Label: WEA Music (Japan), WPCR-807
Style: Celtic, Instrumental, New Age
Country: Reading, Berkshire, England (15 May 1953)
Time: 58:30
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 354 Mb
The
music on this album is the most overtly Celtic music Mike Oldfield has
produced. The album was originally recorded using only acoustic
hand-played instruments. After the daughter of a Warner Music exec said
it sounded boring, Oldfield added synthesizers and more instruments to
the album.
"The Song of the Sun" is song composed by Bieito Romero of
the Galician Celtic band Luar na Lubre whose original title is "O son
do ar" ("The sound of the air")."The Hero" is a Scottish piece
originally written by James Scott Skinner in 1903, as "Hector the Hero".
"She Moves Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish song, the melody of
which had been used by Simple Minds for "Belfast Child" in 1989. "Women
of Ireland", although credited as a traditional song, is not: the main
theme is a melody written by Irish composer Sean O Riada as a musical
setting of the poem "Mna na hEireann", written by Peadar O Doirnin;
Oldfield's rendition also includes an interpolation of the fourth
movement (Sarabande) of George Frideric Handel's Keyboard suite in D
minor, popularised by its use by Stanley Kubrick in his 1975 film Barry
Lyndon, where O Riada's tune also appears (Oldfield's "Women of Ireland"
was reportedly inspired by the coupling of both pieces in the film).
"Dark Island" is a Scottish instrumental and song; the original music
was written by Iain Maclachlan as Dr. Mackay's Farewell to Creagorry in
1958. Later used as the theme to a 1962 BBC TV series and re-titled for
the series. A set of words were later written by David Silver in 1963.
Another well known set of words were also set to a variation of the tune
in 1963, by Stewart Ross. "Flowers of the Forest" is a traditional
Scottish song, a lament for the defeat at Flodden in 1513.
"Mont Saint-Michel", a piece on the album composed by Oldfield, refers to a tidal island in France.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_(Mike_Oldfield_album))
01. The Song Of The Sun (04:32)
02. Celtic Rain (04:41)
03. The Hero (05:03)
04. Woman Of Ireland (06:29)
05. The Voyager (04:26)
06. She Moves Through The Fair (04:06)
07. Dark Island (05:43)
08. Wild Goose Flaps Its Wings (05:04)
09. Flowers Of The Forest (06:03)
10. Mont St Michel (12:17)
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