{"id":153520,"date":"2026-05-19T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=153520"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:54:56","slug":"lost-vangelis-synth-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/19\/lost-vangelis-synth-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lost&#8217; Vangelis Synth Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"17th May 2026, from Vangelis\u2019 personal archive. Laura Metaxa\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxRYr5utTnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This short video, shared by his long-time partner <strong>Laura Metaxa<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ElsewCom\">Elsewhere<\/a>, captures a previously unreleased synth jam by the late composer and synthesist <strong>Vangelis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2022\/05\/19\/pioneering-composer-synthesist-vangelis-dead-at-79\/\">Vangelis died four years<\/a> ago at the age of 79 from complications of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metaxa<\/strong> shared this message:<!--more--><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been 4 years now without Vangelis.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It took me time to understand deep down that he was no longer here to direct me or to pass on his light, which was always shining so bright. He was and still is such a strong presence and all those years I was intensely observing him sharing his convictions and values. Now it certainly is among my duties to protect and to preserve his personal archive for posterity and to rearrange things dear to him.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>No information was shared about the location or date of the recording. If you&#8217;ve got any insight on this, share it in the comments!<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<p>via Shawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short video captures a previously unreleased synth jam by the late composer and synthesist Vangelis.\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/05\/19\/lost-vangelis-synth-jam\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Lost&#8217; Vangelis Synth Jam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[4011,48],"class_list":["post-153520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-musicians","tag-synth-jam","tag-vangelis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vangelis-official-archive.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153522,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153520\/revisions\/153522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}