Vangelis ‎– Beaubourg

This is a very interesting album if maybe a bit strange & bizarre to some Vangelis fans... "Beaubourg" is one of those albums where you either like it or you don't... it's been a topic talked about with many Vangelis fans... It's an album in my opinion that more or less showed Vangelis in a sort of freestyle mode... creating different sounds & effects while showing his ability at doing what he does so well... Yes fans you either like it or you don't but make no mistake it is nothing like his other albums but that's not necessarily a bad thing here... It's not a bad album! : )

UK Pressing - Green Label RCA International - INTS 5158 - Label says 1978 - Sleeve says 1981 - Re-press ?

I first heard an excerpt of this album on a 'Best of Vangelis' compilation. Beside the melodics and accessibility of sequencer driven tracks like 'Spiral' and 'Pulstar' this seemed at total odds. Nowadays respected artists hedge their bets when doing something a bit 'radical' by labelling it an 'installation piece' to hide any possible blushes. Not the big Greek! Vangelis never deliberately hid behind his tottering banks of analogue synthesizers in this way. Dark, brooding and not what most people wanted, you can actually hear the maestro himself churning the VCO/VCF knobs! A gem desparately in need of remastering though. Apparently a 'corrected mastertape' version was released by RCA, this and the Vinyl versions suffered from audible Master Tape 'drag'.