2017 - October 25 - Alpha

OK - so not a raucous rocker today either, but one of my all time favorite pieces of electronic music: Alpha by Vangelis from the album Albedo 0.39 from 1976 - which also was used in the TV series Cosmos, where Carl Sagan explored the universe in 1980. Vangelis a Greek composer who is no stranger to soundtracks - he won an Oscar for Chariots of Fire, and he also scored Blade Runner, which is one of my favorite sci-fi movies. He was not used for Blade Runner 2049, but I could hear echoes of his original soundtrack in the new music by Hans Zimmer as well. But here he is from 1976, a song well worth listening to: Alpha.