pack a bowl to this album ASAP! It's da bomb!

While it's by no means Chariots Of Fire or I'll Find My Way Home, this LP is much more easy on the ear than Beaubourg.Very minimal, and surprisingly satisfying. Of course you can't expect melody, but what it does deliver is intrigue.It defies time when you're enveloped in it. Lost in the moment.

When looking at Vangelis' extended discography, he has created some diverse albums: the future techno sounds of Spiral and Albedo 0.39, the symphonic electronica of Heaven and Hell and his contributions to cinema with Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner and Nankyoku monogatari [Antarctica]. This album is no exception in regards to his diversity. Invisible Connections - the only Vangelis release through the Deutsche Grammaphone - is a foray into "dark ambient." The title track consists of percussion and synthesizer sounds washed in reverb (in varying degrees) that gives a haunting and errie quality. The other two tracks - "Atom Blaster" and "Thermo Vision" - use a single synthesizer sound that plays only a few notes at a time and then followed by a moment of silence. The sonic or silent moments provide an unsettling atmosphere that hasn't been heard since Beaubourg. It's underrated and derailed by many Vangelis fans for being too experimental and too noise-driven. In spite of its seemingly chaotic and unpredictable structure (which may reflect the nature of quantum mechanics), Vangelis doesn't alienate in the same way as other experimenters can. For starters, his sounds - even the harshest ones - are created using analogue and early digital synthesizers, which have some warmth, making it a pleasant listening experience based on timbre. If you listen with an open mind, you may find the sounds and their placement in space and time will provide a great soundtrack to your own mental horror/sci-fi movie.

Revision:The 2016 remaster reveals something that I probably suspected all along. The original vinyl reversed the titles. Basically what was always assumed to be "Invisible Connections" should have been split to "Atom Blaster and "Thermo Vision" and thus the two other pieces should have been unified as "Invisible Connections".This should make the quantum mechanics idea even stronger. "Invisible Connections" can illustrate the empty space only occupied by momentary particles with no consistent pattern. "Atom Blaster" can illustrate fission while "Thermo Vision" can illustrate fusion. Actually it's strange that this was released less than a year before the Chernobyl disaster and talk about something that fits the mood.I also have heard as a faint way of bringing to the light the more abstract cues from Blade Runner (think Deckard's apartment or at the Bradbury Building).

I totally agree with djprojects commentary regarding Vangelis Invisible Connections. I was a teen way back when I purchased the LP only to be seriously deprived of the Vangelis music I was so "used" to. Recently I "rediscovered" this gem and realized thats its quite a wonderful recording. Overall the mood is placid and there are moments of dissonance but the music is sparse and never meant to steer listeners into the western ideology of music form. The recording is beautifully awash with deep reverb(think Steve Roach maybe Eno's deep ambient material?) creating a listening vacuum that near distracts nor draws too much needed attention which is fine by mature advocates of ambient music. This was merely an experiment to divert Vangelis from his more predictable mainstream music and a very welcomed addition to his catalog by those of us who believe a musician should pursue their visions regardless of popular culture!