Home / Music / Yes built Tales from Topographic Oceans from four 20-minute Hindu scripture suitesMusic linernotes album music yesYes built Tales from Topographic Oceans from four 20-minute Hindu scripture suitesThe album is a double LP built from four side-long tracks, each running 18 to 21 minutes and based on a different Hindu scripture. Yes went all in on this one. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesTales from Topographic Oceans went Gold on pre-orders aloneHermann Hesse's Siddhartha inspired Yes's 'Close to the Edge'A footnote in Autobiography of a Yogi sparked Yes's Tales from Topographic OceansClose to the Edge was recorded in three months and released September 1972Yes and Eddy Offord produced Close to the EdgeExploreKraftwerk's Trans-Europa Express packs its vision into 8 tracksWorld Container fits 11 Tragically Hip tracks into 42 minutesYs has only 5 tracks — each one a 7-to-17-minute narrativeSyd Barrett wrote all but one track on The Piper at the Gates of DawnDataplex is 20 tracks of surgically precise electronic artPrevious Zawinul, Pastorius, and Shorter produced Heavy Weather themselvesNext Yes and Eddy Offord produced Close to the Edge