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Darkness Into Light - Relayer

The Steve Wilson Remix. For Yes aficionado's the music is rather well known, so the question is does Steve Wilson shine a different light on this music for us. I have listened to the Blu Ray 5.1 DTS Surround Sound Mix and the Compact Disc Remaster (the latter offering is a refreshingly simple programme, a remix of the original LP with two encore singles). Relayer and in particular "Gates Of Delirium" is challenging music in the way the final two sides of Topographic Oceans are challenging. Unconventional, angular, muscular and aggressive in an entirely different way to the Bruford Bands music. As a result clarity of transmission is crucial. The reality is the original production of Relayer was unhelpful and over the years has received highly critical remarks from the band themselves. The production was cold the drums did not breath, the bass lacked warmth and depth and Steve's switch of guitars to the Telecaster was over lit and produced a highly unsympathetic g