Oceanic

Performer: Vangelis
Engineer: Philippe Colonna
Producer: Vangelis
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Solo performer: Vangelis. OCEANIC was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. If Vangelis has come to be known as the definitive cosmic composer, OCEANIC suggests that his interest extends to all things vast and unknowable. His aquatic passion comes through clearly in this exhilarating production, replete with harps, murmuring underwater entities, and mythic choruses.

Greek electronic composer Vangelis's first taste of fame was as a founding member of the 1960s rock group Formynx, who enjoyed wild acclaim in their home country of Greece. In 1968, Vangelis left Greece for Paris, where he formed the prog-rock group Aphrodite's Child, whose main legacy is a long-form concept album called 666, based on the book of Revelations. In 1974, after a tentative foray into film scoring, Vangelis released his first solo album, the synthesizer-laden EARTH. He continued to record both as a solo artist and as a member of the duo Jon & Vangelis, with Yes's Jon Anderson, but didn't hit it big in the U.S. until the early '80s, with his smash hit film score for CHARIOTS OF FIRE. He followed this with the critically loved BLADE RUNNER score, and has continued to craft well-loved electronic/New Age solo albums and film scores notable for their expansive, dramatic lushness.

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