Oldfield, Mike | Incantations | CD

Mike Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer, born in Reading, Berkshire, on 15 May 1953. His music blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical, electronic and New Age styles, and more recently dance, and is often elaborate and complex in nature. He is best known for the 1973 album Tubular Bells, which established Virgin Records, and for the 1983 single Moonlight Shadow.

Incantations was originally released in 1978, and this 2011 remastered CD on Mercury has tracks one to four remastered from the original 1978 stereo mix and track five from the original 1979 stereo mix. Mike Oldfield composed the music and played the instruments, with David Bedford conducting the strings and choir. Pierre Moerlen plays drums and vibraphone, and Maddy Prior, Sally Oldfield and The Queens College Girls Choir provide the vocals.

Track List

1. Incantations, Part One
2. Incantations, Part Two
3. Incantations, Part Three
4. Incantations, Part Four
5. Guilty (7" Single Version)