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Posted: Oct. 12 2005, 04:17 |
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Quote (TubularBelle @ Oct. 11 2005, 21:17) | Take away the internet and all that pre-exposure we got, release Light as a 2cd set with Tres Lunas 3 years ago before Tres Lunas 2 was created (by someone who naturally did not expect those tunes to be rehashed 3 years later), release Shade as a single cd 6 years ago, and everyone is HAPPY, no problems. Great music, wrong year. |
anyone's entitled to the own opinion, but i can't quite see what u mean. why release 'light' with tr3s lunas before the mixes of music in the game were made? tr3s lunas 2 is music from tr3s lunas, so it was all -music disc and game- mvr, released by mike oldfield at the same moment. it's true that the music in the game was later remixed brilliantly by some fans, but it was always in the game. why split them and put 'light' in the middle?
and 'shade' six years ago, yes.. it would have been great to find 'slipstream' half way through a dance session... i'm sure, but maybe this is the time when it's got sense in his career. imho the techno touch of 'shade' seems to be what he was wanting to do six years ago in tubular bells lll, different is whether one likes it or not, but i think he has been learning about how to make dance music. he's been on the search of something that has achieved in 'slipstream' (not in 'romance' though...), that track isn't out of time, i'm curious to see if it will be played in the next year in clubs around.
after some weeks of listening, i find 'light + shade' not his best work so far, mostly because it lacks of unity, but either his worst. i can't help thinking of this album as a good-paper sketch book where he has successfully revisited and developed some previous ideas like in 'ringscape' and 'first steps', made some interesting experiments like in 'surfing' and played the guitars beautifully full of magic in many moments like 'tears of an angel' 'resolution' or 'surfing' again. and i'm very glad for those moments.
my own condensed single cd:
angelique our father first steps ringscape resolution slipstream surfing blackbird tears of an angel
i haven't heard any of the bonus tracks yet, so the list may change then.
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