Various Artists – Music is Vast: A Tribute to the Music and Legacy of Vangelis (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 05:26:36 minutes | 3,40 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Castles in Space
5 Hours of Vangelis inspired music with plenty of references to the beloved music of BLADE RUNNER. When Vangelis died on 17 May 2022 (aged 79), it hit harder than I could have imagined. Coming only weeks after the death of Klaus Schulze, I found myself in a fug of unproductive thoughts about mortality and what we really leave behind when we depart. It’s probably my age. I was thrown a lifeline by @KidNarco over on Twitter who DMd me to say, “Vangelis tribute compilation? I appear to be ready.” I slept on it and in the cold light of day I realised that it had to be done. For Vangelis, for me, for Kid Narco. For all of us. I went back to him. “I’ve been thinking that this is a pretty fucking great idea.” I told him. It was on.So the call went out and as happened with my previous compilation adventure, “The Isolation Tapes” I was inundated with music of astounding range and quality. And quantity. It took me too long to realise that the magic in this one would be greatly diminished by taking a tiny selection of the tracks, constrained as we would be by the length of the sides of a vinyl album. As the project is essentially to raise money for The Trussell Trust, I also ruled out double albums, triple albums and box sets as being too expensive. Eventually.
The whole process has been pretty slow, but the time taken is rewarded in this brilliant collection. Not everything made it through, but this final selection of music inspired by the great man is a wonderful thing. It’s great that we got representations of music from across his vast range of styles, but when compiling, I tried to select things which caught his essence. That indefinable thing that always made a Vangelis track a Vangelis track – that’s what I went went looking for. I think I found it. And now you have too.
Colin, Castles in Space, March 2023
Tracklist:
01. The Electric Pentacle – Soundhenge Solstice [4:06]
02. Sound Effects of Death and Horror – The Earth Among the Stars [5:08]
03. Shuttered Lines – Derek’s Electric Sheep [3:37]
04. N Λ Ṇ D – (What We Need is) Peace [5:03]
05. Shardlowe – VanAngel [5:08]
06. P. G. Warren – Los Angeles [4:28]
07. Concretism – La Gallega (Into the Horizon) [5:30]
08. Adrian Carter – MidEngine [2:35]
09. The British Stereo Collective – Odysséas Ascending [6:04]
10. James Adrian Brown – Blade Running 2 [3:18]
11. Wealdham – Alpha Beta [5:43]
12. Hawksmoor – Ataraxia [3:17]
13. Andrew Hartshorn – A Voyage to Beta Cancri [3:36]
14. Audio Obscura – Magnesia [3:06]
15. tommymono – Autumn Descends on the Forest [8:26]
16. Parker and Bradburn – Ice Sheet [2:45]
17. Bit Cloudy – Mount Evangelos Theme [4:31]
18. Grotesqo – Bladerunner 2149 [1:38]
19. SOTOYOTO – I Have to Go [5:27]
20. Cautionary Guides – The Challenge of Space [4:00]
21. clocolan – Αντίο [1:38]
22. Patrick R. Pärk – Conquest of the Soul (For Vangelis) [3:18]
23. Ruptured World – The Provenance (La Renaissance des Animaux) [7:33]
24. HyMettus Woods – Crystal Greece [7:19]
25. Dave Clarkson – Jewel of the Aegean Sea [3:54]
26. Early Remains – Clear at Last [6:32]
27. Echaskech – Gulfoss [3:01]
28. Bernard Grancher – Ordre Evasif et Decision Inquieta [6:11]
29. The Eightsome Reel – Church of Ernest [7:22]
30. Alan Sinclair – Within Reach [2:38]
31. João Paulo Daniel – Folclore Impressionista [3:51]
32. Forest Robots – Where the Garden and the Forest Meet [4:29]
33. Future Children – Cotard’s Delusion [1:44]
34. Keith Seatman – By Moving Light [3:44]
35. Horror Dwarf – Moment [4:04]
36. Anton Witter – Humdrum [4:29]
37. PolarVoidX – Futures [7:31]
38. Jonathan Goode – For the Known Man [4:40]
39. Kl(aüs) – Ocean of New Worlds [4:40]
40. Polypores – All That Is, or Ever Was [5:28]
41. Grotesqo – L’Ambience [3:46]
42. Wealdham – Solstice Bowls [8:01]
43. Liam White – Thallium [5:57]
44. Sick Robot – Star Crash [4:23]
45. Occurence – Louise Penny [6:09]
46. Shadow Lab – Freedom to Eternity [4:34]
47. Martin Watson – Victor Alpha (November) [7:10]
48. Preston Outatime – Cut the Knot [4:25]
49. Moray Macdonald – The Great Gate of Tannhauser [4:38]
50. Subphotic – Muse [5:47]
51. Monochrome Echo – Evángelos [3:37]
52. Benjamin Finger – Out There [3:12]
53. Paul Smith – Mercury Delay Line [4:56]
54. Runners – Astral Requiems [3:52]
55. Secret Nuclear – Five Fifty One and Fifty Seconds [4:23]
56. Shedir – Wherever You Are [2:44]
57. The Home Current – We Are All Rituals [3:10]
58. The British Stereo Collective – Something Wicked This Way Comes [3:19]
59. George Sarah – St. Catherine (Et Dórmiunt in Somno Pacis) [2:31]
60. Mike Dickinson – Storm Chorus [5:41]
61. The Metamorph – Christmas on Ganymede [1:25]
62. The Night Monitor – On the Track of Discovery [4:34]
63. SOTOYOTO – Ambition [5:35]
64. Torpa – Agria to Paris [4:05]
65. Grotesqo – Untitled Amb [1:40]
66. Smoke Test – Weird Flex [7:34]
67. Perrache – A and Ω [5:57]
68. Aaron Ellis – Introduction [18:52]
69. [anonymous] – Untitled [3:06]