Front cover, first release
FAIS QUE TON RÊVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... But what is that something?

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1944

It is a French phrase which translates into "May your dreams last longer than the night." This is one of the earliest Vangelis albums to be pressed and therefore the rarest. It made to commerate the 1968 Paris riots. Several student anarchist groups were protesting then Monseiur President Charles de Gaulle's policies and his Republic. Vangelis was living in Paris during the time and watched it all happen. He was out recording the event and later, added more of his own music and released into an album. It's occasional "common name" is Poeme Symphonique, which is music which deals with a non-musical subject (and currently, his only one). Even though the technology is the late 1960's and early 1970's, it leaves a striking impression similiar to Chariots of Fire, Iganico, Foros Timis Son Greco and From Nuremberg to Nuremberg.


[1] FAIS QUE TON RÊVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT PART ONE
It starts with the scene in Paris during the 1968 student riots. You hear gun sounds, sirens ringing and it leaves you with the impression of a war breaking loose. Then, as if it was a movie, the main theme unfolds and you hear the various songs that the students sang. It is amazing how the songs of revolution and resistance is mixed with the sounds of violence. One is left with a sense of duty and outrage (like watching a propaganda movie). Vangelis does a good job adding various instruments and additional touches to the song, which enhances the mood of the situation. The emotions vary from anger to sadness to occasional happiness. The finale is the most powerful because it returns to the first melody and it is just the voices, human and electronic (which was the part which can be heard from Dennis Lodewjiks' site)

[2] FAIS QUE TON RÊVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT PART TWO
It begins with a more calmer mood than the first one. You have the continuing patriotic songs and some shouting from the protesters. It begins with a more dancing mood than overwhelming. As the music continues on, one thinks that he is witnessing more of a party or hearing a show at a restaurant than a student protest. Then, the voices of argument take over and the pleasant mood is back to what it was before (as if Vangelis is instructing the orchestra to change emotional effect to confuse the audience)... somber, death and cold. When I hear that string-like melody played by Vangelis, it gives me the same pictures as if I was watching From Nuremberg to Nuremberg when the Holocaust pictures appear. After a period of violence, a trumpet sounds and calmer sound comes to play (which is the section from the Vangelis quiz given by Nathan Soice). After hearing a news report, a "La Mort du Loup" (from L'Apocalypse des Animaux) sounding melody appears as a nice finish to a long and unfruitful event in France's political history.

This interpretation is dedicated to those who protested in Paris in 1968... who showed us how to dream and how to live


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