... And fortunately for everyone which this (not just significant part of his history) in recent decades vermisste.Okay - the Mike Oldfield primarily as a great instrumental sound artist is famous is probably well known. But there was because even those much more important or more successful, phase of his work from 1981 - where Mike Oldfield skilfully and compositionally skillfully simple pop songs with fantastic instrumental marvels on his albums (like "Five Miles Out", "crisis", "Discovery "or" Iceland "to connect) verstand.Ja yes ... long time ago .... After some unnecessary" Tubular Bells still hear Light and Shade "beautiful" infusions only esoteric Ambient Mucke wherein at least the album was (" can) and a really boring classical music with pianist Lang Lang. But then the miracle happened and Mike Oldfield pushes back the stopper, his guitar into the amplifier and conjures up a dyed in the wool rock / pop album from the Zylinder.Ganz unfussy come the songs and therefore refer us in the blessed times of "Moonlight Shadow" "Crime Of Passion" or "Shadow On The Wall" and so on ................................... ................
Okay, what is missing is somehow the mandatory "Instrumental 15-20 minutes track" as it existed on those more song-oriented albums of "QE2" (1981) to "Iceland" (1987) - but it presents Mike pure rock / pop songs like has long been no more, I can also Registered with the best will no so-called Radio suitability feststellen.Wäre really nice if there were still such music on the radio !!!! Mike has once again resorted to the full and a singer found the like once, Barry Palmer and Roger Chapman, representing more rockier side of Oldfield.
And anyway have Mike's songs finally those who feel I have greatly missed since the album "Guitars" (1999). And that there is no final instrumental track, is also not really bad (after all the more instrumental-oriented albums since 1992).
Mike is back - back with the tracks .........................
