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When the rights to Mike Oldfield's classic 1973 album returned to him in 2008, he decided to reissue the piece in an expanded form. This 2009 release features a stereo remix and some other bonus material. The work itself still astounds, a densely layered, richly textured tapestry of sound that put "minimalist" musical ideas in a pop music context, and also presaged New Age instrumentals. Years later, the album still holds up, unveiling hidden, layered delights with each listen.
The 19-year old Mike Oldfield played virtually everything on the mostly instrumental TUBULAR BELLS. Employing fugue-like classical patterns and wildly eclectic instrumentation, which included the flageolet, the mandolin, and the Farfisa organ, Oldfield created an intricately shifting web of musical phrases that overlapped and interlocked to generate a seemingly endless variety of textures. Oldfield achieved this effect, in large part, by overdubbing hundreds of times during the recording process (Rolling Stone magazine quoted the number of overdubs at 2300).
The resulting album was a revelation, a densely layered, richly textured tapestry of sound that put "minimalist" musical ideas in a pop music context, and also presaged New Age instrumentals. The first album to be released on the Virgin label, TUBULAR BELLS was highly successful, in part because the ominous, tingling intro to the album was used in the film THE EXORCIST. A single version, sometimes called "Theme From The Exorcist," became a Top 10 hit, and the album hit #1 on the British album charts. Years later, the album still holds up, unveiling hidden, layered delights with each listen.
Standard edition includes the 2009 remastered version. 3 tracks
Recorded in 1974.
Personnel: Mike Oldfield (acoustic & electric guitars, accordion, piano, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, organ, glockenspiel, timpani, cymbals, tambourine, triangle, tubular bells, programming); John Cleese (vocals); Sally Oldfield (background vocals).
Personnel: Mike Oldfield (guitar); David Bedford (conductor, arranger); The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Q (9/00, p.126) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...The most incident-packed of his '70s releases: you're never more than 2 minutes away from a crescendo or a beautiful interlude..." Tubular Bells Music | List Price | $15.99 (You save $3.20) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Art Rock, Dance | | Label | Mercury | | Orig Year | 1973 | | All Time Sales Rank |  55912  | | CD Universe Part number | 7942706 | | Catalog number | 2703505 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 09, 2009 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Mike Oldfield - acoustic & electric guitars, accordion, piano, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, organ, glockenspiel, timpani, cymbals, tambourine, triangle, tubular bells, programming
David Bedford - conductor, arranger
Sally Oldfield - background vocals
Also: John Cleese |
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells Songs | 1. | Tubular Bells, Part 1 | |
| 2. | Tubular Bells, Part 2 | |
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