Hergest Ridge Full Album
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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2023
- The follow-up album to Mike Oldfield's classic Tubular Bells, issued in 1974. Relaxing music for a rainy afternoon or for a good night's rest. I personally used to use it to help with insomnia back in the day.
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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 -🙂🙂😉❤ !!!
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@@dancingvirgil beautifully put
It has nice warm sections.
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.
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.
Strangely, this was the second album I ever bought and now I only live a few miles away from Hergest Ridge.
Thank you.
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.
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.)
Awesome 🧡
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Great...hypnotic
I prefer it to Ommadawn!
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
Trash full of adverts.this platform is the pits.cant watch anything for more than 1 min anymore
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...
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