DELECTUS - THE POLYDOR & VERTIGO RECORDINGS 1973-1985

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2017

Songs / Tracks Listing

CD 1 - "Earth" (1973) (39:02)
1. Come On (2:09)
2. We Are All Uprooted (6:50)
3. Sunny Earth (6:37)
4. He-O (4:10)
5. Ritual (2:46)
6. Let It Happen (4:20)
7. The City (1:19)
8. My Face in the Rain (4:23)
9. Watch Out (3:02)
10. A Song (3:26)

CD 2 - "L'apocalypse Des Animaux" (1973) (35:09)
1. Apocalypse des Animaux - G�n�rique (1:28)
2. La Petite Fille de la Mer (5:55)
3. Le Singe Bleu (7:40)
4. La Mort du Loup (3:05)
5. L'Ours Musicien (1:05)
6. Cr�ation du Monde (10:02)
7. La Mer Recommenc�e (5:54)

CD 3 - "China" (1979) (41:29)
1. Chung Kuo (5:30)
2. The Long March (2:02)
3. The Dragon (4:14)
4. The Plum Blossom (2:36)
5. The Tao of Love (2:46)
6. The Little Fete (3:00)
7. Yin & Yang (5:55)
8. Himalaya (10:38)
9. Summit (4:48)

CD 4 - "Opera Sauvage" (1979) (41:28)
1. Hymne (2:44)
2. R�ve (12:31)
3. L'enfant (5:00)
4. Mouettes (2:34)
5. Chromatique (3:28)
6. Irlande (3:28)
7. Flamants Roses (11:43)

CD 5 - "See You Later" (1980) (51:36)
1. I Can't Take It Anymore (5:36)
2. Multi-Track Suggestion (5:26)
3. Memories of Green (5:40)
4. Not a Bit - All of It (2:53)
5. Suffocation (9:17)
6. See You Later (10:23)
7. Neighbours Above (4:52)
8. My Love (4:10)
9. Domestic Logic 1 (3:19)

CD 6 - "Chariots of Fire" (1981) (41:53)
1. Titles (3:32)
2. Five Circles (5:20)
3. Abraham's Theme (3:14)
4. Eric's Theme (4:18)
5. 100 Metres (2:03)
6. Jerusalem (2:47)
7. Chariots of Fire (20:39)

CD 7 - "Antartica" (1983) (44:35)
1. Theme from Antarctica (7:26)
2. Antarctica Echoes (5:53)
3. Kinematic (3:45)
4. Song of White (4:50)
5. Life of Antarctica (5:56)
6. Memory of Antarctica (5:26)
7. Other Side of Antarctica (6:50)
8. Deliverance (4:29)

CD 8 - "Soil Festivities" (1984) (47:12)
1. Movement 1 (17:35)
2. Movement 2 (6:18)
3. Movement 3 (6:06)
4. Movement 4 (9:54)
5. Movement 5 (7:19)

CD 9 - "Mask" (1985) (43:27)
1. Movement 1 (10:17)
2. Movement 2 (3:26)
3. Movement 3 (6:40)
4. Movement 4 (8:42)
5. Movement 5 (9:59)
6. Movement 6 (4:23)

CD 10 - "Invisible Connections" (1985) (39:25)
1. Invisible Connections (21:04)
2. Atom Blaster (8:37)
3. Thermo Vision (9:44)

CD 11 - Jon + Vangelis: "Short Stories" (1980) (44:43)
1. Curious Electric (6:35)
2. Each and Every Day (3:42)
3. Bird Song (1:23)
4. I Hear You Now (5:10)
5. The Road (4:30)
6. Far Away in Baagad (2:50)
7. Love Is (5:09)
8. One More Time (6:12)
9. Thunder (2:11)
10. Play Within a Play (7:01)

CD 12 - Jon + Vangelis: "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" (1981) (45:18)
1. I'll Find My Way Home (4:31)
2. State of Independence (7:53)
3. Beside (4:10)
4. The Mayflower (6:31)
5. The Friends of Mr. Cairo (12:05)
6. Back to School (5:07)
7. Outside of This (Inside of That) (5:01)

CD 13 - Jon + Vangelis: "Private Collection" (1983) (53:25)
1. Italian Song (2:53)
2. And When the Night Comes (4:26)
3. Deborah (4:55)
4. Polonaise (5:25)
5. He Is Sailing (6:48)
6. Horizon (22:51)
7. Song Is (6:07)

Total Time 568:42

Line-up / Musicians

- Vangelis / keyboards, percussion, flute, trumpet, ...

- Jon Anderson / vocals (3 last discs; "See You Later" tracks 5 and 6; harp "Opera Sauvage" track 7)
- Robert Fitoussi / bass, vocals ("Earth")
- Anargyros Koulouris / guitar, lute, backing vocals ("Earth")
- Warren Shapovitch / narrator ("Earth")
- The Ambrosian Singers / choir ("Chariots of Fire", track 6)

- further guests on "China", "See You Later" and "The Friends of Mr. Cairo" (see original albums)

Releases information

The remastered originals complemented with B-sides and previously unreleased tracks.

13 CD's + a 96-page book in a box (33 x 32 x 4 cm): UMC, 536820-7.
Date of release: February 3, 2017

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Review by Matti
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This 13-disc box set contains 13 remastered studio albums of Vangelis, three of them actually by JON + VANGELIS. The only Vertigo release is "Earth" (1973), which happened to be the only one I hadn't listened to before. Actually a group effort with vocals of Robert Fitoussi, it has some faint resemblence with the Aphrodite's Child classic 666 (released in 1972), although obviously a minor and less exciting work in comparison. All the other albums in this set were originally released by Polydor, thus it won't include some classic albums from the 70's, ie. Heaven & Hell, Albedo 0.39 and Spiral, from the RCA label. Several of the albums here are music composed for films: L'Apocalypse des Animaux, Opera Sauvage, Chariots of Fire and Antarctica. These are among the best known Vangelis albums except perhaps Antarctica (1983), which is a very fine work. The rest of the Vangelis albums are: China, See You Later, Soil Festivities, Mask and Invisible Connections. The set is finished with the three JON + VANGELIS albums from the early 80's: Short Stories, The Friends of Mr. Cairo and Private Collection.

I'm surprised by the numerous five-star ratings without reviews, because I have major complaints about the box and the representation. The physical size of the box is massive, big enough for vinyls. The discs are plainly placed in two gatefold sleeves. All the album information and other textual contents are in the large hard-cover book of 96 pages, and judged against the size the actual contents are rather disappointing. I expected much more of the liner notes when I borrowed the box from library. For the most part, it's a picture book. It's not handy at all that you have to hold that clumsy big book open to see the albums' track lists while listening. I truly prefer smaller and thus more user-friendly sizes for CD box sets. That said, I'd be satisfied with the rather brief liner notes too, if the box and the book/booklet had been smaller: come on, almost a hundred vinyl size pages for contents that would nicely fit into a 40-page CD size booklet!

The bonus material on the discs remains rather minimal. The fifth disc containing See You Later (1980) features three bonus tracks in the style of the album, hardly worth a second listening. The third and the best Jon + Vangelis album Private Collection is accompanied by a fairly good B-sider 'Song Is'. And that's more or less all. Considering the salty price of this box set, I frankly don't see it very recommendable. I'd rather spend the money on individual albums of your own choice.

One thing is sure. There's a wide musical variety among these thirteen albums. From the earthy art-rock of "Earth" to the avant-garde minimalism of Invisible Connections (1985 - originally released in the classical music label Deutsche Grammophon, so I'm wondering of its inclusion here), from the organic melancholy of L'Apocalypse des Animaux (1973) to the Oscar winning athletic themes of Chariots of Fire (1981), and from the fascinating microcosmos interpreted in Soil Festivities (1984) to the choral approach of the mythologically inspired Mask (1985). I personally also enjoyed the opportunity to (re)visit the Jon + Vangelis albums at the same time, despite a little reservation for them not being actual Vangelis solo albums.

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