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Mike Oldfield - Voyager Audio CD

A fair review of the Mike Oldfield "Voyager" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Mike Oldfield reviews here, or go back to the Mike Oldfield tabs.

Mike Oldfield Band: Mike Oldfield
Title: Voyager
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Release Date: 1997-05-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Song of the Sun 2: Celtic Rain 3: Hero 4: Women of Ireland 5: Voyager 6: She Moves Through the Fair 7: Dark Island 8: Wild Goose Flaps Its Wings 9: Flowers of the Forest 10: Mont St. Michel

Occasionally uplifting
. New-aging Celtic fusions can suffer sterile pratfalls of the elevator-minded mentality, but more often pulls through with enough instrumental and compositional integrity to make this voyage worth taking.


Beautiful music
I loved it. This is one of the best new age cds Ive purchased in a while.


Still Going Strong
Several years later he has come out with a CD that seems to heavily embrace his roots (if he is Anglo). Mike Oldfield made a big splash decades ago with Tubular Bells. This is has a heavily Celtic influence. Noone hates blaring bagpipes in a parade like me, but he uses this instument, hushed its tone and makes it beautiful. If any is a fan of Celtic music, (there's a LOT of that music produced these days 'cause of Celtic Women and Riverdance) this is not essential but very highly recommended.

"The Hero", moody "Dark Island" and moving "Voyager" are good highlights.
Another note, this guy has got to be at least 52 years old. He looks more handsome than ever, and for his age, looks great!!.


Not Your Momma's Celtic
When the Celtic rage first took the music scene by storm it was refreshing. Voyager is not your momma's Celtic. However, within a very short time Celtic music started to get old real fast as an over abundance of the style flooded the music scene and it all started sounding the same. Oldfield provides tastefully outstanding arrangements of the traditional music chosen for this project. Voyager is one of Oldfield' best. I found it refreshing and completely different from all the other Celtic albums.


Approaching rock bottom
He was a brilliant and innovative artist with a legacy of several classic CDs. Mike Oldfield launched from the summit of Everest (Tubular Bells)and has been descending in quality ever since. Occasionally there is a surprise improvement but the prognosis is terminal. Purchase Oldfield's albums in chronological order and you won't be disappointed because you will only buy one too many. The title says it all. Mike is on an astral voyage. The album is ear-wash. Genius has become medeocrity. So sad.


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