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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Misty | |||
| 2. No Mans Land | |||
| 3. Return to the Origin | |||
| 4. Landfall | |||
| 5. Viper | |||
| 6. Turtle Island | |||
| 7. To Be Free | |||
| 8. Firefly | |||
| 9. Tres Lunas | |||
| 10. Daydream | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Music VR (PC GAME) | |||
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Tr3s Lunas, eh? Ever wondered what it must be like to live on a strange faraway planet orbited by three moons? Thought not. However, this is the very same question asked (and answered) by the dependably adaptable and not-mad-really multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield on the title track of this, his 22nd album. This kind of New Age mumbo-jumbo not withstanding, Tr3s Lunas is a perfectly pleasant record. Conceived at a favourite restaurant during a recuperative sojourn in the haste-sapping sunshine of Ibiza, Tr3s Lunas is Oldfield's self-confessed "chill out" album.
Given the it's unhurried pace, emphasis on creamy guitar lines and shimmering atmospherics together with--thematically speaking--some contented personal reflections on the joys of a non-materalistic lifestyle, it couldn't be any more "chilled out" if it came with an advisory sticker cautioning against listening to it whilst operating machinery.
Not a man much given to the daily hurly-burly and cut-and-thrust of today's shop-'til-you-drop society, Oldfield prefers his own company, be it wandering alone in a desert (on the Spanish flavoured "No Man's Land") or browsing the tombstones in Venetian graveyards ("Daydream") whilst the beauty of horses, insects and turtles are similarly addressed in an atmosphere of tranquil instrumental wonderment. The interactive element of the CD, namely "MusicVR Tr3s Lunas Game", is billed as a "non-violent" musical adventure through deserts and cities, meeting cats, dolphins and scorpions along the way. Bloodlusting, Playstation-fingering thrill-seekers may find its pleasantness hugely off-putting. --Kevin Maidment
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MIKE OLDFIELD Tres Lunas (2002 UK limited edition 13-track enhanced 2-CD set comprising the album of Ibiza-influenced chill music including the single To Be Free plus a CD-Rom introduction to an online Mike Oldfield computer game!
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Innovative idea put into practice,
By R.Price (Goucestershire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 3 Lunas (Audio CD)
Mike Oldfield always likes using the latest technology for making his music. From the synth sounds in 'The killing fields' in the 80's to using the guitar through a synth for all the instruments (including drums) on 'Guitars' in the 90's. Tr3s Lunas is no exception, the new sax-guitar sounds excellent and is played with real passion, this along with great composition and with Mike's style the album is fantastic.'No mans land' and 'Sirius' are particularly atmospheric. Its also good to hear some nice piano pieces as well, which have been thin on the ground in Mike's recent albums. I found the album most enjoyable and it is one of my favourite Oldfield albums. Some of the tracks are a bit on the short side for Mike, but the quality is excellent.The inter-active game that comes with the album I think is both innovative and inspiring. It's a great idea to put pictures to music, but to be in control of a surreal world in which you fly around examining different items of interest and listening to music is great. As you fly and approach objects the music changes depending on where you are, what your looking at and what you've done. Some of the music you hear is on the album but a lot of it is'nt. So it's a great bonus. The visuals are stunning. From the flying with fire birds to swimming with Dolphins, the detail is fantastic. Some of the set pieces such as the large child-like figure that slow dances above a lagoon or the snowy owl flight through a forest tunnel, are the reasons I keep going back to it again and again. The music is MP3 quality and accompany the proceedings perfectly. Tr3s Lunas is a fantastic album whether you listen to just the album or play the game as well.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another masterpiece,
By A Customer
This review is from: 3 Lunas (Audio CD)
Tres Lunas is Mike oldfield at his etherial best. Like smoke, there are times when the layers merge & become one, at other times the layers each hold a fascination.The ultimate chill out album.If you liked any of Mike previous stuff, then I think you'll like this. As for the game, on the other hand, I have yet to see it work successfully on anything. Personally, I'm not fussed about this - I was only really interested in the music.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
awful,
By Terry Broome (Wakefield, W Yorks) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 3 Lunas (Audio CD)
I've been a fan of Mike Oldfield for thirty years, but this album has to represent the first of two dreadful nadirs.
Oldfield's career could probably be divided into maybe six overlapping periods. The first period, with his album-length prog rock experiments ended with the superb Incantations, with QE2 acting as a transitional album to the pop-band period of Crises, Discovery etc. These albums still dabbled in the experimental tracks that had made him famous (particularly the brilliant and atypical The Killing Fields), albeit at a much shorter length, but Oldfield and Virgin records were not seeing eye-to-eye and Oldfield himself was lacking motivation and passion - the first of several periodic dips in his creative abilities. Oldfield then entered his third stage, which produced albums like Earth Moving, Islands and Heaven's Open. Whilst the first two albums still showed some signs of genius, by Heaven's Open Oldfield seemed to simply be churning out any old rubbish, reportedly to fulfill his contract with Virgin. As a result, where every other album up to this point showed some promise in at least one or two tracks, this seemed thoroughly cynical, lackadaisical and jaded. His career picked up briefly when he and Virgin parted company and he rediscovered Tubular Bells, the various versions of which, together with several other albums like Guitars, form his fourth period. Once again, a malaise steadily settled in, accompanied by his burgeoning interest in the creation of virtual worlds, which have distracted him massively from his musicianship. The fifth period albums, including the execrable Tr3lunas and Light + Shade, represent Oldfield's second nadir, and reflect the musician's growing interest in trance/acid house music and the Ibiza scene he got himself lost in for so many years. Two more albums, the tired Songs of Distant Earth and even duller, Music of the Spheres (although technically a good classical orchestra experiment), show a struggle to find new forms of expression, new directions that have not been wholly successful. Oldfield's interest in the Ibiza scene and virtual world creation, his occasional swoops on other forms (The Killing Fields and Music of the Spheres) show a restless, addictive and easily led artist, one who seems insecure and unsure of the best way forward. Latterly, the sixth period, Oldfield has returned to his roots and to safer ground, to remaster those early prog rock albums, one or two more of which are due out by late Summer 2011. Here, he has rectified Virgin's mercenary remasterings of a decade or more ago, that bizarrely made the albums sound worse. Oldfield's own remasters, in the Deluxe range, are worth every penny, just to hear the lost details of the music at last (originally, the music had been over-dubbed many times to layer the sound on only 8 tracks, with a resultant loss of clarity). Heaven's Open, Tr3lunas and Light + Shade, however, are all best forgotten.
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