See You Later

For other uses, see See You Later (disambiguation).
See You Later
Studio album by Vangelis
Released 1980
Recorded Nemo Studios, London
Genre Electronica
Length 39:32
Label Polydor
Producer Vangelis
Vangelis chronology
Opera Sauvage
(1979)		 See You Later
(1980)		 Chariots of Fire
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

See You Later is a album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in 1980. It breaks quite violently with the style he had employed in the late 1970s and later, relying much more on vocals and being more experimental and returning (in many respects) to his early 1970s work like Earth or 666.[2] It was never released in the United States, and is one of his rarest albums.[3]

Overview

It is his most diverse work of the 1980s, with radical musical and lyrical themes compared to his other albums. The concept album is without typical Vangelis sentiments, instead there is negative and satirical intonation of dystopian future. It covers many diverse subjects about funerals, multi-track suggestions, masks, ready-to-wear and ready-to-eat things.[4]

Its lyrics are written by Vangelis, with dialogue in English, French, and even Italian, and uses electronic teminology with references of lost love, and kind of humanity downfall due to technology influence, an apocalypse. The title track lyrics say "See you later then... alive or dead".[4] Track "Suffocation" was inspired by the Seveso disaster in Italy.[5]

The albums sleeve shows a desolate and deserted ice covered planet, with a solitary woman wearing very bizarre looking sun glasses to protect her eyes. The inner sleeve is also disturbing, displaying a character seated in a greenhouse wearing an eerie looking gas mask.[4]

Instruments and style

Vangelis plays all instruments: synthesizers, electric piano, grand piano and drums.[3] The Roland CR-5000 drum machine is used extensively. Michel Ripoche plays the violin on #4. Vocals featured are by Jon Anderson (tracks #5 and #6), Peter Marsh (track #1), Christina and Maurizio Arcieri from the group Krisma (track #5) and Cherry Vanilla (track #4 narrative).[3]

Composition

"I Can't Take It Anymore" is sung by Peter Marsh through a vocoder over a deep synthesizer glissando bass, a synthesizer choir and CR-5000 hihats. "Multitrack Suggestion" is Kraftwerk-style and Eurodisco, which builds on a polysynth and upbeat CR-5000 pulse; the choir sings some terms associated with analog synthesizer technology (VCO, VCF). "Memories of Green" is a slow piano-based piece with a backdrop of synthesizer sounds and bleeps from the 1978 Bambino electronic game "UFO Master Blaster Station". The piano used on this piece was a Steinway Grand piano. Its distinctive "drunk" sound was achieved with the use of an Electroharmonix Electric Mistress flanger pedal.[6] This song was used in Vangelis' subsequent soundtrack to the 1982 film Blade Runner.[3]

"Not A Bit – All Of It" has vocals by Cherry Vanilla. "Suffocation" employs the CR-5000 and a saw wave synthesizer melody, followed by an eerie brass and megaphone emergency announcements in Italian. The second (slower) half of the piece features vocals by Jon Anderson and a narrative in Italian, by Krisma (Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser). "See You Later" has Vangelis on electric piano and staccato male atonal choir. About halfway through, there is a child narrative in French, with Anderson's vocals used in the finale.

Track listing

All songs composed and written by Vangelis.

  1. "I Can't Take It Anymore" – 5:42
  2. "Multi-Track Suggestion" – 5:36
  3. "Memories of Green" – 5:48
  4. "Not a Bit – All of It" 3:00
  5. "Suffocation" – 9:26
  6. "See You Later" – 10:22

A test 8-track test pressing (but was never officially released) has also surfaced without the title track, but including the track "My Love" which was featured on a previous single "My Love/Domestic Logic 1", along with two additional tracks "Neighbours Above" and "Fertilization".[3]

Side One:

  1. "My Love" - 4:02
  2. "Not A Bit - All Of It" - 2:55
  3. "Neighbours Above" - 4:48
  4. "I Can't Take It Anymore" - 5:38
  5. "Memories of Green" - 5:42

Side Two:

  1. "Fertilization" - 7:28
  2. "Suffocation" - 9:22
  3. "Multi-Track Suggestion" - 5:25

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ↑ "See You Later". Allmusic. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Vangelis – See You Later". Synthtopia. 3 January 2004. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "ReDiscover Vangelis' 'See You Later'". uDiscover. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 Jean-Michel Reusser (1980). "An interview with Vangelis". L'Autre Monde. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Album Review: Vangelis - See You Later". uDiscover. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  6. ↑ Clews, Richard. "VANGELIS: Recording At Nemo Studios". Sound On Sound. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
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