YES’s new album Aurora is out now via InsideOutMusic / Sony Music. Recorded, mixed and mastered at Curtis Schwartz Studio, with final stereo, 5.1 Surround and Dolby Atmos mixes completed in Sussex.

As Stacey Kent’s catalogue passes 1 billion streams worldwide, Curtis Schwartz looks back on a long musical friendship with Stacey and Jim Tomlinson, built through nearly three decades of recording, mixing and mastering together.

Roger Dean visited Curtis Schwartz Studio to show Steve Howe and Curtis Schwartz the original artwork for the forthcoming YES album Aurora — a special moment in the making of the third YES album in a row created here at the studio.