Oldfield, Mike

With "Return to Ommadawn," Mike Oldfield has pulled off a pleasant surprise: he's come back in a big way among the most exciting musical creators of our time and made his best album since the first half of the eighties, one that will take…

With "Man on the Rocks," the brilliant multi-instrumentalist has served up a pretty dull effort. Its cheerful vibe is easy on the ears, but any discerning music fan will probably nod off fairly quickly while listening.

For this old tomcat, Tr3s Lunas is a very welcome return to form.

The album itself doesn't stick in your memory, but the goal was to create music that fits the story unfolding on the movie screen. Oldfield pulled that off.

Discovery is another solid entry in Oldfield's catalog, though it plays it a bit too safe compositionally, and that's almost certainly down to Virgin steering him in that direction.

Maybe it's even his last great album. I don't know, maybe he'll surprise us again down the road.

After the exceptional music Mike Oldfield managed to create with QE 2, new challenges were waiting for Mike. And the new challenge arrived just a year later, in the form of the album Five Miles Out. For this record, Mike Oldfield wanted to…

With QE2, Mike Oldfield finally said goodbye to the sound of the seventies and stepped into a new era of shorter songs and pop hits. Even though Platinum had already shown a big departure from the typical sound Oldfield produced

Incantations was the peak of Mike Oldfield's creative run in the seventies, but a project and feat that huge may have worn him out a bit and drained his appetite for such heavy, ambitious undertakings. With Incantations he used up most of

After a three-year lull, during which he composed new pieces, went to self-improvement courses and caught his breath after some seriously grueling times in his life, in which Mike Oldfield had become one of the biggest stars on the planet

Ommadawn came out a year after Hergest Ridge. Mike Oldfield had clearly learned a lot from the first two albums, and you can already feel a greater maturity on this one. He took the variety of arrangements and composition from Tubul

The album Hergest Ridge is named after the range of hills where Mike Oldfield was living at the time. The beautiful, empty landscape, where he walked his dog and flew model planes, helped him find inspiration for a new venture and a new…

This album kicked off Mike Oldfield's musical career. After his debut sold like crazy, his life changed completely. A young guy who had spent quite some time creating the now-famous Tubular Bells became a superstar overnight. Tubular Bells…