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Mad_Max Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: July 2007 Posted: July 30 2007, 11:19 Hello, About 15 years ago, I heard a piece on the radio that I'm pretty sure was by Mike Oldfield (its style and orchestration reminded me of parts of "Tubular Bells" and "Tres Lunas"). In the opening of the piece, there are owl calls mixed as sound effects. Does anybody here know what I am referring to (if it is indeed by Oldfield)? Thanks in advance. Back to top

TomX01 Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: Nov. 2006 Posted: Aug. 04 2007, 12:22 Perhaps you are thinking of "music from the balcony" from "heaven's open" .. it features owl type sounds, a standard preset on the proteus 1 module. Tom Back to top

Mad_Max Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: July 2007 Posted: Aug. 04 2007, 16:03 Quote (TomX01 @ Aug. 04 2007, 12:22) Perhaps you are thinking of "music from the balcony" from "heaven's open" .. it features owl type sounds, a standard preset on the proteus 1 module. Tom Thanks. That might very well be it, since the album was released in 1991. That would be about the time that I first heard it. Do you by any chance have a link to a sample sound file? I want to know if this is the piece that I'm thinking of before I buy it. Back to top

Moonwing_Shadow Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: Jan. 2006 Posted: Aug. 04 2007, 16:21 You could always listen to one of those 30sec samples on Amazon or iTunes or something -------------- I'd rather be on Dragonback Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Aug. 18 2007, 06:10 Are you sure it was Oldfield? When you mentioned "owl calls" the first thing that popped into my head was some of the stuff Enigma was doing at around that time - their "Cross of Changes" album. Might be worth checking out... -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Aug. 18 2007, 12:37 I doubt very much it was Music From the Balcony. Firstly I doubt its ever been played on the radio and secondly I doubt even if you did hear it on the radio you'd think it was an Oldfield piece, its very unlike anything he's done before or since and its certainly nothing like TB or Tres Lunas. I don't think what you heard was MO unless your memory is playing tricks on you. Back to top

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