BEAUBOURG

VANGELIS sequence bontempi!! 1Beaubourg, Part I ... yes sitting down to this slightly out-of-the-ordinary album is like walking a tightrope without a hook; yes this Beaubourg raises questions about its musical meaning; yes Vangelis had fun with his unique Yamaha CS-80 as an instrument, working with the IRCA while for me it takes me back to the work of the FIRM, another story of acronyms; a scary start; around 7 minutes we recognize the tunes of some pieces from the future 'China', yes we say to ourselves that he must have loved the film 'Starwars' and its robot R2-D2; yes we say to ourselves that Eric SERRA must have really liked him to find his atmospheres in his 'Subway'; yes at the beginning many like me just found a parallel between these syncopated, detached, unstructured notes and the homage of the creation of the center of the same name. Even if it was just the neighborhood where he lived before, he paid tribute to it ... to the unstructured mouths of the center ... Yes, the last quarter with its blanks is indeed the sign of musical fragments stacked, not put endabout and not beaubourabout ... Yes, personally, his works remind me much more of a child playing with this keyboard without really knowing what he can do with it, yes VANGELIS was looking for himself after the fabulous 'Spiral' and he had to evolve ...

2Beaubourg, Part 2 Krautrock, space music, the wild experiments of POPOL VUH, an avant-garde piece, a musical research, his personal trampling, a sound of the wonderful and sinister 'Alien' which will appear the following year? In fact, this second side is more accessible because it was the only one I had kept on a K7 recording, the first one read my feelings above!!! In short, here I found bits of musical tunes like in the first TANGERINE DREAM, yes listen again to 'Atem' and 'Zeit' and you will find striking analogies, go visit the 4th side of the wonderful 'Encore' and you will be surprised that in 1977 there was already some Beaubourg already!! Halfway through and the macabre side becomes obvious, looking for it when 'Nosferatu' was released in theaters... 1922 ah that's a bit young, but Herzog released one in 1979 if I'm not mistaken; in short, a cinematic experience before its time which can at least give the impression that everyone could become a very good musician, provided that 'China' is released the following year; in terms of Hi-Fi system settings go to around 15 minutes and you will have the perfect disc to test it and show the seller that he doesn't know much about it; Well let's be clear, finding art in these 2 pieces is unconsciousness, but to miss it is progressive sacrilege because VANGELIS we listen to him and we criticize him not; 18 minutes and you have '2001' which appears in front of you, yes, yes, what more could you ask for? You were not born, that's good, neither am I; you have a zest for unequaled musical creation, which will make CARPENTER considered as a cult synth man finally. Well I'm going back to my Bontempi!