Incantations

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British album certifications – Mike Oldfield – Incantations". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 2 May 2019.

By the end of 1975 Oldfield had released his third album, Ommadawn (1975), which, like his previous two albums, Tubular Bells (1973) and Hergest Ridge (1974), had reached the top-five of the UK Albums Chart and helped to solidify Oldfield's popularity as a musician. The three albums were similar in structure, formed of a single composition split into two parts of the LP record. The release of Ommadawn marked the end of Oldfield's time at his home near Kington, Herefordshire, from which he moved to Througham Slad Manor near Bisley, Gloucestershire and set up a recording studio there. [1]Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved 8 April 2013. Oakes, Tim (June 1980). "Mike Oldfield". International Musician and Recording World . Retrieved 19 June 2020– via Tubular.net.

guest vocalist Maddy Prior reprises her near faux vocal recitation from Longworth's Song Of Hiawatha (reprised from part 2 in a American motif and creating another of his patented sonic climaxes, this time with a vibraphone (!) as centrepiece.as rewarding to listen to the whole thing in one sitting compared to Tubular Bells or Ommadawn. However, taken as Dallas, Karl (25 October 1975). "Beyond the Ridge: Portrait of a Genius". Melody Maker . Retrieved 3 January 2015. so. "Incantations" could have reached the quality of its great predecessors if it were reduced to a more minute interpretation of Longfellow's 'Hiawatha' - a poem of dubious literary merit and unquestioningly tasteless - sung in the most monotonous fashion by a his sense of what his listeners would bear, so impeccable up to this point: virtually every idea here is overdrawn. None more so than the dreadful eight-