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Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Feb. 25 2005, 14:30 can u tell me -------------- Take the Time Back to top

BOOsTER Group: Musicians Posts: 1024 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: Feb. 25 2005, 15:42 he's prolly working on a new album someone will tell you...or check the other topics... btw...no need to bump your topic with another reply...just push the edit button in the right upper part of your post... -------------- http://www.djbooster.net Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Feb. 26 2005, 13:43 I tried to reply to your email about this, Sonilink, but it bounced. Here's my answer: He's working on a new album. He has said that he wants to try making the best use of current technology, pushing it to the limits like Tubular Bells pushed the technology of the 1970s. He has been trying out a lot of new software, and has been working with FL Studio and experimenting with virtual vocalists. I would say that it will probably be quite strongly electronic music (I'd guess not that different to Tres Lunas), but we will have to wait and see! It's also possible that he'll do it as a single long instrumental track (after he asked about what kind of music people would like to hear at the TB2003 press conference), but that's not at all certain. The problem was with the topic title and not the original message, by the way, so Sonilink wouldn't have been able to edit it himself. I've corrected it now. Back to top

Woodlander Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: Mar. 16 2005, 13:49 After reading what Korgscrew wrote about the possible style of the new album, I was wondering, maybe Mike plans an anti-Amarok. Everything played by keyboard, computers and "not much handplayed guitar at all really".   We know how Mike likes to turn things upside down (Bach/TB1 opening). Also I think it is a bit strange....in many interviews over the years we have heard Mike say that he is not really a keyboard artist, that playing things on keyboard takes him a long time and if he used guitars he could do the same thing in a few minutes and that he is a much better guitarist than keyboard player. Yet, he seems to concentrate more and more on electronic, keyboardbased music. Does anybody have a clue why he does this? I mean, he knows what his strenghts are. Is guitar playing not a challenge for him anymore? Has it become to easy for him mainly just using guitars? Or a more taboo-like question - is he afraid to play guitars due to declining ability to play (lack of practise, getting older etc.) knowing that he will not be able to reach his previous level? Personally, I think he likes to explore new areas and at the moment it just seems to be electronic music. But I hope he remembers to put some guitar on the new album. Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Mar. 16 2005, 16:22 In the not too distant past, he's also mentioned the idea of working somehow on combining the sounds of 'real' instruments and computers. I thought he'd already been doing that for the past 23 years or so, but I guess he had something new in mind - probably something linked to the idea I mentioned above of pushing new technology to its limits. I think it's really best we wait until we hear it - it can often be hard to tell what Mike means when he says things like these! I would suppose that Mike's decision to use synthesisers is largely influenced by his liking their sounds. He could have consciously avoided them on Guitars, had he wanted to, but instead chose to fire up the MIDI Guitar rig. It's not easier to play a MIDI guitar part than it is to play an electric or acoustic guitar part (in fact, it can be harder, as imprecise playing can sometimes upset the system), so I can only assume that he did that for the purposes of getting those particular synth sounds. Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Mar. 17 2005, 10:04 But why he's silent regarding his new album? Is it top secret,it must be,afaik. -------------- "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

Chicular Group: Members Posts: 240 Joined: Sep. 2004 Posted: Mar. 17 2005, 11:19 I've been checking this site every day hoping to see a headline with album info and a release date!  This has definitely been the longest period of inactivity since i've been a Mike Oldfield diehard! Hopefully it wont be too long now! Someone should give Mike a phone see what's happening! Back to top

familyjules Group: Members Posts: 1190 Joined: May 2004 Posted: Mar. 17 2005, 11:21 Quote (Chicular @ Mar. 17 2005, 11:19) Someone should give Mike a phone see what's happening! I just tried to ring him but they said he was "in Communicado". Bleedin' funny time of year to go on yer 'olidays..... Jules -------------- I like beer and I like cheese Back to top

bugular tell Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: Mar. 2003 Posted: Mar. 21 2005, 16:32 hi peeps, i was wondering regarding the new album, if there will be "snipets" available like the tres lunas promo stuff with a few seconds of music, even if this was to happen now to keep the interest up, or increase it, i have been a little dissapointed with some of the music after TSODE, not that its bad, but it seems rushed to me, like Mike was doing it to please the fan base, some, like TB2003 was very good, but maybe thats because it was a passion of his to remaster it with todays technology, TMB, and Guitars, while good in some ways seemed a little "must make another album" and he couldn't be arsed lol, i hope, like everyone else, that this is going to be a return to better days, sorry for going off topic! regards lee -------------- Light travels faster than sound, thats why some people appear bright until you hear them speak Back to top

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