November 5-6, 2005 Weekend Australian

Light & Shade - Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield, who turned the popular music world upsdie down with Tubular Bells in 1973, has continued quietly across the intervening 32 years with 22 mostly instrumental CDs. Yes, four of his 22 albums have been developments of the Tubular Bells fanchise, but the true highlights, such as Ommadawn (1975), Incantations (1978), Five Miles Out (1980) and Amarok (1990) stand proudly alone. Light & Shade consists of separate but related discs. Light recalls the best bits of 1994's Songs of Distant Earth and the more optimistic and uplifting side of the Oldfield Canon, while Shade gets into serious dance grooves. Oldfield's lifelong fascination with technology focuses here on software music composition packages such as FruityLoops and Steinberg Groove Agent. What distinguishes him from thousands of loop purveyors, though, is his broad compositional skills and the ability to weigh in authoritatively on his beloved red Fender, or with the hamessed soprano scream of his dove-fretted Paul Reed Smith custom. Light & Shade is Oldfield's best work in decades.

Ian Cuthbertson

Eso es una crítica constructiva y no la del Lenin, aunke sobre lo d q el Light and Shade sea el mejor trabajo d Oldfield en décadas tengo mis dudas...

Saludoss

po yo no me enterao na 

xDD Keltik, anda, ilustra a Knj con tu maestría en el inglés

En resumen: es un disco innovador.:D Le dan cuatro estrellas de cinco. No está mal.

jajaja,no me vendria mal unas clases de ingles y si no es muxo abusar unas cuantas de guitarra(siempre de pescuezo)