My early 20s were steeped in this green tincture of ancient, rolling emerald hills. Now, a senior, realizing the vitality, still here, in this recording, Thanks!
Mike Oldfield is the memory of a society deep in harmony with nature and its struggle to survive in a surrounding of deep disrespect towards it, that's at least I see it; enjoy the memory of better times, enjoy - Oldfield -🙂🙂😉❤ !!!
I met him once whilst walking by his field where he kept his donkeys. I was about 6 or 7 and out with my Dad and small brother. He has beautiful eyes. ❤
I was 14 in 1986... and I found this music so magic.....all my life I was alive, I stayed alive with mike oldfield.....: so pure, so positive...a specific music as a vision of a better world 🥰😊😇🙂🙃😍☺😊😊
MIKE OLDFIELD - Hergest Ridge - from wikipedia - ''Hergest Ridge'' is the second studio album by English musician and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released on 2 September 1974 by Virgin Records. The unexpected commercial and critical success of his debut album Tubular Bells (1973) affected Oldfield, who decided against touring and avoided the press with his newfound fame. Instead, he retreated to Hergest Ridge on the England-Wales border and wrote the follow-up, which he recorded in 1974 at The Manor in Oxfordshire, with Tom Newman returning as co-producer. Similar to Oldfield's first, the album is a single composition split into two parts covering different moods and musical styles. The album was No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for three consecutive weeks before it was displaced by Tubular Bells, marking one of the few times an artist has overtaken themselves on the chart in this manner. In 2010, the album was reissued with new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes, bonus material, and new artwork. After the release of his debut album ''Tubular Bells'', Oldfield sought a countryside location to write a follow-up album. In early 1974 he drove around the West Country before turning north into Herefordshire. He arrived at Kington, a small town on the England-Wales border located in the shadow of Hergest Ridge, an elongated hill with a peak height of 425 metres (1,394 ft) which attracted Oldfield to stay in the area. He spotted a house named The Beacon on the edge of Bradnor Hill that was for sale and received permission from Virgin Records co-owner Richard Branson to buy it. Oldfield settled into his new home but felt unsure of his next career move. His contract with Virgin allowed him a £25 wage and continual offers added to the pressure of appearing in public, causing Oldfield to suffer from panic attacks. He lacked any solid ideas for new music and chose to perform simple undemanding Medieval tunes with folk musician Les Penning at Penrhos Court, a local restaurant, in return for free wine. With encouragement from Branson, Oldfield started to write a follow-up to Tubular Bells following the delivery of a Farfisa organ, 4-track TEAC tape machine, and a mixing desk to his house. Oldfield felt that half of the good sections on the album were so detailed and buried in the mix, it called for listeners to play the album on a high quality record player. He stated, "I have to listen really hard to pick out something that I know that I'm proud that I did". The climax to the album is something that he was particularly happy with. Comparisons of the album to Tubular Bells irritated him because he considered it a more arranged and fully conceived work. In 1975, Oldfield reflected on ''Hergest Ridge'' and thought it contained "some excellent ideas" but its recording was rushed, which affected the performance. After initial recording sessions at Basing Street Studios, London and Chipping Norton Studios, Oxfordshire were abandoned, Oldfield recorded Hergest Ridge in the spring of 1974 at The Manor near Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, with Tom Newman resuming his role as co-producer with Oldfield. The album was mixed at AIR Studios on London's Oxford Street. Music---- Similarly to ''Tubular Bells'', the album is divided into two movements. Oldfield frequently superimposes layers of electric guitar recorded by first amplifying heavily (to achieve a sustained organ-like quality) and then reducing the volume greatly via use of the Glorfindel Box (a custom guitar effects unit housed in plywood, which was extremely unreliable in its operation; the unit was obtained from David Bedford, who had been given the box at a party by its creator.) The volume was reduced further using the compression channel from the Manor's mixing console, as had been done on ''Tubular Bells Part 2''. Textures are extended further using various organ timbres and the use of voice as an instrument (the voice is never treated prominently and is deliberately reduced as much as possible and thus permitted largely for textural effect). Track listing --- All music is composed by Mike Oldfield. Side one No. Title Length 1. "Hergest Ridge (Part One)" 21:29 Side two No. Title Length 1. "Hergest Ridge (Part Two)" 18:45 Personnel--- Credits are adapted from the 1974 liner notes. Musicians--- Mike Oldfield - electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, glockenspiel, sleigh bells, mandolin, nutcracker, timpani, gong, Spanish guitar, Farfisa organ, Lowrey organ, GEM Gemini organ June Whiting - oboe Lindsay Cooper - oboe Ted Hobart - trumpet Terry Oldfield - flute Chilli Charles - snare drum Clodagh Simonds - vocals Sally Oldfield - vocals David Bedford - choir and strings conductor
This is all true, but Oldfield solved the rushed mix problems with the 1974 release two years later with the vastly superior 1976 release. The climax ending 6:30 was added using electric future and many structural refinements were made throughout the work making it fully conceived in 1976 compared to this rushed 1974 version. Oldfield was at his musical prime in the 1975-1978 period also and everything he touched then was magical.
Bo Hansson made an instrumental album "Lord Of The Rings", in the 1970's IIRC. I still have my vinyl copy (somewhere). As one could guess, it goes perfectly with reading the book.
Many many years ago went on a outward bound course in shropshire having heard Hergest Ridge years before and they just seemed so suited to each other, quite an eerie feeling as you stare out over the mountains.
Brilliant, this is the 1974 version but the 1976 release is even better. It is on RUclips also thank goodness. Mike - please read this and make the 1976 release the standard release for all hundreds of future generations. I beg you.
Actually the 76 version is very widely available on releases between 76 and 2010. The 74 version didn’t even get onto CD until 2010. For me the 74 wins.
Great. I had this on vinyl, and when I dumped it all I never re-bought this on CD. I did replace TB and Ommadawn, but at the time I didn't think this was as good. Now I do.
Yeah. Sadder still, that even if the music were heard, can they slow down long enough to engage with the majik? This is so precious and transportive. We can only continue to be the ones who appreciate and regard.
I remember this and I had the LP back in the day. With people today and their tiny attention span after scrolling 20-second trifles on TikTok for hours, I think this kind of music is doomed, unfortunately. Who has the time to sit down and enjoy Hergest Ridge for 40 minutes? (I had Ommadawn and Tubular Bells on LP as well.)
This should of BEEN DIFFERCULT TO KNOW WHICH MIKE OLDFIELD ALBUMS I LIKE THE BEST HERGIS RIDGE IS THE Tubular Bells part two ALBUM one of my favorites along with Ommadawn . Ilike these two albums im a great pink floyd fan UMMUGUMMA and ATOM HART MOTHER OTHER GROUPS HENRY COW ROBERT WYATT The ELO NO ANSWER EMERSON LAKE PALMER RICK WAKEMAN AND MANY MORE THANKS for letting us hear this on you tube. Sorry my eye sight is poor i need glass to type this out. Its beggers belief as far as im concerned whe you see american groups getting over two hundrd million veiws some over 500million veiwsi noticed the Police track every breath you take hit over a billion veiws queen bohemin rhapsody over a billion veiws im not into any boy band One Direction have a look on you tube see how many veiws they have
i must admit, does not sound like the Hergest i have been hearing all this time. sounds like parts were added or accentuated, alternative cuts ? ... is it me ? Had it as an LP and became one of the first CDs i ever bought (when they started hitting the stores).
I would never be the one to say you had no reason To want me somewhere else far far away But someday you may understand, someday you will see That someone who would die for you is all I've ever been Congo the Congo, if that's how it's got to be Congo the Congo, if that's what you want from me Genesis "Congo" lyrics . Call All Stations album. I would never be the one to say you had no reason To want me somewhere else far far away But someday you may understand, someday you will see That someone who would die for you is all I've ever been Congo the Congo, if that's how it's got to be Congo the Congo, if that's what you want from me
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Thank you.
My early 20s were steeped in this green tincture of ancient, rolling emerald hills. Now, a senior, realizing the vitality, still here, in this recording, Thanks!
Mike Oldfield is the memory of a society deep in harmony with nature and its struggle to survive in a surrounding of deep disrespect towards it, that's at least I see it; enjoy the memory of better times, enjoy - Oldfield -🙂🙂😉❤ !!!
🤢
@@dancingvirgil beautifully put
what you thanking virgil for!? he's full of shit, dude!
I met him once whilst walking by his field where he kept his donkeys. I was about 6 or 7 and out with my Dad and small brother. He has beautiful eyes. ❤
I was 14 in 1986... and I found this music so magic.....all my life I was alive, I stayed alive with mike oldfield.....: so pure, so positive...a specific music as a vision of a better world 🥰😊😇🙂🙃😍☺😊😊
MIKE OLDFIELD - Hergest Ridge - from wikipedia - ''Hergest Ridge'' is the second studio album by English musician and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released on 2 September 1974 by Virgin Records. The unexpected commercial and critical success of his debut album Tubular Bells (1973) affected Oldfield, who decided against touring and avoided the press with his newfound fame. Instead, he retreated to Hergest Ridge on the England-Wales border and wrote the follow-up, which he recorded in 1974 at The Manor in Oxfordshire, with Tom Newman returning as co-producer. Similar to Oldfield's first, the album is a single composition split into two parts covering different moods and musical styles.
The album was No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for three consecutive weeks before it was displaced by Tubular Bells, marking one of the few times an artist has overtaken themselves on the chart in this manner. In 2010, the album was reissued with new stereo and 5.1 surround sound mixes, bonus material, and new artwork. After the release of his debut album ''Tubular Bells'', Oldfield sought a countryside location to write a follow-up album. In early 1974 he drove around the West Country before turning north into Herefordshire. He arrived at Kington, a small town on the England-Wales border located in the shadow of Hergest Ridge, an elongated hill with a peak height of 425 metres (1,394 ft) which attracted Oldfield to stay in the area. He spotted a house named The Beacon on the edge of Bradnor Hill that was for sale and received permission from Virgin Records co-owner Richard Branson to buy it.
Oldfield settled into his new home but felt unsure of his next career move. His contract with Virgin allowed him a £25 wage and continual offers added to the pressure of appearing in public, causing Oldfield to suffer from panic attacks. He lacked any solid ideas for new music and chose to perform simple undemanding Medieval tunes with folk musician Les Penning at Penrhos Court, a local restaurant, in return for free wine. With encouragement from Branson, Oldfield started to write a follow-up to Tubular Bells following the delivery of a Farfisa organ, 4-track TEAC tape machine, and a mixing desk to his house.
Oldfield felt that half of the good sections on the album were so detailed and buried in the mix, it called for listeners to play the album on a high quality record player. He stated, "I have to listen really hard to pick out something that I know that I'm proud that I did". The climax to the album is something that he was particularly happy with. Comparisons of the album to Tubular Bells irritated him because he considered it a more arranged and fully conceived work. In 1975, Oldfield reflected on ''Hergest Ridge'' and thought it contained "some excellent ideas" but its recording was rushed, which affected the performance.
After initial recording sessions at Basing Street Studios, London and Chipping Norton Studios, Oxfordshire were abandoned, Oldfield recorded Hergest Ridge in the spring of 1974 at The Manor near Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, with Tom Newman resuming his role as co-producer with Oldfield. The album was mixed at AIR Studios on London's Oxford Street.
Music----
Similarly to ''Tubular Bells'', the album is divided into two movements. Oldfield frequently superimposes layers of electric guitar recorded by first amplifying heavily (to achieve a sustained organ-like quality) and then reducing the volume greatly via use of the Glorfindel Box (a custom guitar effects unit housed in plywood, which was extremely unreliable in its operation; the unit was obtained from David Bedford, who had been given the box at a party by its creator.) The volume was reduced further using the compression channel from the Manor's mixing console, as had been done on ''Tubular Bells Part 2''. Textures are extended further using various organ timbres and the use of voice as an instrument (the voice is never treated prominently and is deliberately reduced as much as possible and thus permitted largely for textural effect).
Track listing ---
All music is composed by Mike Oldfield.
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Hergest Ridge (Part One)" 21:29
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Hergest Ridge (Part Two)" 18:45
Personnel---
Credits are adapted from the 1974 liner notes.
Musicians---
Mike Oldfield - electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, glockenspiel, sleigh bells, mandolin, nutcracker, timpani, gong, Spanish guitar, Farfisa organ, Lowrey organ, GEM Gemini organ
June Whiting - oboe
Lindsay Cooper - oboe
Ted Hobart - trumpet
Terry Oldfield - flute
Chilli Charles - snare drum
Clodagh Simonds - vocals
Sally Oldfield - vocals
David Bedford - choir and strings conductor
i had forgotten about this album for more than 40 years. amazing to rediscover it.
This is all true, but Oldfield solved the rushed mix problems with the 1974 release two years later with the vastly superior 1976 release. The climax ending 6:30 was added using electric future and many structural refinements were made throughout the work making it fully conceived in 1976 compared to this rushed 1974 version. Oldfield was at his musical prime in the 1975-1978 period also and everything he touched then was magical.
I had this on continual repeat when I was fourteen, reading Lord of the Rings. Perfect soundtrack for that.
I can see that. I used it to relax and it helped me to sleep.
Bo Hansson made an instrumental album "Lord Of The Rings", in the 1970's IIRC. I still have my vinyl copy (somewhere). As one could guess, it goes perfectly with reading the book.
Many many years ago went on a outward bound course in shropshire having heard Hergest Ridge years before and they just seemed so suited to each other, quite an eerie feeling as you stare out over the mountains.
Brilliant, this is the 1974 version but the 1976 release is even better. It is on RUclips also thank goodness. Mike - please read this and make the 1976 release the standard release for all hundreds of future generations. I beg you.
It will probably be lost in the mists of time and secret folklore. What myriad of wonders that never manifest is almost infinite tragedy.
Actually the 76 version is very widely available on releases between 76 and 2010. The 74 version didn’t even get onto CD until 2010. For me the 74 wins.
Strangely, this was the second album I ever bought and now I only live a few miles away from Hergest Ridge.
Is it pronounced her'g'est or her'j'est? I
Brilliant album, second only to Ommadawn for me! 🥰
Yep!
Awesome 🧡
Great. I had this on vinyl, and when I dumped it all I never re-bought this on CD. I did replace TB and Ommadawn, but at the time I didn't think this was as good. Now I do.
Great...hypnotic
sad that so few people remember this.
Yeah. Sadder still, that even if the music were heard, can they slow down long enough to engage with the majik? This is so precious and transportive. We can only continue to be the ones who appreciate and regard.
I remember this and I had the LP back in the day. With people today and their tiny attention span after scrolling 20-second trifles on TikTok for hours, I think this kind of music is doomed, unfortunately. Who has the time to sit down and enjoy Hergest Ridge for 40 minutes? (I had Ommadawn and Tubular Bells on LP as well.)
I've got a lot of Mike Oldfield music, but for some reason I never heard this one.
you were missing a beautiful work of art here , dude!
"Casio meet Bass... Bass meet Casio. I'll met you back here in 2 hours."
What version is this? It's not the same mix as my dad's 1970's vinyl, or the 1980's CD edition.
❤️🧡💛
It has nice warm sections.
This should of BEEN DIFFERCULT TO KNOW WHICH MIKE OLDFIELD ALBUMS I LIKE THE BEST HERGIS RIDGE IS THE Tubular Bells part two ALBUM one of my favorites along with Ommadawn . Ilike these two albums im a great pink floyd fan UMMUGUMMA and ATOM HART MOTHER OTHER GROUPS HENRY COW ROBERT WYATT
The ELO NO ANSWER EMERSON LAKE PALMER RICK WAKEMAN AND MANY MORE THANKS for letting us hear this on you tube. Sorry my eye sight is poor i need glass to type this out. Its beggers belief as far as im concerned whe you see american groups getting over two hundrd million veiws some over 500million veiwsi noticed the Police track every breath you take hit over a billion veiws queen bohemin rhapsody over a billion veiws im not into any boy band One Direction have a look on you tube see how many veiws they have
磁力を帯びた電気の地球での奔走する惑動の憧憬。
i must admit, does not sound like the Hergest i have been hearing all this time. sounds like parts were added or accentuated, alternative cuts ? ... is it me ? Had it as an LP and became one of the first CDs i ever bought (when they started hitting the stores).
Where does it go from here?
Is it down to the lake, I fear?
Ah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah
Ah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah
(Then I call)
I would never be the one to say you had no reason
To want me somewhere else far far away
But someday you may understand, someday you will see
That someone who would die for you is all I've ever been
Congo the Congo, if that's how it's got to be
Congo the Congo, if that's what you want from me
Genesis "Congo" lyrics .
Call All Stations album.
I would never be the one to say you had no reason
To want me somewhere else far far away
But someday you may understand, someday you will see
That someone who would die for you is all I've ever been
Congo the Congo, if that's how it's got to be
Congo the Congo, if that's what you want from me
@@pauldockree9915 Okay, so your reason for posting lyrics from a completely different album is?
Its such a good record its a shame it didn't do so well as the bells
It though reached No.1 in the 'UK Album Charts' and peaked there for three weeks
I prefer it to Ommadawn!
me too!
Trash full of adverts.this platform is the pits.cant watch anything for more than 1 min anymore
I got a free ad blocker - Adguard. I never get any interruptions on RUclips!
@@robertashley7751 I feel your frustration, just know I do NOT monetize my uploads, so any ads you see are RUclips's doing not mine. If I could, I would block ads on my videos.
she went to church . . . crossed heart not legs
ja sam picka
Okkkk but did you like this album?
No. In definitive, is not a very good album. Strangely he is in the middle of the two Mike’s masterpieces: Tubular Bells and Ommadown.
Virgin saw dollar signs errr pound signs and insisted he bang out another album quickly.
Tastes differ...
N'oubliez pas Incantations.
@Rackamlebleu "Incantations" another masterpiece.
I remember recently having read somewhere that Oldfield mentioned about it: "some excellent motifs, but the production process was a bit rushed"
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
RIP Dame Edith
Say It Well
Ya Sitwell