Quién es capaz de crear música ambientada en la cultura china sin ser chino?. Solamente VANGELIS... Era un ser especial, dotado de un talento y una genialidad apabullante.... personas que nacen una vez cada cien años..y no se vuelven a repetir... afortunados somos los que amamos su música 🎼❤❤
Muy bien dicho, y además tocó todos los estilos musicales, pocos instrumentistas son capaces de hacer l que este maestro hizo, la música clásica de nuestro tiempo. Descansa en paz.
There are some people who think that Vangelis is just another overestimated as they call them, not on par with names such as Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Patric Moraz etc, because unlike them, he relies too much on technology and does not ''shread'' like them on the keys. They should watch this video carefully. And maybe they will realise that he is not only one hell of a keyboard master and percussionist, but also a true and extraordinary musical genious.
Funny, it's exactly the opposite, Vangelis was always miles behind the technological avant-garde. He simply needed the right tool to express his feelings and so he ended using very "few" synths, some of them totally customized to his needs. Vangelis' music is pure emotion, no need to be like the "mainstream" keyboardists. His music speaks by itself. R.I.P master!
@@jltursan I agree on the pure emotion part. The truth is that Vangelis started using a lot of synths since his first album - heaven and hell - for RCA UK. But unlike electronic musicians such as Klaus Shulze, Jean Michel Jarre / Tangerine Dream et cetera, he was primarily a keys man, not relaying mainly on turning switches and manipulating consoles. Even though the style of his playing is very different from that of other celebrated keyboardists such as the ones mentioned in my previous comment.
THey are all great but If the subject is "creative keyboardists...innovators with synths.. and at same time genious composers" or something like that, generally speaking, Lyle Mays, Zawinul, Hancock, can not be left out in any way.
Thanks for sharing. His music made me want to learn to play keyboard and later piano as well. Thanks to his music I managed to beat severe depression from being bullied and things like that. I Owe him everything.
Colombia (América) En mi opinión, pareciera que a sus oídos, hayan llegado solo notas musicales. Diferentes sonidos al tiempo venidos del Universo...Ahora desde el infinito en su perfecto deleite musical. ¡Sí! Un genio. Mi estrella 🎶🎶"Vangelis"🎶🎶🎶
Son raras las grabaciones de Vangelis, nunca lo había visto, casi era un ser místico. Qué bueno que se dejó grabar sus ensayos, en su país era más recordado cómo un pintor, y músico qué un excelente compositor. Ya no está vivo, pero quedó sus grabaciones y lo más curioso es que la mayoría son hermosas. Ya le di un me gusta y lo compartí con mis amigos. Gracias.
More than 25 years before youtube, who had that idea to shoot these images, we can be thankful for this rare document of the like in Vangelis studio. Then is was already close to fame. But musically he really was at his peak, that in never really succeed to be so inspired later, apart of most of his early 80'soundtracks. Great post.
One thing that will always be in Vangelis favour is his technical ability. He was always able to master melody as well as get his mighty CS80 to do the heavy work. There are too many bog standard musicians today taking advantage of modern instrumentation to sound good, when literally anyone could take a DAW and a few plugins and sound good. Vangelis always had the talent and the musicianship to go with the technical side. For this, he will always be up there near the top of the tree
He also was one of the very first to put gate cv to tape to drive sequencer parts in sync , i read once that he reguraly blew mixer channels doing this
Grand Master Vangelis! ... He was and is the worldwide unique and unparalleled pioneer of electronic mix-synthesizer music! ... You can see the great commitment, the performance and the professionalism behind his great work. And all these more than fourty years ago in the 70s, when the synthesizer was not yet common! Along with Kitaro and Yanni and others, he is one of my favorite New Age composers...😉👍🏻
This is an album that gets better and better; literally peaking with the Himalaya and Summit movements that are breathtaking in their sublimity. I never missed a Jarre or Vangelis release. I don't know if we are seeing the end of the ambient studio 'album'. Vangelis's work matured exceptionally - 'Soil Fesitives', 'The City', 'Voices', 'Oceanic'. - Andrew Mackenna, Christchurch, New Zealand
check out State Azure, Dreamstate Logic and lots of others - the ambient studio album is alive and well - and with modular synthesizers becoming more and more affordable, young people are rediscovering the joys of ambient synthesis.
Agree Andrew, was lucky to hear this while camping in the Tibetan Himalaya on a cycle trip back in 2014, having loved it since its release. It amazes me (like Antarctica, which I also got to hear on location in 2019) that Vangelis could so accurately capture the experience of places he had not been.
J’avais acheté le vynil à sa sortie. Je le redécouvre. C’est une brillante composition et un de mes albums préférés de ce pur génie qui est allé rejoindre les Dieux de l’Olympe. Merci pour ce post.
China is one of my favourite albums. My favourite Vangelis albums are Albedo 0.39 and Spiral. Spiral is more polished but Albedo is more free and soars and a great pity he didn't release more like it.
Vangelis China , he never went to China at that time Which made this album even better IMHO, I grew up with vangelis, and man I have so many albums of him . As I type, listening to "Direct" , he made some incredible music and timeless albums China, heaven & hell", spiral, 1492 conquest of paradise, the city, I can keep going. The man was an unique individual, as he was a master composter and musician in general. I always felt he was underrated. Especially considering the garbage we call music today. Vangelis, has been a huge part of my youth. My dad played it every single day , he passed one month (!) before our favorite maestro did. Rip vangelis, and thank you for the amazing discography you leave behind. And being a big part of my life as you were just that to my father too (rip
Papathanasiou's more prolific than most people know. His released music is a mere fraction of his actual production. His soundtracks are also a mere fraction of his non cinematic-television music work. There is great lack of realisation of what sort of musician-composer Vangelis Papathanasiou is. Unfortunately, most of his work is pending his repose to be released.
Interesting that Vangelis created this fantastic album China two years before another great album about China, The Concerts in China by Jean-Michel Jarre.
In the crow, walking towards the dreams of his imagination, unkown people sorround him... one of the living genius of our era, preparing his masterpiece work in Blade Runner... this man is a greek GOD.
A short time after the release of the China lp he played live in a London theatre.**I don't remember which one. He mostly improvised using one keyboard at the time. He also played the Gu-zheng and lots of real acoustic percussion too. He was accompanied in a few parts by a French guy who also played percussion, a multi-instrumentalist by the name of Michel Ripoche who had played trombone and sax in parts of the Aphrodite's Child 666 album. Nice concert without large choirs and percussion ensembles, visual effects, laser lights and such. Very interesting and enjoyable. **Edit 23/5/22 This almost total improvisation performance was at the Drury Lane Theatre. R.I.P. Vangelis
"Michel Ripoche played on "China",and with his group,on Demis' first album.I first saw them on tv,in 1970,july the 14th,at my grand-mother's,with my cousin.
This was great to see. Wow, so many different acoustic instrument Vangelis also master. I know he plays a good piano and drums. But the he plays a lot of other stuff here. Very much like Mike Oldfield in that way.
przez sekundę yamaha cs-80 wygląda jak mój origin keyboard, i jest wtedy biała:), taka magia:), to niezwykły bardzo cenny film, jaka szkoda że tak nie wiele nagrano filmów - vangelisa przy pracy
I never realised his piano playing was so prolific. I also never knew he played the harp and percussion. A true musical genius. Just to think you could have bumped into him strutting around London around these golden years. I wonder if anyone did meet him in the street ? Why did he leave Nemo ?
My understanding is that Nemo was cramped, in an old building. You can find several photos of it online. His Athens studio was larger, but it was really his Episilon studio that's spectacular. The one made of glass. My quibble wasn't the studios themselves, but when Vangelis essentially abandoned the CS-80 and most of his analog synths and true acoustic instruments, in favor of the complex Yes Audio system, which is an impressive tool indeed, but it's also made much of his music sound too homogenized,
Ian, Vangelis has been playing piano since he was 3 or 5, the harp is called: "guzheng," yes, from China and as for the percussion performances - he's been playing for many years. Including flutes...
@@PhilAndersonOutside Nemo was big. It was a TV studio. The control room was quite small though. Nemo was going to be demolished, and in fact it was, shortly after Vangelis left. Vangelis at the same time was looking at possibly working in the States and London had the bad luck of being associated with the copyright court case that has cost so much of his previous energy, despite clearly and fully winning it.
I queued outside Manchester Apollo all night for 12 hours at a freezing -2oC for Genesis Tickets in 1980. I had a bag of cassette tapes and a tape player. I forgot the tapes, but there was one tape in the machine. China: Vangelis. I played it many times and its now indelibly etched in my mind with all that situation at the tender age of 16. Very special to me.
I was in Agria in the builidng in which he was living in Grece .(2 floor belw was his studio) I met his doter of his brother.It was about 1984. She was so beautiful!!!!!! My wife was also beutiful...but I was amazed by her......... He was in USA I was nobody- a piece of sheet from Europe working in green house in Grece . now i,m a king in world sound but he was and he IS a MASTER after 40 years.......................................GENIUS. He is my human God !!! he is the master for me. XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Vangelis es el mas virtuoso de los músicos electrónicos y toca todos los instrumentos: teclados, guitarras, baterias... como Mike Oldfield pero mas porque Mike nunca tocó la bateria. VIRTUOSO.
Pero Vangelis no toca la guitarra con la maestría que Oldfield ni de lejos, es absurdo medir el valor de un músico por el número de instrumentos que toca,..sino por la emoción que nos infunden como músicos,...Paul Mccartney ha tocado todos los instrumentos en varios de sus discos desde 1970, ahora bien,...era por eso mejor que Ringo que basicamente es un batería solamente?Obviamente Ringo no está a la altura en composición... es Eric Clapton un mal músico por limitarse a la guitarra? etc etc,...Vangelis es basicamente teclista (porque es el instrumento que mas domina y en el que mejor se expresa) de la misma forma Oldfield a mi entender, está a la altura de un David Gilmour de Pink Floyd a la guitarra,...Lo que debemos de entender es que desde la invención de la grabación multipistas el músico puede pasar directamente las ideas musicales directamente desde su mente al lienzo de la cinta magnetica de antaño y de la grabación digital actual, sin pasar por la necesidad de una orquesta o una banda,...Y esto viene ocurriendo desde finales de los años 30's.
@@logonazo La inspiración, la modernidad y la emoción de Vangelis es infinitamente superior a Oldfield. Bajo mi punto de vista, nos ha dejado varias obras maestras absolutas. Sus obras vuelan más... Olfield está más apegado a sus orígenes. Lo que no es malo... bueno, su temporada ibicenca le dio un másterclas tecno bailable. Eso Vangelis no lo tiene.
@@antoniobanonlucas5397 escapar de tus origenes es imposible,..lo cual no es ni bueno ni malo,...Vangelis esta muy influenciado por la música helenica de su tierra, sino escucha sus versiones de canciones folkloricas junto a Irene Papas,...ahí quedan muy patentes, Nadie crea nada nuevo de la nada...el griego tambien ha hecho discos malos al igual que Oldfield,...(Has escuchado Amarok? mucho mejor como disco en su conjunto que tubular bells)A mí me gustan y valoro a los dos por igual y a mi paracer están al mismo nivel,...
I'm surprised that Vangelis never upgraded to digital recording equipment in the early 80's. He certainly had the money to afford it as he was very successful and very wealthy at this time. He kept the Lyrec 24 track analogue machine until Nemo Studios shut down.
@@MissMX That's a good point. Vangelis' recording do sound great. One of my favourites of his is Horizon from his Private Collection album with Jon Anderson. It's an amazing song.
@@revokdaryl1 I was hugely impressed by Horizon when I first heard it - but 30 years on its sounds maybe 4 or 5 minutes too long! His "See You Later" solo album (with some Jon Anderson singing) is also VERY good and original.
Era un purista sin lugar a dudas, un genio y su equipo le daba un toque único que ya sabías escuchando unos minutos quién era su autor... , una gran pérdida DEP.
