Music of the Spheres
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March 14, 2008 |
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| Label (s) | Mercury Records | |||
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14th |
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45 min 31 s |
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Mike Oldfield, Karl Jenkins |
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Music of the Spheres (dt .: Music of the Spheres ) is an album by British musician Mike Oldfield in 2008. After various excursions into the genre of Chill Out is this a return to Oldfields classical roots.
Origin and publication history
On February 23, 2006, in a BBC interview , Oldfield first mentioned a long instrumental piece he was working on. The basic idea is an implementation of the ancient idea that the movement of heavenly bodies could be expressed musically (see also music of the spheres ).
In collaboration with Karl Jenkins and the pianist Lang Lang , the recordings began in June 2007. Originally announced for October 31, 2007, the release has been postponed several times. The following publication dates were planned: In November 2007: 5th, 9th, 12th Then the date was postponed to January 2008 and finally to March 4th, 2008 (Great Britain: March 17th).
On March 7, 2008 the album premiered in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao , Spain , in front of invited guests and with the participation of Hayley Westenra . The recording has been available on iTunes since March 17th and has been part of the limited version of the studio album since November 2008.
particularities
- In contrast to earlier works, Oldfield only plays classical guitar .
- The album works without any loops .
- Tracks 2–7 and 8–14 flow smoothly into one another.
- Lang Lang never came to the studios in London, but recorded his part in New York .
- Oldfield composed the album entirely on the computer and then had Karl Jenkins rewrite it for an orchestra .
- As with previous albums, Oldfield incorporates elements of his mega-seller Tubular Bells : You can recognize a modification of the famous opening theme (Tracks 1 + 6), and the Tubular Bells themselves are also included as an instrument (Track 14).
- Track 14 is structured like the titles Finale (from Tubular Bells 2003 ) and The Bell (from Tubular Bells II ), since different instruments take up the same theme one after the other; however, the instruments are not popular here, and there are only four: piano , glockenspiel , guitar and tubular bells.
Track list (and possibly its German meaning)
part One
1. Harbinger (harbinger, omen ) - 4:08
2. Animus ( soul ) - 3:09
3. Silhouette - 3:19
4. Shabda - 4:00
5. The Tempest - 5:48
6. Harbinger ( Reprise ) - 1:30
7. On My Heart - 2:27 (vocals: Hayley Westenra )
Part II
8. Aurora ( Aurora ) - 3:42
9. Prophecy ( prophecy ) - 2:54
10. On My Heart (reprise) - 1:16 (vocals: Hayley Westenra)
11. Harmonia Mundi ( world harmony ) - 3:46
12 . The other side (The other side) - 1:28
13. Empyrean ( Empyrion ) - 1:37
14. Musica Universalis ( Universal music ) - 6:24
Comment from Mike Oldfield
In the booklet of the CD , Oldfield writes (free translation):
- “Everything in this world has a pulse or a vibration. This background noise is unique to every living being and every thing and creates music that nobody can hear. I think this music is in tune with our life and has a major influence on it. What would happen if we thought a step further and extended that notion to larger, more powerful dimensions; like the entire solar system or even the galaxy , what would that sound like?