Mellotronists

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From: jeffc@...

To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:20 PM

Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Mellotron dominated recordings

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, tony1 wrote:

> Better check that out because Vangelis was responsible for all of the Cosmos music that I know of.
> I have been a fan of his since before that series aired, own the series and without checking the credits right now I'm 99% sure the Greek did most of the music, and nicely at that too!
>
> Tony
> #510
>
> http://www.amazon. com/Music- Cosmos-Selection s-Score-Televisi on/dp/B00004WFPW

just to clear things up...
MOST of the music from cosmos is/was indeed vangelis, but not all of it,
and i would just say perhaps a slight majority. and the vangelis that was
used came from his existing catalogue - it was not composed FOR the series...
i know some heldon was used, some eno, and i think some teddy lasry, plus
some things that i probably just can't recall at the moment.

i did watch the entire series about 6 months ago after renting it via netflix.

aha - someone has done ALL the homework for us:
http://www.users. bigpond.com/ cosmic_voyager/

...jeff

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On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, tony1 wrote:

> Correct Jeff after looking into it I was surprised at how many composers
> past and present who's works were used in that fine production. Thanks
> for the clarification!
>
> Tony
> #510

i think that the impression is an easy one to be left with,
and one can only credit that to the brilliant use of music
in the series. i recall during the intial broadcast waiting
eagerly each week for th next installment. sagan had a gift
for making what could otherwise be very dry and boring material
rather engrossing [once you got past his "billions and billions"
thing].

and if you had asked me a just few years ago i certainly would
have had the same impression that nearly all the music was
vangelis.

...jeff