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Mike Oldfield: Ommadawn

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Label: Virgin Records
Released: 1976.10.01
Time:
 36:40
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Mike Oldfield
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.mikeoldfield.org
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1998.04.04
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] Ommadawn, Part One (MIke Oldfield) - 19:14
[2] Ommadawn, Part Two (MIke Oldfield) - 17:17

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MIKE OLDFIELD - Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Keyboards and 20 additional Instruments

HERBIE - Northumbrian bagpipes
TERRY OLDFIELD - Flute, Pan pipes
PIERRE MOERLEN - Timpani, Drums, Backing Vocals
DAVID STRANGE - Cello
DON BLAKESON - Trumpet
WILLLIAM MURRAY - Drums, Percussion
JULIAN HAHULA - African drums, Vocals
ERNEST MOTHLE - African drums, Vocals
LUCKY RANKU - African drums, Drums
EDDIE TATANE - African drums, Drums
PADDY MOLONEY - Wind
MORRIS PERT - Percussion, Keyboards

CLODAGH SIMMONDS - Vocals
BRIDGET ST. JOHN - Vocals
SALLY OLDFIELD - Vocals
THE PENRHOS KIDS - Choir, Vocals
THE HEREFORD CITY BAND - Choir, Vocals

LESLIE PENNING - Recorders

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LP: 1975 UK (Virgin V 2043)
LP: 1975 UK (Virgin QV 2043: quadrophonic mix)
LP: 1975 GE (Virgin QVQS 2043: quadrophonic mix promo)
LP: 1975 FR (Virgin 940 529)
LP: 1975 US (Virgin PZ 33913)
LP: 1975 US (Virgin International VI 2043)
LP: 1975 JP (Virgin VIP 6907)
CD: 1986 UK (Virgin CDV 2043/matrix CDV 2043 MPO 01)
CD: 1990 OZ (Virgin CDVP 2043/matrix CDV-2043 13: limited pic disc)
CD: 1991 US (Caroline Records CAROL 1855-2)
CD: 1996 HO (Disky Communications Europe B.V. VI 873762)

The word "ommadawn" is occassionally defined by MO as just a nonsense word, although it is quite similar to the Gaelic word "amadian", meaning "fool".



"Well, I had loads of problems, obviously. I did the whole of the first side twice. I think there was something wrong, probably with the tape before I got it, or it may have been just that I played it so many times, hundreds of times, and it started shedding oxide, getting a bit worn out. Nobody knows what happened to it. But it's jolly good that it did happen, otherwise I might not have done it again and it would not have been half so good."

Mike Oldfield about this album



New Age meanderings begin to dominate, but the textures change just enough to hold interest.

Bruce Eder - All Music Guide



With his first release, Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield created a genre that can best be termed "symphonic folk-rock." Ommadawn, his third album, continued in a similar though somewhat more ambitious and less portentous vein. Including the African percussion group Jabula and Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains on uilleann pipes, this is Oldfield's most easily palatable release. Oldfield plays almost 20 instruments here. The two instrumental pieces that make up nearly the entire album are similar to ambient music in intent and effect, with an almost constant recycling of themes. The album closes with "On Horseback," a classic piece of English whimsy.

James Swift - Amazon.com
 

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OMMADAWN PART ONE

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Ab yul ann i dyad awt
en yab na log a toc na awd
taw may on omma dawn egg kyowl
omma dawn egg kyowl


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OMMADAWN PART TWO

Instrumental

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