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Journey of the Yak - Release Date 14th November 2008
Gates of Moria
Entangled in Dreams
Jadis of Charn
March of the Huorns
Dearly Departed
Journey of the Yak
Dark Side of the Duck - Released in March 2004
Track List
Theme
Aragorn
Leylines of Yak
Yakrise
Frustration
Migration
Earthogrub
The Swan
The Music of YAK is instrumental, melodic and according to the reviews to date, it is being categorised in the genre of Symphonic Progressive Rock.
The music of YAK has been described as "excellent", "eclectic", "complicated" and "simple" - but not all by the same person!
When Yak split in 1984, I acquired my first multitrack recorder, a Fostex A8, and I made my own versions of the YAK tracks. Much later in 2001 I managed to acquire the keyboard of my dreams, a Kurzweil K2600x which was the master workstation that allowed me to at last have a real "piano" sound inside a digital workstation (amongst other things !) The Kurzweil gave me the opportunity to record the YAK tracks again using it's internal sequencer & together with a Phillips Audio CD recorder (from Argos) I was up & running to burn my own CD's.
The First project was to record a collection of the old Yak tracks emulating the 4 piece band electronically. This is never easy & clearly many of the tracks would sound better if played by the band, however I have done my best. The drums are always the hardest to replicate electronically however I have spent a lot of time programming them and have received many comments from several professional reviewers who have said that the drum samples & programming of them are some of the best they have ever heard - this is fantastic feedback. Others have been less complimentary, but ...whatever.
And so it was the the 1st Yak album "Dark Side of the Duck" was born in February 2004. Six of the tracks were original Yak numbers from the early 80' the others were more recently composed.
Dark Side of the Duck
I have prepared MP3 clips of all 8 tracks on the album - approx 30 seconds each
Sept '04
Oct '04
Does your Yak bite? ...a live jam - Released in October 2005
Track List
Himalaya
The Road goes ever on
The Battle of Pogles Wood
Leylines of Yak
Yak's Bolero
Wokadic Wah
Aragorn
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The Rutland Chronicles - Released in January 2006
Track List
Portal Honey
Bastante L/S
Dearly Departed take 2
The Moon was clinically depressed
Yak's Bolero
Latin Eighth
Why Slimey
Misty Mountains
Intro to Zea's Song
Lady Solitude
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