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	Platinum (album) Information
		It was his fifth new album and the first to feature "regular" songs and cover material.
		However, it was removed from the album (possibly on the orders of Richard Branson) and replaced with "Into Wonderland", sung by Wendy Roberts.
		Airborn is the title of an alternate version of the album released in the United States in 1980.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Platinum_(album) (479 words)

	Incantations (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Incantations is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield.
		It was his desire to create an album that would make use of a small orchestra, and some of his own statements indicate that he may have moved into his new house simply because it had room for one.
		It was during the creation of Incantations that Mike Oldfield underwent the assertiveness training course "Exegesis", and between the earlier parts and the later parts of the album there is a definite difference in style, possibly due to the course.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Incantations_(album) (529 words)

	Music: Mike Oldfield, Incantations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Incantations sounds and feels like it was designed for live playing.
		Some people might describe this album as a musical landscape, full of hills and valleys and streams, with choral singers lurking in the background, through which the listener travels on a horse-drawn carriage.
		It's really two different albums (which is cunning, cause it's a double LP) the first being a ride through the countryside and the second being where we find a town in the middle of a festival.
	music.tetrap.com /items/1008.html (80 words)

	Incantations Music at Shop Ireland
		On a grander scale than anything that went before in his Canon, it's not an easy album, but the use, repetition and development of themes is on a scale not attempted by any "pop" or "rock" act before or since.
		At double the length of his previous works, the album rarely gets tedious (though that long recital of Hiawatha is a bit tiresome) despite Mike's intentions of making a 'deliberately boring album' just to get honest criticism for once.
		The highlight of the album has to be the closing five minutes (as used on the "Complete", "Essential" and "Elements" collections) which, in my opinion, is best experienced on the double live album "Exposed" as the atmos of the music is a lot more vibrant.
	www.shopireland.ie /music/reviews/B00004T9AJ (497 words)

	Incantation (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An incantation is a formula of words sung or spoken during a ceremony or ritual.
		Incantation (musical group), a group of South American tribal music performers
		Incantations (album), a 1978 music album by Mike Oldfield
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Incantation_(disambiguation) (134 words)

	-=Symphony X-Official Website=- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Whether the Kansas-like "Accolades II," the silver screen elements of "Incantations Of The Apprentice," or the vastness of the closing, title track, The Odyssey is a release that will surely be spoken of in reverent tones for years to come.
		It wasn't that it was a good song or a bad song but then as were looking at the album and how we'd set it up, that song didn't fit, so we listen to record, find the right order, find the right flow and if something doesn't work, we won't use it.
		I think me and Pinella were working on some things and we started to talk about the last album and how we had a lot of fun using the same melody over, playing the melody backwards, in different keys, different time signatures, really working the variations.
	www.symphonyx.com /int-4.html (1633 words)

	Symphony X - The Odyssey
		The timing alterations that Symphony X used on the verses of Accolade II are actually annoying when you have heard the original song, as the chorus seemed to sound the best on the original version of the song with their original timing.
		The song is the weakest on the album and hence warranted not necessarily having the most relevant introduction to my discussion about it.
		The Odyssey is in less ornate than the album before it, (V), and less ornate than other earlier albums, and the songs are generally simpler.
	www.geocities.com /rfmd2k/syxodyssey.html (1525 words)

	Mike Oldfield - Tubular.net - Incantations
		Mike's main reason for choosing the guitar was its neck, because of both the feel and the fact that the intonation was accurate right the way up to the 24th fret.
		The single 'Guilty' which was released shortly after Incantations, and uses themes from the album, seems to reflect the philosophy of responsibility that Exegesis professed - the idea that Mike was guilty of causing his problems, rather than anyone else.
		Incantations was released as a double LP and at just over 72 minutes is the longest album Mike has ever released.
	tubular.net /discography/Incantations.shtml (1271 words)

	Orchestral Tubular Bells - Platinum
		Incantations is a vast fractal of an album; very carefully considered with impecabble instrumentation but surprisingly simple in that the whole thing is based on that chord of stacked 5ths which is the very first thing that you hear at the start of the album.
		Incantations parts 3 and 4 are the highlights and a with the crystal clear sound of the glockenspiel and xylophone sounding great in the dark.
		Incantations done live is pretty but weaker than the original, and too many great parts of the original are omitted here, so that a four-sided LP fits onto just two sides.
	www.toucansolutions.com /oldfield/opinion2.htm (16776 words)

	AMAROK - Mike Oldfield Discography: Incantations
		Incantations was recorded between December 1977 and September 1978.
		Incantations was originally recorded with a quadrophonic mix in mind, but the finished album was mixed down into stereo by Philip Newell, as Quadrophonic sound had become unfashionable by this time.
		Parts of this album were mixed with the live version from Exposed, to create a unique track on Airborn.
	amarok.ommadawn.net /mike/discog/incantations.htm (197 words)

	1973 at progressiverock.com
		The album was released later in 1972, concurrent with the deployment of a giant magnetic stroboscope in Imola used to study the effects of the internal combustion engine.
		The album was a break with tradition and subsequent recordings would also tread different ground with each release, and keep the band employed until the end of the decade.
		Their next album, IV, was recorded under the auspices of the Manor studio and is a far enough departure from the avant-garde of their earlier efforts to warrant inclusion here.
	www.progressiverock.com /timeline.asp?sYear=1973 (7597 words)

	pale stars » Incantations
		Mike Oldfield’s guitar work is far less in evidence on Incantations than on his previous three albums, especially in Parts 1 & 2, but comes to the fore in Part 3 (the darkest “movement” of this “symphony”) where he easily pulls off some of the most blistering and technically accomplished guitar solos ever performed.
		While I find the whole of this album breathtaking (especially the Jonathan Livingstone Seagull flute work at the end of Part 1), the ultimate highlight for me is Part 4.
		This is not to knock his later works—many of which are stunning—but, even if he had never released another album, his place in musical history was already assured with these first four, and his ticket to Heaven was paid for in full with Incantations.
	www.palestars.com /?p=6 (1005 words)

	AMAROK - Mike Oldfield Discography: Rare Tracks Part 1
		The album was originally conceived and recorded in Quadrophonic sound, and a mix of the album in this format was prepared.
		This instrumental, written by Bernie Leadon for the Eagles album One Of These Nights, was used as the theme music for the BBC radio series The Hitch-Hikers' Guide To The Galaxy.
		A photograph of Simon Phillips' handwritten notes on the Discovery album sleeve indicates that there are several unreleased tracks from these sessions.
	amarok.ommadawn.net /mike/discog/extras/raretracks.htm (1582 words)

	MIKE OLDFIELD Incantations reviews and MP3
		I love his four first studio cd to death, but "Incantation" is just the peek of his carreer, a masterpiece, and my favorite cd ever after foxtrot and thick as a brick.
		For those who likes the first three albums and likes to be immerge by the beauty of the music, I highly recommend this masterpiece who makes me dream each time.
		But the album improves very much in the parts 3 and 4, with outstanding guitar solos (the long one at the beginning of the part 3 it's simply amazing...) and with melodies very much dinamic and variated, being great the participation of Gong's Pierre Moerlen at the vibraphone...
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=4895 (1981 words)

	MSJ-Mike Oldfield-Incantations
		The instrumentalists on this album are Mike Oldfield; Mike Laird, trumpet; Pierre Moerlin, drums and vibraphone; Maddy Prior, Sally Oldfield, the Queens College Girls Choir, voices; Sebastian Bell and Terry Oldfield on flutes, and Jabula on African drums.
		The second half is the hardest thing on the album, though nothing like his "Piltdown Man" bit from "Tubular Bells." The melodies in this section are quite simple.
		A harder variation of the "Hiawatha" theme appears, and then back to the 11/8 (like a musical tug-of-war) before ending with the melody used in the "Hiawatha" excerpt, this time with a different marimba counter-melody, and Maddy Prior reappears to sing the coda.
	msj.www.50megs.com /oldfield.htm (519 words)

	Incantations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Incantations don't use spell slots, you don't have to prepare them ahead of time,...
		Incantations is a rare gem in Mike's output.
		Incantations is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield.
	blackwitchcraft.featwitch.com /incantations (505 words)

	Amazon.com: Incantations: Music: Mike Oldfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Whole album sounds much different than anything he had made through the next years of his career.Guitar that was so charactereistic in his earlier records is hidden here on second plan.Massive choir,orchestral arrangments,synths and opera sounds are dominating in "part 1" and "part 2".they all give album a bit Film music or classical music taste.
		If the previous Ommadawn was folky and romantic, Incantations is minimalistic and classical, without the dramatic emotional intensity of his predecessor and more inclined to an aseptic flowing of musical structures and melodies.
		The sound-atmosphere of the recording is clear and sophisticated in itself (in contraposition to the previous albums, more raw and rustic), so there's no need to say that the remastered CD dignifies the final listening tremendously.
	www.amazon.com /Incantations-Mike-Oldfield/dp/B000000I0H (1317 words)

	The Twisted Bell \| The Songs of Distant Earth
		Knowing in advance the mixed opinions of many others on the list made this a rather atypical Oldfield-first-listening experience for me. When I heard the first notes of Amarok I had no idea what was coming, and with TBII all I knew was that it would be roughly an update of TBI.
		This really is an album the dedicated Mike fan should approach keeping Mike's intentions firmly in mind.
		The album lacks a true 'Oldfield climax' to match Ommadawn, Amarok, or 'The Bell', although in certain tracks there are hints of it: particularly 'Supernova', which I thought evoked its subject very well.
	speedysnail.com /twisted/tsode.html (948 words)

	Incantations - Mike Oldfield - Similar Albums
		Although Tangerine Dream is usually associated with synthesizers and the ambient movement that followed over a decade after such albums as Phaedra, Stratosfear, and Rubycon were recorded, Force Majeure shows the band displaying its roots in space rock.
		Stratosfear, the last Tangerine Dream album by the great Baumann/Franke/Froese threesome, shows the group's desire to advance past their stellar recent material and stake out a new musical direction while others were still attempting to come to grips with Phaedra and Rubycon.
		The members of Tangerine Dream continued to hone their craft as pioneers of the early days of electronica, and the mid-'70s proved to be a time of prosperity and musical growth for the trio of Chris Franke, early member Peter Baumann, and permanent frontman Edgar Froese.
	www.mp3.com /albums/99145/similar.html (460 words)

	Not Totally Tubular
		In May, 1973, an album was released which not only redefined the way people listened to music, it also redefined their expectations of the people who released music in the first place.
		Their second album, Cast Of Thousands, was to be produced by Tom Newman, and when vocalist TV Smith mentioned he wanted to add keyboards to the band's arsenal, Newman had no hesitation in introducing Cross, both for studio work and the British tour which followed.
		Incantations, Amarok and 'Platinum' was similarly truncated, and with none of Oldfield's already scarce 12-inch mixes considered suitable for the set, the end result was as disappointing as it was undoubtedly Comprehensive...
	tubular.net /articles/97_07.shtml (12252 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock O
		The group's sole album is a minor classic of the genre, featuring an unusually talented line up of player attempting to find their niche in the progressive rock world.
		Overall, this album is OK for a casual listen, but in the end it's too meandering, and most of the dynamic of the first album is lost.
		This album is their most surreal and visual - much effort is taken to invoke images in the listener's head - and the biggest success is the gripping, doomed title track.
	www.gepr.net /o.html (13498 words)

	Incantations
		'Incantations' is a difficult studio opus (the recording took nearly a year), appealing to the archaic stratum of human consciousness, belonging to the times when people were not divided by various countries, languages and religions.
		'Incantations' is a caleidoscope of the archaic and the eternal, of world music and psychedelic rock, of dark folk motifs and avant jazz tunes, a soundscape yet complex but simple and plain.
		The first song (as well as the album itself) starts with a sound of dungchen (a Tibetan ritual trumpet).
	rada.rinet.ru /incantations.html (968 words)

	OM Reviews
		And undoubtedly, their epochal song/album Jerusalem (which was reissued a couple of ears ago as a longer, superior mix under the track's original name Dopesmoker) serves as an aural high water mark for stoners looking to bang heads in time with their bong hits.
		Sadly, the fracas surrounding the album - namely the fact that major label London was kind of pissy about the trio taking two years and a six figure advance and returning with the highly unmarketable end result - imploded the band.
		By the way, the entire album is a coherent invitation to a lazy but serious meditation that no pot-smoker would repudiate for sure.
	www.holymountain.com /om/review.htm (2662 words)

	Vampire-Magazine.com
		The first album, entitled "Incantations" and released in February 1999, is a storm of raw Dark metal embellished with soundtracks atmospheres.
		This album was recorded in the studio of the band (LUNA MORA ?) and remastered in Q-POINT studio (Hilversum, The Netherlands).
		Released in February 2000, "The Warriors of the Ancient Battle" is the second demo of the band consisting of five songs with a dark medieval atmosphere.
	www.vampire-magazine.com /showband.php?bid=916 (359 words)

	Adrian's Album Reviews : Mike Oldfield
		A multi-instrumentalist, it was on a tape recorder lent to him by Kevin on which he recorded the tubular bells demo, only to see it rejected by dozens of record labels, including all the majors.
		This is one of my fav albums of all time and I have never tired of listening to it.
		I don't care very much for this album at all, but i'm very impressed by the sound of the album, given the time it was recorded and released.
	www.adriandenning.co.uk /oldfield.html (4332 words)

	Mike Oldfield - Incantations Bio
		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'.
		After two years relative musical inactivity, 'Incantations' - a double album - was released in November 1978.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/queen/548/oldbioinc.htm (441 words)

	Incantations (album) -
		The cover was once again done by Trevor Key.
		Compared to the complexity of Oldfield's three previous albums, Incantations is minimalist, featuring melodic lines repeated in simple forms with only a few instruments at a time.
		The lyrics for Part II are taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha", though rearranged in places to conform more to the music.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Incantations_(album) (514 words)

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