Blue Dolphin
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Posted: July 07 2011, 13:43 |
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| Quote (Blue Dolphin @ June 02 2011, 18:34) |
I was looking at those unknown tracks on Disc 2, and then I realized what they are: (I THINK) the many outtakes Mike made before the final release of Incantations. They sounded quite different because Mike made most of them before his Exegesis period. |
| Quote (jjmillenium @ June 02 2011, 19:12) | | that 5 tracks aren't demos or rare things. I explain, in the first cd we have the whole album remastered by Oldfield himself, and on the cd2 we have 5 extracts from the record remixed by Oldfield, that singles or b-sides and only one demo at the end of the CD2 |
Looks like I was right after all.... as we can listen on the Universal website, they are in fact early demos!
| Quote (stpaul @ July 07 2011, 16:17) | I'm very surpised about the excerpts because Northumbrian and Piano Improvisation seem to have nothing to do with Incantations although they are stated as "Selections from Incantations" (due to the booklet of the promo cd that was on Ebay some time ago).
They appear to be Etudes from 1975-1978.
The Diana Tracks are quite surpising too, as the first one is a very different version from Part 3 and Desiderata appears to be a different take of Part 1. |
I think they are made before Mike's Exegesis period. Mike had lots and lots of outtakes before Incantations was carved into what it has become.
The Wrekorder Wrondo version is fun: you can hear Mike counting, which isn't on the vinyl single edition!
I also was hoping that the Piano Improvisation was the piece which can be heard on the "Reflections" documentary. In this documentary there is an outtake from the beginning of Incantations Part 4. The flute preset from the Roland SH-2000 synthesizer is different compared to the final recording. You can hear it at 22:00 on this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7056669413467832719
Unfortunately it sound like Piano Improvisation is something different after all, but still fun to hear such rare material!
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-The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it-
Mike Oldfield - 1980
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