Nemo Studios

Nemo Studios was a recording studio in London, planned, built and used by Greek composer Vangelis between 1975 and 1987.^[1] Numerous highlights of Vangelis' career were composed in Nemo, including soundtracks for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire (the soundtrack for which he won an Oscar).

The studio was located on the second floor of the former Hampden Gurney school building,^[2] near the Marble Arch.^[3] The building no longer exists. Vangelis' equipment included more than 20 synthesizers and acoustic keyboard instruments,^[1] as well as numerous percussion instruments.^[3]

Equipment

In the 1982 Keyboard magazine interview several instruments were noted; a Minimoog, Yamaha CS-40M synthesiser, Roland CSQ-100 digital sequencer, Yamaha CP-80 electric grand, Roland Compuphonic synthesiser, modified vintage Fender Rhodes electric piano, CSQ-600 digital sequencer, Roland VP-330 electric piano, Roland CR-5000 Compurhythm, Yamaha CS-80 synthesiser, E-mu Emulator, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 and Prophet-10, Simmons SDS-V drum machine, Linn LM-1 drum computer, Roland Jupiter-4, nine-foot Steinway grand piano, Yamaha GS-2, 24-track Quad-8 Pacifica mixing console, and an RSF one-octave Blackbox synthesiser. And, three timpani, a trap drum set, and rows of gongs, chimes, and exotic bells.^[4]

Notes

1 2 Richard Clews. Inside the Synth Lab, in Sound on Sound, November 1997 issue. Available online.
↑ NemoStudios.co.uk. Portrait of a studio. Retrieved 8 April 2010 Available online.
1 2 Wolfgang Fenchel. Captain Nemo's Musical Odysseys Part 1, in Neumusik Vol. 5, August 1981. Available online.
↑ Bob Doerschuk (November 1982), "Oscar-winning Synthesist", Keyboard, retrieved August 22, 2016

External links

NemoStudios.co.uk - A tribute to the Nemo Studios, includes history, instruments, equipment, photographs.
Nemo Studios' floorplan Circa 1982 with photographs.
Studio photo gallery at Elsewhere.com, photographs of Vangelis' studios including Nemo Studios, at the Elsewhere fan site
Vangelis: Recording the Future, a compilation of Sound on Sound and Recording World Magazine interviews, featuring photographs and a floor plan of the studio.

Vangelis

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Studio albums	Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit Earth Heaven and Hell Albedo 0.39 Spiral Beaubourg Hypothesis The Dragon China See You Later Soil Festivities Mask Invisible Connections Direct The City Foros Timis Ston Greco Voices Oceanic El Greco Mythodea Rosetta

Soundtracks	L'Apocalypse des animaux Entends-tu les chiens aboyer ? La Fête sauvage Opéra sauvage Chariots of Fire Antarctica Conquest of Paradise Blade Runner Alexander Blade Runner Trilogy. 25th Anniversary El Greco Chariots of Fire: The Play

Compilations	Themes Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear) Reprise 1990–1999 Odyssey: The Definitive Collection The Collection

Jon and Vangelis	Short Stories The Friends of Mr Cairo Private Collection Page of Life The Best of Jon and Vangelis Chronicles

Songs	"Chariots of Fire – Titles" "I'll Find My Way Home" "State of Independence" "Conquest of Paradise" "2002 FIFA World Cup Official Anthem"

Other Collaborations	Odes Rapsodies

Vangelis discography Aphrodite's Child Electronic music 20th century classical music

Coordinates: 51°30′54″N 0°09′42″W / 51.5149°N 0.1617°W / 51.5149; -0.1617

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