Vangelis: Mythodea — Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey

Track listing

01. Introduction --- 01:15 

02. Movement 1 -- 02:30 

03. Movement 2 -- 08:15 

04. Movement 3 -- 14:35 

05. Movement 4 -- 20:55 

06. Movement 5 -- 35:40 

07. Movement 6 -- 42:00 

08. Movement 7 -- 49:15 

09. Movement 8 -- 54:33 

10. Movement 9 -- 58:08 

11. Movement 10 - 01:04:05 

12. Finale - Chariots of Fire -- 01:08:35

Mythodea — Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey is a choral symphony by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis.

The concert was held in The Temple of Zeus, Athens, Greece on June 28, 2001, and the record was officially released on October 23, 2001, to coincide with the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft entering the orbit of planet Mars. 

The 2001 version of Mythodea was performed and played on-stage: 

Vangelis Papathanasiou on synthesizers and keyboards, 

The London Metropolitan Orchestra augmented by two harpists, 

sopranos Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman, 

The chorus of the Greek National Opera, 

and, for the concert only, the Seistron and Typana percussion 

ΛΣΔ Approved

Stay strong

Klaus Schulze - Moondawn

Vangelis - The Dragon

Kyuss - Spaceship Landing

You've been in back of me

Yeah

Feeling sensibly

Yeah

I'm tired of the words

When my my back ain't around here

No more you and me

Yeah

No more listening

Yeah

Tired of your words, all your words are so backwards

Whoa

Whoooaaawhaaa

Whoa

Whoa

Whoooaaawhaaa

Being as lost as can be

Yeah

Touch of purity

Yeah

If you're gonna go now, well I want to go with you

Ahhaa

Whoooaaawhaaa

Ahhaa

Whoooaaawhaaa

Oh Yeah

You're a fucked up man with a fucked up plan

Oh Yeah

You're a fucked up man with a fucked up plan

Oh Yeah

You're a fucked up man with a fucked up plan

Oh Yeah

Oh Yeah

Did I say too much, you didn't want to hear

Did I say too much, I didn't want me to see here

Ohhh

Did I leave too much, I'm not sure what to leave here

Did I hate too much, I'm thinkin' someone should bleed here.

Ohhh

Why the finger? It's all right

Me and you could ...., It's all right

Straighten me out, It's all right

Guiding my life, It's all right

There you go, It's all right

Wait up for me, It's all right

Helping you out man, It's all right

Help me man, I just might

Kyuss-Odyssey

Take one to the mountain

Take one to the sea

Take one to the belly of the beast

and then you'll take one with me

Shut it, shut it on

Freezing in the fires

when I utter howl your name

once you return from the belly of the beast

you're never quite the same

Shut it, shut it on,

Shut it, shut it on,

fire on the mountain

and it rages inside of your soul

the fire inside the belly of the beast

well it thunderizes your soul

Shut it, shut it on

Qotsa-Walking on the sidewalks

Got some action on the other side
Loose teeth in my head
New programs are comin' in
So rise and take your oath
I wish we'd get away
Drink wine and screw
I knew someone else before
Looked alot like you

And they're gone, I'm gone, in space

I've been programmed as I said before - technology
Just rolling wheezing and breathing
Eyeballs and teeth
Words are weightless here on earth
Because they're free
You knew someone else before
Looked alot like me



And they're gone, I'm gone, in space

Pink Floyd-Echoes

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air

And deep beneath the rolling waves

In labyrinths of coral caves

The echo of a distant time

Comes willowing across the sand

And everything is green and submarine



And no-one showed us to the land

And no-one knows the where or whys

But something stirs and something tries

And starts to climb towards the light



Strangers passing in the street

By chance two separate glances meet

And I am you and what I see is me

And do I take you by the hand

And lead you through the land

And help me understand the best I can



And no-one calls us to move on

And no-one forces down our eyes

And no-one speaks and no-one tries

And no-one flies around the sun



Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes

Inviting and inciting me to rise

And through the window in the wall

Come streaming in on sunlight wings

A million bright ambassadors of morning



And no-one sings me lullabies

And no-one makes me close my eyes

And so I throw the windows wide

And call to you across the sky

Eloy - End of an Odyssey

welcome my worldly friend
don't rely on me as your guide
I will be of no help, when you stand the turn of the tide
it's solely to the individuals strength
to escape the wheels of approaching deadly fate
don't trust your dusty rules
they've fooled you more than twice
life doesn't have to mean hollowness
if you perceive the truth within yourself
that can give value and sense to existence in time
stop calling heros now
they cannot delay the last landslide
neither undo your past
or be a shelter for the turn of the tide
it's solely to the individuals force
to escape the wheels of approaching deadly fate