About the "Elsewhere" Vangelis Web-site

Elsewhere

This site is not in any way associated with Vangelis or his management. This is a fan page, made as a hobby. It is also not possible to contact Vangelis or any of the featured artists via this site.

The pages aim to bring info on Vangelis for everyone varying from people with a slight curiosity all the way up to the experienced fans and collectors. Beginners should first try the introduction section and the album descriptions, while others may have a need for other sections as reference material.

The site was build (and continues to grow) with the intend to add content to the web, not to recreate what other sites feature. Therefore all pictures or sounds where scanned especially for this page, with only a few exceptions. Texts, pictures and sounds taken elsewhere from the web are not welcome. Others always are.

In the same way it is not appreciated (with some exceptions) if other web pages copy texts or pictures and sounds from this site. It serves no purpose.

Why the name?

Every place is elsewhere. The name is the title of a track on the album "Direct" (1988). Although this is one of my favorite albums, there is no special reason to pick this title, other than its poetic scope.

Why this page?

At the moment I started this, Michael Perkhofer and Stephen Bowline's Vangelis home page was the only serious Vangelis web-site on the net. Although it's a splendid page, I thought it was healthy to have more than one web site available.
Thankfully, a whole lot of web sites and pages about Vangelis or directly related topics have come into existence then and by now a great variety of detailed info can be found on the web. A list of almost every site worth to be checked out can be found in the links section of this site.

Construction

This web site is constantly being expanded. Extra details are added each week and sections are regularly created or significantly expanded. This also applies to the included pictures, sound files and other resources.
Sadly it is not manageable to maintain a chronological list of updates or changes.

I'd Like to thank:

Those without whom.......
Michael Thomas Roe, Roland Weissflog, Coen van der Geest, John van Houtert, Tomas Howie, Don Fennimore and Sufian Irhimeh.
They were all essential and have contributed large and essential substance for this site, or helped forming the basis of it. Thanks!

Additional thanks to:
Joost Wijnen, Aycan Gulez, Paulo Mouat, David Gommeren, Jan-Willem van Aalst, Peter Korsten, Hiro Amano, Rob Barfield, Nick Kent, Pieter Reniers, Mark petrella, Kees Aerts, Joy van Heerwaarden, Paulo Oom, Peter Bier, Paolo Cadeddu, Diego Lugon, Richard Perdriau, Frans Cortenraad, Fergus Lalor, Anthony R. Novo, Kaposva'ri Zolta'n, Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Vincent Evans, Gerrit Vos, Mark Griffin, Jonas Warstad, Octavian Buda, Jacob Nielsen, Antas, Sander Strootman, Jussi Jacobson, Balthasar v. Wegmarn, Tirrion, Koert van Mensvoort, Wil Senders, Martin van Knorring, Michael Tsiberopoulos, Kazuhiko Imaki, Derek J. Power, Tim Gerwing, Romain Brunias, Henk Engelen, Francisco Rico Jerez, Vennie Nemecek, Bart Martens, Nuno Bandeira, Giuseppe Valenzise, Stephen Mc. Gregor, Wade Major, Duncan Smith, Mike Ryan, Noel Koutlis, Elf, Ian Ferguson, Samuel Gomez, Daniel Mathias, Nathan Soice, Enzo Casiraghi, Michael Williams, Kevin Nolan, William McGinney, John Hallsted, Robert Eichelsheim, Jussi Kulomaa, Duke Fleed, Rod MacQuarrie, Frederick Rousseau, Alain Guillem, Matej Kranjc, David Winter, Foster Cullen, Tomi Suominen, Peter Ravn, Paul Poroshin, Gabi Brenners, Christian Ienni, Daoud Ibrahim Ahmed, Ivar de Vries, Kashif Ahmed, Brad White, Brian T. Hamer, Victor Mabry, Giorgio Gomelski, Andrew Smith, Christian Wiesner, Francisco Torres, Ioannis Dikeakos, Walter Wachhauer, Hans den Besten, Pat Richmond, Milan Fajrajzl, Loren Nerell, Giovanni Benzon, Dave Leech, Jiji Veltcheva, Philip Bielby, Paul Rijkens, Madan, Cristian Bescos, Philipe Thoma, Marcin Dawid, Paul Friedrichs, Mark Matthews, Caroline Lavelle, Katja Burpoe, Marc Vanholsbeeck, Marco Negri, David (DeltaFox), Jens Gulin, Blake Neely, Harada Yasuhiro, Brian King, Jani (gianis56@otenet.gr), Frits Couwenberg, Seiya Hirano, Kevin Polfliet, Patrick Schouten, Maichel Gommans, Patric Gleeson, Stratos Spyrou, Michael Hoppé, Yves Rescalet, John Norfolk, Thomas Hopf, Umberto Calonaci, Bas Dekkers, Sweder Jansen, Chris K. (Tellur), László-Miklós Jurecz, Stuart Black, Imre Olajos, James Brommage, Kevin Chartron, Rob Gretsinger and TJ Pridonoff
For many small and bigger contributions, tips, corrections, additions, and helping efforts. Some on request, some out of own initiative. Thanks!

Who made this site?

Name: Dennis Lodewijks, age: 33, home: Veldhoven, The Netherlands.

Favorite musicians include Vangelis, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Ennio Morricone, Wojciech Kilar, Eric Serra, Frederick Rousseau, John Williams (scores), Mike Oldfield, Enigma, Jan Hammer, Jean Michel Jarre and a host of others, as well as various genres including classical music and filmscores in general.

Certain sections of "Elsewhere" are made by guest writers. The Jon Anderson section, focussing on Jon's solo carreer as well as the work he has done together with Vangelis, was written by Tomas Howie. The section about Demis Roussos and his connections to Vangelis has been written by Michael Thomas Roe, Atlanta (USA), who is a big fan of both Vangelis and Roussos.

A selection of the scans and images of rare items found here, has been provided by Roland Weissflog, a German Vangelis fan and collector.

Linking

For linking to Elsewhere, the main page of this site is: http://elsew.com/. But of course, links to seperate parts of the site (deeplinks) are welcome as well.

Technical details

On June 25, 2003, this site currently consists of over 1400 files, all scanned, generated, recorded or typed for this site specifically. The total size is over 60MB, or 32MB when ignoring audio and audiovisual media files. The HTML code is mostly kept as simple as possible so that the pages remain accessible to older computers and software, from all countries. This also helps for these pages to be accessible by alternative browsers for instance for use by visually disabled people and accessible from certain mobile phones and hand held devices.

Comments

If you have any suggestions for these pages, feel you can add to them or have any corrections on either the included information or the language used to express it, then please feel free to contact me about it at: "d.lodewijks@chello.nl".

Latest Update: February 29, 2008
WEB site made by: Dennis Lodewijks (d.lodewijks@chello.nl)