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Posted: Mar. 18 2008, 16:42 |
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Never have I been so surprised! I had a few doubts with MoTS being an orchestral piece, mainly because I find Orchestral Tubular Bells particularly difficult for some reason, so I didn't know if this was going to appeal to me. But MOTS is supremely different. I simply could not believe what my ears were telling me!
I am still in the early stages of listening to the music, so I still don't know what's coming next, and boy there's a lot of it to listen to. It is at the same time exquisitley beautiful, so tender and delicate and then hugely exhilarating. I keep getting little phrases popping into my mind through the day. I always go by my instincts and this really feels good. For me, it stands about shoulder height next to Tubular Bells, it has it's own place, and that's only after listening a handful of times. It's that good, full of the Oldfield we love and have hoped to hear again. I keep thinking, wow, this can now be played all over the world by really good orchestras, the Oldfield sound, in the right circumstances of course. That's certainly going to spread the word!
Congratulations to all concerned, especially to Mike, it really is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard...and if I may be so bold..DO MORE!!! it's what you were born to do Mike!!!
I'm on a real high now, can't concentrate on anything else!!! I am totally besotted with those wonderful basses in Harbinger, and Empyrean, the opening brass introducing music that to me sounds as though it comes from another time. Infact this whole album sounds like it is from somewhere other than the here and now.
 bee
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