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ToroAcu Group: Members Posts: 68 Joined: Aug. 2005 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 04:58 Hello. In my blog about Mike Oldfield, you can see a possible cover official of Light and Shade: http://www.taurusiv.net/blog The page when is originally the photo is: http://zm.nu/detalle....d=12426 Bye. David (ToroAcu). www.taurusiv.net/blog Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 05:07 That is bloody awful! I HATE IT! I'd go with your idea ToroAcu, the Sun coming up from behind the Earth, or I think it was Navairo who did one that looks like flames, same colours as this one. Both are better than this. If Mike is going to put his picture on the cover, then it might as well be a good one, and that is a nice picture without the lattice effect, YUK!!!!!! -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

theweightless Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 05:50 a bit strange -------------- ASMK Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 06:26 What evidence is there that this is the official cover, its awful. I thought the picture at MO.com was the cover. It seems more likely since its the offical site. Back to top

Tansy Group: Members Posts: 416 Joined: April 2005 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 07:36 Oh my goodness(still in shock)I'm not kidding.When I saw the Light & Shade album cover preview? Just hope it won't really end up being this.Scenes of a certain Doctor/cannibal sprang to mind.I'ts so scary and if I were to be confronted by this in my local record store - would have to say "can I have this one without the wrapper please?" Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 08:01 It can't be the official one,please! -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 08:25 I've seen worse. Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 08:40 I've seen better   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 08:43 Looks like Mike put in those special contact lenses that change the colour of your eyes, either that or some nutter did that with computer graphics   It is eyecatching, but in a good way? Like they say, any publicity is good publicity!   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 08:54 My guess is that the front cover for the new album is similar to the first page you see when you go to www.mikeoldfield.com, with the sunset and pond?   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Trillian Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: Aug. 2005 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 09:09 I hope so, The Bell(end). It's a beautiful picture and would look great on an albumcover! -------------- ~*Trillian*~ Back to top

Bill Bobaggins Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: June 2005 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 09:19 Quote (TubularBelle @ Aug. 20 2005, 05:07) That is bloody awful! I HATE IT! Well, it's funny how we all have different tastes. When I first looked at the cover art, I loved it.  Very striking. -------------- Speak friend and enter. Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 09:30 Quote (Trillian @ Aug. 20 2005, 14:09) I hope so, The Bell(end). It's a beautiful picture and would look great on an albumcover! It most certainly would! Perhaps having Light typed at the top and Shade typed at the bottom with Mike Oldfield written cleverly in mellow 'middle of the range' colours if you get what I mean. I think this sunset picture looks abit like an inkblot, good symmetry!   -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 09:31 no no no it cantbe!!! Look like hes i jail or something... The text is to small and the design is horrible..He almost look old and sad, and its justn nooot good at all.. This can be the true. I think its something they just have mixed by theyreself. I think they will use some of the design they have on the official side. That 100 % more and better!! I really hope this is an joke.. I dont hope i must close my eyes every time i take out the cd to play it...   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 10:42 i don't like that image either, it's got something that makes me need air. i still prefer to doubt it will be the cover, it doesn't fit what i would have expected after watching the other images at thelongdrop site,  don't know.. and also, shouldn't it be first shown at mikeoldfield.com? anyway, in this article they seem to be stating this will be the cover. i've just translated this paragraph from the article at the link posted by toroacu: Quote Mike Oldfield lleva 40 millones de discos vendidos en su carrera y ahora bajo el sello Mercury UK, vuelve con un nuevo disco que representa los dos lados de su personalidad musical: "Light + Shade", del que puedes ver su portada con esta noticia. Mike Oldfield has sold 40 million records along his career and now, under the label Mercury UK, he's coming back with a double album which pictures both sides of his musical personality: "Light + Shade", of which you can see the cover by this piece of news. -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 11:18 Don't worry that horrible image isn't the cover. The Long Drop are doing the cover art, according to their website, and the image at MO.com looks to me stylistically like one of their images so I'm 101% certain the image at MO.com is the final cover. Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 11:30 Quote (TOBY @ Aug. 20 2005, 11:18) I'm 101% certain the image at MO.com is the final cover. well i hope you are really true   or i will call it disaster design -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 11:49 Quote (TOBY @ Aug. 20 2005, 11:18) Don't worry that horrible image isn't the cover. The Long Drop are doing the cover art, according to their website, and the image at MO.com looks to me stylistically like one of their images so I'm 101% certain the image at MO.com is the final cover. i do like the landscape picture too, the contrast between warm and cold lights is simply beautiful, but i've seen that there is another similar picture in their catalogue, it isn't exactly the same place, though there's water and sky also under such deep contrasted lights and it's built simetrically as well. when i found that picture, which was used for another album booklet, it seemed to me both pictures belonged to the same series. i'm not very sure they would use the same idea for two different works by two different artists. -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 12:05 I guess maybe Mike saw that other picture and said he wanted one done like it, thats one possible explanation. I'm sure he would have looked through their portfolio before commissioning them. I'm not sure I get hugely excited by either image to be honest. As a semi-professional photoshop artist myself I don't think there's much creative effort involved in getting a pretty landscape photo and mirroring it over. What Trevor Key did with Hergest Ridge, which was in a similar vein, was a million times better IMHO and done long before photoshop. Still this new album cover isn't too bad and I'm keen to see what they do with the rest of the packaging. Back to top

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Aug. 20 2005, 12:39 watching again that new mike's portrait, i see the main problem for me is that the canvas (or iron fence..) pattern is "patched" on mike's face hiding him behind, with his eyes still further behind a thick shade..  maybe in a better quality it will look less sinyster, assuming it would make his eyes visible. maybe the idea they wanted is something sinyster since he's been working in his own light and dark sides. maybe his mood was dark when he chose that portrait, but if u ask me.. i'd rather wait for a more cheerful moment to choose the inside photos then for the rest of the packaging, it would be great they included some pictures of mike playing the instruments he's used to record the album. well, as i said somewhere else, what i really hope is the music itself paints a beautiful soundscape to lose ourselves within:) -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

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