RARITIES

Artist: V/A
P: 1992
Very good Prog-Rock compilation with Popol Vuh and Amon Düül 2.

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Artist: Valley Forge
P: 1995
'Leaving To Nothing' is a concept album by valleyforge aka Thomas Bechholds with psychedelic electronic rock music that takes us back to the mid seventies, with great analog synthesizers, electronic + real drums and electronic + acoustic guitars. Me and Marks 'set the controls for the heart of the sun' and take the 'entrance' to 'the grand vizier´s garden party'. On 'the narrow way' with some 'dogs' around us we are looking for 'a saucerful of secrets'. What a spacious world where coloured flowers are destroyed before time expansion like 'several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict'. Observed by scrambled eggs in geostationary orbit a spiral 'shine on' me and Marks over seven 'Grantchester meadows'. Careful we take the 'exit' leaving to nothing.

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Artist: Vangelis + Montserrat Caballe
P: 1997
1997 recording from Montserrat Caballe featuring 16 duets with international stars such as Johnny Hallyday and Khadja Nin from France, Carlos Cano from Spain, Marco Masini from Italy, Gotthard from Switzerland, Rene Froger from Holland & others.  Two tracks are exclusive new tracks together with Vangelis.

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Artist: Vangelis + Montserrat Caballe
P: 1997
1997 recording from Montserrat Caballe & Vangelis, the 3 track version, with the tracks from the CD exclusiv on the CD single.

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Artist: Vangelis
P: 2004
Put the saga of history's greatest overachiever -- Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great had conquered 90% of the pre-Christian world before his death at 32 -- in the hands of Hollywood's favorite over-reacher, Oliver Stone, and the result is three-hours of epic blood 'n' bathos.
The soundtrack by Greek synth-score pioneer Vangelis Papathanassiou may be book ended by heroic orchestral/choral pomp of suitable scale and melodic dignity, but they buttress a far more compelling cocktail of primitive martial rhythms ("Drums of Gaugamela") and ancient ethnic-folk conceits ("Roxanne's Dance").
Though his film scores have become increasingly rare since the twin breakthroughs of his Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire and the sci-fi masterpiece Bladerunner, his work here argues that Vangelis' restless curiosity and musical range have only blossomed in the ensuing decades. With the exception of the final, club-targeted bonus cut, gone are his once overt electronics, replaced by a more organic, post-modern sense of fusion that evinces itself seductively on cues like "One Morning at Pella" and "Eastern Path".
Elsewhere, cuts like "Across the Mountains" and "Tender Memories" are powered by Vangelis' trademark graceful lyricism, a trait that helps set this score apart from sword 'n' sandal contemporaries like Gladiator and Troy.

 

Artist: Vangelis
P: 2004
Put the saga of history's greatest overachiever -- Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great had conquered 90% of the pre-Christian world before his death at 32 -- in the hands of Hollywood's favorite over-reacher, Oliver Stone, and the result is three-hours of epic blood 'n' bathos.
The soundtrack by Greek synth-score pioneer Vangelis Papathanassiou may be book ended by heroic orchestral/choral pomp of suitable scale and melodic dignity, but they buttress a far more compelling cocktail of primitive martial rhythms ("Drums of Gaugamela") and ancient ethnic-folk conceits ("Roxanne's Dance").
Though his film scores have become increasingly rare since the twin breakthroughs of his Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire and the sci-fi masterpiece Bladerunner, his work here argues that Vangelis' restless curiosity and musical range have only blossomed in the ensuing decades. With the exception of the final, club-targeted bonus cut, gone are his once overt electronics, replaced by a more organic, post-modern sense of fusion that evinces itself seductively on cues like "One Morning at Pella" and "Eastern Path".
Elsewhere, cuts like "Across the Mountains" and "Tender Memories" are powered by Vangelis' trademark graceful lyricism, a trait that helps set this score apart from sword 'n' sandal contemporaries like Gladiator and Troy.

 

Artist: Vangelis
P: 2002
This is the musicpiece, Vangelis composed for the football championship 2002 in Korea / Japan.

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Artist: Vangelis
P: 1985
The Vangelis album it is most similar to is Beaubourg, although it is a much colder, harsher and more sterile sounding work. The warm analogue of Beaubourg has been replaced by colder more digital sounds. If you're looking for Chariots of Fire, then this isn't the CD for you.
Side one I just "got" immediately. It's a single track about 18 minutes long. The opening build up of percussion noises is intriguing, but it's the ending of this track that really affected me. A wailing synth sound cries out gently once. It is answered by a lower voice. The first voice cries out again, but this time no answer. The rest of the track is the first voice crying out for it's companion, but always unanswered. Maybe I'm reading too much into this but the end of side one is so haunting and sad, seemingly representing loss. I was deeply moved by this piece.
Side two comprises two shorter tracks. These I just don't get. I've listened to them several times, but I got none of the emotional connections that I'd found from the title track. I give this CD 4 stars based on the haunting first piece.

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Artist: Vangelis
P: 1976 / 2001
CD of the Greek new age pioneer's soundtrack to Frenchdirector Frederic Rossif's 1975 film 'La Fete Sauvage',digitally remastered in dolby surround sound. There are several different moments separated by spaces in any case.The initial part is very 70s. The percussions and the mellow organ melody could be good for an erotic or a B-adventure movie of that age. It doesn't last too much. Suddenly a very evocative piece of jungle noises and tribal singing is backed out by a typical Vangelis keyboard work.When the tribe stops singing we have a spacey keyboard over tribal percussions, then percussions alone then keyboard again. Vangelis may have said: "I give you a number of things. For your movie you can cut and paste". But this is an album, too, so the main theme comes and goes several times to give it a structure and something "recognisable and distinctive" to the listener.

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Artist: Vangelis
P: 1996
This is a compilation CD-Single from the album Portraits.

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