Funny, Vangelis inspired, truely loves to play in his favourite black keys, pentatonic scales are there easier to grasp ! like these sound of his old gear at the time so much, it is touching my emotional memories.
@Nimanty, I wasted one hour of my time a while back in 2000 , watching and then e-mailing a colleague this early improvisation. You've given it anew life ! I appreciate that, thank you . :)
Very early eighties must be, you can see even a single white hair on his look apart his beard! Then the material he got shows the age somehow, the latest you can see is the Prophet and maybe the Yamaha CP piano, the CS 80 is a little older in late 70', also the Roland VP330 must be around 1980. Thanks for this rare video.
@markusmala Amazing sound, love his musical creations. I was also thinking early 80's. I hear familar sounds from Opera Sauvage, Antarctica, The Bounty and Chariots of Fire in this composition.
@markusmala It may even be in 1979. The Vp330 came out in that year and as you say, the rest of his stuff are just old things. The Prophet 5 came out in 78. No sign of any Jupiter 8 or some other stuff which were released in the early 80;s. My guess is somewhere between late 79 and early 81.
@8GVirus Jean Michelle Pfeiffer, could be... :) You have heard the nonsense experiments Jean "Michel" did in the first seventies, whilst Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and others were doing to generate the magma of Electronic Music? Please, don't talk about Jean "Michel" as a pioneer... he is (was) just a good looking guy sorrounded with synths (synths which he ignores almost all, technically and artistically).
@kovalmoog Maybe you seem a little harsh with Jarre even if it's true he came later in Emusic, I believe he was not so bad technically, it is said he was nearly alone to do Oxygène in his kitchen! and what about his Concrete studies with pierre Schaeffer? I think he loved and still does analog gear, like EMS A, and the ARP 2600, results were good musically even if is stays overlooked, that all the others deserved also so much. shortly after he got a lot of help for programming. Just a Lucky guy.
No matter what sound you pick out to listen to it's full, multidimensional, and real with little fragments of amplitude changes around the edges. You will not get this with anything digital. I recommend getting an electronic organ from the 60's or 70's if you want to experience these characteristics. The Wurlitzer organs of the 1970's had an Orbit synthesizer with control over the ADSR & Portamento functions, yes it was monophonic, but fully analog. Any, and every part is available at Morelock's
@paulj0557 Exactly, I couldn't agree more. Nothing out there today even comes close to what the original machines are capable off. The modern equivalents are "2 clever" and take away the very ingredient of creativity and expression itself. I own and eminent keyboard and nothing modern can approach its sheer weight and power. Is it so difficult for these manufacturers to recreate legends like Jupiter 8 & Yamaha CS80 with every conceivable detail - they would be an over night success.
@zark212 There is a very interesting platform that a company has used to duplicate the Hammond tone wheel organ on that holds major promise for fairly cost effective stand alone systems. It's called FPGA, or Field-programmable gate array ( wiki it for details). Anyway look up > HOAX Hammond organ. I also started a thread on the Organ Forum called '' Why isn't the HOAX Hammond talked about much?'' The HOAX uses this FPGA technology to exactly recreated 91 independent tone wheel generators!
@thekilon j'ai lu votre commentaire et j'y adhère complètement, je ne peux pas m'exprimer en anglais, vous avez très bien expliqué votre expérience de la musique,
je ne suis pas un connaisseur, mais j'ai mon ressenti profond, ce qui vibre en moi et Vangelis fait partie de mes musiciens de coeur, c'est un Grand,
Not only is this so clearly 100% performed live, and beautiful music, it is a sobering thought that many of those wonderful sythesizers are now reduced to a $4.99 app on the Apple iPAD2 (Garage band). There's so much going on in this clip, after touch being carefully used, portamento, long slow ADSR envelopes, all lovingly put together. True genious.
@guygamps any reason why an ipad app cannot do all that and much more? Afterall they way V is making music is extremely basic. Its his understand of music that makes him a great composer . You could hook a douzen ipdas around you and make an equally good piece providing you got the skill to do it. Not that all V's is this great. V's has complained about computer and music many times, and he is right of course, but software can be made for pure performance like Ableton live.
@thekilon Of course in some parts the work of Vangelis is basic. The interest of this basic compositions is the sweet colour of the sound. But it´s not in justice to leave all our discourse there merely. He had composed really complex simphony works: Heaven and Hell, Mask, Mythodea. And his ideas for another works are very interesting: Ignacio, the suite of Chariots of Fire, the album called Albedo 0´39, and more. He do not give a lot importance for software. He prefer the traditional touch.
@chestertonnable you dont need to convince me that he is an amazing composer, he is my favourite ;) All I was saying is that the way he composes is extremely simple. On the other hand he has massive musical skill.
@thekilon Sometimes the "simple" things aren´t so simples really. For example some people can say about some Mozart´s composition: `` it is simple ´´ .But i would say to this people: ``when it is done it looks like easy´´. :-)
@chestertonnable well i speak from experience cause this is the way i work too. I usually lay down 80% of the track in one go and then add several hours editing and adding abit more. And by the way I did not say his workflow is simple, i said it is extremely simple. He basically sit downs and make music the end. I talked strictly about his workflow, not his music, skill or whatever else. And sorry I dont like Mozart so I dont care how he composes.
@thekilon I like talk with a person with experience. So you know we must to take a definition about the words. I understand that music is a way to give emotions. We can work with the melody, armony, with contrapunct, silents, etc. One can write a lot of notes; another person don´t. But both, in fact, have a concept and a way to carry out. In Vangelis the "skill" looks like "extremely simple". Of course he hasn´t got Chopin´s technic in piano. But Vangelis has a very unusual sense of the unity.
@chestertonnable if you read my previous comment you will see it says "I talked strictly about his workflow, not his music, skill or whatever else. " , so I dont know why you think i was talking about his skill or his music. I think I am crystal clear. Not to exclude that 2 posts above I said "On the other hand he has massive musical skill. "
Que Genio!
polimorfomusic 1 week ago
Funny, Vangelis inspired, truely loves to play in his favourite black keys, pentatonic scales are there easier to grasp ! like these sound of his old gear at the time so much, it is touching my emotional memories.
markusmala 1 month ago
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ling6001 1 month ago
@Nimanty, I wasted one hour of my time a while back in 2000 , watching and then e-mailing a colleague this early improvisation. You've given it anew life ! I appreciate that, thank you . :)
VictoryBarry 2 months ago
Very early eighties must be, you can see even a single white hair on his look apart his beard! Then the material he got shows the age somehow, the latest you can see is the Prophet and maybe the Yamaha CP piano, the CS 80 is a little older in late 70', also the Roland VP330 must be around 1980. Thanks for this rare video.
markusmala 2 months ago
@markusmala Amazing sound, love his musical creations. I was also thinking early 80's. I hear familar sounds from Opera Sauvage, Antarctica, The Bounty and Chariots of Fire in this composition.
vanfan1960 2 months ago
@markusmala It may even be in 1979. The Vp330 came out in that year and as you say, the rest of his stuff are just old things. The Prophet 5 came out in 78. No sign of any Jupiter 8 or some other stuff which were released in the early 80;s. My guess is somewhere between late 79 and early 81.
MrModulator 2 weeks ago
@markusmala This documentary was created in 1980 indeed.
ptpt88 2 weeks ago
Thank you for uploaded,... bravissimo
lacerdatech 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Not only the keyboard that brings the creativity but also the gift
margoumix 3 months ago
the two pioneers of the electronic music are vangelis and jean michelle
8GVirus 3 months ago
@8GVirus Yes, but there are more, count Wendy Carlos, Tomita...The makers of Dr. Who Intro theme...
tonihott2 3 months ago
@8GVirus Jean Michelle Pfeiffer, could be... :) You have heard the nonsense experiments Jean "Michel" did in the first seventies, whilst Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and others were doing to generate the magma of Electronic Music? Please, don't talk about Jean "Michel" as a pioneer... he is (was) just a good looking guy sorrounded with synths (synths which he ignores almost all, technically and artistically).
kovalmoog 3 months ago
@kovalmoog - I like jarre - but I have to say you really do have a point! Jarre pre and post Oxygene/Equinoxe is not exactly ground breaking stuff.
Jamesrosscooper 3 months ago
@kovalmoog Maybe you seem a little harsh with Jarre even if it's true he came later in Emusic, I believe he was not so bad technically, it is said he was nearly alone to do Oxygène in his kitchen! and what about his Concrete studies with pierre Schaeffer? I think he loved and still does analog gear, like EMS A, and the ARP 2600, results were good musically even if is stays overlooked, that all the others deserved also so much. shortly after he got a lot of help for programming. Just a Lucky guy.
markusmala 2 months ago
@8GVirus Vangelis maybe. Jarre nah. More like Carlos, Tomita, Kraftwerk just to name a few. Jarre came in late in the game.
Booger6995 3 months ago
So truely magical!
Sjobeck7 4 months ago
No matter what sound you pick out to listen to it's full, multidimensional, and real with little fragments of amplitude changes around the edges. You will not get this with anything digital. I recommend getting an electronic organ from the 60's or 70's if you want to experience these characteristics. The Wurlitzer organs of the 1970's had an Orbit synthesizer with control over the ADSR & Portamento functions, yes it was monophonic, but fully analog. Any, and every part is available at Morelock's
paulj0557 4 months ago
@paulj0557 Exactly, I couldn't agree more. Nothing out there today even comes close to what the original machines are capable off. The modern equivalents are "2 clever" and take away the very ingredient of creativity and expression itself. I own and eminent keyboard and nothing modern can approach its sheer weight and power. Is it so difficult for these manufacturers to recreate legends like Jupiter 8 & Yamaha CS80 with every conceivable detail - they would be an over night success.
zark212 3 months ago
@zark212 There is a very interesting platform that a company has used to duplicate the Hammond tone wheel organ on that holds major promise for fairly cost effective stand alone systems. It's called FPGA, or Field-programmable gate array ( wiki it for details). Anyway look up > HOAX Hammond organ. I also started a thread on the Organ Forum called '' Why isn't the HOAX Hammond talked about much?'' The HOAX uses this FPGA technology to exactly recreated 91 independent tone wheel generators!
paulj0557 3 months ago
this few notes and so much universe behind it, it's overwhelmingly evocative.
Gylfi0 4 months ago
Blade Runner theme at 4:05.
tepposal 4 months ago
@tepposal hehe... yes :) Sounds like a phrase in the Main Titles theme.
kovalmoog 3 months ago
@thekilon j'ai lu votre commentaire et j'y adhère complètement, je ne peux pas m'exprimer en anglais, vous avez très bien expliqué votre expérience de la musique,
je ne suis pas un connaisseur, mais j'ai mon ressenti profond, ce qui vibre en moi et Vangelis fait partie de mes musiciens de coeur, c'est un Grand,
Elfaih 5 months ago
THE KING OF MUSIC
999MichaelMyers999 6 months ago
Amazing, one of my idols
oobumblebeeoo 7 months ago
Pure Genius
skywatcher0101 8 months ago
Greece is art.
ateniense1978 9 months ago
The Best!!
bluraymen 9 months ago
Encore!
love it
sleekpenguin 10 months ago
He is Zeus.
JarrefanErPenombra 10 months ago
Great job Nimanty. 5*****
DeRex9 10 months ago
Not only is this so clearly 100% performed live, and beautiful music, it is a sobering thought that many of those wonderful sythesizers are now reduced to a $4.99 app on the Apple iPAD2 (Garage band). There's so much going on in this clip, after touch being carefully used, portamento, long slow ADSR envelopes, all lovingly put together. True genious.
guygamps 1 year ago 2
@guygamps any reason why an ipad app cannot do all that and much more? Afterall they way V is making music is extremely basic. Its his understand of music that makes him a great composer . You could hook a douzen ipdas around you and make an equally good piece providing you got the skill to do it. Not that all V's is this great. V's has complained about computer and music many times, and he is right of course, but software can be made for pure performance like Ableton live.
thekilon 7 months ago
@thekilon Of course in some parts the work of Vangelis is basic. The interest of this basic compositions is the sweet colour of the sound. But it´s not in justice to leave all our discourse there merely. He had composed really complex simphony works: Heaven and Hell, Mask, Mythodea. And his ideas for another works are very interesting: Ignacio, the suite of Chariots of Fire, the album called Albedo 0´39, and more. He do not give a lot importance for software. He prefer the traditional touch.
chestertonnable 7 months ago
@chestertonnable you dont need to convince me that he is an amazing composer, he is my favourite ;) All I was saying is that the way he composes is extremely simple. On the other hand he has massive musical skill.
thekilon 7 months ago
@thekilon Sometimes the "simple" things aren´t so simples really. For example some people can say about some Mozart´s composition: `` it is simple ´´ .But i would say to this people: ``when it is done it looks like easy´´. :-)
chestertonnable 7 months ago
@chestertonnable well i speak from experience cause this is the way i work too. I usually lay down 80% of the track in one go and then add several hours editing and adding abit more. And by the way I did not say his workflow is simple, i said it is extremely simple. He basically sit downs and make music the end. I talked strictly about his workflow, not his music, skill or whatever else. And sorry I dont like Mozart so I dont care how he composes.
thekilon 7 months ago
@thekilon I like talk with a person with experience. So you know we must to take a definition about the words. I understand that music is a way to give emotions. We can work with the melody, armony, with contrapunct, silents, etc. One can write a lot of notes; another person don´t. But both, in fact, have a concept and a way to carry out. In Vangelis the "skill" looks like "extremely simple". Of course he hasn´t got Chopin´s technic in piano. But Vangelis has a very unusual sense of the unity.
chestertonnable 7 months ago
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@chestertonnable if you read my previous comment you will see it says "I talked strictly about his workflow, not his music, skill or whatever else. " , so I dont know why you think i was talking about his skill or his music. I think I am crystal clear. Not to exclude that 2 posts above I said "On the other hand he has massive musical skill. "
thekilon 7 months ago
something about his sound realy captures your imagination and doesn't let go. Amazing.
elfchild1 1 year ago
GREAT again
laertof 1 year ago
The mans a musical genius. Sheer brilliance.
prh1953 1 year ago
this is my kind of soul music
solidred4 1 year ago
brilliance. this generation's greatest composer.
HomeDialysisCentral 1 year ago
wowwwwwwwwwwww
picoboha 1 year ago
thanks for this :)
androoow 1 year ago