Thursday, 29 November 2018

Vangelis - Nocturne, the new 2019 piano album




The surprise announcement of a new Vangelis studio album to be released in 2019 came few days ago.

Release dates are different in some sources (CDS states 15 Feb 2019, Amazon states January 2019), and pre-orders are already taken by some retailers. It will be a CD and double vinyl release.

What is known so far? It will be a solo piano album (!) with some tracks re-arranged from Vangelis's earlier albums. 

The track list so far was posted on Amazon Germany only, whilst others say it will come with new information on 7 Dec. It will be hugely interesting to see piano arrangements for some of the tracks, and to see how the ever-enigmatic Maestro surprises us with new material:

1. Nocturnal Promenade
2. To the Unknown Man
3. Mythodea - Movement 9
4. Moonlight Reflections
5. Through the Night Mist
6. Early Years
7. Love Theme (From "Blade Runner")
8. Sweet Nostalgia
9. Intermezzo
10. To a Friend
11. La petite fille de la mer (From "L'Apocalypse des animaux")
12. Longing
13. Main Theme (From "Chariots of Fire")
14. Unfulfilled Desire
15. Lonesome
16. Conquest of Paradise (From "1492: Conquest of Paradise")
17. Pour Melia


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11 comments:

  1. Marco Hansen29 November 2018 at 04:24

    Mestre dos mestres, que maravilha, um grande abraço, beijo

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  2. vangelis29 November 2018 at 13:25

    unfortunate , i wish can be new , not recover :(

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    1. Levente29 November 2018 at 23:51

      there seem to be only few reworkings of old tracks, most of the material is listed as new

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    2. vcn1 December 2018 at 06:18

      Read, please... 11 new Vangelis tracks is more than a recover. Isn't it?

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    3. Anonymous3 December 2018 at 10:36

      Twelve tracks are new compositions and five tracks are new performances of famous tracks. Thus, it is a new album.

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  3. Ulf Claesson4 December 2018 at 07:34

    Also..remember how good the "old" tracks rearranged for the stage play of Chariots of Fire were? Creative rearrangements can make well-known music sound almost entirely new! Look how King Crimson deal with that in their ongoing world tour (have all the live albums released), it sound amazing more often than not, but I do hope the piano tracks also contain some.. how shall I say.. atmospheric ambience, i.e. reverb and at least some minor synth additions. Just a piano with no reverb or echo does not appeal. Go the route of Harold Budd and this albums could be positively amazing. It's all in the presentation. Well, not ALL, but a lot of it.

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  4. Anonymous26 December 2018 at 12:21

    los cd de pianito son basuras, para eso escucho a MARIA AMAYA, HAY QUIEN MANEJA MI PIANO QUE A LA DERIVA ME LLEVA QUE ME LLEVA QUE ME LLEVO.

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  5. Anonymous26 December 2018 at 12:39

    Para mi esto es un cd recopilatorio, con 11 temas nuevos de piano, es como si el hermanito de Mike oldfield que llava mas tiempo tocando la flauta que el flutista de Amelin, sacara un disco de pianito solo, para mi esto es música para dormir a los ancianitos que están cerca de los 86 años, vamos que a mi con 57 tacos me entra mas ganas ya de escuchar esto que a metallica, creo que con la cantidad de ancianitos que tiene España aqui Vangelis va a pegar el pelotazo, el ministro de sanidad de España le tenia que comprar un millón de copias a vangelis para que los DJ ENFERMEROS que cuidan a los viejecitos los puedan dormir, yo me quiero comprar dos copias, por si llego a los 80 tacos.

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  6. Mike25 January 2019 at 19:42

    Disappointingly the tracks are synth piano with a lot of string pads rather than an acoustic grand piano sound. I have played a lot of Vangelis on piano over the years (thanks to a friend's excellent arrangements) and while some subtle additions of synth pads are useful, this is not what I expected.

    I would read "piano" as in the Italian, as "quiet" rather than as the instrument.

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    1. Levente26 January 2019 at 06:36

      Absolutely. I am frankly very angry at the absolutely stupid marketing that hugely backfired - it was and is completely misleading fans and newcomers to Vangelis's music.

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  7. Levente26 January 2019 at 06:38

    A full review is now at https://notesfromanebula.blogspot.com/2019/01/nocturne-contemplative-new-album-by.html

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