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Topic: Vangelis 'Electronic' Recordings. Posted: June 11 2011 at 04:09
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During my teen years in the 70's there would be these "favorite album" periods. For a while it was Tales, then it was Patrick Moraz's first solo album "I". One time however it was Vangelis' Beauborg. That is his most abstract album and probably the most avant garde record made by anyone associated with prog. It sounds more like something by Stockhausen than anyone associated with a member of Yes.
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Posted: June 11 2011 at 02:11
brainstormer wrote:
During my teen years in the 70's there would be these "favorite album" periods. For a while it was Tales, then it was Patrick Moraz's first solo album "I". One time however it was Vangelis' Beauborg. That is his most abstract album and probably the most avant garde record made by anyone associated with prog. It sounds more like something by Stockhausen than anyone associated with a member of Yes.
Certainly a very intriguing work. I normally hate this sort of stuf but I can listen to Beauborg from start to back without any problem.
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Posted: June 11 2011 at 00:02
During my teen years in the 70's there would be these "favorite album" periods. For a while it was Tales, then it was Patrick Moraz's first solo album "I". One time however it was Vangelis' Beauborg. That is his most abstract album and probably the most avant garde record made by anyone associated with prog. It sounds more like something by Stockhausen than anyone associated with a member of Yes.
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Posted: May 21 2011 at 08:26
richardh wrote:
Not sure why See You Later is not liked. I've always found it very enjoyable although a while back I accidently dropped it resulting in a large scratch on the surface such that it doesn't play properly.
Anwyay I like this (am I strange?) No Richard ! you're not strange i'm the same as you, i like it , don't worry about new age it's just that to many ones used that word as negative about some Vangelis albums
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 16:01
Not sure why See You Later is not liked. I've always found it very enjoyable although a while back I accidently dropped it resulting in a large scratch on the surface such that it doesn't play properly.
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 15:57
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richardh wrote:
Well if we are going into earlier Vangelis recordings I will chuck in The Dragon as well as the already mentioned Earth. Another very beautifull Vangelis album is Apocalypse Des Animaux which is more in a 'new age' style but it does contain some stunning music.None of these albums has synths though.Earth is more percussive in style and energetic and so might be more interesting to the OP.
I saw Vangelis on stage in Paris after Earth release, he played the dragon and it was tittled La chanson du serpent ( the snake song ) it was powerful with about 15 girls singing and playing percussions but when i met him around 1980, he told me he didn't wanted Dragon and Hypothesis to be released because they're unfinished, anyway i got them though and love them. Apocalypse des animaux is great , i just love Creation du monde, but i don't agree about telling it's new age , new age was not born at the time ( even the word )
the 'new age' reference is just me being lazy!
although Vangelis did contribute to it with the brilliant Soil Festivities in the eighties
btw I quite like some 'new age' stuff so it wasn't meant in a negative way.
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Posted: May 20 2011 at 11:09
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I consider this his absolutely worst album....well if you listen to "Suffocation" you'll understand why...
But you can find good stuff also in the worst.
I love "See You Later" but theres some problem with the video above so I must removed the title track
In my review of the album I have saved only "Memories of Green", but the principal reason of my hate for that album is that I speak Italian and I fully understand the crap that Chrisma say on "Suffocation". Apart of this, it's the only album that I really dislike in his huge discography. And of course it's always question of tastes. I don't see anything bad if you like it and the track that you posted (until it starts having problems) is quite good.
I'm happy of this thread because I think Vangelis deserves more popularity here and prog-related is not the right place for him. I think that Progressive electronic is more appropriate.
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Posted: May 19 2011 at 03:49
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It's nice to see that Vangelis has so many fans here on PA. Effectively more or less ALL his production deserves to be listened to. I suggest "Everything but See you Later"
Love this one too Specialy the long track with Koulouris playing the guitar
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Posted: May 19 2011 at 03:48
richardh wrote:
Well if we are going into earlier Vangelis recordings I will chuck in The Dragon as well as the already mentioned Earth. Another very beautifull Vangelis album is Apocalypse Des Animaux which is more in a 'new age' style but it does contain some stunning music.None of these albums has synths though.Earth is more percussive in style and energetic and so might be more interesting to the OP.
I saw Vangelis on stage in Paris after Earth release, he played the dragon and it was tittled La chanson du serpent ( the snake song ) it was powerful with about 15 girls singing and playing percussions but when i met him around 1980, he told me he didn't wanted Dragon and Hypothesis to be released because they're unfinished, anyway i got them though and love them. Apocalypse des animaux is great , i just love Creation du monde, but i don't agree about telling it's new age , new age was not born at the time ( even the word )
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Posted: May 19 2011 at 02:42
It's nice to see that Vangelis has so many fans here on PA. Effectively more or less ALL his production deserves to be listened to. I suggest "Everything but See you Later"
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Posted: May 19 2011 at 01:21
Well if we are going into earlier Vangelis recordings I will chuck in The Dragon as well as the already mentioned Earth. Another very beautifull Vangelis album is Apocalypse Des Animaux which is more in a 'new age' style but it does contain some stunning music.None of these albums has synths though.Earth is more percussive in style and energetic and so might be more interesting to the OP.
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Posted: May 18 2011 at 16:42
You can have a look to this dvd too , Georges Mathieu ou la fureur d'etre , a F Rossif movie showing Vangelis and the painter Mathieu performing and creating simultaneously, great time, it's from 1971, Vangelis did many other soundtracks for Rossif about painters ( Picasso, Braque.....) and for other subjects like the Nurember trial
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Posted: May 18 2011 at 16:30
Hey you prog fellows ! Vangelis is my field but you did the whole job before i come maybe i can suggest Earth even if not quite electronic and the two albums with Irene Papas , Odes and Rhapsody , about the Blade runner trilogy the second cd with unreleased stuff is average, the third cd with new stuff is very good, i had the chance to get the Sex Power soundtrack lp and i like it very much because it displays the old Vangelis sound ( selfmade Hammond with a lot of effects ) i know the other Chapier movie soundtrack ( Amore ) has been released in the late sixties but it's rare and expensive and i know ther's a lot of unreleased tv and movie soundtracks from late sixties seventies and eighties
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brainstormer wrote:
it's just that to many ones used that word as negative about some Vangelis albums
Specialy the long track with Koulouris playing the guitar
maybe i can suggest Earth even if not quite electronic and the two albums with Irene Papas , Odes and Rhapsody , about the Blade runner trilogy the second cd with unreleased stuff is average, the third cd with new stuff is very good, i had the chance to get the Sex Power soundtrack lp and i like it very much because it displays the old Vangelis sound ( selfmade Hammond with a lot of effects ) i know the other Chapier movie soundtrack ( Amore ) has been released in the late sixties but it's rare and expensive and i know ther's a lot of unreleased tv and movie soundtracks from late sixties seventies and eighties
