Albedo 0.39

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-03-11 rating:
Vangelis at his best
This i considor to be one of Vengelis's best albums, sorry cd, shows my age and that i have album tucked away. A must for Vangelis fans

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review by: John F date: 2009-02-12 rating:
Classic Prog Rock
I bought this album in late 1976 after reading a glowing review in 'Sounds'. The dramatic melodies, tinkling keyboards and electronic percussion really conjure up a cold, powerful outer-space ambience At the same time there is an almost classical discipline and structure to the music. In my opinion this ranks alongside Rick Wakeman's 'Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table' and Patrick Moraz's 'i' as one of the triumvirate of essential 70's Prog keyboard albums

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review by: Crash date: 2009-01-17 rating:
Yeah!
I agree with almost all that Mike Slade in his review (other than, apparently, it's not Vangelis going the title track vocal). br / br /For me, this is the grand daddy of all Vangelis albums. It's all terrific, and I still have the 7" single of Pulstar and Alpha too.... br / br /Interesting for some.... two years ago I was in Athens at a conference. We were in a huge hall - and during the drinks/eating greet and meet they played this album - LOUD. As in it was echoing around this huge space... it was as cool as cool can be, and I was pleasantly surprised. br / br /Nice to know this one isn't forgotten.

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review by: Mikey date: 2008-06-21 rating:
classic 70's electronica
Produced in the 70's before he really hit the big time, this is a slice of what made Vangelis the master of synth rock. This is up there against Tomita and J.M. Jarre, and comes out very well. We all gasped that only one man was making such wonderful music, remember this was before PCs and samples took over the world. There are complex and melodic pieces alongside percussion. There is an other worldly feel to the pieces which explains why this music was used in Carl Sagans "Cosmos". The spoken title track is quite haunting and ethereal, the sound effects of the speaking clock and telephone dialling a little twee. A great introduction to synthesizers and the template for many a late night session staring at the clear night sky as a callow youth, dreaming about the Chariot of the Gods.


review by: date: 2007-06-06 rating:
Sounding a bit dated but still interesting
Albedo 0.39 was released in 1976 and finds Vangelis using a mix of synthesizers, percussion and a variety of other instruments. Some of the more melodic tracks achieved quite wide exposure at the time, most notably "Alpha", which was used on the American television series "Cosmos". br / br /The album sounds very much of its time, especially with regard to Vangelis's use of the Apollo astronauts' voices in "Mare Tranquilitatis" and the British Post Office 'speaking clock' at the end of "Pulstar". Some of the tracks have an experimental feel and don't really work, most notably "Main Sequence". However, the "Sword of Orion" has a poetic elegance and the two "Nucleogenesis" tracks, very much 1970s rock but with unusual use of the organ, still sound quite exciting. br / br /The narrator of the atmospheric "Albedo 0.39" track is not credited and some people assume it must be Vangelis himself, but apparently it was the album's recording engineer. br / br /In summary, an interesting album but not as good as Vangelis's "L'Apocalypse des Animeux" or "China".

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