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  2. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

      • I think I borrowed this from Basingstoke library back in the 80s, and taped it, probably back to back with some Jean-Michel Jarre. They had similarities, though Vangelis seemed to be a more new agey/muzacky in places – almost Mantovani with his use of strings and easy melodies. L’Enfant stood out as closest to the dynamics of Jarre, and this one, I liked for its uneasy lugubriousness:

        Apparently “L’Opera sauvage” was a documentary series exploring the relation between man, music and the animals from all over the world – a series of 21 episodes.
        The album “Opera Sauvage”, is only a fraction of the hours and hours of music that must have been made for the series.

        I wonder if it still out there somewhere. Despite my damning with faint praise, I still have a soft spot for the album.

  4. I think he was pretty special The conquest of paradise is amazing and the stuff he composed with Jon Anderson – The state of independence and I’ll find my own way back home just tremendous over and above Blade Runner and Chariots

  6. Does anyone ever look at the obit thread any more?

    Whatever – this (which I posted over there) seems to me to be the most appropriate send-off tune for the big old Greek keyboard God:

    I love your music, thanks for all of it.

  7. I heard 666 recently for the first time and found it rather agreeable, after a lifetime of sniggering at Demis.

    Vang’ I always liked having heard The Long March at an early age. A very oddly hypnotic record.

  9. You must really hear “Soil Festivities” and “Mask” which are for me the best things he ever did.

    Hitting Wikipedia I learn that “Invisible Connections” (an LP I have never heard of, let alone heard) forms, with the above two masterpieces, the third part of a trilogy of similar-sounding records. In which case that is my next purchase.

  11. LIke many people I know him principally from the mighty Blade Runner soundtrack, which really has never been equaled. Nothing before or since has ever been quite like it.

    But if we are celebrating the man then let’s go obvious and BIG. Surely no one can deny that Chariots of Fire is a TUUUUUNE….

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