G E O F F
D O W N E S
and
A S I A
Celebrate their 40th anniversary
by releasing a 5-CD boxset
THE REUNION ALBUMS:
'2007-2012'
Exclusive Interview with
GEOFF DOWNES
(The Buggles- ASIA- YES)
GEOFF DOWNES INTERVIEW
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ASIA, the multi-platinum selling English supergroup, formed in London in 1981, are celebrating their 40th anniversary by releasing a 5CD boxset 'THE REUNION ALBUMS:2007-2012' through BMG Records available now at amazon.com.
This 5CD deluxe clamshell box set features the 2CD live recording Fantasia, Live In Tokyo together with the three reunion studio albums Phoenix, Omega and XXX.
ASIA took the world by a storm with their eponymous debut album, globally the biggest-selling album of 1982. The single Heat Of The Moment, a huge soft-rock anthem, reached the top 40 in over a dozen markets, peaking in the U.S. at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The four original members of ASIA – John Wetton (King Crimson, lead vocal/bass), Steve Howe (YES, guitars), Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, drums) and Geoff Downes (The Buggles, YES, keyboards), reunited to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2006 and 2007 with a world tour.
This boxset features the original ASIA line-up, reformed in 2006, and brings together, for the first time, all of ASIA's essential music into one concise collection. In 2021 ASIA signed a deal with BMG to re-release their reunion albums Phoenix, Omega, Fantasia: Live In Tokyo and XXX, along with Gravitas (with Sam Coulson), to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary in 2022. They also plan to release a box-set ASIA In Asia, of the first simulcast from 1983, with Greg Lake temporarily replacing John Wetton. For all things ASIA please visit: www.originalAsia.com
Virtuoso keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Geoff Downes has been legitimizing the art of great music since the inception of The Buggles with Trevor Horn in 1977. Downes symphonic savvy has allowed him to venture into multiple musical genres while perpetuating Prog- Rock prominence as the illustrious keyboardist for supergroups YES and Asia. Geoff Downes is undeniably one of the hardest working musicians in the business.
ASIA
The Reunion Albums:
'2007 – 2012’
Original Asia celebrate their 40th Anniversary with the release of The Reunion Albums: 2007 - 2012 a 5CD box set out through BMG UK on 11th June featuring Fantasia, Live In Tokyo, Phoenix, Omega and XXX
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Discography
Solo
Studio albums
The Light Program (1987, Geffen)
Vox Humana (1992, JIMCO/Blueprint Records)
Evolution (1996, Blueprint Records)
The World Service (2000, Blueprint Records)
Shadows & Reflections (2003, Voiceprint Records)
Electronica (New Dance Orchestra ft Anne-Marie Helder) (2010)
Live albums
Live at St. Cyprian's (2003)
Asia
Studio albums
Asia (1982)
Alpha (1983)
Astra (1985)
Then & Now (1990, half greatest hit)
Aqua (1992)
Aria (1994)
Arena (1996)
Rare (1999)
Aura (2000)
Silent Nation (2004)
Phoenix (2008)
Omega (2010)
XXX (2012)
Gravitas (2014)
Live albums
Live Mockba 09-X1-90 (1991)
Now - Live in Nottingham (1997)
Live in Philadelphia (1997)
Live in Osaka (1997)
Live in Koln (1997)
Live at the Town & Country Club (1999)
Live Acoustic (1999)
Alive in Hallowed Halls (2001)
Asia / Boston: Winning Combination (2001)
Asia Enso Kai (Live in Tokyo) (2001)
Alive in Hallowed Halls (2001)
America: Live in the USA (2002)
Quadra (2002)
Live at Budokan (2002)
Bedrock in Concert (2002)
Dragon Attack (2003)
Live in Buffalo (2003)
Live in Massachusetts `83 (2004)
Live in Hyogo (2004)
Different Worlds Live (2005)
Extended Versions (2007)
Fantasia: Live in Tokyo (2007)
Asia - Live Around the World (2010)
Spirit of the Night - Live in Cambridge 09 (2010)
Resonance - The Omega Tour 2010 (2012)
High Voltage - Live (2014)
Axis XXX Live in San Francisco MMXII (2015)
Symfonia - Live in Bulgaria 2013 (2017)
The Buggles
Studio albums
The Age of Plastic (1980)
Adventures in Modern Recording (1981)
With Chris Braide
Studio albums
Pictures of You (2012)
Suburban Ghosts (2015)
Skyscraper Souls (2017)
Halcyon Hymns (2021)
Live albums
Live in England (2019)
With John Wetton
Studio albums
Wetton Downes (1996, demo)
Wetton Downes (2002)
Icon (2005)
Heat of the Moment 05 (2005, EP)
Icon II: Rubicon (2006)
Icon 3 (2009)
Live albums
Icon Acoustic TV Broadcast (with John Wetton, 2006, Frontiers Records)
Icon Live - Never in a Million Years (with John Wetton, 2006, Frontiers Records)
Heat of the Rising Sun (with John Wetton, 2012)
Trapeze
Welcome to the Real World (1993)
Yes
Studio albums
Drama (1980)
Fly from Here (2011)
Heaven & Earth (2014)
Live albums
The Word is Live (Tracks taken from the 1980 tour) (2005)
Like It Is: Yes at the Bristol Hippodrome (2014)
Like It Is: Yes at the Mesa Arts Center (2015)
Topographic Drama - Live Across America (2017)
Yes 50 Live (2019)
The Royal Affair Tour: Live in Las Vegas (2020)
Other appearances
Kate Bush: The Dreaming (1982)
Agnetha Faltskog: Eyes of a Woman (1985)
GTR: GTR (1986)
Glenn Hughes and Geoff Downes: The Work Tapes (1998, demo)
Alan White: White (2004)
The Prog Collective (2012)
Producers: Made In Basing Street (2012)
David Cross and Peter Banks: Cr
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