Mike Oldfield   Pays : England Genre : Rock Progressif Symphonique Dates : 1953 URL : cliquez ici Acheter un album de Mike Oldfield - Mike Oldfield a été consulté 131506 fois - Mike Oldfield a une moyenne de : 7.96 sur 10 - Mike Oldfield a 855 note(s) et 124 critique(s) - Mike Oldfield est classé : eme
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Titre : Mike Oldfield prêt à sortir Source / Auteur : AmarokProg Date : 03/09/2007 Nb consultation : 1592
Le nouvel album de MIKE OLDFIELD intitulé "Mucic For the Spheres" est prévu pour le 12 novembre 2007. Le compositeur en profite pour revenir aux longues compositions instrumentales divisées en deux parties. L'album est entièrement interprété par un orchestre et sortira chez Universal qui l'a dores et déjà classé au rayon "Classique et Jazz". Voici quelques extraits de la notule web que le label lui consacre : If the opening bars of Mike Oldfield's new album, 'Music Of The Spheres', sound at all familiar to those who remember his landmark recording of the early Seventies (and who doesn't?) then its author has no intention of apologising for any similarity, intentional or otherwise. "I make repetitive piano sequences," he says, summing up his signature sound. "I am the repetitive piano sequence man." Indeed he is. But to millions of music lovers he's better known as the 'Tubular Bells' man. And they won't be disappointed by his new album - the first truly 'classical' composition of a career spanning almost 40 years. Completely recorded by an orchestra at Abbey Road studios, and featuring guest slots by pianist Lang Lang and vocal star Hayley Westenra, 'Music Of The Spheres' is at once a bold departure from the two dozen albums preceding it, and yet an instantly identifiable slice of 'classic Mike Oldfield'. So let's deal with first things first. "I am sure everyone is going to listen and the first thing they'll say is: he's put a bloody tubular bell on it," he chuckles. "But there's a bell in every orchestra, so of course it's got one!" So far, so good, then. But 'Music Of The Spheres' is no Tubular Bells IV (though it would have been easy to call it that). Just don't ask Mike to explain exactly what it is: he believes the most transcendent music comes from a higher place. "A couple of years ago I was wondering what to do next," muses Oldfield. "I thought I had done everything I wanted to do. I was toying with the idea of retirement. Then I had the idea to do a big long instrumental album. I knew some diehard fans would love it. But the idea of promoting and presenting it in this day and age just seemed retrogressive." Eventually, Mike found the solution to his dilemma. He decided to compose the music but, instead of playing it himself - as he has done ever since 'Tubular Bells' in 1973, when he famously played every instrument - he would leave that job to an orchestra. The result is 'Music Of The Spheres', 45 minutes of music that encapsulate everything Oldfield has come to mean to music fans in a career spanning genres from ambient/new age (before either term had been coined), world music (ditto), through novelty pop to film soundtracks, avant-garde, electronica and dance. He says 'Music Of The Spheres' is the opposite of his last album, 'Light And Shade', which was half chill-out, half high-energy. "This time I thought, instead of using electric guitars and studio wizardry, let's do it with a real classical orchestra," he explains. The orchestration has been arranged by Britain's most popular living classical composer, Karl Jenkins, who also enjoys a co-production credit on the album. No sooner had the two teamed up than Oldfield was informed by the Welshman that they had met previously, when Karl - at the time, still a member of experimental band The Soft Machine - played oboe on a live BBC TV recording of 'Tubular Bells' in 1975. The next step was for Oldfield to record the entire album using orchestral samples before handing it over to Jenkins to be re-recorded by an orchestra of classical musicians at Abbey Road Studios. "At times," confesses Mike, who wandered in and out of the studio during recordings, "I was almost moved to tears by the beauty of the music." As usual with Mike Oldfield, the result is hard to pigeonhole. It's 'classical' with moments that recall Sibelius and Holst, but it's not a symphony, and other parts are more reminiscent of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. It's a departure, but it contains familiar elements, most notably Mike's trademark classical guitar stylings. At other times, particularly in its striking choral passages, it has more in common with Karl's own repertoire. Parallèlement à la sortie Cd, l'album sortira également... sur clé USB ! Tracklisting: Music of the Spheres Part 1 : 1. Harbinger - 04.08 2. Animus - 03.09 3. Silhouette - 3.19 4. Shabda - 4.00 5. The Tempest - 5.48 6. Harbinger (reprise) - 1.30 7. On My Heart - 2.27 Featuring Hayley Westenra Part 2 : 8. Aurora - 03.42 9. Prophecy - 02.54 10. On My Heart (reprise) - 01.16 11. Harmonia Mundi - 03.46 12. The Other Side - 01.28 13. Empyrean - 01.37 14. Musica Universalis - 06.24 Total running time: 45.30
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