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
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Free Music Review: one of the jewels of a great dacade
Hit: 5 Stars
To me listening to Ommadawn is like spending a few days in beautiful nature, trips you come back from not only relaxed, but full of optimism and desire to get things done. It always fills me with light that stays a while.
Ommadawn is composed of two parts, and it is followed by a song, On Horseback. The amazing guitar solo of Ommadawn part 1 is like a bird learning to fly, very consistent in its approach but not successful until the final few minutes when it finally becomes airborne. Our melody becomes introduced to us right away by the acoustic guitar and being repeated by Celtic folk and other instruments Mike chooses to use which are introduced to us later on throughout both parts of this composition and including panpipes, uilleann pipes, timpani, glockenspiel bodhran, banjo, bouzouki, harp, mandolin, cello, trumpet as well as acoustic bass and classical and acoustic guitars, including a 12 string guitar. At the same time, the use of drummers of Jabula is combining our northern Celtic experience with the African elements and making this 1975 album one of the first world music records of value. After 4 minutes like an ugly duckling appears the electric guitar. Everything sort of stumbles in its tracks, the music is not progressing that much although it is a pleasant walk across this melodic back and forth landscape. In 9th minute electric guitar appears again, does not seem so out of place any more and this guitar starts building the music and our experience. Human voices singing nonsense in Gaelic develop a song without meaning but full of magic transforming it into an incantation more than anything else. Perhaps it was heard because on some level everything from that 15 minute or so awakes, the ugly duckling by now is turned into the most beautiful and powerful swan and it is this instrument which brings on the absolute beauty of the last few minutes of Ommadawn part 1. Ommadawn is like an argument supporting the fact stating that it is not the goal alone but our way to accomplish that goal which is worth our life experience. Play the last 4 minutes of Ommadawn part 1 and yes you will hear some great music, but no, you will not experience it in the same way you would have, had you started from the beginning. The solemn mood of the first 5 minutes of Ommadawn part 2 falls upon us like the reality of a goal already accomplished. A sudden realization that new dreams need to begin again for us to fill fulfilled. But then these awesome Scottish pipes blow that feeling away. Mike Oldfield's conviction contained in the lyrics of On Horseback although have turned some away from not only that short experimental part of the album, places all of us again in front of his passion, if we have not heard it clear enough in his music.
Back in 1975 I used to listen to a lot of German electronic music and I was really into Klaus Schulze's Timewind and coming the same year from the group he left behind Tangerine Dream's Ricochet. The other great albums introduced in 1975 were Supertramp's Crisis? What Crisis? and Queen's Night At The Opera. However, to me personally 2 other albums could have been the greatest( not only of that year, but the entire decade.) Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here with its magnificent Shine On You Crazy Diamond and Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn. It will most likely always be one of ten best albums of my life. Mike gained the majority of his recognition after 1972 at the age of 19 for Tubular Bells, which was his most popular album. Personally, I liked the following album Hergest Ridge more, but I did not truly fall in love with Mike's music until Ommadawn came out in 1975. Mike's following double album Incantations is spectacular as well and I place it right behind Ommadawn. They both have elements of electronic, acoustic, world and highly spiritual music, or that is where they take you. I find them both uplifting and grounding at the same time.
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Japanese only paper sleeve, three disc set, 2 x SHM CD's and 1 DVD. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing, SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc, allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. Universal. 2010.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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