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Vangelis' first electric keyboard was a Hammond B3 organ, while his first synthesizer was a Korg 700 monophonic. [15] By his own admission, he never got rid of keyboards during the first two decades of his career, but accumulated new ones and simply stopped actively using the old ones once he had effective replacements or had exhausted their ...
Vangelis and cast members watch the Olympic torch pass the Gielgud Theater, London 26 July 2012. Vangelis (b. 29 March 1943, d. 17 May 2022) was a Greek musician, composer, and producer. He began his music career in the 1960s with the Greek progressive rock band Aphrodite's Child and in the 1970s began composing electronic music .
Mythodea — Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey is a choral symphony [1] by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis.It premiered as a single concert in Athens, Greece, in 1993 [2] but a recording was only released in 2001 by Vangelis' then new record label Sony Classical, which also set up the NASA connection and promoted a new concert, this time with a worldwide audience.
Vangelis, the Greece-born composer and electronic music pioneer who won an Academy Award for his synthesizer-laden score for the Oscar best picture winner Chariots of Fire, has died. He was 79.
The album is entirely instrumental, apart from Vangelis' processed vocals on "Ballad". Vangelis plays synthesisers, sequencers, electric piano, drums and percussion. The Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer is featured for the first time on a Vangelis album; he returned to this synth many times in subsequent albums. [5]
Beaubourg is a studio album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in July 1978. [1] It was the fourth album produced by Vangelis in Nemo Studios, London, and his final album for RCA Records. It is an avant-garde-experimental album. [2]
The first official release (on LP, tape and CD) was a reinterpretation by the New American Orchestra in 1982. Billed as an "orchestral adaptation of music composed for the motion picture by Vangelis", this release consisted of jazz-inspired, orchestrated renditions of the major tracks from the film, but not the original score tracks.
Vangelis recalls "I don't like to prepare for a long, long, long time an album. It's more exciting for me to sit down and to play whatever comes. So this is the way that Heaven and Hell happens. I spent six weeks to make this album but I spent maybe two weeks to put down the first tracks". Vangelis played all the instruments except the choir. [3]