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Just sharing one of my favorite pieces of him: "Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794 https://www.you
by gsoto 4y ago
Just sharing one of my favorite pieces of him:
"Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794
I think this piece shows the range of his musical expressiveness, apart from his virtuosity or synth programming skills. Just a piano passed through a flanger effect with some ambient sounds.
The electronic bleeps in that track are recorded from a handheld electronic game (Bambino UFO Master Blaster [1]). Talk about giving a whole new meaning to those sounds.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEOW8wAqG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEOW8wAqG0
- wcarss 4y agoI couldn't play that video for some reason (says it's unavailable), so here's another link to (I think) the same song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KfOMkyU_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KfOMkyU_w
- ffhhj 4y ago》"Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794 That title and that album cover: a woman wearing bikini and low-light glasses for snow, with the sun on the back and broken floating ice. A prediction of climate change from 1980?
- the_other 4y agoIf the myths hold truths, the oil companies knew this was an issue in the '70s. By the late 80s the predictions had reached artists and musicians in the UK (how I know this is too convoluted and flakey for this thread). I was taught about climate change (the "greenhouse effect") as a young teen, early 90s. It's been canon for me since then. I have no problem believing that forward looking adults were talking about it, making art and activism in 1980.
- the_af 4y ago"Memories of Green" was also used to great effect in Blade Runner. I love how well it works there. It's so sad and evocative.
- jug 4y agoWow, I thought it was written for the film until now! How embarrassing… Not only for the song suiting, but the title too. As it’s a bleak post-ecological society.
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoThere is a story about how Ridley Scott wanted to use this specific piece and a couple more by Vangelis in Blade Runner, and Vangelis told him: why reuse my old pieces, I can make a new score for this film specifically. And so he did, in some short timeframe.
- MrVandemar 4y agoI think Scott did this to Jerry Goldsmith for ALIEN as well, except Jerry wasn't happy about reusing music.
- WesolyKubeczek 4y agoDon’t you have to ask the composer for permi$$ion anyway? Or do things work differently in Hollywood?
- MrVandemar 4y agoIn the end, it's whoever pays for the rights. I think it was a piece of music from another film, also by 20th Century Fox, that they used as a temp track, and Scott liked it so much he made it happen. Goldsmith was not best pleased. It'll probably be the music for the opening titles, because when I bought the album in the 80s I was suprised (disappointed actually) that piece wasn't on it, and leaving off the opening titles is a real omission in a movie soundtrack.
- FpUser 4y ago>"Memories of Green" Memories of Green and his work on Blade Runner in general are on my list of best music. Beautiful work.