VANGELIS - EARTH

"My Face in the Rain" came up on shuffle one day and I thought it was M83.

too tough .... Come On vs. Let It Happen I guess .... although I like He-O too

I'll have to let this one marinate for a minute

could really vote for any track here frankly

i am unable to procure a real copy of this album so i will forfeit my vote

dude

you of all people

i have mp3s. it hasn't turned up in the wild and i hate ebay for the most part

Very tough choice, but I'll go with "Come On." Helluva start to an album.

hay guys, i won this album on ebay :D

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i dont think i voted in this lol

would've voted for he-o had i seen this

I'm really enjoying this album at the moment. Anything else with a similar feel folks could recommend?

http://www.jazz.com/assets/2009/1/28/albumcoverJanHammer-Melodies.jpg

scared

(thanks)

melodies only covers the more mellow stuff tho, theres no booming shit like 'come on'

The balearic beardo beach hippie album canon

the 3 aphrodite's child albums are a lot like this

Yeah - go aphrodite's before delving into Hammerish waters.

i dunno if these two songs are totally "hammerish" in the proggy waters you're probably talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RxLTKf58Ds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nntLbpBZ4B4

but you can always look into demis rousos, bandmate w/vangelis in aphrodite's child. he does a good version of 'let it happen'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBBCs7fnO6Y

and love this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v54WlDAibGU

last one really reclaims the chalice for all of us

'Earth' was the one Vangelis album that still had ties to Aphrodite's Child. I brought the album '666' in the tour van last January and everything that once made me pause about that album are the things I love about it the most. the later Vangelis of course leans heavier on the ambience & instrumentals, but if you tiptoe carefully you'll find it.

if you're into the heavier tracks like 'come on' you might want to skip over to early 70's psychedelic Turkish soundtracks & the Erkin Koray records -- saem tuning on the stringed instruments run through the same overdriven distortion

Jaxon, you know these? Magma keyboardist solo records I downloaded recently because one of them was produced by Bruno Menny, who did Emmanuelle Perrenin's Maison Rose, but the other two are even more absurd -- http://36-15-moog.blogspot.com/2008/09/benoit-widemann-3-lps.html -- not at all like 'Earth', they're really fusion damaged but through kind of a minimalism Reich/Riley prism, post-shame

god <3 demis roussos <3

dunno that one, milton. thanks.

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Thanks for the recommendations everyone, I need to re-read that balearic beardo beach hippie album canon thread. Checking out Erkin Koray meantime.

Great album this, it is basically a fourth Aphrodite's Child album, which suits me fine. The more popular and acclaimed his albums are the less I seem to like them.

definitely - this was the first Vangelis album I got and I liked it a lot, which made the rest of his discography feel weird to me

my pick would be "My Face in the Rain" - Vangelis has a knack for coming up with melodies that are almost indescribably beautiful

Dodax have it pretty cheap right now so I took the plunge after hearing a couple of tracks on Spotify.
Sounds pretty great.What else is good? Heard that The Dragon was interesting.

I LOVE this album and wish vangelis did more like it.

this single from 1974 is cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tum441NqwxE

guess I need to check Aphrodite’s Child again? I had a best of that did not sound like this at all. 666 has a few jams I guess

The Dragon is interesting but lacks the delicate flourishes that make Earth great. Although Stuffed Aubergine from the Dragon is pretty gorgeous.

There’s more Earthlike moments on the Jon and Vangelis albums when they get loose and playful, but you lose the rocking out.

Some great clips of early 70s V in action on Youtube. Or at least there used to be. This one is special for sheer 0_Oness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX8w9vvrkF0

PS Vangelis is an alien. Just look at his fingers.

cheers for posting that Odyssey 7"

I'm sure this has made it to ILM before but just as funny twice

"So I got a phone number for Vangelis, he was living in Paris and I went there and called him up. He said (affects a gruff Greek accent) 'Hello', I said, 'My name's Jon Anderson'. He said 'What?' I said, 'I'm in a band called Yes', he said, ‘Are you a singer? Well, come over', so I went over. There was this big guy with a long kaftan on and a bow and arrow around his shoulder. I got into his palatial apartment near the Champs Elysee and there's quite a long hallway down to his living room, and there's a little old man there sitting by the TV. Vangelis takes out his bow and sends this arrow down the hallway and it goes right through the window, because the window was open. I said, 'Vangelis, you could have killed somebody', he said, 'Oh, don't worry, I'm Greek'.

"We Were All Uprooted" has the most amazing exotic misty jungle vibe. Love this album

A track that surely must have been recorded for "666"? This whole early 70s period of his career is so confusing when it comes to working out what was recorded and when and why.

but you can always look into demis rousos, bandmate w/vangelis in aphrodite's child. he does a good version of 'let it happen'

He does "My Face in the Rain" on the same album.

OK I had no idea that F.R. David (of shit 80s hit "Words") is singing on this!

I never got into Demis Roussos’ solo career but the man is a patron saint of all the “bad album cover” groups I’m in…every album, every single, every comp qualifies