Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724384938123
Label: Virgin
Manufacturer: Virgin
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin
Release Date: July 03, 2000
Sales Rank: 16780
Studio: Virgin

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Disc 1:

1. To France
2. Poison arrows
3. Crystal gazing
4. Tricks of the light
5. Discovery
6. Talk about your life
7. Saved by a bell
8. The lake (instrumental)

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Rating: - Often overlooked but perhaps his finest
Written and recorded while fresh from the Killing Fields project and in the throes of a messy marriage beak up, this is an impressively impassioned if often very angry affair - a long way from the cool experimentation of Tubular Bells or Ommadawn.
The heaving, desperate title track stands out, but all eight stand up on their own while making a fine whole, the closing instrumental bringing the strands together while trying to find some final peace.
Barry Palmer's vocals stand out for me ... Read More

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Rating: - Very Good
Really like this album,quite up tempo sound with lots of singing yes singing on it quite different to a lot of Mikes earlier albums,some excellent guitar work through album.This album reminds me of Islands another favourite of mine from Mr Oldfield.If you like Mike Oldfields early works you should enjoy this album I find it very uplifting.Its great;

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Rating: - Magic! Purely magical mix of celtic rhytmes, modern instruments and two magnificent voices!
There is a lot of CDs on my shelves, but I count only a handful of albums so incredibly powerful and charged with magic as this one. Mike Oldfield, who really doesn't need to be introduced anymore with his world fame, took old celtic (Scottish, Irish and Welsh) and popular English rhytmes and completely transformed it, to make one of the most original and powerful modern musics. He is using technically advanced instruments (including synthetisers, etc.) but in the same time he managed to keep old magic ... Read More

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Rating: - Great album - but it could have been near perfect!
Within just two years, Mike had gone from the loose folk/hard rock fusion of "Five Miles Out" to the almost-sterile "Discovery". Locked away in a Swiss studio within sight of Lake Geneva, Mike recorded his 9th studio release in 11 years armed with a good set of songs, but a bad sense of selection.

Most of the tracks on "Discovery" rate a lot higher than those on "Crises". "To France" is one of those songs that just hits you - a left-of-centre pop song about the exile of Mary Queen of Scots, ... Read More

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Rating: - Hugely entertaining and contrasting album.
Although I possess most of Mike Oldfield's album's this still has to be one of my favourite's.Although appearing to be largely unknown(and unappreciated) by the masse's it contains some wonderfully lively tracks such as "Poison Arrows" and these are tempered by quieter tracks such as "Crystal Gazing".The masterpiece,like good wine is left 'til last."The Lake" is as good if not better than anything Mike has written and would compare very favourably to any instrumental piece on any of his album's.Definitely ... Read More

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