Vangelis Papathanasiou 29th Mar 1943 - 17th May 2022
TRIBUTE to Vangelis
From URBAN ASPIRINES
He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Urban Aspirines has re-upped his album ' Earth'
BLADE RUNNER
Soundtrack from the 1982 Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner" with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, William Sanderson, Joe Turkel, Brion James, Joanna Cassidy & Daryl Hannah.
Found Vangelis with his first RCA record, "Heaven and Hell" and followed on from there.
ReplyDeleteAlbedo 0.39 , Spiral and Beaubourg all tremendous.
The "666" album of Aphrodite's Child was unlike anything else they did and is still a favourite ( usually when I want people to leave! (lol) )
then found his bery early stuff....Earth, Animals etc and continued to follow him through his more successful years, but he did not truly get the recognition he deserved.
A GREAT musician and very inventive composer.
R.I.P.
Couldn't agree more my friend! Not that I have much in the vaults but what there is I appreciate. The film work always blew me away
ReplyDeleteTruly deserved of more recognition indeed
He will be missed
Thanks for dropping by again SF - always welcome