Jon Anderson and...Kanye West?

Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”

Kanye West’s recent and much buzzed-about album, “My Beautiful Dark Fantasy”, has ranked on several year-end “best of” lists, and we were pleasantly surprised to hear the unmistakable voice of featured stated musician and legendary voice of Yes, Jon Anderson, in the the “could we get much higher?” refrain of “Dark Fantasy.” It certainly isn’t the first place you’d expect to hear a sample from the relatively obscure 1983 collaboration, “In High Places,” (with Mike Oldfield of “Tubular Bells” fame), but West raided the vaults on his latest outing, with samples from Steely Dan, Tears for Fears, Daft Punk, and even Anderson’s contemporaries, King Crimson. Everything old is new again…?

Anderson will be featured in a conversation with Jimmy Gnecco of Ours in stated’s inaugural issue, coming soon.