Mike Oldfield - Light & Shade
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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.
Free Music Review: End of An Era
Hit: 1 Stars
After reading the reviews below, I can only conclude that Mr. Kinkaid was listening to the same album I was, and everyone else something completely different. I found the whole two albums to be even more bland than Tres Lunas, and IT was elevator music with the exception of a few tracks. Understand, Mike Oldfield has delighted me for more than 35 years with awesome innovation in styles and inspired virtuosity in performance. This last album contains none of either. I, too, am sad to see the passing of a musical genius into mediocrity.Free Music Review: Musak revisited
Hit: 1 Stars
If you are a fan of MO you will no doubt get a copy of this whatever any critic says about it. If not you can get it or listen to it only for its New Age type of elevator music value. Don't expect the genius music of MO of old. Apart from one or two slightly OK tracks its mostly nodding-off music. Uninspired, recycled. Sorry Mike, this is a very disappointed fan still waiting for music like that of Hergest Ridge, Amarok and all the TB's. Perhaps Mike has nodded-off tooFree Music Review: INSIPID
Hit: 1 Stars
Maybe if we scrape a little of it off, we'll find a 14th century underpiece... or maybe not.
This is mostly uninspired mush, too cloying to even serve as background muzak.