Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories (VG+/VG+)

Short Stories is an LP by Jon & Vangelis from 1980 released on the Polydor label.

About this album

Short Stories is a graceful and melodic collaboration that brings Jon Anderson’s distinctive voice into close conversation with Vangelis’s keyboard-led electronic writing. Issued in 1980, the album helped bridge progressive rock sensibility and emerging synth-pop with a more intimate, song-focused approach. Tracks such as I Hear You Now and Curious Electric show how the duo balanced lyrical hooks, airy arrangements and subtle ambient colour, creating music that feels direct rather than grandiose. As an early Jon & Vangelis release, it became an important marker of how electronic music could remain expressive, human and accessible without losing sophistication.

Genre: Pop & Rock