Light + Shade

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Light + Shade
Studio album by Mike Oldfield

Publication
(s)

September 26, 2005

admission

2004-2005

Label (s) Mercury

Format (s)

Double CD

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

9 + 8 (10)

running time

82 min 01 s

occupation
  • Mike Oldfield - various instruments

production

Mike Oldfield

Studio (s)

Buckinghamshire

chronology
Tubular Bells 2003
(2003) 		Light + Shade Music of the Spheres
(2008)
Single release
2005 ( Promo ) surfing

Light + Shade is an album by British musician Mike Oldfield released on two CDs . It was the first album released after Mike Oldfield and Mercury Records signed the deal.

The album was released on September 26, 2005. Some of the titles on the two CDs were new releases. The other titles are alternative remixes from the soundtracks of his virtual reality based computer games Tres Lunas and Maestro .

background

The album offers two music genres for two different moods. This division caused Oldfield to split the music on two separate separate CDs. The first nine tracks are called "Light" (= light ;) and are serene and quieter pieces. The second half is called "Shade" (= shadow ) and transports a much darker feel. Many of the tracks on the album are remixes and / or longer versions of the music from his computer games Tres Lunas and Maestro.

Oldfield wrote on his official website that in addition to the standard recordings of the album, a surround sound 5.1 mix of the album was also produced. However, this was not published until 2014. Four tracks on the album were released in the U-MYX format, which allows fans to create their own mixes of these tracks.

Oldfield's penchant for altered human voices reappeared on the album , this time in the form of Vocaloid , a virtual software synthesizer that uses speech synthesis to create artificial vocals that resemble that of a human voice. For this, the voice "Miriam" was used, which is based on the voice of the singer Miriam Stockley , with whom Mike Oldfield had worked in the past. According to the Spanish website zm.nu, the vocaloid title Surfing should actually be the album's first single release. In "Tears of an Angel" "Miriam" can be heard using the Cantor software.

The titles First Steps and Ringscape were arranged by Robyn Smith . Christopher von Deylen has a guest appearance on Nightshade . Oldfield returned the favor by playing the guitar in Morgentau , a track on the album Tag und Nacht from Deylen's ambient music project Schiller .

Quicksilver stands for the metal mercury , the name of the record label Mercury means the same thing in the English language . On Oldfield's next album Music of the Spheres he repeats this title with the title name Musica Universalis , which translates into English for Universal Music .

The title Blackbird is named after one of Oldfield's motorcycles, a Honda CBR 1100 XX Blackbird.

The title Romance is a techno version of a fragment from the classical guitar piece of the same name from the 19th century.

Track list

Disc 1 ( Light )

  1. "Angelique" - 4:40
  2. "Blackbird" - 4:39
  3. "The Gate" - 4:14
  4. "First Steps" - 10:02
  5. "Closer" - 2:51
  6. "Our Father" - 6:50
  7. "Rocky" - 3:19
  8. "Sunset" - 4:47
  9. "Près de Toi" (bonus track) - 3:56

Disc 2 ( Shade )

  1. "Quicksilver" - 5:55
  2. "Resolution" - 4:33
  3. "Slipstream" - 5:15
  4. "Surfing" - 5:36
  5. "Tears of an Angel" - 5:38
  6. "Romance" - 4:00
  7. "Ringscape" - 4:22
  8. "Nightshade" - 5:11
  9. "Lakme ( Fruity Loops )" (bonus track) - 4:55
  10. "Cook's Tune" (bonus track) - 3:15

U-MYX CD-ROM title

  • "Quicksilver" (U-MYX version)
  • "Our Father" (U-MYX Version)
  • "Slipstream" (U-MYX version)
  • "Angelique" (U-MYX version)

Furnishing

Guitars

piano

Keyboards

computer

Software plugins

Use in other media

Parts of Light and Shade continued to be used in the media. Examples of this are the titles "Resolution" and "Slipstream" used in the BBC tech series Click .

swell

  1. ↑ Mike Oldfield regresa with “Light + Shade” ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 19, 2005, Zona Musical @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zm.nu
  2. ↑ One Track a Day. (No longer available online.) Tubular.net/Fanny Oldfield, archived from the original on March 16, 2010 ; Retrieved March 11, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tubular.net
  3. ↑ Click . BBC iPlayer, October 10, 2009; accessed October 13, 2009 .

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