The Songs off Distant Earth

The Songs off Distant Earth is the fifteenth album of the Musicien Britannique Mike Oldfield. It is appeared in 1994, and takes as a starting point the novel of Arthur C. Clarke Chants of the Remote Earth ( Songs off Distant Earth ).

Highlights

The album corresponds to the phase where Mike Oldfield is focused again on the instrumental music. Compared to its preceding albums, The Songs off Distant Earth is characterized by the strong presence of the Synthétiseur S and the relative scarcity of the Electric guitar (combined with a new sound texture, softened, sound of its guitar). In addition, arrangements are done lighter, contrary to older works where Mike Oldfield piled up many melodies and very fine arrangements.

The album was accommodated in a way mitigated by the fans of the artist, some reproaching him for pouring in the register New Age, current whose Oldfield had always openly been dissociated and which he criticized. It found favors in the community of the fans with the passing, but also because this album attracted itself a new public towards the music of Mike Oldfield.

Left in the years which followed the first album of Enigma (1990), of Deep Forest (1992) and the same year as the 1st album of Stone Age (1994), The Songs off Distant Earth marries the guns of the Concept-album planing time: introduction éthérée with voice narrator, second enjoué and more commercial title, erudite alternation of passages rates/rhythms or more peaceful. If he did not invent this kind (whereas one credits it with the invention of the world music for example), Mike Oldfield approaches it with a great sensitivity which makes that this album resists time perhaps better than the referred to above contemporary albums.

One will note that The Songs off Distant Earth was first CD to include/understand track CD-ROM including/understanding play and video clip and that it is directly inspired of news éponyme written by Arthur Clarke, and who tells the end of the ground destroyed by the sun whereas this one is transformed into supernova, and the arrival of the last vessel of survivors on an planet-ocean.

Tracks of the album

  1. "In the Beginning" - 1:24

  2. " Let There Be Light" - 4:57
  3. " Supernova" - 3:23
  4. " Magellan" - 4:40
  5. " First Landing" - 1:16
  6. " Oceania" - 3:19
  7. " Only Time Will Tell" - 4:26
  8. " Prayer for the Earth" - 2:09
  9. " Spangle for Atlantis" - 2:43
  10. " The Chamber" - 1:48
  11. " Hibernaculum" - 3:32
  12. " Tubular World" - 3:22
  13. " The Shining Ones" - 2:59
  14. " Clear" hook; - 5:42
  15. " The Sunken Forest" - 2:37
  16. " Ascension" - 5:49
  17. " In New Beginning" - 1:37

Category: Musical album left in 1994

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