Vangelis - Blade Runner Esper Edition (Bootleg, 2003)

Vangelis soundtrack plays a very important part in the atmosphere of Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's masterpiece (1982). The official Vangelis score was released only  in 1994. However, it offered only selected parts from the soundtrack. In 2007, celebrating the 25th Anniversary, a 3-CD set was released: the 1994 score was remastered and two bonus-CDs provided additional music edited by Vangelis.

There are many unofficial versions of Blade Runner's soundtrack, collecting music and ambient sounds from the whole movie, editing and ordering them in different ways. The Esper Edition is one of the most authoritative bootlegs: it provides a comprehensive soundtrack and some background music that has never been released.

The 33 tracks of the Esper Edition provide us with almost two hours of music: it is the best way to rediscover Vangelis fantastic music, haunting and melodic, with sophisticated soundscapes. 

Blade Runner's music remains today an absolute masterpiece...

link: mp3

VBREspEd1.zip

VBREspEd2.zip

password: olduvai

Vangelis - Beaubourg (1978)

Well, this is probably not the the most successful and popular album of Vangelis... but thirty years after its release, Beaubourg is still as innovative and surprising as it was... This music celebrates the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, also called "Centre Beaubourg", which is the place, among others,  of a great museum of contemporary art and also of IRCAM, a research center devoted to contemporary music.

With this great album, Vangelis shows the extent of his skills and of his musical universe. Abstraction, sonic painting and sculpture, multidimensional space, electro-acoustic music where melody still plays its part: it is difficult to find the right words to describe these two long compositions, unveiling an unknown side of Vangelis musical world.

This 1978 album is a superb musical and technical achievement, since it was recorded with analog synthesizers and with analog tape recorders, without computer and composition softwares...

It is avant-garde music with a human feeling and breathe, with a vision, and also with a challenge defying the usual borders between "academic musicians", belonging to a research institution such as IRCAM, and independent composers, such as Vangelis, who took the risk to offer this work to a large audience...

If you don't know this album, be bold enough to listen to it !  ;-)

link: mp3 / 320

VaBeau.zip

pass: olduvai