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Light + Shade: Special Edition

Artist: Mike Oldfield
Type: Album
Release date: 2005
Run time: 91:46
My Rating: 9

Disc 1 (45:51)

  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 (5:14)
  9. Près De Toi (3:58)

Disc 2 (45:55)

  1. Quicksilver (5:55)
  2. Resolution (4:33)
  3. Slipstream (5:15)
  4. Surfing (5:36)
  5. Tears of an Angel (5:38)
  6. Romance (4:00)
  7. Ringscape (4:22)
  8. Nightshade (5:39)
  9. Lakme (Fruity Loops) (4:55)

Comments

In the UK, Light + Shade was released with some funky extras:

Added to Light is "Pres De Toi", a Voyager-esque piece which provides a nice new climax to the album. Shade, meanwhile, gets "Lakme" which sounds oddly familar (it's a cover of a Léo Delibes piece, but I'm not sure where I've heard it before), and is an interesting mix of dance music and whale song(!).

Light additionally has "U-Myx" software allowing you to fiddle with four of the tracks. I had a brief play with this and, although the song structure is fixed, you can turn instruments on and off, and alter the volume levels.

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