Earth moving
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| Studio album by Mike Oldfield | ||||
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July 10, 1989 |
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
41 min 15 s |
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Mike Oldfield |
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Earth Moving is a 1989 studio album by British musician Mike Oldfield . It is both the title of the album and a single song sung.
The album
- In 1989 Earth Moving marked the end of the phase in which Oldfield (as requested by Virgin Records ) relied on commerce and wrote vocal pieces that were easy to decouple. This phase began in 1979 and included the albums Platinum , QE2 , Five Miles Out , Crises , Discovery and Islands . From the follow-up album Amarok , Oldfield relied on pure instrumental music again - with the exception of Heaven's Open (1991) and Man on the Rocks (2014).
- Earth Moving was the last album easy to market for Virgin, as Oldfield went on the offensive with the more unorthodox follow-up albums Amarok and Heaven's Open and eventually parted ways with this label.
- Earth Moving was (also on the label's endeavor) until the release of Man On The Rocks in March 2014 the only album by the artist that did not contain a single instrumental track.
Track list
- Holy (sung by Adrian Belew ) - 4:37
- Hostage (sung by Max Bacon ) - 4:09
- Far Country (sung by Mark Williamson) - 4:25
- Innocent (sung by Anita Hegerland ) - 3:30
- Runaway Son (sung by Chris Thompson ) - 4:05
- See The Light (sung by Chris Thompson) - 3:59
- Earth Moving (sung by Nikki 'B' Bentley) - 4:03
- Blue Night (sung by Maggie Reilly ) - 3:47
- Nothing But / Bridge To Paradise (sung by Carol Kenyon / Max Bacon) - 8:40
Charts
UK # 30, D # 1, A # 21, CH # 3, S # 21
success
The album had the greatest success in Germany, where it climbed to number one, and the single 'Innocent' also made it into the top 10.
Song info
The last piece consists of two songs, which merge with a short break, but have nothing in common thematically and in terms of content.
The disco mix version of the song Earth Moving was also released on Max Bacon's solo album From The Banks Of The River Irwell .
The piece Hostage begins with a German traffic report (5 seconds): "... Autobahn A3 : From Hanover in the direction of Oberhausen between Autobahn ...". It is the report on the occasion of the closure of the A3 due to a police action during the hostage-taking of Gladbeck in 1988, to which the title of the play also refers.