| Heaven and Hell | ||||
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| Studio album by Vangelis | ||||
| Released | December 1975 | |||
| Recorded | September 1975 | |||
| Genre | Electronica | |||
| Length | 48:12 | |||
| Label | RCA (original)/Windham Hill (reissue) | |||
| Producer | Vangelis | |||
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| Allmusic | [1] |
Heaven and Hell, released in 1975, is the fifth solo album by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis. It got worldwide recognition through the use of "Movement 3" as the theme for the television documentary series Cosmos.
The album has classical overtones, in contrast with the progressive rock on both the previous and the following albums, Earth (1973) and Albedo 0.39 (1976) respectively. Vangelis would return to classical style work ten years later, on Mask (1985).Vangelis dabbles with choral sections joined with his now typical electronic washes of sound, a concept he would return to in the nineties with his Conquest of Paradise and Mythodea. By now, Vangelis had left behind his electronic-progressive-rock forays. In fact, this album constitutes the first album where Vangelis establishes himself as one of the main figures in the growing musical genre of electronic instrumental and new age, creating a web of sound linking several simultaneous beats and melodic lines of different timbres on his synthesizers.
This album also marked the first collaboration between Vangelis and Jon Anderson, on "So Long Ago, So Clear", which would continue more fully a few years later.
Heaven and Hell reached number 31 in the UK album charts in January 1976.
The audio CD has two tracks:
Older pressings of the LP had a more elaborate track listing (in parenthesis, even more details):
Part One:
Part Two:
"Movement 3" was used as the theme for the popular Carl Sagan television series Cosmos.
"So Long Ago, So Clear" is listed separately on the album sleeve in all editions, as opposed to the other tracks.
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