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Blade Runner Trilogy 25th Anniversary
A stunning three CD collection to mark the 25th Anniversary of Blade Runner. The trilogy features previously unreleased music from the film, bonus tracks and a brand new album of Vangelis material inspired by the film. Sleeve notes written by Ridley Scott. Disc One features the original and remastered soundtrack as it first appeared in 1994, twelve years after the film was released. Disc Two contains all the remaining music from the film that did not appear on the original 1994 soundtrack, plus two bonus tracks (‘One Alone’ and ‘Desolation Path’). None of this material has been released before. Disc Three contains an entire album of newly written material composed by Vangelis to mark the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner. The music is strong and flowing, and retains the dark, atmospheric sense of the original score.
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou; (29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.
Vangelis began his career working with several pop bands of the 1960s such as The Forminx and Aphrodite’s Child, with the latter’s album 666 (1972) going on to be recognized as a progressive–psychedelic rock classic. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed scores for several animal documentaries, including L’Apocalypse des Animaux, La Fête sauvage, and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In 1975 he set up his new 16-track studio, Nemo Studios in London, which he named his “laboratory”, releasing many solo albums including Heaven and Hell and China among others. In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo released several albums together as Jon & Vangelis; he had previously joined Yes as their keyboard player, but left the group before recording any material with them.
In 1980, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack’s single, the film’s theme, also reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners’ medal presentation ceremonies.
Video: Blade Runner (Trailer) 1982
Tracklist:
CD1
1.1 Main Titles
1.2 Blush Response
1.3 Wait for Me
1.4 Rachel’s Song
1.5 Love Theme
1.6 One More Kiss, Dear
1.7 Blade Runner Blues
1.8 Memories of Green
1.9 Tales of the Future
1.10 Damask Rose
1.11 Blade Runner (End Titles)
1.12 Tears in Rain
CD2
2.1 Longing
2.2 Unveiled Twinkling Space
2.3 Dr. Tyrell’s Owl
2.4 At Mr. Chew’s
2.5 Leo’s Room
2.6 One Alone (Bonus Track)
2.7 Deckard and Roy’s Duel
2.8 Dr. Tyrell’s Death
2.9 Desolation Path (Bonus Track)
2.10 Empty Streets
2.11 Mechanical Dolls
2.12 Fading Away
CD3
3.1 Launch Approval – Scott Bolton, Bryce Bolton
3.2 Up and Running – Sir Ridley Scott
3.3 Mail from India – C. Lambrakis
3.4 BR Downtown – Oliver Stone, Akiko Ebi, Cherry Vanilla
3.5 Dimitri’s Bar – Akiko Ebi, Oliver Stone, Dimitris Tsakas
3.6 Sweet Solitude – Dimitris Tsakas
3.7 No Expectation Boulevard – Rutger Hauer, Wes Studi, Bhaskar Balakrishnan
3.8 Vadavarot – Irina Valentinova, Florencia Suayan Tacod
3.9 Perfume Exotico – Edward James Olmos
3.10 Spotkanie Z Matka – Roman Polanski
3.11 Piano in An Empty Room
3.12 Keep Asking – Bryce Bolton
