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It's a magnificent work, both bombastic and serene, part Carl Orff, part Bach, but rich with that indefinable, spatial moodiness that's trademark Vangelis. The choir calls out to the heavens, synthesizers spin in counterpoint to tuned percussion, and timpani and cymbals crash on the shores of Vangelis's electronic orchestra. The second movement begins in pure abstraction before leaping into a joyous Asian-inspired section of rippling koto and plucked synth timbres and chimes. While the title suite makes up more than 40 minutes, the album's still best known for Vangelis's delicate if overly sentimental duet with Yes singer Jon Anderson on "So Long Ago, So Clear." Twenty years on, Vangelis can still move heaven, hell, earth, and your stereo system. --John Diliberto
| ARTIST: | Vangelis |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Windham Hill Records |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Heaven and Hell, Pt. 1/So Long Ago, So Clear, Heaven and Hell, Pt. 2, Heaven and Hell, Pt. 2 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 019341123224 |
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Customer Reviews of Heaven and Hell
Vangelis's Peak #1 This, "China" and the "Bladerunner" soundtrack are probably the three pinnacles of Vangelis's work. And in the manner of the latter two, "Heaven and Hell" offers up music which shifts through a variety of moods, styles, and evocations, all handled with a stupendous command of both the studio and the music created therein. The album's title really sums things up here; Vangelis takes the listener from both blissful and powerful symphonic visions of heaven, to dark and foreboding views of hell. Even the Jon & Vangelis collaborative track here, "So Far Away, So Clear", really fits well, in my opinion. But where things really shine is in Part II, where Vangelis shows his command of both some very tranquil and achingly beautiful music based around wordless Greek folk vocals, as well as a couple of sections where his music shows that it can stand up against the likes of avant-gardists such as Kryzystof Penderecki and George Crumb, both of whose musics bear a resemblance to parts of this latter half of this album. So, herein you will find much variety. "New Age"? Uh...bits of it. Pigeonholing this in that really cheapens it. It's so much more, and so much more complex.
The music he could have recorded with Yes...
It is a well-know fact that Yes-frontman, Jon Anderson, attempted unsuccessfully to bring Vangelis into Yes to play keyboards for the band. This wasn't meant to happen, apparently, so here you have in front of you the album that contains the sound that Vangelis could have brought into Yes. With a perennial musical struggle between good and evil, the tracks of the album take the listener through a spiritual rollercoaster. Along with his previous work for "Apocalypse of the animals" this album lays the groundwork for several of his later works: the more choir-based works, some harmonies to be found in Opera Sauvage (1979) and even the origins of the theme of Chariots of Fire! Though it's not my favorite Vangelis album (you don't want to go through hell and back, every time you listen to an album, which tells you that he actually did a great work), it is a brilliant masterpiece, deserving a space in the collection of all serious rock collectors (yes, this is more a rock than a new age album.)
Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell~ Vangelis is classic vangelis meaning that it is simply amazing. His way with keyboards is only rivalled by Jarre, Depeche Mode and a few more (kraftwerk). 5/5.
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