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softandwet 
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 Topic: Oldfield-like musicPosted: March 15 2020 at 04:14 |
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Do you know any band or guy that is making a music that is sounding like Mike Oldfield?
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Posted: March 15 2020 at 07:06 |
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French band XII Alfonso comes to mind immediately . . .
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Posted: March 15 2020 at 07:11 |
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Robert Reed has done a series of albums in homage to Oldfield that are different enough to be worthwhile exploring. They are the Sanctuary series.
I'd also explore Pekka Pohjola.
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Posted: March 15 2020 at 15:24 |
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check out the albums "Brilliant Streams" and "Circle in the Forest" by ASTURIAS, an excellent Japanese group
If you like Oldfield's poppier 1980s stuff, and you definitely should, try a sweet album on Musea by ENGEL COLIN MASSON's "Isle of Eight" is quite Oldfield influenced Sometimes sister SALLY OLDFIELD sounds cut from the same cloth and her album "Water Bearer" contains similar hypnotic tendencies Edited by kenethlevine - March 15 2020 at 15:24 |
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Posted: March 16 2020 at 01:08 |
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Stephen Caudel he is in the PA Database so I won't list all his albums , although there aren't that many. Wine Dark Sea is the best imo. |
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Posted: March 16 2020 at 13:41 |
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Sally Oldfield has more than one album and a more recent album I just heard on Space Pirate Radio is excellent! To my ears, it is only "like Mike" in that his guitar is in it, and you hear one small solo and you know right away who it is!
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Posted: March 16 2020 at 15:16 |
yes I love Sally. I have reviewed about 5 of her albums. I mentioned the first because I think it might be of most interest to fans of her brother, but both "Easy" and "Celebration" are excellent albums as well. At some point I'll move on to her more recent stuff!
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Posted: March 16 2020 at 15:19 |
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Posted: March 16 2020 at 15:31 |
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We've had a few such topics over the years. I remembered this one from six years ago that might help in your search: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=96750
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Posted: March 16 2020 at 16:08 |
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From the Shameless Self Promotion (sort of) Department, you may want to check into Tom Kelly's music. Reviewers almost always mention Oldfield as a comparative. Links to PA reviews here by Kev Rowland and Windhawk, and also his web and bandcamp pages:
Bandcamp: Tom Kelly |
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Posted: March 16 2020 at 16:54 |
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Ken Baird who was in Monarch Trail was supposed to have sounded like MO with his solo albums.
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Posted: March 16 2020 at 17:04 |
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As mentioned, Robert Reed (of Magenta) has produced a trio of 'homage' albums to old-style Oldfield called Sanctuary. I thought the first one was superb, the second one very good, although the third one didn't quite have the same magic, as I think he wanted to veer a little more away from the more obvious Oldfield comparisons. He's unashamedly a fan of Oldfield from his youth, and these capture the sound of Ommadawn-era Oldfield very well (as he said, Mike wasn't doing that style any more). It was interesting to note that Return to Ommadawn was released around this time - although I doubt if the Sanctuary albums spurred him to recapture his older prog sound - but you never know......
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Posted: March 17 2020 at 01:00 |
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I'm a big Magenta fan but those Rob Reed Oldfield imitations are pretty boring to be honest. It was interesting that he got Simon Phillips on board for the second one (possibly the first one but can't remember) and I didn't bother with the third one. Reed was also involved with that horrid Beneath The Waves that he roped some high profile names of prog into doing. That was like an inferior version of later Oldfield albums which in themselves are not great (excepting the excellent Return To Ommadawn) IMO
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Posted: March 17 2020 at 01:05 |
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I was tempted to say 'Any 80's New Age music' but there are excellent albums out there from the likes of Stephen Caudel (previously mentioned) , Tom Newman , Mark Isham , Patrick O'Hearn , Eddie Jobson etc although Caudel is the most Oldfield inspired. MO is often 'credited' with the all whole New Age movement both musically and also his submission to a radical form of therapy in the late seventies. There is a supposition that although he became a 'better' person who could communicate well with others and live more 'normally' he also lost an essential element of his genius at the same time. It his highly debatable of course.
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Posted: March 17 2020 at 05:05 |
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Posted: March 17 2020 at 06:41 |
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Anthony Phillips- Geese and the ghost
Much of this album is acoustic and instrumental and not too dissimilar to the first part of side two of tubular bells imo(before the wolf man song and the naming of the instruments  ).Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - March 17 2020 at 06:43 |
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Posted: March 17 2020 at 06:54 |
That reminds me that a long time ago I was looking in a magazine that described this album that had only two songs on it and so it was compared to tubular bells and topographic oceans. For the longest time I couldn't remember what it was but I posted on here and I'm pretty sure it was you who mentioned Stephen Caudel's "wind dark sea" and that's when I realized that was probably the album I was thinking of. Anyway, I think MO also has some similiarities to Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and maybe some of the more acoustic and rock oriented new age artists(although I can't think of many specific ones off the top of my head). Mike Oldfield is actually only one of a few artists who could be considered the "father" of new age. Other contenders would be Popol Vuh, Jade Warrior, Deuter, Jean Michel Jarre, Mannheim Steamroller(first album was in 1975), Paul Winter, probably a bit of "krautrock", probably some ECM stuff, the aforementioned Tangerine Dream and even a few tracks by Happy the Man among others.
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Posted: March 17 2020 at 08:45 |
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Posted: March 19 2020 at 08:56 |
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Hi,
I wanted to add something like CLEARLIGHT, but I keep thinking that it is too "classical" to be added to this listing ... Mike's stuff is not usually "classically minded" but it is way more "traditional" minded for my ears in that he might change something just because of an instrument that sounds different and appears to be playing something else ... in his earlier days, it was a sort of progression to simple to a bit more involved ... and that is not, exactly, a classical thing, as it was originally done way back when in Albinoni and Vivaldi days if history of music serves us well. In this sense, Mike is very "traditional" and "local" in his tastes. CLEARLIGHT and Cyrille Verdaux are (again) classical minded, but a check into other folks also doing synthesizer things, Germany had many of them doing stuff that was totally different, even with classical elements into it, but it was much more experimental ... I'm thinking of Eberhard Schoenner. And in many ways, harder to see and line out on a piece of paper, Edgar Froese, even with TD, is very classical in his style of developing and working a theme ... and this held up until his passing!
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Posted: March 23 2020 at 20:52 |
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The recent Anderson/Stolt album has some a lot of Oldfiedesque music. Check out the following track, Know..., especially.
Listen to 6:10 - 6:40 for some extremely Oldfield-sounding guitar. Edited by POTA - March 23 2020 at 20:52 |
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