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Mike Oldfield Two Sides: The Very Best Of Mike Oldfield CD

Two Sides? is a 2-CD / download career retrospective, personally compiled and sequenced by Mike himself. One disc contains his best-loved tracks and hit singles, while another takes us on a musical journey through the artist?s more esoteric, experimental side. Together, they make up the ?Two Sides? of this phenomenal composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Mike Oldfield

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In terms of overnight success stories, Mike Oldfield's is astounding. After a short stint playing bass in Kevin Ayers' backing band, he was taken under the guiding wing of a 22-year-old Richard Branson and Tubular Bells was born. Thrillingly enigmatic music that sounds like nothing before or since, a critical and commercial success, and, to cap it all, the coveted Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition after an excerpt was used in the film The Exorcist.

A blessing and a curse, the magnitude of Mike Oldfield’s sudden success could easily have stalled him and yet he returned almost immediately with another two-movement pastoral masterwork Hergest Ridge and a year later issued the groundbreaking world music suite Ommadawn. Mike Oldfield is that rare beast, the intuitive artist, a confident and creative multi-instrumentalist, not bound by rule or convention and content to follow his own path: "All I want to express with my music is my feelings. I think it's the purpose. To show images, landscapes, love, hate, fury."
I don't feel I'm a musician. I create sounds that are reflections of my emotions. To be a musician is something quite
different.
Mike Oldfield