A variety of instruments are combined to create an excitable multitude of rhythms, tones, pitches, and harmonies that all fuse neatly into each other, resulting in an astounding plethora of music. The LP cover features new artwork from British designer Phil Smee, using the photos of Oldfield jumping shirtless on a trampoline, as featured in the original Boxed booklet.Mike Oldfield's groundbreaking album Tubular Bells is arguably the finest conglomeration of off-centered instruments concerted together to form a single unique piece. Cut at Abbey Road by Sean Magee using the original masters, this was the first time that the album had been issued as a standalone release. On 2 December 2016, forty years after the original Boxed release, the Collaborations compilation was released on vinyl LP by Universal Records.

'The Phaeacian Games' (David Bedford) – 3:59.

'Speak Tho' You Only Say Farewell' (Featuring Bedford) (Ray Morello, Horatio Nicholls) – 2:56.

'Argiers' (Traditional, arrangement by Oldfield) – 3:59.

'In Dulci Jubilo' (Featuring Leslie Penning and William Murray) (Traditional, arrangement by Oldfield) – 2:51.

'Portsmouth' (Featuring Leslie Penning) (Traditional, arrangement by Oldfield) – 2:04.

'Tubular Bells' Part Two (Oldfield except Sailor's Hornpipe (Traditional)) – 25:47.

'Speak Tho' You Only Say Farewell' (Featuring David Bedford) (Ray Morello, Horatio Nicholls) – 2:56.

' In Dulci Jubilo' (Featuring Leslie Penning and William Murray) (Traditional, arrangement by Oldfield) – 2:51.' Portsmouth' (Featuring Leslie Penning) (Traditional, arrangement by Oldfield) – 2:04.'Argiers' (Featuring Leslie Penning) (Traditional, arrangement by Oldfield) – 3:59.'First Excursion' (Oldfield, Bedford) – 5:57.'The Rio Grande' (Traditional, arrangement by Bedford) – 6:34.'Extract from Star's End' (Featuring David Bedford, Chris Cutler and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) (Bedford) – 7:33.'The Phaeacian Games' ( David Bedford) – 3:59.'Ommadawn' Part Two (Oldfield except 'on Horseback'- Mike Oldfield and William Murray) – 17:22.'Hergest Ridge' Part Two (Oldfield) – 18:46.'Hergest Ridge' Part One (Oldfield) – 21:24.'Tubular Bells' Part Two (Oldfield except 'Sailor's Hornpipe' (Traditional)) – 25:47.'Tubular Bells' Part One (Mike Oldfield) – 25:30.Track listing Vinyl LP one – Tubular Bells Side one In 2009 it also charted on the Billboard European Album Chart at number 76. The box contained an L.P.-sized booklet showing photos of Oldfield in the studio.īoxed charted at number 22 on the UK Album Chart in 1976. Escher's engravings: 'Gallery' and 'Other World'. The album cover adapts the theme of two M.

Ommadawn was re-mixed in quad by Mike Oldfield and Phil Newell. Hergest Ridge was re-mixed in quad by Mike Oldfield. Tubular Bells was re-mixed in quad by Phil Newell, assisted by Alan Perkins. This speech was apparently recorded late one night, or early one morning, when Stanshall and Oldfield returned from the local pub, and Oldfield followed Stanshall round the Manor playing his guitar, while Stanshall drunkenly described some of the artworks and artefacts to be found in the building. The traditional hornpipe melody ' The Sailor's Hornpipe', which was the finale from Tubular Bells, has an extended speech from Viv Stanshall, which is from the recording sessions at The Manor Studio (see Tubular Bells original ending). The SQ quad remix Hergest Ridge was the only version of the album available on CD (until the 2010 Mercury Records reissue, Deluxe Edition), as Oldfield disliked the original vinyl mix. The Boxed-CD version still contains the quadraphonic SQ encoded quad mixes and plays as normal stereo without a quad decoder. The quad remix of Tubular Bells on Boxed was entirely different and true 4 channel sound (later released on SACD). This was because it was too complex to remix without automation. Oldfield later explained that instead of being true 4 channel sound, the initial quad version of Tubular Bells, released few months after the stereo version, was a 'strange fake out-of-phase system'. Following the release of Ommadawn in October 1975, Virgin Records released Boxed to cover both the gap until the release of Oldfield's next album ( Incantations, eventually released in December 1978), and his reluctance to play live.

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