Albedo 0.39

by Vangelis

Albedo 0.39 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1976
  • Label: RCA
  • Country: Greece
  • Length: 42:04
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A conceptual electronic journey focused on astrophysics and the cosmos, recorded entirely by the Greek composer at his newly built Nemo Studios in London. The LP contrasts thunderous, jazz-inflected synthesized rhythms with vast, ethereal ambient passages. Its title refers to the earth's albedo鈥攖he proportion of light reflected back into space.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, space, atmospheric, progressive, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Pulstar - Audio (5:45)
  2. Freefall (2:16)
  3. Mare Tranquillitatis (1:45)
  4. Main Sequence (8:09)
  5. Sword of Orion (1:55)
  6. Alpha (5:44)
  7. Nucleogenesis, Pt. 1 (5:55)
  8. Nucleogenesis, Pt. 2 (6:10)
  9. Albedo 0.39 (4:21)

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