Mike Oldfield - Music of the Spheres
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Free Music Review: Music of the Spheres
Hit: 5 Stars
Mike Oldfield does very little I don't like. This is up to his usual standard of different and enjoyable. Great music to drive with, relax with and hike with.Free Music Review: New Classical music!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Beautiful, ethereal, more formal and grown-up than before, with scintillating reflections of his Tubular Bells series ... I love it.Free Music Review: Great music!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Mike is a genius, and here we see it again. Good mixing and music make it one of my favorites.Free Music Review: Tubular Bells, The Movie
Hit: 4 Stars
Like others before me, this album reminds me of a movie score. It is sweeping, grand, intimate, majestic, and overall just plain good. The 'overture' Harbinger hits on all of these qualities, while Animus is at once plaintive and contemplative and then tremendously grandiose. It reminds me of the writing of Basil Poledouris. Silhouette brings out the closest thing to a lead guitar, while still retaining the classical tone, and could be the love song of the album. Shabda follows up with a choral section that sounds straight out of Karl Jenkins' Adiemus. The Tempest blends much of what we've heard together so far. On My Heart sounds like it belongs in the middle of an Enya album. Aurora is an uptempo that reminds me of something that would sound good in a desert epic film. Prophecy has a sinister majesty all its own. Harmonia Mundi sounds like it escaped from James Horner's Braveheart score. The Other Side is an exotic, brooding desert piece that could be right at home in Maurice Jarre's Lawrence of Arabia. Empyrean blasts the trumpet fanfare one more time, and Musica Universalis hearkens back to the end of part one from Tubular Bells to close the album out.
So why the one star deduction? Because it all follows the Tubular Bells formula, and it has the ghosts from that album appearing constantly throughout, making it almost a Tubular Bells 4. One has to wonder if Mike can't get his first album out of his head. Certainly he has done spectacular work that didn't follow that formula, and it makes me wish he had resisted this time. After all, we have Tubular Bells 1, 2, 3, 2003, and Orchestral. That seems enough.
Free Music Review: Inspiring, yet not innovative
Hit: 4 Stars
I am one of Mike Oldfield's big fans. Every new released album is automatically in my shopping cart.
This is a masterpiece, very inspiring and vivid. I listened to this new album for the first time while driving to work. It was a pleasant driving experience and didn't care for the heavy traffic, I was just delighted by the music of the spheres.
The downside: Not a true innovation. You can once again easily recognize elements from the tubular bells (I, II, III), Guitars and other albums. If you no longer enjoy remixes and Tb sounds, you might not like this album. Otherwise, it is very good.