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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2651 - Vangelis RIP
There seems to be a great number of personal heroes dying these days.
Here's today's share.
There seems to be a great number of personal heroes dying these days.
Here's today's share.
The Blade Runner soundtrack is the number one album I have listened to the most in my life as I explained in T-Shirt post #97 - Kraftwerk.
I should re-do the list as it has changed in almost ten years, and yet the Blade Runner soundtrack still tops the list.
I should re-do the list as it has changed in almost ten years, and yet the Blade Runner soundtrack still tops the list.
This music has been a cherished possession for most of my life, especially once the ACTUAL Vangelis music was published. Originally, the only thing available was a crappy orchestral set of covers. AWFUL.
Since the release in 1994 of the actual soundtrack, I have listened to it countless times. In fact, it has been the choice of bedtime music for the last month or more.
Thanks for tuning in.
Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #87
I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.
Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:
Saturday, October 16, 2021
https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/r-i-p-vangelis.html
R.I.P. Vangelis: The Composer Who Created the Future Noir Soundtrack for Blade Runner Dies at 79
It would be difficult to overstate the prominence, in the late twentieth century, of the theme from Hugh Hudson’s Chariots of Fire. Most anyone under the age of 60 will have heard it many times as parody before ever seeing it in its original, Academy Award-winning context. Unfortunately, encountering the piece in nearly every humorous slow-motion running scene for two or three decades straight has a way of dampening its impact. But back in 1981, to score a nineteen-twenties period drama with brand-new digital synthesizers marked a brazen departure from convention, as well as the beginning of a trend of musical anachronism in cinema (which would manifest even in the likes of Dirty Dancing).
Apr 14, 2014
HD Film Tributes
Soundtrack from the 1982 Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner" with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, William Sanderson, Joe Turkel, Brion James, Joanna Cassidy & Daryl Hannah. .
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The Chariots of Fire theme has surely returned to many of our playlists after the death this week of its composer, Vangelis. Even before that film, he’d collaborated with Hudson on documentaries and commercials; immediately thereafter, he found himself in great demand as a composer for features.
Apr 12, 2017
Cley Hill
I urge you to listen to this on headphones in a dark room with your eyes closed. This is a personal remaster I made. However, I was so happy with the results I thought it was worth sharing here.
Please check out my original compositions on Spotify:
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* Personal Favourites
0:00:00 Prologue And Main Titles 3:54
0:03:54 Leon's Voight Kampff Test 1:09
0:05:03 Sushi Bar -- Damask Rose 2:46
0:07:49 Spinner Ascent 1:21
0:09:10 Blush Response 5:43
0:14:53 Wait For Me 5:12 *
0:20:05 Deckard Meets Rachael 1:36 *
0:21:41 Rachael's Song 4:20 *
0:26:01 Tales Of The Future 4:53
0:30:54 Bicycle Riders 2:10 *
0:33:04 Chew's Eye Lab 1:15
0:34:19 Memories Of Green 5:35 *
0:39:54 Blade Runner Blues 10:01 *
0:49:55 Pris Meets J.F. Sebastian 1:47
0:51:42 One More Kiss‚ Dear 4:04 *
0:55:46 Deckard Dream 1:10
0:56:56 Thinking Of Rachael 1:18
0:58:14 Esper Analysis 2:34
1:00:48 Animoid Row 2:34
1:03:22 Taffey Lewis Night Club 2:02
1:05:24 Salome's Dance 1:23
1:06:47 Zhora's Retirement 1:42
1:08:29 I am The Business 2:29
1:10:48 Love Theme 4:58 *
1:15:46 I Dreamt Music 4:32
1:20:18 Morning At The Bradbury 3:46
1:24:04 The Prodigal Son Brings Death 4:07
1:28:11 Deckard Enters The Bradbury 3:37
1:31:48 Dangerous Days 0:57
1:32:45 Wounded Animals 10:53
1:43:38 Tears In Rain 2:51 *
1:46:29 Rachael Sleeps 2:08
1:48:37 End Titles 4:06 *
The very next year, in fact, saw Vangelis crafting a score that has, perhaps, remained even more respected over time than the one he did for Chariots of Fire. Set in the far-flung year of 2019, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner needed a high-tech sound that also reflected its “future noir” sensibility. This neatly suited Vangelis’ proven ability to combine cutting-edge electronic instruments with traditional acoustic ones in a highly evocative fashion.
Nov 22, 2013
Psybrations
Artist - Vangelis
Album - Blade Runner 1994 Soundtrack (25th Anniversary Trilogy)
Genre - Ambient / Soundtrack
Year - 1994
Footage courtesy of:
Michael Ignatiev: http://vimeo.com/64460231
Agustín Pellicer: http://vimeo.com/58301887
Roppongi Hills / Tokyo City Symphony: http://vimeo.com/65758287
Blade Runner‘s formidable influence owes primarily to its visuals, to the “look and feel” of its imagined future. But I defy fans of the film to remember any of its most striking images — the infernal skyline of 2019 Los Angeles, the cars flying between video-illuminated skyscrapers, Deckard’s first meeting with Rachael — without also hearing Vangelis’ music in their heads. Though it took audiences decades to catch up with Blade Runner, it’s now more or less settled that each element of the film complements all the others in creating a dystopian vision still, in many ways, unsurpassable. Vangelis’ own experiences across genres and technologies, which you can learn more about in the documentary Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka, placed him ideally to imbue that vision with musical life.
Related content:
Experience Blade Runner Like You Never Have Before Through a Feature-Length Remastered Soundtrack
How Blade Runner Captured the Imagination of a Generation of Electronic Musicians
Stream 72 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner: Relax, Go to Sleep in a Dystopian Future
Sean Connery (RIP) Reads C.P. Cavafy’s Epic Poem “Ithaca,” Set to the Music of Vangelis
Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall, on Facebook, or on Instagram.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2205.22 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2515 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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