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1	Beaubourg Part I - Vangelis
2	Beaubourg Part II - Vangelis

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 2.83 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Windham Hill Records
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Windham Hill Records
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000000NN5
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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shazam

An Enigma!

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2017

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It's easy to understand why some people find it difficult to get used to this work of art.Sometimes instruments are like drugs. He's using a Yamaha CS-80?No wonder...Well,it must be the instruments then.I really don't like explaining the reaction,when it's not how I feel about this.The ancient Greeks had a saying:"Know thyself."That is why I absolutely love this album.It's not the first album by Vangelis that I listened to.That in itself is too bad.I remember when he was living in that part of Paris,France and some music journalist visited his apartment.He was throwing a party and listening to these radios at the same time.It seemed strange.Don't struggle with this.It's like knowing yourself.

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H.A.L 8999

A splendid journey

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016

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This album is a journey. You have to appreciate Vangelis as a composer to truly appreciate the music. Listen and let your imagination float away.

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Monarch

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2014

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Great product and fast shipping.

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Yogi

I thought it was some that didn't know how to play music

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2022

Bought the record as a 12 year old, probably because it was in a synthesizer music category I though it was a New Wave album. It is so bad I remember putting it on the turntable and finding it had no music at all, just random sound effects. Fast forward 44 years and I listened again. Wow, I still hate it. I am listening right now and it could be made by a 12 year old that never had a music lesson horsing around with a synthesizer. Even those old laser light shows wouldn't play this to a bunch of stoners.

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Three Months Without Sun

A Musical Ride With Its Own Dream-Logic

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2013

Imagine an ironworks or a steel mill trying to sing, then imagine electronic sound strangely generated from deep space, then imagine the ambient sound the insides of your computer at their most microscopic level might make as they go about their business, and then imagine the sounds of longing, wonder, sadness, or hope or despair your inner being might make at times of birth, death, separation, and joining, and then imagine a single piece of music that wanders back and forth between these motifs over the course of 40 minutes. It's all non-verbal and non-logical (but not illogical), and it plays on a subconscious level in the way that much modern, experimental work does. But, that said, I've always enjoyed this piece since I bought it on vinyl 25+ years ago in a basement used record store -- not to listen closely and hum along, but to have on in the background when my mind is about other things (reading, studying, writing, daydreaming) and the part of my mind that isn't immediately engaged needs somewhere to go. Again, like much modern music, it defies easy listening, but in the end, it makes its own kind of sense though you'd be extremely hard-pressed to say exactly how or why.

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Louie Bourland

Vangelis At His Most Experimental.

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2003

"Beaubourg" is an album that is often misunderstood by avid Vangelis listeners. The album is either hailed as a masterpiece in one corner while in another corner, there's a barrage of booing and hissing. In all fairness, an album like "Beaubourg" had to be done. It's quite a unique album and is one of the few nonmelodic works in Vangelis's large catalog of music.
Essentially, "Beaubourg" is a single 38-minute work divided into two parts. If you listen to the album, you'll discover that the piece is divided into even shorter sub-movements. The piece consists mostly of random blips and bleeps along with some harsh metallic-like tones and the occasional singable melody. Musically, it's along the same lines as some of the early electronic music composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Subotnick and Pauline Olivieros. "Beaubourg" can even be comparable to Beatle George Harrison's Moog opus "Electronic Sound". It's quite possible that Vangelis used the above influences as a blueprint for this piece.
When the album was released in 1978, opinions were obivously divided however, "Beaubourg" has become somewhat of a cult classic over the years. I first heard the album in 1990 and still enjoy when I play it. While it's not Vangelis's greatest achievement, it still is one of his most daring pieces of music and is quite an earful to listen to. It's worth checking out but use extreme caution when doing so.
So far, Vangelis has only released one other album that can be comparable to "Beaubourg". That album is "Invisible Connection" released in 1985 on the German Classical label, Deutch Grammaphon.

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PhiloX

Has its Moments

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2013

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I got this LP as a hand-me-down from a friend who no longer has a turntable. He must of been into 1970 to early 1980 synthesizer music. I have yet to count the total LPs of early computer music I received. He told me that Vangelis was his favorite composer but this recording must of been an exception. Read the CD reviews pro & cons; this is the most experimental & less musical of all of Vangelis's work. One review wrote that Vangelis got paid for playing with his new toy, the Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer & others compared the work to the composers LaMonte Young & Stockhausen. You would have to know your modern classical music to enjoy the joke. It does have its moments when 1 or 2 minutes here & there come together to make some logical musical sense. Other wise it sounds like Vangelis is pushing buttons on the keyboard & taking it for a test run. Recorded in 1978.

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Jean Christophe Ponchard

bonne état.. mais l album n est pas ...

Reviewed in Canada on December 5, 2015

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bonne état .. mais l album n est pas tres bon .. on dirait la trame sonore d un film de sience fiction debut 70.. musique tres disparate.

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SplendidRaptor

Vangelis at his most experimental

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2020

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The music on this album is strident and discordant and most people will hate it I listened to the cd several times and it grew on me If your expecting melodic music look elsewhere, this is Vangelis at his most experimental I actually think this is a worthy experiment and like it I have a good hi fi system and I can't detect the hiss some reviews mention, the recording is fine Giving it three stars as it's a album I won't listen too as much as a lot of the others

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CHRIS B.

An immersive and challenging experience

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2022

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A lovely pressing in turquoise vinyl and really nicely remastered. This isn't your usual Vangelis melodic music and is totally abstract with some brief melodic moments. I already knew this but love a challenging listen.

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Fraxis

Made using a faulty master tape

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2020

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This sadly appears to use a faulty master tape, in which the pitch wobbles badly, particularly on side 1. It has been a known issue over the years, but there is a correct master tape. Just not in this case. I have flagged this with the label and hope they can recall and repress these, using a better source. Such a shame, as these Vangelis reissues were going so well.

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Val Persil

(bought this on vinyl in 1984) This album sounds like it comes out of nowhere

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2015

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Can this album be compared to anything in the sonic universe?
Krell music?
A symphony of synaptic pulses?
A close encounter of the seventh kind?
And yet there is deep emotion here in rare, sublime passages - amidst the free-improvised alien jazz.
Analogue synthetic wallowing? Retro-futuristic exuberance? (bought this on vinyl in 1984)
This album sounds like it comes out of nowhere. It sounds as fresh as the day in the future when artificial intelligence is sophisticated enough to compute it (yet it will never be able to)...

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