Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (Remastered)
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Album Details: Ommadawn (Remastered)
- Release Date:
- 09/26/2000
- Label:
- Virgin Japan
- UPC:
- 4988006858183
User Reviews: Ommadawn (Remastered)
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Great
, March 16, 2001Really good mystical and haunting sound -
Simply his best record ever made!
, June 3, 2000Reviewer: Alfred Kalkhoven - See all Alfred Kalkhoven's reviewsBeautiful album. I think it's even better than Tubular Bells! Only the album didn't came as a big surprise! But so what! It is still his best record and after this he only made poor productions. The album sounds what they now called new-age, but it is far better than all that chackra-loving crap! Listen to it and enjoy it!
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Pro Reviews: Ommadawn (Remastered)
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Although it features the beautiful recorder of Leslie Penny and the Chieftains' Paddy Maloney playing the uilean pipe, Ommadawn didn't gain Mike Oldfield the success he was looking for. The album was released in the same year as the David Bedford-arranged Orchestral Tubular Bells and nine months after Oldfield picked up a Grammy award for the original Tubular Bells album. The most pleasing attribute of Ommadawn is its incorporation of both African and Irish music in its symphonic rock roll mainframe. Boosted by a hearty amount of different horns, piano, cello, trumpet, and synthesizer, the album has its moments of rising action, but the whole of Ommadawn fails to keep its lovely segments around long enough, and there are some rather lengthy instances that include bland runs of unvaried music. Another plus is Oldfield's use of a choir, giving the album a soft, humanistic feel when contrasted against the keyboards or synthesizer. While it does include flashes of Mike Oldfield's brilliance, the entire album may seem a little anticlimactic when compared to some of his other releases. - Mike DeGagne, All Music Guide |
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Composer Mike Oldfield rose to fame on the success of Tubular Bells, an eerie, album-length conceptual piece employed to stunning effect in the film The Exorcist. Born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England, Oldfield began his professional career at the ag...Full Mike Oldfield Biography
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