Cutting Edge
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Posted: Aug. 06 2004, 22:43 |
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Hi folks, thank you.
Firstly, imo of course, this track is pure Oldfield, a one off & it has nothing to do with disco. I honestly don't see/hear it.
This track makes me want to fly, not dance.
I feel that if Incantations just kept going & developing, it would have to, for a time, get into this Guilty part.
(It also reminds me of what great taste in music I had as an 11yo kid  )
Thank you Ugo, yes I'm beginning to find out a little more about this Exegesis therapy thanks to this wonderful forum but I'm mostly interested in how the track developed & what went on in the session that produced such a sound.
This is all that I've found so far & it ain't much;
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recording in the USA with a New York studio rhythm section, it provoked accusation in the music press of selling out by going Disco, which Oldfield, probably correctly, suspects were motivated by ignorance and envy. The fact that the single was his biggest hit for three years seems to support that contention.
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Oldfield appeared intent on making up lost ground, further proving his reborn credentials by high-tailing it to New York's Electric Lady studios, there to begin work on his next album, Platinum, and record a new single, the pulsing disco excursion 'Guilty'
Recorded with a handful of local sessionmen, and totally unlike anything he had ever released In the past, 'Guilty' was both stunning and shocking; still, fans promptly sent it soaring into the U.K. chart, while Oldfield did his part for promotion by appearing on such bastions of British TV as Top Of The Pops and jimli fix It
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Good ol' Jimil!
I think I'll have to check out those musicians names & see if the searches come up with some more detailed insights into the Electric Lady session.
Cheers!
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