Voyager | 
 enlarge | Artist: Mike Oldfield
Label: Warner Bros UK
Category: Music
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 427308
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 706301589625
EAN: 0706301589625
ASIN: B0000072O2
Release Date: January 13, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | The Song of the Sun - Mike Oldfield, Romero, Bieito | | • | Celtic Rain - Mike Oldfield, Oldfield, Mike | | • | The Hero - Mike Oldfield, Traditional | | • | Women of Ireland - Mike Oldfield, Traditional | | • | The Voyager - Mike Oldfield, Oldfield, Mike | | • | She Moves Through the Fair - Mike Oldfield, Traditional | | • | Dark Island - Mike Oldfield, Traditional Scottis | | • | Wild Goose Flaps Its Wings - Mike Oldfield, Oldfield, Mike | | • | Flowers of the Forest - Mike Oldfield, Traditional | | • | Mont St. Michel - Mike Oldfield, Oldfield, Mike |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Celtic themes have bubbled away in Oldfield's work as far back as Hergest Ridge in '74. On this all-instrumental effort, his guitar is bolstered by pipes, orchestra, and choir on a mixed bag of lackluster, repetitive material (the lone exception being a lovely "She Moves Through the Fair"). --Jeff Bateman
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| Customer Reviews:
 Approaching rock bottom February 6, 2008
K. Andrew (Australia)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mike Oldfield launched from the summit of Everest (Tubular Bells)and has been descending in quality ever since. He was a brilliant and innovative artist with a legacy of several classic CDs. Occasionally there is a surprise improvement but the prognosis is terminal. Purchase Oldfield's albums in chronological order and you won't be disappointed because you will only buy one too many. The title says it all. Mike is on an astral voyage. The album is ear-wash. Genius has become medeocrity. So sad.
Mike Oldfield's Voyager December 3, 2007
Martin Jones (England)
I'm biased anyway, being a lifelong fan of Mike's since his first recording, Tubular Bells, but I think that Voyager is definitely one of his better recordings. There is a lot of his excellent guitar work to be heard on most tracks, though he goes very dramatic on "Flowers of the Forest", where he has a bagpipe band playing full blast, then to finish the album off he brings in the London Symphony Orchestra to play a lush arrangement of his own composition, "Mont St Michel". Something for everyone on this album and I thoroughly recommend it.
 Celtic Vacations March 25, 2006
Sergey Lenkov (Mother Russia)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you like this album by Mike - try also beautiful magestic folk music music recorded by Orison, William Coulter, Shelley Phillips!!!
As to "Voyager" itself - I had heard this album for the first time in 1996 and I was dissapointed - after "The Songs of Distant Earth" you should wait for more... But artist has his own free will, so he could do whatever he wants.
If you like folky Mike Oldfield ("Ommadawn") - probably you would like this album. Here Mike plays Celtic music with London Symphony Orchestra, live highland bagpipes - so sound is quite live, spectacular and "big" - it`s not quite a meditative new age record.
If you like rocky Mike ("Shadow on the Wall") or electronic Mike ("The Songs of Distant Earth", "Light+Shade") - you would be disappointed - you have to be in the mood to listen to folk style music without any elements of rock dramatisism or electronic sound effects. The main effect here is Mike playing guitar. So when I`m in this mood - I like this CD. It is not the best work by Oldfield but it is interesting music with the distinctive sound of guitar by Mike.
Stunning And Magical September 18, 2005
The War Goddess (Fishers, IN)
This album contains some of the most beautiful Irish/Celtic music that can be found anywhere. All of the songs are wonderful, espically "Flowers Of The Forest". Each song is powerful in its own right, but as a whole this album truly spectacular. Mike Oldfield does a remarkable job with each song and this album is a definite must for any Mike Oldfield fan or and New Age, Irish/Celtic music fan.
Good, not great, Mike Oldfield, but that's still says a lot. June 22, 2005
Patricia Wood (The Great Basin, NV)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a good all-instrumental album from a master instrumentalist. I have many M.O. albums and this one gets its fair share of play with the rest. It starts strong with a few very hummable traditional celtic tunes nicely rendered. It continues with some of the same and a few that are not so memorable but that don't make me want to turn on something else either.
The final song is quite long and I haven't decided if I like it yet, but with M.O. that doesn't mean it's bad. I have often come to love most the songs I took the longest to like, so after 10 listenings the jury is still out on that one.
Overall this is good Celtic and Celtic-influenced music that won't hurt your ears if you like that sort of thing. If it suffers from any real flaw it is a loss of momentum toward the end of the album, but none of it makes for bad listening. I like the Chieftains, the Afrocelts, Lorreena McKennitt and others and I regard this as a good fit with my tastes. Celtic done well just works for me, so this gets four stars.
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