I can't even believe this! Mike Oldfield Ommadawn PART 2 First Time Listen Reaction

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[@breatheinmoonglade]

18:45 this is the best folk solo I have ever heard! So much energy in it and without shreeding!

[@matslarsson5988]

Amen!

[@PatatasBravas666]

yep, its magic, wonderful!!!

[@verbatoverbato2547]

It's been my cell phone ringtone for years!!! ;-)

[@user-vu8bz3ur3l]

Breathtaking. Cannot age.

[@andreretief6486]

Musical journeys, landscapes, and dreamscapes. That's Mike Olfield. Musical perfection! Thanks for keeping it alive.

[@routemaster19]

This was recorded in Mike's home at the time on the Welsh/English border - a very beautiful part of the country - where he had retreated to to get away from the media pressure following the unexpected success of Tubular Bells and to a certain extent Hergest Ridge (which was Mike's first No. 1 album in the Uk in 1974 which got supplanted by none other than his first album Tubular Bells a few weeks later - being only the third person to have knocked himself off the top of the charts) On Horseback was released as a Christmas single but it was the other side of that which became a huge hit and gets played to this day every December in the UK "In Dulci Jubilo" a reworking of a medieval Christmas tune. Definitely a great fun track and less than 3 minutes long! Hopefully you will give Hergest Ridge a listen - it is quite wonderful

[@Kostyalmark]

No synth Dude. Thats are multi layered guitars, what he create in the Hergest Ridge album. Sounds massive.

[@MrSinnerBOFH]

Ommadawn is sublime! I remember listening to it when I was 14 or 15, and spent all summer long listening to it on a Walkman at night. So good! Ommadawn is basically the first record ever of the so-called Workd Music. Hohn, you actually listened to 2 tracks, actually: “Omadawn Part 2” and “On Horseback”. The later became a hit by itself on Christmas season. The beginning of Part 2, Mike has said, was meant to represent the pain of being born. And the rest, was his way of building his happy place with music. The part he plays with Paddy Maloney was recorded after Paddy arrived late, and having only a few hours in front of them before the master tapes had to be picked up by Virgin to publish the record, they decided to go to the pub, drink a whole bunch of beer, go back to the studio and improvise. The result was the most beautiful bagpipe-and-guitar piece ever! And the end with Jabula Drummers is so good and hypnotic!

[@leannetaylor3840]

It's so lovely watching you hear this for the first time. I was 4 when this was released. My parents bought it on release and it is the first piece of music I remember hearing. I've loved it all my life. I really enjoyed your interpretations of the themes. For me, it draws from the mysteries and tradition of southern England, reaching far back into the prehistoric past, with a huge sprinkling of magic. It's sublime.

[@geeemm909]

Welcome to the world of Mike Oldfield, Im an old guy who has been a fan of his since the early 70’s and have been to many of his concerts. I’m so glad you enjoyed Ommadawn. There are many other albums of his to enjoy, could I recommend “Songs of Distant Earth” for a review, I think you’ll be blown away.

[@peterverkuyl634]

can you inmagine that Mike Oldfield played all the instruments by himself on this record and many more

[@Aengus42]

At 10:48 when that drone builds & builds and then the Uilleann pipes breaks in... Goosebumps, always goosebumps. Since I first heard this album when I was 11. This piece is just so achingly beautiful. When I first heard it I was transfixed, transported... It's nostalgic the very first time you hear it. It's mournful, heart aching, stunning... Every time I hear it I fall into it's arms and I let the tears trickle down my cheeks. This will be played at my funeral as a celebration of beauty, a pining for home. But not your home now, it's a longing for a home that was. They say that the past is a different country. Well, this is my visa, passport & passage there. How can mournful, aching, all encompassing loss be so very, very beautiful?

[@ianstrange5674]

You took the words out of my mouth! I too want this music played at my funeral. It's beyond beautiful.

[@Aengus42]

@@ianstrange5674 Hopefully not for another 10 decades mate! Oh! And thank you ☮️

[@paulh5293]

There's a lovely (true) story about the Uilleann pipes section told by Phil Newell in the "Boxed" booklet. The previous section and the following had both been laid down to tape and the bit in the middle had been causing some angst. With just two weeks to pressing date, Mike & Paddy Moloney got quite drunk one night and just went for the pipe solo... somehow it finished bang on the beat for the next section. An incredible album.

[@Aengus42]

@@paulh5293 Wasn't the stagger around at three in the morning with Viv Stanshall got the Boxed Sailor's Hornpipe made the same way? "And if scrape just a little piece of it off, a 17th Century under piece!"

[@Aengus42]

@@paulh5293 Yup, someone who worked with my Dad heard I was playing Tubular Bells from beginning to end over & over so he recorded Ommadawn for me. I was absolutely blown away! Stunning music. He put Uriah Heap "Return to Fantasy" on the other side. At school it was all Bay City Rollers & KC & the Sunshine Band 🤮 but in my bedroom Ommadawn, Tubular Bells & Uriah Heap, Dubliners, Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger, early Steeleye Span... I had no real point of contact with kids my own age... Thankfully!

[@goytabr]

"Synth-laden intro"? 😂😂 Dude, there are NO synths in that intro! I know, it sounds as if there are more than a few synths there, but it's Mike Oldfield we're talking about, and he's a master at extracting unusual sounds from trivial things (notice that I didn't even say "instruments"). They're ELECTRIC GUITARS. But it's an overdub of 62 of them (all played by Mike), so many that each one fills the gaps between the chord strikes of the others, and that creates that continuous, organ-like sound. Genius or what? (I only know this piece of information because I read a critical review from the time of the record release, and this was stated there.)

[@thetailgunner777]

Facts!

[@debnbhuy]

I was 15 when I first had this on cassette !! I think I was the only kid in class who was listening to this !!

[@Aengus42]

Yup, I was 11. I bought Tubular Bells after Whispering Bob Harris played it on The Old Grey Whistle Test with 1930's ski jumpers in monochrome. Then my Dad's work colleague gave me Ommadawn. (With Uriah Heep "Return to Fantasy" on t'other side. Yup, no one at school had heard of them either!) I was the only kid in the school who knew about Oldfield. I got Boxed (in quad) the Xmas after it came out. Just totally hooked for life! I'd been playing guitar for maybe six months & a guy who was showing me the minor pentatonic scale said "Do you listen to a lot of Oldfield perchance?" When I said "Yes!" he said "Thought so, I can hear it in your playing." I hugged him! I could hardly play & it was the best compliment I ever got improvising on guitar...

[@thebgt1254]

11! and I was blessed to see him live a few months after.

[@Aengus42]

@@thebgt1254 You lucky toad! 👍

[@rigamar]

I was 14 years old. I bought a copy of Offramp from the Pat Metheny Group but the cassette was 90 minutes long and the guy completed the cassette with Ommadawn and... I fell in love for Mike music!!! God bless that guy.

[@CaptSlog]

17:14 I was waiting to see your face when that happened. :)

[@SandyRavenAuthor]

The beautiful thing about almost all of Mike's music is everyone feels something a little different--something more personal to them relating to their life experience thus far You have a large library of his music to choose from if you want to continue listening to his work. I find his earlier works are the best, but his later works are not without merit. Either way you choose to listen to the auditory feast he set before you, you can't go wrong with listening to his entire library, just be prepared to have all your senses aroused while doing so.

[@10parsecs]

My favorite album by Mike along with Amarok and TSODE

[@Rolling_Ronnie]

The Uillean pipe solo by the late Paddy Moloney is one of my favorite pieces of music. Check out The Dubliners for beautiful music and also introducing Jean Butler and Michael Flatley to the world (they performed Irish Dancing on stage with The Dubliners on at least one of their tours) before they became the stars of Riverdance.

[@Lifeson21]

My brother bought this album when it came out in 1975 (he was 6 years older), and I was sucked in immediately - at 9 nine years. Maybe I haven't matured, but this is still my favourite album of all time

[@dansegn4560]

I don’t know how many artists are at his level. Absolute genius

[@alanlmsca]

I dare you to listen to Mike Oldfield's Amarok and 'The Songs of Distant Earth'. Both of those will take you on a journey and bring you back feeling better. :)

[@yronfaclin]

I have read somewhere that for tue opening of part2, more than 1000 electric guitars have been overdubbed, with an accordion in the middle.

[@Hoophey]

A few comments here about no synths being used on ommadawn. Just to say that like on hergest ridge there is a heavy use of a Solina String Ensemble synth as well as an ARP 2600 monophonic synth.....

[@alebetasant]

I Iove Mike

[@rev7verse14]

Where have you been John , this is a classic, Oldfield wrote the most touching music .... Irish pipes

[@KNOPFLERSGOD]

I thought you would enjoy this, John. The whole album is a classic. Mike's guitar playing is wonderful. The composition is amazing. At the start of Part 2 what you hear, among other instruments, is 1984 guitars overdubbed, Mike himself states that in his book Changeling. Mike has so much great music to recommend over his 26 albums, but, I do think the 4 classic albums from the start of his career are essential, so listen to Hergest Ridge next.

[@karlammann9209]

My dear friend, Oldfield`s music just touches your soul. That`s all to know. Masterpiece after masterpiece.

[@danielelkoubbi604]

Mike est un Genie

[@kevinhunton-young4833]

Northumberland pipes. You don't blow them, you pump them with bellows under your arm . Cheers Kev

[@Rolling_Ronnie]

They're Uillean pipes, played by Paddy Moloney of The Dubliners, one of the most haunting sounds on the planet!!

[@ben2692]

I'm sure Mike said in his autobiography that the opening section of this contains over 1000 guitar overdubs and nothing else

[@tomsacadden]

And forty years later Mike, on Return To Ommadawn said, “ on horseback ? I’d rather be here..” Here being the Bahamas..

[@AbsurdityViewer]

another Oldfield convert; welcome aboard and thanks; excellent reaction John

[@alansmith8195]

Hope you try Hergest Ridge... and if ever you're in Kington, Herefordshire, it's worth walking up Hergest Ridge, it's supposedly an old horse racing track on a hill top (careful where you park your car though, it's on a working farm)

[@Gary-hd4xr]

Maybe my favorite MO album. Nice review from someone not familiar with his music

[@franciscojaviermoragregato2719]

Very well, Manuel.

[@keithhealing1115]

Paddy Moloney, the pipe player, was a founder member of The Chieftans, a trad Irish folk group. Supreme piper - especially as both he and Oldfield were quite drunk when they recorded his section. In one take! The Irish Pipes are difficult to play. The air is supplied by bellows under one arm and they are capable of playing chords with keys pressed by the heel of the right hand (but the drones are not used in this). If you want to hear some fantastic playing, look up Davy Spillane. One tune of his, One Day in June, is astonishing.

[@bthagan]

Amazing catch on Twin Peaks! Been listening to this and the twin peaks soundtrack for like 25 years and never made the connection but its soooo obvious!!

[@robertpearson8798]

First the Strawbs and now Mike Oldfield. You’re hitting now on some of my favourite music.

[@milanstastny6799]

I can only recommend you the second album Hergest Ridge and the fourth album Incantations. You will love it, I am sure. Thank you, brother.

[@marcelkrug8839]

Great video, John. The Uilleann pipes are the Irish bagpipes which you can hear from 10:50 onwards. You should check out Mike's second album "Hergest Ridge" as well. Fantastic stuff! (Just in case you didn't notice - "Hergest Ridge" also gets a mention in the lyrics of "On Horseback".)

[@karaperrio-du5gs]

he kept stopping a masterpiece the souless zombie he has no musical empathy at all like all the young gen z

[@Chromexus]

Incantations- solos are amazing and Maddy Prior's vocal solo is to die for. There is also a wonderful live version on DVD on youtube. For more Oldfield goodness see also on youtube, his live Montreux performance circa 1981- incredible.

[@rechtschreib-exorzist8936]

Well, at least one opus of the 70ies is still waiting for you, John: 'Incantations from `78! At least the most psychedelic of his 70ies masterworks! (that all will endure the test of time!). Will also then enjoy your "first contact reactions"! ;-) Greetings and best wishes from Berlin, Germany!

[@bobin1973]

Mike is God!!!

[@AndyHarrisGoogle]

The whole album is just one of the best ever made, but so glad Part 2 is getting some love. The uillean pipes section is a reused version of Sallyangie's A Sad Song For Rosie, Sallyangie being Mike's early folk duo with his sister, Sally. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqavn418dtqHeaM

[@queenreview1989]

I think than the next Oldfield record to react needs to be Five Miles Out from 1982

[@mvl71]

Five Miles Out is soooo good! Spanish Oldfield tribute band Fadalack did a beautiful cover of Taurus II (it's on KZbin, check it out). They covered most of his earlier work, and it's all good. Shame they only play in Spain...

[@queenreview1989]

yeah, I was at that concert@@mvl71

[@user-ek1dj9ss8w]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqiplZ-ZbclogqM 22 year old Mike Oldfield in the making process of his third studio album - Ommadawn.

[@rechtschreib-exorzist8936]

At about 11:00 starting are 'Uillean Pipes' (=" Irish bagpipes" - bag filled by squeezing with the elbow, not by mouth blowing)

[@milanstastny6799]

Dear John, thank you soo much for another video with Mike Oldfield music. Just a comment, please check on internet picture : mike oldfield ommadawn instruments I am not sure if there is any synth.

[@ChrisEchoes]

I am pretty sure there are hardly any synths on the intro to Part 2 ... those are pretty much all electric guitars ... many many electric guitars ... dozens and dozens of overdubs.

[@keithhealing1115]

72 overdubs in the opening section to get that droning sound, I believe. Most of the sound is created by guitars hammering.

[@jesuslouzan8562]

You talk like a party... nothing could be further from it... optimistic yes, but his life at that time was not a party. The critics turned their backs on him, they called him a dinosaur, he was 22 years old!!!!! He said "you're going to find out!" He took refuge from success, from critics... from the death of his mother (possibly suicide) during the recording of the album, and created this magical place to release his anger, his sadness, his optimism, his passion for nature, what organic...for life. Very similar circumstances happened in 2017 and he returned to take refuge in that same dreamlike place. "Return to Ommadawn" is the last work we will hear from this genius, another masterpiece to say goodbye to music, to the sadnesses and tragedies and fears that have plagued his life. A song to life, a celebration of existence. A well-deserved break from a musical journey of almost 50 years.

[@Coneman3]

Bit his music was therapy. It’s like seeing someone you haven’t seen for years. You’re pleased but also filled with sadness.

[@CaptainBlood2010]

INCANTATIONS PART 4!!! 👍🏼

[@rechtschreib-exorzist8936]

South American?! No! :D The final section is some kind of European GREEK folk music (think there is to hear a Bouzouki), as Mike pointed out himself somewhere somehow! (Can´t be else, ´cause i always feel a strong urge to pour out some Greek Metaxa in my glass then! :D )

[@keithhealing1115]

Herbie was not actually on the finished recording.

[@ianstrange5674]

Clodagh is pronounced Cloda.😁

[@Spillage66]

I couldn't watch when he thought it was synths and fucking bag pipes! Too much of a millenial Goeff Goldblum!

[@thetailgunner777]

Man you stopped listening at the best, most dicately crafted part of this album to talk about how it makes you think of Tolkien and the squeezed your patreon. Go back and relisten to it and pay attention to delicate craft. Then let everyone know.