Light + Shade

by Mike Oldfield

Light + Shade cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 September 2005
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:30:45
  • Community rating: 2.53/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The veteran multi-instrumentalist divides his twenty-second studio album into two distinct atmospheric moods. The first disc focuses on bright, rhythmically driven trance and psybient electronics, while the second disc relies on the lush, meditative new age aesthetics and piano-driven ambiance that defined his earlier career.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, repetitive, rhythmic, melodic

Tracklist

  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 (4:45)
  9. Pres De Toi (3:56)
  10. Quicksilver (5:55)
  11. Resolution (4:33)
  12. Slipstream (5:15)
  13. Surfing (5:36)
  14. Tears Of An Angel (5:38)
  15. Romance (4:00)
  16. Ringscape (4:22)
  17. Nightshade (5:09)
  18. Lakme - Fruity Loops (4:55)

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