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Platinumpty Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: May 2011 Posted: May 27 2011, 08:59 What other non-Oldfield music for you inspires similar emotions or intellectual responses?  From my own listening experience, here are some I'd heartily recommend. 1. Jan Garbarek - Legend of the Seven Dreams This Norwegian composer / saxophonist makes folk-jazz not only acceptable but deeply credible, with this and other epic, exploratory, and powerful recordings.  Recurring folk-like themes, unusual instrumentations, repetitive patterns, a meditative approach and that keening, unmistakable tone. Listen to it if you love - Ommadawn. 2. Philip Glass - Glassworks I think I discovered this album about the same time I discovered Mike Oldfield, when I was 15.  It drove my parents mental with its rippling, insistant repetitions giving way to languid, fluid interludes.  Gorgeous and startling by turn. Listen to it if you love - Incantations 3. Towering Inferno - Kaddish John Peel called this album "one of the most terrifying records I've ever heard" and it's not hard to see why a Holocaust-themed album containing industrial noise, samples of Hitler ranting and heart-wrenching vocals from Marta Sebastyan might have this effect.  For me, it's the stunning range of instrumentation, genres, moods and styles that keep this one fresh.   Listen to it if you love - Amarok / Music from the Balcony 4. Mal Waldron - Live at the Village Vanguard (side 1) "The Seagulls of Kristiansund" More jazz (odd how often I'm resorting to jazz to find similarities) but this time a live, improvised, epic love letter to a place and a time, replete with surprising percussion, seagull sounds and limpid piano.  Long and moving. Listen to it if you love - Hergest Ridge 5. Orbital - In-Sides And now for something completely different. For me, Orbital at their best make non-danceable, richly varied and textured electronic music.  Listen to the rippling harpsichord on The Box, or the odd heartbeat and shimmering keyboards that start the album and you'll find Oldfieldian experimentation. Listen to it if you love - Songs of Distant Earth / Light and Shade 6. Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) The Dawn Upshaw vocal if you can get it...  Apologies for another Holocaust record but this one is simply stunning.  Never fails to reduce me to tears.   Another one for the Hergest Ridge fans. I think I'll stop there.  I'd love to hear your recommendations too - always keen to mainline new, exploratory music. Back to top

smillsoid Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Dec. 2008 Posted: May 27 2011, 13:52 Very good recommendations, thanks! I'd check out:- 1) Anything even vaguely related to Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Bass Communion, No-Man, IEM, Blackfield etc.). 2) Wendy Carlos. 3) Vangelis. 4) Marillion. 5) Simon J. Mills   -------------- http://www.reverbnation.com/simonjmills Back to top

hph Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: Nov. 2009 Posted: May 27 2011, 14:00 A quick serach in all forums here for "tribute" or "new views" showed no results but I cannot imagine they've never been mentioned. Maybe I didn't search the right way. Anyway, if so, I think some people here might like the band TRIBUTE, especially their album NEW VIEWS. Here an old live-video, sorry for the bad sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSRpATKd5VQ&feature=related Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: May 27 2011, 14:03 I'm not familiar with In Sides, but I love Orbital. They amaze me. As for some of my choices: Vangelis - Direct While it's not my favourite Vangelis album overall, it has, by far, the most solid collection of tracks that deeply affect me: Elsewhere, Glorianna, Message, First Approach and Intergalactic Radio Station, to mention the strongest ones. Sigur Rós - Takk... For a band that is so praised and hyped for their Icelandic origins and the icy, snowy, chilly, etc., etc. qualities of their music, Takk... is one of their shiniest, sunniest, warmest and most welcoming records, and it's the one that touches me the most. Still, ( ) is, to me, their strongest one. Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team Sigur Rós, with their "Post rock" label, led me to Mogwai, and this record blew my mind. This is rock music taken to the extremes of expression: gorgeousness in its purest form is brutally contrasted with furious loudness and power, but that's not the most impressive feat. The most impressive feat is when gorgeousness and brutality are combined. Few people can do stuff like that. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: May 27 2011, 20:11 Camel-The Snow Goose for sure. Parts of the more classic Renaissance albums like Novella. Some YES definately. Taking out the vocals, some vintage Cat Stevens. Taking out vocals some Trick/Tail and Wind/Wuthering era Genesis. Bits and pieces from very old Tangerine Dream. But firstmost, late 70's Steve Hackett from albums like Spectral Mornings and Defector. He struck me at first playing of those classic albums as very close to MO. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: May 27 2011, 23:38 I wouldn't mind betting that Lisa Gerrard was influenced by Mike. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: May 28 2011, 14:33 Quote (nightspore @ May 27 2011, 23:38) I wouldn't mind betting that Lisa Gerrard was influenced by Mike. You always talk about Gerrard, Daniel. Have you never listened to her former band? Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 28 2011, 18:51 @ Jordan/Syd: I bet he never did because he doesn't know how stupid their Dead Can Dance's music is. Sorry, Daniel, just jokin'. To me Lisa Gerrard on her own is fantastic, DCD are pure crap. I don't think she's influenced by Mike O. - her style is much closer to "World Music" than Mike's, and Mike got (relatively) close to "World Music" only in a couple of occasions. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: May 28 2011, 21:29 Quote (Ugo @ May 28 2011, 18:51) @ Jordan/Syd: I bet he never did because he doesn't know how stupid their Dead Can Dance's music is. Sorry, Daniel, just jokin'. To me Lisa Gerrard on her own is fantastic, DCD are pure crap. I don't think she's influenced by Mike O. - her style is much closer to "World Music" than Mike's, and Mike got (relatively) close to "World Music" only in a couple of occasions. I haven't listened to DCD, actually. And I've only listened to one Gerrard album and a few other of her pieces. Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: May 29 2011, 08:47 @ Ugo: My my my, we are very different.     @ Nightspore: Xavier Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: May 29 2011, 10:28 Quote (Syd B @ May 29 2011, 08:47) @ Ugo: My my my, we are very different.     @ Nightspore: Xavier Thanks, Syd. I felt rather neutral about that piece, although the vocal style reminded me of Iron Butterfly. And part of the introductory melody reminded me of Tom Jones' "Delilah"   Not crap, just average. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 29 2011, 16:18 @ Syd: that's supposed to be one of DCD's "hits", but I still don't like it at all. Also, Lisa Gerrard is not featured in it, is she? Back on topic... well, I think there's plenty of non-Oldfield stuff that people here may like. Most have already been mentioned... Jim, you preceded me in pointing at Camel - The Snow Goose is IMHO one of the best Oldfieldian albums not made by Mike Oldfield. About Cat Stevens, I don't think you can take the vocals out of him because he (either as Cat or Yusuf) is all about the vocals - take those out and there's nothing left. I'd like to add a classical composer that Dan/nightspore made me know some time ago, and which I like a lot. His name is Ralph Vaughan-Williams and I warmly recommend him to anyone in here who likes HR. His two Fantasias ("Fantasia on Greensleves" and "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis") are especially nice. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: May 29 2011, 21:19 Quote (Ugo @ May 29 2011, 16:18) I'd like to add a classical composer that Dan/nightspore made me know some time ago, and which I like a lot. His name is Ralph Vaughan-Williams and I warmly recommend him to anyone in here who likes HR. His two Fantasias ("Fantasia on Greensleves" and "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis") are especially nice. Ugo, yes, I know the V-dub's work quite well   His Sea Symphony I quite like, and I also like the first movements of his symphones 5 and 9. His settings of Blake songs I find tedious in the extreme, however. (RVW himself hated Blake's "Little Lamb", referring to it as a "Beastly little lamb"   ) I also have his saxophone concerto and harmonica rhapsody - he liked to write for unfashionable instruments! I seem to remember Chris Squire used part of the melody of the Thomas Tallis fantasia on his Fish out of Water album. Back to top

Platinumpty Group: Members Posts: 178 Joined: May 2011 Posted: June 01 2011, 07:45 Quote (Sir Mustapha @ May 27 2011, 14:03) Sigur Rós - Takk... For a band that is so praised and hyped for their Icelandic origins and the icy, snowy, chilly, etc., etc. qualities of their music, Takk... is one of their shiniest, sunniest, warmest and most welcoming records, and it's the one that touches me the most. Still, ( ) is, to me, their strongest one. Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team Sigur Rós, with their "Post rock" label, led me to Mogwai, and this record blew my mind. This is rock music taken to the extremes of expression: gorgeousness in its purest form is brutally contrasted with furious loudness and power, but that's not the most impressive feat. The most impressive feat is when gorgeousness and brutality are combined. Few people can do stuff like that. Ah, of course, how could I have not mentioned the mighty Sigur Ros.  Lovely stuff. As for Mogwai, I've only got Rock Action and The Hawk is Howling but Young Team seems to be the one to get next. Thanks for those. Now, dare I mention John Zorn??? Back to top

Chris Ibberson Group: Members Posts: 88 Joined: Aug. 2011 Posted: Aug. 12 2011, 03:26 I urge anyone who loves Ommadawn, to try Bjork-Vesperatine 2001. Innuit Choir, Emotive lyrics throughout, Beautiful Orchestration and a female vocal in its rightful place. Unison, Pagan Poetry, Heirloom, Harm Of Will, Aurora, and Its Not Up To You are the stand out tracks. Ommadawn is second only to this release, in my opinion.   I also have a shelf stacked with Tangerine Dream (Up to 1987) and I would have to take... Renaissance-Scheherazade. Van Der Graaf-H to He.   Yes-Close To The Edge   Fleet Foxes-"debut album"   Air-Moon Safari ... to a desert island, with Incantations tucked safely in my jacket. -------------- Diana Luna Lucina Back to top

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