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lazland 
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I wasn’t aware it was COVID, Charles.
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MFP
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 15:18 |
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Really sad news.
RIP |
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twosteves
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 15:36 |
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Genius original player--RIP
F-Covid.  Edited by twosteves - May 19 2022 at 15:45 |
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mwood
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 16:07 |
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Such a shame. I'll be spinning Heaven and Hell, Blade Runner, and a few others tomorrow in memory.
And so soon after Klaus Schulze. RIP to another one of the greats. |
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Progosopher
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 22:21 |
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Vangelis has long been my favorite composer and recording artist. Even though my collection of his albums is vast, I still do not have everything he released since many are difficult to find in the U.S. His music has moved in ways no other composer or artist has done. Very saddened at this.
My listening tribute begins tonight with Nocturne: The Piano Album. Although with only an average rating on this site, I find the music full of depth and emotion. Beautifully played, with lots of subtlety and feeling. Piano is enhanced by the kind of lush backgrounds we expect from this great musician. My tribute will not last a single night.Like many, I first heard his music on Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Interestingly, I was at a Kansas concert 1979 or '80, and they played this really weird music between bands, music I found more memorable than that performed that night (I love Kansas but not the album they were touring for). Shortly, I found out the music was from Heaven and Hell, one of my very favorites. I would like Pinta, Niña, Santa María (Into Eternity) from 1492: Conquest of Paradise played at my funeral, before the wake, of course. All 13 + minutes of it. Maybe with a slide show. That album is also one of my very favorites.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Man With Hat
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Posted: May 19 2022 at 23:24 |
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Wow. Such another massive loss to the electronic music world. Such a shame it was covid. A very avoidable death.
Time to spin 666, Albedo .39, and of course the blade runner soundtrack. RIP
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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octopus-4
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 00:05 |
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i've heard the new from the radio yesterday evening. I'm still shocked. Then they played Four Horsemen and Memories of Green. I thought he was immortal.
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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octopus-4
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 00:09 |
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Done the first. Albedo will come after Heaven And Hell followed by China.For Blade Runner I'll need more time as I would spin the 25th anniversary boxset
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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mellotronwave
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 03:39 |
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His LP called "Earth" issued by Vertigo in 1973 under Vangelis O' Papathanassiou is imho* his most personnal and greek influenced opus, a must have.
* i don't know all the recordings of his huge discography |
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moshkito
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 07:52 |
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Hi,
I'm not sad. I know that we all have to go sooner or later, but there are times when one person has left more memories in your heart than you can even count, or imagine. And Vangelis, left many of these for me to remember until the day it doesn't matter anymore. But worst of all ... we don't get to hear where the teaspoons are anymore ... we're relegated to having to find them on our own, as before. (True story ... it was in a promo of for H&H given to FM stations). His talks about his music, and how he refused to do "commercial music" (I'm not the only one that ever has said it!!! My words came from Vangelis, Schulze and Froese), are very inspiring, but something that most DAW "composers" will never understand, or appreciate. RIP ... and I know that I will miss a lot of your music, that has not been heard yet, but at least, you left us with some far out memories!
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 08:39 |
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Sad news. Reading that Vangelis died from covid makes me even sadder. I have a lot to thank him for. I had always heard about Vangelis but the first album I bought by him was L'Apocalypse Des Animaux at random. I was poor, it was cheap and there was just something about the cover art that I found attractive. It was really the first album of the sort that I can remember owning. Gentle, strangely moving and very soothing. He helped open my ears to music that wasn't some kind of rock.
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 11:02 |
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This link reports the cause as heart failure. |
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King of Loss
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 11:17 |
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RIP! He will be missed, but he leaves a rich legacy!
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Man With Hat
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 14:11 |
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Good call on Heaven & Hell. Checking my collection, I also have Spiral and Beaubourg, so ill be playing those as well.
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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UnderGround
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 14:12 |
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One of the greatest pioneer of electronic music!
666 is one of my beloved albums! Also Socrates' album "Phos" (Aphrodite's Child and Socrates are the best Greek rock bands of all time) was produced by Vangelis (he was played keyboards and percussion on the album). Check the song "Starvation", it has one of the finest keyboard riffs of all time! Καλό παράδεισο Βαγγέλη, καλό φως Χριστού! R.I.P. Vangelis. Edited by UnderGround - May 20 2022 at 14:18 |
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tszirmay
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 16:54 |
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Clark Gable, Fairbanks , Maureen O'Sullivan are waiting for him in heaven "to Gods early dawning light
And I was privileged to be as I am to this day To be with you. To be with you" ....flip, flip, flip....... RIP
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Battlestations
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Posted: May 20 2022 at 17:50 |
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Such an immense loss for music, not only the electronic music scene. Quite shocking news, there was indeed the sense that this musical God was immortal.
Personal fave: Soil Festivities.
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Posted: May 21 2022 at 01:58 |
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Another great one gone. 2022 is becoming a sad year for electronic music. RIP Vangelis.
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richardh
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Posted: May 22 2022 at 02:57 |
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One of my favourite musicians and pretty much turned me on to electronic music. RIP
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octopus-4
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Posted: May 22 2022 at 11:15 |
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There are many sources on the web reporting it was Covid. Maybe it caused the heart failure.
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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