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Sad. Rip, he created more than a couple of memorable pieces.
Sad. Rip, he created more than a couple of memorable pieces.
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I was just reading about Aphrodite's Child, a late-'60s "psychedelic pop" band formed by Greek expats - including Evángelos "Vangelis" Papathanassíou - in Paris, who left after the 1967 coup (bad luck - they left Greece only to land in France in '68). The band is credited as an influence on '70s prog-rock bands. Jon Anderson of Yes names them as an influence, and he did some albums with Vangelis in the '80s. Wikipedia compares Aphrodite's Child's sound to Procol Harem and The Moody Blues.
"Rain and Tears" was a hit in several European countries in 1968.
"Rain and Tears" was a hit in several European countries in 1968.
Hygro
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He was releasing new music this and last year. Sad news.
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The leader of the 1967 coup, Georgios Papadopoulos, was overthrown by Dimitrios Ioannidis in 1973. Ioannidis - known as 'The Invisible Dictator' and sometimes called 'The Greek Ghaddafi' - decreed that everybody with -os at the end of their name had to change it to -is, out of spite. It was all just a [tool]-measuring contest, but here we are anyway.
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A good article imho:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/20/vangelis-film-composer-pop-music
I only ever knew (and loved) his film scores. Now listening to the older stuff for the first time... 666 - Wow
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/20/vangelis-film-composer-pop-music
I only ever knew (and loved) his film scores. Now listening to the older stuff for the first time... 666 - Wow
As with -opoulos (which seems to be byzantine; eg a famous general had the rather apt surname Strategopoulos), -ides simply refers to lineage and can be translated as "(son) of". It is the analogous to the english surname ending -son.
Surnames ending in -ides is very ancient; all the known mythological characters have that, for example Agamemnon was an Atreides, descending from Atreas, Hector was a Priamides, and so on.
(first names don't end in -is that often, although the diminutive forms of a few do, including Evangelos->Vangelis)
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"Strategopoulos" sounds like a character from an Asterix book. 
"Strategopoulos" sounds like a character from an Asterix book.
He retook Constantinople from the latins, with a surprise attack ^_^
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He was a really Byzantine thinker.
The first time I ever heard his music was in Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. To say it was "mind-blowing" is so terribly inadequate. That music took me places in my imagination that I could never have anticipated.
The Vangelis pieces are at:
00:00 Heaven and Hell, Pt. 1
06:08 Alpha
33:27 Beaubourg, Part II
37:17 Entends-Tu Les Chiens Aboyer?
48:43 Heaven and Hell, Pt. 1 (reprise)
Heaven and Hell is the main Cosmos theme music. Alpha... I found it uplifting, as it accompanies the section where Sagan talks about evolution and there's an animated sequence that condenses all of life on Earth into less than a minute. Beaubourg is something I can't recall which episode or scenes it accompanies. Entends-Tu Les Chiens Aboyer?... this music always makes me cry. Always. Even when I'm not looking at the images it accompanies or hearing what Sagan is saying.
EDIT: I just read the article on CBC.ca and learned this bit of information I hadn't known, which is very cool:
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Thank you for the collection, @Valka D'Ur 
Hygro
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We should all try to see
Jean Michel Jarre
Tangerine Dream
Kraftwerk (a little different)
before it’s too late for them as well.
Jean Michel Jarre
Tangerine Dream
Kraftwerk (a little different)
before it’s too late for them as well.
Angst
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like tears in rain
like tears in rain
It'd be funny if Rutger was thinking of that song, due to Vangelis writing the soundtrack of Blade Runner ^_^
Angst
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yea exactly. blade runner was a big movie for me growing up, and vangelis was a big part of it
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Was watching The Last of the Mohicans yesterday and wondering how Trevor Jones soundtrack makes an otherwise passable movies absolutely memorable. Vangelis was responsible of many of such great soundtracks. (not Blade runner precisely which is a great movie anyway but made even greater by Vangelis)
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