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| | Albedo 0.39 (album) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | It contrasts with his previous album, Heaven and Hell, which is classically inspired and choral, while Albedo 0.39 has blues and jazz overtones. |
 | | Although it is uncertain which synthesizers Vangelis employs on this album, other instruments include acoustic drums, percussion, a xylophone, a gamelan (track 2) and recordings of the speaking clock (courtesy of Post Office communications) and the Apollo moon landing ("courtesy of NASA"). |
 | | The title track, "Albedo 0.39" is an atmospheric track building on waxing and waning synthesizer chords and arpeggios, while a voice with a British accent narrates various physical properties of the Earth, such as its mass, length of the year in various measurements, and, finally, its albedo (amount of light reflected back into space). |
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