[Nick Zwar]

1982 was a pivotal year for me. I decided that I wanted to become a movie director, and I bought my first film score LPs.
The first time I recognized Vangelis was indeed BLADE RUNNER; at the time I didn’t even know if that was the name of a “band” or a person. I got the LP from the “New American Orchestra”, read the book, and when I saw the movie, I noticed that the music in the movie was quite different from what was on the LP. I was so happy when BLADE RUNNER was finally released on CD, only to be disappointed that the actual “Main Title” from BLADE RUNNER, perhaps my all time favorite single track by Vangelis, was not on that album. Though it’s still great album and I loved the way Vangelis connected the tracks and even the dialog clips to a “concept album”.

I then also got Vangelis’ LPs for CHARIOTS OF FIRE and SOIL FESTIVITIES… those were probably my first Vangelis albums.
I like and enjoy his music a lot (I never much explored the song albums with “Jon & Vangelis”). Very inventive composer, with a sound unique to him. Vangelis is of course first and foremost known as a synthesizer/electronic keyboard composer, but his music always had a very warm, organic sound to it. I think my first Vangelis CD was DIRECT, which I bought in 1990.