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   Vangelis

   Little is known about Vangelis' personal life and he rarely gives official interviews to journalists. ... Synthtopia, an electronic music review website, stated that Vangelis' music could be referred to as "symphonic electronica" because of his use of synthesizers in an orchestral fashion.
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   Mythodea

   Vangelis not only composed the music, he also wrote the lyrics in Ancient Greek. In an interview with KLEMblad magazine, Vangelis stated "This piece was composed in an hour.
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   Blade Runner

   Ford said of Scott in 2000: "I admire his work. ... Best Score – Vangelis
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   Maria Callas

   Critic Spanoudi declared Callas "an extremely dynamic artist possessing the rarest dramatic and musical gifts", and Vangelis Mangliveras evaluated Callas's performance for the weekly To Radiophonon: ... I always felt I heard her saying something – it was never just singing notes.
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   Direct (album)

   The album sleeve mentions that Vangelis called the album "Direct" to reflect his way of composing. Rather than preparing the music on paper or sequencer tracks, he works from a synthesizer workstation that is controllable real-time (something considered quite novel in the late 1980s).
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   Soil Festivities (album)

   This 1984 release was the first in what could be very loosely said to belong to a trilogy of his 80's albums, the other two being Invisible Connections and Mask, both from the following year (1985). The common thread in these albums was the way in which Vangelis was willing to experiment with perceptions about himself – they differ, greatly, from what many would regard as the "classic" sound he exhibited on albums such as Heaven and Hell, Albedo 0.39, Spiral, and China.
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   Albedo 0.39

   It was later revealed to be the voice of Vangelis' sound engineer, Keith Spencer-Allen.
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   Voices (Vangelis album)

   All songs written by Vangelis, except where noted.
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   Blade Runner (soundtracks)

   This release had extensive liner notes in a twelve-page booklet, but the closest Vangelis came to explaining the long delay was the following: ... The Deck Definitive Edition came about in 2001, with 27 tracks.
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    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

    Anaximander's use of a stick to tell time and season, Empedocles and the water thief ... Pulstar — Vangelis — 1976

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Vangelis,
• Mythodea,
• Blade Runner,
• Maria Callas,
• Direct (album),
• Soil Festivities (album),
• Albedo 0.39,
• Voices (Vangelis album),
• Blade Runner (soundtracks),
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage