MIKE OLDFIELD RARE PROG 'OMMADAWN' MINT WHITE LABEL DJ TERRE HAUTE 1ST PRESSING

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MIKE OLDFIELD RARE PROG 'OMMADAWN' MINT WHITE LABEL DJ TERRE HAUTE 1ST PRESSING!

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Ommadawn Review by Mike DeGagne

Although it features the beautiful recorder of Leslie Penny and the Chieftains' Paddy Maloney playing the uilean pipe, Ommadawn didn't gain Mike Oldfield the success he was looking for. The album was released in the same year as the David Bedford-arranged Orchestral Tubular Bells and nine months after Oldfield picked up a Grammy award for the original Tubular Bells album. The most pleasing attribute of Ommadawn is its incorporation of both African and Irish music in its symphonic rock & roll mainframe. Boosted by a hearty amount of different horns, piano, cello, trumpet, and synthesizer, the album has its moments of rising action, but the whole of Ommadawn fails to keep its lovely segments around long enough, and there are some rather lengthy instances that include bland runs of unvaried music. Another plus is Oldfield's use of a choir, giving the album a soft, humanistic feel when contrasted against the keyboards or synthesizer. While it does include flashes of Mike Oldfield's brilliance, the entire album may seem a little anticlimactic when compared to some of his other releases.

DISCOGS DETAILS: Courtesy of Discogs

Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn

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Label:

Virgin – PZ 33913

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Special Cut, Terre Haute Pressing

Country:

Released:

1975

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Experimental, Prog Rock, Folk Rock Ommadawn Part I A1 Band 1 4:07 A2 Band 2 4:07 A3 Band 3 3:39 A4 Band 4 4:25 A5 Band 5 2:56 Ommadawn Part II B1 Band 1 5:21 B2 Band 2 4:46 B3 Band 3 3:38 B4 Band 4 Words By [The Horse Song] – Mike Oldfield, William Murray 3:22

Distributed By – CBS Records
Distributed By – CBS Inc.
Recorded At – The Beacon
Published By – Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Virgin Records Ltd.
Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute

Cello – David Strange
Conductor, Recorder – Leslie Penning
Drums [African Drums] – Eddie Tatane, Ernest Mothle, Julian Bahula, Lucky Ranku
Northumbrian Pipes [Northumbrian Bagpipes] – Herbie (17)
Panpipes – Terry Oldfield
Percussion – William Murray
Photography By [Cover] – David Bailey (5)
Producer, Engineer, Composed By, Harp, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Classical Guitar, Mandolin, Bodhrán, Bouzouki [Bazouki], Banjo, Spinet, Grand Piano, Electric Organ, Synthesizer, Glockenspiel, Percussion [Assorted] – Mike Oldfield
Timpani [Tympani] – Pierre Moerlin*
Trumpet – Don Blakeson
Vocals – Bridget St John*, Clodagh Simonds, Sally Oldfield
Written-By – M. Oldfield*

DJ banded version with the following printed on DJ timing strip and labels:

"The music on this album is uninterrupted and the banding is a visual device for the convenience of radio programmers."

"Demonstration - Not For Sale"

"T" etched in runouts denotes Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute, pressing. Remainder of runouts etched.

Some copies include a press photo and six-page 8.5"x11" "CBS Custom Labels Biography" press kit.
Some copies include timing strip.

Issued with printed inner sleeve with color photos.

The words to the horse song on side two by Mike Oldfield and William Murray.

Recorded At The Beacon January - September 1975

Price Code (On spine): X698
Matrix / Runout (Side A label): AL 33913-3 DJ
Matrix / Runout (Side B label): BL 33913-3 DJ
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): AL-33913-3D DJ A T1
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): BL-33913-3C DJ A T1