Elsewhere

The Elsewhere Vangelis site is a fan site aiming to present an overview of information and regularly updated news about composer Vangelis Papathanassiou

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 or its editors.

The pages aim to inform anyone from the complete novice all the way up to experienced fans and collectors.

Beginners could start with the introduction section and the album descriptions, while others may find an interest in the other sections for additional background information.

First founded in 1996, the Elsewhere site was build (and continues to grow) with the purpose of sharing information on the web, which cannot otherwise be found on the internet. It should not recreate what other sites feature. Therefore all pictures or sounds where scanned (from off-line sources) especially for this site, with only a few exceptions. Much of the content is based on contributions from other fans, in the shape of information, texts, images (scanned or otherwise), and any such contributions are always welcome. However, texts, images and sounds taken elsewhere from the internet are of no use for this site.

For the same reasons, we do not appreciate when other web sites copy texts, pictures or sounds from "Elsewhere". It serves no purpose. Please link to Elsewhere instead. Only a few sites have been excepted with our consent.

Why this page?

Elsewhere was founded in 1996, in the early days of the world wide web, when only one other Vangelis site existed. Michael Perkhofer and Stephen Bowline's Vangelis home page, which has since sadly vanished, gave many a first introduction to Vangelis' musical output. The idea was for Elsewhere to give a more comprehensive and complete view on the music that Vangelis released into the world, while keeping up-to-date by regularly updating content, and constantly adding news updates on the latest buzz around Vangelis' arts.

Thankfully, a whole lot of other web sites and pages about Vangelis (or related topics) have come into existence since 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. Additionally, services like Wikipedia and YouTube now provide alternative means to read up on Vangelis' music or get an impression of the artist. We do feel however that Elsewhere can serve its purpose as a central point of information, with a track record in timely information, comprehensive news updates and general reliability. Judge for yourself!

Why the name?

Any place you can think of is someone's elsewhere. Elsewhere what you daydream of. Elsewhere is any place but here. "Elsewhere" is the name is the title of a track on the album "Direct" (1988). There is no special reason to use this track's title, other than its poetic scope.

Construction

This web site is constantly being expanded. Extra details are added each week and sections are regularly created or significantly expanded.

Sadly, emailing updates or maintaining a chronological list of alterations is simply not manageable for us.

Linking

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

Technical details

Since July 2011, Elsewhere is being redesigned. All of the content is being transformed and structured to fit into a new graphical look. The pages are (mostly) written in HTML 4.1 with use of CSS 2.0 for the graphical interface design. Use of these technologies should provide for enough compatibility to adequately service older browsers or exotic browsing environments, while smoothly resulting in an optimized experience on all modern mainstream browsers, operating systems and devices.

Comments

If you have any suggestions for these pages, feel you can add to them or have any corrections on either the information included or the language used to express it, then please feel free to contact us about it at: "elsew.com@gmail.com".