I really love his work especially the album Voices.
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#92Massive, epic talent. Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or write music. Incredible feel for timbre, melody, and structure. The DX7 synth used to have a ridiculous "chuff chuff chuff DING!" comedy steam train preset. It sounded terrible and was utterly useless except as a 10 second novelty. He used it in one of his soundtracks - and somehow made it perfectly musical in that setting.
"Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or write music."
He seems to have had his own musical notation, of a sort. You can see him using it at the beginning of this video:
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#93R.I.P. Vangelis.
That Blade Runner soundtrack was something really special.
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#94poor example compared to his lifetime of work, but this was a beautiful advert
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#95He wrote the theme song to the Carl Sagan series "Cosmos", both the song and the show had me transfixed as a kid. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7FW_wOUUTT8
To be more precise, he wrote the music which was used as the theme song for "Cosmos" -- it originally appeared on Vangelis's album "Heaven and Hell", five years before "Cosmos" came out. Apparently it was called Movement 3 from "Symphony to the Powers B", though on my old CD copy of the album it just appears in the middle of the track "Heaven and Hell Part 1". Really powerfully evocative music, takes me right back to being a 10 year old watching "Cosmos".
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#96Can somebody shed som light on Miami Vice song? I always thought it's Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis song, but apparently it is called Crocket's Theme by Jan Hammer
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#97Massive, epic talent. Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or write music. Incredible feel for timbre, melody, and structure. The DX7 synth used to have a ridiculous "chuff chuff chuff DING!" comedy steam train preset. It sounded terrible and was utterly useless except as a 10 second novelty. He used it in one of his soundtracks - and somehow made it perfectly musical in that setting.
"Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or write music." He seems to have had his own musical notation, of a sort. You can see him using it at the beginning of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1xJYCrKDU
I guess there is a point where convention just slows you down. I would say it is a hallmark of true genius.
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#98The boxer Henry Maske had Conquest of Paradise playing as the entry music [0]. I don't quite remember the context but it may have been the last fight in his career. Pure athmosphere and goose bumps back in the day. I didn't actually know what song it was back then as I was just a child but the melody always stuck with me. It was years and years later when I actually learned about Vangelis and came across the song again.
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#99Maaaaaan about the time Blade Runner came out I was a fourth grader fumbling with the Chariots of Fire record pretty much every day. That was the first record I remember associating the different reflections on the grooves with the length of the song. Pretty clear given that side 2 was all one song. So many elementary school crushes I dreamt of to that album. Didn't get whacked upside the head by Blade Runner until l…
> (there was some legal crap about releasing the original music). That crap resulted in multiple bootleg versions of the Blade Runner soundtrack. I don't know if there is a definitive one :/ Maybe with the Special Edition blue-ray? I like the voiceover version of the tracks from the original CD ("do you like our owl?"), but I also like listening to the tracks without voiceovers.
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#100First Klaus Schulze and now Vangelis. So sad.
Rest in peace!