Limited edition on white coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Vangelis (29/3/1943 -17/5/2022) was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Vangelis started writing music when he was 4 and performed his first live concert at age 6. He started his career as a member of The Forminx. In the sixties, he was a founding member of Aphrodite’s Child along with Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras. He also enjoyed succes as part of Jon & Vangelis early in the eighties. The Best Of Vangelis from 1993 is an absolute classic. It contains Vangelis classics like „Alpha”, „To The Unknown Man”, „Pulstar (Audio)”, „Spiral” and „So Long Ago, So Clear” featuring Jon Anderson from Yes.
A1 – Disc 1 –
A2 Spiral
A3 Pulstar
A4 Freefall
A5 Sword Of Orion
A6 Alpha
A7 Ballad
A8 – Disc 2 –
A9 To The Unknown Man
A10 So Long Ago, So Clear
A11 Shine For Me
A12 Mare Tranquillitatis
A13 Dervish D
A14 Theme From The Tv Series Cosmos (Heaven And Hell, 3rd Movement)
A15 O’clock
A16 Bacchanale
