View Full Version : Mike Oldfield recording new rock album!!
Rufus
12-14-2012, 06:37 AM
Sounds interesting ! I'm only familair with his more well known works..Tubular Bells, Harvest Ridge, Ommadawn et al. Has he released a rock album before & are they good, do they differ much from those mentioned ? I guess the biggest difference would be the use of vocalists !
Hi Everyone !
Just finished the last demo for the rock album. There are 10 songs altogether and I just sent the last one off to Steve Lipson who is hard at work on a film project in LA. These songs are deeply personal and come from real life experiences past and present. Music straight from the heart.
There is just some legal stuff to work out with Mercury and then we can start organizing the live sessions. There will be 5 tracks recorded by the best live musicians in LA and the other 5 live in London. Then Steve and I will work together across the planet to record the vocals and of course my guitars.
Caroline will be in charge of the live Twitter feeds from the actual sessions. All exciting stuff so here’s to an amazing 2013. Lots of good wishes !
Mike
NogbadTheBad
12-14-2012, 06:41 AM
I'm interested but there's a lot of MO's stuff I'm not a fan of. We'll see.
Dodie
12-14-2012, 06:45 AM
I'm deeply in the minority because most of my favourite Mike Oldfield pieces are shorter songs. He's done plenty of albums that mixed extended pieces with shorter rock-pop-folk songs, such as 'Crises', 'Five Miles Out', 'Discovery' and 'Islands', and then a fewer number of albums that are entirely song-based like the poppy 'Earth Moving'. All of those I've named have a few duds on them but also all of them have some good stuff too, even 'Earth Moving' (which most here probably hate, but I really like about half of the songs a lot, especially "Holy" featuring Adrian Belew, "In the blue night" featuring Maggie Reilly, and the catchy "Bridge to Paradise" featuring Max 'GTR' Bacon).
Personally, I'm happy to see he's doing an album of rock songs rather than yet another Tubular Bells knock-off. It's an aspect of his output that's been very under-rated, imho.
Kcrimso
12-14-2012, 09:03 AM
Hopefully it really ROCKS and also has some prog flavours.
TOUR please. North America please.
NogbadTheBad
12-14-2012, 10:12 AM
TOUR please. North America please.Good Luck with that, bucket list act for me.
bill g
12-15-2012, 01:05 PM
Typically I have found his vocal songs uninteresting, save 'Northpoint' from 'Islands', which I've always quite liked. But some of his instrumental music such as Wind Chimes, Amarok, Music From The Balcony and about all of Tubular Bells 2 to be pretty brilliant. Then he has his new agey side, which I'm okay with, neither strongly like or dislike. I imagine this album will be pretty good. Look forward to hearing it.
Firth
12-15-2012, 08:50 PM
Mike will be playing all the instruments except drums and there will be a guitar solo on every track. So far he has made 9 demos and has ideas for the 10th track. Mike is singing the vocals on the demos but the intention is that all or most of the tracks will be sung by
the best talented vocalists, male and female, suited to each track
The vocalists are under discussion and may be well known artists or maybe not so well known. Mike is in preliminary discussions with Steve Lipson as possible co producer. Mike's record company, Mercury / Universal, are very excited about the project.
The album will feature only live guitars,basses,and hammond organs with live strings. The drums so far have been recorded by John Robinson
East New York
12-15-2012, 10:31 PM
TOUR please. North America please.
That'd be lovely! I mean, I'd never wish my worst enemy to come to Los Angeles, but...! :lol
Kcrimso
12-16-2012, 04:26 AM
Mike will be playing all the instruments except drums and there will be a guitar solo on every track.
I don't believe that is right. There is going to be more musicians: "There will be 5 tracks recorded by the best live musicians in LA and the other 5 live in London."
Also, Steve Lipson is already done deal. He is co-producing album.
ChrisXymphonia
12-16-2012, 12:19 PM
The news that Lipson is coproducing is very good news :drool
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