Boxed

by Mike Oldfield

Boxed cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 29 October 1976
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:45:06
  • Community rating: 4.07/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This elaborate four-LP box set gathers the British multi-instrumentalist's first three phenomenally successful, side-long instrumental opuses alongside unreleased collaborative material. Newly remixed into quadraphonic sound, the sprawling, pastoral compositions underscore his unique fusion of traditional folk textures and immense progressive ambition.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, instrumental, suite, virtuosic, thematic

Tracklist

  1. Tubular Bells Part One (25:55)
  2. Tubular Bells Part Two (25:47)
  3. The Sailor's Hornpipe
  4. Hergest Ridge Part One (21:33)
  5. Hergest Ridge Part Two (18:40)
  6. Ommadawn Part One (20:06)
  7. Ommadawn Part Two (17:17)
  8. On Horseback
  9. The Phaeacian Games (3:58)
  10. Extract From Star's End (7:33)
  11. The Rio Grande (6:37)
  12. First Excursion (5:56)
  13. Argiers (3:59)
  14. Portsmouth (2:02)
  15. In Dulci Jubilo (2:49)
  16. Speak (Tho You Only Say Farewell) (2:54)

Credits

  • Allen Landau - lacquer cut by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • William Murray - lyrics by, snare [snare drum]
  • Vernon Handley - conductor
  • Chris Cutler - percussion
  • The Queens College Girls Choir - vocals
  • Robert Lucas de Pearsall - written-by
  • Horatio Nicholls - written-by

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