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.