Track Listing

1. Bon Voyage
2. Dreams Of Surf
3. Opening
4. Conquest Of Paradise
5. Monastery Of La Rabida
6. Come To Me
7. Light And Shadow
8. Fields Of Coral
9. El Greco: Movement V
10. El Greco: Movement Vi
11. West Across The Ocean Sea
12. Theme From Bitter Moon
13. Rachel's Song
14. El Greco: Movement Iv
15. Theme From The Plague
16. Dawn
17. Prelude

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36669 in Music
• Released on: 1999-11-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Best of

From Amazon.co.uk
Most composer collections are like those "clips" episodes that you get at the end of a long-running TV series which is low on budget. The tracks are akin to episode highlights and aren't really sequenced to do more than acknowledge what's made the composer popular. That's not the case with this collection. Although it only features two previously unreleased cues ("Theme from Bitter Moon" and "Theme from The Plague"), the whole album has been segued together to make one long unique listening experience. Opening to the lapping of waves (a watery motif that continues), "Bon Voyage" from Oceanic is a perfectly subtle place to start. The tracks are then sequenced according to an organic flow from the end of one to the beginning of the next, as demonstrated by the spacing of four cues from 1492 across the album. If you're unfamiliar with Vangeli's electronic soundscapes outside of Bladerunner (the drip-drip of "Rachel's Song" is included), there's no better place to dive in for an hour. --Paul Tonks

Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Ceux qui regardaient les très rares émission de pop-rock que daignait diffuser la télévision française à la fin des années 60 se souviennent d'un trio de musiciens grecs qui, établis en France, chantaient en anglais de fort belles chansons au nom évocateur - "Rain And Tears", "It's Five O'Clock". Au sein des Aphrodite's Child se trouvait Vangelis O. Papathanassiou, qui allait ensuite poursuivre sa carrière en solo (et au côté du chanteur de Yes, Jon Anderson). Mélodiste dans l'âme, créateur d'univers sonores à qui la techno-pop et le new age doivent tant, Vangelis était destiné à mettre sa créativité au service de l'image (du petit comme du grand écran). Cette compilation, baptisée Reprise 90/99, réunit dix-sept des oeuvres les plus caractéristiques du compositeur. De la B.O.F. de Blade Runner aux différents thèmes de Christophe Colomb, en passant par El Greco, il est clair que c'est la passion de la note juste qui anime ce compositeur à la frontière des influences occidentales et orientales. --Philippe Margotin

Album Description
Collection of the Greek new age music pioneer's finest recordings in the '90s. 17 tracks, including 'Bon Voyage', 'Conquest Of Paradise' and 'Theme From 'Bitter Moon''. 1999 release.