Mike Oldfield TUBULAR BELLS - Half-Speed Mastered Audiophile Pressing LP
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Mike Oldfield TUBULAR BELLS - Half-Speed Mastered Audiophile Pressing LP
Tubular Bells is the debut album by English musician Mike Oldfield, released on Virgin Records on 25 May 1973. Apart from occasional vocal contributions, the album is essentially an instrumental record, consisting of two musical compositions in excess of twenty minutes each, one on each side of the original vinyl release. It is notable for the fact that Oldfield, only 19 years old when it was recorded, played almost every instrument on the album himself. It gained global attention when its introduction was used briefly but memorably on the soundtrack to the Academy Award-winning film The Exorcist.
TITLE: Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
CONDITION: VG+ =Clean gloss, absolutely NO scratches.
LABEL: Epic – HE 44116
SERIES: CBS Mastersound
FORMAT: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Half-Speed Master
BARCODE: 07464441161
RELEASED:
COUNTRY: US
GENRE: Prog Rock
NOTES: HALF SPEED MASTERED
Half-speed mastering is a vinyl cutting technique where the source is played back at half its normal speed while the turntable on the vinyl cutting lathe also runs at half-speed (16 2/3 to be precise). Everything plays back as normal on your turntable at home.
The idea with this method is that the recording stylus has twice as long to carve the intricate groove into the master lacquer and high-frequency information is easy to cut because it’s not high frequency any more – when played half speed it’s mid-range, which is easier to cut. The advantages are supposed to be a record that is capable of an ‘extremely clean and unforced high-frequency response’ and a detailed and solid stereo image.
TRACKLIST:
A Tubular Bells 25:48
B Tubular Bells 23:26
CREDITS:
Mike Oldfield – grand piano, glockenspiel, Farfisa organ, bass guitar, electric guitar (including "speed guitar", "fuzz guitar", "mandolin-like guitar" and "guitars sounding like bagpipes"), taped motor drive amplifier organ chord, assorted percussion, acoustic guitar, flageolet, honky tonk piano, Lowrey organ, tubular bells, concert tympani, Hammond organ, Spanish guitar, vocals ("Piltdown Man" and "Moribund chorus")
Additional personnel
Jon Field – flutes
Steve Broughton – drums
Lindsay Cooper – string basses
Mundy Ellis – backing vocals ("Girlie Chorus")
Sally Oldfield – backing vocals ("Girlie Chorus")
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