1492: Conquest of Paradise - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Author: VangelisBrand: Conquest
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1992-10-20
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Opening
- Conquest of Paradise
- Monastery of la Rabida
- City of Isabel
- Light and Shadow
- Deliverance
- West Across the Ocean Sea
- Eternity
- Hispanola
- Moxica and the Horse
- Twenty Eighth Parallel
- Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria (Into Enternity)
Music reviews of 1492: Conquest of Paradise - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: emotion waves of Vangelis
Rating: 5 Stars
I started listening to Vangelis back in 1976 when Albedo 0.39 was released. My first albums of his music Albedo 0.39 and Heaven & Hell (1975) were, to me, spectacular. I was trading records on the black market in Gdansk back then and I remember it when in the summer of 1997 his following album Spiral showed up but I was not able to get it anywhere. I had spent a few days searching for that album so hard that I got my nickname Spirala from friends and customers. It stayed with me for the next 3 years, after which I left that place.
Those 3 albums are great and very much in the spirit of electronic music of Tangerine Dream sort, let's say. China released in 1979, was in the space of its own, because it was so ethnic. And it felt so exotic to me when I first heard it. Chariots of Fire (1981) and Antarctica (1983) are excellent and there is a gradual buildup of emotion which I can sense here. However, personally I feel that his best albums Vangelis introduced to us between 1989 and 1992 starting with Themes, containing fragments from Blade Runner and episodes from his earlier music. In 1990 The City was born, and that is another 5 start album. My favorite one, although it is a hard choice to make, is 1492, Conquest Of Paradise. Two more albums containing some amazing music were Voices (1995) and Oceanic (1996) but I have to say again, to me his golden period consists of Themes, The City and 1492. When I first heard 1492 in the early months of 1993 I could not live without it for a few days. I mean, I would listen to it at work exclusively, in my truck, and at home at night, lowering the volume a little for when I would go to sleep. The first thing I would do in the morning would be to turn it up while I was getting ready. I guess it took about 4 days after which I did not have to play that music anymore; it was already in me. Conquest Of Paradise is a very emotional and spiritual experience. It turns some people off as too pompous. I hear more pain and regret in it all. Oh well, there is a definite peace element in it and if that peace is lacking inside of you, you will not be able to enjoy the music, at first. However, given chance, that peace could come upon you. I have heard other people reacting to some of the music of Vangelis (perhaps the 1995-1996 period) as the elevator music. Again, that period was turning a little in that direction but Ask The Mountains was composed then, and you should listen to it 7 times and then decide if you still dislike it.
If you do happen to know and love the music of Vangelis already, I would also recommend Private Collection (his collaboration with Jon Vangelis of Yes). That album was the outlet for Jon's poetry and some lyrics are truly magnificent (And When The Night Comes or Horizon) but musically it is very mellow and simple. Please make sure you don't mind that, before you spend your money. If I was to stay with one Vangelis album for a long time, I would listen to songs I put together back in 1998 on a disc I ended up naming Emotion Waves Of Vangelis:
1. Monastery Of La Rabida
2. Fields Of Coral
3. Ask The Mountains (don't miss this one)
4. Antarctica Echoes
5. Blade Runner Love Theme
6. Alpha
7. West Across The Ocean Sea
8. Memories Of Blue
9. Closing The Bounty
10. Light And Shadow
11. Dawn
12. Dreams
13. Spanish Harbour
14. Jerusalem
15. Life Of Antarctica
I was not able to find much in the latest music of Vangelis but I would not count him out, yet. He could create something magnificent again.
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