Why there's no tittle, just "∞"? A poor, little "∞". God met satan, that's why this album is 666. God has Vangelis's face, satan has no human face. What does she say? This breathing 2:55 appeared in Enigma's first album in "Principles of lust II". She looks like escaper from mad house (me in next 20 years? Kinda impossible to be recorded on a CD before my birth)
The percussion in "infinite", is Vangelis, improvising together with Irene. In fact she started reccording "a capella", and during that they had the idea, Vangelis took in hand some metal things and a shirt, and went in the studio.
The whole recording (before cutting) of "infinite", was 39 minutes!!!!!
Incidentally, this is one of the tracks that Michael Cretu sampled for the first Enigma album (MCMXC). Listen to the heavy breathing section in the middle of this song (around 2:25) and then listen to the quiet section between "Principles of Lust" and "Sadeness (reprise)" on the Enigma album.
okay, i'm super surprised nobody asked this, is this chick really cumming? i it even supposed to sound like she is? like did they just say "this'll make a good track, let's record ur orgasm" or is it completely fake, or is that not even the thought behind it, or what???
@canthinkverywell LOL it's just what you'd call "experimental." I'd wager she's not actually having an orgasm, it would have been damn difficult to get the real thing to time out as needed to jive with the music..and what if you needed to do a second take? Also, parts of it sound more like she's losing her mind rather than experiencing sexual ecstasy. The "I Was, I Am, I Am to Come" is paraphrased from the Book of Revalations' "Who was, Is, Is to Come."
if you read the Apocalypse in bible you can understand what the great IRENE PAPPAS is doing .....in 1966 .....very progressive rock when the rest rock bands playing mysic for children.nia nia nia....Also you must hear all the double cd to undestand the concept....IRENE PAPPAS,VANGELIS PAPATHANASIOU,DEMIS ROUSSOS ARE GREAT PERFORMERS....
This track its pretty disturbing,provocative,scary,never sounded sexy to me,seems more like a kind of trance..of mystical extasy.Extremely intense.You can't be indiferent listening to this..You can't figure if is pleasure,pain , or both at the same time...and the name..."Infinity"makes me curious...what is this all about.
This track alone delayed the release of the album for two years. The record company wanted the band to remove this track from the album but Vangelis would hear none of it
talk about "la petite mort" ...a door to infinity..? Awesome concept ! God you gotta love the 60's !!! - thinks of Je t'aime, moi non plus ! Thanks for posting !! DisforDelight
and - it is no orgasm to hear - its a chant ritual for ppl on their last step to get rid off the dirt of ideas like christianity and all other bullshit - you can try it - do it if you wonder about the result on you - ready to be free?
listen to Michael tsarion on the youtube. He is the worlds most comprehensive conspiracy researcher/lecturer/author. Leo Zagami and Dr. Bill Deagle are highly informative as well.
To Fletchcapeman: Orgasm is nicknamed "la petite mort" (the small death) in French... And, of course, death opens the doors to infinity... Just my two cents. BTW my girlfriend sounds like that when I electrostimulate her erotically!!!
In reference to shammadamma, I always viewed this track as being like an exorcism. I never viewed it as being sexy. If anything it seems to equate the female orgasm with exorcising demons. Just my take on it.
I'm all for experimental music out of left field, but this is just an irritating (and rather embarrassing for Papas) collection of random squawks and grunts. I'm not sure what's supposed to be provocative or sexy about it.
im just saying the way she singing is scarying the shit out of me im just coming on this vid 2 see if any1 comented on why shes singing like that sounds like shes dying....
This is gonna sound funny...but it actually reminds me of one of the bits Jim Carrey did as Andy Kaufman in "Man on the Moon" (even though this song came out long before that). I can't remember how it goes, but there was a part where he was chanting something really fast and frantic in rhythm.
About this song..Irene Papas (a great artist) participated to this album in late 60s and she was close to get excommunated from the Greek Orthodox Church because they accused her that she was dominated by the Satan during the "singing" (not orgasm : ). Anyway this album of Aphrodite's child is a tribute to the "Apocalypse of John" which was written in Greek island of Patmos in Aegean sea around 96 a.c
Wikipedia! : "The record company, in particular, objected to the song "∞" (infinity), which they considered obscene. It consisted of Irene Papas chanting the words "I was, I am, I am to come" over and over again in various stages of hysteria, while Vangelis accompanied her on a maelstrom of percussion (the five-minute finished track was reportedly edited down from a 39-minute p
iece recorded in a single take). " An orgasm? Maybe the flow of all human emotions when in transit in the Bardo?
Not the mot stellar performance in Irene Papas' otherwise distinguished career. She co-starred in the "Guns of Navarone" with Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn. She sounded rather like a dying chicken there in the latter half of the song.
the only piece of the album that i don't like. not because of me being uptight and conservative geek, but because it is so unmusical and irritating to my ear.
2:26-2:55 Enigma?
IzayoiArwena 1 week ago
Why there's no tittle, just "∞"? A poor, little "∞". God met satan, that's why this album is 666. God has Vangelis's face, satan has no human face. What does she say? This breathing 2:55 appeared in Enigma's first album in "Principles of lust II". She looks like escaper from mad house (me in next 20 years? Kinda impossible to be recorded on a CD before my birth)
IzayoiArwena 1 week ago
orgaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssmmmmmmm !
frebsonic 1 month ago
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jameshalterman 3 months ago
Nice scream
StefanR10 4 months ago
The percussion in "infinite", is Vangelis, improvising together with Irene. In fact she started reccording "a capella", and during that they had the idea, Vangelis took in hand some metal things and a shirt, and went in the studio.
The whole recording (before cutting) of "infinite", was 39 minutes!!!!!
leanthros2 6 months ago
так и самому кончить можно!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheSenechka 7 months ago in playlist 1
If you listen really closely at 2:53 you can hear Irene drop her gyros.
ianw2112 7 months ago
SUUUPER
sundilepp 8 months ago
lmfao! my dad showed me this song few weeks ago i couldn´t stop laughting while listening to it! great song !
BillGirly90 8 months ago
Kõik lood nüüd päris alla 11 aastastele just pole !
MBX1998 8 months ago
Incidentally, this is one of the tracks that Michael Cretu sampled for the first Enigma album (MCMXC). Listen to the heavy breathing section in the middle of this song (around 2:25) and then listen to the quiet section between "Principles of Lust" and "Sadeness (reprise)" on the Enigma album.
jjobie 10 months ago
magnific..
zoroastro01 10 months ago
okay, i'm super surprised nobody asked this, is this chick really cumming? i it even supposed to sound like she is? like did they just say "this'll make a good track, let's record ur orgasm" or is it completely fake, or is that not even the thought behind it, or what???
canthinkverywell 11 months ago 3
@canthinkverywell LOL it's just what you'd call "experimental." I'd wager she's not actually having an orgasm, it would have been damn difficult to get the real thing to time out as needed to jive with the music..and what if you needed to do a second take? Also, parts of it sound more like she's losing her mind rather than experiencing sexual ecstasy. The "I Was, I Am, I Am to Come" is paraphrased from the Book of Revalations' "Who was, Is, Is to Come."
jjobie 10 months ago
@jjobie well they could have recorded her orgasm and then jammed around it. i've heard chicks make those sounds before hahaha.
canthinkverywell 10 months ago
@canthinkverywell Heh...true that...
jjobie 10 months ago
it think shes cumming...
mateivornicu 1 year ago
if you read the Apocalypse in bible you can understand what the great IRENE PAPPAS is doing .....in 1966 .....very progressive rock when the rest rock bands playing mysic for children.nia nia nia....Also you must hear all the double cd to undestand the concept....IRENE PAPPAS,VANGELIS PAPATHANASIOU,DEMIS ROUSSOS ARE GREAT PERFORMERS....
FlyingOdyssey 1 year ago
This track its pretty disturbing,provocative,scary,never sounded sexy to me,seems more like a kind of trance..of mystical extasy.Extremely intense.You can't be indiferent listening to this..You can't figure if is pleasure,pain , or both at the same time...and the name..."Infinity"makes me curious...what is this all about.
beroth77 1 year ago
sundilepp 1 year ago
This track alone delayed the release of the album for two years. The record company wanted the band to remove this track from the album but Vangelis would hear none of it
Todeskaefer 1 year ago
In terms of weirdness, this song is up (or is it down?) there with "They're Coming to Take me Away."
guyNbluejeans 1 year ago
What a shame this performance wasn't filmed! I'd LOVE to know how she prepared for this. Did they play this live? That would have been something!
sitemountain 1 year ago
I COULDNT STOP LAUGHING! IT SOUNDS LIKE I AM I AM TO KILL A GOAT! But DOes Any1 Know What Shes Actually Saying?
Misoreah16 1 year ago
@Misoreah16 Sounds like 'I am to come I was' to me. Perhaps it's about reincarnation?
sitemountain 1 year ago
@Misoreah16 It's "I was, I am, I am to come" over and over again
Todeskaefer 1 year ago
@Misoreah16 shes Greek..shes trying man,give her a break..plus she forgot to take her meds...
MrMethadrine 1 year ago
WTF!!
fcox4dj 1 year ago
LOVE IT - SO WEIRD - BUT GIVES U A FEEL THAT EVERYONE GETS! BUT MOST PEOPLE AVOID!
TheSoosker 1 year ago
MIERDA
chicovanhalen 1 year ago
very profound vid! amazing lol
marcdruten 1 year ago
cool
pentagramhexagram 1 year ago
c dreaq mah asta are orgasm :)) =))
supersim12234 2 years ago
Irene Papas? The Widow? ... Huh.
PoisonPeachPit 2 years ago
esta cancion no la saco d la cabeza...
Distorcionbeto 2 years ago
puts donna summer to shame
hngwitch 2 years ago 3
sounds like a morning assembly on Planet of the Apes
Oscar301 2 years ago
She sure gives the "Great Gig In The Sky" singer a run for her money.
jhillst 2 years ago 5
I heard Vangelis was vehement about not removing this track from the album at the studio's demand, I'm not sure why
d2eux 2 years ago 3
Very strange track
d2eux 2 years ago 4
talk about "la petite mort" ...a door to infinity..? Awesome concept ! God you gotta love the 60's !!! - thinks of Je t'aime, moi non plus ! Thanks for posting !! DisforDelight
DisforDelight 2 years ago
and - it is no orgasm to hear - its a chant ritual for ppl on their last step to get rid off the dirt of ideas like christianity and all other bullshit - you can try it - do it if you wonder about the result on you - ready to be free?
TalmaPai 2 years ago
listen to Michael tsarion on the youtube. He is the worlds most comprehensive conspiracy researcher/lecturer/author. Leo Zagami and Dr. Bill Deagle are highly informative as well.
countdumas 2 years ago
To Fletchcapeman: Orgasm is nicknamed "la petite mort" (the small death) in French... And, of course, death opens the doors to infinity... Just my two cents. BTW my girlfriend sounds like that when I electrostimulate her erotically!!!
Linstrumentiste 2 years ago
Linstrumentiste, does she also say "I am to come I was" over and over? LOL!
psykdiva 2 years ago
The singer was greek actress Irene Papas.
She says: I am, I am to come, I was - that's to say: present, future, past.
susanascot57 2 years ago 4
and the obsessed spoke to Jesus:
my name is Legion, because i' am countless of them
markus-ev. 5.9
Hoschius 2 years ago
dont know jesus - i guess you mean my old challenge yeshua
TalmaPai 2 years ago
I hope she was well paid for this performance. I wonder why it's called "Infinity".
tata4noww 2 years ago
its called infinity because you were always there and if you get awareness you "become" what you was because there is no development
TalmaPai 2 years ago
In reference to shammadamma, I always viewed this track as being like an exorcism. I never viewed it as being sexy. If anything it seems to equate the female orgasm with exorcising demons. Just my take on it.
calisway 2 years ago
....This music fascinates me.
Bakkazaru 2 years ago
I'm all for experimental music out of left field, but this is just an irritating (and rather embarrassing for Papas) collection of random squawks and grunts. I'm not sure what's supposed to be provocative or sexy about it.
shammadamma 2 years ago
wtf is she saying! o swear to god im getting scared of this song
fletchcapeman 2 years ago
im just saying the way she singing is scarying the shit out of me im just coming on this vid 2 see if any1 comented on why shes singing like that sounds like shes dying....
fletchcapeman 2 years ago
I am to come I was. I am I am I am to come I was.
I always viewed this track as comparing the female orgasm to the exorcism of demons which this album has a lot of references to.
calisway 2 years ago 2
Indeed.
RomZomCom 2 years ago
This is gonna sound funny...but it actually reminds me of one of the bits Jim Carrey did as Andy Kaufman in "Man on the Moon" (even though this song came out long before that). I can't remember how it goes, but there was a part where he was chanting something really fast and frantic in rhythm.
psykdiva 2 years ago 2
About this song..Irene Papas (a great artist) participated to this album in late 60s and she was close to get excommunated from the Greek Orthodox Church because they accused her that she was dominated by the Satan during the "singing" (not orgasm : ). Anyway this album of Aphrodite's child is a tribute to the "Apocalypse of John" which was written in Greek island of Patmos in Aegean sea around 96 a.c
trend1970 2 years ago 3
To me, this song is creative and genuine. It broke any format existing at that time.
larbredevie08 2 years ago 5
ai dios que locura que risa
gygyg89iii 2 years ago
Great song. Should get the church choir to sing this.
ilovesatan66 2 years ago 24
Hysterical!
grinreaperdutchphil 2 years ago
Wikipedia! : "The record company, in particular, objected to the song "∞" (infinity), which they considered obscene. It consisted of Irene Papas chanting the words "I was, I am, I am to come" over and over again in various stages of hysteria, while Vangelis accompanied her on a maelstrom of percussion (the five-minute finished track was reportedly edited down from a 39-minute p
iece recorded in a single take). " An orgasm? Maybe the flow of all human emotions when in transit in the Bardo?
jojothepojo 2 years ago
The album's release was delayed for some years due to the controversy over this particular cut. Come! Listen!
ottowes 2 years ago
Brilliant!
w7mjr 3 years ago
Awesome!
Undeadspartan13 3 years ago
Not the mot stellar performance in Irene Papas' otherwise distinguished career. She co-starred in the "Guns of Navarone" with Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn. She sounded rather like a dying chicken there in the latter half of the song.
CrocodileTooth 3 years ago
the only piece of the album that i don't like. not because of me being uptight and conservative geek, but because it is so unmusical and irritating to my ear.
anyway i still love this album so much.
humanvynil 3 years ago
lo cercavo da anni...che figo....che ideona---grazie for your art.....
papergold 3 years ago
It is said that this chant is a result of having just listened to 'Dirt Room' by Blue October.
19bikerbabe53 3 years ago
I have a girl friend who sounds exactly like that, when I electrostimulate her clit! Great!
Linstrumentiste 3 years ago 2
Irene Papas in orga...
stplace 3 years ago
Instead of having a row with someone, just chant this at them. It should weird them out sufficiently.
Kira1Moe 3 years ago 11
@Kira1Moe ROFL exactly!!!
jjobie 10 months ago
verry special but great
oeleboeb 3 years ago