Length 42:41 Release date 24 May 1999 Label Warner Music UK | Artist Mike Oldfield Producer Mike Oldfield Genre Progressive rock | |
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Released 24 May 1999 (1999-05-24) Recorded Roughwood Studio, Buckinghamshire Guitars
(1999) The Millennium Bell
(1999) Similar Mike Oldfield albums, Progressive rock albums | ||
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Guitars is the 19th record album written and performed by Mike Oldfield, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). The concept of the album was to only perform it using guitar-like instruments.
Contents
Mike oldfield muse
Background
Oldfield plays all the music on the album, using only guitars of various types. The most remarkable usage is that of his Roland MIDI-equipped guitars, which he uses to trigger drum samples and produce string-like sounds. "Four Winds" is a four-part work, whose sections are musical portraits of the four compass points (North, South, East and West).
The Live Then & Now 1999 tour was in promotion of this album, and Tubular Bells III.
Track listing
- "Muse" – 2:12
- "Cochise" – 5:15
- "Embers" – 3:51
- "Summit Day" – 3:46
- "Out of Sight" – 3:48
- "B. Blues" – 4:30
- "Four Winds" – 9:32
- "Enigmatism" – 3:32
- "Out of Mind" – 3:46
- "From the Ashes" – 2:28
Inner cover photo
The liner notes has a photo of Oldfield surrounded by some of his guitars, which he used on the album. From the classical (Spanish acoustic) guitar at the top (and slightly to the right) going clockwise, the guitars are as follows:
Songs
Muse
Cochise5:16
Embers3:52