![]() Unfortunately the Windham Hill print in the States (1997) used the early master, hence is of bad quality. The flaw was however corrected in later prints. The first German pressing was poorly mastered, with a strangely fluctuating pitch, something that was hard to pick up because of the nature of the album. This CD was printed in two variations of quality. "Beaubourg" takes its title from the street in Paris and with that also refers to the "Centre Pompidou" building in Paris, which functions as a center for innovative modern (mainly abstract) arts. Vangelis however spoke with great affection about this piece in several interviews and his engineer says Vangelis took it very seriously, while recording it. This caused speculation that perhaps Vangelis submitted these recordings as his final RCA album to get rid of his contract. The album is often referred to as anti-commercial, because of its non melodic - even consonant - nature. Ring modulators, noise and weird LFO effects are unleashed in wide stereo spaces. without applying the required filtering.Īn expressionistic work, consisting almost exclusively of strange, unearthly sounds. Even worse: The respective labels seem to have been unaware of this and delivered the music to iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, etc. If you created your own mp3s of your CD, you have most likely been listening to the uncorrected master with emphasis applied. However, some CD players and in fact, almost all computer based players cannot handle the necessary filtering, and will play back the CD with unintended harsh high tones. It intends to reduce noise, by over emphasizing the higher tones in the recording, and indicating to the CD player to correct that. This rarely used feature is only found on a limited number of CDs, produced in the '80s. Some prints of this album, in fact, all the common European prints as well as the Japanese mini-LP editions have been mastered with the pre-emphasis flag set. Jon Anderson is featured again, this time however not singing but playing the harp, on the track named "Flamant Roses". Being one of the early albums to feature Vangelis' landmark instrument, the Yamaha CS-80, the sound of this album seems to bridge Vangelis' "sound" of the 70s into that of the 80s. In general he album has a consistent overall melodic quality. This also boosted the sales of "Opera Sauvage" as an album, being re-released to cash in on the melody's popularity. "Hymne" is probably Vangelis' most used track at wedding ceremonies and became famous in the States during the eighties when a re-recorded version was used in a TV commercial. Both "L'Enfant" and "Hymne" are favorites among fans as well as cover artists, no doubt because of their uplifting romantic melodies and rich synthesizer orchestrations. The album contains some Vangelis classics. Although it's safe to assume it was probably remixed in stereo for the album release, considering most Rossif productions were mixed in mono. Contrary to most other Vangelis' soundtrack releases, the album contains actual pieces from the series, not having been re-recorded. The series contained a lot of ethnic music, but almost all episodes included some or much new original music by Vangelis. Opera Sauvage was a series on French television focusing on all things exotic, such as foreign cultures and wild life. ![]() Another album with music for Frederic Rossif's documentary work.
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