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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 08:18

I agree. It sounds like pleasant but bland music inserted for background music. Err..muzak. Nothing connoting the Celtic Samhain/Halloween spirit there. If they were playing something from the upcoming CD, you'd think it would have been mentioned. If they had to include background music, couldn't they have obtained CC permission to play something of Mike's? Sheesh.

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 10:41

I'm looking forward to hearing some classic(al) Mike, alot of the recent stuff, although good, is not what mike's about, trying to twist your musical nature to suit other genre's is often a bad idea, and through all the thumping beats and electronic wizadry, Mike's inner musical beast was trying come out, this project sounds like an outlet for alot of pent up Oldfield back to the roots music.

Also it was so nice to see him in a relaxed, calm, funny, and chatty frame of mind, alot of interviews with him, see him edgy, and thinking "i don't want to do this!"

for anyone that cares, i havent been about for a while, been a poo year so far, my pet dog of 17 years had to be put to sleep, my grandfather passed away a month ago, and i had an argument with some black ice last friday, my car and my wrist lost! I.E they were both broken!

well thats 3 things so its gotta be sunshine and rainbows from now on! lol

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 10:45

Paul Mc Cartney released a Classical Album recently.. Anyone Heard it yet !!!  Sorry I cannt get the enthusiasm up to listen out for it though!!    Really if i was out to buy Classics Albums Ill be looking in the Motzart Bach Beethoven Sections !! Hope What Mike is into is still basically Rock but presented in a different way !! :D
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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 12:25

I see a "happy" Mike in this video... That's the Oldfield I like!

Mike shows two beautiful spanish guitars in the photos... He can do great things with them.

And this new album could be a really mature work for Oldfield.

PS: Mike, you have to play a bit of flamenco in the new album, the flamenco parts in AmaroK were amazing!

Cheers from Spain  ;)
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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 12:49

I've always pictured Mike to be the "Bach" or "Mozart" or "Beethoven" of modern day. So him writing a nice big classical piece is very fitting in my eyes.

I disagree with the thought of twisiting your musical nature to suit a genre is a bad idea, though. That's how you experiment. That, to me, is how you stay original. At least in Mike's case. I'd lean to call it more of a musical nature absorbing new ideas than twisiting it to suit something else. Mike looks at music as whatever he wants it to be and he succeeds in that thought process. Not as something he has to stay in a specific format for. That's exactly what he tries to avoid in music, it seems like. Either way, I admire him for it.

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 14:25

I would personaly like to hear more of the Amarok sound, something I think he never returned to. He really had something here. It had developed from Ommadawn and the like into excellent small pieces. I admit, some bits were a bit intrusive like the loud noises at inappropriate times but it was/is still genius. I don't think he has done anything like as adventurous and off the wall as this since. A very underated album commercially that will probably get recognition in the future like all classics. Amarok was to Oldfield what Zoolook was to Jarre......unexpected and original.

Its good that he can laughingly admit he has made mistakes by re-recording Tubular Bells, but still failing to eclipse the charm of the original. At least he doesn't take himself too seriously.

I find myself listening more to classical music more and more these days. I wouldn't like to hear Mike plays acoustic over classical like Orchesteral Tubular bells (and only a small bit at that). I want to hear his distinctive sound mixed in. I await with interest but I'm still not won over by the Halloween idea. Its a bit naff. It's like having a musical based on bonfire night or April fool's day. It's too seasonal. I don't care for the concept of Halloween anyway but thats my personal belief.
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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 15:29

Quote (Quicksilver @ Mar. 08 2007, 18:25)
I see a "happy" Mike

I wish he would be!

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 18:44

Quote (bugular tell @ Mar. 08 2007, 15:41)
I'm looking forward to hearing some classic(al) Mike, alot of the recent stuff, although good, is not what mike's about, trying to twist your musical nature to suit other genre's is often a bad idea, and through all the thumping beats and electronic wizadry, Mike's inner musical beast was trying come out, this project sounds like an outlet for alot of pent up Oldfield back to the roots music.......


well thats 3 things so its gotta be sunshine and rainbows from now on! lol

regards

lee

Sorry to hear about your dog and your grandfather Lee, also your argument with black ice in which your car and wrist became casualties, hope they can be repaired soon.

Agreed I quite like L&S but I have to be in a dancy sort of mood to really, really get into certain traks on there. Yes I'm sure Mike's inner "musical beast" was trying to come out, amongst those thumping beats and electronic wizardry. Generally I find dance music on the whole doesn't do much for me   :/ , maybe it's old age setting in :laugh: .
Yay Mike doing an album that goes back to his roots. I wonder if he now thinks making Tubular Bells 2003 was a superflous project .  I don't dislike TB2003,but hate John Cleese's, Master of Ceremonies, he sounds bored, I just can't get enthusiastic about TB2003 compared to the original. If TB2003 hadn't have been made I wouldn't miss it.

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ian   Posted on Mar. 08 2007, 19:25I would personaly like to hear more of the Amarok sound, something I think he never returned to. He really had something here. It had developed from Ommadawn and the like into excellent small pieces. I admit, some bits were a bit intrusive like the loud noises at inappropriate times but it was/is still genius.

I find myself listening more to classical music more and more these days. I wouldn't like to hear Mike plays acoustic over classical like Orchesteral Tubular bells (and only a small bit at that). I want to hear his distinctive sound mixed in. I await with interest but I'm still not won over by the Halloween idea. Its a bit naff. It's like having a musical based on bonfire night or April fool's day. It's too seasonal. I don't care for the concept of Halloween anyway but thats my personal belief.


I'd think I'd be put off if Mike were to make another Amarok sounding album. I've been wanting to like Amarok , but just can't quite seem to get into it despite my efforts    :O .
I like the idea of Mike using classical music in his recordings, as long as it's got some electric guitar in. With Orchestral Tubular Bells I felt the guitar was rather lacking.

About the Halloween idea, I think this could be quite good, like most festivals these days things seem to get too commercialised and so rather crass. Maybe the albums planned for a late October release. Maybe what Mike could do is take the eight Pagan festivals in the year Yule/Winter Solstice, Imbolc (Candlemas), Ostara/Spring Equinox(Easter), Beltane(May Day), Summer Solstice, Lammas, Mabon/Autumn Eqinox to stop it sounding too seasonal. That said I don't restrict playing In Dulci Jubilo to Christmas/Yule.   Or maybe doing a piece on the festivals would then make it a concept album??? maybe, or not.


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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 19:11

This idea of a classical album seems quite interesting to me,and it can show off a more mature Mike in a musical way!

About the video,he seems completely the opposite of the Mike from the last days of Nokia Night of the Proms...


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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 19:32

I think all that matters is what it sounds like. The classical style wont matter provided Mike allows his music to dominate the recording and doesnt put the classical format first as though he is adapting to it - rather, adapt it to his style. His music emerges well in any style if its got his distinctiveness in it. Ommadawn translated amazingly well into classical format at the Nokia night of the Proms, but yes he used electirc guitar as well,and if he did employ some electric this time great, its part of the kick and the oomph he puts in, but if he does not use it, that does not mean the record will be disappointing.

I love Lake Constance but find Mont St Michel good but a trifle like he tried too hard to fit a good piece to a classical style and lost a touch of the impact. (That was the problem with the album as a whole, it lacked impact because he used a format that detracted from his music even if it was well executed.) On the other hand, orchestrations he has used well, on QE2 for example, several lovely horn and string sections. But it has to be Mike first, and the rest second. I applaud him for trying this providing it does not become an exercise that loses sight of the need for excellent music rather than simply showing he is adaptable.

Given that Mike is getting into his mid 50s, if this is a success, its a good sign for his longevity because it moves him towards the conventional role of composer which will extend the career past his physical capacity to be a performer. But that's two steps ahead. Lets just hope for a damned good and original album that shakes our boots.

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Posted: Mar. 08 2007, 20:37

Classical music for me is fine,since it was the very first type of music I was exposed to it and loved when I was a small girl.I wanna hear what is going to be Mike's approach to it.

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Posted: Mar. 09 2007, 06:26

;)  I like classical music too , i think his next album will be great . Don't forget that he has said several times that he was influenced by Sibelius and i like the first part of Islands .
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Posted: Mar. 09 2007, 07:51

A great discussion to read!!

I was pleasantly surprised to see him in that video. He talked in a great unserious, happy way :)

I like the story of TB and TB2003.

Not sure about the Halloween theme, but I expect he'll do great stuff with it  :cool:


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Posted: Mar. 09 2007, 09:03

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PS: Mike, you have to play a bit of flamenco in the new album, the flamenco parts in AmaroK were amazing!

Cheers from Spain  ;)

yes yes! I wan't that to. I love when he plays bits like that.
he suits the spanish style and also "In the pool" is a great tune..
It remians me of my holidays in spain..

i also have been listening to karl Jenkins (after some downloads) and this can be great! As long it dont get the orchestral Tubular feeling!!  :D

I look forward to this album.. I really do. Something fresh...
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Posted: Mar. 09 2007, 09:49

;) I'm thinking of another thing !
For me , he has kept a " state of mind " ( don't know how to say that in English ) from the seventies ; if this project comes at his end ( i hope so ) , he will have made the same that the Rock bands have made in these great years to the music : a concept album ! Hope you'll understand what i mean .    

Yes that will be certainly something good to listen !
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Posted: Mar. 09 2007, 11:07

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Paul Mc Cartney released a Classical Album recently.. Anyone Heard it yet !!!  Sorry I cannt get the enthusiasm up to listen out for it though!!    Really if i was out to buy Classics Albums Ill be looking in the Motzart Bach Beethoven Sections !! Hope What Mike is into is still basically Rock but presented in a different way !! :D

"Cross over" to classical music, I feel, must have some theme around which to build it. I don't know if I can explain it, but it helps to create publicity at least a bit. Halloween is to me just as good as something else as long as the music is not too "descriptive" as to make it too season dependent.

I've been a fan for about 20 years now... starting from hearing and listening to "Wind Chimes". That alone, and many arrangements in QE2 and Platinum, Mont St. Michel, Lake Constance... makes me confident that Mike certainly has the richness in his composing work that justifies at least a visit in the classical world. TB, Ommadawn and Incantations even sound a bit constrained in their 1980-82 live performances - they are compositions for larger accompaniment.

I wouldn't worry too much about how successful it might be (I'll let Mike and Mercury worry about it for me :-) . ). It might be not, such as Roger Waters' Ca'ira opera, McCartney's oratorio, Zappa's modern music recording(s)... But then we have also other examples such as Andersson/Ulvaeus' "Chess", which have sold lots and lots for what I know.
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Posted: Mar. 09 2007, 20:58

Mike, im really excited about this and im behind you all the way.

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Posted: Mar. 10 2007, 03:42

Would someone provide the full interview from the resolution mag. ...the kind man from Amarok gave us 3 answers ...the video gave very little info !

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Posted: Mar. 10 2007, 05:07

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Would someone provide the full interview from the resolution mag. ...the kind man from Amarok gave us 3 answers ...the video gave very little info !

Neil

I'd love to read the full interview...and Mike is also on the cover of Resolution mag  ;)

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Posted: Mar. 10 2007, 11:21

I can't help but be very unhappy today reflecting on Mike's decision NOT to do what he intended re. the comments he made in the radio interviews he gave last year :-

'really long instrumental ...back to the 70s ...using electric guitars .... My kind of music .. a BIT structured like a piece of classical music ' !!!

I loved Incantations where the orchestra is part of Mike's musical arsenal ...I thought Lake Constance was rather bland & very forgetful ... I think a pure orchestral album is too restrictive for Mike's talents to shine and make worthy of a successful tour!

I'd come to the opinion that Mike is rather impulsive and tends to change his mind from one day to the next ...this seems to prove it. I am from now on going to take what Mike says in interviews with a pinch of salt and consequently hope he drops this idea FORTHWITH !!!

Neil
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