Hendrik
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Posted: April 28 2003, 16:32 |
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@ theweightless, and everyone else who asking
It´s just because we are all waiting for something that bounces us from our chairs again !
Something REALLY good and new. No reediting, repeating harmonics (tr3sLunas), fart synth guitar sax (T3L again), badly putted together and short songs (guitars), experinments (TMB), undelivered promises ( Single of ART IN HEAVEN 2000, bringing out hoover sections, the outtakes form the phonecall with John Cleese) and for single especially no dull remixings from dull DJs or none remixes at all, let us hear more from him that didn´t fit on the Albums.
That was a time when f.ex. Shine, Shadow on the wall etc. came ot with 12mix extended, more guitars in between or another phrase (strophe ?, egal). Today you will find 5 - 10 mixes of the same song on one disk that are hardly to recognise and really hard to listen to without spitting out what you´ve eaten hours ago, I hate that and you can´t take away that rubbish mixing because everyone is doing this. I REALLY HATE THAT.
But don´t let me come off my line here. What I first ment, that "IN THE OLD DAYS" ( hahaha,good old days?!? ) there was a straight line with Ommadawn, Hergest ridge and Incantation as unoff. follow ups to TB. After that, influenced By R.Branson, the first big dissapointment (for me rather a shock) came out with Platinium followed up by QE2, the sort of tiny little naps, that was rather wildly putted together with no feeling of his thoughts and his mind ( mmmhh. maybe yes, platinium sounds like his psycical treatment  ). At that point I didn´t give up on him and even I do NOT now !!!! , but I thought thats enough with his gorgeous longplayers for him his resources are lost !
Discovery, Crises, Five Miles out, Islands, Earth Moving and MICHAEL O.´s Heaven Open came out and I inured to it, loving the popular bits of these except for the to often and everywhere played hit as there is Moonlight shadow and To France! And I loved the long instrumentals of course which showed that he is still able to do more complex ones.
and then a Bouncer came on with AMAROK ! As I fist listened to it i Thought it was the worst he ever did, but on the second, I REALLY love it. Reading between the lines and listening to the suberp played 51 Instruments ( Okay, forget the footsteps and toolbox and so on) on the 60 minutes Opus (pitty that it wasn´t divided in parts that I could play directly), it shows nearly exactcly my day with this disturbings, phone rings, angry and calm Parts of the day and taking a resumee of it. As it was for him living these days with all the trouble esp. with R. Branson.
Tubular Bells 2 came out and I loved it that time, but now I agree with some of you the sound is dated (TB1 is still timeless, with all the faults in it you can still easily put it on and listen to it, as for ex. Classic Star wars Ep 4-6, if you watch it you can´t imagine it was done over 20 years ago. for the time the sets were amazing compared to starship galaktica, but thats another topic, not for a M.O. board).
A real great Bouncer again with TSODE. Calming well organised big Projekt cutted in small parts but they were all continuous with no cuts as Tr3s Lunas did on every Song. Bringing you to one part and another without pausing. I still listen to it these days.
After that Voyager came out! At that time I liked it because it was the time i went to the german marines and that fitted to it, a big Voyage, and now as I write this it reminds me of that time. BUT, today as i listen to it, I find it is cheap. Using mostly the old and known trad. arrangements putted up with his guitar to make it more modern, except Mount St. Michelle is again wonderfull using an orchestra. He could have done more with the celtic style which he always have playing instruments from the beginning. Shaped signs (listen to the excerpts on www.oldfield.de) is a good example for playing new songs with an oldfield style in that celtic terrain.
With TB3, at first I was very sceptical, listening to the excerpt firstly found on the last "Best of". I Didn´t like that Bass drums, it sounded too much techno. But I loved and love now the whole part. Especially related to the wet live gig on the horse guards (9th row middle, yuhuu!.
Nowadays I accustom to that bass drum *shit*, if it is one of the good more clomplex song. TB3 fits that.
And that´s the point where the things became dissapointing.
Beginning with the bass drummed TB3, guitars came out. Everybodys first thoughts : OK, great, finally he gets to his roots and plays rock tunes and gives us his gorgeous guitar playing style, but that were only thoughts. These songs are wildly putted together, and too short with no relation to the titles. Great to experiment with his MIDI system but mmmmhhh.....! It was made to fast only to promote his european tour, to have to play not only TB3.
The biggest disapointment was TMB !!! Everybody has to agree with it that it was a faild Album from the cover to the music.
Only 2 songs remarked it that Mike Oldfield did it. Peace on Earth and another song ( I can´t remember the title). Finaly TMB at the end: a pure club based sound with awfull bass drums and ONE Bang on a bell which sample wasn´t as good as the old ones. I think we all awaited a Masterpiece of Music with his instrumental playing no other MIDI,Synth experiment.
It is an album for showing other musical styles but it doesn´t fit for a Millenium change, cause it failed to show the aeras shown or guessed on the sleeve.
The last album Tr3s Lunas:
From first news till last I couldn´t wait for further infos soundbits and interviews and so on. the more I (we) heard, the more I could imagine how this could be. Building the complete from a soundfile in my Mind. Playing the demo, with the music I thoght this could be a worthy sequal to TSODE.
As it came out it got real what Mike said in the promotion :" The music in the game doesn´t fit on the album, I don´t know why that is !". These are different ones. good ones, if they weren´t repeated everytime. Best Example for me is SIRIUS.
The snippet I heard in the promotion was great! But in that score he released playing that, then disturbed with a pause with dolphin sonund, playing the same, again dolphin sond and than it goes further. On that one I would have build up on that
snippet going further and further. Is this repeating the art of Chill-out ??? I Hate this word.
It could have been a Sequal if he doesnt pause on each track, if it would be flowing which we excepted like playing the game, from one area to another.
I rather listen to the MVR Songs as the Album, cause this shows Mike Oldfield. Look at the sword game, or the firebirds (my favourite), the sound after completing the sprites, why isn´t it on the Album, why doesn´t it fit ??? Because it doesn´t belong to this chill-out fashion rubbish???????
After that the video, and the song that I can´t accustom to To be free. First, the same "destroyment" on the album, same way as man in the rain on TB3. Can someone tell me the reason and why that´s important to put it these, for the projekt disturbing, parts in the middle of the Album ?
2. What does this video mean , excepting to show us the MVR World bits.
3. Where are the guitars, at least for the single he could have done more than put more bass on and letting it sound faster?
4. Where is Mike ???
TB the RERECORDING, I am really looking foreward to it. It is refreshing to here the original in a more voluminous, clear view, even when the bass sounds seems to be too much synth, which I dont belive, because of the fast tremolo which you can´t do manually on a keyboard pad !
It doesen´t bother me anymore if this is another bell because he told us he would do it shortly before TL came out and let him do it cause it´s not a redesign, or another sequal!
What bothers me is again the video. Good that it shows the bell, but these crazy effects in it with mirroring and splitting up the screen. And here too, where is Mike ??? Remember Sentinel, sitting in a face or in front of the piano.
Or in another Part Pictures in the dark, shiny.
And musically, its again the above written repeating.
There are two parts with a slightly difference repeating on and on. An added Guitar as I wrote in an older reply would have been usefull.
Especially here in germany we are frustrated because WEA isn´t releasing any single here from TL and continuing this with TB RR.
What I forgot to write is reguarding to this topic and as you have read out of these lines , I don´t get rid of the feeling that Mike´s music beginning from Voyager is getting easier with less affort. putting sequenced tunes together, letting them repeat some times, playing some guitar clean but not that clomplex as years ago, and thats what we are waiting on . We surely don´t want a sequal to Amarok but a Piece like this one, brilliant with affort which you can hear. Let him again step into Aladin´s cave and hope he discovers more than a guitar and a keybord und computers with samples.
As I said above, we wish to hear somthing suprisingly new that bounces us from our chairs.
Let´s see what´s next !!!
@ Christopher
His appearence is shiny video is great, I mean the guitar solo with the generated figures, which you all have to admit was the newest hippest technologie for making screen effects at that time. That it looks disguasting today is normal !!!
Sorry for this long reply, I know that this would have fitted in other Board topics but I only wanted to answer .
Hendrik
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