Odyssey (The Definitive Collection) - Vangelis

2003 was an eventless year for the music of Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou. The FIFA World Cup anthem he recorded the previous year had been long forgotten, and doesn't even find its way onto this disc. It happened to be thirty years since his third-or-so album 'Earth,' which was quite good, but again doesn't donate any material. Some of the songs here have all been digitally mastered to be improvements on the originals, although this mastering ...
...it had simply been long enough since the last one to justify a repackaging and re-release under a bloated title. 'Odyssey,' despite its sub-title, has nothing of 'the definitive' about it. In the ceaseless line of best-of compilations for the one-time-Oscar-winning Greek composer, each release has to distinguish itself at least a little bit from the others, or at least I would have thought so. To add to this insanity, 'Odyssey' isn't even the most ...

Frankingsteins 04.05.2008 · Read full review
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