VANGELIS PAPATHANASSIOU ? FAIS QUE TON RÊVE ? NM Philips Greece ? '72 prog psych

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Original first Greek issue of one of the most curious albums in Vangelis' oeuvre, which has never been issued on CD nor repressed since a rare 1979 French LP. "Have your dream last longer than the night" is a "symphonic poem" recorded in 1972, right after dissolving Aphrodite's Child. He sets out to compose a work about what must have been a personal experience when he and the rest of Aphrodite's Child were in Paris in 1968, recording their first album. They'd just fled from a more desperate situation in Greece (where the establishment was formed by a dictatorship), and must have sympathized with the anti-establishment movement which lead to the riots in May of that year. Vangelis set out to capture some of the excitement and passion generated by those involved, in a whirlwind collage of sound-effects, chansons, instrumental passages, choirs, heated discussions, radio-bulletins and more. At the same time, it also sounds like a remembrance of days gone by, a sort of documentary involving a 22-member cast (the only well-known name is violinist Michel Ripoche). The whole album breathes an atmosphere of "innocent working-class folk" feeling caught up in and rebelling against the powerful and somewhat sinister system of society. This last aspect comes out most in the first half of the album, the second has more of the sweet taste of victory afterwards. Each has its own little impromptu poem, written on some Paris buildings at the time: the first about seeking victory ("l'espoir de la victoire" at the end of Part I), the second about the freedom afterwards to do what you like ("le rêve est réalité" at the start of Part II). Part I lasts 15 minutes and starts off with a mayhem atmosphere of shots being fired, sirens and shouting, during which two short choruses are heard, naive "la la la" folk-tunes. It continues with a female voice plus violin singing another wordless melody. All this is accompanied by Vangelis on the piano, but suddenly his organ and percussion come in, which set a sinister, slightly Mediterranean mood, sometimes broken by a snippet of folk-chorus or heated street discussion. The female vocalist and chorus return, singing the poem and ending with the same chorus heard at the very start. Part II also lasts 15 minutes and starts off with a few seconds from the 1968 Aphrodite's Child hit "Rain and Tears", then the second poem is sung by all. It continues with a nice wordless chanson by the female vocalist, again with the violin. Another snippet of a street discussion before a very melancholic and achingly beautiful interlude by Vangelis on the organ, followed by more sound-effects and happy choruses. Here the shots fired sound more like victory shots by the happy crowd, sometimes saluted by a solitary and slightly shaky trumpet. A short radio-bulletin reminding us of the fighting that took place introduces the encore, a rather nostalgic-sounding conversation between Vangelis' descending piano figure and the chorus. This project shows Vangelis in collage-mood again - it was recorded at Europa Sonor Studio, where that other collage, "All The Seats Were Occupied" from final Aphrodite's Child album 666, was also created. It's quite unique in his oeuvre, as one of very few instances of anything approaching a political statement. The use of sound-effects from external sources would only really be repeated on "Albedo 0.39", and the collage-technique would only sporadically be used in later years.



Artist: VANGELIS PAPATHANASSIOU

Title:

FAIS QUE TON RÊVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT

Year: 1975

Label: Philips

Catalog Number: 9112 003

Mono/Stereo/Quadro: stereo

Country: Greece

Dead Wax Numbers:  9112 003 A  / 

9112 003 B  (stamped)

Weight: 115 grams

Cover Format: standard, Graphicolor Printed in Greece

Cover Condition: VG+ (sharp, crisp, vivid & tight, some tiny edge-creases & slight edge wear but top EX if not for small sticker tear under logo on front)

Vinyl Condition: NM (still like new, archive-grade vault copy that couldn't possibly be bettered)

Label Condition: perfect

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