See You Later
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| Studio album by Vangelis | ||||
| Released | 1980 | |||
| Recorded | Nemo Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Electronica | |||
| Length | 39:32 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Vangelis | |||
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See You Later is an album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in 1980. It breaks quite violently with the style he had employed in the late 1970s and later, relying much more on vocals and being more experimental and returning (in many respects) to his early 1970s work like Earth or 666. It was never released in the United States, and is one of his rarest albums.
It is his most diverse work of the 1980s, with radical musical and lyrical themes compared to his other albums. The concept album is without typical Vangelis sentiments, instead there is negative and satirical intonation of dystopian future. It covers many diverse subjects about funerals, multi-track suggestions, masks, ready-to-wear and ready-to-eat things.
Its lyrics are written by Vangelis, with dialogue in English, French, and even Italian, and uses electronic teminology with references of lost love, and kind of humanity downfall due to technology influence, an apocalypse. The title track lyrics say "See you later then... alive or dead". Track "Suffocation" was inspired by the Seveso disaster in Italy.
The albums sleeve shows a desolate and deserted ice covered planet, with a solitary woman wearing very bizarre looking sun glasses to protect her eyes. The inner sleeve is also disturbing, displaying a character seated in a greenhouse wearing an eerie looking gas mask.
Vangelis plays all instruments: synthesizers, electric piano, grand piano and drums. The Roland CR-5000 drum machine is used extensively. Michel Ripoche plays the violin on #4. Vocals featured are by Jon Anderson (tracks #5 and #6), Peter Marsh (track #1), Christina and Maurizio Arcieri from the group Krisma (track #5) and Cherry Vanilla (track #4 narrative).
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