[HN Gopher] Vangelis has died ___________________________________________________________________ Vangelis has died Author : Saint_Genet Score : 466 points Date : 2022-05-19 17:04 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (pitchfork.com) (TXT) w3m dump (pitchfork.com) | bmitc wrote: | He was a very unique, visionary talent. To back that up, beyond | his scores, take a look at the following video to get a glimpse | of how he worked. | | https://youtu.be/GWggDMDhwIA | | There used to be some forum posts detailing the custom MIDI | controllers and setup more, but it looks like a lot of it has | been deleted or removed. I found this though: | | https://www.synthevolution.net/blog/2017/5/22/the-devils-wor... | lycopodiopsida wrote: | A very sad day. He was still productive despite his age, his | Nocturnes from 2019 are incredible. RIP and thanks for all the | beautiful moments. | climb_stealth wrote: | The boxer Henry Maske had Conquest of Paradise playing as the | entry music [0]. I don't quite remember the context but it may | have been the last fight in his career. Pure athmosphere and | goose bumps back in the day. I didn't actually know what song it | was back then as I was just a child but the melody always stuck | with me. It was years and years later when I actually learned | about Vangelis and came across the song again. | | [0] https://youtu.be/J4HvovGe5TY | msie wrote: | Loved the guy's work for many years. Inspired so many other | artists. I listen to his work and variations inspired by him, on | YouTube while working. Rest in Peace. | johnsanders wrote: | Chariots of Fire is iconic of course. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo | | I think my first encounter with his music was the Ernest & Julio | Gallo wine commercials. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES7lzR9uFE | | Seems he should have been considerably older than 79. | johnsanders wrote: | And you can't mention the Ernest & Julio Gallo ads without a | link to the voiceover guy / head of the ad agency Hal Riney. | Another legend. | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lnwNIlJUo | julienchastang wrote: | Thanks for the link to the commercial. Classic Vangelis. | [deleted] | motohagiography wrote: | Imo, Vangelis brought the synthesizer from an experimental | novelty to an instrument for composition. The two sounds I | associate with him are the long brassy triangle with a steep | envelope that we know from both Blade Runner and the | accompaniment to the piano in the Chariots of Fire theme, and his | effective use of chimes. | | I have tickets for Olafur Arnalds next week, and there is a | younger generation of composers like Arnalds, Frahm, Richter, | Tiersen, Aphex/James, and even Reznor/Ross, who could not have | avoided Vangelis' influence marrying the synth with classical | techniques. He was a big part of what inspired me to start making | synth music and more than a few of my tracks have homages to his | work, and this note triggered a memory of playing the Chariots | theme on piano as a really young child and it seemed to be | everywhere at the time. A loss, but hard to mourn such an | exceptional contribution as well. | pmoriarty wrote: | Just for reference, here's Nils Frahm performing _More_ : | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRj6G6RB7jc | johnohara wrote: | When I listen to Chronotope Project I hear the Vangelis | influences. Along with Vangelis' inspiration to pursue such | solitary and personal musical expressions. | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkcu3J8OvI https://chronotope- | project.com/bio | [deleted] | fetus8 wrote: | Based on my listening and no other knowledge, he probably had | quite the influence on Oneohtrix Point Never aka OPN aka Daniel | Lopatin. He's always been a big synth head and his OST scores | really showcase his talents. | caution wrote: | So the piano was a beautiful instrument for you... | ... But just one instrument, not enough. So I put nails in the | piano, played on the strings, banged on the keys, making | incredible sounds come out. | | [1] | https://www.nemostudios.co.uk/vangelis/interviews/keyboard/k... | PrimeDirective wrote: | I have listened to Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks | countless times while developing or just spending time behind the | computer. Thanks for making the time go by better Vangelis! | mishkovski wrote: | His music is strong nostalgia inducer for me. His melodies, | hooks, and effects work perfectly bringing simple ideas into | amazing atmosphere and experience. | WalterBright wrote: | Vangelis is one of those artists I just click "buy" on everything | he does. I've never been disappointed. So sad to see no more | albums. Thank you, Vangelis, for all the listening pleasure you | created. | aurora72 wrote: | Vangelis' 1977 composition "To The Unknown Man" was interpreted | by the Italian singer Milva as "Moi je n'ai pas peur" in 1981. | eimrine wrote: | RIP Maestro, your works are timeless! I firstly heared Vangelis | from Ariston commercial w/ Ask The Mountains track _promice to | add a link to YT when I can_ | Laremere wrote: | My absolute favorite song of all time is Dial Out by Vangelis: | https://youtu.be/Jnn9_NCLazM | | Rest in piece to a master of his art, and creator of the unique | soundscapes made the world of blade runner something truly | unique. | mntne wrote: | From his first band, Aphrodite's Child: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WTNFuF6qiA | | Bye my friend, goodbye | LargoLasskhyfv wrote: | /me salutes by playing Alpha | | [[?]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gG1VBryzKM | endorphine wrote: | This is my favorite (and perhaps the least popular) from | Vangelis. Listen to this gem...just listen to it: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uta02hfUF4o | Pr0ject217 wrote: | Thank you. | ohiovr wrote: | I really love his work especially the album Voices. | parenthesis wrote: | "State of Independence" by Jon [Anderson of Yes] and Vangelis. | Also features the wonderful Dick Morrissey (who, amongst other | things with Vangelis, plays saxophone on the Blade Runner | soundtrack). | aemadrid wrote: | You will be sorely missed. Fond memories of listening to Chariots | of Fire, both sides of the tape, lying in my bed as a teenager. | Always in my heart. | stefanos82 wrote: | This gave me goosebumps because I could not stop thinking about | him the past week or so and I could not understand why... | | Anapausou en eirene thrule, Rest in peace legend. | | Kalo taxidi giganta mou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd- | DlMOLCY4 | smrtinsert wrote: | Here's a great tidbit - Vangelis and Ridley Scott prior to Blade | Runner: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DjvN8I0c7I&ab_channel=Mrden... | | RIP Vangelis | julienchastang wrote: | RIP. He had some memorable soundtracks during the 80s: Blade | Runner, Chariots of Fire. Also scores for the TV series Cosmos w/ | Carl Sagan. I used to own the cassette tape for "China" which I | remember enjoying many years ago. | dver wrote: | His work, especially the colab with Jon Anderson, has been an | important sound track to my life. | | And dammit COVID 19 | nonrandomstring wrote: | RIP a true master of synthesis, up there as an equal to Isao | Tomita and Ralf Hutter. | | So many memorable and now foundational techniques: | | The gated saw string "chug" (Chariots of Tire) | | Glissando space echo dives (Blade Runner) | | Incredible synthetic guitar solos that inspired Jan Hammer | | Analogue strings from the CS80 that melt like Mantovani. | | Will be so sorely missed. I'm gonna play out all my collection in | a huge Vangelisathon. | racl101 wrote: | R.I.P. Vangelis. | | That Blade Runner soundtrack was something really special. | skywal_l wrote: | - Blade Runner | | - Chariots of Fire | | - Cosmos | | - 1492 | | and the list goes on. Pretty impressive. | mhh__ wrote: | That's a shame. | | His work on blade runner just has this timeless magic to it. The | sequel ends on his motif (tears in rain) for a reason too. | | I also forgot to mention that chariots of fire is truly great | too. | | Some parts of his music haven't aged too well, but the stuff that | hasn't is sorely missed in today's film scores. Even if Zimmer is | brilliant he's not a poet. | zeruch wrote: | He did some of his best (and worst) work while collaborating | with Jon Anderson in my opinion. "Short Stories" was a great, | quirky album in the late 70s. "Friends of Mr. Cairo" was dreck | in the 80s. | moron4hire wrote: | Seriously, I can always tell a Hans Zimmer score without even | having preknowledge that a film had hired him. Big, orchestral, | boring score that repeats the same motifs he's been using for | the last 50 years? Dude has one act. | mkr-hn wrote: | I think you overestimate how much say a film composer gets in | the sound. They're there to put music to image and make the | director happy, not impress you with their knowledge of | composition. Being famous doesn't change that. Directors want | their movies to sound like other successful movies, so you | end up with trends. It's the same reason trailers all sound | alike. | paulsmith wrote: | I'm basically with you but Interstellar stood out for me, I | think he matched well with that film's themes. | nsonha wrote: | Same to Chris Nolan actually, he should for once make a film | that does not mess with the concept of time. At this point it | has become a gimmick | vanderZwan wrote: | That's more due to how movie scores are produced these days. | Every Frame A Painting explains it really well in this video | on why you can't remember any music from Marvel movies: | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs | | (well, up until they made that video, at least) | pmoriarty wrote: | What other Zimmer track sounds like _Time_ [1] (from his work | on _Inception_ )? | | [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k | pmoriarty wrote: | Vangelis is best known for the themes of _Blade Runner_ and | _Chariots of Fire_ , but _Light and Shadow_ [1] also deserves to | be remembered as one of his greats. | | And here is a fantastic video of him performing one of his tracks | live: [2] | | [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUzIbphUL0Q | | [2] - Performance starts at 1'36" in | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1xJYCrKDU | gghhzzgghhzz wrote: | poor example compared to his lifetime of work, but this was a | beautiful advert | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsyyJaX0j3Y | als0 wrote: | Incredible composer. Very sad news. | sydthrowaway wrote: | How did people learn synths back then without the internet? | Saint_Genet wrote: | I've been listening mostly to his 70s proggish stuff lately, but | the opening of Blade Runner still gives me goosebumps. It | wouldn't have been half the film it was without his music. | | https://youtu.be/P1jXmJmmj3o | subculture wrote: | He did incredible work. | | The Four Horsemen from his band Aphrodite's Child really shows | off his impressive prog-rock chops as well as showcasing a | fantastic video of the band's persona (as well as a lot of Ouzo | shots): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCbqhJt16k | WesolyKubeczek wrote: | I remember that back in the late 1990s, when I had just learned | how to use Internet, one of the first thing I went looking for | was more information about Vangelis and his music. All I had back | in the day was Portraits and Voices on cassettes. Oh, and a local | radio station had Metallic Rain as its evening news jingle. | | The Internet did not disappoint: | https://www.vangelislyrics.com/vwr/ (Vangelis webring). One of | the first websites I visited in my life. | | And this webring is still alive. | | RIP. | subpixel wrote: | I recently found out about the work he did with the (also) | inimitable Irene Papas: | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq1hodbSDkg | greenhorn123 wrote: | I love Soil Festivities, still decades after hearing it for the | first time. Amazing album. Not to diminish his other work, but | that one really stands out for me. | | Also, if you don't know about it yet, check out his | collaborations with Jon Anderson, as Jon & Vangelis, two awesome | musicians at their peak. | | What a pity... | chasil wrote: | My favorite was Opera Sauvage. It had a flow and consistency | that was, for me, unique in his works. | | He will be missed. | seydor wrote: | Yes what remarkable, 'organic' sound. Also 'l'apocalypse des | animaux' and his other early albums really. Despite being old | synths, they still sound classic | rffn wrote: | First Klaus Schulze and now Vangelis. So sad. Rest in peace! | dav_Oz wrote: | The opening track to Carl Sagan's Cosmos is actually taken from | Vangelis' - still prog-rock influenced album - _Heaven and Hell_ | (1975); the 3rd movement. | | I still really enjoy his early/progressive stuff and to this day | cannot quite relate to his later stuff (80s and beyond) as much; | nevertheless, amazingly, he always maintained a very unique style | throughout all his years and certainly is deeply woven into the | beginnings of synth music. | FlyingCapybara wrote: | Rachel's Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwKeiJflBw I | strongly suggest every BR's fan to play Observer : | https://www.eurogamer.net/goodbye-rutger-hauer-its-such-a-sh... | Agamus wrote: | Sad to hear! I had just this month sent myself on a deep dive of | Vangelis' work. He composed so many amazing things - here are a | few tracks that have stuck out for me. Something about them is | just hard to "get out of": | | Jon and Vangelis: "I'll Find My Way Home" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKqLAVyRaXw&list=PLHgJlrCztl... | | Vangelis: "Juno opening its solar arrays" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXqt2EQIG5g&list=PLHgJlrCztl... | TheOtherHobbes wrote: | Massive, epic talent. Did everything by ear and instinct, never | learned to read or write music. Incredible feel for timbre, | melody, and structure. | | The DX7 synth used to have a ridiculous "chuff chuff chuff DING!" | comedy steam train preset. It sounded terrible and was utterly | useless except as a 10 second novelty. | | He used it in one of his soundtracks - and somehow made it | perfectly _musical_ in that setting. | seydor wrote: | which one was it? | pmoriarty wrote: | _" Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or | write music."_ | | He seems to have had his own musical notation, of a sort. You | can see him using it at the beginning of this video: | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1xJYCrKDU | pnemonic wrote: | I guess there is a point where convention just slows you | down. I would say it is a hallmark of true genius. | lb1lf wrote: | This was sad news indeed. I have just listened to his works again | for the first time in years, after a random encounter with a guy | wearing a faded Chariots of Fire T-shirt - next thing I knew, I | spent several hours in my hotel room, listening to several albums | to kill time and rekindle my on-and-off love affair with his | music. | | Today, as I flew home from working overseas for a few weeks, I | listened to Opera Sauvage over and over again - then landing at | my destination to see news of his passing. | | Sigh. | leblancfg wrote: | This makes me very, very sad. One of my favourite composers are | artists, with an amazing knack for melody. And he was still | cranking out new music! | BLKNSLVR wrote: | This video introduced me to Vangelis' existence, and only after | looking up the artist did I realise he did Blade Runner and | Chariots of Fire. | | https://youtu.be/GoW8Tf7hTGA | | The combination of audio and content of this video gives me | chills. | sheinsheish wrote: | one of his more esoteric and probably less known tracks : | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qoTPhhv9w La petite fille de la | mer | bborud wrote: | That track was almost impossible to get hold of back in the | day. I had heard _of_ it, but never heard it. After years of | asking around in record stores I finally found a really | scratchy sounding cassette tape (no doubt a pirated copy) in a | German record shop in East Frisia the summer of 1985. | sheinsheish wrote: | i was 13 in 85. Got my fist walkman some years after that. | But i doubt i had some Vangelis on tapes. No, we had to buy | records then.. | [deleted] | WalterBright wrote: | It's on the Themes album. | pmlnr wrote: | Also on Portraits :) | pmlnr wrote: | Just chipping in: "To The Unknown Man" is less famous from him, | and it shouldn't be. | netsharc wrote: | RIP. I remember watching the movie 1492 Conquest of Paradise, | being wowed by the music, and then downloading the MIDI of the | theme song on my 28.8k modem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd- | DlMOLCY4 (not a MIDI). | | I even saw the movie on Laser Disc, geez, ultimate 90's nostalgia | trip. | languagehacker wrote: | Damn, RIP. Dude wrote my favorite song describing what color each | horse of the apocalypse is | poulpy123 wrote: | the four horsemen ? | james-skemp wrote: | For those that want to know more, this is referencing the album | 666 by Aphrodite's Child. | | Got a copy from Germany sometime between '00 and '03. | | Amazing album, especially for someone that had only known him | for Blade Runner at the time. | | His stuff with Jon Anderson is also fairly good. The Friends of | Mr. Cairo is one of my favorites. | [deleted] | PAGAN_WIZARD wrote: | link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVExlaxaweo | termios wrote: | the leading horse is WHITE the second horse is RED the third | one is a BLACK the last one is a GREEN | Saint_Genet wrote: | Most people know him from his brilliant film scores, but his | prog rock era is up there with the greatest of the genre too | skyechurch wrote: | He wrote the theme song to the Carl Sagan series "Cosmos", both | the song and the show had me transfixed as a kid. | | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7FW_wOUUTT8 | sebastianconcpt wrote: | I feel you... | | :') | colomon wrote: | To be more precise, he wrote the music which was used as the | theme song for "Cosmos" -- it originally appeared on Vangelis's | album "Heaven and Hell", five years before "Cosmos" came out. | Apparently it was called Movement 3 from "Symphony to the | Powers B", though on my old CD copy of the album it just | appears in the middle of the track "Heaven and Hell Part 1". | Really powerfully evocative music, takes me right back to being | a 10 year old watching "Cosmos". | yardie wrote: | I don't know much about Vangelis other than Chariots of Fire, | he's Greek, and my neighbor when I was a kid loved the shit out | of him. I assumed for a very long time Vangelis was an entire | band and not just one person. | | RIP amongst so many others, lately. | seydor wrote: | He could be an entire orchestra not just a band yes | | He had an album based on Greek folk music (Odes, 1979). This is | a cretan dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc9_qVAflzk | mudlus wrote: | RIP. One of the most influential musicians on me, for sure. A | legend...Love to his family and friends. | MikeDelta wrote: | This is very sad, his music has been an inspiration for me for a | large part of my life. This is one of those days you knew were | coming but hoped they didn't. | zoomablemind wrote: | My memory holds that magical feeling, when in the mindnight | darkness and quietness of home, suddenly heard a gentle stream of | silver bells and a beautiful, maybe melancholic, melody from a | tiny radio speaker... with no announcement of the author or name | of the song. It was then just used as a last song of the day. | | Took me a veeery long time and other side of the globe to hear it | again, again by chance, but with attribution in that case. Then | some hours trying to locate the recording... | | La Petite Fille de Mer | | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qoTPhhv9w | | Truly as if having a chanceful glimpse of a Mermaid. | | Thank you for the magic, Master Vangelis. RIP. | nixass wrote: | Man, never knew this was his song. Even tho I am fan of his | work I never end discovering knew masterpieces he made. | dancemethis wrote: | I had no idea it was a _person_ named Vangelis. The word sounds | like a band name. | | And really, the exquisite textures are a workload which would | ordinarily require multiple talents. Guess he was THAT good. | nixass wrote: | It's actually common Greek name. I was in shock (positively) | when I got two new colleagues at work both named Vangelis. They | remind me of the Vangelis every single day, funny stuff | MomoXenosaga wrote: | That's sad. Don't care about music much but for synthesizer I | always make an exception. Guess I'll be listening to the Blade | Runner OST tomorrow at the gym in remembrance. | gsoto wrote: | Just sharing one of my favorite pieces of him: | | "Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later") | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794 | | I think this piece shows the range of his musical expressiveness, | apart from his virtuosity or synth programming skills. Just a | piano passed through a flanger effect with some ambient sounds. | | The electronic bleeps in that track are recorded from a handheld | electronic game (Bambino UFO Master Blaster [1]). Talk about | giving a whole new meaning to those sounds. | | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEOW8wAqG0 | wcarss wrote: | I couldn't play that video for some reason (says it's | unavailable), so here's another link to (I think) the same | song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KfOMkyU_w | gsoto wrote: | It is the same song. Thanks :) | the_af wrote: | "Memories of Green" was also used to great effect in Blade | Runner. I love how well it works there. It's so sad and | evocative. | jug wrote: | Wow, I thought it was written for the film until now! How | embarrassing... Not only for the song suiting, but the title | too. As it's a bleak post-ecological society. | ffhhj wrote: | >> "Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later") | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794 | | That title and that album cover: a woman wearing bikini and | low-light glasses for snow, with the sun on the back and broken | floating ice. A prediction of climate change from 1980? | janci wrote: | Can somebody shed som light on Miami Vice song? I always thought | it's Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis song, but apparently it is | called Crocket's Theme by Jan Hammer | ArekDymalski wrote: | That's one of these posts that it's unsettling for me to | upvote/like. Sad news, great composer of someny incredible | tracks. | bigpeopleareold wrote: | My first introduction to Vangelis was a vinyl of the album Spiral | when I was younger ... I didn't even know he did Blade Runner | until years later, but I really liked that album. Sad to hear he | passed away though. | tgv wrote: | Spiral and Albedo 0.39 were my introduction to his work. Great | albums, quite possibly the best instrumental "pop" albums of | that time. | gmas wrote: | Super bummed, Vangelis got me into electronic music back in the | early 90s. I've since made it my mission (obsession) to collect | all of his albums, which I'm still working on. | troyvit wrote: | Maaaaaan about the time Blade Runner came out I was a fourth | grader fumbling with the Chariots of Fire record pretty much | every day. That was the first record I remember associating the | different reflections on the grooves with the length of the song. | Pretty clear given that side 2 was all one song. | | So many elementary school crushes I dreamt of to that album. | | Didn't get whacked upside the head by Blade Runner until like | 1989 or something and then went on that endless quest to find the | version of the soundtrack that most matched what you hear in the | movie (there was some legal crap about releasing the original | music). Ended up with a few of the CDs floating around. | | My world wouldn't be the same without his music. | the_af wrote: | > _(there was some legal crap about releasing the original | music)._ | | That crap resulted in multiple bootleg versions of the Blade | Runner soundtrack. I don't know if there is a definitive one :/ | Maybe with the Special Edition blue-ray? | | I like the voiceover version of the tracks from the original CD | ("do you like our owl?"), but I also like listening to the | tracks without voiceovers. | IndySun wrote: | http://www.brmovie.com/FAQs/BR_FAQ_Soundtrack.htm | the_af wrote: | Oh, I must have read every nook and cranny of that website. | Used to be my go-to website on all things Blade Runner! | DonHopkins wrote: | "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 Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost | in time, like tears in rain... Time to die." | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU | genjipress wrote: | Oh no. I own all of his albums, including many bootleg issues. He | was productive right up to the end, though; his last album came | out in July of last year. | arrakis2021 wrote: | What a talent. | Kaibeezy wrote: | _So Long Ago, So Clear_ , in our headphones, on a foggy night, on | the Pont au Double, when the Bateau-Mouche passed under, | searchlights setting the air on fire. Pure, pure magic. Thanking | you. | trh0awayman wrote: | Spiral is one of my all-time favorite albums - and the opening | song is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-0Z5D7eRh8 | hmahncke wrote: | I listened to this album constantly as a teenager... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-19 23:00 UTC)