Mike Oldfield - Crises
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Artist: Mike OldfieldEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Music Label: Blue Plate Caroline
Soundtracks:
- Crisis
- Moonlight Shadow
- In High Places
- Foreign Affair
- Taurus 3
- Shadow on the Wall
Free Music Notes for Crises
Free Music Review: One of the best Oldfield recordings ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
My first Oldfield album was a copy of Tubular Bells, given to me in 1981 as a leaving present from my classmates in North England as I left for a new life in Australia.I was thirteen at the time and thought the best thing about the album was that one man had played every instrument on it.
There was something about the music, and perhaps something about the timing of it that made me feel like I had my own piece of England with me whenever I listened to it.
A few years later and I was buying my own albums and it was then I discovered Crises.
This was Mike Oldefield ten years after Tubular Bells and WOW! What a transformation. At that point I had not heard all of the albums in-between Tubular Bells and Crises, so for me it was almost hard to believe it was the same artist. Except of course for that distinctive Oldfield "slightly distorted guitar" sound.
I haven't yet heard all of Oldfield's work, but to date it is probably his darkest and most pure rock based release.
Listening to the title track with headphones is a musical must for any fan of great music, but especially fan's of synthesised new age rock.
Oldfield's ability to make sound dance through the stereo spectrum and provide the listener with tiny details of sound make this an almost hypnotic experience. The climax of this track is akin to the exquisite construction of a Beethoven symphony as he builds layer upon layer of sound all the while increasing the rumbling of the bass drums and acoustic guitars to an almost deafining roar. So if you do decide to go with the earphones - keep the volume control within reach!
The rest of the album includes a brilliant display of Oldfield's flamenco guitar skills with the track Taurus III, a song called "Moonlight Shadow" that made it to the charts in the UK and Australia which shows how Oldfield could have easily gone down the "pop song writer" track. This track is claimed on some web sites to be a tribute to the late John Lennon, but I've yet to see any official confirmation of that. The vocal talents of Maggie Riley are put to very good use on Moonlight Shadow and "Foreign Affair" and the final track "Shadow on the Wall" could have been a respectable addition to just about any UK rock bands repertoire.
If you're already an Oldfield fan and you don't have this - go and get it. If you're not yet familiar with his work, then listen to it, it won't be the last Oldfield CD you buy.
I've just replaced it after my Vinyl copy finally died. I hadn't listened to it in over ten years and now I'm driving my wife crazy with it all over again.
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