Blade Runner Blues
The longest piece on the Blade Runner score, written and recorded at Nemo Studios in 1981 and 1982.
Vangelis, from Blade Runner (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1982)
"Blade Runner Blues" is track seven of the 1994 album, 8:53 on both the album and the 2007 set; it is 4:38 on the 1987 orchestral version and about 10:19 on a 1993 bootleg. Vangelis composed and performed it, improvising at Nemo Studios between December 1981 and April 1982 to videotape of the film. Wikipedia lists no dialogue sample for it. We found no statement from Vangelis on what it is about, no chart data and no covers; WhoSampled and SecondHandSongs refused the request.
Setlist.fm lists no performance of this piece, and the only Blade Runner item in his 25 concerts is a "Love Theme" at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome on July 17, 1989. We could not tell which version of the track our upload is.
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Sources
- Blade Runner (soundtrack), Wikipedia
- Blade Runner, Nemo Studios