Ugo
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Posted: July 15 2010, 10:02 |
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@ Incantations: maybe I mis-used the word "exercise". What I meant is that some of MotS sounds like Mike writing not directly from his heart, as he did on TB (1973), but conforming his writing to some of the standards of what classical music is supposed to be nowadays. In one word, many of the key passages in MotS, to my (cloth) ears, sound soundtrackish. JohnWilliams-ish. HowardShore-ish. HansZimmer-ish. But, at the same time, MotS makes it clear that it was written by Mike Oldfield, and not by John Williams or Howard Shore or Hans Zimmer or any other Hollywood film composer. I'm not denying anything of those guys' merits, they're all great in their field. But the simple fact that MotS was written by the man who wrote TB, HR and Ommadawn means that MotS is an awful lot more inspired than anything that those guys could ever come up with. Yet you can't deny that it's written and orchestrated according to standards that were born and existed long before Mike Oldfield. That's what I meant by "exercise".
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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