 A rare 37-minute instrumental track plus demos for Song Of Seven (1980) and Animation (1982).
Format: CD / Cat No: ZCCD156 / PRE-ORDER Release Date: 02/10/2026
Track Listing: 1. The Sky And His Shadow (37:47) / 2. Instrumental (1:34) / 3. Hear It (2:00) / 4. All God’s Children (1:25) / 5. Flower Child (2:23) / 6. Feel My Love Flow (1:56) / 7. Inside Your Eyes (2:25) / 8. Secrets Of The Past (3:13) / 9. Golden Age (3:55) / 10. Child Of The Lord (3:55) / 11. Two Old Ladies (7:53) / 12. Carnival (5:46)
More information: In August 1975, Yes took an extended break for each member to release a solo-album. Anderson chose a concept album, Olias Of Sunhillow, about an alien race of four tribes and their journey to a new planet as theirs is under threat from destruction. Olias, one of the three main characters, builds the Moorglade Mover, an aircraft formed of living organisms to transport everyone to their new home. Anderson gained inspiration from science fiction and fantasy novels, works by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Initiation of the World by Vera Stanley Alder, and the art work from Yes's Fragile. He recorded the music from his garage in six months, learning to play all instruments himself, including several types of drum, stringed, and percussion instruments associated with world or ethnic music, which took up as many as 120 track recordings in its original form. Anderson found the experience a valuable one in learning about music. Atlantic Records released the album in July 1976, and it reached number 8 in the UK and number 47 in the US.
Shortly before starting work on Olias Of Sunhillow, Anderson recorded one of his most sought after and rarely found numbers, ‘The Sky And His Shadow’, a 37-minute instrumental track which has not previously had a CD release. Rumoured on occasion to also feature Vangelis on drums, this additional suggestion has generally been met with suspicion across the years (not least because of the absence of much, if any, percussion featured on the finished piece).
Further tracks on the album, are said to come from demos Jon recorded while putting together his second and third solo-albums, 1980s 'Song Of Seven' and 1982’s 'Animation' (although none of these tracks feature on either of those albums, in any form).
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