@yotta - I havent signed on for a while - too much to do - but I haven't heard of 'A Personal Voyage'
- but got interested in Vangelis when I had to organise a particular kind of feast at an ethnic Club I was entertainment officer for - a 'Krampus Dance' - Krampus is a kind of Devil (a man dressed up in devils costume with horns, a long red tongue, and a tail, who turns up with St Nicholas (also dressed up in bishops clothes) on the eve of 6th December in front of, particularly naughty children's homes (never happened to me
) and demands that they recite a prayer and then if that fails asks the mother if the child was good - all the time the person dressed up as 'Krampus' (devil) rattles a chain and looks threatening, he also carries a kind of rucksack in which he takes the naughty children away (never happens of course) and he also has a birch or hazelnut broom (Rute) with which he deals out punishment . . . . .
If the by now thoroughly terrified children were thought to be good, St Nicholas would leave them some sweets, nuts, apple, dates - that sort of thing - or these things would be in a shoe in the morning of the 6th.
You an imagine if you try to organise something like that for adults; volunteers for the devil costumes among the fitter males is fierce . . . .and I devised an entrance for the devils using Vangelis music from 'Heaven and Hell' - or similar - turned the lights off - went into my cubby hole where the music equipment was held, meanwhile the 'devils' were waiting outside a side door - I turned the music on, no lights yet, but red strobe -
and the devils would come screeching in finding all the ladies and trying to punish them - of course, no one behaved real badly -
I had the satisfaction of knowing that they kept my 'format' for many years even after I had stopped volunteering.
Well: that's when I discovered who 'Vangelis' is, but had heard Roussos music before - didn't know that they had collaborated for many years.
Well - what was that? a trip down memory lane
Forgive
Have a great day
Taurisk
