JUNO TO JUPITER

Vangelis continues his collaboration with space agencies, depicting in this occasion the flight of the space probe Juno to the giant planet Jupiter. Then, one would have all the right to expect the customary space sounds collage, but this time one would also be wrong.

The orchestration wisely added to the wide keyboards array really pays off, setting the emotional frame for the trip, just as if the listener was aboard and confronting the loneliness and empty vastness of outer space. A particularly fortunate feature of the orchestral arrangement is to be found in the pulsating sound of the timpani, underpinning the synths & strings textures, and creating a great association between human pulse and magnetic fields perturbations.

Of course, the mythological element couldn't be absent, as well as the seizing of Juno & Jupiter in the roles of the female and male character respectively. Precisely at this point comes into place the collaboration of the soprano, which is a sort of aquired taste, but here works really nice.