The European Perspective

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Back after a break! Here’s our review of the first half of 2020 – the oddest six months of most of our lives, but there’s been some great music released nonetheless. So, sucks to you, Covid-19!

Magenta – Reach For The Moon (09:27) from Masters Of Illusion, 2020
Chimpan A – It’s So Real (08:08) from The Empathy Machine, 2020
The Dowling Poole – Made In Heaven (03:49) from See You See Me, 2020
The Sunchymes – Masquerade (04:16) from The Sands Of Time, 2020
Glass Hammer – Cold Star (07:30) from Dreaming City, 2020
Offramp – Vertical Up (07:20) from Turbulence, 2020
CHEER-ACCIDENT – Plea Bargain (04:10) from Chicago XX, 2020
Magic Bus – New Day (05:14) from The Earth Years, 2020
Orange Clocks – Miles Away (06:22) from Metamorphic, 2020
Haken – The Strain (05:24) from Virus, 2020
Arabs in Aspic – Madness and Magic (06:48) from Madness and Magic, 2020
Dim Gray – The Wave We Thought We’d Ride Forever (04:38) from Flown, 2020
Lazuli – Mers lacrymales (05:04) from Le fantastique envol de Dieter Böhm, 2020
Caligula’s Horse – Valkyrie (05:09) from Rise Radiant, 2020
Hibernal – Deep Down (06:10) from Beyond, 2020
Notion Blue – Keeping Apart (05:41) from The Son, The Liar, and The Victor, 2020
I Am The Manic Whale – Build It Up Again (07:02) from Things Unseen, 2020
Zio – Erwin’s Opera (06:49) from Flower Torania, 2020
Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate – Nostalgia For Infinity (07:00) from Nostalgia For Infinity, 2020
Paul Mallyon – Warning Shot (03:59) from Promise of Light, 2020
Once And Future Band – Andromeda (04:07) from Deleted Scenes, 2020
Haze – To Us All (09:21) from Back To The Bones, 2020

Progradar’s Picks
Pendragon – Truth And Lies (08:26) from Love Over Fear, 2020
Airbag – Into The Unknown (10:28) from A Day at the Beach, 2020
Abel Ganz – One Small Soul (05:52) from The Life of the Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity, 2020
The Tangent – Life On Hold (05:34) from Auto Reconnaissance, 2020
Blue Rose Code – The Wild Atlantic Way (05:19) from Will Healings Of The Deepest Kind, 2020

Godsticks – Relief (05:04) from Inescapable, 2020
Psychoyogi – Sooner Than Now (04:16) from Dangerous Devices, 2020
Long Earth – Summer (07:41) from Once Around the Sun, 2020
Different Light – Two Faces (07:40) from Binary Suns (Part 1), 2020
Toundra – Akt VI (10:05) from Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 2020
Pure Reason Revolution – Ghosts & Typhoons (08:46) from Eupnea, 2020
Jargon – Time Is Running Out (06:54) from The Fading Thought, 2020
Fren – Heavy Matter (06:24) from Where Do You Want Ghosts to Reside, 2020
Kavus Torabi – Radio To Their World (04:10) from Hip To The Jag, 2020
Nick D’Virgilio – Where’s the Passion (06:50) from Invisible, 2020
The Bardic Depths – Depths Of Soul (06:40) from The Bardic Depths, 2020
Frost* – Exhibit A (05:35) from Others, 2020
Zopp – The Noble Shirker (09:19) from Zopp, 2020

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Jon, James and Wilf regroup for the second part of their Mike Oldfield extravaganza, celebrating the music released by the great man in the Eighties, culminating with his leaving Virgin Records and releasing Tubular Bells II in 1992.

Mike Oldfield –Five Miles Out (4:23) from Five Miles Out, 1982
Mike Oldfield –Mistake (2:58), single, 1982
Mike Oldfield – Waldberg (The Peak), B-side of Mistake, 1982
Mike Oldfield – In High Places (3:34) from Crises, 1983
Mike Oldfield – Crises (live) (23:15) from Crises, deluxe edition released 2013
Mike Oldfield – The Lake (12:14) from Discovery, 1984
Mike Oldfield – In The Pool (3:42), B-side of To France, 1984
Mike Oldfield – Evacuation (5:14) from The Killing Fields OST, 1984
Mike Oldfield – Mount Teide (live) (4:33) from The Complete Mike Oldfield, 1985
Mike Oldfield – Pictures in the Dark (4:16), single, 1985
Mike Oldfield – The Wind Chimes (extract) (6:23) from Islands, 1987
Mike Oldfield – Far Country (4:25) from Earth Moving, 1989
The Sallyangie – Branches (6:52), from Children of the Sun, originally released 1969, reissued 2002
Mike Oldfield – Amarok (extract) (7:05) from Amarok, 1990
Michael Oldfield – No Dream (6:01) from Heaven’s Open, 1991
Mike Oldfield – Sunjammer/Red Dawn/The Bell (11:22) from Tubular Bells II, 1992

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After literally years of talking about it, Wilf gets together in a socially distanced, responsible fashion with two old friends of The European Perspective, Jon Hunt and James Hendry, to present an extravaganza of music by one of their favourite composers and musicians, Mike Oldfield. In this first show they look at the first ten years of his remarkable career, with a few rarities mixed in with the major releases. There’ll be a second installment in due course!

Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells Part 1 (extract) (05:54) from Tubular Bells, 1973
Mike Oldfield – Mike Oldfield’s Single (03:57), 1974/
Mike Oldfield – Hergest Ridge Part 2 (extract) (05:34) from Hergest Ridge, 1974
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Bedford, featuring Mike Oldfield – The Orchestral Tubular Bells Part 2 (extract) (04:24) from The Orchestral Tubular Bells, 1974
Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn Part 1 (extract) (12:08) from Ommadawn, 1975
Mike Oldfield – The Path (03:31) from B-side of Shine, recorded 1976, released 1986
Mike Oldfield – Argiers (04:00) from Boxed, 1976
Mike Oldfield – Pipe Tune (03:30) from B-side of Cuckoo Song, 1977
Mike Oldfield – Incantations Part 4 (17:04) from Incantations, 1978
Mike Oldfield – Wrekorder Wrondo (02:37) from Take Four EP, 1978
Mike Oldfield – Guilty (live) (06:22) from Exposed, 1979
Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, featuring Mike Oldfield – Downwind (06:58) from Pierre Moerlen’s Gong Live, 1979
Mike Oldfield – Sally/Punkadiddle (09:55) from Platinum, 1979
Mike Oldfield – Platinum (live) (14:25) from The Complete Mike Oldfield, 1985
Mike Oldfield – Taurus 1 (10:17) from QE2, 1980
Mike Oldfield – Taurus 2 (24:44:00) from Five Miles Out, 1982

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It all got a bit chaotic!

The general idea here was to play some cheerful music. And most of it is. There’s a really tiny bit of swearing – twice, in fact, with the first one being near the start of the show.

Thanks to Martin for joining me for the whole show once again!

Hatfield and the North – Share It (03:03) from The Rotters’ Club, 1975
Mike Oldfield – Platinum (19:13) from Platinum, 1980
P.F.M. – Celebration (06:59) from Paper Charms: The Complete BBC Recordings 1974 – 1976, 2014
Mike Keneally – Click (03:56) from Pup, 2004
Steve Hillage – The Salmon Song (08:29) from Fish Rising, 1974
Genesis – I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (04:10) from Selling England by the Pound, 1973
Moon Safari – Yasgur’s Farm (08:06) from Blomljud, 2008
Chasing The Monsoon – Into The Light (06:01) from No Ordinary World, 2019
Henry Cow – Ruins (12:11) from Unrest, 1974
Discipline – The Nursery Year (05:20) from Push & Profit, 1994
Gilgamesh – One End More/Phil’s Little Dance/World’s Of Zin (10:22) from Gilgamesh, 1975
Jellyfish – Joining A Fan Club (04:03) from Spilt Milk, 1993
Gandalf’s Fist – Supplies for the Festivities (05:34) from The Clockwork Prologue, 2019
Ezra – Summer Again (08:18) from Songs from Pennsylvania, 2006

Progradar’s Picks
Glass Hammer – The Dreaming City (07:15) from Dreaming City, 2020
Long Earth – We Own Tomorrow (08:06) from Once Around the Sun, 2020
Ms Amy Birks – Jamaica Inn (04:14) from All That I Am And All That I Was, 2019
The Tangent – A Spark In The Aether (04:20) from A Spark In The Aether, 2015

Knekklectric – Vi e mindre (05:17) from For Mange Melodia, 2017
Peter Hammill – Imperial Zeppelin (03:39) from Fools Mate, 1971
I Am The Manic Whale – Valenta Scream (07:10) from Things Unseen, 2020
Hasse Fröberg & Musical Companion  – Parallel Life (21:46) from Parallel Life, 2019
Pure Reason Revolution – Eupnea (13:23) from Eupnea, 2020
Zopp – V (06:37) from Zopp, 2020
Guranfoe – Night’s First Light (09:04) from Sum of Erda, 2019
Gracious – The Dream (17:00) from Gracious!, 1970
Haken – Manifolds (07:35) from Enter The 5th Dimension, 2008
Lazuli – Dieter Böhm (05:32) from Le fantastique envol de Dieter Böhm, 2020
Big Big Train – Hedgerow (08:54) from English Electric: Full Power, 2013