Vangelis - Voices
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Free Music Review: A pleasant piece of work
Hit: 3 Stars
Voices--from Vangelis--was released in 1995. It consists of nine compositions. The album is almost 55 minutes. I like all of the pieces. Except for the gentle "P.S." and the serene, quiet "Dream in an Open Place," the rest of the tracks include vocals. The album's sound quality is also nice. "Echoes" and "Prelude" are my favorite compositions. The laid-back "Echoes" exhibits an engaging melody with a pretty timbre, while "Prelude" is attractive and calm sounding. Examples of other pieces that I enjoy are "Voices" and "Ask the Mountains." Not only is "Voices" stately and spirited, but it is also lavish. The peaceful "Ask the Mountains" displays curious, nice female vocals. Actually, I rate this piece of work 3.5 stars. Voices is a recommendable piece of work. Free Music Review: Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
All tracks are good. I play this CD quite often. One of his best, you cannot go wrong with this CD if you like Vangelis and this kind of music.Free Music Review: highs and lows on one album
Hit: 3 Stars
This is not Vangelis' best work. Having said this, it does not fall short in terms of compositional brilliance, epics sound and susubtle detail. Where this album falls short is the lack of real sonic inventiveness that vangelis is so adept at, and in between tracks of brilliance there are rather uneventful "filler" songs.
If you are new to his work, buy this album later. Get "china", "the city" or "the conquest of paradise" instead. if you already own a lot of his work, this album still does have some very memorable gems.
His true capability as modern musical genius only shows in a few tracks, leaving the ears wishing for more. The opening track "voices" is an uplifting and epic work, showcasing his mastery of "big" sound, but soemwhow it does not quite reach its full potential. There are moments where Vangelis eludes at what this track could be, yet it never quite gels.
The downers on this album are some more lyrical pieces, that altough hauntig and dreamlike, lack direction. It's as if he has not come up with anything new in terms of songs since the days of Jon + Vangelis collaborations.
Four pieces on ths cd stand out, and are enough reason for me to play the whole thing pureley because the way they interweave with the music before and after.
The first is "voices", the opening track. This dissolves into an awesome soundscape called "echoes", that shows Vangelis in fine form. Variations on the opening theme re-interpreted on various instruments over an ethereal layer of rythms usign different time signatures blend together effortlessly. It is the longest track yet it is always over far to soon. "Messages" is another beauty showing his mastery at blending organic and electronic sounds together, the orchestration is fantastic and so is the melody. This is a fitting prelude to the amazing closing track. Another epic, spatious and uplifting, and one that simply leaves you wondering what to play next. It is one of his most amazing pieces ever and it has no just follow-on but contemplative silence.
Free Music Review: Melodic and beautiful new age!
Hit: 5 Stars
When it comes to relaxing music which makes your soul recover and you brain waves move in an harmonic way Vangelis' Voices is a must. Chariots of Fire and Oceanic are also Vangelis albums that has a beautiful overall feeling and can also be considered masterpieces withing their genre but Voices is the album that at least for me works best when it comes to relaxing and just feeling good after a stressful day or after a day full of pumping rock music around you.
The reason I think many people like this album even though they don't like New Age in general is Vangelis' capabilities to mix colourful, touching and melodic music into something soulhealing and relaxing that makes your soul get lighter and easier. Many New Age artists has the ability to write music that works as a stresshealer, but many listeners I think get turned of by the lack of emotion in the music. There's a lot to take in here; a loads of touching sounds and beutiful harmonies and a sound that sometimes makes me feel like I can touch it, like it moves into my body like a healing energy making me leave the place I'm in for the moment. Works excellent for both meditation and background music but maybe not for party :).
Free Music Review: other reviews covered it, but wanted to chime in
Hit: 4 Stars
Many of the other reviews can already give one a sense of this album. I just wanted to chime in with a small 10 cents worth.
A lot of the tracks here are good, but forgettable. "Dream in an Open Place" is a Vangelis classic. There have been many times when I'll dig this album up just to hear this song. Few pieces from Vangelis, few from the entire world of music, contain such subtle and profound and gentle, exquisitely gentle moments, moments musically analogous to..well...so much beauty. I'd love to know what Vangelis was thinking when he wrote this. It's an embrace, it's a longing, it's a thank you, it's a moment of incredible clarity, it's so many things which just can't be described with words...
It's hard not to swell from within.....
It is it's title, "A Dream in an Open Place."