Hergest Ridge

Hergest Ridge is the second album solo of the British musician Mike Oldfield. It is appeared in August 1974, a little more than one year after its glorious predecessor, Tubular Bells .

Like Tubular Bels and Ommadawn (the following album), Hergest Ridge approximately proposes two long instrumental beaches of 20 mn. Composed in a house lost with the borders of the Herefordshire (in edge of the Wales) for a hill called Hergest Ridge, the album has a tonality more pastoral than Tubular Bells (than Mike Oldfield describes like more " urbain"). The introduction is very planing, far from the distressing topic which introduces Tubular Bells . The continuation of Hergest Ridge includes/understands passages to the Hautbois, the Trompette and the Flûte, and of course the guitar of Mike Oldfield.

The original version of this album is available only on the 33 turns published before 1976, Mike Oldfield having preferred to replace all following official pressings (of which pressings CD) by the worked over again version that it had mixed for the box Boxed in 1976.

Tracks of the album

  1. Share 1 (21: 40)
  2. Share 2 (18: 51)

External bonds

http://rcarter.34sp.com/oldfield/hergestridge.html (in English)

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