Yes solo albums S/D

He's got a new channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKwocCGTt-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieR2JKShT_A

Wakeman's No Earthly Connection is really lovely

Feels like a more personal album than anything previous but I'm not sure what it's about and apparently he couldn't explain the album either.

Can't believe how much he did in the 90s. And there's an Ayreon guest appearance!

The centerfold with all of his guitars is pretty classic on the "Steve Howe Album". I'm sure it has inspired quite a bit of guitar gear lust over the decades.

Olias of Sunhillow's reputation as Anco-prescient seems to have really picked up in recent years I feel

On another thread, I was pondering listening to Ramshackled in honour of Alan White despite my expectations that it really couldn't be that great. I mostly wanted to have heard all five solo albums from the 1975-1976 "hiatus". Here's how I'd rank them:

Olias of Sunhillow - I'm so glad we got one album of unfiltered and unfettered Jon Anderson
Fish Out of Water - very good, but it loses me in the middle of the last, very long track
Ramshackled - better a competent R&B/fusion record than the overambitious efforts of Howe and Moraz below
Beginnings - appropriate title, because Howe always seems to be about to start doing something amazing before he takes a left turn into something frustrating. He can't project vocally, but the songs don't help either. Who would have thought that the most memorable bit on a Steve Howe solo record would be a sax section?!?
The Story of i - I bought this LP for a dollar and was still disappointed. Lots of stuff (prog, fusion, Brazilian music, AOR, dumb concept) blended into an unlistenable mess. Relayer is my favourite Yes album but this made me wonder whether Moraz has any musical taste at all

I just ordered Beginnings. I bought Story Of i not long ago so I should stick it on soon. I liked what I've heard so far from Bruford's Feels Good To Me.

There is actually some love for No Earthly Connection on the Wakeman thread, so it hasn't been ignored here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93T58NlLiEk

Absolutely love No Earthly Connection, might be my favorite Wakeman of the first 4, but the high points of King Arthur and Journey are so strong. I haven't heard Six Wives in a long time.

No Earthly Connection gets so funky

Digging Howe's debut, it sounds more Yes-like than any of the other solo albums I've heard. I think he has a basically pleasant voice that needed a bit of training, odd that he wasn't as perfectionist about his voice, did he keep on singing throughout his solo career?