Vangelis - Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
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Free Music Notes for Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
Free Music Review: Old haunts
Hit: 5 Stars
I am sorry for the Blade Runner fans who were expecting a complete score. I myself was hopeful when the press release announced the "complete music from the film" would finally be available. Still, this is Vangelis we're talking about, and as others have said, he never releases a complete score. So I wasn't surprised in the end.
This is a fantastic box set and I'll tell you why--it is the only legal, high-quality box set of any Vangelis music ever to be released. I am a Vangelis fan first and BR fan second, which I think is what divides the critical and positive reviews here. It does seem redundant to include CD 1 in this set since all of us who care already have it, but the other two CDs are wonderful. CD 2 includes the full cues to music which were only heard in small bits during the film. This music takes fans back to an earlier era of Vangelis music, an era in which many of us first discovered him. CD 3, though new, is also nostalgic in one sense, but fresh in others. There's something in his blending of synthesized and acoustic sounds that has never been replicated elsewhere. Most composers are limited to the instruments of an orchestra to create sound for their themes and images. Vangelis can find a sound in anything and for anything. Anyone can find something to like in his music, though some of it I'll admit requires an acquired taste.
This set along with any Vangelis album is worth purchasing. Fans of music in general will be pleased to discover a new kind of music. This isn't New Age; it's hard to categorize. It's familiar in some ways without holding to convention, and exotic in other ways.
Also highly recommended: 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Antarctica, and Chariots of Fire.
Free Music Review: It's more than you could ever want....
Hit: 5 Stars
For years, Blade Runner fans had to endure the New American Orchestra soundtrack, which was simply inferior to the sensual, atmospheric music found on the soundtrack. It's still available for purchase, but its an oddity at best. Although, sometimes, I pop in the player just for old times sake.
Then, in 1994, the new CD of Vangelis' soundtrack was announced and I still recall buying it on the first day of release. I loved it, but some die-hard fans felt it was an unexpected slight. I adored the reworkings and ambient dialouge insertions and listened to it many times over the years.
In later years, Gongo (a fake US based company from 'Romania') took advantage of a public need and released the original soundtrack in its full glory (how they got it is debatable). The disc quality was good, but not mind-blowing. The Gongo edition is essentially the purest edition of the soundtrack that mirrors the Vangelis score found in the motion picture.
The new 3-disc 25th Anniversary disc has now been released. Oddly, disc one is the 1994 release. In the liner notes, Ridley Scott clearly understands that some fans were not that thrilled with the release, but there it is. Why not make disc one a remastered disc of the Gongo edition?
Disc 2 is an incredible collection of unreleased 1982 tracks as well as extended versions of familiar tracks from the film.
Disc 3 is newly created by Vangelis that are inspired by the original score. Again, Vangelis mixes in soundtrack elements along with dialouge readings from everyone to Roman Polanski to Oliver Stone. In short: its awesome!
Buy it, but shop Ebay for that Gongo disc just to be sure you have it all.
Free Music Review: A fine addition to your Vangelis library..
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been listening to disc 2 & 3 quite a bit and they are in a word, outstanding. Running relatively short for CD format (disc 2 @ 44:00 and disc 3 @ 48:18) they are nontheless exquisite examples of Vangelis' best work. These two discs, unlike the original OST on disc 1, are more ambient than melodic. The original release of disc 1 was exciting at the time (1994?), most notably for the gorgeous "Bladerunner Blues" and "Rachel's Song", but as a whole the OST was kind of all over the place: some voice-overs; some hard almost techno sounds; the anachronistic "One More Kiss, Dear". Listened to as one CD disc 2 & 3 feel much more representive of the original score than disc 1. Some themes are repeated as with track 12 of disc 2 which is "Tears in the Rain" without the Batty voice-over. There is also much exquisite new music on discs 2 & 3. Most notable are "Desolation Path" on disc 2 and "Piano in an Empty Room" on disc 3. This 3 disc set is not very economically priced as I'm sure most Bladerunner or Vangelis fans have had the OST CD for over 10 years, but I still recommend this set very highly. And if Bryant calls, "Tell him I'm eating."Free Music Review: What is the "Complete" Blade Runner Soundtrack?
Hit: 5 Stars
It's hilarious, these Blade Runner uber-fans getting so uppity about Vangelis and what is and is not the COMPLETE BR soundtrack. Back in 1993 I assembled my own COMPLETE soundtrack of the film using the best sound elements available at the time, the LaserDisc of Ridley Scott's Director's Cut. What I ended up with was absolutely the definitive, complete soundtrack to the film. Every note, bleep and hum. I loved it. I still love it, still have it, burned for eternity on CD. Now with the 5-disc DVD collection, any serious Blade Runner fan could easily create a superior audio version to mine. Instead they complain.
This 3-disc collection is a welcome alternative to the soundtrack I created. Expanded, like experiencing the whole thing from a new, different point of view.
You BR purists need to relax. Stop talking, stop typing, and start listening. What Vangelis has created here is BEAUTIFUL and HAUNTING, something NEW for all Blade Runner fans. Let yourself be open to its possibilities and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Free Music Review: Blade Runner Revisited
Hit: 5 Stars
This is another fine album from Vangelis. True this may not be as complete as many fans hoped for but the fact that we are getting a whole new disc (Disc 2) of mostly unreleased material composed back in 1982 is a cause for celebration alone. As previous reviewerers noted earlier, those fans disappointed with this release probably have the rest of the music in bootleg form anyway! The fact that we are getting any new Blade Runner music at all should be welcome. The third disc of brand new material is a great addition to the BR universe. Thanks Vangelis for returning to Los Angeles 2019.