Vangelis Has Died

Thank you, Vangelis.

Thank you for the mesmerising music that showed the world that synthesizers could be so much more than what they were given credit for.

Thank you for the glorious, lush, organic soundscapes in which I found refuge in my teenage years when life and the world became too heavy to bear at times.

Thank you for the bittersweet, melancholic themes that captured so well my emotions when I didn’t have any better means of expressing them.

Thank you for the inspiration. In many of my tracks, there is a doubled e-piano bell, a playful bassline, a minor lift straight out of one of your albums.

Click the image below to see Vangelis at work (YouTube).