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Vangelis: Rosetta

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Label: Decca Records
Released: 2016.09.23
Time:
 53:35
Category: Electronic
Producer(s): Vangelis
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.vangelisrosetta.com
Appears with: Aphrodites Child, Jon & Vangelis
Purchase date: 2016
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Origins [Arrival] (Vangelis) - 4:22
[2] Starstuff (Vangelis) - 5:14
[3] Infinitude (Vangelis) - 4:30
[4] Exo Genesis (Vangelis) - 3:33
[5] Celestial Whispers (Vangelis) - 2:31
[6] Albedo 0.06 (Vangelis) - 4:45
[7] Sunlight (Vangelis) - 4:22
[8] Rosetta (Vangelis) - 5:02
[9] Philae's Descent (Vangelis) - 3:04
[10] Mission Accomplie [Rosetta's Waltz] (Vangelis) - 2:12
[11] Perihelion (Vangelis) - 6:35
[12] Elegy (Vangelis) - 3:06
[13] Return to the Void (Vangelis) - 4:19

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Vangelis - Composer, Arranger, Performer, Producer

Philippe Colonna - Engineer
Stathis Zalidi - Photography
Salvador Design - Art Direction, Design
European Space Agency, ESA/ATG Medialab - Artwork, Images
Tim Cooper - Liner Notes

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Sub-published by EMI Music Publishing Ltd UK/Sony ATV.

℗ Clioti Ltd UK under exclusive licence to Decca.
A division of Universal Music Operations Ltd.

Art direction and design by Salvador Design Images by European Space Agency and ESA/ATG medialab.

Released in a gatefold sleeve.



The career of Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, better known to us as Vangelis, has been as wide-ranging as it has influential. From his beginnings as one-third of the almighty Aphrodite’s Child, veering from light, classy psychedelic pop to triumphant, thundering progressive rock, to his later incarnation as a synth soundtrack wizard capable of being both visionary (Blade Runner) and unashamedly populist (Chariots of Fire).

He has nothing left to prove, there is no need for him to grandstand, and so it comes as no surprise that his latest project, a composition written for and commissioned by the European Space Agency, is a personal one. Vangelis’ self-professed fascination with the cosmos has resulted in Rosetta, a 13-track sort-of-soundtrack to commemorate the mission to land a space probe on a comet hurtling through space. To give that some sort of scale, imagine trying to catapult a grape onto the back of a kestrel in a strong wind.

From little more than 15 seconds in, the big, synthesised strings announce, in a voice that could not be prouder if it tried, “Hey! It's me! Vangelis! Hiya!” Some spinning arpeggios whizzing around our heads indicate that his might not just be the orchestral Vangelis at play, and indeed on certain tracks (“Albedo 0.06”, “Perihelion”) there’s a real sense of his thrusting, experimental heyday. It is, however, often accompanied with brass that’s perhaps too big and bold to sit entirely comfortably – and also sounds like it’s been played through a colossal cinema sound system…

That’s entirely fitting, as it happens, since the overwhelming feel of the piece is filmic. “Rosetta” is the slight exception – and the most 'pop' moment here – but even that sounds like Roy Budd doing a sotto cover of a Spaghetti Western tune.

However, if there is a problem with Rosetta as an album, it lies in the suggestive cinematic tropes it employs. The music is, if anything, too descriptive, too literal, and leaves the listener with very little work to do. It can, on occasion, feel like watching a documentary film on a telly with no picture. It’s certainly testament to how well Vangelis can script his music, and that’s a skill in itself, but it doesn’t always make for the most consistently engaging listen.

Barney Harsent - 18 September 2016
theartsdesk.com



Rosetta is a studio album by the Greek composer and musician Vangelis, released on 23 September 2016 by Decca Records. It is dedicated to the Rosetta space probe mission, launched in 2004, being one of his several works which were inspired by space travel (Albedo 0.39), or produced in collaboration with space missions (Mythodea). Rosetta received a nomination for Best New Age Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards to be held in February 2017.

The project is a result of a 2014 video call made between ESA astronaut André Kuipers and Vangelis, during Kuipers' mission on board the International Space Station. After their conversation, Vangelis was inspired to write an album dedicated to the first mission. In November 2014 three videos with three compositions were released on the ESA official YouTube channel in celebration of the first ever attempted soft landing on a comet by the mission: "Arrival", "Philae's Journey", and "Rosetta's Waltz".

Vangelis dedicated the album to everyone who made ESA's ongoing Rosetta Mission possible, and "Rosetta's Waltz" shows his appreciation to the mission team. Carl Walker from ESA commented: "When we put the mission footage images together with the music, we thought it captured how people would feel if they were to see the comet for real in close-up. With music, you can enhance emotions and create memories: I believe that what Vangelis wanted to do was share a lasting memory of our Rosetta mission through his music".

The music from the album was used in the digital animation Chasing Stars, by Ross Ashton and Karen Monid from The Projection Studio, which was projected onto Blackpool Tower as part of the Blackpool Illuminations LightPool show in September 2016.

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