Voices

Artist: Vangelis
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 075678285349
EAN: 0075678285349
ASIN: B000002J7V

Release Date: 1996-01-09

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Tracks:

Voices
Echoes
Come to Me
P.S.
Ask the Mountains
Prelude
Losing Sleep (Still, My Heart)
Messages
Dream in an Open Place

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Customer Reviews:

highs and lows on one album.......2006-09-10

This is not Vangelis' best work. Having said this, it does not fall short in terms of compositional brilliance, epics sound and susubtle detail. Where this album falls short is the lack of real sonic inventiveness that vangelis is so adept at, and in between tracks of brilliance there are rather uneventful "filler" songs.

If you are new to his work, buy this album later. Get "china", "the city" or "the conquest of paradise" instead. if you already own a lot of his work, this album still does have some very memorable gems.

His true capability as modern musical genius only shows in a few tracks, leaving the ears wishing for more. The opening track "voices" is an uplifting and epic work, showcasing his mastery of "big" sound, but soemwhow it does not quite reach its full potential. There are moments where Vangelis eludes at what this track could be, yet it never quite gels.

The downers on this album are some more lyrical pieces, that altough hauntig and dreamlike, lack direction. It's as if he has not come up with anything new in terms of songs since the days of Jon + Vangelis collaborations.

Four pieces on ths cd stand out, and are enough reason for me to play the whole thing pureley because the way they interweave with the music before and after.

The first is "voices", the opening track. This dissolves into an awesome soundscape called "echoes", that shows Vangelis in fine form. Variations on the opening theme re-interpreted on various instruments over an ethereal layer of rythms usign different time signatures blend together effortlessly. It is the longest track yet it is always over far to soon. "Messages" is another beauty showing his mastery at blending organic and electronic sounds together, the orchestration is fantastic and so is the melody. This is a fitting prelude to the amazing closing track. Another epic, spatious and uplifting, and one that simply leaves you wondering what to play next. It is one of his most amazing pieces ever and it has no just follow-on but contemplative silence.

Vangelis-Voices.......2006-07-12

When it comes to relaxing music which makes your soul recover and you brain waves move in an harmonic way Vangelis' Voices is a must. Chariots of Fire and Oceanic are also Vangelis albums that has a beutiful overall feeling and can also be considered masterpieces withing their genre but Voices is the album that at least for me works best when it comes to relaxing and just feeling good after a stressful day or after a day full of pumping rock music around you. There's a lot to take in here; a loads of touching sounds and beutiful harmonies and a sound that sometimes makes me feel like I can touch it, like it moves into my body like a healing energy making me leave the place I'm in for the moment. Works excellent for both meditation and background music but maybe not for party :).

other reviews covered it, but wanted to chime in.......2006-06-25

Many of the other reviews can already give one a sense of this album. I just wanted to chime in with a small 10 cents worth.

A lot of the tracks here are good, but forgettable. "Dream in an Open Place" is a Vangelis classic. There have been many times when I'll dig this album up just to hear this song. Few pieces from Vangelis, few from the entire world of music, contain such subtle and profound and gentle, exquisitely gentle moments, moments musically analogous to..well...so much beauty. I'd love to know what Vangelis was thinking when he wrote this. It's an embrace, it's a longing, it's a thank you, it's a moment of incredible clarity, it's so many things which just can't be described with words...

It's hard not to swell from within.....

It is it's title, "A Dream in an Open Place."

Different..........2004-05-05

Although the opening title track is a bit derivative, Voices, as an album, tends to get somewhat deeper (and more interesting) the further in you go. The most provocative tracks include "Come to Me," "Ask the Mountains," and "Losing Sleep (Still, My Heart)," which feature guest vocals by the likes of Caroline Lavelle, Stina Nordenstam, and Paul Young, respectively.

Overall, this is a somewhat unusual album, melodically, and though it's perhaps not as readily accessible as Direct nor as prolific as Mythodea, Voices has a voice of its own.

new new age.......2004-02-05

I don't particularly care for new age music as stand alone entertainment. I find it works extremely well as background music for films, especially futuristic films, but sorely lacks interest as real stand alone music.

After listening to Voices for a few years I've come to the conclusion that it is the only new age thing I've heard that is successful because Vangelis has found a way to find accompaniment within the music itself. What it is accompanying I haven't the slightest idea but it certainly isn't standing alone as simple new age music. Maybe its the voices or the organic rhythms, I don't know.

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