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| Vangelis - Albedo 0.39 Band: Vangelis Tracks: - Pulsar - Freefall - Mare Tranquillitatis - Main Sequence - Sword of Orion - Alpha - Nucleogenesis, Pt. 1 - Nucleogenesis, Pt. 2 - Albedo 0.39 The crowning achievement of "Cosmic music". My credentials: Countless hours of listening to Electronic music since I was a child. My favourites: Klaus Schulze (the 70's analog albums), Tangerine Dream (the 70's analog albums), Jarre (the first 3 albums), Vangelis (the 70's analog albums). The favourite of my favourites(of the lighter tone Space music): Albedo 0.39 and Spiral by Vangelis Because a review is not helpful if you dont know the taste of the reviewer. I think that the above comments will give you a hint. This album is a recording that belongs to the highest achievements of music as a whole. It is a treasure and I am Glad that I was fortunate enough to grow up in an environment that appreciated this kind of music. Vangelis explores the universe with this music and all listeners around the world follow him in a Journey through creation, evolution and nucleogenesis. Carl Sagan used this music for his popular TV series "Cosmos", a great influence for my point of view of the world and probably one of the reasons that I became a particle physicist! As I have written in another review for Tangerine Dream, Vangelis is not only a musician. He is a researcher. His studio is not only a music studio but an experimental lab. It is not far from the Accelerators that physicist use to unveil the laws of the universe. They do it with mathematics, Vangelis does it with analog synthesizers. It is the same thing. Another thing that adds up to the brilliance of the album and to the musical genius of Vangelis is that he was among the first to explore this kind of technology. He was at the forefront of this "research". Not only he mastered it well but he became the world leader in Space music. I really dont have words to describe this brilliant, inspiring, captivating music. No one deserves to be called a music lover if he or she has not listened to this album (a rather Strong statement but its true). P.S. This review applies to both Albedo 0.39 and Spiral because these 2 albums comprise a musical entity of Vangelis work (and not because I want to repeat myself). By far the best Vangelis album I've ever heard! Vangelis, one of the biggest names of Electronic music, has always been a very frustrating figure to me. He'd release some fantastic albums that just simple amazes me, and some Truly wretched albums. For me, Albedo 0.39 is simply one of the greatest Electronic albums I have ever heard! The ever overrated Chariots of Fire is absolutely nothing compared to this gem (in fact I'm pretty sure some people are turned off by Vangelis because of Chariots of Fire - don't judge all his works by that Soundtrack album). Except for the Aphrodite's Child albums, Albedo is by far his more rock oriented album. The music here is all upbeat and very easy to get in to. Some of these songs might be familiar to you if you watched Carl Sagan's Cosmos, as "Pulstar" and "Alpha" were featured on that series. The album is also full of killer jamming as well, which more than demonstrates Vangelis was really enjoying himself big time on this album. Plus I Love how the album ends with the title track which includes spoken, educational dialog about the Earth and its features (like diameter, distance from sun, and of course, its albedo). So forget Chariots of Fire, if you want real Vangelis, you must have Albedo 0.39, even if you're not much for Vangelis. Absolutely chaotic! This album, with no dobut one of Vangelis' best, was quite innovative in its day and still today is one of the best Electronic albums (if you don't believe me, check out the Listmania lists and see) It is composed of some jazzy, chaotic songs, like Nucleogenesis (Parts 1 and 2) and Main Sequence, some 'electronic ballads' like Sword of Orion, a song reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's days of Space rock (Mare Tranquillitatis), the famous Pulstar and Alpha, and, of course, the planetarium-like title track, Albedo 0.39. Oh, and forget about the 'original version' stuff. I had a bootleg. ...the originals. Buy Vangelis Albedo 0 39 at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
