Vangelis - L'Apocalypse Des Animaux (1972 TV Documentary)

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Free Music Review: Utterly haunting....a portal to a coastal forest at twilight
Hit: 5 Stars

That's a very big claim, seeing as most critics and fans feel duty-bound to link Vangelis's peak with the later albums like 'Albedo 0.39', 'Spiral', 'China' or 'Bladerunner'. No sooner has the CD started than the fast, short title track rushes in on a flurry of percussion. The only up-tempo number of the album, this song serves to prepare your senses for the rest of the tracks by putting you in an aware mode. 'La Petite Fille de la Mer' is truly haunting in structure and delivery. Its melody could easily have been borrowed from a Turn of the Century (1900's) music box or pocketwatch. As mechanical in form as that may make it, to hear it again is as rewarding as to hear it for the first time. 'Le Singe Bleu' is a long, wind piece that catapults the listener into deep space at one moment and a darker part of the enchanted coastal forest at twilight the next. 'La Mort du Loup': poignant keyboard piece that sounds like the tide of deathly dark water lapping against the beach at dawn. 'L'Ours Musicien': the listener is now lying on the beach by the forest, gazing up at the stars, hearing the sound of the lumbering Ursa constellation as it trys to move in the Heavens. 'Creation Du Monde' - a very long, synth track which has the listener contemplate how little has changed about his surroundings since their formation. This is truly space music in that it can transport the mind to a swirling, lofty, other realm. This long, contemplative piece leads off into eternity. From that void, 'La Mer Recommence' comes back to the listener who, now watching the tide at late dawn, sees the pattern of life in the rhythm. Taken as a whole, 'L'Apocalypse des Animaux' offers well over half an hour of Vangelis's finest mood music. Vegetative? Call it what you may, this album is one for listening to with all the lights turned down. I can appreciate how it's deemed as music to make love by but it can trigger many more things in the senses and imagination of whoever is listening to it as well.

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