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Rating: During the wake, only a few notes could be heard. Perhaps recognizable, but completely out of context, they could have been anything. I knew well the thirty-year-old lying composedly in the coffin, with a light veil over her body and face. The veil, to the sound of those notes repeated cyclically, seemed to wave. In reality, the air came from some fans positioned at the corners of the small church to mitigate the temperature of that scorching July. Besides slightly stirring the hot and sticky air, they also carried the miasma of the corpse, inevitably rotting, which couldn't be covered even by the myriad of flowers that were rotting prematurely and in parallel by its side. We looked at each other in the face, with eyes clouded by tears and drops of sweat that, after pearling the forehead, descended on the eyebrows. And it seemed strange that that beautiful and desired girl was lying, awaiting burial. The father nodded at the funeral director, and accompanied by a heart-wrenching cry from the mother, the coffin was closed, forever.
When I think of her, those notes return to my mind and, unfortunately, I always associate them with the moment narrated above. That was her favorite song and a mutual friend, a musician, decided to play it on the organ at her wake, appropriately arranged so as not to be scolded by a notoriously strict priest.
Pure melody. So rich and engaging, so mournful and ethereal, solemn in its chord progressions. Jon Anderson and Eyágelos Odysséas Papatanasíou, much better known as Vangelis, met in 1973 in Paris when Anderson, fascinated by the sounds of the album "L'Apocalypse des Animaux", wanted to meet the Greek musician in person. In 1974, when Rick Wakeman left Yes, Anderson attempted to bring him into the band, but due to various issues, nothing came of it. However, it began a series of collaborations that resulted in four albums, this being their third and best, released in 1983.
Despite the backgrounds of the two, we don't have an album of powerful and complex progressive music, on the contrary. Right from the beginning and the previous works, the common path was that of pop, perhaps with new age, ambient variegations, and certainly some prog touches, mainly in the refinement of melodic sequences and chords. Even "Horizon," the lengthy suite that covered the entire second side of the vinyl, cannot be compared to common progressive exploits, but simply to a long search for melodic and atmospheric solutions interconnected, perhaps in a more classical than prog manner.
The first part, however, is made up of five songs of varying lengths that make melody their true strong point. Among them stands out the particularity of the opener "Italian Song", endowed with a text of made-up words, composed by Anderson and set into the emotional and creative melody. Then there's the quintessential song, the one so adored by my friend, "And When The Night Comes"... and I have nothing more to say, here comes Dick Morrissey's saxophone and the soul tears apart.
A very delicate, feminine album, with ethereal, rocking and floating tones like veils, gently stirred by sweet and distant breezes.
"I want you always"
Sioulette
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Deborah (04:56)
read your letter, I got it just the other day...
You seem so happy, so funny...how time melts away
It's such a pleasure, to see you growing
And how you sending your love to the air today
I think of Heaven...each time I see you walking there
And as you're walking, I think of children everywhere
It's in your star sign...you growing stronger
I can't believe you...so good to care
Thru enchantment, into sunlight
Angel's touch...your eyes...
Your highness...electric...so surprise
Is this your first life...?
It seems as though you have live before
You help me hold on...
You have a heart like an open door
You sing so sweetly...my love adores you
She does, she's thinking of you right now
I know...
The summer's coming...
I'll keep in touch so you're not alone
Then like the swallow, you'll fly away like birds have flown
So let me tell you...how much I Love You
I'd make the songbirds sing... for you again...
Well now it's goodnight...
Sweet Angel...read this letter...
Well
04 Polonaise (05:26)
If you just take my sense of freedom
If you just take away my home
You can't ever hope to win me
This I'll tell you for sure
There is strength in the common people
For the people is all we really are
Young and old, the wisest and the lowly
Each indeed is 'Holy' in the 'Light of Love'
When the 'Word' comes
I will be waiting
Like a dove that shines he prays for peace
Some have waited what seems a lifetime
Some are waiting now to be released
For the moment we have this freedom
We will choose the way our hearts will move
All the people lost will find their way
Give that chance today
Hear and I will pray
No not for nothing hearts will not be broken
As long as we are open
Our hearts will make us free
Free for the Earth man
Free for the millions
In the 'Glory' all will come in 'Truth'
No aggression, that we leave behind us
To be replaced
By 'You'
For tomorrow another morning
For tomorrow another day
In our children there's that sense of freedom
Help them use it wisely
I will pray
05 He is Sailing (06:49)
Out of the mist into tropical splendour
With garlands of flowers
In Majestical fusion we see tonight
On to this sacred reunion of pleasure
They row as a rhythm, ten thousands of millions
They touch the Light
King is sailing they say
King is sailing we hear
King is sailing they say
King is sailing this day of days of days
Cocasaya Tay Toca
(Printed lyrics show the following which is left out entirely in recording)
[ Drums beating faster thru' harder excitement
[ The wings bring the Angels
[ They singing of Truth that this day has come
[
[ Older than oldest religions have promised
[ A promise is kept on this Golden Reflection
[ His Kingdom Come
King is coming they sing
King is coming they know
King is coming we sing
King is coming we know Kotao Kotao Kotao
All the souls he to touch
All the souls he to touch
All the souls he to touch
All the millions of souls he to touch, he to touch
Cocasaya Kotao Kotao
Heaven set sail in His ship full of light
He trancends all our love
To caress all our fears
In a moment Divine
Weakest and Strongest will dance in delight
All illuminous our Saviour they bringing him forth
All will sing to the Night
Our true Kingdom come
Our true Kingdom come
Our true Kingdom come
Our true Kingdom come
Higher, Than Higher, Than Higher, Than Higher, Than Higher
Ahhs...
06 Horizon (22:51)
In amongst the rings of confusion
Silencing the thought powers one by one
It seems all so incredible
Our own ability to confuse - to sacrifice
To enlighten like a Shakespearian play
We foolish and happily hold on to sanity
While all around the pushing
And prodding of our feelings
The twisting and turning of our hearts
Displaying an almost indefinable strength
Of purpose - a reason a reason a reason
Where no reasons seems to exist
Yet, as in a vision, a voice transcending
All our imagination, jewel of life
Guiding light heralding a joyous new dawn
Clear and gifted time
Divine Nature - Super Nature
The supreme gift of knowledge and space
In this cacophony of life
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Will Come
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Will Come true Horizon
Come true Horizon
Come true Horizon
Come true Horizon
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Will Come
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Will Come true Horizon
Come true Horizon
Come true Horizon
Come true Horizon
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Peace will Come
Will Come
Reach for the starlight
Reach when it calls you
You, you are the reason
If you want
You are the answer in the end
La La La's...
Sweet music, and your secret heart
Both have the healing grace
Sweet music, and your secret heart
Both have the healing grace
So, again, a change, it comes
Our world desires a way
Touch a child, who's lost, afraid,
It lifts you to true emotion
True feelings, be the light
All that is good in this life
Is good, good is good
Oh everlasting dream, Oh future come alive
To witness comes that time
I just can't help but believe in life,
All in all I just can't help but believe there is a way
For us to give, A way for us to live
A way for us, A way for us
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