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Mike Oldfield - The Complete Tubular Bells
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[√] CDDA (CDS-200) [ ] Vinyl [ ] Tape [ ] Radio/Live SSG0549
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│ Artist..: Mike Oldfield │
│ Title...: The Complete Tubular Bells (3 CD Limited Edition) │
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│ Label......: Warner Music Spain Encoder........: LAME 3.90.3 │
│ Catalog#...: 2564602052 / WE833 Settings.......: --aps (-Z) │
│ Year.......: 2003 Audio Software.: EAC v0.95 pb3 │
│ Genre......: New Age Total Tracks...: 17 + 14 + 11 │
│ Rating.....: [■■■■■■■■··] (08/10) Total Size.....: 223,6 MB │
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│ Jul/22/2003 Supplier:......: Flexovich │
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## - Track Title - Length
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CD1: Tubular Bells 2003
Part 1
01 - Introduction - 05:51
02 - Fast Guitars - 01:04
03 - Basses - 00:46
04 - Latin - 02:18
05 - A Minor Tune - 01:21
06 - Blues - 02:40
07 - Thrash - 00:44
08 - Jazz - 00:48
09 - Ghost Bells - 00:30
10 - Russian - 00:44
11 - Finale - 08:36
Part 2
12 - Harmonics - 05:21
13 - Peace - 03:22
14 - Bagpipe Guitars - 03:07
15 - Caveman - 04:33
16 - Ambient Guitars - 05:09
17 - The Sailors Hornpipe - 01:39
CD2: Tubular Bells II (Recorded 1992)
01 - Sentinel - 08:06
02 - Dark Star - 02:16
03 - Clear Light - 06:07
04 - Blue Saloon - 02:58
05 - Sunjammer - 02:32
06 - Red Dawn - 01:49
07 - The Bell - 06:55
08 - Weightless - 05:43
09 - The Great Plain - 04:46
10 - Sunset Door - 02:23
11 - Tattoo - 04:14
12 - Altered State - 05:12
13 - Maya Gold - 04:00
14 - Moonshine - 02:20
CD3: Tubular Bells III (Recorded 1998)
01 - The Source of Secrets - 05:34
Vocals: Amar
02 - The Watchful Eye - 02:09
03 - Jewel in the Crown - 05:45
Vocals: Amar
04 - Outcast - 03:49
05 - Serpent Dream - 02:53
06 - The Inner Child - 04:41
Featuring Rosa Cedron (Luar Na Lubre)
07 - Man in the Rain - 04:01
Featuring Cara from Polar Star, Vocals: Heather Burnett
08 - The Top of the Morning - 04:26
09 - Moonwatch - 04:25
10 - Secrets - 03:20
Vocals: Amar
11 - Far Above the Clouds - 05:30
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Total Time - 154:01
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Comments:
The boxset includes a bonus DVD with 5.1 mixes of Introduction, Fast
Guitars, and Basses as well as Introduction 2003 'The Video'. You will
have to get a hold of a copy of this "30th Anniversary" boxset yourself or
buy the DVD separately to get those goodies as they are not included in
this SSG release.
-- Sound "The Cactus Defeater" SynerGy
An extensive commentary on Mike Oldfield and Tubular Bells follows:
Mike Oldfield plays...
Believed to be...
Grand Piano, Glockenspiel, Electric Organs, Accordion, Synthesisers, Bass
Guitar, Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, Mandolin, Spanish Guitar,
Piltdown Man, Tympani, Percussion, Tubular Bells.
Other musicians
Sally Oldfield - Background Vocals
John Cleese - Master of ceremonies
Produced by Mike Oldfield, engineered by Ben Darlow
Recorded at Roughwood August 2002 - February 2003
Notes on the Instruments...
After much pestering from the likes of myself, Mike helpfully listed all
of the instruments he used, inside the booklet for Tubular Bells 2003
(but not the 3CD 'Complete Tubular Bells' set), making my job a lot
easier - thanks Mike!
Grand Piano - Mike Used two grand pianos on the album, an 8 foot
Steinway, rebuilt on a 1920s frame, and an all-original 1920s Steinway 6
foot piano, which is the one that can be seen on stage in The Millennium
Bell video.
Electric Organs - Here, he uses a 1970 Hammond L.122 (which Mike claims
has been in his garage for the past 10 years), a Lowrey and a Farfisa (I
believe a Farfisa Professional).
Synthesisers - Mike's love of Roland synthesisers shows clearly, with him
using a JV880 for string pads, an XP50 pianos and percussion, a JV2080
'ethnic' sounds, bass, and a JD990 for pads. He also used his Clavia Nord
Lead for bass sounds and some bass sounds from the Korg Trinity, his
master keyboard which sits in front of the large plasma computer screen
in his studio. Mike also demonstrated his new found affection for
software synthesiser: Native Instruments' emulation of Sequential
Circuits' Prophet V, the Pro 53, contributes buzzy, cutting analogue
sounds to much of the album, while Emagic's ES1 and EVP88 are used for
synth bass and wurlitzer piano sounds respectively. Also used was an Akai
S6000 hardware sampler and Emagic's ESX24 software sampler.
Bass Guitar - Whereas Tubular Bells featured the growly tones of a Fender
Precision Bass, prominent on Tubular Bells 2003 is the thicker, more
modern sound of Mike's Wal Custom bass guitar.
Electric Guitars - For the recording of this album, Mike once again used
the 1965 Fender Telecaster with which he played all of the electric
guitar parts on the original Tubular Bells. Joining the Telecaster are
Mike's usual partners in crime, the Fender Stratocaster (listed in the
booklet as a '63, but which I've seen before called a '62 - it could
realistically be either), PRS Custom and also his PRS McCarty thinline.
His PRS Custom 24 is used to play sounds from the Roland VG-8 and I
suspect also synthesised sounds like the bass in 'Introduction' and some
of the flute and whistle sounds. Some guitars were played direct through
Mike's Roland GP-8 guitar effects processor, but he also used his Fender
Twin Reverb and Mesa Boogie guitar amplifiers for when a slightly less
direct sound was called for.
Acoustic Guitars - The steel string acoustic guitars which Mike used were
a 1960 Martin 00.21 parlour guitar (which I believe is used for the
melody line in 'Peace'), a 1985 Taylor K22 (a grand concert sized guitar
with top, back and sides made of Hawaiian Koa) and an Ovation Adamas (an
electroacoustic guitar built mainly from fibreglass and carbon fibre).
Mandolin - Many of the mandolin sounds on Tubular Bells 2003 come from
Mike's Mike Vanden F5 mandolin. Some, such as those towards the end of
'Peace', are speeded up electric guitars.
Spanish Guitar - The Spanish Guitar parts come, once again, from Mike's
Ramirez 1A flamenco (1975) and 1A classical (1974) guitars.
Piltdown Man - On the original Tubular Bells, the Piltdown Man part was
created by speeding up the tape while recording, so that the pitch of
Mike's voice was lowered when it was played back. This time, the pitch
has been lowered digitally, and he has been joined by a second, more
feminine 'Piltdown Woman'. It has been said that this part is in fact
Mike's sister Sally - I'm not sure where this information came from; it
seems likely to me that it's Mike again, this time pitched upwards (all
manner of processing can be carried out on voices using modern equipment,
such as the processors from TC-Helicon, which can allow a voice to sound
higher pitched without the usual 'Mickey Mouse' type effects).
Percussion - Acoustic percussion instruments used by Mike were a
tambourine, triangle and cymbals. Electronic percussion came courtesy of
a Boss Dr Rhythm drum machine (he doesn't specify which model - Boss have
been producing drum machines in the DR series since 1979 - the original
Dr Rhythm was the analogue DR-55, the latest is the digital DR-670), and
the Roland XP50 keyboard. The drums on 'Caveman' are samples - their
fairly realistic sound could have been achieved by using the drum tracks
from the original Tubular Bells to trigger the samples (possible with
tools like Sound Replacer for Pro Tools) or simply through careful
programming.
Tubular Bells - After having synthesised/sampled bell sounds feature on
Tubular Bells 2 and 3, the real bells return for Tubular Bells 2003. Used
here is the same set (which Mike describes as being like a 'toy' set of
bells) which Mike sampled for Tubular Bells 2.
Notes on the musicians...
Sally Oldfield - After her first appearance on one of Mike's albums for
25 years, on Tres Lunas, Mike's sister Sally returned for Tubular Bells
2003, to reprise her role as vocalist on Tubular Bells.
John Cleese - Most famous for his role in the ground breaking British
comedy sketch show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (which ran between 1969
and 1974), as well as for his parts in numerous films, including 'A Fish
Called Wanda', the James Bond films 'The World is Not Enough' and 'Die
Another Day' and of course the Monty Python films. Mike had long been a
fan of the Monty Python shows and felt that Tubular Bells had a certain
Monty Python-like quality to it, with the way hugely contrasting sections
of music were juxtaposed carrying a feel of 'and now for something
completely different...'. Therefore John Cleese was, for Mike, a natural
choice as a replacement for the late Vivian Stanshall, who had
contributed the Master of Ceremonies part to the 1973 Tubular Bells.
Other notes...
Despite feeling that it was musically his best work, Mike had long been
unhappy with the quality of the 1973 recording of Tubuar Bells. The
recording had been done in a rush, with most of Part One being recorded
in a week's trial period which Mike had been allowed in The Manor studio
by Virgin boss Richard Branson. Part Two was recorded under even more
difficult conditions, with Mike being able to use the studio only in
periods when no other artists wanted it, meaning that he often could only
work for very short periods, or late at night. Despite the fact that the
album went on to become a huge selling, classic recording, Mike later
complained that the whole thing sounded out of tune, with there having
not even been time to tune the guitars, and that he felt the performances
were rushed and out of time. The desire to perfect Tubular Bells may be
partly what drove Mike to create Tubular Bells II (1992) and III (1998),
but he wasn't able to re-record the original Tubular Bells due to a
clause in his contract with Virgin which prevented him from re-recording
the album for 25 years after the release of the original album. Come the
30th anniversary in 2003, with the contract recently expired, Mike felt
that the time was right to revisit the work and finally do what he wanted
with it.
The album was initially recorded into Logic Audio Platinum (v5.3.0)
running on a Dual 1GHz Powermac G4 (mirrored drive door model with 1.25
GB RAM, running OS 9 - Mike says 9.4, which doesn't exist; the latest is
9.2.2), with Digidesign Pro Tools (v5.3.1) being used for various pieces
of editing, and to provide the half-speed recording capability needed to
create the double speed guitars which were very much a feature of the
original Tubular Bells. Material was then transferred to a Fairlight
Merlin hard disk recorder, from which tracks were mixed down, via Mike's
Neve Capricorn digital mixing desk.
The track titles are simply Mike's working titles for the sections they
refer to. The division of the album into tracks was done as a result of
popular demand rather than any particular desire of Mike's, and as a
result Mike chose not to spend any further time thinking up new names for
all the sections.
-- Richard Carter / http://www.rcarter.34sp.com/oldfield/
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