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Yanni: Optimystique

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Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1984
Time:
 37:50
Category: Easy Listening
Producer(s): Yanni, Jerry Steckling
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.yanni.com
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Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] The Sphynx (Yanni) -  4:10
[2] Butterfly Dance (Yanni) -  6:24
[3] Strings (Yanni) -  3:47
[4] Twilight (Yanni) -  7:32
[5] The Chase (Yanni) -  5:08
[6] Farewell (Yanni) -  2:44
[7] Turn of the Tide (Yanni) -  3:54
[8] The Magus (Yanni) -  4:45

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Yanni - Synthesizers & Keyboards, Producer

Ernest LaViolette - Drums & Percussion
Tom Sterling - Bass guitar on [4]
Dugan McNeill - Bass guitar on [5]
Tony Matsis - Bouzouki on [3]
Bruce Kurno - Harps

Jerry Steckling - Engineer, Producer
Mark MacPherson - Executive Producer
Tom Paske - Executive Producer
Chopper Black - Assistant Engineer
Chris Bellman - Mastering
Tish Fried - Art Coordinator
Mitchell Funk - Photography
Daniel Schaffer - Design

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Recorded at Cookhouse Studios and Sound 80, Minneapolis, Minnesota, mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Los Angeles.

Optimystique is the debut studio album by Keyboardist Yanni, released on Atlantic Records label in 1984 and again on the Private Music label in 1989 (see 1984 in music).



Optimystique was recorded in 1980 and released for the first time in 1984. I considered re-recording or reworking the material before re-releasing it again, but the album has a very special sound representative of a particular time early in my career which I wanted to preserve. For me, it is a piece of my history I remember fondly.

Liner Notes



This is a re-release of Yanni's very first solo album, up until now a much sought-after collector's item, available only on LP. Recorded in 1980, all the elements of Yanni's unqiue style are present here: a full dynamic sound, overflowing with the power and passion of his Greek heritage, mixing intense uptempo rhythms and full grand-scale electronic orchestrations with a flair for instantly catchy melodies and poignant lyricism. Yanni's synthesizer and piano playing are augmented by drums, bass, harp and on one cut, bazouki, adding additional texture to Yanni's compositions. This is a powerful album, that packs one hell of a punch - yet retaining a truly warm human feel.

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