Voyager

Voyager is the 17th music album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1996. It is a Celtic-themed album. "The Hero" is a Scottish piece originally written by James Scott Skinner in 1903, as "Hector the Hero". "Women of Ireland", and "She Moves Through the Fair" are traditional Irish songs. "Dark Island" is a Scottish song; the original music was written by Iain Maclachlan in 1958, and the words were written by David Silver in 1962. "Flowers of the Forest... more

Voyager is the 17th music album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1996. It is a Celtic-themed album. "The Hero" is a Scottish piece originally written by James Scott Skinner in 1903, as "Hector the Hero". "Women of Ireland", and "She Moves Through the Fair" are traditional Irish songs. "Dark Island" is a Scottish song; the original music was written by Iain Maclachlan in 1958, and the words were written by David Silver in 1962. "Flowers of the Forest" is a traditional Scottish song, a lament for the defeat at Flodden in 1513. "The Song of the Sun" is composed by Bieito Romero from Celtic band Luar na Lubre. The music on this album is the most overtly Celtic music Mike Oldfield has produced. This caused some critics and reviewers, unfamiliar with the Celtic strands in his past output, to accuse him of "jumping on the Celtic bandwagon". The album had originally been recorded acoustically using only hand-played instruments. Apparently the daughter of an executive of Warner Music expressed... less