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Music for the day: Vangelis - Beaubourg (Patreon)

Published:
2022-05-23 20:17:02
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2022-05-24 07:54:15
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After Vangelis, one of my big musical idols from my youth passed away recently I thought about posting this little Hommage to him and hint at one of his most uncommon albums he ever released: Beaubourg from 1978.

It’s basically an abstract kind of electronic sound painting but done with such high skill and elegance that it definitely belongs to one of my favourite albums by him. The first time I heard this album I couldn’t really get warm with it, but some years later having grown up and collecting some own experience with synthesisers in the meantime I finally started to understand the ingenuity of this oeuvre.

Although the album consists of just 2 single tracks the tracks are divided into several own chapters which all have an own theme and atmosphere to them. Thinking that most of it was mostly improvised live by Vangelis from that point on I couldn’t quite take another of my idols Jean Michel Jarre serious anymore with that infantile junk he tended to release in the 90s like “Chronology”.

https://music.apple.com/at/album/beaubourg/390862327

https://open.spotify.com/album/4wC0IlgUIbgVdUm0jH5mPU?si=SSR9qyZERWeQHPxERaKLgw

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D. Oeltermann

I already knew this - as I listened to Vangelis, Jean Michelle Jarre and Tangerine Dream in the past. Definetely one of the most sophisticated experimental albums from the early years of music in the electronic genre. For me personally Vangelis became to much "Vangelis" in the later 80s somehow. Still I love many kinds of electronic music, regardless if old or new. Variety in this genre is very huge. Thanks for sharing!

D. Oeltermann

And yes: Jean Michelle Jarre rocked in his first years. I really liked the album "Les concerts en Chine" from 1981. Later on the sound was simply horrible. 😲

Stanislav Baranec

I think you are little bit comparing apples and oranges here, Olaf, at least with those two albums. They are more than decade apart and made in completely different phases of their careers. In 90's, the synthesizer was already deprecated to some degree, with all the best already heard.... JMJ also had best shots past him, with highlights like Oxygene / Equinoxe / Magnetic Fields, and some more good stuff in the 80's, I can agree that Chronologie was a step in wrong way in the sound, but I wouldn't dare to put him in the loser box compared to EOP, not for a second. I think he would be feeling offended if he reads it, and for good reason. They are both remarkable artists in the history of synthesizer music, each in his own way... I wouldn't even try comparing them on artistic level at all, but that's just me.