Vangelis

title:  Memoires, Vol. 6: Live at Sophia Antipolis
date:   1980-08-17
venue:  Sophia Antipolis
city:   near Nice, France

audience recording in excellent quality

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This is a concert held at Sophia Antipolis, a place in the south of France, near Nice. Vangelis displays his remarkable one-man-orchestra techniques again playing almost everything himself, while making it sound like a complete setup of musicians, using only a limited amount of sequenced cues. A drummer was present for the rytmic support and the occasional triggered soundeffects.
Many different musical styles are represented. Besides Vangelis' usual improvisations (including "Beaubourg" style passages) he plays a wide spectrum of musical styles. A funny and entertaining jazztune on organsounds for example. And "Pulstar", which starts here as a dark slow-motion synthesizer combination, than evades into a contemporary piano piece, after that into some moody blues (still being recognizably "Pulstar") and finally into a typical "baroque string quartet" kind of thing.
Other well known compositions performed here are "The Long March" (China) and "Petite Fille De La Mer" with some nicely inserted "new" pieces with synthesizers and piano.

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CD 1
    1. Sophia Antipolis part 1 [8:36]
    2. Sophia Antipolis part 2 [19:50]
    3. Sophia Antipolis part 3 [14:02]
    4. Sophia Antipolis part 4 [18:07] 

CD 2
    1. Sophia Antipolis part 5 [5:27]
    2. Sophia Antipolis part 6 [19:42]
    3. Sophia Antipolis part 7 [3:05]
    4. Sophia Antipolis part 8 [10:00]