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Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: July 24 2013, 03:34 Innerviews has published an extensive new interview entitled 'Mike Oldfield - The messenger' by Anil Prasad. Thanks, Anil! Back to top

ingresman Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: July 24 2013, 07:31 Excellent interview. Although I do like TB, it's nice to hear about other albums and some of the background. e.g. I didn't know Dave Gilmour helped out on Heavens Open!. If Anil reads this, thanks - very good Back to top

Legend Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: July 24 2013, 07:44 Great stuff - very good interview, Anil even gets away with 2 "why" questions!!! I find it remarkable that he describes his new songs as "miserable"...hmmm... I should have known you being in Copenhagen dear Mike - just once... Back to top

Platinumpty Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: May 2011 Posted: July 24 2013, 08:55 What a great read.  Although I'm surprised when Mike says the fast acoustic guitar riffs on Amarok have no time signature.  I've always counted it in my head as the following: 2 bars of 10/8 1 bar of 9/8 1 bar of 16/8 then repeat! Back to top

tarquincat Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: Aug. 2009 Posted: July 24 2013, 09:40 Good interview, Mike can be very amiable & informative when he wants to be. Could easily have done the chat show circuit speaking like that, self depricating, humorous & throwing in a bit of name dropping, which always goes down well. Back to top

equinoxe Group: Members Posts: 175 Joined: Aug. 2011 Posted: July 24 2013, 09:55 It's quite nice to read about Mike's entusiastic approach to the Amarok, when he talks about this album beeing his best work. It's always exciting for me to read anything Mike's talking about the Amarok, especially from the technical point of view, because there was always lack of informations about it. He also has much interest in making 5.1 of the album from some time, so i'am very curious if this interest will reflect somehow, especially on guitar sounds on the newest record. And finally maybe his next work will be another hand-made instrumental work. Back to top

HuanCry Group: Members Posts: 303 Joined: May 2005 Posted: July 24 2013, 10:41 Two things Mike stated in the interview that got me excited about the new album :- 1.) All but one of the tracks are miserable but POWERFUL !!!! 2.) rather aptly he's reproducing the end of Ommadawn part one guitar sound !!! .. maybe even better ... if that's possible with his new Avid effects box! Back to top

equinoxe Group: Members Posts: 175 Joined: Aug. 2011 Posted: July 24 2013, 10:50 Quote (HuanCry @ July 24 2013, 10:41) 2.) rather aptly he's reproducing the end of Ommadawn part one guitar sound !!! .. maybe even better ... if that's possible with his new Avid effects box! Yeah, that one got's me too! Back to top

HuanCry Group: Members Posts: 303 Joined: May 2005 Posted: July 24 2013, 11:21 I think I'll play the boxed version of Ommadawn now ..... the screaming guitar solo at the end is even more screaming than on the standard version even though the latter is a better mix !   Back to top

ThisName Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: July 2005 Posted: July 24 2013, 13:40 Quote (tarquincat @ July 24 2013, 09:40) Good interview, Mike can be very amiable & informative when he wants to be. Could easily have done the chat show circuit speaking like that, self depricating, humorous & throwing in a bit of name dropping, which always goes down well. There are 4 bars of 19/16 followed by 1 bar of 15/16 if that helps at all? -------------- www.ryanyardmusic.com Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1357 Joined: April 2001 Posted: July 25 2013, 01:48 What a really great interview, that is the best interview with Mike in many years, the person was clearly a fan asking some really good questions, and finaly the Oldfield/Gilmour jam rumour is put to bed That must have sounded amazing, but I didn't realise Gilmour helped out on Heaven's Open. And Mike jammed with Jeff Lynne and Stewart Copeland   It does sound like Mike is excited about Amarok in 5.1 though, maybe this time it will get the promotion and credit it deserves. Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: July 25 2013, 02:36 Quote (Platinumpty @ July 24 2013, 08:55) What a great read.  Although I'm surprised when Mike says the fast acoustic guitar riffs on Amarok have no time signature.  I've always counted it in my head as the following: 2 bars of 10/8 1 bar of 9/8 1 bar of 16/8 then repeat! I have sampled loops of random movie dialogue and street noise and found that if you really want to, there are time signatures to find there too!   This was an awesome interview. The best I've read in a long time. Thanks a lot for posting! -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

christopher Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: July 25 2013, 03:02 Probably the best interview of Mike I've ever read!!   I'm incredibly pleased there was not one mention of Tubular Bells.  Over the years I want to hit interviewers for automatically jumping on that one album and forgetting all the others.  Why did you write it and so forth... as if he hasn't told us a billion times.   I keep looking for samples of the forthcoming re-issues everyday.  This month can't go by fast enough  September brings so many great releases... Mike, Elton, Doctor Who dvd's, Murray Gold, and so on.   The only real disappointment is that there is nothing extra from Amarok to be released.  Maybe he will then remix sections for our listening pleasure, like he did with Incantations. Back to top

Platinumpty Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: May 2011 Posted: July 25 2013, 06:57 Quote (ThisName @ July 24 2013, 13:40) There are 4 bars of 19/16 followed by 1 bar of 15/16 if that helps at all? I defer to your proper musicianship!  However, when I'm counting it in your head, and even calpping along I can easily separate the rhythm of the intricate guitar riffs into ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 and then back to the start. Why am I hearing it this way? Back to top

Platinumpty Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: May 2011 Posted: July 25 2013, 06:58 Sorry for the errors Ryan, I am of course NOT counting it in YOUR head, that would be bizarre and a little disturbing!!! Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1357 Joined: April 2001 Posted: July 25 2013, 07:05 Mike also said that PRS guitars contacted him after seeing him at the Olympics, I wonder if they wanted to make an Oldfield signature guitar? Mike didn't say why they contacted him. Back to top

Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: July 25 2013, 10:23 In this day and age, would make more sense to have a software company contacting him to do some virtual Oldfield sounds. Back to top

GusFogle Group: Members Posts: 199 Joined: July 2011 Posted: July 25 2013, 12:39 Quote (Platinumpty @ July 25 2013, 06:57) I can easily separate the rhythm of the intricate guitar riffs into ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, ONE, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 and then back to the start. Why am I hearing it this way? I think you're making a mistake in finding beat 1 of each measure. You said you count the riff in 10/8. That is actually very close to 19/16. Alternately, you could write 10/8 as 20/16. But the riff is actually a 16th note shorter than that. So if you're counting the riff in 10/8, I will guarantee that you're cutting the 10th beat of the measure short to land on beat 1 of the next bar. Back to top

captain cavern Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: July 25 2013, 17:12 Excellent interview.   Nice part about Amarok...   Back to top

seventeen64 Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: July 2013 Posted: July 25 2013, 19:07 Isn't it great to read how relaxed and at peace Mike seems now? Sorry it had to take all those years, but better late than never   -------------- life is not one-dimensional Back to top

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