LP VANGELIS PAPATHANASSIOU Sex Power (Re) MISSING VINYL MV037 - STILL SEALED
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Description
LP VANGELIS PAPATHANASSIOU
Sex Power
Country of release: Greece, 2013
Original released: 1970
Label: Missing Vinyl/Universal/Music On Vinyl
Catalogue number: MV037
Barcode: 0600753413951
Klappcover/Gatefold Sleeve: Ja/Yes
Condition Record: MINT
Condition Cover: MINT
LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!
(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)
Tracks Side 1:
1. 1ère Partie (17:00)
Tracks Side 2:
1. 2ème Partie (17:27)
Listen At YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ6KRI43K5o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmdLLdoGjuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8fDSmfyPvs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXt3n2iaOlA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cn6KLNgCYY At the end of 1969 Vangelis composed and released his first music for a movie outside of Greece. "Sex Power" (sub-titled "L'Homme Coeur") is a 81 minute long movie and also a first for director Henry Chapier, who won the Silver Shell Award with his film at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The musical score that Vangelis wrote for this film has become the 'holy-grail' of collector's items, as the LP released by Philips in France and Greece can be viewed as Vangelis very first solo album. Not many copies must have been sold at the time, and with the current high demand its value ranges into the hundreds of dollars. ( )
On this soundtrack-album, his first full-length solo-effort, all the future Vangelis trademarks are already there in rudimentary form. Not really so surprising, given the fact that around this time Aphrodite's Child were also moving from melancholic pop towards "666", a move largely due to Vangelis, musically speaking. Already his gift for rounded melodies, the full arrangements, strange sound effects, elaborate percussion, use of choirs and that Mediterranean touch are amply demonstrated here. The fact that it's also the soundtrack to an erotic movie can't really be anything but unfortunate (and a source of embarrassment to Vangelis nowadays), it was probably the only opportunity that happened to come along for this still virtually unknown Greek instrumentalist in France at that particular time. Certainly, the music isn't especially erotic (if there is such a thing at all), the only faint connection with the movie could be some African desert theme, but by this reckoning, it might have as well have accompanied a Frederic Rossif nature-film about rattlesnakes or something. Anyway, the movie must have been serious enough to warrant a special soundtrack, released by Philips in a gatefold sleeve, with even a single taken from it (although this might possibly have been a promo-single). All in all, more than enough to make this album plus single the hottest collectors-item in the whole Vangelis oeuvre, with some nice music to boot. Unfortunately, another Vangelis tradition, that of incomplete or non-existent credits, is also immediately started, because clearly at the very least a mixed choir, a female vocalist and an acoustic guitarist, all un-credited, can be heard alongside Vangelis on piano, organ, percussion and sound-effects. ( )
It is possible to see this album as a precursor to "Heaven and Hell", because it uses similar ideas and has the same sort of variety - there's less electronics involved of course, but Vangelis evidently had enough imagination to sufficiently realise the sounds in his head by using his acoustic apparatus. This would support the theory that every composer, certainly when starting out, has one well-formed idea which needs to get expressed before moving on. This project provided the first but technologically limited opportunity, when Vangelis finally had his own studio in London, he was able to express it much fuller and better.
The piano-end to Part I and the long experimental Mediterranean section in Part II really stand out as being mature Vangelis pieces. Being the first solo-outing, there's a trace of him trying to prove his point as a real composer/arranger, to the detriment of emotional depth perhaps, but Vangelis would put that right in his next projects, the music for the six "Apocalypse des Animaux" episodes and the very emotional "Poème Symphonique". (vangelismovements.com)
Vangelis Papathanassiou - All Instruments
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