[Thor Joachim Haga]

Alright, I’ve played through the ‘Rarities’ album. I actually DID find a couple of the tracks on Shazam (two of them were queasy collaborations with Montserrat Caballé), but most of them remain unidentified. Then through the big prog rock album 666 (1972) by Aphrodite’s Child. It gets a bit noisy, but it’s the best of Vangelis’ early prog roots.

Now on to one of my alltime favourites, L’APOCALYPSE DES ANIMAUX, which amazingly came out the same year as 666. “La Petite Fille de la Mer” is the big hit from the album, and that’s okay. It’s beautiful. Reminds me of a cue from DERRICK, of all things. But “La Mort du Loup” is so gobsmackingly beautiful, it almost makes me cry every time I listen to it. Never seen the film, but this soundtrack is the best of the best when it comes to Vangelis. As I’m not THAT thrilled with Vangelis’ work prior to OPERA SAUVAGE, this stands in a kind of oasis at this point in time.