Yes sound, while maintaining a contemporary edge. It is the first Yes album to feature Igor Khoroshev as an official member.

Following guitarist/keyboardist Billy Sherwood’s guidance of the last project, Yes decided to bring in an outside producer, Bruce Fairbairn, in order to give the music the benefit of objective ears. By the time the band had decamped to Vancouver, Canada to record The Ladder, Igor Khoroshev had become the group’s official keyboardist, with Sherwood relegated to guitar duties along with Steve Howe.

Although the sessions went off successfully - with all concerned very pleased with the end results, the project ended tragically with Fairbairn’s surprising and premature death in May 1999, according to Chris Squire, just before a few final vocals and mixing on The Ladder had been completed. Yes would subsequently dedicate the album to their late producer upon its September release.

Concurrently with the release of the album, Yes licensed the use of “Homeworld (The Ladder)” with the Sierra Studios PC game “Homeworld”, of which a digital preview was included with The Ladder. The re-issue included in the 2006 box set Essentially Yes also includes this preview.
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