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Deadcalm Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 752 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: Nov. 13 2006, 06:15 Anyone got the new Album out today yet ??  I quite like the Single off it...  Maybe one for the Xmas Wish list !! Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Nov. 13 2006, 10:51 new album??? Have i missed something???? wonderful news, thanks!! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 13 2006, 11:59 I wonder if he has moved on from his past bloodthirstiness.... -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 13 2006, 15:56 I got it, and it's great - classic Cat. But if you go looking for it in a record shop, don't look under the S of Stevens or the C of Cat - look under the Y of Yusuf. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Nov. 13 2006, 16:05 thanks!   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 14 2006, 08:13 Being undecided between editing my previous post and making a new one, I opted for the latter... However, I just wanted to say that the album is called An Other Cup. Some of the songs have spritual themes, but, as I said above, the music is very reminiscent of the classic Cat Stevens songs. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Nov. 15 2006, 03:24 I was talking to someone about this just yesterday. I mentioned that Cat Stevens was recording again and they asked if it was the Cat Stevens we knew and loved or the religious incarnation of Cat. So it sounds like some of his original style but still listed under the name of Yusef Islam. Can you tell me a little bit more about it because I am interested but I do not like religious music. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Nov. 15 2006, 11:51 @ TubularBelle: IMHO there's no such thing as religious music, especially in the field of pop - there is of course a lot of sacred classical music, but as far as pop is concerned I don't think that 'religious music' exists: there is music with religious content or religious lyrics, but the music itself is never religious. Anyway, "An Other Cup" is far from being religious in its overall subject matter. Two songs are concerned with spiritual subjects (the afterlife and peace), one, "The Beloved", talks about Christ [or Mohammed, I'm not sure ] in very broad terms (a bit like Mike Oldfield's "The Time has Come") and there is a very short spoken piece about God and peace. All the rest is not about religion. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Nov. 15 2006, 21:06 Thanks Ugo, I guess I was refering to a specific style of music, not really about the words in the song as much. Don't really know what I meant so won't bother trying to explain it. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: Nov. 17 2006, 20:19 I just watched Jools Holland show, "Later with" and Yusef was on it. Link here I guess my first impression was that the old Cat Stevens was still there, and he sounds like Van Morrison. At least musically. The lyrics are (despite a 28 year gap) still searching and talking about a spritual theme. But it is good music, and Yusef is singing from his heart. It would be really interesting to see a show with Morrison and Yusef, both connecting to their spritual muses. Lyrically songs like "Shine A light" Could reflect either of their beliefs. And that is what fascinates me - that both believe in God and a similar set of values, but tempered by millenia of rules and interpritations. That the religions have become different by rules and the clerical (religious leaders) readings of the sacred texts. A few months ago there was a TV documentary (ITV South Bank Show) which followed Yusef dealing with the dilema of recording again, the political/religious hoops he had to justify within his own belief system. That his (muslim) religion had set rules which had no basis in history, fact or Holy writing to deny the guitar as an instrument. Funnily enough, the rules let Rap (with just voice and drums) be a valid art form. I know that Mike considers himself a "spiritual" person from a catholic (small "c") background. But I wonder if he has ever defined his beliefs in any interviews? -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

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