|

This was a happy accident. Invisible Connections ranks among the most avant-garde works that Vangelis ever produced. I belong to a very few who actually likes this album, much less tolerate it! Why? Vangelis states that his music is spontaneous and free-flowing. If you hear a majority of the Vangelis albums, it sounds planned. Invisible Connections, however, displays a kind of "dark side" to Vangelis where the "chaos of noise" is still chaos. It is very spooky, eerie and excellent background for reading (like Starship Troopers, , Anthem, The First Circle or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, etc.) and playing games along the lines of Doom, Corridor 7, Wolfenstein 3-D, etc. (I played that once while my brother, Evan, was playing Doom and it scared the hell out of him!)
[1] INVISIBLE CONNECTIONS
You hear these weird percussion sounds (bells, and so forth) and synth sounds and this fluctuating tempo. It can give the impression of hearing your own heartbeat or sensing your fear. This goes on for about half of the song (the song itself lasts for about twenty minutes) and you hear the same sounds going in chaotic rhythms and patterns. The second part is the spookiest of all. The weird beeping sounds and "fermatas" put on some of the notes can give you the feeling of seeing an alien ship landing. That last part convinced me that it would be perfect reading material for science fiction.
[2] ATOM BLASTER - THERMO VISION
Originally, Atom Blaster and Thermo Vision are separate tracks. I'm combining them because there is no definite break between them. This one is really strange because the noises are staccato, short and there are long rests in between. Even after listening to it for all those times, I can never really remember what goes comes next and I don't know where the end really is. These songs told me something about music and psychology. You don't have to make this long track that is supposedly scary. "Atom Blaster" and "Thermo Vision" is just scary but doesn't have a lot. It just pops out all of a sudden. (Similar to some of the songs used in some Stanley Kubrick films like and The Shining)
