Korgscrew
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Posted: Jan. 22 2014, 16:54 |
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| Quote (Priabonia @ Jan. 22 2014, 16:05) | | Or are you all on Farcebook? |
Heh! No, not in my case as least, just buried in other things elsewhere 
There's another little bit of information which I think explains all of this - Tony was the director of the series All You Need Is Love, which featured the 'making of Ommadawn' footage which you can find doing the rounds (and is now available on DVD). I haven't watched the Space Movie DVD interview, but I assume he's either just talking slightly unclearly about why he was visiting Mike, or he's just getting his visits to Mike confused with each other.
Mike moved to Througham in late 1975 as far as I know, so yes, anything from 1976 onwards (up until sometime in late-ish 1979, when he moved to Denham) would have to be there and not the Beacon.
I'd assume, like you say, that they'd be starting talking about the film in 1978 and it would have been Incantations which Mike had just finished (released in late November, so yes, quite likely finished around September).
So yes, Incantations was already done before Mike began the ultimately abortive attempt to write new music for the film, and when it turned out it wouldn't be possible for him to write new music for the film, Tony Palmer was offered Mike's entire back catalogue to date. Clearly that contained a few unreleased oddities!
The story that fragments used in the film became Incantations might be someone confusing it with Reflection from 1977, which did contain some embryonic fragments of Incantations, as well as some of the 'lost' Ommadawn.
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