- Invisible Connections
Infobox Album
Name = Invisible Connections
Type = studio
Artist =Vangelis
Released =1985
Genre = Electronic
Length = 40:31
Label =Deutsche Grammophon
Producer =Vangelis
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qzsxlfgegcqw]
Last album = Mask
(1985)
This album = Invisible Connections
(1985)
Next album = Direct
(1988)"Invisible Connections" is a
1985 album by electronic/new age musicianVangelis .Track listing
All songs written by
Vangelis .
# "Invisible Connections" – 18:30
# "Atom Blaster" – 7:50
# "Thermo Vision" – 13:19Overview
One of his most obscure albums, "Invisible Connections" is quite different from the majority of Vangelis's work. It has been compared to minimalist experimental music.
Despite this, it can very loosely be said to belong to a trilogy of his 80's albums, the other two being "Soil Festivities" from 1984, and "Mask" from the same year as "Invisible Connections".
These all feature a willingness of the artist, at this time, to experiment with not only music itself, but his own album release-patterns, as the content differs so markedly from the style he was known for, up to this point. In fact, it may be that he was deliberately, and consciously, returning to a style he began in 1978, when he released "Beaubourg", an album which is as experimental as "Invisible Connections".
Though "Hypothesis", released in 1978, but recorded in 1971 is also considered to be another "experimental" album, it was a release which Vangelis did not sanction, and, besides, it was musically geared towards
jazz fusion rather than the minimalist style of the albums, above.The music
Track 1 : The first movement, up to 08:35, is a collection of ominious, echo-laden, heavily-treated acoustic sounds; piano, cymbals, and percussion. Highly free-form, in the sense that there is no rhythm or structure (as such), it has an extremely unsettling aura even though it could be classified as being essentially ambient in nature. The second movement, taking up the rest of the track, is more "structured", with the introduction of electronics creating a more classical Vangelis sound, albeit still experimental.
Track 2 : Similar in style to the first movement of the first track, this is very minimalist and free-form, featuring, mostly, treated acoustics and reverberations.
Track 3 : An evolution of the second track, it mixes acoustics with electronics, producing an almost purely ambient, dark soundscape.
"Non-professional" reviews
* [http://www.vangelismovements.com/invisibleconnections.htm 'Vangelis Movements' review] (Negative)
* [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=7560 'ProgArchives' review] (Rating|2|5)
* [http://vangeliscollector.com/vangelis_invisible.htm 'Vangelis Collector' review] (Positive)
* [http://vangeliscollector.com/disckiosk.htm 'Vangelis Collector', Disc Kiosk versions] (Positive)Alternate releases
*LP:
*Deutsche Grammophon VAN 10 (Canada), 1985
*Deutsche Grammophon 415 196-1 (W Germany), 1985
*CD:
*Polydor POCG-3547 (Japan), 1996, different cover
*Disc Kiosk (CD On Demand) EAN:5050801009806, Cat No: 80100980, 2006
*The Japanese release retitled the album to "Meis?", which translates, in English, to "Meditation".
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
