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Vangelis: Beaubourg

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Label: RCA Records
Released: 1978
Time:
 38:33
Category: Electronica
Producer(s): Vangelis
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.vangelisworld.com
Appears with: Aphrodites Child, Jon & Vangelis
Purchase date: 2001.09.26
Price in €: 5,99



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[1] Beaubourg, Part I (Vangelis) - 17:50
[2] Beaubourg, Part II (Vangelis) - 20:43

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VANGELIS - All Instruments, Arranger, Design

KEITH SPENCER-ALLEN - Engineer
MARLIS DUNCKLAU - Assistant Engineer
VERONIQUE SKAWINSKA - Photography
JOHNNY DYER - Art Direction
LOUIS EAST - Graphics

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LP:
RCA KYL1-0455 (Canada) 1982
RCA PL 25155 (France) 1978
Polydor 2421 123 (Greece) 1978
RCA RVP-6312 (Japan) 1978
RCA 38 638 (South Africa) 1978
RCA PL 25155 (Spain) 1978
RCA PL 25155 (UK) 1978 [green cover]
Fame/EMI FA3168 (UK) reissue
RCA AFL1-3020 (USA) 1978 [different cover]
RCA AYL1-4387 (USA) reissue

CD:
RCA ND70010 (W Germany)
RCA BVCP-5027 (Japan)
Windham Hill 01934-11235-2 (USA) 1997

Recorded at Nemo Studios London, England, 1978



A great dark synthesized tone poem inspired by the Beauborg Cathedral. Vangelis had hinted at his desire to create works of this nature in some sections of Heaven and Hell, but the release of this album caught many of his fans unaware. Difficult listening at best.

Steven McDonald - All Music Guide
© 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Those listeners hoping for more of the anthemic strains of "Chariots Of Fire"--or even of his collaborations with Jon Anderson - will be disappointed here. Released relatively early in his career (1975), Beaubourg sees Vangelis at his most insular and experimental. Where most of his peers (Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Patrick Moraz) were content simply to use their synthesisers much as they would an electric organ, or as a handy substitute for other acoustic instruments (horns, strings, etc.), Vangelis was attempting - under the influence, admittedly, of various European antecedents - to devise a musical language appropriate to the qualities of that particular instrument. Divided into two parts, the album now serves as a kind of primer to the mid-1970s analogue synth, in all its wheezy glory. Much of it is beautiful - albeit in a listless, ambient sort of way--and a little of it irritating. Still, one for completists.

Andrew McGuire, Amazon.co.uk
 

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