In 1971, some jam sessions with a group of musicians at Marquee Studios in London had resulted in two albums ' worth of material, unofficially released without Vangelis ' permission in 1978, titled Hypothesis ( aka Visions of the Future ), and The Dragon.

This line-up, later briefly going out under the name " Odyssey ", released a single in 1974 titled " Who ", but that was Vangelis ' last involvement with them.

A disagreement led to Vangelis withholding permission for his performance of the music from Blade Runner to be released, and the studio instead hired a group of musicians dubbed " The New American Orchestra " to record the official LP released at the time.

An official three disc box set was released in late 2007 to commemorate the film's 25th anniversary: it contained the original 1994 album, a second disc containing some more of the missing music cues and a third disc of new Vangelis material inspired by Blade Runner.

During 1980, six years after Vangelis decided against joining Yes, he and Jon Anderson, the lead singer of Yes, released their first album together, Short Stories, under the band name of Jon & Vangelis.

Vangelis performed live and released Mythodea, a predominantly orchestral rather than electronic piece that was originally written in 1993, and used by NASA as the theme for the Mars Odyssey mission in 2001.

In 2004, Vangelis released the score for Oliver Stone's Alexander, continuing his involvement with projects related to Greece.

Meanwhile, Jon Anderson had released two solo albums since leaving Yes and had also achieved success with the Jon and Vangelis project.

In September 1975 he appeared on the Vangelis album Heaven and Hell and in the following year released his first solo album Olias of Sunhillow.

In early 1980, when Anderson and Wakeman left Yes, Anderson started recording again with Vangelis ; and by summer 1980, Jon & Vangelis had released Short Stories, followed in November by Jon's solo album Song of Seven and a major British tour with The New Life Band.

He also released an album with Vangelis in July 1981 called The Friends of Mr. Cairo.

* Chronicles ( Jon & Vangelis album ) released in 1994 by Jon & Vangelis

In 1979, Polydor released her solo album entitled Odes, with music performed ( and partly composed ) by Vangelis Papathanassiou ( also previously a member of Aphrodite's Child ).

In 1986 Papas released a further album in collaboration with Vangelis, entitled Rhapsodies ( Polydor CD 829 413-2 ).

Albedo 0. 39 is an album by the artist Vangelis, released in 1976.

Heaven and Hell, released in 1975, is the fifth solo album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis.

In 1986, Jon & Vangelis made a few attempts at writing a new album, but much of this work was never officially released under the Jon and Vangelis name.

It was released in 1972, and was the primary vehicle / effort for the Vangelis project.

Earth is the third solo album by the Greek artist Vangelis, released in 1973.

Although it is uncertain which synthesizers Vangelis employs on this album, other instruments include acoustic drums, bass, percussion, a xylophone, a gamelan ( track 2 ) and recordings of the speaking clock ( courtesy of Post Office communications ) and the Apollo moon landing ( courtesy of NASA ).

#" Let ’ s Pretend " – 2: 56 ( Anderson, Howe, Wakeman, Bruford, Vangelis )

In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.

In a career spanning over 50 years, writing and composing more than 52 albums, Vangelis is regarded as one of the greatest composers of electronic music of all time.

Despite the split, Vangelis has since produced several albums and singles for Demis Roussos, who, in turn, contributed vocals to the Blade Runner soundtrack.

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

Vangelis also collaborated in 1981 and 1986 with Italian singer Milva, achieving success especially in Germany with the albums Ich hab ' keine Angst and Geheimnisse ( I have no fear and Secrets ).

Instrumental pieces in popular music often have a descriptive title which suggests that they could be categorized as program music, and several instrumental albums are completely devoted to some programmatic idea ( for example, China by Vangelis or The Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield ).

On " Alpha ", Vangelis employs a composing technique he would use extensively on later albums ( e. g. Direct ): a simple theme of a few bars is developed through increasingly complex instrumentation.

Category: Vangelis albums

Category: Vangelis albums

Category: Vangelis albums

Category: Vangelis albums

The album is entirely instrumental, apart from Vangelis ' processed vocals on " Ballad " ( one of the few occasions where his voice can be heard on his albums ).

Further developing his new age style of webs of sound on the synthesizers, already displayed in his previous two studio albums ( Heaven and Hell, Albedo 0. 39 ), Vangelis creates another album that constitutes one of his reference albums from the seventies.

Category: Vangelis albums

Category: Vangelis albums

Though Hypothesis, released in 1978, but recorded in 1971 is also considered to be another " experimental " album, it was a release which Vangelis did not sanction, and, besides, it was musically geared towards jazz fusion rather than the minimalist style of the albums, above.

Category: Vangelis albums

: Not to be confused with El Greco Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a 2007 album also by Vangelis

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ( ; born 29 March 1943 ) is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis.

Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries, including L ' Apocalypse Des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage ; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream.

It is not known where Vangelis generally resides ; he has stated that he " travels around ", rather than settling down in one specific place or country for long periods of time.

As a hobby, Vangelis enjoys painting ; his first art exhibition toured South America in 2005.

Air's music is often referred to as electronica ; their form of electronic music was influenced by the synthesizer sounds of the 1970s such as Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, and Francis Lai.

Vangelis and Yanni were among the few Greek instrumental composers who became internationally renowned ; their work however had little influence on the tradition of Greek instrumental music.

While having trained in classical guitar and piano at an early age, Bracegirdle's earliest influences in electronic music came from melodic composers such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, and synthpop pioneer Vince Clarke ; a further influence was the dance hit " Anthem " by the house music group N-Joi.

Norman premiered the song cycle woman. life. song by composer Judith Weir, a work commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall, with texts by Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Clarissa Pinkola Estés ; performed a selection of sacred music of Duke Ellington ; recorded a jazz album, Jessye Norman Sings Michel Legrand ; and was the soprano co-lead in Vangelis ' project Mythodea. Norman commended herself in Mussorgsky's songs, which she performed in Moscow in the original Russian.

Spiral is a futuristic album, and Vangelis makes extensive use of the synthesizer technology of the day ; this album is probably the most sequencer-based on his recording career.

" Spiral " builds on an arpeggio chord that is panned in stereo to give the listener a spiralling sensation ; the piece continues along a sequenced synthesizer pulse and develops into a slightly black, somewhat bluesy piece that builds on Vangelis ' patent brass.

* Vangelis ; Spiral was his first album using the CS-80 synthesizer, on which he relied heavily in subsequent work.