― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:59 (10 years ago) Permalink
and... Sex Power, for the title. Haven't ever heard it.
I like Direct, too. Or I did in the 80's.
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:02 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:03 (10 years ago) Permalink
I only need one album really: Heaven and Hell. One might not like it but for me it's dynamite.
Also side two of Apocalypse des Animaux. Beaubourg's the best completely abstract one, though I need to hear Invisible Connections again. And Blade Runner's great too.
I have an interview disc with Vangelis circa 1975 trying to promote 'heaven and hell', thick garbled greek accent: 'There are two kinds of music, there is the earth music and there is the cosmic music. The earth music is of the earth, it is earthly, and there is no cosmic music. I make the cosmic music.'
― milton, Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
Yes, that one's pretty boring.
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:31 (10 years ago) Permalink
There's a funny story out there somewhere, of Yes auditioning Vangelis to replace Rick Wakeman, in 1974. Apparently, he wanted to show the band that he was a multi-instrumentalist, so he got behind the drum kit and started bashing away thunderously: "I PLAY DRUMS GOOD, YES?"
― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 24 April 2003 21:56 (10 years ago) Permalink
i just got it as a gift from nick forte and it's good! the only one i've yet really liked... of the stuff i've heard.
― duke china, Sunday, 25 July 2004 23:28 (8 years ago) Permalink
1 - Infinity (Aphrodite's Child)2 - Creation du monde3 - La mer recommence4 - Come on5 - Movement 3 (Theme from Cosmos)6 - Intestinal Bat7 - Needles and Bones8 - Beaubourg part II9 - L'enfant10 - Blade Runner Main Titles
Though it's sad not to include anything from 'See You Later', which is an awfully strange record.
― (Jon L), Monday, 26 July 2004 08:11 (8 years ago) Permalink
― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:33 (6 years ago) Permalink
See You Later (Outtakes) lyrics
you really have to wonder what was on his mind when he was making See You Later
― Milton Parker, Friday, 11 January 2008 21:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.engelen.demon.nl/seeyou.htm
aw
<3
― Milton Parker, Friday, 11 January 2008 22:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
I have some of those SYL outtakes and they're pretty odd. Very minimal by Vangelis standards, also.
The 2nd disc of the recently reissued <i>Blade Runner</i> soundtrack is beautiful.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
how is... disc 3
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 12 January 2008 00:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
err...not too good. Too much sax and misguided attempts at "currency" via use of BIG shuffley beats.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:16 (5 years ago) Permalink
Disc 3 would've sounded more current in 1998.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 12 January 2008 02:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
Trying to have a go here
1. Alpha 2. Five Circles 3. So Faraway.. So Close 4. Blade Runner 5. Hymn 6. To The Unknown Man 7. Chung Kuo 8. Love Theme From Blade Runner 9. Chariots Of Fire 10.Pulstar
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 12 January 2008 14:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
Hmm. I meant "So Long Ago, So Clear", not "So Faraway, So Close".
It sounds like they blew it yet again with the 25th Anniversary edition of Blade Runner.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 12 January 2008 17:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
disc 2 of the 25th Anniversary Blade Runner = as good as Vangelis gets. 1994 album (disc 1) has a lot of misses / saxophones / one-too-many voiceovers from the film when what you want is instrumentals -- disc 2 is long stretches of the floatiest, spaced out soundbeds, the track "At Mr. Chew's" = grade A abstract electronic music.
I wish it were available seperately, as a stand alone album this all of what he's good at without all the things that usually try me (some sections are a bit on the sentimental side that made me write him off entirely when I was younger, but I'm there now). Though it's a bizarre punishment he still left off 'Eye on the City', the actual music played over the opening credits, crippling blow
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
I agree. I wish it was released as a single cd, also. Re CD1: One thing I never understood was the love "Bladerunner Love Theme" gets from people. Vangelis + saxophone is a pretty bad combination. I'm glad the sax is pretty much (entirely?) absent from the 2nd disc. Need to listen again!
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
ESPER EDITION
― elan, Thursday, 6 March 2008 22:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
the ESPER boot is fantastic and includes all the sound design & foley from the film minus (most of) the dialog, so it's much more about immersive soundtrack listening. disc 2 is just the instrumentals, nicely sequenced into a suite
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 6 March 2008 23:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
not mentioned so far: 'reve' is really nice and i do have a soft spot for 'somehow i'll find my way home'. i need more vangelis, apart from the obvious stuff it's a bit of a glaring blind-spot in my musical world, i think.
― or something, Thursday, 6 March 2008 23:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
I've pretty much resigned myself to never seeing the opening credits theme on CD, but I was hoping he'd put the weird pseudo-Arabic music from Taffey's strip club on disc 2.
edit: is it in this Esper bootleg? Because if so HOT GOD DAMN.
― Telephone thing, Thursday, 6 March 2008 23:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
Taffey Lewis Night Club 2:02 Vangelis Blade Runner (Espers)
― Milton Parker, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
(Espers edition includes a lot of music that isn't actually Vangelis -- O.M.D., Gail Laughton, etc., I wish I knew more about that Arabic nightclub music, it sounds like it was mixed from different sources -- whoever did the sound design & mixing for this film = unsung hero)
― Milton Parker, Friday, 7 March 2008 00:48 (5 years ago) Permalink
taffy lewis nightclub is one of my favorite cuts - phuture!
― elan, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
Just finished downloading the Esper boot from TPB, and while I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, YES SLEAZY ARABIC STRIPPER MUSIC. So happy!
― Telephone thing, Friday, 7 March 2008 06:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://faunigena.blogspot.com/2008/04/vangelis-papathanassiou-fais-que-ton.html
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 17 April 2008 20:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
Love that album. Beautiful, bittersweet headphone listening.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 18 April 2008 09:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
This guy rules.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 18 April 2008 09:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
Thanks so much for that link Milton - this sounds awesome. As I commented on that blog, the chants in the first part, as well as the synthpattern that follows (the segment from 7:40 to 10 minutes, roughly) are eerily similar to Bowie's vox and synths on "Warzawa"..
― willem, Friday, 18 April 2008 15:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
I just got myself a copy of Mask, and I'm really enjoying it. It sounds kinda similar to Heaven & Hell (which is awesome, of course), except that it's more moody and less cosmic, and the choral bits are somewhat more spiritual/Christian, especially in Movement 4:
Are there any other Vangelis albums that combine atmospheric electronics with grandiose, operatic choir vocals the way H&H and Mask do? I think I like this side of him the most.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 11 February 2010 19:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
God, "L'Enfant" is so pretty it makes me cry.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 22:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yes it is.
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.
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
*respectively
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Mind that the sound quality will be what it is cuz these are from mp3 sources but still...
yes please
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
will do
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'd like to hear those too.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 07:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just Leonardo'd the first of these. Enjoy!
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 04:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
been on a Vangelis kick lately - loved L'Apocalypse des Animaux, such a pretty little album, and I dig how restrained Earth is for how ambitious it wants to be, but Heaven and Hell is the one hitting me hard right now, so many powerful moments scattered throughout
anything else you guys would rec?
― guess it's Honker Burger tonight...#fml (frogbs), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Antarctis and China have a similar bombastic vibe to H&H, I'd recommend checking out those two first. Mask also has the same combination of choral singing + synths, but it's more subdued and spiritual. A lot of people rate Albedo 0.39 really high, but personally I think the proggy workouts that appear between minimal synth pop gems make that one less than great. If you dig Vangelis's keyboard chops, I'd recommend Opéra Sauvage, which is more moody and atmospheric than H&H, but almost as good, and it has "L'Enfant", which I think is the most beautiful tune Vangelis ever recorded.
Also, if you like the vocal bit in Heaven and Hell with Jon Anderson, do check out The Friends of Mr. Cairo by Jon & Vangelis... It's a bit uneven, but it has three absolutely brilliant prog-pop songs ("I'll Find My Way Home", "State of Independence", "The Friends of Mr. Cairo"), and the rest is not bad either. The other Jon & Vangelis albums are not essential, in my opinion.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 08:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sorry, the first album I mentioned is called Antarctica, not Antarctis.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 08:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks Tuomas - definitely will check those out, though I'm kind of cautious about the Jon & Vangelis ones
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Antarctica sounds very much like you would want a synthesizer album about Antarctica to sound.
But you wouldn't go wrong with any of the following:Opera Sauvage, Chariots of Fire soundtrack, Antarctica, or China.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
The soundtrack to COSMOS wrecked me, in the best way possible. Went on a major Vangelis kick then (which led through high school). The was a time that I could have rattled off tracks from memory and filled a list out. As it stands, I'm just echoing what's been said above: HEAVEN AND HELL, SOIL FESTIVITIES, ALBEDO 0.39 and BLADE RUNNER (Esper) have something for everyone. But there was a time when Vangelis and Wendy Carlos ruled my world completely and utterly.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's easier to make a short list of what to avoid:
OceanicVoicesDirectAlexander
Everything else is worth checking out, pretty much.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a great bootleg of that album I found online which has about three times the music. Alas, it died in the Great Crash of 2010.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 12:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
So i conjured the Esper Edition of Blade Runner last night and yeah, wow, I get it now. That is, I get why ppl are so obsessed with this particular score. Amazing.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
For the French speakers here ...
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been listening to this at work after everybody else leaves early:
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
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...
― frogbs, Monday, 14 May 2012 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
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"
― dmr, Monday, 14 May 2012 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
which I just realized is almost the same as Odyssey - "Who" (which is arr. and prod. Vangelis)
― dmr, Monday, 14 May 2012 16:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Still listening to this Blade Runner boot. So fucking great.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 14 May 2012 19:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, November 16, 2010 6:14 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
*raises one paw pleadingly*
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 04:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Here's an idea of the London one, though I cleaned it up a bit. Will dig for the concerts this weekend.
― Lawanda Pageboy (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink