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Sit yourself down on a nice grassy patch in the middle of a warm, starry night with your CD player and a copy of Vangelis' most famous work ever: "Chariots of Fire." Close your eyes as his most famous title song, aptly named "Titles," wraps around your mind, body and heart, and see the sea of stars swirl across your inner vision. Feel the next tune, "Five Circles," with its synth-brass beginning and spiraling, haunting melody shimmering with the wizard's signature synth-tracks bring tears to your eyes as a shooting star zooms past.
"Abraham's Theme," a piece full of faraway starlight sends the soul a-dreaming along with those who set their sights upon the heights they dare to reach in their lives no matter what other people say.
Tune in to track 4, "Eric's Theme," and you can almost hear the stately drone of Scottish bagpipes and thrum of an accompanying drum corps within Vangelis' own interpretation of the signature musical style of Eric Liddle's homeland. Just for the heck of it, I once envisioned the idea of an actual bagpipe-and-drum corps playing this, and the beauty and power of the sound in my head brought tears to my eyes!
"100 Metres," track 5, is a drifting, sparse nebulaic field of wonderous synth-manipulations that characterize Vangelis' knack for creating a tight, anticipatory mood--especially to suit the race that Eric Liddle refused to run, citing religious beliefs, thus the smooth transition to track 6, "Jerusalem," the melody and lyrics of which Vangelis did not write, but the second verse of which lent its fourth line to the title of the movie itself. ("Jerusalem" was originally a poem by mystic-poet William Blake, and the musical setting was later written by the Englishman Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
Track 7, "Chariots of Fire," is something of a bring-it-all-together, cosmic tapestry of the various musical themes Vangelis uses throughout the score, including, of course, bits and pieces of the French national anthem, the title theme, Eric and Abraham's respective themes and so on, melded together with the Synth-Wizard's knack for powerful chords, shimmering, glimmering synth-workings and percussion sections all guaranteed to make you want to stand a bit straighter, look your fears in the eye and go for what makes your heart want to soar among the stars, or run a few gold-medal races--with Vangelis as your score-meister! :D
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