An avatar of orchestral synthesis for 30 years, Vangelis has only now made his full orchestral outing with the ambitious and epic Mythodea. Currently linked as theme music for NASA's Mission to Mars program, Mythodea dates back to 1993 when Vangelis premiered the work in a live performance. After the amorphous synthesiser opening, Vangelis is little heard, using his keyboards only to ...
Most composer collections are like those "clips" episodes that you get at the end of a long-running TV series which is low on budget. The tracks are akin to episode highlights and aren't really sequenced to do more than acknowledge what's made the composer popular. That's not the case with this collection. Although it only features two previously unreleased cues ("Theme from Bitter Moon" and ...