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		The album sounds cleaner and smoother around the edges than the original mix, and the bells at the end of side one had apparently been re-recorded as they now actually were in tune.
		His later albums consisted mostly of disposable pop-tunes with one or two half-hearted "epics" thrown in as an attempt to still keep his old fans interested, and this trend started actually with "Platinum" that was released already later in '79.
		After one album and a compilation of singles, the four-piece band were reduced to a trio consisting of keyboardist Toni Pagliuca, drummer Michi Dei Rossi and singer, bassist and guitarist Aldo Tagliapietra.
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	Amadian - The Mike Oldfield Secrets
		Hergest Ridge is a hill on the border of Wales and Herefordshire in England.
		Hergest Ridge you can hear a different mix of the recording different from what you can hear in later and present editions, that pressing is known today as the original mix.
		Hergest Ridge were used in Roger Vadim's film La Jeune Fille Assassinee (The Murdered Young Girl).
	www.amadian.net /secrets.htm (1416 words)

	Mike Oldfield - Tubular.net - FAQ
		The version of Orchestral Hergest Ridge on Side 1 includes 2 minutes of Part 1 and most of Part 2, with the Martian Song (also known as the "thunderstorm"), spliced in from the original album version.
		Hergest Ridge on early LPs is the original mix, some Hergest Ridge LPs pressed after 1976 and all the Hergest Ridge CDs contain the Boxed remix (see 2.12).
		Now, we can argue whether Hergest Ridge is too repetitive or not, but the original mix fans should note that the parts that were deleted were only added for commercial reasons, not because Mike thought they should be there.
	tubular.net /faq (13165 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Hergest Ridge: Music: Mike Oldfield (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I admit though that, perhaps because my original introduction to Hergest Ridge was from the later version, my perspective could equally be as skewed as the older listeners.
		Hergest Ridge represents Mike trying to cope with the fame that came with Tubular Bells, therefore it has a kind of gentle side and a harder side (particularly the sped up guitar in pt 2).
		I used to love this album, but hearing the CD it sounds to me like someone forgot to plug in one of the stereo channels when mixing it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Hergest-Ridge-Mike-Oldfield/dp/B00004T9AG (1018 words)

	Hergest Ridge (album) at AllExperts
		Hergest Ridge, named for a hill on the border of Herefordshire and Wales near where he was living at the time, was the result.
		Hergest Ridge was the number one album the week of 14 September 1974 and remained so for three weeks until being knocked out of the spot by its predecessor Tubular Bells.
		Hergest Ridge is a popular vacation destination for Oldfield's fans, and the house where he lived at the time, The Beacon, is now a guest house.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/he/hergest_ridge_(album).htm (612 words)

	Hergest Ridge - Mike Oldfield, Music Downloads - Online
		Review: Released as another lengthy composition, Hergest Ridge was the album that followed Mike Oldfield's momentous Tubular Bells release, with many of the same instrumental elements and methods employed throughout its two sections.
		Symphonic throughout most of the album's two parts, the highlight of Hergest Ridge is Oldfield's use of 90 multi-tracked guitars which are clustered together to create one of the most unique sounds ever to surface on his albums.
		The album was highly regarded in the U.K. upon its release and it continues Oldfield's creativity, proving that the genius put forth on his claim-to-fame album would indeed have some effect on works to come.
	musicstore.connect.com /album/720/Mike-Oldfield/Hergest-Ridge/500000000000020332977.html (186 words)

	The Daily Vault Album Reviews : Hergest Ridge
		For Oldfield, the solution was rather simple: keep the concept of one song on the album, but make the overall feel of the piece more gentle, as if you can feel the spring breezes while looking over the countryside on a cliff.
		In fact, Hergest Ridge is a very relaxing disc to listen to, and is one I've occasionally turned to in order to relieve the stresses of the day.
		Hergest Ridge is not an album you'll easily find, but it is most definitely worth the search.
	www.dailyvault.com /toc.php5?review=3789 (531 words)

	Intuitive Music » Blog Archive » 20th Anniversary of Mike Oldfield’s “Hergest Ridge”
		“Hergest Ridge” was one of the most experimental Rock albums from the 70’s, which featured big doses of sound experimentation influenced by concrete music, like Mike Oldfield climbing on the lid of the piano to get the kind of echo/reverb effect from the resonance of the piano strings.
		“Tubular Bells” and “Hergest Ridge” were premiered with a Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1974 and Steve Hillage replaced Mike Oldfield on guitar due to ‘illness’ (it was later known that Mike Oldfield suffered from stage fright).
		In 1976 “Hergest Ridge” was remixed in quadraphonic sound by Mike Oldfield for the release of Virgin 4 LP set ‘Boxed’ which was used for all future releases of the album.
	www.intuitivemusic.com /20th-anniversary-of-mike-oldfields-hergest-ridge (310 words)

	Amazon.com: Hergest Ridge: Music: Mike Oldfield (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Writing 'Hergest Ridge', he seems to have paid more attention to using chord sequences as a mode for the progression of the long piece, and since he succeeds very well it gives the listener the sense that this is better written than its predecessor.
		The album reached number one in the UK album charts when it was released but, a week later, was displaced by its predecessor, which had spent almost year climbing up the charts.
		Hergest Ridge is nowadays totally overshadowed by Tubular Bells, which is a shame because it's my favourite Oldfield album.
	www.amazon.com /Hergest-Ridge-Mike-Oldfield/dp/B00004T9AG (1696 words)

	Ground and Sky review - Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
		The music continues sedately, and this would be one of the ultimate albums to go to sleep by at night, were it not for the fact that the mood is shattered part way through the second half with what is often referred to as the "storm" section.
		Normally a louder section on an otherwise quiet album would serve as a wonderful release, but here the music is poor; and rather than being a liberating part of the album, it is just plain irritating.
		Mike Oldfield's first three albums are considered his classic trilogy, and for me this album deserves its place there, even if I consider it to be the least of the three.
	www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=mo-hr (410 words)

	Mike Oldfield's Albums
		Hergest Ridge is on the border of Wales and Herefordshire in England, just south of Kington and near Offa's Dyke.
		In addition to the album Hergest Ridge, mention is also made in the song "On Horseback" at the end of Ommadawn.
		This is the first MO album not to include a side-long composition.
	www.toucansolutions.com /oldfield/albums1.htm (1286 words)

	Hergest Ridge
		In common with many people, I suspect, the first time I heard of Hergest Ridge was in the mid-70s, when Mike Oldfield released his second album bearing the name of this whalebacked hill on the Herefordshire - Radnorshire border (the first, I hardly need add, was Tubular Bells).
		Curiously, it was the album "Ommadawn" released the following year that contained the song "On Horseback", which suggests "...if you you feel a little glum, To Hergest Ridge you should come".
		Offa's Dyke path runs the length of the ridge - there is no problem with pathfinding - and leads inexorably over the Welsh border and down into the little village of Gladestry and the Royal Oak.
	www.geoffspages.co.uk /camerawalks/hergestridge/index.htm (467 words)

	Hergest Ridge
		Most often seen playing the bassoon and oboe, although she also plays piano, flute and saxophone (and not to be confused with the male Lindsay Cooper who played double bass on Tubular Bells).
		The album was recorded mostly at The Manor, although Tom Newman seemed to recall (in an interview with David Porter) having done some sessions at Chipping Norton studios as well.
		Tom also said that the album was mixed at Air studios in London.
	www.rcarter.34sp.com /oldfield/hergestridge.html (1162 words)

	Mike Oldfield, Hergest Ridge, And...
		Note: the three photos of Hergest Ridge on this page were randomly selected from a collection of more than seventy.
		But Oldfield's album that really blew me away was Hergest Ridge (the original mix; the remix that appeared in the Boxed set and all CD's is a disaster.) That rendition was an intensely pastoral work.
		At the time I was living out in central Texas (for some idea of that, click here.) I was surrounded by and lived in a bucolic rural environment.
	www.vulcanhammer.org /unusual/oldfield (1059 words)

	nan magazine » Archive » Stage 1: Hergest Ridge, the great stranger
		The third phase is formed by new-age albums, made with excellent production, but mostly flavourless and uninspired.
		”, the album that means the beginning of his second music stage.
		It´s a hilly ridge which Mike saw from his house at the time he was writing this album.
	www.envelooponline.com /nan/archives/stage-1-hergest-ridge-the-great-stranger/trackback (558 words)

	Mike Oldfield - Sitemap/Seitenübersicht
		· Highlights From The Album The Songs Of Distant Earth
		Was hat es mit dem Titel "Sally" auf dem Album "Platinum" auf sich?
		Weshalb wird im Booklet von "Earth Moving" einigen Sängern, die nicht auf dem Album zu hören sind, gedankt?
	www.tubular-world.com /sitemap (850 words)

	HERGEST RIDGE
		he rises from the mist, this belle, and has a different tale to tell, emerging from the the rills and ridges to share with us her humble riches.
		More pastoral in tone than her piebald predecessor, a simpler patchwork and perhaps the lesser of the two, the first work having grew from such a tempest of expression, while Hergest here is glimpsed in logical succession.
		It’s interesting that, after such a tubular design, a second album doesn’t dare entwine too many bits and pieces, fearful of a work that rises and surceases Oldfield here is on a simpler path, his waterfall of inspiration channeled into one warm bath.
	www.connollyco.com /discography/mike_oldfield/hergest.html (207 words)

	Mike Oldfield (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ridge, was No 1 in the UK for three weeks before
		Ridge took the form of a two-movement instrumental
		A double album, "Light and Shade" is being made
	www.famouspeople.infolook.org /music/mike-oldfield (600 words)

	SongBook \| Hergest Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His first album after the seminal Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge dips into decidedly Celtic waters.
		The best thing about this epic two-part composition is that it really does take one on a journey - the main themes and motifs are developed, come to a climax, and then put on the back burner while other themes come to the fore, and everything reappears toward the end for a surprisingly laid-back summation.
		There really aren't any drawbacks; this kind of longform composition has fallen into disuse these days, so those looking for convenient places to take a break may be a little put off by the length of the tracks.
	www.thelogbook.com /disc/2006/b.htm (244 words)

	HERGEST RIDGE
		Both sleeve and vinyl are in shop bought MINT condition with the exception of a small deletion sawcut to the sleeve.
		MIKE OLDFIELD Hergest Ridge (First issue Japanese 2-track vinyl LP with 'two virgins' label, housed in a full colour pasted picture sleeve including Japanese biography insert and wide picture obi-strip - vinyl is in stunning MINT condition!
		MIKE OLDFIELD Hergest Ridge (Late 1970s US Virgin issue of the 1974 2-track vinyl LP, housed in a full colour picture sleeve which has a small deletion notch cut in the bottom edge, however this copy is still factory sealed from new and is theref ore unplayed!) -
	eil.com /shop/extsearch.asp?disctitle=hergest-ridge (636 words)

	Mike Oldfield - Tubular.net - Articles & Interviews
		You have also access to a classification by albums, in another table at the end of this page.
		As Mike Oldfield Releases A New Album, An Astonishingly Frank Confession (1998)
		Beyond the Ridge: Portrait of a Genius (1975)
	tubular.net /articles (906 words)

	Mike Oldfield - Incantations Bio
		Oldfield completed work on the 'Hergest Ridge' album released in August 1974.
		It was completed and released in October 1975 to a euphorically enthusiastic response and was followed by a top five single 'In Dulci Jubilo'.
		A boxed set consisting of remixed and reconsidered versions of hs three albums, plus a compliation of of fragments of old and new, was released in October 1976, entitled 'Boxed'.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/queen/548/oldbioinc.htm (441 words)

	AMAROK - Mike Oldfield Discography: Hergest Ridge
		Hergest Ridge was recorded at the Manor during Spring 1974.
		Although not labelled as a remix, most vinyl pressings of Hergest Ridge after 1976 (and all CDs) contain this remix.
		Again, this CD features the Boxed remix of Hergest Ridge.
	amarok.ommadawn.net /mike/discog/hergestridge.htm (145 words)

	+Mike Oldfield CLub © ++Mike Oldfield (Site not responding. Last check: )
		'Tubular Bells' spent over 5 years in both the UK and US album charts, and it has so far sell over 16 million copies.
		Only his second album, 'Hergest Ridge' managed to knock 'Tubular Bells' off the UK top spot.
		Mike is one of only 3 artists to have knocked themselves off the #1 spot, the others being the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
	www.freewebs.com /artinhaventree/mikeoldfield.htm (108 words)

	Hergest Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most fans agree that the original is a lot more interesting, however this doesn't seem to be Mike's opinion.
		He remixed HR for Boxed and is happy with the result, so much that all CD releases of Hergest Ridge are that mix.
		This is what Mike said about it: "The main intention was to cut down on what I thought had been unnecessary trimmings and in some cases like the snare drum, erase them entirely.
	webs.advance.com.ar /gbuela/hr.htm (494 words)

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	Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge - swisscharts.com
		Einer seiner bekanntesten Langspielplatten heißt Hergest Ridge“, wobei Mike Oldfield fast sämtliche Instrumente spielt., von Gitarre, Mandoline, Orgel und Oboe bis zum Glockenspiel.
		Die Musik von Hergest Ridge ergießt sich uferlos zwischen kosmischen Klängen und Hirtenliedern, ruhig und etwas nachdenklich, auf melodisch stark ausgeprägten Gitarrenlinien getragen, Engelchöre und rieselnde Streicherdünen.
		Jede Seite von Hergest Ridge“ enthält eine Nummer, eine Komposition aus tausend und einem Motiv, die organisch und ohne stilistische Brüche verschmolzen sind.
	www.swisscharts.com /showitem.asp?key=6175&cat=a (292 words)

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