If you know me well, as the FUN STUFF blog audience does, you know I have music preferences dominated by the following families: Dream Theater, Al Di Meola, Genesis (Steve Hackett), Pat Metheney, Yanni and Mike Oldfield. Their extended kin include King Crimson, and many other Progressive Rock and Jazz influences.
By the way the BEATLES perhaps were the World's first progressive Rock Band. Re-listen to a Day-in-the-life from Sgt Pepper to understand Progressive rock and all the timing and change-ups. The song PROGRESSES to something else. King Crimson perfected it but the Beatles started it.
So it is always an event when a new Mike Oldfield CD shows up. Light & Shade is a two disc effort and was released in 2005. This one got by me until now. His distribution is odd. The used Amazon discs* came from Bulgaria. Cost me $5 but that is immaterial.
As usual the music is sublime, etherial and uplifting. I cannot say that about many other things I have heard recently with the exception of last October's release of Dream Theater's "A Dramatic Turn of Events." But they are not etherial. They are the flat out EXCITING bobsled ride.
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JA
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