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Soil Festivities is a 1984 album by the Greek

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artist Vangelis

Vangelis

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...

Track listing

All songs written by Vangelis

Vangelis

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...

"Movement 1" – 18:20
"Movement 2" – 6:20
"Movement 3" – 6:06
"Movement 4" – 9:54
"Movement 5" – 7:20

Overview

This 1984 release was the first in what could be very loosely said to belong to a trilogy of his 80's albums, the other two being Invisible Connections
Invisible Connections
Invisible Connections is a 1985 album by electronic/new age musician Vangelis.-Track listing:All songs written by Vangelis.# "Invisible Connections" – 18:30# "Atom Blaster" – 7:50# "Thermo Vision" – 13:19-Overview:...

and Mask, both from the following year (1985).

He derived his inspiration for the collection from the life processes taking place on the Earth's surface. "I work like a bridge between nature and what comes out through my fingers" Vangelis told Jereme Jones in People
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"I write music primarily for myself, though it’s lovely, everybody goes out and buys the records. My new album Soil Festivities was made because I wanted to make music, not sell a million records. I don’t think it’s possible to guarantee commercial success for an album anyway, because nobody really knows what is commercial and what isn’t. Even if I went out of my way to make an album that was more accessible to the public, that would not guarantee its commercial success". 1

Credits

Engineer : Jess Sutcliffe
Sleeve design : Vangelis, Alwyn Clayden
Creative assistance : Green Ink Projection
Studio ambience : John Martin

Trivia

On the Japanese LP, Movement 5 ends a few minutes early. On the CD, there is a break in the middle of that movement. It was originally meant to be the end of Movement 5, after which Movement 6 would play to finish the album. Movement 6 ended up being "deleted" by combining it with Movement 5. This was all later corrected on a subsequent pressing.

Album Versions

LP

Polydor 27209 (Argentina) 1984

Polydor VAN 08 (Canada) 1984

Mercury 823 396-1 (France) 1984

Polydor 823 396-1 (W Germany) 1984

Polydor 823 396-1 (Greece) 1984

Polydor 823 396-1 (Italy) 1984

Polydor 28MM 0395 (Japan) 1984

Polydor 823 396-1 (Spain) 1984

Polydor POLH 11 (UK) 1984

Polydor 823 396-1 (USA) 1984

CD

Polydor 80100982 UK)

Polydor 823 396-2 (Canada)

Polydor 823 396-2 (W Germany)

Polydor POCP 2109 (Japan)

Polydor 823 396-2 (USA)

External links

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