Mike Oldfield - Platinum
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Music CD Cover Artist: Mike Oldfield Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 1992-09-23 Music Label: Blue Plate Caroline Soundtracks:
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Free Music Review: Oldfield gets playful, jazzy
Hit: 4 Stars
Yep. This is the follow-up to the tremendous, long, and highly complex "Incantations". But it bears little in resemblance to that work, save for the continuing minimalist directions. The four-part title track is very fun, taking Oldfield's complex compositional ideas and tweaking them in a stripped-down and jazzy direction, hearkening back to a Roaring '20s feel in a couple of places (especially Part 3-"Charleston"). But there's a major tip-o-the-hat here also to then-labelmate and minimalist pioneer Philip Glass with Part 4, which is a 'cover' of Glass's "North Star". The second part starts interestingly enough with the quiet percussives of "Woodhenge", but then goes into..."Sally"? Odd, this, as my version of it shows "Into Wonderland" in the liner notes at this point. "Punkadiddle" is a goof, really, sort of a miscue. And the version of "I've Got Rhythm" just sort of plods along languidly and never seems to come quite together. So...get it for the title suite, one or two of the second half shorties, but this isn't one of the first things you'd get in Oldfield's oeuvre.