一聽音樂網

開啟新世紀音樂先河的希臘音樂巨擘Vangelis/范吉利斯，享有「電子樂界的柴可夫斯基」的崇高封號﹔他融合東西方文化精髓與特色的音樂，充滿了盎然的藝術生命力，三十多年來他創作出「火戰車」、「銀翼殺手」、「1492」、「南極物語」等膾炙人口的電影/紀錄片音樂、2001年美國太空總署Mars Odyssey Mission樂章、2002年世界杯足球賽、2004年雅典奧運主題音樂，更贏得奧斯卡金像獎、金球獎、金獅獎加冕，1992年和2002年分別獲得法國授予的藝術騎士獎和榮譽騎士獎。
 
by Zac Johnson
 
Arriving 12 years after the release of the film, Vangelis' soundtrack to the 1982 futuristic noir detective thriller Blade Runner is as bleak and electronically chilling as the film itself. By subtly interspersing clips of dialogue and sounds from the film, Vangelis creates haunting soundscapes with whispered subtexts and sweeping revelations, drawing inspiration from Middle Eastern textures and evoking neo-classical structures. Often cold and forlorn, the listener can almost hear the indifferent winds blowing through the neon and metal cityscapes of Los Angeles in 2019. The sultry, saxophone-driven "Love Theme" has since gone on as one of the composer's most recognized pieces and stands alone as one of the few warm refuges on an otherwise darkly cold (but beautiful) score. An unfortunate inclusion of the 1930s-inspired ballad "One More Kiss, Dear" interrupts the futuristic synthesized flow of the album with a muted trumpet and Rudy Vallée-style croon. However well done (and appropriate in the movie), a forlorn love song that sounds as if it is playing on a distant Philco radio in The Waltons' living room jarringly breaks the mood of the album momentarily (although with CD technology, this distraction is easily bypassed). Fans of Ridley Scott's groundbreaking film (as well as those interested in the evolution of electronic music) will warmly take this recording into their plastic-carbide-alloy hearts.