It splashes even spherically

The issue of opening up the universe by man Mike Oldfield has committed itself to this album, inspired by the novel of the same work of the SF-Master Arthur C. Clarke. In two large-scale sequences spherical science fiction sounds of multi-instrumentalist soars in the depths of his sound undoubtedly elektronischsten album. The whole thing begins with a sound document from the late '60s - the reading of the 1st Book of Genesis by the Apollo astronauts - and ends with a world music recourse to a popular song (the old sound of the new, distant world?) (African?). In between, the musical vision of a journey in space unfolds; various synthesizer and computer timbres created a complex and distant space, melodic fragments and various nonverbal votes dancing in the each other. Would not the grounding characteristic sound of Oldfields guitar, the whole thing could also come out of the trance factory of Tangerine Dream.
Whether you will like the album, probably depends on what exactly you like non-uniform at Oldfields work and what one might be more annoying. From the musical versatility and instrumental virtuosity of the British one notices almost nothing here; who loves creativity sparkling albums as Amarok or Five Miles Out, Songs of Distant Earth will feel tendency as deadly boring. Who on the other hand the gift Oldfields estimates to do with basically very little musical material sometimes magical meditative Klangepen, the production itself is likely to open, even if the overall impression is rather cool because of the subject and the Elektroniklastigkeit of the whole; with the warmth of Ommadawn or the dynamics of Crises Distant Earth can not be compared.
All in all one of the gelungeneren attempts of tonal development of a futuristic theme, although far from being groundbreaking or even legendary. For me personally the album contains too little variety and too much electronics, I guess especially those truly innovative, something cross Oldfields works that are at the interface between folk and rock. Pragmatic advantage of Distant Earth to some other Oldfield albums, however, that its uniformity makes it very pleasant background music.