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Vangelis developed an interest in music at age four, composing on the family piano and experimenting with sounds by placing nails and kitchen pans inside it and with radio interference.
Sep 6, 2022 · The music that Vangelis created for that 1982 film became legendary in the field of film scoring, combining unique synthetic textures, majestic CS-80 brass tones, and real sound manipulated through a newly-acquired EM-U Emulator sampling keyboard.
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Apr 29, 2020 · His electronic genius was allied to a popular music template that values melody and harmony and gave full flight to some of the most ambitious and absorbing keyboard works ever composed.
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A tremendously gifted yet private man, Greek composer Vangelis has contributed greatly to the acceptance of electronic music as an art form of its own with soundtrack work like Chariots Of Fire and Blade Runner.
Apr 17, 2024 · Vangelis’ first solo album proper, Earth, was conceived and recorded in Paris and released in France and Germany in October 1973. A juxtaposition of primitive and ethnic sounds, combined with progressive rock, the album once more saw Vangelis at odds with his record company.
May 20, 2022 · A monster of a synth, weighing in at a staggering 82Kg, the all-analogue machine was spotted by Vangelis at a London Music Fair, in 1977. This was a true performance synthesizer, polyphonic, and with features such as velocity sensitivity and aftertouch.
In 1983 Vangelis wrote the music for Michael Cacoyannis' staging of the Greek tragedy Elektra which was performed featuring Irene Papas at the open-air amphitheater at Epidavros in Greece. [29] The same year Vangelis composed his first score for a ballet by Wayne Eagling.
