Mike Oldfield - Light & Shade
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Music CD Cover Artist: Mike Oldfield Edition: Music CD Audio: German (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Import CD Release Date: 2005-10-11 Music Label: Universal Product features:
Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Light & Shade Album
Free Music Review: No new `Light' and a career in the `Shade'
Hit: 1 Stars
There is no doubt that in 1973 Mike Oldfield burst forth in a flash of light with the inspired album `Tubular Bells'. Critics and public alike dazzled by its rise through the carts and it's persistence in the top 10. However like a super nova the brilliance has slowly diminished over the years and the final decline to oblivion is assured. There were brief flashes in 1975 with Ommadawn and 1994 with `The Songs Of Distant Earth'. The constant revisiting of the `Tubular Bells' name and theme in the last few years clearly showing a lack of inspiration or perhaps reveling no real interest in music beyond the financial.
Listening to `Light and Shade' reveals that the Super Nova is not only diminished but positively in eclipse. There is nothing new here; old ideas and melodies are revisited, and indeed not for the first time. Oldfield's insistence on grabbing any new technology (here it's Vocaloid) does not in itself guarantee originality or quality of experience. The execution of `Light and Shade' is precise and technically competent but there is no life or feeling in the whole of the two CD's. The sole of the music is as empty as the computerized vocals we are surgically presented with.