23-04-2020, 17:48
Today, I have been listening to Mike Oldfield's The Songs of Distant Earth, which I listened to yesterday as well,
and Spiral and Opéra Sauvage - Vangelis
Spiral was released only two years before China, which IMHO is far more evolved, I think. OS was also made in 1979 and is a lot warmer and more rounded than Spiral. In any event, there are always one or two superior tracks on his earlier albums which I suppose is why they generally end up on the compilations, in this instance "To the Unknown Man" and "Hymne" respectively. This time around, what caught my ear were "Ballade" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGShM5JlVyQ, and "Chromatique" (which it is) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QjJHClRr9g, once again respectively.
In the case of Oldfield - it's difficult to post just one track because they flow into one another - it would probably be this one though ...
and Spiral and Opéra Sauvage - Vangelis
Spiral was released only two years before China, which IMHO is far more evolved, I think. OS was also made in 1979 and is a lot warmer and more rounded than Spiral. In any event, there are always one or two superior tracks on his earlier albums which I suppose is why they generally end up on the compilations, in this instance "To the Unknown Man" and "Hymne" respectively. This time around, what caught my ear were "Ballade" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGShM5JlVyQ, and "Chromatique" (which it is) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QjJHClRr9g, once again respectively.
In the case of Oldfield - it's difficult to post just one track because they flow into one another - it would probably be this one though ...
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