Ommadawn Music Cd

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn

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Ommadawn      Artist : Mike Oldfield      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $10.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2000-07-11      Studio : Blue Plate Caroline      Label : Blue Plate Caroline      Avg. Customer Rating : (49 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Ommadawn      I'd Rather Be With You Than Flying Through Space.      Rating:       Mike Oldfield's third studio recording marks the end of the most creative phase of his career. "Tubular Bells" explored an aggressive and improvised world of chaos and turmoil. "Hergest Ridge" presented listeners with the genteel and serene flip side of that world. "Ommadawn" is a step outward into a much larger and all encompassing world. It combines both the energy and serenity of his first two albums, but importantly expresses itself through shifting ethnic backdrops. Oldfield is for the first time acknowledging and utilising a `world music' ethic, with Celtic influences sitting comfortably with African influences. Many critics have seen the explosive finale to Side One as representing some form of cathartic rebirth for Oldfield, and certainly post "Ommadawn" he would enter into controversial therapies and emerge a new man in late 1978 when he returned with his fourth album "Incantations". Rather than a rebirth, "Ommadawn" almost feels like a death. Oldfield would never recapture the simple beauty and resonance of this album. Certainly he would go on to produce fine works (Incantations, Amarok, Voyager), but "Ommadawn" feels like the thematic culmination of something far grander and important, something which can only be understood with the support of his first two albums. The sense of an end is further confirmed by "Ommadawn" being Oldfield's final album in the serene countryside of Herefordshire. Although Oldfield's albums tended to veer towards adjectives such as complex and progressive, there is still an essential child-like naivety, purity and innocence to "Ommadawn", best exemplified by the sheer playfulness of certain parts and of the beautiful folk ditty "On Horseback". On the front cover a sombre Oldfield stares out through a rainy window, there is a sense of passing, of moving on, of facing an uncertain future, and with "Ommadawn" Oldfield finally broke free from the insecurities of the past.     Customer Reviews for Ommadawn Cd      Ommadawn is musically perfect- Utter Perfection      Rating:      I simply adore Ommadawn. I have listened to it innumerable times over almost twenty years. Not only do I never tire of this wondrous creation, I find the occasional moment when I hear something within it I did not hear before. If a day comes when I feel beaten down or depressed, I can listen to the music of Mike Oldfield and bask in the joy of knowing I lived at a time in history when one of humanity's finest musicians lived, and I can find unexpressable hope in knowing I might one day be able to hear this man in person. Imagine this- Having the profound privelige of seeing Mike Oldfield perform live, and then being cryogenically frozen for thousands of years. The people of that future day will see you as amazing simply because you were afforded that opportunity. People will want to know you, and they will want to touch you. Man, imagine the babes...