Ugo
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Posted: Jan. 21 2012, 18:43 |
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@ Oliver: wonderful as usual - and coming from a pianist/keyboardist, great touch.  I do know about See You Later - I have it. Not my fav Vangelis album - a bit too many words ("Suffocation" in particular sounds very overloaded to me) and a bit too many effects... indeed, your version of "Memories of Green" sounds absolutely great exactly because it lacks all those effects.  Anyway, to me SYL is an averagely good Vangelis album.
I also think that the orchestral version is quite good and effective as a piece of its own. If you compare it with Vangelis' original, of course it sounds bad. But if you avoid comparing it and just listen to it as a piece of its own [ithe orchestral arrangement is so radically different from vangelis' arrangement that it actually is a piece of its own, at least to me! ] it actually works beautifully. And it does work beautifully (always IMHO, of course) in another Ridley Scott film, Someone to Watch Over Me.
@ Chicular: as far as I know, "Rachael's Song" (sure about that spelling? Maybe I'm wrong, but I seem to I remember Philip K. Dick naming the character simply Rachel) wasn't written for the film - it was written for the soundtrack album, i.e. for its CD release. "Damask Rose" is the same - a new piece written by Vangelis especially for the CD release. I think that both of them are classifiable as "Music inspired by BR". 
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Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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