shenry
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Posted: Aug. 05 2019, 11:39 |
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Thanks for that list, manintherain.
As far as I know, he was already doing musical doodles that would eventually become Incantations as early as '76 thought, wasn't he? That documentary film Reflection came out in '76, didn't it? That had early Incantations tunes and a complete stand alone song, The Path.
Yes, there's lots of good stuff there. At the risk of sounding argumentative, however, I'd stand by my comment. It's not a huge amount of work for four years, particularly coming off the back of such well developed and refined works like those first three albums. And particularly as it's a home studio we are talking about. He just had to roll out of bed and head right on into that big barn (after a few trampoline jumps, naturally)!
I suspect that in addition to the well publicised personal issues he was going through, he also had a bit of a creative block over this period. (Interesting however that an Oldfield creative block involves an output ten times more prolific and interesting than your average musician!
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