Mike Oldfield News, Pictures & Buzz

JJ 02/81: Eberhard Weber Colours - Little Movements  Jazz Journal

8 Times Bands Re-Recorded Their Old Material and Made It Better  Ultimate-Guitar.Com

'Record companies have me on a dartboard': the man making millions buying classic hits  The Guardian

Outrage as dog fouling continues to blight local town  LeaderLive

Henrietta Oldfield Sadler | Obituaries | lebanondemocrat.com  Lebanon Democrat

The Greatest Prog Guitarists: An Essential Top 25 Countdown  uDiscover Music

Real estate records, 2/21 | Real Estate Records  Lincoln Journal Star

Virgin record label to relaunch backed by Universal Music and Richard Branson  iNews

Spoken Stories: Independence Sunday 14 February 2021 - Spoken Stories: Independence - RTÉ Radio 1  RTE.ie

Simon Phillips: a drummer's tale  Louder

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells: Tubular Bells West End Tickets 2021  British Theatre

Edgar Broughton Band: Speak Down The Wires: The Recordings 1975-1982 album review  Louder

Mike Oldfield to celebrate 50th anniversary of Tubular Bells with special London performances  The List

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells to be performed in London this summer  Louder

The Greatest Prog Rock Singers: A Top 30 Countdown  uDiscover Music

Features | Low Culture | In Praise Of John Cale, The Superior Velvet, By Daniel Dylan Wray  The Quietus

Doug Oldfield – The Vienna Times  The Vienna TImes

Paul McCartney, McCartney III, review: the whimsical, poppy antidote to a miserable year  Telegraph.co.uk

Robert Reed's favourite five electronica tracks  Louder

How a Scot got the most streamed British album in the UK - in a record-breaking year  HeraldScotland

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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?