Very refreshing to hear the likes of Haslinger and Johansson grasp the unique core features of Vangelis's compositional approaches and their result. It is still, after so many decades of so many legendary albums, simply unbelievable that a single person could compose anything and everything from African tribal music to jazz-rock, from early Medieval polyphony to Orff-like oratorios, from the uttermost delicate piano gems to emotive space ambiences. It is a cliche, but he really was a miraculous phenomenon in music. Where most articles go wrong is the mental automatism of treating him as an "electronic musician" and his music as "electronic music". He hated all these terms and quite rightly so. It is "just" music - whatever the sound sources are. As Haslinger puts it in this material, perhaps this organic approach is THE secret of why Vangelis was and remains a unique voice in recent music history.
