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Tubular Bells [Super Audio Hybrid CD] by Mike Oldfield (CD, Feb-2001, Blue Plate) 
Tubular Bells [Super Audio Hybrid CD] by Mike Oldfield (CD, Feb-2001, Blue Plate)

 
Tubular Bells [Super Audio Hybrid CD] by Mike Oldfield (CD, Feb-2001, Blue Plate)

Release Date: Feb 2001
Format: CD
Record Label: Blue Plate
Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock & Pop
UPC: 724385073328
Product ID: EPID3451981
Description: This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. Personnel include: Mike Oldfield (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, flageolet, piano, organ, Farfisa, Hammond b-3 organ, glockenspiel, b...
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Track Listing
1. Part One
2. Part Two

Details
Contributing Artists:Sally Oldfield, The Pilt-Down Man, Vivian Stanshall
Producer:Mike Oldfield
Distributor:Caroline Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Mixed
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
Personnel include: Mike Oldfield (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, Spanish guitar, flageolet, piano, organ, Farfisa, Hammond b-3 organ, glockenspiel, bass guitar, timpani, tubular bells, percussion); Vivian Stanshall (spoken vocals); Jon Field (flute); Lindsay Cooper (double bass); Steve Broughton (drums); Sally Oldfield, Mundy Ellis (background vocals).
The 19-year old Mike Oldfield played virtually everything on the mostly instrumental TUBULAR BELLS. Employing fugue-like classical patterns and wildly eclectic instrumentation, which included the flageolet, the mandolin, and the Farfisa organ, Oldfield created an intricately shifting web of musical phrases that overlapped and interlocked to generate a seemingly endless variety of textures. Oldfield achieved this effect, in large part, by overdubbing hundreds of times during the recording process (Rolling Stone magazine quoted the number of overdubs at 2300).
The resulting album was a revelation, a densely layered, richly textured tapestry of sound that put "minimalist" musical ideas in a pop music context, and also presaged New Age instrumentals. The first album to be released on the Virgin label, TUBULAR BELLS was highly successful, in part because the ominous, tingling intro to the album was used in the film THE EXORCIST. A single version, sometimes called "Theme From The Exorcist," became a Top 10 hit, and the album hit #1 on the British album charts. Years later, the album still holds up, unveiling hidden, layered delights with each listen.

Editorial Reviews
5 stars out of 5 - ...The most incident-packed of his '70s releases: you're never more than 2 minutes away from a crescendo or a beautiful interlude...
Q (09/01/2000)

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