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Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon "Mike" Oldfield (born 15 May 1953, Reading, Berkshire) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age and more recently dance. His music is often...
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Hergest Ridge
Hergest Ridge is a record album, written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield released in 1974 (see 1974 in music) by Virgin Records. It was Oldfield's second solo album. He was not comfortable with the public attention that had come from the...
Ommadawn
Ommadawn is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It is his third album, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music). The cover photograph was by David Bailey. It peaked at #4 on the UK Albums Chart.
As with Hergest Ridge and...
Incantations
Incantations is a double album written and produced by Mike Oldfield. Released in late 1978 (see 1978 in music), it was his fourth studio album, and the first to feature a piece divided into more than two movements.
The current CD issue fits the...
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Downwind
Downwind is an album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong, issued in 1979 (see 1979 in music).
Like the other Pierre Moerlen's Gong albums, this is predominantly jazz fusion and has little to do with the psychedelic space rock of Daevid Allen's Gong, even...
Tubular Bells II
Tubular Bells II is the 15th music album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1992. The album - the first for his new record label, Warner Bros. Records, following an acrimonious departure from Virgin Records after twenty years - was conceived as a sequel...
Five Miles Out
Five Miles Out is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was his seventh album of original material, and was released in 1982 (see 1982 in music), at a time when his music was moving away from large-scale symphonic pieces...
Discovery
Discovery is the 9th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It was recorded at Oldfield's then-home in Villars-sur-Ollon in the Swiss Alps where he was living for tax reasons.
The album contains a number of pop songs, which Oldfield had...
The Killing Fields
The Killing Fields is the 10th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It was the soundtrack album for the film of the same name.
Though Oldfield's music had been used in films before (see The Exorcist and The Space Movie), this was the...
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Tubular Bells 2003
Tubular Bells 2003 is an album by Mike Oldfield, released in 2003. It is a complete re-recording of Oldfield's 1973 album Tubular Bells.
Oldfield had always been uncomfortable with the original recording because he had only a few weeks to record it...
