Vangelis' Music

Thu Jan 16, 2003 6:36 am by emspace

Thanks for your very informative reply kind sir. best, emapace.

Tue Feb 25, 2003 10:10 pm by catsardark

<TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD>Quote:<HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><BLOCKQUOTE> On 2001-09-04 11:48, endzem wrote: BR Blues is by far my favorite song in the soundtrack. I sometimes play it at night whenever it's raining and listen to it as I step out into the balcony of my aprartment and have a glass of brandy. For me, it's a very relaxing and meditative experience. [ This Message was edited by: endzem on 2001-09-04 14:31 ] </BLOCKQUOTE></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR></TD></TR></TABLE>
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Tue Mar 04, 2003 7:47 pm by Lost Painting

Wow. I cannot believe that I totally forgot to mention some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard(it's mostly synthesizer, so BR related). The score(NOT soundtrack) to "The Virgin Suicides" movie by the french duo "Air". I thought the movie was good, but truly had the potential to be great. It just felt a but unfinished to me, but I liked the concepts. The book was definitely better(saw the movie first). Let me give you a spoiler free short rundown of what it was like(this is all relevant to the music, just hold on). It was basically about a group of boys who where infatuated with five sisters in a wealthy neigborhood during the 1970's. The whole book was very moody, nostalgic and dreamy. Basically, the boys had grown up and in modern times were still haunted by the sisters, and they never really got to know them as individuals, but only saw them through their own rose colored glasses(or so the saying goes). I like how Sofia Coppola(Yes, THAT Sofia Coppola), who directed the movie, described the girls. She said that it was like a 5 headed monster to the boys, all connected and all interchangeable. The boys only saw the girls from a distance, through a haze which increased over time as the years passed. I listened to the score before seeing the movie or reading the book, and with what I imagined up myself from reading the book reviews at Amazon.com, I basically played the whole story out in my head to the music, and sadly the movie then disappointed me, but the book did not. Try downloading a few tracks, like.... "Playground Love", original and vibraphone version, maybe the most beautiful, dreamy song I've ever heard. "Clouds Up" "Dark Messages" full of mystery, very ominous. "The Word Hurricane", it's just so atmospheric and otherworldly, my favorite song on the cd. Please please please, just make sure you've read about the story and gotten a good sense of it from Amazon.com book reviews, and the music then fit perfectly. I know this is a long, rambling post, but I really do love the cd. Combined with the dreaminess and nostalgia of the book makes the music sound perfect. It's strange how I feel the cd is very evocative of the seventies, but I wouldn't even know! I was born in 1982! It just has this aura about it... It's one of the best cd's I've ever purchased. [ This Message was edited by: Lost Painting on 2003-03-05 01:57 ]

Tue Mar 04, 2003 9:44 pm by The Dark Knight

Thanks to bousley for his link..I'll hopefully be receiving the CD any day now! Lost Painting, funny you should mention 'Air', I was given a loan of one of their CDs and the first track was very Blade Runner-esque..I was going to get the name of it to post here.. <IMG SRC="/forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:54 am by alz

Well there's one finally up on EBAY for those that are curiuos:

Blade Runner Westwood Edition (music from the Blade Runner PC Game)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... egory=1058

Fri Sep 26, 2003 3:51 am by Blix

concerning AIR i must recommend 'how does it make you feel?', veery moody.

concerning the original-BR-soundtrack i remember the time 10 years ago when i had no internet and was desperately seeking for the score.
in the end-titles it says: original soundtrack available at polydor.
i even wrote a letter to polydor, because the orchestra-version sounded partly ridiculous to me, but that was useless.

(a similar problem i had with goldsmith's legend-score, but a really great release came out shortly later)

i then bought my first vangelis-lp (see you later, cause i liked the cover :roll:

) and i was so much surprised and happy, when i recognized 'memories of green'!

Fri Sep 26, 2003 6:23 am by BR796164

alz wrote:Well there's one finally up on EBAY for those that are curiuos:

Blade Runner Westwood Edition (music from the Blade Runner PC Game)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... egory=1058

Once Weastwood/EA focuses at the guy who's offering it, he's literally dead.

Gosh, twenty bucks! One can just rip the music from the mix files and burn them for his personal enjoyment (as I did).

Fri Sep 26, 2003 3:05 pm by alz

How is that release any different from the other 20-something soundtrack releases?

Also, Westwood is no more. EA ran them into the ground last year. (so all the Blade Runner material that went into making the game -- the sets, the models, the music, the audio, the animation, the research -- it's all gone).

Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:58 am by BR796164

Of course.

Mon Dec 29, 2003 7:30 am by Leon Corporation

RepDetect Unit 1051 wrote:Vangelis' music for Blade Runner is excellent. The soundtrack (his version) is one of my favourite cd's and my favourite song is Blade Runner Blues.

And like blues it's improvised.

Leon Corporation Employee

Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:47 am by espergritblues

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Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:58 pm by Kipple

espergritblues wrote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi there guys,

I have just posted a new topic headed "FINALLY! affordable Esper 4CD Definitive Collectors' Edition" concerning the complete film score by Vangelis in the roundtable forum.

Thanks.

Paul from Scotland

What you are doing is called SPAMMING!!!

One can see that you posted a new topic. You don't need to "advertise" that fact in other threads throughout the forum.

Cheers.

Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:26 pm by espergritblues

Sincere apologies kipple - all cross-posts have been deleted.

Paul

Thu May 25, 2006 3:21 pm by Deckard1979

My fave song would be 'Blush Response'. One of those songs, I'd never get bored of.

This is pretty good, too. 'The City'
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0 ... ZZZZZZ.jpg

Also, someone mad a list of albums that are 'similar to Blade Runner'
Wally Badarou: Back to Scales Tonight
Pete Bardens: Seen One Earth
Daniel Blanchet: Harmonie des Mondes
Biosphere: Microgravity
Serge Blenner: Practure Interne
Blue Chip Orchestra: Blue Chip Orchestra
Black Dog Productions: Bytes
Rainer Bloss: Drive Inn, Vol. 2
Botanica: Garden of Earthly Delights
Kevin Braheny: Way Home
Tim Clark: Tales of the Sun People

Anyone own them?

And does anyone have 'The Trial Of L.T. William Blig' from The Bounty soundtrack?[/b]

Thu May 25, 2006 6:05 pm by THX1138

Deckard1979 wrote:My fave song would be 'Blush Response'. One of those songs, I'd never get bored of.

This is pretty good, too. 'The City'
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0 ... ZZZZZZ.jpg

Also, someone mad a list of albums that are 'similar to Blade Runner'
Wally Badarou: Back to Scales Tonight
Pete Bardens: Seen One Earth
Daniel Blanchet: Harmonie des Mondes
Biosphere: Microgravity
Serge Blenner: Practure Interne
Blue Chip Orchestra: Blue Chip Orchestra
Black Dog Productions: Bytes
Rainer Bloss: Drive Inn, Vol. 2
Botanica: Garden of Earthly Delights
Kevin Braheny: Way Home
Tim Clark: Tales of the Sun People

Anyone own them?

And does anyone have 'The Trial Of L.T. William Blig' from The Bounty soundtrack?[/b]

I thought I had already suggested the City album in this thread, but I guess I didn't, or maybe it was in another thread. I like the album, although it certainly isn't my favorite. The second track has the style of Blade Runner Blues. That one is my favorite.

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