a look at the music of Vangelis Papathanassiou

Introduction
What do you do when you have some time to spare, and feel like experimenting with Jazz and Funk ? Exactly, you take off for London, team up with a few fellow musicians, and jam away :-)

Still in 1971, Vangelis played several sessions in the London Marquee Studios, some of them together with violinist Michel Ripoche, bass guitarist Brian Odger and drummer Tony Oxley. For some reason the recordings were never released at the time, and lay shelved until 1978, when Charly Records suddenly released the music under the name 'Hypothesis'. Apparently this release wasn't approved by Vangelis, as he successfully went to court to get the album off the market.

Other recordings of these jam-sessions were released at the same time, titled 'The Dragon'.

Tracklist and Credits

Cover Illustration (not Platinum release) by Angus McKie.

Discography

LP
1978 Affinity 77-AFF2 Spain
1978 Charly/Bellaphon CR 3037 West-Germany
1980 Oxford OX3162 Italy
1981 Affinity AFF11 UK
1985 Platinum PLP 71 "Visions of the Future"

1979 Charly/Bellaphon CR 3053 "Portrait" (2LP) The Dragon and Hypothesis.

The LP of Hypothesis is a bit rare, but still possible to find (in Europe at least) in record stores and at record fairs.

Recording Studio
The music for this album was recorded at Marquee Studios, London (May 1971).

Miscellania

Movements