Description
Offered for sale is an original German pressing of the 1994 LP The Songs of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield.
The original pressing was only distributed in Europe and was quite limited.
About this copy: This copy of The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1994 German pressing on the WEA label.
The cover is VG++ and close to M- with very light edge and corner wear.
The disc is M- and looks unplayed. Clean disc!
A nice copy of a rare Mike Oldfield LP.
Background: Released in 1994, The Songs of Distant Earth was the sixteenth album by Mike Oldfield.
The album reached #24 on the UK album chart.
Allmusic.com gave The Songs of Distant Earth this review:
The Songs of Distant Earth blend together two motifs crafted through Mike Oldfield’s atmospheric music. (Both outer space and inner space under water) are the themes of this album, but Oldfield’s synthesized artistry comes up short during the course of the 17 tracks, mainly because of the intermittent talking and unnecessary vocabulary that quickly becomes irksome and ineffective. … Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke, Oldfield tries to capture the wonder and mystery of the stars and the sea through washes of synthesizer, but his attempt at capturing both themes could have benefited from a multitude of other instruments, as his work usually includes.
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| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | WEA |
| Catalog Number: |
4509-98581-1 |
| Year of Release: | 1994 |
| Format: | Stereo |
| Share: |       |
