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Posted: April 26 2014 at 03:24
Spiral has 3 great Vangelis classic tracks - the title track , To The Unknown Man and Dervish D. The rest of it not so good.
Direct is a basically a summation of all Vangelis work on one album. I like it a lot although I think there are several better Vangelis albums. Probably the easiest Vangelis album to get into but a long way from his more unique slightly experimental albums such as Beauborg and Mask. Direct was also his first album that he recorded after his move back to Greece from living in the UK for 10 years or so. A completely new synth keyboard set up although I'm not sure you would really know from listening to it.
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Posted: April 27 2014 at 16:31
richardh wrote:
Spiral has 3 great Vangelis classic tracks - the title track , To The Unknown Man and Dervish D. The rest of it not so good.
Direct is a basically a summation of all Vangelis work on one album. I like it a lot although I think there are several better Vangelis albums. Probably the easiest Vangelis album to get into but a long way from his more unique slightly experimental albums such as Beauborg and Mask. Direct was also his first album that he recorded after his move back to Greece from living in the UK for 10 years or so. A completely new synth keyboard set up although I'm not sure you would really know from listening to it.
I remember how much I liked Direct when I first picked it up (on cassette!!!) in '88. I also noticed the track I liked best, "Dial Out," was a "CD Bonus Track." Really nice album, overall.
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Posted: April 27 2014 at 16:46
richardh wrote:
The total cost is $22 for me. Better be worth it
Or your money back!
richardh wrote:
Just listening at the moment. Opening 2 tracks are very similar to those on Firestarter and the 3rd track is clearly come from the Pergamon live album although presumably re-recorded in the studio.
That one and another derivation titled "Church Theme" are sourced from Quichotte/Pergamon, yes.
richardh wrote:
Just on the 4th track which is very like something off White Eagle. All good so far.
5th track is from Tangram Pt 1 when it becomes peacefull after the energetic mid section
6th track could have been taken from Edgar Froese's solo album Pinnacles. These are very short tracks!
7th track is back to sounding a bit like Tangram although Part 2 this time.
8th track - another bit Tangram Part 2
9th track is my favourite so far 'Church Theme' , a nice interplay of ideas.
"Sunset Drive," the remix of "Remote Viewing" from Exit, is spectacular, IMO.
richardh wrote:
Classic TD
10th - this is very nice , back to that lovely Firestarter type sound
11th track 'Airshaft' is the spookiest so far. Good stuff.
just looking at the liner notes from the inner booklet. This is quite substantial for a release such as this and the writing is actually big enough so you can read it!!
12th track has got a bit of a retro vibe , could almost be Ricochet with those 'flutes'
got wrapped up in the booklet - very pleasingly detailed. Done a good job here. 3.5 for the music and 5 for the packaging!
bit pricey considering its all short tracks but definitely one for those like me who love TD's music 1980 to 1984.
Soundtrack remasters are seldom cheaper than $20-25 shipped, even here. The Warriors (music by Barry DeVorzon) was 19.99, as was the recent remaster of Creepshow (music by John Harrison).
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Posted: October 08 2014 at 19:20
Software! Yes!!! One of my all-time favorite albums of theirs is Syn-code. And the Chip Meditation CDs. In fact, most of their stuff is really good. It appears they have never received the recognition they deserve.
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Posted: January 19 2015 at 15:39
Great review of Vangelis's album - The City by Michael (ABB)! This album was a part of my many road travels in the early 90s and holds a special place for me. At that time I was pretty much out of touch with the prog world except for a few electronic progressive albums and classical music.
Not his best, but he went a little bit of new direction on this and the next album or two and it is enjoyable.
Another great job Michael (agree on Red Lights, that one annoys me )
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 10:38
AEProgman wrote:
Great review of Vangelis's album - The City by Michael (ABB)! This album was a part of my many road travels in the early 90s and holds a special place for me. At that time I was pretty much out of touch with the prog world except for a few electronic progressive albums and classical music.
Not his best, but he went a little bit of new direction on this and the next album or two and it is enjoyable.
Another great job Michael (agree on Red Lights, that one annoys me )
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=1348607
Hey there, my old friend Jim, thank you for your kind words! I only came to get that Vangelis album because an Ebay vendor I was buying some titles off said I could get one more CD included in the same package for the same price. So I bought that Vangelis one not really caring about it at all. So I was very pleasantly surprised that it's not only really very good (except for `Red Lights'! ), but frequently rather great!
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 11:40
verslibre wrote:
Get Vangelis' Soil Festivities if you don't already have it. That seems to be a good overlooked one from his discography.
Verslibre, only a fortnight ago did I rebuy a nice CD copy of it to replace my poor condition old vinyl LP of it! It's like discovering it all over again!
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 14:34
^^My fave Synergy albums are Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra and Audion. Larry re-recorded some vintage Synergy pieces and issued them as as Reconstructed Artifacts, which is also a must.
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 15:40
verslibre wrote:
^^My fave Synergy albums are Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra and Audion. Larry re-recorded some vintage Synergy pieces and issued them as as Reconstructed Artifacts, which is also a must.
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 15:58
TeleStrat wrote:
verslibre wrote:
^^My fave Synergy albums are Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra and Audion. Larry re-recorded some vintage Synergy pieces and issued them as as Reconstructed Artifacts, which is also a must.
How do you feel about Sequencer?
Excellent! I like all of the Synergy albums (that includes The Jupiter Menace), but I like Metropolitan Suite the least because of the 80s synths.
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Posted: January 20 2015 at 16:09
verslibre wrote:
TeleStrat wrote:
verslibre wrote:
^^My fave Synergy albums are Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra and Audion. Larry re-recorded some vintage Synergy pieces and issued them as as Reconstructed Artifacts, which is also a must.
How do you feel about Sequencer?
Excellent! I like all of the Synergy albums (that includes The Jupiter Menace), but I like Metropolitan Suite the least because of the 80s synths.
I only have the first two albums. I have listened to Sequencer recently but it's been awhile since I've played Electronic Realizations...
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richardh wrote:
Really nice album, overall.
. Better be worth it
(agree on Red Lights, that one annoys me 
