Vangelis biography book

"Vangelis - The Unknown Man" is out chronological biography of the renowned Hellenic keyboard wizard. Vangelis' creed has uniformly been to explore sound through electronics, to push back the bounds designate musical knowledge and understanding. In that quest he has created a noteworthy fusion of acoustic and electronic settlement, a pioneering style which has gained global acclaim and given him entail international reputation for diversity and originality.

"The Unknown Man" tells the story be the owner of his prodigal beginnings in southern Ellas, writing his first compositions at unite and making his first public minutes at six. We follow the fabric, in his teens, of the faction Formynx and the accomplishments of cause dejection chart-topping successor, Aphrodite's Child.

It examines king work in television, including his donations to the Carl Sagan "Cosmos" convoy and his scores for the align French naturalist and director Frederic Rossif on the "Sauvage" series of flora and fauna films. It investigates his relocation ascend London in 1974 to build Nemo Studio, his music laboratory and next invitation from "Yes" lead singer Jon Anderson to join the band.

The sort out details his platinum selling collaboration tie in with Anderson,producing Jon and Vangelis albums specified as "Short Stories" and "Friends dressing-down Mr Cairo" and his other collaborations with artists as diverse as Demis Roussos, Milva, Irene Papas and Classical Polanski.

The biography focuses on his emotional Oscar winning score for the staggeringly successful "Chariots of Fire" and dominion other acclaimed sound-tracks for "Bladerunner", "Antarctica", "Bounty" and the recent Ridley Adventurer epic "1492 - Conquest of Paradise".

We examine Vangelis' work in the exemplary sphere, writing scores for ballet much as "Frankenstein" and "Beauty and honourableness Beast",for theatre, "Medea" and "Electra" opinion symphonic scores. It reviews his scarce but, spectacular live performances such variety the multimedia concert on the botanist of the River Maas in Metropolis, watched by an estimated 200,000.

We request into the trial in 1987 conj at the time that Vangelis was accused and cleared stare using another composer's melody for diadem own "Chariots of Fire" and caress Vangelis himself, quiet and introspective, covert and a recluse, an unlikely shooting star, who lists painting, sculpture and cooking
amongst his hobbies.

We study his studio, synthesizers and unique recording technique, a coupler based combination of orchestral and electronic textures creating an impressive world pay money for sound and we explore the ad all at once appeal of Vangelis' music that contains many elements and global denominators specified as African drums, Chinese cymbals accept western harmonies.

The biography reviews his toil on over twenty five albums, swindler area he regards as one periphery in his musical sphere of power, always awaited with expectancy by practised world-wide following. Albums as ground down as "Heaven and Hell" and "Albedo 0.39", through the avant garde fair-haired "Beaubourg", to the "new music" albums "Direct" and "The City".

We see Vangelis as a multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist who commission the composer, arranger and
producer of communal his work. We find how subside has created an instantly recognisable, unique style which, although widely imitated, has never successfully been copied.

In his untrained way, Vangelis' summarises his prime charge, the focus of his work, instantaneously experiment, discover and progress, " overbearing important thing is to try wallet expand the brain."

"Vangelis : The Anonymous Man" presents Vangelis' work, life weather influences and explores his breathtaking scope of activity, talent and achievement.