POX: Vangelis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQuScFOoEk

For the French speakers here ...

I've been listening to this at work after everybody else leaves early:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0QQJfPi3ps

Has anyone heard Demis Roussos' solo LPs? I'm a little scared to dive into them but there's one that Vangelis co-wrote that sounds interesting...

Jaxon could probably answer that but I think he quit posting

Demis Roussos "I Dig You" is the Idjut Boys / Phantom Slasher song "Going Greek"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Q1HsPE5cQ

which I just realized is almost the same as Odyssey - "Who" (which is arr. and prod. Vangelis)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uta02hfUF4o

Still listening to this Blade Runner boot. So fucking great.

The Roussos solo stuff that Vangelis had a hand in is a bit heavy on the cheese for me. I would search for albums he produced for other folks in the 70s, especially Italian pop names like Patty Pravo, Riccardo (sp?) Cocciante and Claudio Baglioni. These are all big on the choirs and cavernous "Heaven & Hell" style synth armies. Then there's the lovely, more subdued record he did with Greek teen singer Mariangela. That one has more of an "Opera Sauvage" sound pallette going and is pretty special. All fave records of mine. Avoid most things he produced for others in the 80s I say bar a couple of things like the collabs with Irene Pappas and "Short Stories" with Jon Anderson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIRFK_IBbZ4

I just cleaned up (hiss removal, added a little dynamics "oomph") two sort of hard to find concerts from 1978 & 1979 - Paris and London repsectively. Beautiful live improvs with piano, synths, percussion and other instruments. Incredible live versions of "Spiral" and others. Can up this week if anyone wants.

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*raises one paw pleadingly*

oof - misplaced the drive with these files recently during a big apt. renovation but I do have them stored somewhere. will dig them up and post asap.

oof - misplaced the drive with these files recently during a big apt. renovation but I do have them stored somewhere. will dig them up and post asap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygq4zfOdsdU

Here's an idea of the London one, though I cleaned it up a bit. Will dig for the concerts this weekend.

http://thegrowingbin.blogspot.com/2012/01/vangelis-tegos-tapes.html

https://soundcloud.com/nev-dorrington
^^ contains blunt splices dubbed from the VHS tapes, to remove the narrator's occasional interjections about the spinal surgery closeups onscreen

furiously downloading every track

cases 22-27 are nice and blade runnery

THIS IS RUINING MY LIFE

Anonymous said...
!!!DAMN!!! THIS ISN'T HAPPENING.... 4 YEARS AGO I WAS IN DR. TEGOS' HOUSE FOR A CATERING EVENT (I WAS ONE OF THE WAITERS). I HEARD HIM SAYING THAT ONE OF HIS FRIENDS CALLED VANGELIS (A VERY COMMON NAME IN GREECE LIKE "BOB" IN U.S.) IS NOT GOING TO COME BECAUSE SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO HIM. I J U S T "CONNECTED THE DOTS" AND FREAKING REALISED HE WAS REFERRING TO THE V A N G E L I S !!!! I WAS SO CLOSE TO MEETING HIM!!!!!!!! F U C K !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OCTOBER 9, 2012 AT 12:27 AM

^^^ilm version of party down

omg that surgery video

I hope someone dubs over the surgery descriptions with dialog from the Blade Runner voiceover.

chariots of fire are the same tune as on top of old smoky
who old smoky?

So the soundcloud links total about three hours' worth of music... I wonder if the other nine hours are anywhere online? Because this stuff is awesome.

I could easily imagine there being dialogue or narration over 75% of this. The original masters are just begging for an online release (this is how you do it these days: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nasa-voyager-space-sounds/id336195159)

but yeah it's the good vangelis. he seldom lets himself go longform cosmic, side 2 of l'apocalypse, beauborg, invisible connections, but when the unmoving camera's tightly focused on an opened spine for hours, you've got the license for some deep musical thinking

nice to hear something good from the late period, most of the time now he's just on this sound (still technically amazing): http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/12/04/vangelis-and-the-journey-to-ithaka-documentary-now-available/

Well, the linked video up above on Youtube has pretty sparse narration... but at this point the rough edits where the narration has been chopped out just sound like part of it. Case 04 has a kind of Soil Festivities/Aphex Twin thing going on, and it is fabulous, while Case 08 is along the lines of the quieter parts of the City. As you say, it's good Vangelis... it sounds very 80s Vangelis for something (supposedly) from 1998, too.

That reminds me, I need to find a copy of Invisible Connections... I bought it ages ago but the the CD was corrupted and wouldn't play.

Has anyone heard Demis Roussos' solo LPs? I'm a little scared to dive into them but there's one that Vangelis co-wrote that sounds interesting…

Just grabbed my first cuz it was cheap, The Demis Roussos Magic and I'm diving in now. Track 1: I'm having trouble already with it, but it appears side B contains another (?) version of "Let it Happen," so I'm curious about that.

Oops, I meant:

Has anyone heard Demis Roussos' solo LPs? I'm a little scared to dive into them but there's one that Vangelis co-wrote that sounds interesting…

revive quote

The inside-the-gatefold image didn't prepare me for "Mourir Aupres De Mon Amour," the first track.

http://www.demisroussos.info/disc/albums/magicAdd.jpg

Maybe I'm missing something. Like, knowledge or something.

OK kind of digging "My Face in the Rain." Kinda like if Terry Reid had recorded with Vangelis.

Cookin' big production of Chrisma's "U", here "I Dig You" to end side 1. Is it a Chrisma original? Dunno--can't tell from a quick look at discogs.

Forever and Ever is glorious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3vCB3YBMUo&feature=kp

and this goes so hard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5FAgtWMGj4

<3 Roussos

Damn, the compression on the drums/bass on "Let it Happen" really gives it the feel of a loop.And some real forward-looking synth lead bits. It's not my new favorite version of this tune, but it is pretty great.

By "Damn" I meant more like "dayum" of course

And OK maybe this is becoming my new favorite version

Greek Reggae now. It is islands I guess

Greek Traditional Jamaican Mento rather haha

Has anyone heard Demis Roussos' solo LPs? I'm a little scared to dive into them but there's one that Vangelis co-wrote that sounds interesting…

First one is pretty good tbh!

I was obv drunk last night. "I Dig You" clearly the forerunner to Chrisma's "U", not the other way around