Spiral (Vangelis album)
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| Studio album by Vangelis | ||||
| Released | 1977 | |||
| Recorded | Nemo Studios, London, 1977 | |||
| Genre | Electronica | |||
| Length | 39:25 | |||
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RCA (Original) Esoteric Recordings (2013) |
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| Producer | Vangelis | |||
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Spiral is a studio album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in 1977. It was the third album produced by Vangelis in Nemo Studios, London, which was his creative base until the late 1980s. For the track "To the Unknown Man" Vangelis received the Midem International Instrumental award in 1978.
It is a concept album, thematically inspired by ancient Tao philosophy, exploring the nature of the universe moving in spirals. On the front cover is cited Tao Te Ching: "Going on means going far - Going far means returning", while the sleeve notes state that the track "Dervish D" is "inspired by the Dervish dancer who by his whirling realises the spiralling of the universe".
It was a less known and acclaimed album than the two which preceded in the 1970s, Heaven and Hell (1975) and Albedo 0.39 (1976).
The album reached #38 on the Netherlands album charts in 1978.
In 2011 the album was included along Heaven and Hell and Albedo 0.39 in a 3-CD box set series "Original Album Classics" by Sony, RCA and Legacy Recordings. In 2013 the album was released in a remastered and reissued digipak edition by Esoteric Recordings. It includes a bonus track, previously unissued on CD, "To the Unknown Man (II)", which was released as a B-side of the single "To the Unknown Man" in 1977.
The album is entirely instrumental, apart from Vangelis' processed vocals on "Ballad". Vangelis plays synthesizer, sequencers, electric piano, electric organ, harmonica, brass, timpani, percussion. It is the first album on which Vangelis used the Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer, on which he would come to rely heavily in subsequent work, and is the most sequencer-based album of his career.
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