See You Later

See You Later is an album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in November 1980. It breaks quite violently with the style he employed in the late 1970s and later, relying much more on vocals and being more experimental and returning (in many respects) to his early 1970s work like Earth or 666. It was never released in the United States, until it was remastered in 2016 as part of the Delectus boxset.

Overview

See You Later is Vangelis' most wide-ranging work of the 1980s, with more radical musical and lyrical themes than are found in his other albums. The concept album is bleaker than most of his records, incorporating negative and satirical intonations of a dystopian future. Subjects touched on include funerals, masks, and ready-to-wear and ready-to-eat things.

The lyrics are written by Vangelis in English, French and Italian; they use electronic terminology and incorporate references to lost love, and the downfall of humanity due to the influence of technology. The title track lyrics say "See you later then... alive or dead".

The album's sleeve shows an ice-covered ocean with a young woman wearing sunglasses to protect her eyes; the image uses optical compression in the horizontal axis. The inner sleeve is also disturbing, displaying a character seated in a greenhouse holding a lifeless child in its hands, both wearing eerie-looking gas masks. This song was used in Vangelis' subsequent soundtrack to the 1982 film Blade Runner.

Personnel

Vangelis – synthesisers and all instruments
Peter Marsh - vocals on "I Can't Take It Anymore" and "Multi-Track Suggestion"
Jon Anderson – vocals on "Suffocation" and "See You Later"
Cherry Vanilla, Andrew Hoy – vocals on "Not a Bit – All of It"
Michel Ripoche – violin on "Not a Bit – All of It"

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