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Lee Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: May 09 2000, 04:31 Anyone know where the cover photo for Incantations was taken please? Back to top

Vinz Group: Members Posts: 253 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: May 09 2000, 05:50 Hi Lee ! This is an answer from the FAQ on http://www.carmay.com/ : "The Incantations cover was photographed on "Cala Galdana". It is a beach on Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands. It is a private beach and not open to the public." -------------- Rejoignez la Tubular Mailing List francophone ! http://www.tubular.free.fr/tubular.php Back to top

Unregistered Posted: Feb. 20 2001, 19:48 I wanna know if Mike is just stuck on the cover, and not actually there? Looking at the LP it looks very suspect, I only noticed the other day, and the closer I look the more it convinces me he’s just been stuck on. Back to top

Pikalcazar Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: Oct. 2000 Posted: Feb. 21 2001, 13:05 Somebody in #mike_oldfield (Hispanic-IRC) said me that Inc. cover was taken in Ibiza, but I don't know if really is IN IBIZA or IN MENORCA. Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Feb. 25 2001, 16:24 I think it's a montage. Was it not done by Trevor Key? The lighting on Mike looks a lot brighter than the surrounding beach. Maybe there's a bit of extra light from some flashguns, or reflectors or something...I couldn't say for sure, but that's what I think. Back to top

mike fan Unregistered Posted: Feb. 07 2003, 17:46 Mike Oldfield said in an intervju a time ago that the photo eas taken with him on the beach. He was actually there! Back to top

Man In The Rain Group: Members Posts: 405 Joined: April 2002 Posted: Mar. 20 2003, 23:34 The photo looks real to me. Shame the beach is closed to the public though. -------------- Hergest Ridge 165 - Ommadawn 038 - Incantations 243 Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Mar. 21 2003, 12:50 He was indeed on the beach - that's been confirmed to me since I wrote that last post. I suspect that the reason it looks like a montage is the result of a darkroom process to change the brightness of Mike in comparison with the rest of the picture (done using a mask which has left the little outline which is visible on the LP cover). I suppose it's also possible that Mike was cut out and stuck back on, so as to change the composition of the picture for the album cover. Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Mar. 26 2003, 07:39 Yes, those were the old days.... *sigh* Now you just can use Photoshop, QuarkXpress or Illustrator. Back to top

Punkadiddle Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: Sep. 2003 Posted: Sep. 09 2003, 17:01 The inside cover was taken in Througham. Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Sep. 09 2003, 20:08 He looks so different on the cover and on the inside cover.Dunno why. BTW,Mike said on his first chat last year that he was actually there on Minorca beach. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Sep. 16 2003, 08:24 Perhaps the "stuck on" effect has a deep, philosophical meaning. Mike doesn't want to be stuck in the real life. He wants to come out, break free, he wants to enter YOUR world, he wants to enter YOUR life. And that's what he does on Incantations. With the music, he finally enters your life and never leaves. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Red Unregistered Posted: Sep. 22 2004, 04:16 I think he's definitely on the cover - you can his shadow! I like the photo a lot, actually. It doesn't interfere with the music. I mean, sometimes an album cover is so bad that it affects how you listen to the music itself. (Bright orange = yuck, for example.) On the subject of the cover, don't you just hate the font on the CD? The original is so much better. Original artwork should always be maintained. Beautiful, transcendental album. Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Sep. 23 2004, 07:19 Yes, you can...though it's not impossible to add a shadow in the darkroom. Some prints of the album cover show up the slight fringing around Mike clearer than others. Like I said before, I think it's probably the result of Mike having been dodged out in the printing a bit to lighten him off in comparison with the background. The most interesting thing about it is the sprouting coconut which is only noticeable on the LP cover... Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Sep. 23 2004, 08:34 Quote (Korgscrew @ Sep. 23 2004, 07:19) The most interesting thing about it is the sprouting coconut which is only noticeable on the LP cover... You mean the thing next to that stick? Never noticed the CD cover was slightly truncated... And while I agree that ideally the original artwork should be maintained, I always liked the font they used for the CD releases. Unless you mean the font on the back cover which gives the track names etc... that indeed looks a bit dodgy. Back to top

Cloth Ears Unregistered Posted: Nov. 15 2004, 15:15 I suppose I have to accept that Mike was actually there.   But find it hard to believe some people don’t think it looks a bit suspicious, what with a noticeable outline around his figure. Thanks for clearing that up folks Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 15 2004, 15:53 For some reason, the first thing that came to mind in this discussion of whether or not someone was really standing there in the photo was the movie "The Crow". Brandon Lee was unfortunately murdered during the production of this film. They finished the film anyway, inserting filmed footage of the actor into places where he never appeared. A lot of the footage was taken where he was walking in the rain, and if you look closely, you can see the character in the film in places where it is not raining, but there is rain on the "surface" of the actor's image. Truly a man in the rain. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Ethain Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: July 2006 Posted: Oct. 01 2007, 16:01 It's not Cala Galdana, it's Cala Pregonda, in Menorca. I've got one foto, quite recent: http://www.137.org/k/Menorca/Cala_Pregonda/10_houses_clear_water.JPG Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1759 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Oct. 02 2007, 03:23 Just want to add to the "was-he-there-and-was-he-not" discussion; look at this poster: http://p200server.us.es/mikeoldfield/fotos/1825.jpg There's something looking like an electric wall socket at the bottom of the picture! Draw your own conclusions... -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

nushky Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: Nov. 2005 Posted: Oct. 02 2007, 05:19 I always thought this beach to be some wild forlorn place with jagged rocks in a north country, it shows to be actually a nice holiday resort for family and kids ... How disappointing    ! I think Mike was actually standing on the beach when the photo was taken : look at his feet, they are not flat as on the floor of some studio room but slightly tilted upwards the slope of the beach. Furthermore, If I do remember well from Changeling, it is said that Mike arrived in Majorque with his seminary suit (I suppose the gray jacket/trousers) and that they took the photo on this spot. Back to top

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