Mike Oldfield - Cook's Tune

[@johnstevenson4749]

Ware in the world has this one from Mike been hiding, been a fan of Mike oldfield since the early 70s not heard this before... Just typical oldfield and just brilliant... Thanks for posting

[@Siicecream]

It was a download only single, an outtake from Light and Shade

[@MarioHidalgo75]

Mike Oldfield is The Best... and the Best of the best !!! C'est LE plus Grand Musicien de tout les temps... Et je pèse mes mots !

[@jjmoks6068]

TU á RAISON ...

[@ElioVenegoni]

C'est vrai! Mike is the BEST!

[@borisbodrov6895]

Согласен 💯❗🌠

[@edithvelasco205]

Brilliant!!!!! all in Mike is music!!!! Thanks MAESTRO!!!!!

[@milleracer41]

I cant stop listening to this. It's just sublime.

[@LauradelCarmenRíos]

❤Hermosa música tocada con guitarra por el maestro Mike Oldfield, es todo un lujo. Mis felicitaciones por compartirla. Saludos.

[@ElioVenegoni]

ABSOLUTELY GREAT! I LOVE IT! THANKS MAESTRO!

[@gerrypocha175]

Mike is a talent and can work with great results in any genre or style,Cooks song is awesome!

[@jordivallejo9465]

Magnífico. Como siempre!!!

[@matthiasklein6085]

Wie immer Gänsehautmusik M.K

[@bigsky6820]

This is great, why did i miss this

[@Sabrewave]

still lost for words on how good this track is....where the hell was I when it came out?!!

[@gregjones8412]

Never heard this one before thanks, It's unmistakably him. The slides on the guitar give him away.

[@UteAlbers-yd1se]

Great 👍🙂

[@samuelleroymerlin4610]

One of my favourites songs ever

[@zsoltfield]

Than You for uploading! This track is so cute! And great music too!

[@Ensign_Cthulhu]

OMFG fantastic. If this is something new, Mike's rediscovered his roots. Incredible.

[@bergermon]

And what beautiful guitar it is!

[@gregjones8412]

Yep...unmistakably Mike O.

[@sergiodavid5025]

Me encanta ese sonido de la guitarra y la alegria que transmite la musica

[@Kintail5]

Sounds a fair bit like something Jethro Tull might have put out. It's curious that Oldfield and Ian Anderson never collaborated on something like this. There is still time. Just imagine how incredible this would be with Anderson's flute flowing in and out! Thanks for posting, phideaux93.

[@Ensign_Cthulhu]

Kintail5 Other Mike collaborations that suggest themselves that never happened - Enya (but at least one Mike album was produced by Rob Dickins); Enigma (Michael Cretu actually produced one song on Wind Chimes, so maybe Mike influenced him??)

[@birgitpesch9094]

oweia.. zwei Alphamusiker??

[@Sabrewave]

If I had a buck for every time I listen to this, multiplied by the number of goosebumps I get when I do...I'd own the whole freakin' world......

[@panzersfaust100]

Whatever Mike does is excellent. Undoubtedly, real instruments will never be replaced when it comes to a misician's ear, but the tune is just as great as the rest of Mike's work.

[@ngog17]

Apparently an outtake from the Light + Shade sessions but never released on any CD version of the album that I have come across.

[@Sabrewave]

This is what we want Mike!!!!

[@jjmoks6068]

Il éxiste pas de mots...

[@hillebrandt77]

Great..love mike´s music.

[@yuldre]

Bonita musica, preciosa.

[@assafgaming463]

Cool song YOU WILL BE A GREAT MAN AND A GOOD FRIEND

[@ppj3730]

this tune reminds me of a early eng. folk song

[@darrenj7]

I think I know what your saying. I'm sure we all have our personal preferences, and I'm just as sure we are all are entitled to them. This is art, and therefore free...

[@ornellacasini1287]

FANTASTICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ALLEGRA GIOIOSA MI METTE L ARGENTO VIVO ADDOSSO ADOROOOOOOOOO MIKE OLDFIELD BACI ORNELLA

[@Lucarius1]

How is it, that I hadn't heard this one before (at least not that I remember)?

[@milleracer41]

This is awesome. That is all.

[@securityrobot]

All it needs is Brian Cant singing along.

[@MrFrancescAlba]

Mai deixara de sorpendrem.

[@mauricigarciamarsellach]

Completament d´acord. A mí tampoc.

[@kukuchimel]

Una cançó excel.lent

[@Nottincommand1]

Must admit I like it, and I'm sure it's not on my copy of L & S. Sounds like a mix of Portsmouth and In Dulci Jubilo and Sailors Hornpipe all rolled into one. Very catchy!!

[@WALLACE9009]

de que disco es esto?

[@Ensign_Cthulhu]

Agree, but it's definitely a return to the Portsmouth/In Dulci Jubilo phase in the way it sounds. I can live with the synth.

[@ckasel1]

Where does it come from, never heard before but I love it

[@dunebasher1971]

Maybe I'm too much of an old fart, but although this is much more interesting than most of Mike's musical output since he started his "chillout phase", I think it would sound even better if it used real instruments in place of all the software ones. The guitar is probably the only non-computer instrument on the track.

[@stevecox7075]

Your first observation is correct ;-)

[@NICKY752]

You and me both ;-)

[@darrenj7]

This is so fucking excellent! Thanks Mike!

[@KRAZEEIZATION]

From Discovery sessions?

[@jackjc1447]

krazeeization, no,from light and shade album.

[@mikemyers8064]

👍🏻🇬🇧

[@nelsonsoucasaux2751]

Where's that tune from, could you tell us ? Thanks for posting !

[@jackjc1447]

nelson soucasaux, it's a bonus track from the light and shade album released in 2005.

[@nelsonsoucasaux2751]

Many thanks for the information, jack jc. Regards. P.S.: Curious, I have "Light and Shade" - the original double CD - and don't have this tune. And it's out of the style of the album, it reminds me something very, very old, from the 70's or early 80's. But once again many thanks !

[@jackjc1447]

@@nelsonsoucasaux2751 , if i recall correctly,it was a bonus track on the japanese issue,and true,it definitely doesn't fit musically with the music of light and shade,it sounds more like an outtake from qe2 album.

[@nelsonsoucasaux2751]

Yes, it's very common to find bonus tracks that don't fit to the original release. To my view that's a problem with many reissues. To my ears, this track, given the kind of sound, seems to me from the Discovery period. All the best !

[@beatoldfield]

Anyone knows where this tune was original released?. Was it a CD track or a B-side?.

[@michaelward1073]

think it was supposed to be on Millennium Bell

[@beatoldfield]

Thanks for the info :-)

[@jackjc1447]

@@michaelward1073 , no it wasn't,it was a bonus track from the light and shade album.

[@yfrontsguy]

Great fun but I prefer Mike unplugged. Synths don't seem quite his forte.

[@AgentHetfield]

I'd have liked a bodhran from 1:11 better. Too much concerto from that point of time. Anyway, still a fine tune, thanks for uploading!

[@masterblob7196]

Anyone here from lindybeige?

[@obadq]

Vikings

[@jeanjerome8322]

Another auto toe tapper ...must have a string tied to my big one !

[@offaofmercia3329]

Sounds very nautical.

[@zdproductions3903]

That's kinda his thing haha

[@mred9281]

Too bad he made Man on the Rocks !!

[@christianblack9426]

Damn you.

[@mred9281]

Christian Black Thanx same to you !!

[@mred9281]

nice comment by the way for such a religious guy !!

[@mred9281]

for mr black i mean !! not you darrenmparr !!

[@Hammster69official]

"Chariots" is one of his best songs Ever, so we'll just have to agree to disagree, sir.

[@user-jh8fc8lx6j]

Sradivari