Mike Oldfield News, Pictures & Buzz

£4.8m investment secured by Force24 as it announces plans for expansion  Prolific North

Northern Kentucky creatives help produce music video honoring fallen Springdale officer Kaia Grant  User-generated content

Investment signals vote of confidence in marketing automation firm  The Business Desk

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Every Stand's Musical Reference In The Morioh Gang  CBR - Comic Book Resources

Crestline Santa Parade scheduled for Dec. 5  Galion Inquirer

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: a sample-based analysis of Kanye West's magnum opus  Mixdown

Myers earns Throwback Athlete of the Week honors | USA Track & Field  USA Track and Field

Restaurant, bar owners relieved governor didn't order a shutdown  ABC6OnYourSide.com

DeWine sets three-week curfew for Ohioans  OSU - The Lantern

"A lot of bar owners are fighting for their lives;" fears grow over further restrictions  ABC6OnYourSide.com

Doctor Who's sonic pioneers to turn internet into giant musical instrument  The Guardian

New Tubular Bells documentary to be released  Louder

Mike Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ Celebrated In New Doc, ‘From The Manor Born’  uDiscover Music

The Classic Hit Bit has been won after 10 months  RadioToday Ireland

Richard Branson's 1972 'To-do List': Here's what made the billionaire smile  Mint

Richard Branson's childhood home in England hits market for $5 million - Business Insider  Business Insider

Robin Zander says Cheap Trick has finished a new album that's on hold because of the pandemic | X101 Always Classic  X101 Always Classic Local News

Music notes: Halloween songs to enjoy even if your Halloween is canceled  Atlanta Journal Constitution

Bruce Springsteen: Trump a con man from Queens who's brainwashed a good portion of country  Asbury Park Press

Robert Reed releases tribute video to Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn  Louder

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I listened to the piano instrumental and the original version but I don't find it creepy at all... ? I'm an easily creeped out person but I don't find the creep factor in it. It's just really soothing and melancholic, I don't find it creepy at all? Why do people find it creepy?

It seems that's it's been almost five years since the release of his last album, Music of the Spheres, and he hasn't recorded anything since then and only had some sporadic live appearances. Has the man finally retired?

On Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells II, released 1992, there is a song named "The Bell". In this song, he starts with a simple background riff and builds onto it with a variety of instruments including a bass guitar, glockenspiel, synthesizer and eventually bells. Each instrument is introduced by name by Alan Rickman (on the album version). One thing that has always confused me up to this day, is when Mike Oldfield brings some guitars into the song at around 2:50. Alan Rickman introduces them as "two slightly sampled electric guitars". My understanding of the term "sampled" used in a musical context has always been a sound that has been recorded and played back, often times using a keyboard. So what then would "slightly sampled" mean? I have searched for a long while now, but have never been able to find a definition for what that would refer to.

why has this Mike Oldfield ever toured the U S of A?