Robert Reed, we needed your music, we needed you to continue the legacy of great musicians, to emulate them and feed our souls with the best of music expression. Can’t wait to get all your albums. Never stop making music and remember, instrumental music is the perfect music.
@emilespringate73802 жыл бұрын
Beautiful music I have just discovered at the age of 65…..better late than never. It’s brilliant. Thank you
@NoTengoIlusiones7 ай бұрын
A masterpiece . one of a kind. Thank you Rob, thank you.
@plantpoweredfitness42074 жыл бұрын
Amazing music from a great composer of our time. We are fortunate to have the talent of Rob Reed to enjoy.
@marcocayuso4 жыл бұрын
The "Sanctuary" project is so good!! It is lovely to keep having new music in the classic Oldfield style, like a continuation of all those master works of the 70s (Ommadawn, Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, etc)... Rob Reed is an amazing musician, giving us so many wonderful times with the marvelous music of Magenta, Sanctuary, Kompendium and all his projects... What an artist!!!
@kopprophet38194 жыл бұрын
We live in a world where there are thousands of pop bands that sound the same, thousands of doom metal bands that sound the same, thousands of rappers that sound the same.... and yet this guy gets crucified for being the only musician on earth that can get close to Mike Oldfield's early album sound??? I don't get it. This is a great work that stands up on its own. Sure, he's got Oldfield's language and forms down but Mike didn't create those out of thin air - he had his influences too (Bedford for one!). Rob Reed is a fantastic multi-instrumentalist - his playing is top notch and his production is wonderful. There is nothing cheap about this. Yes, there is homage but there are fresh ideas too. We're lucky to have such music.
@crysstoll11914 жыл бұрын
Kop Prophet Seriously agree.
@stevenhaywood60274 жыл бұрын
Kop Prophet ,, I seriously agree. Rob Reed evidently loved Mike Oldfield's music of the 70's so much thst he wanted to make more of it, and had the ability to do so. I call that love. sttgaegoaktd
@plantpoweredfitness42074 жыл бұрын
Very well said!
@atomiccritter64923 жыл бұрын
I think no one really cares about death metal bands sounding the same as tbh they sound terrible
@ozricaurora69432 жыл бұрын
You can hardly criticise other bands for sounding the same when this guy is just copying Mike Oldfield
@waveoflight3 жыл бұрын
The musicionship in that room is off the charts.
@jreid6418 ай бұрын
Man, you've gotta be kidding me! That was totally incredible! What a piece of music! What a bunch of super skilled musicians and singers! Unbelievable!
@KrisKringle14 Жыл бұрын
The best Tubular Bells sequel ever! Good job, Mike... uhm, Robert! 😂 I really LOVE it!!!
@peterallgood85443 жыл бұрын
I only discovered Robert Reed two days ago - if I heard this without knowing Id be convinced it was the master himself, Old Mikefield! Ive been huge fan since the start, this is just beautiful. CDs on order already! Mr Reed et al - you are the one Ive been waiting for since Ommadawn.......
@jimmcgrath35812 жыл бұрын
It does sound like he is channeling Mike.
@GeralltGymro12 жыл бұрын
I was there (the back of my head is visible) and this was magical. And was played live just as it sounds. Wonderful.
@jreid6418 ай бұрын
Lucky you!
@nickgreen47312 жыл бұрын
Oldfield created a genre. For reasons - difficulty being the biggest one - hardly anyone else ever wrote in that genre. Rob Reed is one of the very few who can. He is not 'copying' Oldfield. He is expanding the genre that Oldfield created. Just as Beethoven built on the legacy created by Haydn and Mozart. Just as Bach - even Bach! - developed from earlier composers such as Vivaldi. And despite the obvious similarities in their shared genre, there is really no mistaking Oldfield for Reed, or vice versa. Each has their own unique stamp. Thank you, Rob, for creating what almost no-one else could!
@tigermothproductions2 жыл бұрын
thank you for your kind and considered words
@nickgreen4731 Жыл бұрын
@@tigermothproductions Only just seen this. Permission to *squeeeeeee* 😁
@KrisKringle14 Жыл бұрын
Rob Reed is making exactly the music we all wanted to hear. I guess he must have thought: "If Mike does not do it, someone else has to do it..."
@septic775 ай бұрын
Really happy to have been there. What a gig! What music! What a studio! Magical (bald bloke with BBT t T shirt!)
@SteveNicholas-u6i12 күн бұрын
Super!
@breatheinmoonglade Жыл бұрын
Very beautiful. I can feel Oldfield vibe in it.
@waveoflight5 жыл бұрын
Sanctuary II is so increadably Beautiful. Thank you Mr. Reed for you hard work and sharing your talent with us.
@thomasschoettler41936 жыл бұрын
Great Performance; I've just ordered Sanctuary III, now I know again: a good choice! Best old-Oldfield-stye music ever...
@clementfontaine55476 жыл бұрын
Although this piece of music is clearly a Mike Oldfield's pastiche, one of my favorite teenage artist, I find it to be as much enjoyable. The skilful arrangements are similar but the melodies sound fresh. Congratulations and big thanks for the sharing.
@anthonybrooks83386 жыл бұрын
Whatever camp you are in is immaterial, it's a tribute to excellence in musicianship and performance I appreciate the work that it takes. Keep it going everyone!
@dennisjones1961able Жыл бұрын
I was at this concert ( evening performance). I must say it was fantastic. What a talented bunch of musicians . Please do it again Rob
@tigermothproductions Жыл бұрын
Thats the plan for next year,,
@dennisjones1961able Жыл бұрын
@@tigermothproductions great news
@enrisalazar94852 жыл бұрын
De la escuela de M Oldfield su alumno más destacado es Reed. La calidad es inobjetable y genera una obra de arte similar a la del propio maestro. Oldfield debe trabajar con Reed, seguramente magnificarán esfuerzos para beneplácito de todos nosotros. Saludos
@lercapo5 жыл бұрын
Realmente me emociona. Hacía tiempo que no sentía algo así con la música. Me considero fan de Mike Oldfield y no considero para nada un ataque o un plagio o una ofensa a su música, sino todo lo contrario. Es cierto que hay fragmentos similares a algunos de sus primeros discos, pero hasta ahí. Las melodias son totalmente nuevas, y llenas de sentimiento. Me parece una bendición que alguien recoja ese estilo tan característico de Oldfield y le aporte su propia personalidad dando como resultado unos Santuarios dignos de devoción.
@AbelGarcia-nn9fj5 жыл бұрын
Totalmente de acuerdo contigo,Alberto.
@fjavierexpositopriego88795 жыл бұрын
Es evidente que la mayoría de críticas a Robert, especialmente las dirigidas en el sentido del plagio son injustas o erróneas. Solo hay que escuchar música renacentista española para comprender que las variaciones de un tema pueden ser tan buenas o mejor que el tema original de manera que lo engrandecen. Como mínimo aportan otras posibilidades que agrandan el abanico de una obra. Soy un seguidor idólatra de Oldfield, lo cual no me impide valorar en absoluto este tipo de "continuaciones-interpretaciones-variaciones-tributos" a su carrera. Enfocar solamente como plagio o imitación la música de Robert es de un fundamentalismo supino y una falta de grandeza de miras gañanesca. Todo lo que suene a Olfield me encanta excepto que sea muy malo y este no es el caso de Rob.
@ivanvan1005 ай бұрын
Gran tema! 🙌🙌🙌
@mihaliprefti25073 жыл бұрын
Wow-wow! Just discovered it! Musicians have taken music creativity on higher level at the beginning of this century - and in it human harmony prevails despite our times. Is it a reaction to it?! I’d call it artistic rebelliousness. I’d call these musicians heroes!
@bohdanpalowskimusic68263 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Robert Reed 🙏
@AndrewTuline4 жыл бұрын
I've been living/breathing the Sanctuary Series for some time now. . . Must . . try . . . and . . listen . . to . . other . . music. . on . . occasion.
@simonfenn37914 жыл бұрын
I know that feeling know that feeling that feeling feeling.
@Daniela993 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful! 💕
@dryster1234 жыл бұрын
Perfection Mister Reed.
@miguelmoreno15662 жыл бұрын
Fabuloso no me canso de verlo y escucharlo, un genio Sr Reed!!
@JonseyWales6 жыл бұрын
The Sanctuary albums are all a great listening experience!
@edwardandersen88675 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, first time I've listened to Robert Reed certainly wont be the last.
@remka36503 жыл бұрын
Awesome guys. We want to more...;]
@RoNombela6 жыл бұрын
Very good sound in a bright piece. Thank you very much for sharing.
@darrenparr88749 ай бұрын
I've been a fan of Mike Oldfield for more years than I care to admit. My father brought Tubular Bells into the house on its release and at just seven years of age back then, I was smitten. After saving pocket money, I had my very own copy by the time I was nine years of age. I followed Mike's music religiously up until Amarok and while I still purchased his later albums, I felt his music passed me by as my preference and taste lay in his earlier works; my favourite albums in order are Hergest Ridge and Incantations in joint first place, followed by Ommadawn, Tubular Bells and Platinum, followed by the rest. I have Children of the Sun and Shooting at the Moon in my collection together with his collaborations with Pekka Pohjola and David Bedford. Many works have, to a small or large degree been influenced by Mike. I only recently however, came to discover Robs music. An excerpt from Sanctuary was the first one and I honestly thought I had discovered a long lost Oldfield piece. My joy at discovering that it wasn't, and there was more is indescribable. In the short time I have come to learn more about Robert Reed and his music, I'm disappointed to learn that some people arrogantly refer to his music as copies of Mike's. Many musical genres have since evolved with various artists playing similar music to each other and yet, they're not accused of copying an orginator of a genre. Why? Because each artists is acknowledged as continuing a particular genre. Look at Glam Rock, Punk, New Wave, Rap for examples. Personally, I congratulate Robert not for copying, but for continuing the genre that Mike created and moved off. Thanks to Robert Reed, I have a renewed interest in Mike Oldfield once again and while there may be similarities, there's enough difference (in my personal opinion) to see that Robert puts his own stamp on a much loved and much missed genre. Congratulations Mr Reed, and thank you.
@tigermothproductions9 ай бұрын
thank you ... that means so much
@buffplums2 жыл бұрын
I just was thinking about the sound engineers, I’ll bet very few ever think about their contribution. Like they musicians in such a complicated performance must have very similar skills. It’s not just knob twiddling, they have to remember the whole sequence and where to put the emphasis and whee and when to reduce, control the spectrum of all the sounds … hats off to them and a big applause 👏
@tomsacadden2 жыл бұрын
Reed has planted the seed, watch it grow..
@rafaelvazquez61442 ай бұрын
Robert reed extraordinario, aqui en españa tambien tenemos engel que es muy muy bueno
@nicolaslopezdearmentia79023 жыл бұрын
awesome music
@buffplums2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if there is any official feedback from Mike Oldfield or even collaboration with him ? I’d be interested to hear what he thinks, if I was him, I’d be immensely honoured to know that I’d influenced such an immensely talented musician as Rob Reed. The man is responsible for such a huge amount of amazing music and collaboration. Amazing 🤩
@juan-carloscarpio13203 жыл бұрын
Interesting experience to listen to a kind of music that was in my sound library when I was young. I realize that is not my cup of tea anymore, although I appreciate its orientation. The classical influences in form, harmonic structures, folk music elements, etc, that many of the British music back then had. Emotionally doesn't do it for me, it never gets anywhere, while it keeps shifting between different ideas, many times with no correlation to each other. I am aware that most of my current appreciation for this music has to do with what has been become musical meaningful to me in the last 20 years. In contrast, I feel this music as being rhythmically and melodically uninteresting, boxed, which by no means is a quality value on this music, just an aesthetic personal appreciation.
@tomsacadden2 жыл бұрын
If Oldfield had brought out albums like this in the nineties, instead of the garbage Heavens Open and Earth Moving ,he would have been one of the most successful musicians ever, he lost his way, but Robert is forging the path that he should have taken.
@antoniocabreraperez6 жыл бұрын
Sin palabras. Maravillosa.
@rafaelvazquez61442 ай бұрын
Suena de maravilla está musica
@atomiccritter64923 жыл бұрын
In a parallel universe relative unknown Mike Oldfield is making music in the style of Reed :)
@becomemexican2 жыл бұрын
Somehow, that would never happen. Most of Sanctuary is very much a copy of Oldfield's work. Although good, it is not really original.
@steveswan57146 жыл бұрын
Beautiful 😌
@TheTakatxun6 жыл бұрын
Great memories.
@citizencyberius4564 жыл бұрын
Incredibly torn whether I love or hate this. Undoubtedly skillful reproduction of the classic 1970's Oldfield style which I still love to bits but lacking the melodic virtues of the master. Do I listen to this as if I am hearing lost outtakes, as a kind of tribute band or a standalone piece inspired by the Master? I dont know but I will keep on listening till I work it out and applaud truly great musicianship and the deep love of a musical genre which should have had more disciples.
@MattonicAndLime5 жыл бұрын
I love this, and clearly Mr Reed is a talented guy. A wonderful homage to you know who. But....one tiny, teensy thing I would dare venture would be to lengthen the times for each motif or theme (I'm not very musical). Just as we're getting going into a nice segment, it stops after 90 seconds / two minutes, then a slow bit for a minute, then off we go with another theme. I wish each piece would last longer, and we can sink and wallow into the riffs. You know who would just build and build, and not just at the end of the records, but he'd just let a single theme flow without chopping and changing so quickly throughout his music. But this is still fab.
@manuelcarrascodiaz77764 жыл бұрын
Rob reed genial
@buffplums2 жыл бұрын
Love the vocoder bit, so Herbie Hancock too… goodness what else has he got up his sleeve?
@mariajosemorenoguerrero86387 ай бұрын
Mike ha creado escuela. ¡Ésta es la evidencia!
@DJBigJoeDaddy4 жыл бұрын
Oh My God
@schmidt5406 жыл бұрын
Fantasztikus !
@stevenhaywood60274 жыл бұрын
Very nice indeed! A real tribute to the young Mike Oldfield's musical sound. Great! sttgaegoaktd
@aralainproduccionescreativ90883 жыл бұрын
A mike oldfield le gusta esto... Mike Oldfield likes this yeah! nice
@reinholdgramair14682 жыл бұрын
Umwerfend schön.Klingt manchmal sehr nach Mike Oldfield.Aber das ist nicht wichtig.Gratulation dem Komponisten und auch den Musikern.Eine Bereicherung.
@hhgygy Жыл бұрын
Klingt überall nach Oldfield.
@Jonny1302726 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!!
@riclevine59833 жыл бұрын
VERY Oldfield-ish...NICE!!!
@williamperes1155 жыл бұрын
Cool jolie mélodie
@user-hm5zb1qn6g2 жыл бұрын
the bile in this comment section is why we can't have nice things.
@buffplums3 жыл бұрын
This is so Mike Oldfield
@jeremycapello6277 Жыл бұрын
Olfieldesque
@rmoore25362 жыл бұрын
5 Miles Out
@tigermothproductions2 жыл бұрын
wrong artist
@SuperRobo20105 жыл бұрын
Ooo omgesttations
@MLCFonon2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the Mike Oldfield album "Hergest ridge"
@hhgygy Жыл бұрын
Stating the obvious. All sounds and compositional structures are clearly borrowed from Oldfield.
@MLCFonon Жыл бұрын
@@hhgygy And Oldfield borrowed it from here (Hergest ridge) ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ2cpoqIqpWZpZY
@MLCFonon Жыл бұрын
@@hhgygy Oldfield did a lot of albums - I'm picking out the one (Hergest Ridge)
@saminon6 жыл бұрын
The composer of this piece must have spent a lot of time doing something like Mike Oldfield, without getting to plagiarism, but it sounds the same. It's hard to work like this, because it's a "soul" to music. This never comes to transmit anything because as I listen I distract myself thinking and looking for what work of Oldfield seems; Plagiarize are not only copying musical notes, but also specific sounds, particular riffs, special musical structures, very features of Mike Oldfield, own style.
@TheTakatxun6 жыл бұрын
Agustín Muñoz no genetalices. Que no t transmita a ti no significa nada. A mi si pero no generalizo. No dudo d que eres un integrista d MO por eso t dedicas solo a buscar a que se parece en vez d escuchar tranquilo.. No dudes, quien ahora toca las TB es Reed.
@saminon6 жыл бұрын
¿integrista? es evidente el parecido. ¿Que toca Reed? ¿las Tubular Bells? Gracias, me estás dando la razón, no lo dudo. ¡¡IMITADOR DE CATALOGO!!
@TheTakatxun6 жыл бұрын
Ay Agustín se nota que eres muy literal que no aprecias ni metáforas ni más allá de tus conceptos hormigonados integristas creyéndote guardian de una música que muchos amamos más que tu, tanto en tiempo como en intensidad. Viva MO style y Reed practicándolo.
@TheTakatxun6 жыл бұрын
Agustín Muñoz me refería a esto, si si en la 45th an convention, si si en homenaje, si si con Tom Newman, si si con Tubilar Tribute, si si con Les Penning, si si con Luke Oldfield, si si con los más geeks oldfilianos del mundo. Ay Agustín. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKXPmntqg9Gmd6c
@saminon6 жыл бұрын
¿Conceptos hormigonados integristas? ¿Guardian de una música? ¿Pero esto que es?
@vincenzofidone39374 жыл бұрын
Sanctuary mi sembra un plagio di Mike Oldfield, la stessa melodia ripetuta più volte da vari strumenti e con diverse sonorità, ma sempre la stessa....
@jeffstone21365 жыл бұрын
What wonders could he and Oldfield create as a duo?
@TheDantesqo3 жыл бұрын
Mike Oldfield que dice de este grupo ???? Se sentira plagiado ???? El tiene un caracter fuerte , lo peor seria que algun novato escuche esto y crea que estos son los creadores originales de este bello estilo .
@TheTakatxun2 жыл бұрын
Es verdad, como el que cree que Juan Gris inventó el cubismo. Pos dará lo mismo surprimo, si investiga llega a Oldfield sin duda y si no investiga pues nada mal escuchar a Reed.
@ggkk22445 жыл бұрын
I really like M. Oldfiekd, but I think that he came too close to pop music. Rob Reed's compositions are beautiful and I do not consider them plagiarized. Sure Rob would like to have such a reputation as Oldfield and probably will not. It's good that I know and listen to them. :-)
3 жыл бұрын
No puedo escuhar esto sin estar constantemente aludiendo a Oldfield, buenas iterpretaciones, buen sonido.... pero parece una IA modificando la música de Oldfield....
@drewmarshall5898 Жыл бұрын
I like it, but it sounds very much like Mike Oldfield, Crises era, even the tones are the same.
@KrisKringle14 Жыл бұрын
Well, the "sounds like" is part of the plan... If you like it, what is the problem? I simply love and enjoy it!
@javierramm Жыл бұрын
Madre mía lo que hay que leer...Le reconozco el esfuerzo de crear otras melodías para que no parezca una copia descarada de Oldfield pero es que son melodías sin "alma" que no las recuerdas tras varias escuchas. Le falta enganchar como hacía el maestro con sus discos. Mucha gente saber tocar bien actualmente pero a Reed le falta enganchar. Musica bien ejecutada pero sin transcendencia. Por no hablar de los climax que para nada son como los del maestro.
@jerzygoota29032 жыл бұрын
Incredibly simplistic. Mike Oldfield wasn’t only about arrangements his melodies never were so primitive
@Daniel_LastT5 жыл бұрын
it is a copy …...and the public , is dead ???
@spriggan39355 жыл бұрын
The copy is planned, and the audience is aware of it.
@AngelMartinez-yc9yt5 жыл бұрын
Menudo sofrito de Incantations
@AngelMartinez-yc9yt5 жыл бұрын
Copia barata del genio entre los genios. Poca verguenza tienes robert plagio
@fjavierexpositopriego88795 жыл бұрын
Abra usted su mente de prejuicios, comparaciones y cerrazón y verá que esto no es plagio sino al contrario, admiración, amor y pasión por la obra de Oldfield. No sea usted talibán porque le impide disfrutar de esta música al comparar. Es evidente (excepto para los fundamentalistas fanáticos) que Rob no intenta compararse con Mike.
@TheTakatxun4 жыл бұрын
Tu si que tienes poca vergüenza cara alpargata.
@fandru55386 жыл бұрын
Sorry, art is all about finding your own voice. This is brillantly composed and played but it is just an awful plagiarism. What a shame and what's the point ? Magenta, Rob Reed's band, with his own sound is far better and worth of praise.
@ClovisSangreal5 жыл бұрын
Not really. For most of the few thousand years we know about art here in the western world, it definitely wasn't about 'finding your own voice'. This is a 20th century, post-Freudian construct which has been used to justify all manner of nonsense over recent decades. There's no real evidence that people even thought of themselves as individuals in the same way as we think of ourselves as individuals now. Artists almost certainly didn't. During the renaissance, art was all about finding a voice which was as indistinguishable from the master to whom the 'artist' was apprentice as would allow mass-prodution and support business and that didn't change until the end of the 1st world war. The language of music, notes, staffs and key signitures etc., was developed so that church choirs could 'reproduce' as faithfully as possible, music which was sung in geographically remote parts of Europe, in order the spread the faith. The music of that time, such as it survives, was created by men and occasionally women who certainly didn't think of themselves as composers. The reason Baroque music sounds the way it does is a result of imitation and the repetition and the spread of musical ideas, formulas and riffs. That we recognise the work of individual composers happens almost in spite of the music they produce. Talk to musicologists about the works that can reliably be attributed to J.S. Bach, it's alot, but there are also many, many qualifications and question marks. The history of Rembrandt's career is a constant shift of attribution and re-attribution. This idea that artists look for 'their own voices' is something bad, lazy teachers tell school kids because they think it sounds inspiring. Until the 20th century art was hard, grinding work done mostly by men trying to make something as beautiful as they knew how to, in the service of a Church or a King in order to make enough money to live by it. Of course there was investment of ego and competiton, but not that much. Now, fortunately, all standards of beauty are relative, everything can be art, and everyone is an artist and can express themselves as individuals. Aren't we lucky? I'm a huge mike Oldfield fan, I have every one of his albums, some in multiple editions and formats and Ommadawn is one of the most important pieces of music to me personally ever. Over decades of listening, much as I really really love him, I cannot escape the sad truth that his 'muse' (for want of a much better expression) departed not long after the Incantations album was released and the Exgesis treatment he went through, though it may have saved his sanity and possibly even his life, destroyed his music. For me perhaps only the track Woodhenge from the Platignum album retains the beauty and mystery of his earlier work. I'm grateful to Robert Reed for giving me back something, though by no means everything, that I found in Mike Oldfield's early recordings. Something I have lost and missed for a very long time and which I really, really hoped to find in his Return to Ommadawn, but it's not there.
@tarkusboy15483 жыл бұрын
Awful Plagiarism? Really. You complete Ignaramous (I'd use the word TWAT, but that is beyond you) ....Hopefully you understand that A) music since the 1800's has been Stolen every decade. B) someone has to move the world forwrad. To me, not one person in this music is plagiarism or stolen. This is a songwriter and musician who has real ideas and every tune......every melody....is memorable.....As much as I love Tubular Bells......It is an album by a man that was allowed to run amuck in a studio....and Mike's TB is a golden nugget to us all...Don't be so fucking disrespectful who keeps this Music style alive....Go and take your head...and shove it in either a pile of shit or Ice....upt to you......
@fandru55383 жыл бұрын
@@tarkusboy1548 Really sorry for you. You are not only crass and vulgar but you are so stupid you are not even able to read correctly a post. I think that writting and playing such a piece is OK when you are young and in search of your own music, but doing this when you are in your fifties, with thirty records under your belt is at least embarrassing. He has the right to do it, and I have the right to say what I think of it and prefer his work with Cyan or Magenta, two bands you have probably not a clue about.
@tarkusboy15483 жыл бұрын
@@fandru5538 I accept your comments about vulgarity...crass...mmmm. Yep. I know both Magenta and Cyan very well. also I know Trippa when Rob and Tina were writing pop tunes. Don't ever be sorry for me. I just don't like someone who calls plagiarism on someone trying to forge ahead and try new music. Don't we all plagiarise? It's in every artist who has been writing for years. Copeland, Holst to John Williams(with the comparison between Star Wars and Holst's Jupiter) to Leonard Bernstein, to Keith Emerson and his use of Bartok, Janacek, Ginastera and bach. No one is above or below or above stealing...or emulating. As long as you enjoy music these days, doesn't matter if you are 20 years old or 80 years old creating music.....There will always be someone who hates it and someone who loves it.
@fandru55383 жыл бұрын
@@tarkusboy1548 Crass... in fact, I am french and my english is not that good... I see your point and can share it to some extent. The first pieces written by Beethoven were full Mozart ! Nobody comes from nowhere, specially in art. In the music Robert Reed writes for Magenta, you can hear Yes, ELP and other bands of the Seventies, but just from time to time, because he comes from there and had such admiration and love for this music and these bands. Kind of his musical DNA, I guess. Nothing to criticize there, because Magenta has nevertheless his own voice and his own sound. Imo, this is not the case in this piece, where I can only hear a redoing of Tubular Bells. Good or not is not the point for me, I just can't stand it. But as you say this is all about subjectivity and we can't all love the same songs or react in the same way, even if we may have similar tastes.