The Dragon is a studio album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, unofficially released in 1978.

[1] Two albums' worth of material had resulted from these sessions, but were unfinished and never intended for release.

In Germany Hypothesis and The Dragon were issued together as a double album titled Portrait.

[2] Apart from Vangelis (who played the keyboards), the line-up consisted of long-term musical collaborator Arghiris (Anargyros Koulouris) (guitar), and session musicians Michel Ripoche (violin), Brian Odgers (bass), Micky Waller (drums).

According to Gomelsky, 'The idea was to find "grooves" that could lead into long, (Sufi)trance-like but evolving rhythmic patterns with a lot of improvisation on top'.