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Baggiesfaninessex Group: Members Posts: 682 Joined: Mar. 2002 Posted: July 21 2006, 01:22 Okay - I own up. If you didn't already know, I much prefer Mike's 70s output to anything since. Since those glory days, at least Crises, FMO, HO and Amaraok offered long instrumental tracks (around 20 mins or more). What are the chances of Mike releasing long instrumental passages of 20mins + in the future? -------------- “A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts.” - Frank Skinner Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: July 21 2006, 09:51 hmm.. hes doing it now.. Did'nt you now?   release for this about 2 1/2 year.. -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Baggiesfaninessex Group: Members Posts: 682 Joined: Mar. 2002 Posted: July 21 2006, 12:44 I didn't know. This is the first time back on the site for quite a while. Thanks for the info.   Exciting stuff! -------------- “A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts.” - Frank Skinner Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: July 21 2006, 13:20 Yeah, next album is supposed to have 3 side long tracks. Heheh... lucky for him he don't use vinyl anymore, would be a strange look to get an lp with 3 sides     -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 21 2006, 13:23 Where did you get this info from? Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: July 21 2006, 13:24 Hmmm... there were some threads about it... can't remember exactly, but it might very well be in the thread about his book. -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Moz Group: Musicians Posts: 600 Joined: July 2005 Posted: July 21 2006, 14:07 the official fan club web site has some info: http://www.mikeoldfield.org/news/index.htm Quote Mike delighted every fan when he spoke about his next project in a Radio 2 interview yesterday, which will be an instrumental in 3 long involved pieces, not setting out to be cool, hip or sexy and with no drum loops - "me making my kind of music". He then plans to take it on tour, doing "proper, real live concerts... I want to recapture what I set out trying to do back in the seventies... people want to listen to something special with a lot of detail and work, dynamics, tempo changes, a great big landscape". Mike's contract allows him up to three years to complete it to perfection, leaving little doubt there's another career highlight of true undiluted creativity on its way! -------------- Twitter: @benbarden Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: July 21 2006, 14:08 also from schiller and from an interview i think. I wonder where i have that one. I post it tomorrow. -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Baggiesfaninessex Group: Members Posts: 682 Joined: Mar. 2002 Posted: July 21 2006, 14:32 Blimey! This is the best news for years!! I'm really excited by what he's saying. This could be huge!   -------------- “A dog is not intelligent. Never trust an animal that's surprised by its own farts.” - Frank Skinner Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: July 21 2006, 14:39 If that album doesn't sell more than at least 75 million copies, I'll eat my hat   -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: July 21 2006, 15:52 and i eat my cat! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: July 21 2006, 18:58 Quote (Tubularman @ July 21 2006, 20:52) and i eat my cat! Careful there Tubularman, you might upset the vegetarians among us. Mike recording a long 3 piece instrumental album, YIPPEEEEE         . -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 22 2006, 18:49 Quote (Piltdownboy on horseback 22 @ July 21 2006, 19:20) Yeah, next album is supposed to have 3 side long tracks. Heheh... lucky for him he don't use vinyl anymore, would be a strange look to get an lp with 3 sides     3-sided vinyls by Italian artists have often appeared in the past, I've got at least four. They're just double albums, but one side of the second album of each is totally blank. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 23 2006, 06:50 The double-LP edition of Sigur Rós' takk... follows this format. The non-playing side of the second vinyl has an etched design. Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: July 26 2006, 13:03 Oh, of course... I remember seeing that one hehehe... so yes, now it's possible after all for it to be released on vinyl wished mike would love vinyl more than he does   -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 26 2006, 13:22 I'm surprised that Mike's Ibiza-era dance music such as The Source of Secrets never made it to vinyl. He could have had 'Froggy Went A-Courting' as the surprise B-side . Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: July 26 2006, 15:21 Quote (Baggiesfaninessex @ July 21 2006, 01:22) What are the chances of Mike releasing long instrumental passages of 20mins + in the future? Isn't that the name of the Max Headroom short film? -------------- "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

Tas Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: July 2004 Posted: July 29 2006, 03:47 The news that he was going a bit back to what he set out to do delighted me. I think he lost his way over the last years 90's/2000 and his music was appealing to me less and less. But, now it's got me all excited again. More fun than a pully with a rubber chicken on the end i can tell ya. 2.5 year to wait mind, but i don't mind.. I'd rather wait and get something special than another half hearted attempt. Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: July 29 2006, 07:31 Quote (Tas @ July 29 2006, 03:47) I think he lost his way over the last years 90's/2000 and his music was appealing to me less and less. But, now it's got me all excited again. More fun than a pully with a rubber chicken on the end i can tell ya. Yeah, good point. I kind of feel the same way... For me, I've a feeling that he didn't really make a 'great' album after 1999's Guitars. (maybe L&S is a little exception). So yes, it's time for another really really good piece of work, like he made lots of in the 90's (Amarok, Distant Earth, TB2,3, Voyager etc.)   -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

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