And while the voices of ENGLISH CHAMBER CHOIR infuse such expectancy-pregnant pieces as the piano-propelled “2nd Movement” with an oratorio sway, it’s another vocal that stitches together both sides of the composer’s approach. The first album to have been laid down in London, in Vangelis’ own Nemo Studios, “Heaven And Hell” also signaled a shift from prog into classical tropes, although all the orchestral moves here are shaped by synthesizers. That fire was infernal enough on “666” by his ensemble APHRODITE’S CHILD, yet once the band ceases to exist, the keyboard wizard expanded his creative scope and went as above so below. It takes an aficionado today to remember Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou as a rocker who swung his sweet chariots of fire low but hard. Childhood’s end is where the conquest of paradise begins in earnest for Greek maestro.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |