I was lucky enough to meet Mike outside the Guildhall in Portsmouth on his 5 miles out tour. I asked a bouncer for his autograph and he said he will see what he can do. five minutes later, Mike appears so I ask him to sign my album cover with which he said, "can you hold my guitar whilst I sign it for you ?" I put his guitar around my neck whilst he signed. he then said "thank you for coming to see me" and gave me his plectrum before going back inside. I was stunned and I was the only person there as it was only around 5 o'clock.......A real gentleman and artist. Thank you mike and if you ever read this, i'm forever grateful that you took the time to say hello to me......
Lucky you, wish I had gone to see him live, but I was young then (born 1969). To be able to say you held his guitar, wow ;- ) You should have run off with it! hehe
I am 60 now My father introduced me to this musik I made love with my first boyfriend on this artpiece I gave birth on tubular bells I am in new york right now ,and still listen in special momentts for myselv to it..Thank you sooo much mike oldfield🥰☀️
I'm 63 (male) and didn't do the first things you did on Mike Oldfields music. ;-)), but I very often still listen during my work as an embedded soft-and hardware engineer. This music helps me solving the most difficult problems when the Oldfield-flow comes over me. I join u and say ... thank you Mike! Owww btw i live in the southern part of Holland very close to Belgium.
Comparing Ommadawn to Tubular Bells is like comparing green grapes to red grapes. May your mind joyfully take in both masterpieces as I devour both grapes! ;-)
And then came Return to Ommadawn that finished the journey and very conveniently was just enough in length to burn on a CD together with what is now known as Part 1.
I agree. I bought Return to Ommadawn expecting somethin as beautiful as the original. I was so disapointed that I gave it to recycling after three listenings.
I was born in 1977 and grew up listening to this. My dad would play The Horse Song for me when I was little and when I had my own kids, I would sing it to them as babies. I hope they will pass it on as well. Such a magical album.
@@holgerneuman8684 At Ommadawn he played many instruments himself, except for the uilleann pipes which were played by Paddy Moloney. Because there weren't any inexpensive multi-track devices back then, Oldfield rebuilt the heads of stereo devices so he had at least four tracks available.
@@tonyrobles2696 I totally get that mate ....I listened to the pistols...boomtown rats...omd...oldfield..motorhead and on occasion tangerine dream when drunk
When i was a rebel kid, jagger & richards were my neighbours in Hide Park, London. Sex, drugs and rock'n' roll!!! I was 15 years old...what a lucky guy!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤟🤟🤟🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
Hello, did you ever meet Sally his sister or Terry the brother? My Grandparents lived next door the Keith from the Prodigy band and his family they were very normal nice people, anyway hope your ok and have fun and a lovely summer x
@@redcalx9568 Yes i recall on one occasion Sally coming into my mum's house as we had a piano for sale. I did see Terry often, who looked a lot like Mike. I also used to catch the same bus as Mike's mum in the morning
On of the best pieces of music ever made. Ommadawn has been a huge part of my life for over 35 years. If it's something I can control,, it will be the last thing I listen to before I die.
I was born in the 90's, but my parents still listened to Mike Oldfield at home often. I grew up with many of his albums, but there's something special about Ommadawn... this music brings me back to the most intense memories of my childhood like no other. Each time I listen is an epic voyage back in time, I can't describe it
I am an ICU doctor during the COVID pandemic I use to listen to Mike s music since i was 13 : then it was the escape Now it is for mind healing,,,,, Thank you Mike Be all safe
Mike's true masterpiece, an American once asked me what is it about that island of yours that's produced so much incredi ble music. I said its the ancient cultures , bronze age,Celt, Anglo Saxon ,Norse etc that's still there in our folk memory it permeates our DNA .Mike with Ommadawn captured that essence like no one else, the music would have been relevant to the people of Stonehenge as it is to we British now.
C'est un pure bonheur de réécouter un vieil album qu'on a aimé et qu'on a pas écouté depuis très longtemps ... Il faut le vivre pour comprendre Combien de vieilles musiques ont été retrouvées grâce à internet ?
merci merci je l ai fait ecouter a des pas vieux ami mais amie de longue date reunis dans la maison familiale avec certain connaisseur et le plaisir de redecouvrir ommadawn et partager cette musique qui apaise nos vie et memoire
je l'ai réécouté car mon fils de 22 ans qui fait de la musique etait en train d'en composer certains accords sans le connaitre 😂cela m'a permit de lui faire découvrir ,un album que je n'ai pas réécouter depuis.....il n'etais pas né
incredible. One of the best pieces of music ever composed. Absolutely fantastic. This and Hergest Ridge belong to my all time favourites and go along with Mozart and Tchaikobsky and Grieg.
That's laying it on a bit thick....really can't compare this composition with the genius of the Masters like Mozart. Mike himself would say as much. It s a nice pieces of music and I do prefer it to Tubular Bells.
@@wtc175 What other rock composers would compare to their like, if not Mike Oldfield? He doesn't use a classical orchestra or anything, but in a philosophical sense he's the continuation of the work of those masters, surely.
When I was 12 years old I listened and dreamed on Ommadawn almost 200 times. I couldn't stopped to listen this real piece of art (chef d'oeuvre en français) again and again and again. I'm almost 60 now. Gods (yes, GODS) bless this gorgeous Man and Artist.
Love all these comments very! And it brings me back to the time when I was 15 y old. Ommadawn is just a great record and one of my faves together with Hergest Ridge and Incantations. Also Tubular Bells II is one of my favourites! After I heard Tubular Bells in 1973-74, and played that record to grey.... I felt the need of buying more of Oldfield's work. I'm now 63 and love this music so much that I listen to it on a regular base. This is far the best music I know. When I was 14 or 15 y old and listening every day to Tubular Bells, my parents asked me if I was going to be a priest .......;-) Fan forever
This album is magical. From 2nd song (24:10) onwards on side B you're in Heaven after many fascinating tranquilities, trials and tribulations. Probably my favorite Mike Oldfield musical creation of all time.
I've probably played this a thousand times since the 70s and in fact I could play it every single day and never tire of it. I want the second part played at my funeral.☺️
My dad Introduced me to Ommadawn when I was 8years old and I still play this on vinyl,absolute genius and still makes my hair stand up on end when I hear it.
There was a Community Radio Station in Toowoomba Australia that played this entire album every Saturday morning in the early 80's at 5 am, my alarm was set to wake up to this magnificent piece every Saturday morning.
Dear Karl, my brother lived in Toowoomba at that time. Meantime I was listening to this in London but it made me decide to come and live in Norfolk. Special place. I have always felt this music links you to where you feel grounded. Very spiritual and I'm an atheist!
Just got back from a stay in a friend's cottage in Kington, Herefordshire, with a view of Mike Oldfield's old house, The Beacon, from our living room window! (just five minute's walk up the hill). Also made our way to the top of nearby Hergest Ridge with its stunning panoramic views of the Brecon Beacons and the Malverns. It's so peaceful and remote around here you can see how it inspired him to create this lovely work (and 'Hergest Ridge' of course). Not a big fan of his later stuff to be honest but I can listen to this timeless classic again and again.
Some music never seems to age and you get older it seems to mean more and more to you , this Album will stay with me forever it's been more than 45 years since I first heard it and it talks to me now just as strongly as ever it did .
He escuchado más de 40 años, Ommadawn y creo yo que es la joya, esencial y pura de su música, con esos arreglos que me trasladan a unos sonidos místicos increíbles y naturales, sin tanta tecnología de mezclas. Para mí la obra maestra y punta de lanza de su capacidad musical Gracias Mike Oldfield por éste regalo.
Es un terrible trabajo, de los mejores que se hayan hecho en la historia de la música. Sinceramente, yo me quedo con la segunda parte. Me levanta el ánimo 💪, me da una pizca de felicidad, ganas de usar su música para videos o imágenes. Para mí, es espectacular la segunda parte!
Der erste Satz, die erste Seite von "Ommadawn" ist meiner Meinung nach das beste "produzierte" Album der Welt. Es gehört für mich in eine Reihe mit den Beethoven-Sinfonien. Es ist ein großes Wort, aber hier war glaube ich tatsächlich ein Genie am Werk.
This is so beautifully English, and a really folky, personal listen. All about melody, everything else to follow the melody. If you are 6, or 76, you'll get this. I agree that this and 'Tubular Bells' are Oldfield's finest outings. Paving stones laid here for world music crossover and the 'aah aah' vocal sound sounds as if Oldfield had a CMI Fairlight years before it's invention. The Orchestration is watchmaker precise. Great hearing this again.
I first found this album in 1987 aged 17and have always loved it. It helped me win a 15 year battle in 2014 which I hope none of you ever have to fight.
I think, honestly, his music appeals to those who are old souls. Young souls haven't accrued enough lifetimes to appreciate the depth of his music, and it is deep, primal and insanely beautiful. Hope that doesn't sound sound pretentious...just how I feel and those few I know who do know of listen to him, and there's not that many.
I know people who just don't take to what you might describe as 'instrumental' music. And then only like any of his songs that include singing/lyrics. I think the Chemical Brothers are mind-blowing but some people only prefer their pieces that include lyrics.
@@Coasterdude02149 There's not such a depth here and appreciation of depth and age of soul surely don't correlate either. The love for music of this sort is rather simple in fact, you wear it on your chest or you don't. The exact reasons for it are very complex, but there's not much else to it that is worth talking about. Certainly not if it's to erect hierarchies of superiority. A bit of feel good melodrama to stimulate the imagination and the emotion of the mundane. It is the same force as narrative. No one is special for feeling music, only blessed.
Meisterklasse, habe nicht umsonst soviele Alben von Ihm. Das ist für mich einer der besten Künstler überhaubt, dann folgt Vangelis und Pink Floyd. Es lebe Mike Oldifeld, ich danke für die schöne Werke.
La première face de cet album est un cas d'école, en effet difficile de trouver un équivalent pour moi sur toute la discographie mondiale d'une telle puissance émotionnelle et indescriptible, l'alchimie est parfaitement dosée, un vrai mystère, en tout cas divin.
My British friend gave me this album in early 80's. I still can't get the first tune out of my head, I hear it at odd moments. Speaks of how amazing the music is. I think it is rather primal.
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.🎸😎
This is the first I've listened to this since it was given to me as a Christmas present 45 years ago...And it's still a stunner!! Merry Christmas everyone.
Cuando escuché por primera vez esta grandiosa obra musical, hace más de cuarenta años, sentí todo un mundo de sensaciones dentro de mí. Nunca podré olvidar el momento y la persona que me dio a conocer tanta maravilla con esta música. Sentí los momentos infantiles en muchas de sus notas, las cuatro estaciones de Vivaldi, la fuerza de los guerreros en batalla, luchando por su tribu. Los tambores y voces femeninas cantantes, me trasladaban a nuestros ancestros, cantando y cuidando a sus amados hombres guerreros e hijos. Las voces y cánticos al final de esta inmensa obra, me hizo sentir la tranquila sensación de una batalla ganada. Celebración junto con la familia, amigos y una tribu, mucho más unida. Nunca me cansaré de escuchar a Mike Oldfield, sobre todo, esta maravillosa composición musical. Siempre que la escucho, siento vida, fuerza y fuego en la sangre. Gracias por el vídeo 💖
Es sublime, junto a tubulars bells, no hay músico y música que supere el sobrealiento que genera el espíritu. En concreto, omnadawn, toca ese límite vibracional. ruclips.net/video/GvNt4D2eB9I/видео.htmlsi=4rMSgXI2pOfP1AJb, Quedo sin palabras…
This is the first song my goddaughter heard me sing. She was a few months old, not falling asleep, screaming and crying. I took her in my arms, I started humming and she fell into a deep sleep all of a sudden 🕌
Una Obra Maestra de un joven de 22 años y que cuando escuché por vez primera por allá 1976, recién yo de trece años me llena todavía de emoción y maravillado que tocará todos los instrumentos en el ya famoso sello Virgin de sir Richard Branson… genial y bella melodía…
Beautiful indeed! I am in tears now. I haven't listen to this awesome album since 15+ years or so. I do have the CD but due life I didn't find the time to listen it again. AWESOME!
I always felt this piece of music was like the voice of the ignored and misunderstood. A cry from the heart. It has an honesty and depth which is so rare. Start of Part 2, oh wow! The sweetest music ever.
The images and memories conjured up by the first notes will remain with me till the day I die. If I ever get Alzheimer's somebody please play this to me.
Huge and belated thanks to Mr Walker. He was a teacher of mine at primary school in Woodlesford (near Leeds) and got me into Mike Oldfield. I've been a fan ever since.
I'm 55 and I discovered Mike Oldfield music through a friend who was listening Tubular Bells oftentimes. He was so enamored with it, I decided to by it for myself. Since that time, every new album I have discovered made me realize how deep and complex his music is. It's now an aquirred taste and when you embrace his style of music, like a good wine, it only gets better with age!
Me compré este disco con 14 años y lo que m descubrió aún sigue hay. Es una música inigualable del gran músico compositor Mike Oldfield. Ese disco es la joya de la corona. Lo escuche hasta decir basta
Like the first light of twilight, this music opens your eyes to old promises and to all the anomalies of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract nostalgia and awaken regrets, flayed lives and the torpor of tormented watchers 🌺🕊️
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.
what an incerdible wonderful piece of music. I bought the album on vinyl when I was 16 or so, 35 years ago...I am still so muchin love with this album. Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn and Amarok, I could listen to them day in day out.
Genius Mike Oldfield, one of the greatest musicians and composers in music history. Ommadawn is my favorite then Tubular Bells and Platinum, those three masterpieces sounds like a trilogy for me. First time i heard Ommadawn i was only 14 years old, now 56 but feel like an old tasty red wine thanks to the sacred word Music.
I remember going through a particular hard time in my late teens and thought I was going insane, a friend gave me a copy of this album and it was very soothing. It kinda got stamped in that bad epoc for me, but I still love coming back and enjoying this album.
Thank you for this, such a pleasure to hear again after many years. This has a special significance for me which i'll share with you. The first house I owned, behind Par beach Cornwall, tough days washing in cold water, often not even enough for a pint of beer at the weekend... I scraped up enough to buy my first 'stereo'. Racking it up to full volume a new copy of Tubular Bells was the first LP i played in 'my' home on my new kit: unforgettable. Happy days. Thankyou.
This majestic album sneakily includes 3 of the best British female singers on backing vocals! Clodagh Simonds (Mellow Candle), Bridget St John (legendary folk singer) and Sally Oldfield (Mike's mega-talented sister)
Toda mi alma está contenida en esta música. Mi soledad impuesta desde pequeña. Supongo que somos esos niños siempre. Con ésta dulzura que no experimentamos y que encontramos en la música que nos traslada a la belleza del amor no correspondido. Gracias, gracias, gracias 🙏⚛️
Many decades ago, the ABC TV station in Australia, would occasionally play "good taste" music videos to fill in progamme gaps. In 1978, I was 15, living in a small country town in north western NSW and watched Portsmouth and was amazed firstly by the music, then by the skill when I realized just how many instruments he was playing in that clip. Two days later I saw "blue peter" and I was hooked. luckily I was able to see Mike Oldfields name for that clip. I went to our town library and requested anything in music for him and a week later heard tubular bells for the first time. As an adult I own all his music, firstly on vinyl, then everything again on CD and I never tire of listening to any of it. My favourite part starts at 26:25 - I love the long slow violin notes
Revisiting some Mike Oldfield with bottle of vino, and a fire burning, this evening, remembering my late brother, who passed away aged 9 this day in 1992 (exactly 30 years ago) from Reye's Syndrome (I was 14)... Our dad was a huge Mike Oldfield fan, and while, like all big sisters and little brothers, we had our moments, we were very close, and Ommadawn was one of our mutual favourite albums... R.I.P. Seth, keep the fire burning wherever you are now... Your big sister Beth xxx
...no podría dar una explicación a toda esta armonía musical...solo se! que es un sonido celestial, donde la Tierra se junta con el mar y el cielo. ❤️ Gracias 🙏 Mike Oldfield !!!!
Fue lo primero que escuché de Mike Oldfield , por el año 1979. Al poco tiempo escuché Tubullar Bells. Quedé totalmente atraído por esa música y ese ambiente que creaba con su música....y sigo escuchandolo....Forma parte de la banda de sonido de mi vida !!!! Un músico genial !
Ommadawn e Incantations son la prueba de por dónde habría ido lo que hubieran hecho Haydn, Schubert o Beethoven si hubieran vivido a finales del siglo XX.
Anoche dormí escuchándolo, y empecé a soñar que estaba en un santuario con muchos animalitos muy bello, y veía a uno de mis perritos que murió recién, me veía felíz él pero alguien a quien yo no podía ver me decía que podía sólo mirarlo pero no abrazarlo, todo era como un lugar como me lo imagino siempre que escucho este disco, y entonces en mi sueño estaba oyendo el disco, como que se mezcló y fue un sueño muy real y muy mágico por la música de fondo. 🌈❤️🐾
This piece always makes me CRY WITH HAPPINESS 🤗 Especially the opening notes. Many years later, I met with DEEP FOREST Does the same for me. Thanks to technology, Here I am returned to What I loved! 😝
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When making an album was an art form, this is a masterpiece
I was lucky enough to meet Mike outside the Guildhall in Portsmouth on his 5 miles out tour. I asked a bouncer for his autograph and he said he will see what he can do. five minutes later, Mike appears so I ask him to sign my album cover with which he said, "can you hold my guitar whilst I sign it for you ?"
I put his guitar around my neck whilst he signed. he then said "thank you for coming to see me" and gave me his plectrum before going back inside.
I was stunned and I was the only person there as it was only around 5 o'clock.......A real gentleman and artist. Thank you mike and if you ever read this, i'm forever grateful that you took the time to say hello to me......
Just a good guy. Great to hear your story.
You are very lucky ...
Lucky you, wish I had gone to see him live, but I was young then (born 1969). To be able to say you held his guitar, wow ;- ) You should have run off with it! hehe
what a great story...will stay with you forever....Thank you for sharing....
Wow you lucky lucky man 💕😉
People will still be listening to
His Music a hundred years from now. Just like all the
Classic Musicians.
True that mate, it's more than a classic
Headphones on, lights off, just flames flickering from the fire, pure bliss!!!
....And nobody calling you so you´ll cut their heads off. ;)
Hear, hear I always come back to MO even after all these years
I'm there...
Been exactly there many times.. fantastic to know what bliss you are going through.
He doesn't date. He was/is a musical genius
The best álbum of Mike Oldfield.....year 75....good memories. Then 20 years old,now 67
I was 13 62 now still love this album..still listening
I am 60 now
My father introduced me to this musik
I made love with my first boyfriend on this artpiece
I gave birth on tubular bells
I am in new york right now ,and still listen in special momentts for myselv to it..Thank you sooo much mike oldfield🥰☀️
Ha! Me too , I was making love to this with my first boyfriend ... back in 77 ...
I'm 63 (male) and didn't do the first things you did on Mike Oldfields music. ;-)), but I very often still listen during my work as an embedded soft-and hardware engineer. This music helps me solving the most difficult problems when the Oldfield-flow comes over me. I join u and say ... thank you Mike!
Owww btw i live in the southern part of Holland very close to Belgium.
Omg exorcist lmao😊
Together with Tubular Bells , they are two best albums Oldfield recorded up to date. Listen to both albums since i was 16. Now i am 60.
Comparing Ommadawn to Tubular Bells is like comparing green grapes to red grapes. May your mind joyfully take in both masterpieces as I devour both grapes! ;-)
Incantations + Amarok nice too
I will have to give each a listen!
Hergest Ridge
As well as Songs from Distant Earth
I have a lot of Mike Oldfield Records but nothing touches me as much as Ommadawn. It's truly a masterpiece.
And then came Return to Ommadawn that finished the journey and very conveniently was just enough in length to burn on a CD together with what is now known as Part 1.
I love it
It calms my soul
I think you might be right about that. This is indeed a masterpiece.
I agree. I bought Return to Ommadawn expecting somethin as beautiful as the original. I was so disapointed that I gave it to recycling after three listenings.
Oldfield keeps me alive.
I feel the same
It is the only reason that I am alive
I bought the album at the age of 14 in 1977 and love it until today. If you listen to Ommadawn you can fly into another sphere.
I bought it too when I was 14, in 1978.
I was born in 1977 and grew up listening to this. My dad would play The Horse Song for me when I was little and when I had my own kids, I would sing it to them as babies. I hope they will pass it on as well. Such a magical album.
Well, must have been a good year, because at 60 I'm still listening to him
You are so right, one of his best albums, i think..i don't know if i am right, he played every instrument by his own, or was it Tubular Bells?
@@holgerneuman8684 At Ommadawn he played many instruments himself, except for the uilleann pipes which were played by Paddy Moloney. Because there weren't any inexpensive multi-track devices back then, Oldfield rebuilt the heads of stereo devices so he had at least four tracks available.
I was a punk rocker when I also was secretly listening to this masterpiece……please forgive me all you punk rockers.
i was a total heavy rocker ....but................me too.
There is more punk in that album than inside the whole Sex Pistol discography.
So was Sheena.
Hahaaaaaaa
What are you talking about Punks dont have a Style of music
We listen to everything💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
@@tonyrobles2696 I totally get that mate ....I listened to the pistols...boomtown rats...omd...oldfield..motorhead and on occasion tangerine dream when drunk
Mike and his family were my neighbours. I recall waiting for the same bus with his dear mum. God rest her soul
I recall seeing him about a lot in Denham/ Slough/ Gerrards x , Bucks..
When i was a rebel kid, jagger & richards were my neighbours in Hide Park, London. Sex, drugs and rock'n' roll!!! I was 15 years old...what a lucky guy!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤟🤟🤟🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
Hello, did you ever meet Sally his sister or Terry the brother? My Grandparents lived next door the Keith from the Prodigy band and his family they were very normal nice people, anyway hope your ok and have fun and a lovely summer x
@@redcalx9568 Yes i recall on one occasion Sally coming into my mum's house as we had a piano for sale. I did see Terry often, who looked a lot like Mike. I also used to catch the same bus as Mike's mum in the morning
One of the most extraordinary masterpieces ever made.
On of the best pieces of music ever made. Ommadawn has been a huge part of my life for over 35 years. If it's something I can control,, it will be the last thing I listen to before I die.
It’s a truly potent special album.
Interesting that you said that, Chelfyn, because I said the same thing about Selling England By The Pound, and have said it for about 40 years.
That's deep but what a wonderful spiritual piece to send you on your way. Good luck on your journey through the universe.
thats a beautiful thing to say xx
Don't worry . You will hear it in heaven even more clearer then now .
I was born in the 90's, but my parents still listened to Mike Oldfield at home often. I grew up with many of his albums, but there's something special about Ommadawn... this music brings me back to the most intense memories of my childhood like no other. Each time I listen is an epic voyage back in time, I can't describe it
You can not describe this ..this is ABSOLUTE MUSIC
C joli ce que tu dis
La musique de Mike
T'es parents
Et toi enfant
Magnifique
Same here, except for the album Five Miles Out. Been discovering the other albums like this one, and they’re great as well
I am an ICU doctor during the COVID pandemic
I use to listen to Mike s music since i was 13 : then it was the escape
Now it is for mind healing,,,,, Thank you Mike
Be all safe
thankyou for your service to us all. i too have listened to mike since 13 or 14 im 59 now. .
Thanks a lot dear Doctor! Try to be safe too!!
Greetings from Yannina, Hellas!
it gets me back on my feet also time and time again, it never gets old.
Blessings to you and thanks!
Mike's music has always been a door for escape. For him and many others.
This album is absolutely beautiful.
ITSAGGGGHOST Correct
Mike's true masterpiece, an American once asked me what is it about that island of yours that's produced so much incredi ble music. I said its the ancient cultures , bronze age,Celt, Anglo Saxon ,Norse etc that's still there in our folk memory it permeates our DNA .Mike with Ommadawn captured that essence like no one else, the music would have been relevant to the people of Stonehenge as it is to we British now.
v true and our contribution to the worlds music is a source of intense pride for me, and yes this is his masterpiece.
@@mikewray6387 You folks make the best actors as well. You also make American music better
Actually most of our cultural heritage in Ireland comes from regions around what is now southern Russia. Scythia etc.
what a bunch of bs
this makes the quarantine less painfulll... thanks Mike Oldfield!!!
RIP to Paddy Molony who played the pipes -brilliantly on this album!
another very great musician
このアルバムは、僕が聞いた中で生涯最高傑作です。アルバム全体を聞き終えたあとに、自然と涙が流れます。
不思議なアルバムです。
Je n'avais pas réécouté Ommadawn depuis une trentaine d'années. C'est un voyage, une quête à travers des âges perdus. Un véritable chef-d'œuvre.
C'est un pure bonheur de réécouter un vieil album qu'on a aimé et qu'on a pas écouté depuis très longtemps ... Il faut le vivre pour comprendre
Combien de vieilles musiques ont été retrouvées grâce à internet ?
merci merci je l ai fait ecouter a des pas vieux ami mais amie de longue date reunis dans la maison familiale avec certain connaisseur et le plaisir de redecouvrir ommadawn et partager cette musique qui apaise nos vie et memoire
je l'ai réécouté car mon fils de 22 ans qui fait de la musique etait en train d'en composer certains accords sans le connaitre 😂cela m'a permit de lui faire découvrir ,un album que je n'ai pas réécouter depuis.....il n'etais pas né
Première écoute et j'ai 60 ans!!!😮
@@uniquekanku
Alors écoute également retour of ommadawn.
60 ans sans écouter ommadawn 😢 je ne dirai pas que t as loupé ta vie mais un peu qd mm 😅
incredible. One of the best pieces of music ever composed. Absolutely fantastic. This and Hergest Ridge belong to my all time favourites and go along with Mozart and Tchaikobsky and Grieg.
That's laying it on a bit thick....really can't compare this composition with the genius of the Masters like Mozart. Mike himself would say as much. It s a nice pieces of music and I do prefer it to Tubular Bells.
@@wtc175 What other rock composers would compare to their like, if not Mike Oldfield? He doesn't use a classical orchestra or anything, but in a philosophical sense he's the continuation of the work of those masters, surely.
Κορυφαίος the TOP Litsa
The BEST of the Planet After Jesus Is Mike Litsa
Hergest Ridge is the paradigm of what an eighteenth century classical composer would have written today.
My go to album when I'd had a bad day at work.
Lie on the floor, turn the sound up & breathe.
When I was 12 years old I listened and dreamed on Ommadawn almost 200 times. I couldn't stopped to listen this real piece of art (chef d'oeuvre en français) again and again and again. I'm almost 60 now. Gods (yes, GODS) bless this gorgeous Man and Artist.
Eνας είναι ο θεός επί της γης Ιησούς Χριστός
This is just so insanely good. No words can discribe how masterful this work of art is!
In my opinion I think this beats tubular bells hands down .
No true words can say🙏 my first love bought me the album and signed it with her love for me.🙏
@@colinclarke4285 Definitely, Colin.
and so it is....
Yes! It's indiscribable!
It was SUPERLATIVE when I was 19.
Now I am 60,
It is still there...
Along with INCANTATIONS
😛
Oh blimey... Listening to it now... How beautiful... How many years ago?... I'm now 63... I'm still in orr of the whole album...
..
Just turned 61 and this album was never off my turntable back in the day. A real work of genius that is timeless
Eggs
Love all these comments very! And it brings me back to the time when I was 15 y old. Ommadawn is just a great record and one of my faves together with Hergest Ridge and Incantations. Also Tubular Bells II is one of my favourites! After I heard Tubular Bells in 1973-74, and played that record to grey.... I felt the need of buying more of Oldfield's work. I'm now 63 and love this music so much that I listen to it on a regular base. This is far the best music I know. When I was 14 or 15 y old and listening every day to Tubular Bells, my parents asked me if I was going to be a priest .......;-) Fan forever
I'm the same age as you Sir and it seems that we have both been on the same journey, as far as Mr Oldfield is concerned. Great comment!!
This album is magical.
From 2nd song (24:10) onwards on side B you're in Heaven after many fascinating tranquilities, trials and tribulations.
Probably my favorite Mike Oldfield musical creation of all time.
_Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations,_ ...then what?
I was in the Air Force 1975 Lackland - put this album on every night to go to sleep.
I've just, today listened to Ommadawn, on RUclips, not heard it for 40 year's. Still sends a shiver down my spine.
I've probably played this a thousand times since the 70s and in fact I could play it every single day and never tire of it. I want the second part played at my funeral.☺️
My dad Introduced me to Ommadawn when I was 8years old and I still play this on vinyl,absolute genius and still makes my hair stand up on end when I hear it.
good reply, i know music can do that happens to me when i here something really moving :-)
My dad introduced me (only) to James Last :-/
@SteppenWolff100 That´s indeed true!
There was a Community Radio Station in Toowoomba Australia that played this entire album every Saturday morning in the early 80's at 5 am, my alarm was set to wake up to this magnificent piece every Saturday morning.
Dear Karl, my brother lived in Toowoomba at that time. Meantime I was listening to this in London but it made me decide to come and live in Norfolk. Special place. I have always felt this music links you to where you feel grounded. Very spiritual and I'm an atheist!
@@jansmith286 How can you be an atheist and use the word spiritual
'What do you mean by it?
Love dat situation man x
@@Andy-yo3hd Probabaly Agnostic... but listen to the music and you won't really care anyway... :)
Just got back from a stay in a friend's cottage in Kington, Herefordshire, with a view of Mike Oldfield's old house, The Beacon, from our living room window! (just five minute's walk up the hill). Also made our way to the top of nearby Hergest Ridge with its stunning panoramic views of the Brecon Beacons and the Malverns. It's so peaceful and remote around here you can see how it inspired him to create this lovely work (and 'Hergest Ridge' of course). Not a big fan of his later stuff to be honest but I can listen to this timeless classic again and again.
Some music never seems to age and you get older it seems to mean more and more to you , this Album will stay with me forever it's been more than 45 years since I first heard it and it talks to me now just as strongly as ever it did .
He escuchado más de 40 años, Ommadawn y creo yo que es la joya, esencial y pura de su música, con esos arreglos que me trasladan a unos sonidos místicos increíbles y naturales, sin tanta tecnología de mezclas.
Para mí la obra maestra y punta de lanza de su capacidad musical
Gracias Mike Oldfield por éste regalo.
Buen comentario.
Ud. lo ha dicho... la joya de una artista en estado de gracia!
Es un terrible trabajo, de los mejores que se hayan hecho en la historia de la música. Sinceramente, yo me quedo con la segunda parte. Me levanta el ánimo 💪, me da una pizca de felicidad, ganas de usar su música para videos o imágenes. Para mí, es espectacular la segunda parte!
Der erste Satz, die erste Seite von "Ommadawn" ist meiner Meinung nach das beste "produzierte" Album der Welt. Es gehört für mich in eine Reihe mit den Beethoven-Sinfonien. Es ist ein großes Wort, aber hier war glaube ich tatsächlich ein Genie am Werk.
This is so beautifully English, and a really folky, personal listen. All about melody, everything else to follow the melody. If you are 6, or 76, you'll get this. I agree that this and 'Tubular Bells' are Oldfield's finest outings. Paving stones laid here for world music crossover and the 'aah aah' vocal sound sounds as if Oldfield had a CMI Fairlight years before it's invention. The Orchestration is watchmaker precise. Great hearing this again.
a bit of Irish in there too if you knew
To me this is his best album. It sounds as good now as when I bought it when it was released.
I first found this album in 1987 aged 17and have always loved it. It helped me win a 15 year battle in 2014 which I hope none of you ever have to fight.
Glad you made it bro!
2022 and it’s still helping but in a different way, heals the soul.
@@massimogiuntini1 thank you my friend
Not sure how anyone can actually dislike this music...It is so beautiful and haunting and thrilling...
You should consider that they dislike it ..Just bacause it's insanely beatiful!!!!
@@HermanVelilla Hahaha!!! Once I read that famous sentence: "There are two kind of people: those who enjoy Mike Oldfield music, and deaf people"🤣
I think, honestly, his music appeals to those who are old souls. Young souls haven't accrued enough lifetimes to appreciate the depth of his music, and it is deep, primal and insanely beautiful. Hope that doesn't sound sound pretentious...just how I feel and those few I know who do know of listen to him, and there's not that many.
I know people who just don't take to what you might describe as 'instrumental' music. And then only like any of his songs that include singing/lyrics. I think the Chemical Brothers are mind-blowing but some people only prefer their pieces that include lyrics.
@@Coasterdude02149 There's not such a depth here and appreciation of depth and age of soul surely don't correlate either. The love for music of this sort is rather simple in fact, you wear it on your chest or you don't. The exact reasons for it are very complex, but there's not much else to it that is worth talking about. Certainly not if it's to erect hierarchies of superiority. A bit of feel good melodrama to stimulate the imagination and the emotion of the mundane. It is the same force as narrative. No one is special for feeling music, only blessed.
the opening is so evocative of pushing your way through a set of curtains and emerging into a fantasy world
Never experienced that. But then we've got venetian blinds.
Haven’t listened to this for years. Bought it on vinyl back in the seventies. I’d forgotten how heart warming and inspiring it was!
what a great, chilled way to start the weekend!
It's a journey around the planet, through cultures and time.
It returned to me tonight and I'm almost in tears ❤
Exactly
Meisterklasse, habe nicht umsonst soviele Alben von Ihm. Das ist für mich einer der besten Künstler überhaubt, dann folgt Vangelis und Pink Floyd. Es lebe Mike Oldifeld, ich danke für die schöne Werke.
Tonight, Ommadawn, 3 weeks and again I listen the whole record! Love it till I'm dead.
That's a perfect symphony for our souls ❤. God bless you, Mike! Thank you for all your precious creations!
WHAT A REAL MONSTER. The guitar around 20 minutes is majestic. Pain and joy at the same time. How is it posible.
This is Oldfield at his brilliant best
@@stephane9544 well, his 2017 Return To Ommadawn is right up there with the first 3.
@bessie1854
I love this but Return to Ommadawn just has the edge over it.
This has been my top album by any artist ever for a very long time, and will probably remain so.
I think the same!!..best LP from the human be....
This is my favourite Mike Oldfield album always has been
Me too x
I am one of many, who have recognised this as the work of a genius. Thank You Mike Oldfield!!
La première face de cet album est un cas d'école, en effet difficile de trouver un équivalent pour moi sur toute la discographie mondiale d'une telle puissance émotionnelle et indescriptible, l'alchimie est parfaitement dosée, un vrai mystère, en tout cas divin.
alors ecoute le debut de la partie 1 de "return to ommadawn" c est encore mieux
idem le premier disc de "light + shade
My British friend gave me this album in early 80's. I still can't get the first tune out of my head, I hear it at odd moments. Speaks of how amazing the music is. I think it is rather primal.
It's very earthly and ancient, I agree.
A work of tremendous spiritual value. Eternal, thank you Mike.
I'm so grateful to have grown up with this kind of music...
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.🎸😎
My absolute favourite Mike Oldfield album. Never mind 5 stars, this is worth ten!
What a finale and thenHoseback. Exquisite.
Melodía espiritual para acariciar mi alma en tiempos difíciles hace sanar mis pensamientos 🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼🍃🌼
Most excellent. I am in awe, have been for 45 years.
Same here ever since I discovered this great man & musician back in the 70's ! ! !
This is the first I've listened to this since it was given to me as a Christmas present 45 years ago...And it's still a stunner!! Merry Christmas everyone.
And Merry Christmas to you.
Cuando escuché por primera vez esta grandiosa obra musical, hace más de cuarenta años, sentí todo un mundo de sensaciones dentro de mí. Nunca podré olvidar el momento y la persona que me dio a conocer tanta maravilla con esta música. Sentí los momentos infantiles en muchas de sus notas, las cuatro estaciones de Vivaldi, la fuerza de los guerreros en batalla, luchando por su tribu. Los tambores y voces femeninas cantantes, me trasladaban a nuestros ancestros, cantando y cuidando a sus amados hombres guerreros e hijos. Las voces y cánticos al final de esta inmensa obra, me hizo sentir la tranquila sensación de una batalla ganada. Celebración junto con la familia, amigos y una tribu, mucho más unida.
Nunca me cansaré de escuchar a Mike Oldfield, sobre todo, esta maravillosa composición musical. Siempre que la escucho, siento vida, fuerza y fuego en la sangre.
Gracias por el vídeo 💖
No puedo imaginarme, nunca a nadie, grabar un disco tan especial y que evoque tanto...no hay palabras 😊
Es sublime, junto a tubulars bells, no hay músico y música que supere el sobrealiento que genera el espíritu. En concreto, omnadawn, toca ese límite vibracional. ruclips.net/video/GvNt4D2eB9I/видео.htmlsi=4rMSgXI2pOfP1AJb, Quedo sin palabras…
My dance teacher introduced him to me when I was 11 - got to see him do Tubular Bells 3 live - I adore it all :)
This is the first song my goddaughter heard me sing. She was a few months old, not falling asleep, screaming and crying. I took her in my arms, I started humming and she fell into a deep sleep all of a sudden 🕌
Good vibes passing through you onto her. Beautiful moment. Gave me one of those genuine instant smile.
Una Obra Maestra de un joven de 22 años y que cuando escuché por vez primera por allá 1976, recién yo de trece años me llena todavía de emoción y maravillado que tocará todos los instrumentos en el ya famoso sello Virgin de sir Richard Branson… genial y bella melodía…
Beautiful indeed! I am in tears now. I haven't listen to this awesome album since 15+ years or so. I do have the CD but due life I didn't find the time to listen it again. AWESOME!
I always felt this piece of music was like the voice of the ignored and misunderstood. A cry from the heart. It has an honesty and depth which is so rare. Start of Part 2, oh wow! The sweetest music ever.
And the ending little tune has to be the sweetest song ever made. Makes me shiver and smile and tear up...
I always thought it was a horse running
Dwelling on his mother's passing, he explored the most candid and lightful sides of his heart in order to fight his sadness and anger.
Boxed ? Three Masterpieces in a Row, Not Bad Coneman ... 👍👍👏👏👏👏🎶🎶....
I was lessening to this song when I was 21, years old in Iran year was 1975 and left to USA 1976 I am 69 now , I still love this song.
The images and memories conjured up by the first notes will remain with me till the day I die. If I ever get Alzheimer's somebody please play this to me.
totally understand. i'm gonna have to tell this to my future children
Huge and belated thanks to Mr Walker. He was a teacher of mine at primary school in Woodlesford (near Leeds) and got me into Mike Oldfield. I've been a fan ever since.
I’ve loved this album for nigh on fifty years. His absolute masterpiece for me, closely followed by Hergest Ridge!
🤘🎼🎹🎸🥁🤘
I'm 55 and I discovered Mike Oldfield music through a friend who was listening Tubular Bells oftentimes. He was so enamored with it, I decided to by it for myself. Since that time, every new album I have discovered made me realize how deep and complex his music is. It's now an aquirred taste and when you embrace his style of music, like a good wine, it only gets better with age!
Me compré este disco con 14 años y lo que m descubrió aún sigue hay. Es una música inigualable del gran músico compositor Mike Oldfield. Ese disco es la joya de la corona. Lo escuche hasta decir basta
Like the first light of twilight, this music opens your eyes to old promises and to all the anomalies of nature. Evocative of powers beyond observation, these pieces pull the strings of the heart, attract
nostalgia and awaken regrets, flayed lives and the torpor of tormented watchers 🌺🕊️
Un chef-d'œuvre que l'on écoute toujours avec le même plaisir après autant d'années...
Oldfield' Masterpiece. His TB became a Clasical, but OMD reaches the top of the emotional sounds of the ancient Ireland, it represents the unic Celtic Simphony never composed in the musical world. Oldfield for ever.
For a second I thought you were referring to Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark OMD. ;-)
what an incerdible wonderful piece of music. I bought the album on vinyl when I was 16 or so, 35 years ago...I am still so muchin love with this album. Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn and Amarok, I could listen to them day in day out.
Me too
Amarok has too many silly noises on it for me. I'd take _Incantations_ instead.
Genius Mike Oldfield, one of the greatest musicians and composers in music history. Ommadawn is my favorite then Tubular Bells and Platinum, those three masterpieces sounds like a trilogy for me.
First time i heard Ommadawn i was only 14 years old, now 56 but feel like an old tasty red wine thanks to the sacred word Music.
I remember going through a particular hard time in my late teens and thought I was going insane, a friend gave me a copy of this album and it was very soothing. It kinda got stamped in that bad epoc for me, but I still love coming back and enjoying this album.
Thank you for this, such a pleasure to hear again after many years.
This has a special significance for me which i'll share with you.
The first house I owned, behind Par beach Cornwall, tough days washing in cold water, often not even enough for a pint of beer at the weekend...
I scraped up enough to buy my first 'stereo'.
Racking it up to full volume a new copy of Tubular Bells was the first LP i played in 'my' home on my new kit: unforgettable.
Happy days.
Thankyou.
This majestic album sneakily includes 3 of the best British female singers on backing vocals!
Clodagh Simonds (Mellow Candle), Bridget St John (legendary folk singer)
and Sally Oldfield (Mike's mega-talented sister)
Musicians
Mike Oldfield - electric and acoustic guitars and basses (including 12-string guitar and classical guitar), mandolin, bouzouki, banjo, harp, spinet, grand piano, Farfisa & Lowrey organs, Solina string ensemble, ARP 2600 synthesizer, glockenspiel, bodhran, assorted percussion[citation needed]
Herbie (Christopher Herbert) - Northumbrian smallpipes
Leslie Penning - recorders, The Hereford City Band conductor
Terry Oldfield - panpipes
Pierre Moerlen - timpani
David Strange - cello
Don Blakeson - trumpet
Julian Bahula - African drums
Ernest Mothle - African drums
Lucky Ranku - African drums
Eddie Tatane - African drums
Clodagh Simonds - vocals
Bridget St John - vocals
Sally Oldfield - vocals
The Penrhos Kids (Abigail, Briony, Ivan, and Jason Griffiths) - vocals on "On Horseback"
The Hereford City Band - brass section
William Murray - percussion
Paddy Moloney - Uilleann pipes
Toda mi alma está contenida en esta música. Mi soledad impuesta desde pequeña. Supongo que somos esos niños siempre. Con ésta dulzura que no experimentamos y que encontramos en la música que nos traslada a la belleza del amor no correspondido. Gracias, gracias, gracias 🙏⚛️
Ahh , my youth
Tubular Bells
Hergest Ridge and
Ommadawn
Life was simpler
Mike Oldfield speaks to my soul. Incredible music from a incredible talent, unparalleled!
Ich liebe diese Musik über 35 Jahren schon.Sie beruhigt mich und lässt mich im Kopf 15 /20.....wieder sein 😉😍😎
This.Is. Music.
Many decades ago, the ABC TV station in Australia, would occasionally play "good taste" music videos to fill in progamme gaps. In 1978, I was 15, living in a small country town in north western NSW and watched Portsmouth and was amazed firstly by the music, then by the skill when I realized just how many instruments he was playing in that clip. Two days later I saw "blue peter" and I was hooked. luckily I was able to see Mike Oldfields name for that clip. I went to our town library and requested anything in music for him and a week later heard tubular bells for the first time. As an adult I own all his music, firstly on vinyl, then everything again on CD and I never tire of listening to any of it. My favourite part starts at 26:25 - I love the long slow violin notes
Revisiting some Mike Oldfield with bottle of vino, and a fire burning, this evening, remembering my late brother, who passed away aged 9 this day in 1992 (exactly 30 years ago) from Reye's Syndrome (I was 14)... Our dad was a huge Mike Oldfield fan, and while, like all big sisters and little brothers, we had our moments, we were very close, and Ommadawn was one of our mutual favourite albums... R.I.P. Seth, keep the fire burning wherever you are now... Your big sister Beth xxx
...no podría dar una explicación a toda esta armonía musical...solo se! que es un sonido celestial, donde la Tierra se junta con el mar y el cielo. ❤️
Gracias 🙏 Mike Oldfield !!!!
The best instrumental álbum of XX Century.Agree?
melting away from 29.22 till it`s end ... blissful and tears of joy ... masterly
Fue lo primero que escuché de Mike Oldfield , por el año 1979. Al poco tiempo escuché Tubullar Bells. Quedé totalmente atraído por esa música y ese ambiente que creaba con su música....y sigo escuchandolo....Forma parte de la banda de sonido de mi vida !!!! Un músico genial !
i would live and die with this music. thanks you Mike. one of a kind. love you.
Todo el mundo conoce a Betoben, Mozart, Vivaldi...........
Todos conocerán a Mike Oldfield.
Ommadawn e Incantations son la prueba de por dónde habría ido lo que hubieran hecho Haydn, Schubert o Beethoven si hubieran vivido a finales del siglo XX.
No lo creo.
Por desgracia no. Pero no nos hace falta ni a nosotros ni a él, es más, así me siento privilegiado.
Anoche dormí escuchándolo, y empecé a soñar que estaba en un santuario con muchos animalitos muy bello, y veía a uno de mis perritos que murió recién, me veía felíz él pero alguien a quien yo no podía ver me decía que podía sólo mirarlo pero no abrazarlo, todo era como un lugar como me lo imagino siempre que escucho este disco, y entonces en mi sueño estaba oyendo el disco, como que se mezcló y fue un sueño muy real y muy mágico por la música de fondo. 🌈❤️🐾
A forgotten and totally under-rated timeless🧭 musical genius. Greetings from Denmark🌈
This piece always makes me
CRY WITH HAPPINESS
🤗
Especially the opening notes.
Many years later, I met with
DEEP FOREST
Does the same for me.
Thanks to technology,
Here I am returned to
What I loved!
😝
This is just Mike oldfield at his best a total classic
An Excellent Album.
A True Masterpiece
I take my hat off ❤❤.
En mi opinión el mejor lp de mike oldfield es una auténtica obra maestra esta lleno de espiritualidad