''Invisible Connections'' is a 1985 album by Greek
electronic composer
Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (, ; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis ( ; , ), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed ...
.
Track listing
The track listing of the original 1985 LP and all reissues until 2016 appeared as follows:
# "Invisible Connections" – 18:30
# "Atom Blaster" – 7:50
# "Thermo Vision" – 13:19
Although it was quite noticeable that the title track had two distinct parts separated by silence, while the two shorter tracks were extremely similar in style, there was no other indication of any errors in the mastering, pressing, or labeling of the album. However, with the release in 2016 of the ''Delectus'' box set containing CD reissues of a selection of Vangelis albums remastered by the composer, it was discovered that the two sides of the album had, in fact, been reversed all along: the true "Invisible Connections" had been split into two tracks and placed on side B, while "Atom Blaster" and "Thermo Vision" had been combined into one track and placed on side A. This long-standing mistake was finally remedied on the remaster, which associates each song with its proper title and sequences the album correctly:
# "Invisible Connections" – 21:03
# "Atom Blaster" – 8:37
# "Thermo Vision" – 9:44
All songs composed, arranged, produced, and performed by Vangelis.
Overview
One of his most
experimental
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albums, ''Invisible Connections'' is quite different from the majority of Vangelis's work.
Despite this, it can very loosely be said to belong to a trilogy of his 1980s albums, the other two being ''
Soil Festivities'' from 1984 and ''
Mask
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'' from the same year as ''Invisible Connections''. These all feature a willingness of the artist, at this time, to experiment with not only music itself, but his own album release patterns, as the content differs so markedly from the style for which he was known up to this point. In fact, it may be that he was deliberately revisiting the style of ''
Beaubourg'', a 1978 album in the same
minimalist vein as ''Invisible Connections''. (Though ''
Hypothesis
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'', recorded in 1971 and released in 1978, is also considered to be another "experimental" album, it was a release Vangelis did not sanction and was musically more in the style of
jazz fusion
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than minimalist.)
Alternate releases
LP:
*Deutsche Grammophon VAN 10 (Canada), 1985
*Deutsche Grammophon 415 196-1 (International), 1985
CD:
*Deutsche Grammophon 415 196-2 (International), 1985
*Polydor POCG-3547 (Japan), 1996, different cover
*Disc Kiosk (CD On Demand) EAN:5050801009806, Cat No: 80100980, 2006
*The Japanese release retitled the album to ''Meisou-Mienai Kizuna(瞑想-見えない絆)'', which translates, in English, to "Meditation-Invisible Connections"
*Universal Music International B.V./Polydor (UK) Ltd., 2017
References
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1985 albums
Vangelis albums
Space music albums by Greek artists
Deutsche Grammophon albums