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Rating: P.S.: It is recommended to use the tracks of the work in question as soundtracks while reading the Review.
Listening to the Official Version of the "Blade Runner" soundtrack represents much more than simply wanting to engage with characteristic melodies of the cult movie; it goes beyond, surpassing Ridley Scott's monumental work to mere visual hedonism and nothing more…
Vangelis' creation, on the other hand, evolves, transforms, changes tone, infused with pure sunlight filtered through a space-time continuum in a sonorous projection of splendid and rare beauty; it changes shape and dimension, thus extricating its ethereal vastness.
To be able to define a masterpiece of this kind, to define its peculiarities, the complex nuances that made it immortal, is like wanting to define the mathematical complexity that envelops and constitutes the matter itself, evolving and revolutionizing, only to lose oneself in the infinity of God in the silence of the notes, imperceptible, subtle, very distant, so distant as to be terrifyingly close.
One only needs to close their eyes and listen to “Main Titles” and “Blush Response”; being thus fascinated by the vastness of an infinite space filled with stars, suspended towards the hatch of a spaceship that slowly opens, projecting us in the presence of a Panentheistic immensity.
Carried by a sound that evolves towards a harmonic “Wait For Me” and then transitions to an enchanting “Rachel's Song”, a sweet muse will be ready to cradle you in exquisite sensual pleasure towards oblivion.
In that oblivion, tired and passionate, where it is possible to listen to the splendid “Love Theme” by Dick Morrisey, whose saxophone outlines the plots in the complexity of life; its biological difficulty to evolve seems so objectively insignificant, in the face of all that is eternal.
Not even the age-old yet ephemeral “One More Kiss, Dear”, desecrating the transcendental peak, seems to depart from the narrative context, remaining nonetheless in a more earthly vision.
Vangelis' sound project thus begins to evolve towards a new psychedelic component with “Blade Runners Blues” and “Memories Of Green”, the latter followed by a piano solo, both as distant as disillusioned, in a pessimism that wants to recall the cold existential void, the nothingness… The silence.
As if to evoke absolute zero (–273.15 °C).
As if to evoke the renunciation of man's centrality, the renunciation of any intention.
The Sumeric “Tables Of The Future” and “Damask Rose”, hostile and obscure, hint at the dual aspirations of a Panentheistic entity, as real as it is rejected by religious beliefs; an entity mastering a universe that reveals itself in those relativistic and quantum concepts through that one premise: survival of matter.
Thus, listening to “Blade Runner”, immense galaxies disintegrated at the passage of stars, warships ablaze off the shoulders of Orion, B rays glimmering in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate, explosions of planets, destroyed and forgotten extinct civilizations, implosion and collapse of beautiful stars transformed into immense and voracious black holes, destroyers of entire solar systems … Concluding with “Tears of Rain”… Seem like just a vague memory in the cycle of life: “all those moments will be lost in time...like tears in the rain”.
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