This Ommadawn album has something special. It is extremely beautiful but also sounds transcendental. Mike was in a sweet mood. Inspired, confident, peaceful, in harmony. Like connected with God.
I am not amazed that Mike Oldfield´s music has been amongst the greatest, continuous and most present joys in my life, and my family´s. I am not amazed at how many others around the world feel the same way. However, I never cease to be amazed at how utterly beautiful his music is. Thank you and God bless!
I have loved his music since I was 14, I bought Tubular Bells out of my paper money and it hit me for six, I didn't listen to anything other than Mike's music for years. I'm still a fan at 57.
Hello. I've just today discovered your Oldfield acoustic covers on YT. Very impressive, both your playing and the fact that the pieces were originally written by a kid in his teens. I'm also 57 years old and feel exactly the same about Oldfield's music, forty years after first hearing it. (Which part of Wales are you in, BTW if I may ask?).
Ageless, immortal music. He is a genius. I wish Ant Phillips was as determined as Mike, in promoting his music, so similar in taste and intricate delicacy ❤️❤️
Fortunately, Mike had great people around him that believed in his work, and contributed their skills to it. His music may have helped Virgin travel all the way to outer space, but for most of us it was a vehicle to travel inward.
I remember this programme being broadcast on TV in my teens, probably in the late 70s. MO is surely a genius composer and performer. I have always been a big fan as Tubular Bells was the first audiotape I ever bought just after seeing it performed live in concert (I think on BBC2). Each of his albums has brought something different and inspiring. It's very unlikely that there will ever be anyone quite so unique and gifted as a musician and multi-instrumentalist. Jeff Lynne has the same distinction, but in a far more popular and mainstream form of music. MO has his own individual and particular niche, but somehow appreciated just as widely. That's quite a feat to achieve!
Very interesting that in this video Branson almost seems proud of Mike for going about music on his own way without limitations. Later for decades they would split up because he pressured Mike to change his formula. Irony. On a better note, Mike is back signed to Virgin label.
@@MichelLinschoten There's an interview with Mike, in which he also acknowledges that there would be no Tubular Bells without Virgin records. None of the other labels around, wanted to take a risk on it. So very much a mutual benefit.
fantastic music.. I listened to it so many times when I was 18 and I stil like it. He maintained his personal integrity that lead to beauties from himself
The last 15 mins of Amarok is almost mind blowing, the dynamics in the volume levels almost exploded my speakers with how loud it gets. Such a powerful climax it made my stomach do flip-flops.
A raw artist. I can feel his need to just be in his studio creating doesn't seem like he wanted to be bothered at all by the fame and politics , just leave me be and let me be as natural as God wants. nowadays talent is a archaeologist job , you have to find new things or else youll think there was nothing good out there
Yea some good points about the music that was is not now but some people like me are still working on it hide a lot of it because its the art of our homes that we do want to give that to you guys but it is not all about that. We still can walk away in different ways until we create something very different and has to do with rock music points
I'd put his Amarok into my top 100 Albums. He can Play, and he can Produce and Mix, he is like a more Melodic/happy Robert Fripp with the trance like repetition and odd times and has no boundaries when it comes to making soundscapes. "We got a sloppy, dirty looking generation", so true, when you look at the 70's there is almost grease on everyone and dust in their cloths, unkept hair and no grooming. We still have that but it was across the board in the early 70's. (though wearing torn jeans or a shredded Tshirt was still a sign you were really poor not a fashion statement).
I'm a huge MO fan, but even I can't go along with the notion that he's the best bass player. His bass playing fitted into, and was a facet of, a much greater talent.
I can't describe, unless I write a book, just how much Mike's music means to me. It is the background of my life. Thank you Mike.
Same here
Totally agree me to 👍
Wow, we should meet. You in U.K.?
Mike oldfield is a genius in the true sense of the word. Numero uno!
Ommadawn best imaginative piece of music ever composed 🤯🥰
Grande Oldfield un vero innovato
Innovatore
This Ommadawn album has something special. It is extremely beautiful but also sounds transcendental. Mike was in a sweet mood. Inspired, confident, peaceful, in harmony. Like connected with God.
I am not amazed that Mike Oldfield´s music has been amongst the greatest, continuous and most present joys in my life, and my family´s. I am not amazed at how many others around the world feel the same way. However, I never cease to be amazed at how utterly beautiful his music is. Thank you and God bless!
fantastic moment in the time
Imagine had Mike Oldfield been a scientist - he probably would have invented the warp drive or something.
ALL SCIENTISTS WHANT TO BECOME MUSICIANS WHEN THEY GROW UP
I have loved his music since I was 14, I bought Tubular Bells out of my paper money and it hit me for six, I didn't listen to anything other than Mike's music for years. I'm still a fan at 57.
Hello. I've just today discovered your Oldfield acoustic covers on YT. Very impressive, both your playing and the fact that the pieces were originally written by a kid in his teens. I'm also 57 years old and feel exactly the same about Oldfield's music, forty years after first hearing it. (Which part of Wales are you in, BTW if I may ask?).
I was eleven in 1973 I've been Mike Oldfield fan ever since tubular bells.
Ageless, immortal music. He is a genius. I wish Ant Phillips was as determined as Mike, in promoting his music, so similar in taste and intricate delicacy ❤️❤️
Couldn't agree more
Mike marched to the beat of a different drum, which I like a lot
Tubular Bells, for sure : a portal to another world.
Mike's best work. The guitar at the end of part one is spine tingling. Genius.
He's the truest musician I've ever heard, and I've heard a lot
Ommadawn, eines der emotionalsten Werke von Mike Oldfield überhaupt!
Wonderful Song
One of the few original geniuses in popular music.
Poland Love Mike Oldfield ;-)
Beautiful Man . . . xxx
Fortunately, Mike had great people around him that believed in his work, and contributed their skills to it. His music may have helped Virgin travel all the way to outer space, but for most of us it was a vehicle to travel inward.
I guess you were around at the time of this video, right?
almost everyone l showed this video to bought this album on CD. lol.
just ... pure... brilliance ...
He was very shy in that time,i love his studio quality,i experiment with sounds to
I remember this programme being broadcast on TV in my teens, probably in the late 70s. MO is surely a genius composer and performer. I have always been a big fan as Tubular Bells was the first audiotape I ever bought just after seeing it performed live in concert (I think on BBC2). Each of his albums has brought something different and inspiring. It's very unlikely that there will ever be anyone quite so unique and gifted as a musician and multi-instrumentalist. Jeff Lynne has the same distinction, but in a far more popular and mainstream form of music. MO has his own individual and particular niche, but somehow appreciated just as widely. That's quite a feat to achieve!
Steve Hillage ... under-rated
Very interesting that in this video Branson almost seems proud of Mike for going about music on his own way without limitations. Later for decades they would split up because he pressured Mike to change his formula. Irony. On a better note, Mike is back signed to Virgin label.
And with new music called "Return to Ommadawn" ;)
Virgin would not even exist without Oldfield...
@@MichelLinschoten There's an interview with Mike, in which he also acknowledges that there would be no Tubular Bells without Virgin records. None of the other labels around, wanted to take a risk on it. So very much a mutual benefit.
Btw, I see a Tangerine Dream poster behind Branson at 2:52 😉
Merci Mike!
Extraordinary man . . .
A masterpiece.
So Glad he is back
Wow. Love that guy.
I love this man.
fantastic music.. I listened to it so many times when I was 18 and I stil like it. He maintained his personal integrity that lead to beauties from himself
LEGEND!!!!!!!!
extraordinary talent and exceptional great post!
Great video. Ommadawn is my favourite M.O. album.
Mine too.
inspirational as always mike!
que genio, que genial poder tener exceso a estos film documentales!!
His finest work along with Amarok and The music of the Spheres. Organic real soundscapes. Check them out. The man is a genius.
The last 15 mins of Amarok is almost mind blowing, the dynamics in the volume levels almost exploded my speakers with how loud it gets. Such a powerful climax it made my stomach do flip-flops.
Such an awesome creative talent. That is what genius looks like.
cannot wait for Return to Ommadawn either!!!!
It is really good!
05:40 ❤️
his crayon drawn score looks just like pro tools now
Shows how much ahead of the time he already was back then. Genius.
wow, awesome!! Thanks for putting up this video!
...we are all Gods creations....the brilliance within.... comes from a brilliant source.....
A raw artist. I can feel his need to just be in his studio creating doesn't seem like he wanted to be bothered at all by the fame and politics , just leave me be and let me be as natural as God wants. nowadays talent is a archaeologist job , you have to find new things or else youll think there was nothing good out there
The World of Music takes Ommadawn. The key resonates at such forté.
Thank you so much for uploading!
Mike Olfield : The Great Unpretender.
I understand hid Depression ... and his introversion... I too want to be a sole player
the brother is from another dimension
Yea some good points about the music that was is not now but some people like me are still working on it hide a lot of it because its the art of our homes that we do want to give that to you guys but it is not all about that. We still can walk away in different ways until we create something very different and has to do with rock music points
Yes
5:40, basic chords of The Lake from Discovery album, 11 years later.
in other rythm
This is actually from 1975, so 9 years. Good catch though.
I'd put his Amarok into my top 100 Albums.
He can Play, and he can Produce and Mix, he is like a more Melodic/happy Robert Fripp with the trance like repetition and odd times and has no boundaries when it comes to making soundscapes.
"We got a sloppy, dirty looking generation", so true, when you look at the 70's there is almost grease on everyone and dust in their cloths, unkept hair and no grooming. We still have that but it was across the board in the early 70's. (though wearing torn jeans or a shredded Tshirt was still a sign you were really poor not a fashion statement).
1:23, the sign of a real entrepreneur (or wannabe) of the time - four phones on the desk!
genius!
Robert Fripp and Thomas Dolby must have been listening.
Pity this wasn’t On The ommadawn deluxe version dvd...
If it's not genius....genius doesn't exist
Can anyone else hear some 'Discovery' in the bit he plays at 5:40 ?
+Lane Cruiser Hey, you're right :) It's the end of The Lake. I love that part.
yes, spot on, well spotted
6:29 that is the Ommadawn "lost version"
The classic Branson lispy voice wasn't yet perfected in 1975.
i wonder how manny record company,s went fuck when tubular bels sold so manny coppy,s
its like turning down jk rowling's first harry potter book :P
This Bass section on 3:00 is so unique. 'Mike is definetly the best bass Player worldwide. Name a better one if you can.
John Wetton
I'm a huge MO fan, but even I can't go along with the notion that he's the best bass player. His bass playing fitted into, and was a facet of, a much greater talent.
Ryan martinie.
My God field 😇
I wonder if the duck pond ever got finished!
wow o_O 5:39
The scene at 13:40 with Mike looking over the hills, is that Hergest Ridge?
Yep
Hanter, Worzel and Stanner hills, from left to right. Hergest Ridge is just to the left of Hanter, only a bit visible.
Those edits at the end though, sheesh. Palmer, why didn’t you just start later in the piece?
1975?
3.20 Fred Frith?
Yep, Fred Frith at 3:20, Steve Hillage in the blue hat at 3:30
I can't pretend...
It's making an exhibition of myself.
Who's the guitarist at 3:06 with the blue hat?
Steve Hillage from Gong
Steve Hillage
Oldfield was just too genuine to sell his soul to the bullshit industry, the poor lad showed that genius and madness often tread the same path
Lester Bangs so full of psychotic reaction and carburetor dung. LOL
What console is that? Neve?
... let's talk sometime ... Harmony Git ... Lyrik ;)
An Ceól: Daidi i leaba ált'
É an cat na lág a tog na ólt'
Ta me an Amadán le Ceól
Amadán le Ceól
Liked his ciggies for sure ?!!!!
One after another...what if that was weed instead of tobacco? What would have "Ommadawn" turned into? Something trippy AF probably.
Its funny how his music encapsulates the world, while he lives at a sheep farm out in nowhere.
chain smoking
"Abyul Annie Id Yadored
En Yab Na Logga Toch No Awed
Tor May On Ommadawn Egg Kyowl
Ommadawn Egg Kyowl Aaahhheeaahh Kyowl"
Here it is in the correct Gaelic:
An Ceól: Daidi i leaba ált'
É an cat na lág a tog na ólt'
Ta me an Amadán le Ceól
Amadán le Ceól
"... their music may not be as yet that sophisticated" - oh shut up Branson.