先日、悲しいお知らせをいただきました。 イギリスのプログレッシブグロックの巨星、「YES」のベーシスト、クリス スクアイヤー氏がこの世を去ったということでした。 ショックです。私にとってYESは教科書的な音楽でした、ロック、ジャズ、クラシックと音楽の垣根を越えた創造性は初めて聞いた「closs to the e edge」 から心をわしずかみにされ、以後ずっと聞いてきた音楽でした。 流石にメインヴォーカルのジョン・アンダーソンが脱退してからはあまり聞いておりませんでしたが、クリスのソロ、YES以外の参加アルバムもほとんど聞いていました・・・・ 斬新なラインとリズム、そしてヨーロッパ特有のコーラスなどいつも新鮮な気持ちで聞くことが出来たベーシストはそうそういません。 YESは今後も存続していくのか定かではありませんが、また私の宝物は一つなくなるのか、と思うと非常にさびしい気持ちになります。 さようならクリス スクアイヤー。私は貴方の音楽を一生忘れません!ありがとう・・・・ 以下 アルバム 「closs to the e edge」 より "And You And I" [I Cord Of Life] A man conceived a moment's answer to the dream Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes As a foundation left to create the spiral aim A movement regained and regarded both the same All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you Changed only for a sight of sound, the space agreed Between the picture of time behind the face of need Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid Emotions revealed as the ocean maid All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you Coins and crosses (Turn round tailor, assaulting) Never know their fruitless worth (all the mornings of the interest shown, presenting one another to the cord) Cords are broken (All left dying, rediscovered Of the door that turned round) Locked inside the mother Earth (To close the cover, all the interest shown) They won't hide, hold, they won't tell you (To turn one another, to the sign at the time float your climb) Watching the world, watching all of the world Watching us go by And you and I climb over the sea to the valley And you and I reached out for reasons to call [II Eclipse] Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid Emotions revealed as the ocean maid As a movement regained and regarded both the same All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you [III The Preacher, The Teacher] Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify Political ends as sad remains will die Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you Oooh, ooh I listened hard but could not see Life tempo change out and inside me The preacher trained in all to lose his name The teacher travels, asking to be shown the same In the end we'll agree, we'll accept, we'll immortalize That the truth of man maturing in his eyes All complete in the sight of seeds of life with you Coming quickly to terms of all expression laid As a moment regained and regarded both the same Emotion revealed as the ocean maid A clearer future, morning, evening, nights with you [IV Apocalypse] And you and I climb, crossing the shapes of the morning And you and I reach over the sun for the river And you and I climb, clearer towards the movement And you and I called over valleys of endless seas |