For me, "Beaubourg" is one of my top 10 albums of all time.
I first heard the snippet of it on "The Best of Vangelis" compilation, which I'd gone out and bought with my Christmas money exactly 30 years ago this week. I remember lying in bed at my parents' house with these weird and exciting sounds playing through headphones and that was the start of my love affair with the CS80.
I've never owned one (though I have a recording of me using a borrowed one live at a gig), though I did own a CS50 which I used to try and make Beaubourg-like tracks with.
Bill
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From: zaum
To: yamahacs80@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 12:54 PM
Subject: [yamahacs80] Re: Best CD titles to get featuring CS80
Tomita's album "Daphnis et Chloe" also known as "Bolero" or "The
Ravel Album" in various countries has quite a few CS80 leads. That
was basically the first album of his to use a CS80, the only one to
use it a lot and the last Tomita album to be all analog. There was a
small label CD reissue recently but the sound is said to be far
inferior to the not very expensive Japanese cardboard sleeve
remasters released multiple times since 2004.
Irene Papas' album "Odes" features Vangelis playing all the music. It
has some of his most articulate playing and tends to have the parts
more exposed than his solo albums.
Vangelis' often argued about album "Beauborg" is apparently 100% CS80
though it's lack of conventional melody and suspiciously contract
fulfilling recording of an improv isn't well received by many.
As already mentioned, "Spiral". That's his first album to play CS80
and is his most sequencer-oriented.
Vangelis' "Opera Sauvage" has a lot of CS80. "Chariots of Fire" of
course. It's funny the official music video has him pretending to be
playing synths not heard on the track. I've always wondered if it was
to just be more photogenic or not reveal his trade secrets. His
"1492" soundtrack still has a fair amount and more recent "Alexander"
has a little bit.
-nick
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