I purchased Incantations on the day it was released. Unfortunately for me, I was 18 and lacked the patience to give the music the space it required, and also lacked the attentiveness it deserves. After some 40 odd years I listened to it again and oh my God. It's incredible. Recently Mike Oldfield described Incantations as the end of one part of his musical career and the beginning of another. I cant help but feel that the four instrumental compositions he opened his account with - from Tubular Bells to Incantations will be the ones most lovingly recalled and replayed. They will never die.
Diese LP Live Exposed von Mike Oldfield war meine 1Schallplatte von ihm, ich war jung 13/14 Jahre und liebe diese wunderschönen fließenden Stimmung en Klänge die das Herz ergreifen und fliegen lassen! An alle Herzmenschen, Liebe geht raus und habt eine gesegnete Zeit ❣️🙏😊
This tour nearly bankrupted Mike. I doubt if a better concept was ever staged; with such good music and a large number of musicians, for probably a modest ticket price.
This is Oldfield's most intellectual work - in that this is music intended not just to be heard but to be understood. Parts of it are pretty, parts of it are cool, but it's not super-accessible or "fun to listen to" in the way that, say, Ommadawn or Islands is. I believe that Oldfield would have done better to explain a lot more of the intellectual underpinnings of the work in the liner notes, as is fairly standard practice with Classical albums. This album has much more in common with modern, minimalist composers like Steve Reich and John Adams than it does with Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin. 'Incantations' is built around the intertwining concepts of the lunar cycles, the musical circle of fifths, the evocation of Diana (Roman goddess of the moon and of the hunt), and the Native American view of the sun and moon as they appear in Longfellow's 'Hiawatha'. The opening of the work signals this: the eight synthesized voices (lip-synched in this video) sing a theme, built of 5ths. A gong three times, and the strings play the same theme of 5ths. Then the circle-of-fifths theme begins; as the flute plays a complicated melody, the other instruments provide a chordal structure which rotates through 12 of the 24 musical keys. This idea is used again and again throughout the work. I could go on, but listening to it with these ideas in mind should help listeners enjoy this piece a lot more. If you are among the few who really love this album, please consider listening to The Desert Music, by Steve Reich, especially the performance by Alarm Will Sound. The full album is here; The Desert Music starts at about 30:54. ruclips.net/video/fiaTvR9sFX8/видео.html
+Matthew Scott Thanks for pointing out some background information, I am one of those who absolutely loved Incantations from the very beginning. I will check out your link, thanks for sharing and greetings from an old fan from Germany
I agree... probably along with Hergest Ridge which has an amazing modern classical layered feel.. but Incantations really is freakishly complex... You can really hear his influence from Phiilp Glass' Einstein on the Beach and those ever changing time signatures... but in a rock context! Bloody genius! Hiding complexity behind something most people will understand.. 3 stars on Allmusic??? 5 stars from me. You can't imagine anyone doing anything like this in the modern age...
Thank you for sharing this. I agree with what you're saying, and love that performance of 'Desert Music'. 'Incantations' and 'Hergest Ridge' are by far my favourite Mike Oldfield albums; they contain his usual lovely style, but with structural depths and musical play that rewards repeated listenings in a very unique way. Thanks also for your analysis. I think 'Incantations' is a particularly incredible work, and whenever I go back to it I'm reminded how much I wish more music of this stature was still created. :-)
I bought the Exposed LP at Christmas 1979 or in January 1980 and listened to it over and over. My introduction at age 13 to really "serious" music. I went to Mike's Platinum Tour a few months later in May 1980. Two nights in a row at the Glasgow Apollo. Wonderful!
MIKE OLDFIELD - EXPOSED live - ''Exposed'' is a live concert video by Mike Oldfield recorded in 1979 at Wembley Conference Centre. The live album of the same name was released in 1979; it also had the same artwork. A DVD version of the concert was released in 2005 (see 2005 in music). It was part of the Tour of Europe 1979. Exposed Video by Mike Oldfield Released October 24, 2005 Recorded April 1979 Wembley Conference Centre Genre Progressive rock Label Virgin
The DVD release is split into two discs, like the CD, but this time because the viewer can choose their own viewing angles. Track listing Disc one Intro "Incantations (Parts 1 & 2)" "Incantations (Parts 3 & 4)" Intermission Disc two "Tubular Bells (Part 1)" "Guilty" "Tubular Bells (Part 2)" Encore Recording Initially during the tour, the concerts were being recorded without the knowledge of the musicians, so that they could be paid just for the performance and not for the recording. The musicians found out about the practice, but the video was produced regardless. Personnel Guitars: Mike Oldfield, Nico Ramsden. Guitar, Vocals: Phil Beer Bass Guitar: Mike Oldfield, Nico Ramsden, Pekka Pohjola Drums, Percussion: Pierre Moerlen Percussion: Mike Frye, Benoit Moerlein, David Bedford Bodhran: Ringo McDonough Keyboards: Pete Lemer, Tim Cross Vocals: Maddy Prior Trumpets: Ray Gay, Ralph Izen, Simo Salminen, Colin Moore Flutes: Sebastian Bell, Chris Nicholls Violins: Dick Studt, Ben Cruft, Jane Price, Liz Edwards, Nicola Hurton, Jonathan Kahan Violas: Don McVay, Pauline Mack, Danny Daggers, Melinda Daggers, Liz Butler, Ross Cohen Celli: Nigel Warren Green, Vanessa Park, David Bucknall, Jessica Ford Basses: Nick Worters, Joe Kirby Choir: Debra Bronstein, Marigo Acheson, Emma Freud, Diana Coulson, Mary Elliot, Mary Creed, Cecily Hazell, Wendy Lampitt, Clara Harris, Emma Smith, Catherine Loewe String arrangements: David Bedford Extract from 'Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tour Co-ordinator: Sally Arnold Original Sleeve concept & design: Pearce Marchbank. Original photography: Chalkie Davies, Carol Starr, Sheila Rock, Tom Sheehan, Murray Close. Executive recording supervisor: Phillip R. Newell Recording Engineers: Alan Perkins, Greg Sriver, Kurt Munkacsi Assistants: Ken Capper, Chris Blake Recording unit: The Manor Studio's Mobile Remixing studio: The Town House, London Produced by Phillip R Newell and Mike Oldfield. Project A&R: Jason Day Project co-ordinator: Tom Wegg-Prosser
Introduced to Mike Oldfield by the space movie 🚀🛰️in the 70s, I was probably about 10yo. Loved the visuals, loved the music. It’s taken until the 2020s to see it on RUclips, before that it was a vague memory. As per Mr Sevillian, thank you RUclips. He’s an amazing artist.
I can't breathe and my heart is increasing in speed.. This music is sublime and transforming beyond description. Incantations was Oldfield's peak and what a towering peak.
Even after hearing Incantations, or Hergest Ridge, perhaps 5,000 times I still discover something new on almost every additional listening, somewhere within the texture - a motif played very softly taken from another subject, or discovering some musical relation that I hadn't observed before! The only thing I have learned about Oldfield's early works is to not be surprised about being surprised
And here lies the magic of RUclips. Never in my life would I have stood a chance of watching this footage, if not for this P2P platform. Thanks for posting!
i can remember the first time my mate said in 92 thare will be a time that. ware a tv channel ware ya could watch listen to any concert. done hear we are loved ma bootlegs
Ambient music when ambient music was not even an idea. Mike Oldfield way ahead of his time. So grateful that I got to see him play live like most of my musical heroes.
Not ambient. This is new age and progressive rock. Ambient is slow electronic music, often without rythm. But still ahead of his time and developing new sound. Have a good day. 🙂
@@biketommy999 I personally hate these labels on music like ambient or new age or progressive. My main point is that Mike's talent in producing instrumental music of many layers was one of the first of its kind and deserves credit for inspiring musicians of today trying to do the same thing.
La New age è Mike ,il primo a proporre questo genere musicale,un misto di musica tribale africana,musica nativa americana,musica medievale, rock progressivo e classica.
Descubrí este álbum en 1995, me lo grabé en una cinta de cassette de un viejo disco de mi primo. Yo tenía 16 años y me fascinó. En el instituto, en clase de filosofía nos hicieron leer Un mundo feliz de Aldous Huxley y me ponía esta música de fondo 💜✨
I wish the sequence starting at about 12 minutes lasted forever. My favourite bit of Oldfield. This live version is better than the studio version imho. These wonderful people are all older now and I hope their kids are impressed.
El nombre de Mike Oldfield me sonaba de toda la vida. Sabía que era un artista conocido mundialmente, pero nunca me había parado a escuchar su música (a excepción de Tubular Bells, claro). Descubrirle ha sido estupendo. Me gusta mucho.
The Vibraphone part is mesmerizing. I'm watching the whole concert every few weeks and love it. I've seen Mike Oldfield a few times in the early 80s in concert but none sounded anywhere near as good as "Exposed" with its full orechestra and choir. Love it.
Absolut masterpiece. I can't breath. Escuchar esto con auriculares , tumbado, sin luz... Es absolutamente mágico. Junto con Ommadawn, lo mejor de lo mejor
Plane, plane au dessus des nuages, sa musique te porte, tu ne tomberas pas !! 35 ans que je suis fan, merci Mike, je ferme les yeux en t'écoutant et je ne vieillis pas !!
❤Cuando oigo musica como esta es cuando menos me gusta lo que se toca hoy en dia, no queda mas que admitir lo cierto y es que el guapo Mike Oldfield es todo un genio tanto para tocar como para componer. Gracias y saludos.
I have always loved Oldfield's music and have virtually all of his oeuvre. Personally I find that the early works, culminating around Discovery as an unbroken chain of productivity, and later including Amarok, are the best of Mike Oldfield. The studio albums can seem a little sterile in comparison with the live works which, given Oldfield's shyness and famous reticence to perform live (hence "Exposed") is legendary. Oldfield's early, live, works are probably my favourite contemporary works of any musician. The later variants of Tubular Bells and other, collaborative efforts don't get played so much. The 70's was a particularly fecund era of musical productivity and prodigy, especially in England. I just hope "Return To Ommadawn" repays my belief in Oldfield better than Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene 3 has in him.
Sometimes I have the feeling that with the quality of music one can measure the state of society in general. It goes up and down, 70s were definitely an up.
Man this is really great stuff! In the late 80ies I did have Exposed on cassette but lost it. Now to hear it again it just gives me the chills. Thanx for posting!
Dios como me habría gustado estar ahí ❤😢. Me encanta todo, pero la parte final, Dios, GRACIAS. Menudas imágenes, lindo los aviones volar. ESPECTACULAR. Gracias por rescatar grabaciones así, y compartirlo. 🦋
33 ans que j écoute ce génie et franchement je ne m en lasse jamais. Cette période est certainement pour moi la meilleure et grâce à @youtube je peux voir des concerts que je ne pouvais voir en live car trop petit. Merci
By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of the wigwam, In the early Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him, through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest Passed in golden swarms the Ahmo, Passed the bees, the honey-makers, Burning, singing in the sunshine. Bright above him shone the heavens, Level spread the lake before him; From its bosom leaped the sturgeon, Sparkling, flashing in the sunshine; On its margin the great forest Stood reflected in the water, Every tree-top had its shadow, Motionless beneath the water. From the brow of Hiawatha Gone was every trace of sorrow, As the fog from off the water, As the mist from off the meadow. With a smile of joy and gladness, With a look of exultation, As of one who in a vision Sees what is to be, but is not, Stood and waited Hiawatha. Toward the sun his hands were lifted, Both the palms spread out toward it, And between the parted fingers Fell the sunshine on his features, Flecked with light his naked shoulders, As it falls and flecks an oak-tree Through the rifted leaves and branches. O′er the water floating, flying, Something in the hazy distance, Something in the mists of morning, Loomed and lifted from the water, Now seemed floating, now seemed flying, Coming nearer, nearer, nearer. Was it Shingebis the diver? Or the pelican, the Shada? Or the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah? Or the white goose, Waw-be-wana, With the water dripping, flashing, From its glossy neck and feathers? It was neither goose nor diver, Neither pelican nor heron, O'er the water floating, flying, Through the shining mist of morning, But a birch canoe with paddles, Rising, sinking on the water, Dripping, flashing in the sunshine; And within it came a people Can it be the sun descending O′er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by the magic arrow, Staining all the waves with crimson, With the crimson of its life-blood, Filling all the air with splendor, Filling all the air with plumage? Yes; it is the sun descending, Sinking down into the water; All the sky is stained with purple, All the water flushed with crimson! No; it is the Red Swan floating, Diving down beneath the water; To the sky its wings are lifted, With its blood the waves are reddened! Over it the Star of Evening Melts and trembles through the purple, Hangs suspended in the twilight, Walks in silence through the heavens.
Incantations the last good old Mike Oldfield before Platinum & the synth hit music era of the 1980's but I like that era too until the 1990's when most went wrong.
I remember finding the vinyl while browsing the record store one day. It was warped and the cover was folded, but I grabbed it; I wasn't sure that I'd ever find it again. Luckily digital came around and released the recordings. But I am stunned by this video capture. Thanks for sharing!
Para User, regalo esta música, no te regalo poco siendo MIKE OLDFIELD mi fan❤😘🦋Esta música...sería mi último deseo si fuese mi último día ❤🦋🦋🦋, por eso la escucho todos los días, por si mañana no hay mañana. Esta transmisión es una obra de arte como todos sus directos, y algo tiene Esta música cualquiera de MIKE OLDFIELD que te hace ser más feliz al instante.
53:45 I was at this concert and was so mad when the concert had to be abandoned due to those hooligans throwing paper airplanes at the band. I think one of the airplanes hit one of the keyboard players in the eye. Such a shame that those few spoiled it for the rest of us.
'Incantations' is in my opinion his most psychedelic and complex instrumental composition. Must have been a very difficult task to compose and record it
i heard the Guitar Solo from pt 4 of Incantation once on his TBII Tour, that was the best i ever heard live of all Groups i dont find it live on RUclips or else
I just rediscoverd this by buying the remaster CD of Incantations for a very reasonable price. They don't make 'm like that anymore. Not even Oldfield himself who has been trying to reinvent Tubular Bells too many time. Not that ther where no other highpoints since then.Crisis and Amarok also still rate high on my list.
Really amazing to see this. I remember having the Exposed CD back in the mid 80s... also had a VHS but don't think it was this concert as I recall it was outdoors. Wow... so bloody amazing... the only detractor being that Mike never played that guitar solo from Pt3... but Pt4 with the great vibraphone passages in different time signatures. I honestly think Mike Oldfield really peaked here.
@@fishfire_2999 not sure what u mean. I bought my first CD in 1986... was first year of employment after school.. I remember everyone was still buying LPs and I was one of the first of my peers to buy a CD player... CDs were about twice the price of an LP back then... I bought Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits... not sure it actually still works :)
@@neilloughran4437 Thinking back I can remember around 92 the first affordable car CD players were refurbished Sony's Sound Exchange $200 , thinking back guess they were around prior just want able to afford them yet 💿👍
@@fishfire_2999 I think I bought a sharp CD player for around 150 quid in 86 it was pretty rubbish to be honest. It had some incompatibilities with CDs that were beyond a certain length. It only lasted about two years and then I bought a Sony one for about 200. Considering I was only on about 50 quid a week in the shipyard it was pretty expensive for the time.
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I purchased Incantations on the day it was released. Unfortunately for me, I was 18 and lacked the patience to give the music the space it required, and also lacked the attentiveness it deserves. After some 40 odd years I listened to it again and oh my God. It's incredible.
Recently Mike Oldfield described Incantations as the end of one part of his musical career and the beginning of another. I cant help but feel that the four instrumental compositions he opened his account with - from Tubular Bells to Incantations will be the ones most lovingly recalled and replayed. They will never die.
I loved this from age 14. One of his best for sure!
Platinum to Discovery are also very special and will be remembered. They just have different moods in some ways.
yea i agree tb hr od inc
Man, Maddy Prior sounds great on the studio version, but here she sounds absolutely sublime. What a voice.
TooRollingStoned she was more stond and high and drunk here thus red in the face
Mike Oldfield is the greatest multi-talented musician of all time.
Absolutely
This brings me back to my youth, lying in bed with my headphones on, listening to those angelic voices, and playing it back, over and over...
Yes it’s like visiting another dimension. What an underrated genius he is.
RnemeiR correct i was in primary school
Diese LP Live Exposed von Mike Oldfield war meine 1Schallplatte von ihm, ich war jung 13/14 Jahre und liebe diese wunderschönen fließenden Stimmung en Klänge die das Herz ergreifen und fliegen lassen!
An alle Herzmenschen, Liebe geht raus und habt eine gesegnete Zeit ❣️🙏😊
Probably one of this planets finest compositions
to pull something like this LIVE is a triumph
When we still had time for music, for sophisticated music.
This tour nearly bankrupted Mike. I doubt if a better concept was ever staged; with such good music and a large number of musicians, for probably a modest ticket price.
This is Oldfield's most intellectual work - in that this is music intended not just to be heard but to be understood. Parts of it are pretty, parts of it are cool, but it's not super-accessible or "fun to listen to" in the way that, say, Ommadawn or Islands is. I believe that Oldfield would have done better to explain a lot more of the intellectual underpinnings of the work in the liner notes, as is fairly standard practice with Classical albums. This album has much more in common with modern, minimalist composers like Steve Reich and John Adams than it does with Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin.
'Incantations' is built around the intertwining concepts of the lunar cycles, the musical circle of fifths, the evocation of Diana (Roman goddess of the moon and of the hunt), and the Native American view of the sun and moon as they appear in Longfellow's 'Hiawatha'.
The opening of the work signals this: the eight synthesized voices (lip-synched in this video) sing a theme, built of 5ths. A gong three times, and the strings play the same theme of 5ths. Then the circle-of-fifths theme begins; as the flute plays a complicated melody, the other instruments provide a chordal structure which rotates through 12 of the 24 musical keys. This idea is used again and again throughout the work.
I could go on, but listening to it with these ideas in mind should help listeners enjoy this piece a lot more. If you are among the few who really love this album, please consider listening to The Desert Music, by Steve Reich, especially the performance by Alarm Will Sound.
The full album is here; The Desert Music starts at about 30:54. ruclips.net/video/fiaTvR9sFX8/видео.html
+Matthew Scott Thanks for pointing out some background information, I am one of those who absolutely loved Incantations from the very beginning. I will check out your link, thanks for sharing and greetings from an old fan from Germany
I agree... probably along with Hergest Ridge which has an amazing modern classical layered feel.. but Incantations really is freakishly complex... You can really hear his influence from Phiilp Glass' Einstein on the Beach and those ever changing time signatures... but in a rock context! Bloody genius! Hiding complexity behind something most people will understand.. 3 stars on Allmusic??? 5 stars from me. You can't imagine anyone doing anything like this in the modern age...
Thank you for sharing this. I agree with what you're saying, and love that performance of 'Desert Music'. 'Incantations' and 'Hergest Ridge' are by far my favourite Mike Oldfield albums; they contain his usual lovely style, but with structural depths and musical play that rewards repeated listenings in a very unique way. Thanks also for your analysis. I think 'Incantations' is a particularly incredible work, and whenever I go back to it I'm reminded how much I wish more music of this stature was still created. :-)
Insightful take - appreciated by one of the few who truly love this album.
I bought the Exposed LP at Christmas 1979 or in January 1980 and listened to it over and over. My introduction at age 13 to really "serious" music. I went to Mike's Platinum Tour a few months later in May 1980. Two nights in a row at the Glasgow Apollo. Wonderful!
i love the tb version on that album stillgot the doubble lp
part 4 is the most amazing piece of music ever created.. I listen to it every day
Especially the last bit after the vibraphone bit which is a bit long.
MIKE OLDFIELD - EXPOSED live - ''Exposed'' is a live concert video by Mike Oldfield recorded in 1979 at Wembley Conference Centre. The live album of the same name was released in 1979; it also had the same artwork. A DVD version of the concert was released in 2005 (see 2005 in music). It was part of the Tour of Europe 1979.
Exposed
Video by Mike Oldfield
Released
October 24, 2005
Recorded
April 1979
Wembley Conference Centre
Genre
Progressive rock
Label
Virgin
The DVD release is split into two discs, like the CD, but this time because the viewer can choose their own viewing angles.
Track listing
Disc one
Intro
"Incantations (Parts 1 & 2)"
"Incantations (Parts 3 & 4)"
Intermission
Disc two
"Tubular Bells (Part 1)"
"Guilty"
"Tubular Bells (Part 2)"
Encore
Recording
Initially during the tour, the concerts were being recorded without the knowledge of the musicians, so that they could be paid just for the performance and not for the recording. The musicians found out about the practice, but the video was produced regardless.
Personnel
Guitars: Mike Oldfield, Nico Ramsden.
Guitar, Vocals: Phil Beer
Bass Guitar: Mike Oldfield, Nico Ramsden, Pekka Pohjola
Drums, Percussion: Pierre Moerlen
Percussion: Mike Frye, Benoit Moerlein, David Bedford
Bodhran: Ringo McDonough
Keyboards: Pete Lemer, Tim Cross
Vocals: Maddy Prior
Trumpets: Ray Gay, Ralph Izen, Simo Salminen, Colin Moore
Flutes: Sebastian Bell, Chris Nicholls
Violins: Dick Studt, Ben Cruft, Jane Price, Liz Edwards, Nicola Hurton, Jonathan Kahan
Violas: Don McVay, Pauline Mack, Danny Daggers, Melinda Daggers, Liz Butler, Ross Cohen
Celli: Nigel Warren Green, Vanessa Park, David Bucknall, Jessica Ford
Basses: Nick Worters, Joe Kirby
Choir: Debra Bronstein, Marigo Acheson, Emma Freud, Diana Coulson, Mary Elliot, Mary Creed, Cecily Hazell, Wendy Lampitt, Clara Harris, Emma Smith, Catherine Loewe
String arrangements: David Bedford
Extract from 'Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tour Co-ordinator: Sally Arnold
Original Sleeve concept & design: Pearce Marchbank.
Original photography: Chalkie Davies, Carol Starr, Sheila Rock, Tom Sheehan, Murray Close.
Executive recording supervisor: Phillip R. Newell
Recording Engineers: Alan Perkins, Greg Sriver, Kurt Munkacsi
Assistants: Ken Capper, Chris Blake
Recording unit: The Manor Studio's Mobile
Remixing studio: The Town House, London
Produced by Phillip R Newell and Mike Oldfield.
Project A&R: Jason Day
Project co-ordinator: Tom Wegg-Prosser
Music of my youth - beautiful until now. Thanks, Mike, for those two great compositions: Tubular Bells & Incantations.
Introduced to Mike Oldfield by the space movie 🚀🛰️in the 70s, I was probably about 10yo. Loved the visuals, loved the music. It’s taken until the 2020s to see it on RUclips, before that it was a vague memory. As per Mr Sevillian, thank you RUclips. He’s an amazing artist.
Sebastian Bell and Chris Nicholls deserve high praise for the epic flute melodies.
MIKE IS THE BEST OF THE BEST OF THE BEST, GENIOUS TOTAL
I can't breathe and my heart is increasing in speed.. This music is sublime and transforming beyond description. Incantations was Oldfield's peak and what a towering peak.
Yes his first 3 works were full of emotion but were self absorbed. This album was looking more outward in optimism. It was more refreshing.
Even after hearing Incantations, or Hergest Ridge, perhaps 5,000 times I still discover something new on almost every additional listening, somewhere within the texture - a motif played very softly taken from another subject, or discovering some musical relation that I hadn't observed before! The only thing I have learned about Oldfield's early works is to not be surprised about being surprised
And here lies the magic of RUclips. Never in my life would I have stood a chance of watching this footage, if not for this P2P platform. Thanks for posting!
i can remember the first time my mate said in 92 thare will be a time that. ware a tv channel ware ya could watch listen to any concert. done hear we are loved ma bootlegs
Right.
The best muzic în The world, Mike Oldfield composer and guitarist😮
So true!
Yo lo mismo pienso, no he visto un directo, ésto es lo más próximo.
J'ai vus ça de mes yeux et j'en ai pleuré. Merci Mike. Tu es le meilleur.
Il mio disco preferito ! Meraviglioso!
When he is gone...most of the world will not know what they missed. Sad. singular genius.
An angel. He Is from out there 🎉❤
Ambient music when ambient music was not even an idea. Mike Oldfield way ahead of his time. So grateful that I got to see him play live like most of my musical heroes.
Not ambient. This is new age and progressive rock. Ambient is slow electronic music, often without rythm. But still ahead of his time and developing new sound. Have a good day. 🙂
@@biketommy999
I personally hate these labels on music like ambient or new age or progressive. My main point is that Mike's talent in producing instrumental music of many layers was one of the first of its kind and deserves credit for inspiring musicians of today trying to do the same thing.
Obviously not ambient music. Heard of Brian Eno by any chance???
La New age è Mike ,il primo a proporre questo genere musicale,un misto di musica tribale africana,musica nativa americana,musica medievale, rock progressivo e classica.
Music of my youth. What a fantastic and deep composition.
there is nothing like mike's music in this world...
there is Pat Metheny !!
The greatest piece of music of all time
absolute handmade Music , nice sound. Mike Oldfield perfect.
Descubrí este álbum en 1995, me lo grabé en una cinta de cassette de un viejo disco de mi primo. Yo tenía 16 años y me fascinó. En el instituto, en clase de filosofía nos hicieron leer Un mundo feliz de Aldous Huxley y me ponía esta música de fondo 💜✨
Mike was on a higher vibration. No wonder he struggled with ordinary life.
Nací en el 1972 y crecí con esta música.
Aún me sigue enamorando como el primer dia.
Coincidimos en ambas cosas :-)
Otro más de la quinta que coincide en todo con vosotros. Su música me ha acompañado toda mi vida.
Me uno a vosotros. Yo del '71. Somos unos privilegiados. Esto es música y suena completamente vigente e innovadora
I wish the sequence starting at about 12 minutes lasted forever. My favourite bit of Oldfield. This live version is better than the studio version imho. These wonderful people are all older now and I hope their kids are impressed.
[00:01] Intro
[02:20] Incantations (Parts 1 & 2)
[32:30] Incantations (Parts 3 & 4)
El nombre de Mike Oldfield me sonaba de toda la vida. Sabía que era un artista conocido mundialmente, pero nunca me había parado a escuchar su música (a excepción de Tubular Bells, claro). Descubrirle ha sido estupendo. Me gusta mucho.
Te envidio por conocerlo ahora. Yo lo descubrí en los 90 y por casualidad. Pedí de regalo el tubular Bells II pensando que era de jean Michelle jarre.
The Vibraphone part is mesmerizing. I'm watching the whole concert every few weeks and love it. I've seen Mike Oldfield a few times in the early 80s in concert but none sounded anywhere near as good as "Exposed" with its full orechestra and choir. Love it.
Absolut masterpiece. I can't breath.
Escuchar esto con auriculares , tumbado, sin luz... Es absolutamente mágico. Junto con Ommadawn, lo mejor de lo mejor
Totalmente de acuerdo.
Hell of a concert ! How could he create such a great music?
Genius. Before the drugs kicked in.
When I first started listening to Incantations parts of it would bring a tear to my Eye, no other music has done that.
Beyond amazing! My favorite release turned into concert! Mu🎉 BLISS instruments 🎸 🥁 🎤
Plane, plane au dessus des nuages, sa musique te porte, tu ne tomberas pas !! 35 ans que je suis fan, merci Mike, je ferme les yeux en t'écoutant et je ne vieillis pas !!
oldfield is just great, haven´t heared this one for ages !
Great stuff. I saw this tour in Brussels.
❤Cuando oigo musica como esta es cuando menos me gusta lo que se toca hoy en dia, no queda mas que admitir lo cierto y es que el guapo Mike Oldfield es todo un genio tanto para tocar como para componer. Gracias y saludos.
Love the clapping sequense where Mike “conducts”.
I have always loved Oldfield's music and have virtually all of his oeuvre. Personally I find that the early works, culminating around Discovery as an unbroken chain of productivity, and later including Amarok, are the best of Mike Oldfield. The studio albums can seem a little sterile in comparison with the live works which, given Oldfield's shyness and famous reticence to perform live (hence "Exposed") is legendary. Oldfield's early, live, works are probably my favourite contemporary works of any musician. The later variants of Tubular Bells and other, collaborative efforts don't get played so much. The 70's was a particularly fecund era of musical productivity and prodigy, especially in England. I just hope "Return To Ommadawn" repays my belief in Oldfield better than Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene 3 has in him.
Sometimes I have the feeling that with the quality of music one can measure the state of society in general. It goes up and down, 70s were definitely an up.
Man this is really great stuff! In the late 80ies I did have Exposed on cassette but lost it. Now to hear it again it just gives me the chills. Thanx for posting!
No problem. I figured a lot of people would enjoy watching this all in one video instead of segmented. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
what a wonderful piece of music this is.
1:33 The king of percussion! The best drummer to have ever lived! :)
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Criminally underrated drummer.
Dios como me habría gustado estar ahí ❤😢. Me encanta todo, pero la parte final, Dios, GRACIAS. Menudas imágenes, lindo los aviones volar. ESPECTACULAR. Gracias por rescatar grabaciones así, y compartirlo. 🦋
33 ans que j écoute ce génie et franchement je ne m en lasse jamais. Cette période est certainement pour moi la meilleure et grâce à @youtube je peux voir des concerts que je ne pouvais voir en live car trop petit. Merci
Wow, so great, got wonderful memories of this concert. To see Pierre and Maddy here, great!
this could be, no I dare say, my FAVORITE musical piece. please share with non-listeners.
Ever since he got his first rolls he will always be the finest musician 👍🍾
Can’t believe I’m actually watching this. This is why I pay for RUclips.
So great to hear this again! Thank you for posting!
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of the wigwam,
In the early Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.
All the air was full of freshness,
All the earth was bright and joyous,
And before him, through the sunshine,
Westward toward the neighboring forest
Passed in golden swarms the Ahmo,
Passed the bees, the honey-makers,
Burning, singing in the sunshine.
Bright above him shone the heavens,
Level spread the lake before him;
From its bosom leaped the sturgeon,
Sparkling, flashing in the sunshine;
On its margin the great forest
Stood reflected in the water,
Every tree-top had its shadow,
Motionless beneath the water.
From the brow of Hiawatha
Gone was every trace of sorrow,
As the fog from off the water,
As the mist from off the meadow.
With a smile of joy and gladness,
With a look of exultation,
As of one who in a vision
Sees what is to be, but is not,
Stood and waited Hiawatha.
Toward the sun his hands were lifted,
Both the palms spread out toward it,
And between the parted fingers
Fell the sunshine on his features,
Flecked with light his naked shoulders,
As it falls and flecks an oak-tree
Through the rifted leaves and branches.
O′er the water floating, flying,
Something in the hazy distance,
Something in the mists of morning,
Loomed and lifted from the water,
Now seemed floating, now seemed flying,
Coming nearer, nearer, nearer.
Was it Shingebis the diver?
Or the pelican, the Shada?
Or the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah?
Or the white goose, Waw-be-wana,
With the water dripping, flashing,
From its glossy neck and feathers?
It was neither goose nor diver,
Neither pelican nor heron,
O'er the water floating, flying,
Through the shining mist of morning,
But a birch canoe with paddles,
Rising, sinking on the water,
Dripping, flashing in the sunshine;
And within it came a people
Can it be the sun descending
O′er the level plain of water?
Or the Red Swan floating, flying,
Wounded by the magic arrow,
Staining all the waves with crimson,
With the crimson of its life-blood,
Filling all the air with splendor,
Filling all the air with plumage?
Yes; it is the sun descending,
Sinking down into the water;
All the sky is stained with purple,
All the water flushed with crimson!
No; it is the Red Swan floating,
Diving down beneath the water;
To the sky its wings are lifted,
With its blood the waves are reddened!
Over it the Star of Evening
Melts and trembles through the purple,
Hangs suspended in the twilight,
Walks in silence through the heavens.
Incantations the last good old Mike Oldfield before Platinum & the synth hit music era of the 1980's but I like that era too until the 1990's when most went wrong.
you should try AMAROK...
This never gets old!
Field, that is....
Toda una Obra de Arte, todo lo que toca Mike se convierte en Oro, saludos desde Punta Umbría.
I remember finding the vinyl while browsing the record store one day. It was warped and the cover was folded, but I grabbed it; I wasn't sure that I'd ever find it again. Luckily digital came around and released the recordings. But I am stunned by this video capture. Thanks for sharing!
thank you for uploading this
And to see Maddy Prior at her best... from "All Around My Hat" to "Hiawatha".
UN GENIO!!!
Un maestro, imaginativo, creativo, inspirador... SUBLIME!!!
Fabuleux !!
The soundtrack of my life❤!
Para User, regalo esta música, no te regalo poco siendo MIKE OLDFIELD mi fan❤😘🦋Esta música...sería mi último deseo si fuese mi último día ❤🦋🦋🦋, por eso la escucho todos los días, por si mañana no hay mañana. Esta transmisión es una obra de arte como todos sus directos, y algo tiene Esta música cualquiera de MIKE OLDFIELD que te hace ser más feliz al instante.
Mike... Blessed man...
Great concert saw show in Birmingham Mike Oldfield at his best played Tubular Bells at same concert Amazing!!!!
Pure Awsomeness!
Es ist eine schöne Klang vielfalte, bei dem man Träumen einen Sinn geben kann.
Mais quel merveille !!!
53:45 I was at this concert and was so mad when the concert had to be abandoned due to those hooligans throwing paper airplanes at the band. I think one of the airplanes hit one of the keyboard players in the eye. Such a shame that those few spoiled it for the rest of us.
Had not heard. .this longgg time..so many memorieS..kraZy dayS
Magnifique
Sublime concierto. el maestro haciendo su magia.
When you're listening to Michael field music, you don't need to be interrupted by ads on RUclips!
If there are ads - commercial in the videos. Go from start to finish quickly, then start again from the beginning. Works on all videos.
At 15:58 on the background dear late Pekka Pohjola, finnish prog bassist, composer, sibelian solo act. .
Sono nato nel 64 è Mike è stato la colonna sonora della mia gioventù fino a Discovery 1984
'Incantations' is in my opinion his most psychedelic and complex instrumental composition. Must have been a very difficult task to compose and record it
Nádhera,můžu ho poslouchat pořád.
C'est toi Mike qui ma inspiré à jouer du synthétiseur. REVIENT NOUS. 😍😍
Excelente....guitarrista su música es de otro nivel...cosmico
Thanks for this. Much better lit than the original DVD release.
You are right. It's better
I only just discovered this (I am a wee bit slow with the interweb), but, Oh Wow, am I impressed ! ...Mike Oldfield... Incantations...
Beautiful music show ❤
Wonderful!
Impresionante música. Me transporta esa combinación y fusión de instrumentos y voces
Love you Cowracer!!! Great stuff bro!! One humbly bows!!!!! ^^ :):)
¡CULMINANTE!
Yea mike oldfield is the best use to play tubular bells in the college dorms back in the 70,S
Si me habré transportado con esta música y en especial con este tema.
Thanks..... magic.....I whis I was there....;-(
i heard the Guitar Solo from pt 4 of Incantation once on his TBII Tour, that was the best i ever heard live of all Groups
i dont find it live on RUclips or else
I just rediscoverd this by buying the remaster CD of Incantations for a very reasonable price. They don't make 'm like that anymore. Not even Oldfield himself who has been trying to reinvent Tubular Bells too many time. Not that ther where no other highpoints since then.Crisis and Amarok also still rate high on my list.
Thank you so much Youpub for the shit you put every 5 minute in this beautiful concert
How beautifully natural looking is Sally the Tour Manager
I bought the DVD when it came out and it's superb plus Sally Arnold is yummy!
Isn't he referring to the DVD that we're watching ? He bought it when it was first issued.
Really amazing to see this. I remember having the Exposed CD back in the mid 80s... also had a VHS but don't think it was this concert as I recall it was outdoors. Wow... so bloody amazing... the only detractor being that Mike never played that guitar solo from Pt3... but Pt4 with the great vibraphone passages in different time signatures. I honestly think Mike Oldfield really peaked here.
Cds mid 80s ? Ok mandella is real.
@@fishfire_2999 not sure what u mean. I bought my first CD in 1986... was first year of employment after school.. I remember everyone was still buying LPs and I was one of the first of my peers to buy a CD player... CDs were about twice the price of an LP back then... I bought Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits... not sure it actually still works :)
@@neilloughran4437 Thinking back I can remember around 92 the first affordable car CD players were refurbished Sony's Sound Exchange $200 , thinking back guess they were around prior just want able to afford them yet 💿👍
@@fishfire_2999 I think I bought a sharp CD player for around 150 quid in 86 it was pretty rubbish to be honest. It had some incompatibilities with CDs that were beyond a certain length.
It only lasted about two years and then I bought a Sony one for about 200. Considering I was only on about 50 quid a week in the shipyard it was pretty expensive for the time.
@@neilloughran4437 Primeval forest is great,good stuff, thanks for sharing cool memories ✌
An angelic event. Mike came ftom outer space. Thanks for letting us hear and partake.
Roland SH-2000!!!
Will he ever tour again? I was fortunate enough to see him perform in the 80's.