Vangelis – Beaubourg

This version used a bad digital master that was taken from an analog master that dragged on playback. The pitches occasionally dip badly. Comparing with the good 1990 CD release from Japan, the tracks are about 20 seconds longer due to the bad digital master

I can confirm that this release doesn’t have the pitch problems that plague the western CD versions. Music is very experimental and not the typical lyrical Vangelis album.

A simple summary....If you like Robert Fripp's -"Frippertronics"....you'll enjoy this album.

What is new about this release? Is it the Vangelis remaster? Or merely a version correcting the speed errors of the previous digital transfer?

Phenomenal listen, phenomenal pressing. Glad I picked this up out of curiosity after he died.

Bad fluctuations in speed and a crater where there was a fault at the factory - I have the first pressing Japanese CD, and it seems that's the only edition that is audibly sound.

I’ve seen some suggestion that there’s some pitch wobble on side 1. Does anyone else think that? Is it just the patch settings which Vangelis used on the CS-80?

Love this album as it exemplifies the depth of this mans creativity. Whether a contractual obligation or not it is unique and totally unexpected to the casual Vangelis listener whom expect melodic drenched movie music this is not of that DNA.
Here he explores I am surmising the sonic terrains of the Yamaha CS-80 a monster 150 lbs analog polyphonic synthesizer capable of immediate tactile to sound responses. The album has very little to no overdubbing a wonderful treat in itself!
Traversing dark and light terrains you get the bleeps and bloops the staccato too and at time's not too distant Forbidden Planet like electronic curios from decades earlier.
I respect Vangelis totally going against the smooth veneer of his usual offerings and creating what I believe must have been a complete commercial failure of truly avant-garde expressionism. Not an easily listen but something that will catch you off guard in a positive way one day mark my word!

Some say he created this beast as he was contractually obliged to produce one more LP for RCA, but those who do generally do not appreciate the insanity that lies within.

After the inspiring Heaven & Hell, Albedo 0.39 and Spiral, fans were left in anticipation for what beauty Vangelis would conjure up next.

Instead, he delivered a piece which could only be described as chaotic.

While there are only two "parts" listed, there is far more than that present here. Indeed, hardly anything stays constant for more than 30 seconds (and if it does, you are left hanging in uneasy suspense).

Quite hilarious to hear of people pigeonholing Vangelis as "Easy Listening Electronica" or even "New Age" when you're exposed to this.

Make no mistake, this is NOT easy on the ears or mind. It's probably one of the only LPs I own that I will never listen to any which way but sober. My god, it would take some serious guts to sit down and listen to this on illegal substances.

I can't even describe it, other than what I said already:

Chaos.

No track durations on this UK issue (see images).