mart
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Posted: Mar. 03 2014, 06:10 |
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To Mr Mike Oldfield,
As far as I know you read this site, and these words are written by a diehard fan from the beginning of Tubular Bells in 1973. Like every time when a new album is coming out I am one off the first at the shop to by it, and this was also last Friday. Without hesitation I bought your new album “Man on the Rocks”(the super deluxe edition), although I had my doubt, since the word came out that you would be a Rock album. In the past we had your albums Crises, Discovery, Islands, Earth Moving and Heaven’s open which had song numbers. But most of those albums they had also an instrumental piece (except Earth Moving) which cricked up the album’s. So I hoped seeing that you would bring out a instrumental version off the album. But my hope faith away by hearing the instrumental version, where you did not take the trouble to play the words on your guitar or any other instrument. Also when you compare this album with the above albums it is very simple without any emotion. So my Friday after listening to the three cd’s in the box turns out into a very dark day. I am sorry to say but this album is the worst music in my opinion you ever made. For you as composer and multy instrumentalist who wrote and played over the years the most complexity music you have to agree with me that this album was a very simple and commercial composition for you to make. Perhaps you wrote the album after your appearances of the opening of the Olympic of your return to Virgin has anything to do with it. But Mike listen to your own words you are not a song writer, so don’t do it. Know what your words were in the past “play one note and mean it”. The time you touched deeply my soul with your music we have to go back to your music you wrote at the millennium. For weeks and months I was deeply touched by every note you played. But now nothing not even a trilling. Okay the small minutes of your solo’s in the new album you let us know that you still have it. Sorry Mike but you hurt deeply my feelings. Where is the composer who wrote Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations, QE2, Taurus 2, Crises, Amarok, The songs of Distant Earth and I thank you for those intense incredible music pieces . I really miss the Oldfield with his powerful depressive complex music, you’re finger picking playing on the red Gibson. For now I feel that the album is not it’s money worth. Mike you are an great composer and musician. You proved over the years. But we also know that you do everything your own way, I have always respected that. Over the last days I am chagrined, down and disappointed and that’s mostly because the man who was my Maestro isn’t that anymore. And Mike let me give you some advise when you are planning to make more of this kind of music, please retired than completely. Let us enjoy what you wrote in the past and don’t degrade yourself more than the album Man on the Rocks. Every word I wrote above is my feeling and meaning about your music.
Mart
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so can't comment on anything other than Sailing, which I like, and still get's regular radio airplay, but at least Mike has moved on from the electronic/computer music of recent albums, which fans wanted, and is recording with other musicians, which fans wanted, and real instruments, which fans wanted.
