Chris Squire-"Fish Out Of Water" (1975)

After the publication and corresponding tour of Yes and their album "Relayer", the band took a long break of almost two years until they reissued a new work in 1977 with "Going for the One".
They also decided that each would take the time to publish their own solo works, so while Jon Anderson published the album "Olias of Sunhillow", Steve Howe would do the same with "Beginnings", Alan White published "Ramshackled", Patrick Moraz also published "The Story of I" while Chris Squire did the same with "Fish Out of Water".
All these albums were recorded and published in the period from 1975 to 1976, however it would be "Fish Out of Water" by Chris Squire the one that will receive the best critics to be in part a continuation of what was done with Yes.
For this recording Squire had the collaboration of Patrick Moraz, Bill Bruford, Mel Collins, Jammy Hastings and Andrew Pryce, all great musicians of the British progressive scene.
From the initial "Hold Out Your Hand", which could have swelled on any Yes album, or the bucolioca and impressive "Silent Falling", to the jazz funk "Lucky Seven", and the orchestral "Safe", they show an album where the foundations of Yes are well defined and that for many it was the album that the band should have published after the "Relayer" or that it could have been the course to follow after the two sabbatical years that the components were taken in the middle. of the decade.