Jon Anderson is to release an expanded version of Song Of Seven via Esoteric on November 27.
First launched in 1980, and representing quite a change in musical direction, Song Of Seven was his second solo album and his first after leaving Yes following 1978’s Tormato. The recordings have been digitally remastered from the original Atlantic Records tapes and expanded to include two bonus US single edits which, until now, have previously been unavailable on CD.
“I was actually listening to For You, For Me from the album last week, just to check on what I was thinking in those days,” Anderson says. “And it’s pretty political - it’s an interesting song. The opposite of that was Take Your Time, which was a lovely sort of a sweet song. Sometimes you come back to something you did in the past and say, ‘Hey, this is pretty good.’”