Product Overview
Mike Oldfield – Earth Moving / Virgin Audio CD 2000 / MIKECD14
UPC 724384938420
Product Details:
Label: Virgin – MIKECD 14
Series: Mike Oldfield Remastered HDCD
Format: CD, Album, Remastered, Reissue, HDCD
Country: Europe
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic
Style: Jazzdance, Experimental
Description:
Earth Moving is the 12th record album by British musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1989. Unlike Oldfield's albums released prior to Earth Moving, the album contains no instrumental tracks.
Editorial Review:
Earth Moving was one of the last installments in Mike Oldfield's series of pop experiments, and the record does sound as if the musician was running out of patience with the genre. Many listeners have written off this period, but there were interesting moments that passionate fans still appreciate. Oldfield commits completely to the pop/rock format on Earth Moving by excluding the kind of long intro piece that he often used to kick off other '80s recordings. Instead, the composer puts a sprawling but focused (by Oldfield standards) eight-minute number, "Nothing But/Bridge to Paradise," at the end of this 1989 release. The musician/composer displays a more deft pop hand throughout this offering, which probably isn't such a good thing. The quirkiness of discs like Crisis is exactly what makes them interesting. Unfortunately, songs like "Hostage" are so conventional, they sound unimaginative: almost -- no, exactly -- like bad '80s soundtrack numbers. Not just casual fans, but even Oldfield loyalists will have trouble with Earth Moving, one of the artist's lesser albums
Tracklist:
| 1 | Holy
Vocals – Adrian Belew, Phil Spalding |
4:37 |
| 2 | Hostage
Vocals – Max Bacon, Nikkie "B" Bentley |
4:09 |
| 3 | Far Country
Vocals – Mark Williamson |
4:25 |
| 4 | Innocent
Vocals – Anita Hegerland |
3:30 |
| 5 | Runaway Son
Vocals – Chris Thompson, Phil Spalding |
4:05 |
| 6 | See The Light
Vocals – Chris Thompson, Phil Spalding |
3:59 |
| 7 | Earth Moving
Vocals – Max Bacon, Nikkie "B" Bentley |
4:03 |
| 8 |
Blue Night
Vocals – Daniel Lazerus, Maggie Reilly |
3:47 |
| 9 | Nothing But / Bridge To Paradise
Vocals – Carol Kenyon, Max Bacon, Paul Lee, Phil Spalding |
8:40 |
More Details:
- Coordinator [Remastered Series Co-ordinator] – Jason Day
- Crew [Personal Assistant] – Jeremy Parker (3)
- Design, Artwork [Reissue] – Rina Cheung
- Engineer [Casting At Tape One] – Denis Blackham
- Liner Notes [Sleeve Notes] – David Laing
- Producer – Daniel Lazerus, Mike Oldfield
- Remastered By – Simon Heyworth
- Technician [Technical Advisor] – Richard Barrie
- Written-By, Engineer, Programmed By – Mike Oldfield
About the Artist:
Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer. His work blends progressive rock with world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new-age music. His biggest commercial success is the 1973 album Tubular Bells – which launched Virgin Records and became a hit in America after its opening was used as the theme for the horror film The Exorcist. He recorded the 1983 hit single "Moonlight Shadow" and a rendition of the Christmas piece "In Dulci Jubilo".
Oldfield has released 26 albums, most recently a sequel to his 1975 album Ommadawn titled Return to Ommadawn, on 20 January 2017.
