FLASH

"Flash"

(1972)

Track List:

1 Small Beginnings. 9:23

2 Morning Haze. 4:32

3 Children Of The Universe. 8:55

4 Dreams Of Heaven. 12:57

5 The Time It Takes. 5:48

Line Up:

Peter Banks: Electric, Acoustic & Spanish Guitars, Hooter, ARP Synthesizers, Backing Vocals.

Ray Bennett: Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Lead Vocals on "Morning Haze".

Colin Carter: Lead Vocals, Incidental Percussion.

Mike Hough: Drums, Cymbals, Percussion, Badinage.

Tony Kaye: Organ, Piano, A.R.P. Synthesizer.

After abandoning Yes after the second album "Time and to Word", Peter Banks formed Flash that also had in this first album Tony Kaye that Yes had just abandoned also.

Flash sounds to Yes. This first album says that it is an alternative to the "The Yes Álbum". If "The Yes Álbum" went the logical evolution to "Time and a Word", this Flash is also it, but from Peter Banks's point of view instead of Jon Anderson, and it is frankly also a great album that for sure it would love to all the fans of the first Yes. It is necessary to also keep in mind that "The Yes Álbum" appeared before one year, with what can have influenced his in Banks when making this album.

We have themes that could fit perfectly in the "The Yes Álbum" like "Small Beginnings" where we realize that Peter Banks is a great guitarist and that his style doesn't differ too much of that of Howe, "Morning Haze" an acoustic theme with air country and the excellent "Children of the Universe". Highlighting the theme of 13 minutes "Dreams of Heaven" where Banks also shows us its facet but jazz in the great instrumental part, coming closer to the sound Canterbury. The disk finishes with the beautiful ballad "The Time it Takes".

A great album in definitive that it loved to the fans of Yes.

Punctuation: 8/10

Ferran Lizana