EL GRECO
Vangelis
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Studio Album, released in 1998 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Movement I (10:06) - Evangelos Papathanassiou / composer, performer, arranger & producer
Originally titled "Foros Timis Ston Greco" (lit. "A Tribute to El Greco") was published in 1995 as a limited edition of 3,000 CD (with 3 tracks less and different cover art) and sold exclusively at the National Art Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum in Athens, Greece. and to Quinino for the last updates Edit this entry |
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New age / ambient music with no soul ("Movement 1"), this album has very little to offer IMHHO (only its length maybe?). When I see all these high ratings, I can only feel that I am much closer to Philippe's view (one star) than all the laudatory five or even four stars rating from other colleagues. This shows with sufficient accuracy that one album is felt dramatically different according one's sensibility.
Of course, when Caball� sings, she is moving (but this is all but normal) like the grandiose part in the fourth movement. But what has this to do with prog? Nothing, I'm afraid.
It was really challenging to listen to over seventy minutes of such music. The major feel is boredom and the "press next" feeling is often very tempting ("Movement 6" & 7). I just could feel a bit more interested during the long and good "Movement 9".
As you might imagine, my rating won't flirt with the highest ones available. Two stars.
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the soprano Montserrat Caballe, who was guest of Freddy Mercury on "Barcelona", the anthem of the Spanish olympic games, sings in this album as well as the Greek tenor Konstantinos Paliatsaras.
The classical mood of this album is not so huge as in its follower Mythodea, also because the two singers are the only "human beings" other than Vangelis. The rest is electronic. Movement 4 sung by Montserrat Caballe is one of the most "classical" in this sense.
On this album Vangelis is back to the late 70s. The sounds used and the melodies are just lacking some more percussions and/or rhythm respect to that period, but the compositions are very good and not repetitive. There is the celtic flavour of Movement 5 for example, or the peaceful length of Movement 1, the Arabesque medieval Movement 7. It's a sort of anthology of the musical places visited by Vangelis during his career with the exclusion of the jazzy debuts.
It's a highly evocative album. I don't think it's classifiable as newage. Not properly a concept album is music based on a concept: the life of that Cretan artist of the Renaissance.
Released between the not very good Oceanic and the "classical opera" Mythodea, this album represents probably the last highlight in the huge production of the Greek keyboardist.
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Maybe Oceanic proved too light. El Greco, a tribute to a fellow Cretan, is a dark and rich as anything anywhere else. The tempos are slow, the melodies ponderous, seemingly to take minutes to run through a single line. Each piece is like the slow rising and falling of the waves of the deep ... (read more)
Report this review (#295134) | Posted by Progosopher | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 | Review Permanlink
Ditto to all of the reviews above. For once Vangelis suppressed his eagerness to create instantly effective soundscapes and concentrated on music instead. It's a very welcome step off the beaten path for him, and a very strong display of his true talent. The atmosphere is nothing short of ma ... (read more)
Report this review (#87205) | Posted by Platypus66 | Monday, August 14, 2006 | Review Permanlink
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