Beaubourg (Vangelis)
from Bmg Japan
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Binding/Format: Audio CD
Model No: BVCM-37681
Release Date: 05/02/2006
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Index: Music
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Music Pod Price: £39.22
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Product Description VANGELIS Beaubourg (2006 Japanese exclusive limited edition 24-Bit remastered 2-track CD album originally released in 1978 on RCA 2 side-long [in vinyl terms!] mesmerising cuts from the Master presented in sealed mini LP-style replica card gatefold picture sleeve complete with fold-out Japanese/English text lyric sheet + obi-strip)
Those listeners hoping for more of the anthemic strains of "Chariots Of Fire"--or even of his collaborations with Jon Anderson--will be disappointed here. Released relatively early in his career (1975), Beaubourg sees Vangelis at his most insular and experimental. Where most of his peers (Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Patrick Moraz) were content simply to use their synthesisers much as they would an electric organ, or as a handy substitute for other acoustic instruments (horns, strings, etc.), Vangelis was attempting--under the influence, admittedly, of various European antecedents--to devise a musical language appropriate to the qualities of that particular instrument. Divided into two parts, the album now serves as a kind of primer to the mid-1970s analogue synth, in all its wheezy glory. Much of it is beautiful--albeit in a listless, ambient sort of way--and a little of it irritating. Still, one for completists. --Andrew McGuire
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Associated music album categories: Soundtracks & Composers |
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