Jon & Vangelis - State of Independence

Full version of song from the 1981 Jon & Vangelis album "The Friends of Mr. Cairo."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jon Anderson
• Vangelis
• new age
• Yes
• Donna Summer

[3801cc]

Was this vinyl ever released on CD???

[CoastalTown2]

@3801cc Yes, I bought the CD years ago. You can buy it for under $8 at Amazon.com.

[usblueflyer]

This entire album is fantastic!! Thank you so much for posting!!

[ColinBobbyDartford]

The fact that this song, composed by 2 guys from a heavy prog rock/symphonic and classical background has influenced various 'cool' artists over 30 years is testament to substance over style. Make no mistake, Quincy Jones' version for Donna Summer is a fantastic work and deserves to stand on its own because he took a very 'white' song and didn't try to black it up - he just respected the arrangement and sound and augmented it in a way that, possibly, elevated it to another level.

[enbowie]

Straordinaria!!!



[konked]

@CoastalTown2 No they did not, but my point was in writing regardless the style, sorry if not clearly enough :)

[CoastalTown2]

@konked Yes never wanted to or tried to do dance music.

[konked]

@keter1234 From 1976 onwards Summer did write most of the music on her albums either herself or with e.g Giorgio Moroder. Yes is a great band but they did not come up with dancefloor filling songs in the 70's but did fill head and heart and still do.

[fender1000100]

All making these low comments STOP! This is not what music is about you should be ashamed of yourselfs. It should matter not where it originated from, who wrote what. Its historical signifigance and all that nonsense. But only how it makes you feel when it hits your ears. GROW UP!

[jfl440]

Anybody who ascribes race to Jon Anderson's music has absolutely no idea of what the man is all about.

Carribian music expressing an ancient eastern spiritual concept (the freedom of a medative state, the Sound of God, independence of the Soul) - yep, it's Jon Anderson. The Universal Way is alive and well...

Could we all please just grow up? It's what Jon's been singing about for decades.

[Bruchag]

I'm far from a musicologist but there is a racial influence in the development of music. Europeans leaned to martial timings, African influences brought more expansive time sigs...this is however an amalgam of many styles...Oh and I love Donnas version too :-))

[Bruchag]

@nycboyforlife Like you have a collection of Castrato elves to set your "pitch" by..I love these fatuous bits of cyber nonsense:-))) Cheers for that laugh.