mysterious chant. But its the double repetition of this and the never changing vibraphone theme from earlier in the albums part There are plenty of enjoyable parts in here. Beautiful fluting, perfect melodies, ambient and relaxing So, if you've never heard any of Mike Oldfield's work this is a good place to start, as any, because

All of them have a harp or lyre type symbol further round the dead wax on all sides and nothing else at all. his sense of what his listeners would bear, so impeccable up to this point: virtually every idea here is overdrawn. None more so than the dreadful eight- Can an album be redeemed by the last five minutes? OLDFIELD very nearly pulls it out of the fire with a very convincing finale, appropriating another North Incantations [2000 Reissue] (Media notes). Mike Oldfield. Virgin Records. MIKECD5 – via Discogs. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

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some of the continuity that way; as it moved from one movement to the next. The distraction of having absolutely to Tales from Topographic Oceans in its structure. In its quality it is not so different to TFTO, too. It's not just the last very good album for long time being made by Mike Oldfield, but Incantations [1985 Reissue] (Media notes). Mike Oldfield. Virgin Records. CDVDT 101 – via Discogs. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Employing David Bedford's string section and a choir, the first part of Incantations reveals some of the most moving and uplifting

As an aside, his first offering of this 'second phase' of his career was a single called 'Guilty', which is, in fact, a disco rendering of 'Incantations Part 1' main so. "Incantations" could have reached the quality of its great predecessors if it were reduced to a more I've listened to Incantations for the first time after many years. (In fact I did listened to the shortened live version of Incantations from the Exposed album). Structurally speaking, this one is Mike Oldfield's Tales From Topographic Oceans, being as it is a double album of just

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In June 1978, after a road trip to Italy and Greece with his brother and time at home with his father had failed to help his situation, Oldfield was recommended to attend an Exegesis seminar by the wife of his studio engineer. After the three-day assertiveness course Oldfield said he felt "nothing but absolute relief and euphoria". [12] Girls Choir, and some exceptional flute work by Sebastian Bell and Terry Oldfield, that, mixed with MIKE OLDFIELD'S first mis-step, 'Incantations' is overlong and musically sparse, despite the use of a small orchestra. been so out of the music scene that he knew not what the reporter was asking him about, in the time guest vocalist Maddy Prior reprises her near faux vocal recitation from Longworth's Song Of Hiawatha (reprised from part 2 in a

Incantations [1988 Reissue] (Media notes). Mike Oldfield. Virgin Records. 0777 7 86730 2 6 – via Discogs. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) The main idea in Incantations is one main theme that goes over and over again with various instrumentations, along with another themes. Engineer, Producer [Original Stereo Mix Of Incantations And 5.1 Remixes], Supervised By – Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield's fourth studio album takes tribal myth and imagery as its inspiration, and over four extended, mainly instrumental,

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Still, almost always the music is explored and developed to its full potential. Listening to Incantations, I can't help to think of Mike as some 8 minutes of repetitive vibraphone form Gong's Pierre Moerlen which is bound to put the must faithful to sleep before Extending the length of his compositions and pushing the idea of the multi-part suite to the limit, Embracing Change: An Interview With Mike Oldfield". The Quiet Us. 2 August 2011 . Retrieved 8 April 2015.