Mike Oldfield

Captain Awesome · 01-27-2010, 03:12 AM

I was listening to "Music of the Spheres" for the first time in a long time and I forgot how great this mans music is. I was wondering if anyone could suggest any other similar composers? The music Mike Oldfield make is the type of classical I enjoy. It creates an amazing atmosphere, truely beautiful music.

gunnels · 02-23-2010, 04:19 PM

I really really like Amarok, it's just inconvenient. Being an hour long and all.
Tubular Bells bores the **** out of me to be frank. I'll check out Ommadawn though.

Yanuseka · 02-23-2010, 04:23 PM

Well if you're looking for classical then you should look up Vanessa Mae she's pretty good especially because the fact is she plays a violin and she remixes it with techno...

Monk · 02-24-2010, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by gunnels

I really really like Amarok, it's just inconvenient. Being an hour long and all.
Tubular Bells bores the **** out of me to be frank. I'll check out Ommadawn though.

Funny, it tends to be the opposite for me, i really prefer tubular bells to amarok.

Zaqarbal · 03-24-2010, 07:37 AM

He has a great skill to work with different instruments and styles. For example, it's surprising what he made in Étude (for The Killing Fields soundtrack) on the basis of Tárrega's Memories of the Alhambra. Same melody but... from the classical guitar to the synthesizer, and from the Alhambra to the Cambodian Killing Fields, which could be defined as the opposite each other:

~~Baggs~~ · 04-15-2011, 09:12 AM

YouTube - Tubular Bells by the Brooklyn Organ Synth Orchestra

~~Baggs~~ · 04-16-2011, 11:39 AM

If you likes "Music of Spheres" then you deffo needs Steve Hackett 'Metamorphosis".

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 04-16-2011, 12:31 PM

listened to two of his albums, damn pleased with both.

01-27-2010, 03:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
Captain Awesome On A Rampage Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 317	Mike Oldfield I was listening to "Music of the Spheres" for the first time in a long time and I forgot how great this mans music is. I was wondering if anyone could suggest any other similar composers? The music Mike Oldfield make is the type of classical I enjoy. It creates an amazing atmosphere, truely beautiful music. __________________ "If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage, the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page, I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air, from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair." "Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

03-24-2010, 07:37 AM	#5 (permalink)
Zaqarbal Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Spain Posts: 824	He has a great skill to work with different instruments and styles. For example, it's surprising what he made in Étude (for The Killing Fields soundtrack) on the basis of Tárrega's Memories of the Alhambra. Same melody but... from the classical guitar to the synthesizer, and from the Alhambra to the Cambodian Killing Fields, which could be defined as the opposite each other: __________________ "Lullabies for adults / crossed by the years / carry the flower of disappointment / tattooed in their gloomy melodies."

04-15-2011, 09:12 AM	#6 (permalink)
~~Baggs~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Leutonia Proper Posts: 128	Here. Get down on it. YouTube - Tubular Bells by the Brooklyn Organ Synth Orchestra

02-23-2010, 04:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
Yanuseka Groupie Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: WI Posts: 1	Well if you're looking for classical then you should look up Vanessa Mae she's pretty good especially because the fact is she plays a violin and she remixes it with techno...

04-16-2011, 11:39 AM	#7 (permalink)
~~Baggs~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Leutonia Proper Posts: 128	If you likes "Music of Spheres" then you deffo needs Steve Hackett 'Metamorphosis". (Give Baggs a dollah.)