Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
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Artist: Mike OldfieldEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-07-11
Music Label: Blue Plate Caroline
Soundtracks:
- Ommadawn, Pt. 1
- Ommadawn, Pt. 2
Free Music Notes for Ommadawn
Free Music Review: The musical equivalent of astral projection
Hit: 4 Stars
In the 70s when it came out it seemed to resonate with cosmic beauty - now slightly less atavistic, but still has moments of pure illumination, fringed with greatness. It distilled the Zeitgeist of its era. Sat comfortably with Gawain and the Green Knight, Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, films by Fassbinder, Stan Brakhage, Nicholas Roeg, etc. (Even the pic of Oldfield on the front evokes Jesus Christ Superstar)
I dock one star because Part II is simply not as good. My record was worn down listening to the magical Part I and the quintessentially English "On Horseback."
"Et o, ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!" (thank you, TS Eliot)
Ommadawn Poster
Japanese digitally remastered limited edition issue of the album classic in a deluxe, miniaturized LP sleeve replica of the original vinyl album artwork.With his first release, Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield created a genre that can best be termed "symphonic folk-rock." Ommadawn, his third album, continued in a similar though somewhat more ambitious and less portentous vein. Including the African percussion group Jabula and Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains on uilleann pipes, this is Oldfield's most easily palatable release. Oldfield plays almost 20 instruments here. The two instrumental pieces that make up nearly the entire album are similar to ambient music in intent and effect, with an almost constant recycling of themes. The album closes with "On Horseback," a classic piece of English whimsy. --James Swift
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