Kaiju Eiga said:

focuspuller said:

Erikstormtrooper said:

focuspuller,

Are you aware of a piano-only version of Memories of Green (without the beeps and synth)? I recently heard this playing with some other "muzak" at a Chinese restaurant. It was a very surreal experience.

Sorry for not answering sooner. No I was not aware. I think it's very safe to assume that what you heard was not from Vangelis, probably a cover from someone. In anycase interesting exerience. :)

Hi,

This piano version without the electronic background/clicks you probably heard was the Memories of Green taken from the infamous soundtrack, "Blade Runner: Orchestral Adaptation Of Music Composed For The Motion Picture By Vangelis ", performed by The New American Orchestra. Also, this version of Memories of Green was also used in the movie, "Someone To Watch Over Me".

Vangelis' original track, Memories Of Green, originated in Vangelis' 1980 album, "See You Later". Ridley Scott heard this track from the album and later, with Vangelis' permission, included the same track for Blade Runner.

For more information about Vangelis and his music, I recommend perusing these most excellent sites:

http://elsew.com

http://vangeliscollector.com/

Enjoy! And best of wishes on this project.

P.S. Beware. Once you've completed this, there will be bootleggers that will take your work and attempt to sell this for their own profit. Vangelis fanatics and diehards have been known to pay high dollar for rarities where bootleggers take full advantage of; this fanedit of the Blade Runner soundtrack would certainly fall under this category.

That's stating the obvious but I'm not concerned. The reason for the many bootlegs of anyone's work is the attempt to keep this kind of thing in the "smokey back rooms" of conventions, traders, and internet auctions. Those days (for the most part) are gone, thanks to sites like this. This music is for the fans, everyone who loves the film and it's music, not simply a few die-hards.

Also, I don't consider this a fan edit, but rather a restoration. While I have mixed and mastered tracks together, I have not taken liberties. I have tried very hard to simply present the music as Vangelis recorded it as best I could with available sources, using the film and official release and a few other things as reference. Meanwhile, most of the bootlegs out there contain tracks thrown together like a mix tape, containing sound effects or clips from the film added over the music. Tracks in no real order or incomplete. Not to mention countless other things like music playing on the wrong speed, etc. This is the most complete collection of the film's music released to date. The only one who can upstage that is Vangelis himself, which I would be very happy to see.

No doubt there will be some comments. "you could have done a better job". "The speed shouldn't be this it should be that." "you didn't include some track that was on some bootleg." Same thing happened to Adywan's edit of Star Wars, which I am a big fan of and hold this collection within the same vain.

Going back to bootlegging, perhaps I will record an introduction/disclaimer. In any case, my goal is to get this out to as many fans of the film that want it. One that happens bootlegging will be pointless.

On the record: I don't support bootlegging of any kind. This collection should only be owned by people that own the official Vangelis music already. He's got some great work and you should get as much of it as you can. This collection is for research purposes only and NOT FOR SALE.