Light & Shade

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Light & Shade
Image:Mike oldfield light and shade album cover.jpg
Studio album by Mike Oldfield
Released	2005
Recorded	2004-5, Buckinghamshire
Genre	Trance
Length	82:01
Label	Mercury
Producer	Mike Oldfield
Professional reviews
Forthcoming
Mike Oldfield chronology
Tubular Bells 2003 (2003) Light & Shade (2005) Music of the Spheres (2008)

Light & Shade is a two-disc album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It is the first album to be released by Oldfield following his signing with Mercury Records. The album was released on 26 September 2005. Some of the music on these CDs was originally released (with alternate mixes) on the soundtracks to his virtual reality games, Tr3s Lunas and Maestro.

On his official website Oldfield recently reported that besides the standard version of the album, a 5.1 surround mix of the album has been produced as well. In addition, four tracks from Light & Shade will be made available in the U-MYX format for fans to mix themselves.

Inspired by the Buddha Bar two-disc albums^{[citation needed]}, which offered two genres of music for two different moods, Oldfield similarly divided this album. The first nine tracks are dubbed "Light" and feature brighter and quiet pieces; the second half of the album is the "Shade" portion and brings in a much darker feel.

Oldfield's attraction to vocal modification surfaced again, this time in the form of Vocaloid, a virtual vocal software package. One of the Vocaloid tracks, "Surfing" was meant to be the albums first single, according to zm.nu^[1].

The tracks "First Steps" and "Ringscape" were arranged by Robyn Smith. Christopher von Deylen makes a guest appearance on "Nightshade". Oldfield repaid the favor by playing guitar on "Morgentau", a track from the Tag Und Nacht album for von Deylen's band Schiller.

"Quicksilver" is another name for the metal Mercury, which is also the name of the record label which he is currently with. On Oldfield's next album, he repeats this trick, with a track title "Musica Universalis" which when translated is Universal Music^{[citation needed]}.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Light 1.1.1 U-MYX CD-ROM Tracks 1.2 Shade 2 Equipment list 2.1 Guitars 2.2 Piano 2.3 Keyboards 2.4 Computers 2.5 Software Plugins 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Light

1. "Angelique" – 4:40
2. "Blackbird" – 4:39
3. "The Gate" – 4:14
4. "First Steps" – 10:02
5. "Closer" – 2:51
6. "Our Father" – 6:50
7. "Rocky" – 3:19
8. "Sunset" – 4:47
9. "Près de Toi" (Bonus track)

[edit] U-MYX CD-ROM Tracks

• "Quicksilver" (U-MYX version)
• "Our Father" (U-MYX version)
• "Slipstream" (U-MYX version)
• "Angelique" (U-MYX version)

[edit] Shade

1. "Quicksilver" – 5:55
2. "Resolution" – 4:33
3. "Slipstream" – 5:15
4. "Surfing" – 5:36
5. "Tears of an Angel" – 5:38
6. "Romance" – 4:00
7. "Ringscape" – 4:22
8. "Nightshade" – 5:11
9. "Lakme (Fruity Loops)" (Bonus track)
10. "Cook's Tune" (Bonus track)

[edit] Equipment list

[edit] Guitars

• Fender Strat (pink) 1963
• Paul Reed Smith Signature 1990
• Ramirez Classical 1974
• Fender Precision Bass 1964

[edit] Piano

• Steinway Grand 1928

[edit] Keyboards

• Roland
• Yamaha

[edit] Computers

• Mac G5 (Logic 7)
• PC (Windows XP Pro with FL Studio)

[edit] Software Plugins

• Glaresoft: iDrum
• Linplug: Albino 2
• Native Instruments: Absynth 3 / Altered States / FM7 / Morphology / Reaktor / Sounds of Polynesia / Wired
• REFX: Vanguard
• Spectrasonics: Atmosphere / Stylus RMX
• Steinberg: Groove Agent / Hypersonic / Kantos / Slayer / XPhrase
• Virtual Vocalist Software: Vocaloid / Cantor

[edit] References

1. ^ Mike Oldfield regresa con “Light + Shade”, August 19, 2005, Zona Musical (Spanish)

[edit] External links

• Mike Oldfield's track-by-track breakdown of his new album
• The official Light & Shade website
• Mike Oldfield Discography (Tubular.net) - Light + Shade
• Logo rendered by Hans Claesson

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