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Vangelis: The Collection

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Label: Rhino Records
Released: 2012.07.20
Time:
 77:23 / 78:10
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Electronic, New Age
Rating:
Media type: CD double
Web address: www.vangelisworld.com
Appears with: Aphrodites Child, Jon & Vangelis
Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 2,00





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CD1:

[1] Vangelis: Conquest Of Paradise (Vangelis) - 4:53
[2] Vangelis: Titles From Chariots Of Fire (Vangelis) - 3:29
[3] Vangelis: Blade Runner (End Titles) (Vangelis) - 4:38
[4] Vangelis: Pulstar (Vangelis) - 5:46
[5] Vangelis: Eternal Alexander (Vangelis) - 4:36
[6] Vangelis: Anthem: 2002 Fifa World Cup Official Anthem - Synthesizer Version (Vangelis) - 2:57
[7] Vangelis: Line Open (Vangelis) - 4:27
[8] Vangelis: To The Unknown Man (Vangelis) - 5:42
[9] Vangelis: Hymne (Vangelis) - 2:51
[10] Vangelis: Voices (Vangelis) - 6:58
[11] Vangelis: Up And Running (Vangelis) - 3:09
[12] Vangelis: Blade Runner (Main Titles) (Vangelis) - 5:32
[13] Vangelis: Tears In Rain (Vangelis) - 3:02
[14] Jon & Vangelis: So Long Ago, So Clear (Vangelis/J.Anderson) - 5:01
[15] Jon & Vangelis: I'll Find My Way Home (Vangelis/J.Anderson) - 4:29
[16] Jon & Vangelis: State Of Independence (Vangelis/J.Anderson) - 5:00
[17] Jon & Vangelis: I Hear You Know (Vangelis/J.Anderson) - 5:13


CD2:

[1] Vangelis: Rachel's Song (Vangelis) - 4:47
[2] Vangelis: Missing (Vangelis) - 3:55
[3] Vangelis: Love Theme [From Blade Runner] (Vangelis) - 4:54
[4] Vangelis: Ask The Mountains (Vangelis) - 7:53
[5] Vangelis: Theme From 'Bitter Moon' (Vangelis) - 3:38
[6] Vangelis: Dream In An Open Place (Vangelis) - 5:50
[7] Vangelis: Twenty Eighth Parallel (Vangelis) - 5:11
[8] Vangelis: Memories Of Green (Vangelis) - 5:04
[9] Vangelis: La Petite Fille De La Mer (Vangelis) - 5:52
[10] Vangelis: Song Of The Seas (Vangelis) - 5:55
[11] Vangelis: Memories Of Blue (Vangelis) - 5:28
[12] Vangelis: L' Enfant (Vangelis) - 4:53
[13] Vangelis: Echoes (Vangelis) - 8:19
[14] Vangelis: Remembering (Vangelis) - 6:29

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Vangelis - Keyboards, Programming, Arrangements, Producer
Jon Anderson - Vocals on [1:14-1:17]

The Design Corporation - Design, Artwork
Dan Massie - Mastering
Stathis Zalidis - Photography

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2012 CD Rhino Records - 2564658108



Liner notes:

"Over the course of his long-lasting career, musical genius Evangelos Odyssey Papathanassiou has lived up to his middle name by taking listeners on a wide-ranging journey through music.

In doing so, the man better known as Vangelis has become probably the world's foremost electric composer, with more than 50 albums, several hit singles, countless honours - and an Oscar - to his name.

Synonymous with soundtracks for films and television, his many scores include: Blade Runner, 1492, The Bounty and Chariots of Fire - for which he won an Oscar in 1981. But there is far more to the work of Vangelis, who is driven only by pushing back musical boundaries in his quest for perfection.

A pioneer of the synthesiser from its earliest days, Vangelis was making ambient music before the genre had been defined: New Age music before anyone coined the phrase: Chill-out Soundscapes before we knew how to chill anything but wine.

The collection compiles many of the best-known works from a remarkable career that began when he turned his back on pop superstardom in 1960s hitmakers Aphrodite’s Child, instead, intrigued by the many possibilities of the newly-invented synthesizer, he decided, by blending symphonic structures with electronic instrumentation, to create a unique new sound that, despite all efforts, still defies categorisation.

These two discs span the length and breadth of a solo career that began in 1970 with soundtracks for French nature documentaries, moved on to film and ballet scores and took the profolic partnership with with Jon Anderson from the rock titans Yes.

Adjectives such an “haunting” and “epic” seem to have been invented especially for the music of Vangelis - music that goes straight to the listener’s emotions.

Disc one takes us from sweeping Conquest of Paradise, through the stirring Chariots of Fire to the stark soundscapes of Blade Runner and onwards to the hit-making collaborations with Jon Anderson of I Hear You Now and I’ll Find My Way Home.

Disc two offers listeners to the more ‘ambient’ side of Vangelis. Highlights include the minimalist piano melodies of Memories Of Green and the magical beauty of Ask The Mountains, featuring the angelic vocals of Stina Nordenstam. The album ends with a dreamlike new composition, Remembering, that seamlessly weaves a Sax solo into its mesmeric musical web.

So, with The Collection arriving as London prepares to host the Olympic Games, what better time could there be to discover - or rediscover - the vast catalogue of a composer for ever synonymous with the Olympic ideal of striving for perfection."

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At his best, he’s a composer capable of producing enduring masterpieces.

Cynical? Sure. In an Olympic summer, it makes commercial sense to release another greatest hits-style set from the man responsible for the eternally stirring music to Chariots of Fire, perhaps the greatest soundtrack to sporting glory ever penned.

But although there is no shortage of Vangelis collections already available, this one is nonetheless welcomed as an entry point for absolute beginners, those turned onto the Greek composer courtesy of the much-watched opening ceremony to London’s games.

The piece chosen by ceremony co-ordinator Danny Boyle and music directors Underworld was, inevitably, Titles from Chariots of Fire. On the night, it was (comically) sabotaged by Rowan Atkinson in his globally popular Mr Bean guise (much to the chagrin of Michael Nyman, who failed to see the funny side).

Here it’s presented purely: three-and-a-half majestic minutes of near-unparalleled cinematic splendour. But it might not be the most important of the choices contained herein, as plenty of material from Vangelis’ legendary score for Blade Runner is featured.

Whereas 1981’s Chariots… work was something of a grandiose departure after so many minimalist arrangements, Vangelis’ contributions to Ridley Scott’s future-noir sci-fi classic of the following year are economic, cold, and absolutely riveting. Its synthesizer tones laid foundations for countless electronic acts to build upon – Rachel’s Song, for example, was sampled by The Future Sound of London on 1996’s Dead Cities LP.

Not all of the Blade Runner cues are steely constructs – Love Theme features warm saxophone from Dick Morrissey, and it shares melodic characteristics with Frankie Valli’s Can’t Take My Eyes Off You. Elsewhere, Vangelis’ songs with Yes vocalist Jon Anderson are resolutely rooted in the proggy musical ground from which they sprouted in the mid-1970s. Inevitably, they’ve not dated amazingly well.

Rather more splendid-sounding in the 21st century is La Petite Fille de la mer, written back in 1973. Simple, slight and uncommonly elegant, it’s ambience as art, presenting a narrative without the need for words. The one brand-new inclusion, Remembering, mixes ethereal chimes with jovial saxophone, but ultimately enhances its creator’s reputation little.

Vangelis may be guilty of lapsing into autopilot arranging – there’s evidence enough of that. But at his best he’s a peerless pioneer, perhaps not a genius but certainly capable of producing enduring masterpieces.

Mike Diver - 2012
BBC Review
 

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