Label: Warner Music (Japan), WPCR-125
Style: Electronic, Ambient, New Age, Instrumental, Art Rock
Country: Reading, Berkshire, England (15 May 1953)
Time: 55:47
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 360 Mb
Charts: UK #24, AUT #20, GER #33, NL #81, SPA #1, SWE #12, SWI #23. UK: Gold; SPA: 2x Platinum.
In 1993, Oldfield completed his 1992–1993 tour to promote his previous album, Tubular Bells II (1992), his first concert tour since 1984. The album was his first of the initial three that he was contracted to produce for Warner Music UK, following his signing to the label in 1992. When Oldfield was ready to record a follow-up, label chairman Rob Dickins suggested that he make a concept album based on the 1986 science fiction novel The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke. Oldfield deemed the story not one of Clarke's best, "but it had lots of atmosphere" and started to think of musical ideas on travelling through space and landing on another world and the events that take place on it. The title of the book particularly attracted Oldfield, calling it "intrinsically musical, a natural starting point". Oldfield visited Clarke in Sri Lanka to discuss the possibility and found out he was a fan of his soundtrack to the 1984 film The Killing Fields and felt "delighted" about the album. Clarke was given a copy of Tubular Bells II for listening; he was impressed enough and agreed to collaborate.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth_(album))
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