Vangelis scores Antarctica

[rodswebdesign]

great video thanks

[sprintbass]

giorgio moroder in my view was better..but this guy was great too

[900GTi]

@kurnilse And a Roland CR8000

[iammagyar]

what is the name of the song at 1:20 where the 808 beat kicks in? im almost certain it didnt make the soundtrack...

[kuxvibes]

ADE RE VAGGO :)

[Surannhealz]

This is my favorite album by him. A prized possesion.

[tionik06]

Man, we are so spoiled today with our fully blown sequencers.

[kraftwerk88]

What is the name of the song, he plays from 1:20???

[kurnilse]

Instruments on video:Yamaha GS-1,Roland VP-330+,EMU Emulator I,Fender Rohdes,Minimoog,Roland/Korg?Ry­thm box,Linn LM-1,Yamaha CS-80,Yamaha CP-80,Roland SH-101

[studiodreadful]

The Master of Sounds ...

[2212MA]

Que grande el paraguas "carbonero" de Vangelis!!. jajaja

[tmc359]

Vangelis is wearing one of those plastic, green backlit Casio watches lol

[mik300z]

Cheers androow, often look in on this , a rare treat for us mere mortals. It looks the same synth set-up as the soil festivities part vid, the timelines of the albums are very close too I guess. The fairlight in the main setup with percussion and whatever else he had loaded into it, the cs80 and vp330 switched around tho..hell ,....am I an anorak or what!

[profwaffel]

@mik300z

Which Soil festivities part vid are you referring to?

[mik300z]

@profwaffel on vangelis "the man and his music" YT video, the part where he demonstrates the CS80 etc, the assistant accidentally plays back a part of soil festivities, that and the set-up of his keyboards made me think he was working on that at the time...guess I could be wrong tho!

[drchepa]

@mik300z soil festivities was made after this soundtrack antarctica 1983 and festivities in 1984, i saw that too, yea he was working on that album, not very known but a very good one!

[androoow]

@mik300z its a EMU emulator as Vangelis as far as i am aware never owed a fairlight ,.. but deffo to that vid and Soil Festivities.. would have been filmed the same time as he was recording SF album. This vid i don't believe is in Nemo , the layout ,lighting ect..was prob a temp setup in Paris as the other part of the vid is there when he is walking with the Director..however I could be wrong :)

[drchepa]

he looks with his glasses the greek maphia....

[pierrelivernois]

clean cut vangelis. it's like him an Giorgio were sharing closets and sunglasses at this point.

[3trackerz]

yamaha cs80v

[REMSTATE]

vangelis the one !!! alien the music

[funkiEst]

comparing is the most often thing stupid people do

[samueladams7]

Translator please!!

[PATROUXAMBIENTMUSIC]

Nice video , I like Vangelis very much

[pmgodfrey]

The man is not human - he's beyond that. He's done so much with synths during his career - he's a pioneer!

[door34]

Vangelis and The Beatles were both good musicians/Group, but don´t compare them to Bach and Mozart. It´s like Comparing a Commodore 64 to Cray XT5. There are worlds between them.

[androoow]

agreed. Vangelis is the Cray XT5 ...cheers

[way2muchNFO]

@androoow commodore aint bad

just sayin ;)!

[Mike1GH]

@androoow Not exactly... Although it's sure Vangelis would have had no problem in being a genius with early 1700's technology, you can't know what Mozart and Bach would've done with today's technology... So you can't really be sure neither there's a huge gap between their approach to music, nor who would create better sounding music. And my best advice for door34, never compare human minds with computers.

[theoriginalmrsm]

Oh c'mon, that's just elitist.

[Solaris1992]

Yes, not try to compare them because he is better!!! xD

[InsertName125]

It's like arguing about a Commodore 64 owned by Bach vs. a Commodore 64 owned by Mozart. No, wait! It's like a Playstation owned by Shakespeare vs. one owned by Babe Ruth! (in other words, nonsense)

There are MANY brilliant musicians, but I don't think Vangelis or The Beatles (strange examples) would have the nerve to compare themselves to Bach or Mozart.

It's probably more like comparing Norman Rockwell to Picasso - both talented, but one a "serious" aesthetic, the other a "pop" aesthetic.

[chloroform42]

@InsertName125 the concept of SERIOUS music is silly. composers of any age engage both ends of that aesthetic spectrum. mozart was a court musician, as were many classical era composers. they wrote to please and impress on a comparatively local scale with different traditional standards, none particularly better (in any conceivable way) than today's in pop except that they were more specific. vangelis isn't purely pop nor was mozart purely SERIOUS! both create some great, serious work though

[InsertName125]

@chloroform42

Mozart was simple compared to Bach. "Serious" music is music that can withstand the rigors of analysis. It's just a fact. Few American professional musicians will admit this outloud for fear of being branded "elitest", but there's an amount of technical mastery used in Classical music and Jazz that doesn't exist in music like Vangelis (unless you consider the ability to play closed position triads in root position a rare skill).

[InsertName125]

@chloroform42

I'm not referring to "better" or "worse" any more than a painting by Picasso is "better" than a painting by your three year old daughter. It's just a different aesthetic. What I prefer to listen to depends on my mood and how many distractions I have. I don't listen to Boulez in the car or when I'm chilling out. I don't listen to Vangelis when I'm in the mood for complexity.

[InsertName125]

@chloroform42

Greeting cards contain original poetry. Some of it is good. Very little of it is "serious". That's not the intent of greeting cards. "Serious" poetry isn't probably going to end up on a Mother's Day card. The differences in music are similar.

[InsertName125]

@chloroform42

Refering to a "serious" aesthetic is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT meaning from the concept that it is somehow more "serious". It just means that it is more complex and follows the lineage and aesthetic of Classical art.

[InsertName125]

@chloroform42

Just because I watch the Science Channel doesn't make me a scientist and just because some musicians can play a string pad on a sampler with a root position minor chord doesn't necessarily make them a "serious" artist.

[dnch]

@door34 vangelis is closer to mozart than to beatles

[mik300z]

@door34 Lol Andrew...that is the truth my friend!

[hapybrian]

@door34

You are comparing apples and oranges. Commodore 64 vs Cray is a comparison of power and speed. Comparing Bach and Vangelis doesn't make much sense--one made classical music, and the other electronic. Both result in beautiful artistry which we can admire. Imagine what Bach or Mozart would have done with today's electronic technology...

[Blade3327]

Here's a thought: why are we arguing Beatles, anyway? Totally different style. Apples to oranges. What's more, they didn't come even CLOSE to this. That's the absurd part -- that we're even mentioning them.

[joncosm]

Stop arguing Beatles vs Vangelis, you fools...Vangelis is the modern BACH, Beatles are MOZART.

[arpquadra]

He is the modern day Mozart!!!!

My favorite album is Soil festivities.

Genius synth player/composer

[mongex]

the beatles modern mozart my ass.... the were the retro pop band of th 60 and that's all.

Vangelis is Mozart & Jean Michel Jarre is Beethoven.

[jsb779]

YES!!!!!!!!!!

[DJLuX1994]

DON'T froget Kraftwerk. They had like (eeeuuhm) total inpact on every dance genre of this time!

[mongex]

obviously!!!...no doubt about it... they wont be any daft punk, chemical brothers or suchs with out them... tour de france is timeless, the model a classic, autobahn...well; what can you say about it that hasn´t been said...die roboter is my own personal favorite

[GenerationYesSir]

he is good. but comparing him to mozart is absurd in the extreme

[magneto77]

no kidding!

[Tiramisator]

Hes the King !!!

[erdavis7]

Is the top synth he plays at 1:41 a Roland VP-330?

[androoow]

99% certain it is

[way2muchNFO]

@androoow commodore aint bad

just saying !@L:)

[djmike303]

@erdavis7 yes its the vp330the vangelis secret weapon

[jmm1233]

80's specs still look cool when vangelis wears them

[konextado]

Grande Vangelis

[galvezpablo]

tienes razon, opino lo mismo que tu, vangelis es un genio de la musica, y lo ve como un arte, y no como un negocio de mercadotecnia, no como yanni que el solito arruino su musica

[lbquota]

I'd never stop watching this vid from 1:20 to 2:02 it's so elegant and majestic, a real synth-wizard...oh well, and a lot more!!!

[yonnii]

Yamaha CS80 & Vangelis the best

[AnalogX64]

some are commenting about he's fingers.. but look at how elegantly and quickly he moves them.. check out the start of the video bottom right keyboard...notice in between playing notes he flips a switch to change sound?

[jaapaap5]

He should have got an oscar for this one!

[ptpt88]

Vangelis won best original score for this movie in Japan!!! This movie was one of the most succesfull movies ever in Japanese theatre history... won many many prices but of course all were in Japan. It was something like 15 years the leading top1 movie from 1983 until "Princess Mononoke" studio ghibli movie in 1997.

[LucienProvencher]

cool! hey, check out vangelis's giant fingertips... bizarre!

[brikatt]

True! are giant!

[vagro2006]

Those fingers are typical in heavy smokers or people with pulmonary chronic diseases.

[retrosound72]

very nice!

[jaxNEANDERTHAL]

he got an unusiual way of composing music

[teknobeam]

there are no rules when creating music

[HammondB200]

i don't know why everybody is voting teknobeam up, cause we all know that statement is shit.

[MarquisInSpadez]

Thank you, that really is a pretty dumb and unneeded thing to say.

[dolofonos]

@teknobeam That's the stupidest thing I've heard all morning.

[squick1842]

wow!

[ptpt88]

I just can't be without watching this performance! Althought I wouldn't consider this as great as some other live performances, but this performance is simply so evocative, powerful and ultimately very inspiring!

[aristidispas]

Go and see("Movement 1"from Mythodea-Vangelis)

From Vangelis Papathanasiou!!"Mythodea: Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey" is a choral symphony by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis performed at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens on June 28, 2001.Mythodea was made the official theme music of the mission involving the NASA unmanned spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars.Toso shmantikoi einai oi ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ!!!

[vageloukos]

suginithika...Eimai kai sunonomatos gamw;)

[Synthoffer101]

truly Amazing.

[Atolis2008]

Beautiful and very dreamly score! Sadly is not all music from the movie found the way to the album we know and America didn`t want to promote and release that movie, A SHAME! So dreamly and beautiful music! Good electronic score! - Great regards from Germany

[redeyefool]

I know I know (embarrassed). It's just so beautiful.

[redeyefool]

What is that song? it's not in the soundtrack.

[ptpt88]

Of course not, that was something like first time he tries to make something for soundtrack. And can't anyone see that it's IMPROVISATION! Vangelis NEVER COMPOSE anything because he plays always everything live by improvising, using only emotions and clearing his mind of all thoughts... just check youtube video "vangelis scores Alexander" where he tells you all about his way to make music!

[aerodynamikkling]

Oh!　Vangelis has minimoog!

This video is great!

[pmgodfrey]

I've been listening for the past 28 years - ever since I was 6.

Nothing he wrote will ever, in my opinion, get old or too tiring to listen to.

In fact, I've queued up this CD to listen to as I type. :)

[drchepa]

great stuff! vangelis and the director koreyoshi kurahara, that's history! composing the great antarctica images from 1983! wow!....

[9mariotoledo]

the music electronic of vangelis is the best

[brisasuavedelmar]

excelentee!!

[WolfgangAmadeusF]

Thank you so much.Synthesisers are the instruments of the future-they do everything.And Anarctica is the great acoplishiment in the history of electronic music

[joncosm]

Vangelis is the master !!!

[nmarcel]

Thanks for post another piece of history of the Master ;)

[kovalmoog]

A million of thanks by this video ! Now, how I can get that 2 DVD boxset which this video come from? Is it on sale in some internet shop? I've performed a search via amazon (japan site) but nothing. Please, give me (give us) any info about it. Thanks again !

[androoow]

The dvd is available from cdjapan co jp ( search MOVIE TITLE and type "Nankyoku Monogatari" )..unable to post direct link on a comment here :(. Beware the dvd dosn't have english subtitles (not that hard to follow anyway)and disc menu is in japanese so great fun to trail and error to move about.. hope this helps

[Polkef]

Great video, thank you. Didn't succed in watching the better version however :-/ Problems to install DivX-player.

[thenomad1986]

Excellent video. The soundtrack to this movie is amazing.

[fischek]

brilliant - I love this album