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🗓️ 14 July 2024
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Oliver, son of Rick, has played on around 50 albums, including maybe 10 solo albums plus collaborations with Clive Nolan, Steve Howe, Gordon Giltrap, Yes, Starcastle, Light Freedom Revival, and more.
We discuss "Golden Sun in Grey" from Anam Cara (2024), "Is This the Last Song I Write?" from Ravens and Lullabies (2013), and "Mind Over Matter" from The 3 Ages of Magick (2001). End song: "To the Moment" by Yes from From a Page (recorded 2010, released 2019). Intro: "Diving" from Heaven’s Isle (1997). More at oliverwakeman.co.uk.
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0:15.0 | You are listening to nakedly examined music a podcast about songs and songwriters. My name is Mark Lintenmeyer. |
0:16.9 | My guest for episode 219 is Oliver Wakeman, best known as a keyboard wizard, son of keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman, and he has not shied away from |
0:26.2 | this association, he replaced his father in Yes, for about four years at the end of the aoths. |
0:31.9 | He's also played some with Straubs, which was |
0:34.2 | Rick Wakeman's band before, yes. He's played with Starcastle, which is an American, |
0:39.3 | very yes-inspired Prague Rock band. But his musical interests span beyond that narrow Prague Rock sound. |
0:46.5 | You're right now listening to a song Diving from Heaven's Isle, his first album 1997. He subsequently in the early aoths released three |
0:55.7 | instrumental New Age albums. In 2005 he released a Hard Rock Soul album |
1:00.8 | called Mother's Ruin, the band for that. I had a live album come out in 2008. |
1:06.0 | He also in the Auts recorded three theatrical concept albums with my previous guest, Clive Nolan. He collaborated with Steve Howe from Yes, he |
1:16.4 | collaborated with guitarist Gordon Gilrap. So I'm going to say that comes to around 11 solo |
1:21.5 | albums but he's appeared as a keyboardist on over 50 albums. |
1:26.0 | His new album is called Enem-Kara, and we're going to discuss Golden Sun in Gray from that record, |
1:31.4 | then look back to the 2013 Ravens and Lullibies album for |
1:35.9 | Is This The Last Song I Write? |
1:37.8 | Then to Mind Over Matter from the Three Ages of Magic album, 2001, and will conclude by listening to a song he wrote for Yes, to the moment. |
1:47.0 | Recorded in 2010, finally released in 2019 on a compilation called From A Page. |
1:53.0 | For more information, please see Oliver Wakeman.co. UK. |
1:57.0 | and for more about this podcast, see Nakedly Examined Music. |
2:01.0 | com, or support the effort at Patreon.com slash nakedly Explan examined music. |
2:10.0 | I will play a little bit of diving from heaven dot com |
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