Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire (LP) (1981) - €10,00

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Chariots of Fire is a 1981 musical score by Greek electronic composer Vangelis (credited as Vangelis Papathanassiou) for the British film Chariots of Fire, which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Original Music Score.

The film score combines styles from across the musical spectrum including prog-rock, symphonic classical music and new age.
Vangelis’ electronic score for a film set in 1930s Britain seemed an odd match at first, but the title theme, with its echoing, manipulated rhythm box and melodic hook, became one of the most popular theme songs of the early ’80s.
Just hearing the opening 30 seconds conjures up — for those who have seen the film — shots of men running on the beach in slow motion, and has been borrowed, adapted, and ripped-off ever since. Suffice it to say that the other six tracks here can’t quite match the punch (if that’s the word for something so fey) of the title theme.
Much of the rest is very sappy, if often melodic, proto-smooth jazz with a burnish of electronic screeches, washes, and fuzzy fake strings.
If it works for the insular “Five Circles,” it doesn’t for “100 Metres,” which so desperately wants to be Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” but can’t quite get there with its watery synths — suddenly you realize what a full orchestral arrangement could have added.
Side two is a side-long “suite” of the themes on side one, created, one feels, to fill up space. Vangelis went on to snag more soundtrack work, notably Blade Runner.

Side A

A1.  Vangelis -  Titles - 3:34

A2.  Vangelis -  Five Circles - 5:21

A3.  Vangelis -  Abraham’s Theme - 3:21

A4.  Vangelis -  Eric’s Theme - 4:19

A5.  Vangelis -  100 Metres - 2:05

A6.  The Ambrosian Singers - Jerusalem - 2:47

Side B

B1.  Vangelis -  Chariots Of Fire - 20:40

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Spheric B.V.
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Inc.
• Copyright © – Polydor Ltd. (UK)
• Copyright © – Polydor Ltd.
• Published By – Spheric B.V.
• Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
• Published By – Harry Rabinowitz M/S
• Recorded At – Nemo Studios
• Lacquer Cut At – Strawberry Mastering
• Pressed By – PRS Ltd.

Credits

• Arranged By – Harry Rabinowitz (tracks: A6)
• Artwork – Main Titles Ltd.
• Composed By, Arranged By, Producer [Produced By], Performer [Performed By] – Vangelis (tracks: A1 to A5, B)
• Conductor [Director] – John McCarthy (tracks: A6)
• Engineer [Engineered By] – John Walker, Raine Shine, Raphael Preston
• Performer [Performed By] – The Ambrosian Singers (tracks: A6)
• Sleeve, Art Direction, Design – Alwyn Clayden
• Written-By – Parry (tracks: A6)

Notes

Release: 1981

Format.  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Ambient, Synth-pop

Label:  Polydor Records

Catalog#  2383602

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00