x=x=x=x=x=x TUBULAR BELLS x=x=x=x=x=x by claude19

Fractal • Abstract • posted on Aug 21, 2007

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Description

Apophysis, PSP and PhotoFiltre (use zoom-in to apprciate) Tubular Bells is a record album, written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield (and later orchestrated by David Bedford for The Orchestral Tubular Bells version). The late Vivian Stanshall provided the voice of the "Master of Ceremonies" who reads off the list of instruments at the end of the first movement. After Oldfield approached (and was rejected by) many other established record labels, Virgin Records released Oldfield's debut album Tubular Bells as its first album. Mike Oldfield played most of the instruments on the album (see below), often recording them one at a time and layering the recordings to create the finished work. Many of his subsequent albums feature this technique. Though fairly common in the music industry now, at the time of the production of Tubular Bells not many musicians made use of it, preferring multi-musician "session" recordings. Tubular Bells is the album most identified with Oldfield and the reverse may be true as well as he has frequently returned to it in later works. The opening passage of the title track on the album Crises is clearly derived from the opening of Tubular Bells. The opening is also quoted directly in the song "Five Miles Out" from the album of the same name and the song also features his "trademark" instrument, "Piltdown Man" (referring to his singing like a caveman, first heard on Tubular Bells). Tubular Bells stayed in the British charts for over five years, reaching the number 1 spot after more than a year and taking there for one week the place of his second album, Hergest Ridge, thereby becoming one of only three artists in the UK to knock himself off the first spot. It sold more than two million copies in the UK alone and according to some reports 15 to 17 million copies worldwide. The album went gold in the USA and Mike Oldfield received a Grammy Award for the best Instrumental Composition in 1975. The coda at the end of Part Two, the "Sailor's Hornpipe", was originally created as a much longer production, with Vivian Stanshall providing comic narration as an obviously-inebriated tour guide showing the listener around the Manor House where the album was recorded. It was cut from the final version for being too strange to be put on an unknown artist's first album, though it can be heard "in all its magnificent foolishness" (from the liner notes) on the Mike Oldfield Boxed set, which features completely remixed versions of Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn and several shorter tracks. It can also be heard on the SACD (multi-channel track only). (from WIKIPEDIA)

Comments (21)

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three_grrr

1:08AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

Oh my! Looks like I'm the first to comment! Well, Claude, I have not heard this music, and will have to go and see if I can find it. Your illustration of the "Tubular Bells" is beautiful, and I can almost hear the lovely clear sounds from these beautiful blue bells! They appear to have been packed away for awhile, and you have found them, and opened the container for us to see them!

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DarkAngel87

2:37AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

very nice! I like the colors and the shapes! they look very 3d!

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carlx

3:02AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

Wonderful tribute and illustration, Claude!!! I like several album's by Mike Oldfield: one of best the Tubular Bells!

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A_Sunbeam

3:57AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

More aliens floating down from Outer Space ... Great glowing colours!

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pops

4:11AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

I remeber Tubular Bells and it was very good-awesome image and love the perspective you put on this

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mansco

5:27AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

Splendid music, and I really always liked it very much. It seems you are opening a box here, splendid ;O)

Valerie-Ducom

5:38AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

Wowww, perhaps you need now to send this links of your work at Mike Oldfield. I like too this style of music, it's good and it's for that Oldfield received this grammy !! Like your work can receive it because your color and composition is so good and in real harmony with the flame ! Excellent work Papounet, as always :) hugsssssssssssssssssssssss

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Aral3D

7:11AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

Merveilleuse image Claude!Tu avais raison j'aime beaucoup cet tableau et surtouttres curieuse sa présentation...un cadre qui s'ouvre à montrer son enterieur comme on va ouvrir nos coeurs à la musique!

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NekhbetSun

7:56AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

Interesting info and stunning work dear Claude S

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Janiss

8:33AM | Tue, 21 August 2007

Qu'elle est donc SPLENDIDE!... dommage, ton long texte me pose quelques problèmes de compréhension et je le regrette - il faut que je passe plus de temps à réapprendre la langue de Shakespeare:-) - comme des volutes de fumée où les odeurs se mélangent à leur beauté! Un bien beau cadeau pour une journée que je souhaite excellente!

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