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| View Larger Image | Music From Koreyoshi Kurahara's Film Antarctica | Audio CDVangelis (Composer)
| List Price: | $9.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Format: | Soundtrack | | Studio: | Polydor / Umgd | | Release Date: | October 25, 1990 | | Sales Rank: | 95,077th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Theme From Antarctica
- Track 2: Antarctica Echoes
- Track 3: Kinematic
- Track 4: Song of White
- Track 5: Life of Antarctica
- Track 6: Memory of Antarctica
- Track 7: Other Side of Antarctica
- Track 8: Deliverance
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 31 reviews)
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Pleasant but hardly the revelation some reviewers here claim by K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)  3 Stars
February 17, 2009
As good as Chariots of Fire? Not even close.
COF has a number of absolutely classic haunting melodies. Antarctica has not even one. I am a big fan of Vangelis' best works and I don't think this is one of them. It might be a fine accompaniment to film of endless ice floes and vast white wilderness but on its own, removed from those images, it does very little for me.
My mind wants melody as well as grand harmonic washes, and while Van can present both, as on COF and Blade Runner and a number of other masterpieces, I find this soundtrack to be pleasant listening but nowhere near the rhapsodic experience that others here claim. They are welcome to their opinion as I am to mine, which is that this is in the lower half of Vangelis' canon.
If you are considering buying this cd, I would wait until you've got COF, BR, and maybe another six of Van's best works. This music is wonderful background stuff, but it's not the transportational event that much of Van's best work is. I'm also not a big fan of those 80s synthesized handclaps, and they appear a little too often here.
All in all, a nice atmospheric cd but hardly epic, and far from Vangelis' finest.
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Fluff by Thomas West  2 Stars
June 25, 2008
After giving this CD about 7 listens over the course of a couple weeks, I put it away probably for good. The melody he relies on through the first movement and several times thereafter isn't bad but it isn't much either. I also don't like his use of the big clapping sound that was almost comically overdone as a backbeat in the 80's. Vangelis at times uses some really cool drums which makes that cheap backbeat almost like a physical shock to hear - so out of place. In fairness, that might not have been the case when this soundtrack was first written, and it might not bother somone who doesn't find it to be an 80's new age cliche sound. I just expected more meat and potatoes from the guy who wrote the virtually unsurpassed soundtrack for Blade Runner! Besides that clapping backbeat, the repetetive simple melody and some fluffy nice chord washes - I didn't find much there there...
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timeless music of transcendant solitude.....and dogs...yes, dogs by James A. Creighton (Los Angeles)  5 Stars
July 20, 2007
Late 1970's, 3 pm, sitting in my van, waiting on my laundry to cycle.....Houston, TX, sticky hot....and some pretty good FM DJ whose name I have forgotten plays Vangelis "Heaven and Hell" all the way through.
My life changed.
(By the way, anyone who likes the music of Vangelis should immediately buy "Heaven and Hell"--anyone who appreciates cover-art should buy it as well.)
"Heaven and Hell" led me to Vangelis to "Spiral" to "Albedo" and to a near-deserted multiplex in southwest Houston to see the movie "Antarctica" MOVIE REVIEW---please see it in High Def, or on the big screen--stunning visuals---good news.... most of the dogs survive....
With heroes who cannot speak, the music speaks ....for the dogs, and for the humans who had to leave, but will return. The music speaks of vastness, cold, and despair, but also the hope that beauty brings, the beauty in the white ice and distant sun.
This is music to listen to sparingly.....on sunny days in winter....on Sunday morning....but it is music to keep, to revisit and renew.
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A perfect accomaniment to a beautiful film by M. C Coulson 5 Stars
May 05, 2007
I've owned this soundtrack for several years without having seen the movie it accompanied until today.
The movie itself is beautiful and emotionally charged and Vangelis' stunningly melancholic score ups the emotional quotient and will have you reaching for the Kleenex once you marry the visuals with the music.
Enjoy the breathtaking music on this cd and beg steal or borrow the movie to get the full experience.
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Almost as Perfect as 1492 Conquest of Paradise !!!!! by CANUT REYES (San Antonio, Texas United States)  4 Stars
July 14, 2006
THIS ALBUM KICKS MAJOR BUTT IN THE PURE MOODS DEPARTMENT AND THE OPENING TRACK IS THE BEST ON THE ALBUM, I HAD THE VANGELIS ALBUM TITILED "PORTRAITS" AND THE VERSION OF ANTARCTICA THERE WAS ONLY 4 MINUTES LONG, I DIDNT KNOW THAT THE ORIGINAL VERSION OF ANTARCTICA WAS 7 MINUTES OF PURE HEAVEN,THE 4 MINUTE VERSION ON PORTRAITS ONLY PLAYS THE FIRST DECENT HALF, THE OTHER 3 MINUTES OF THE SONG NEAR THE END ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST PERIOD !!! IM SO GLAD I BOUGHT THIS ALBUM TO KNOW THAT ANTARCTICA WAS EVEN BETTER THAN I ORIGINALLY THOUGHT :)
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