Talk:Return to Ommadawn

Instruments
The instruments section is highly unusual for an album, even for an article about a Symphonic orchestra. A more common format can be seen here. Mlpearc ( open channel ) 00:15, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 * That may well be the more common format, but Oldfield has played a large majority (if not all) of the instruments on this album, see this, this and this. - Dyolf87 (talk) 14:22, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Too fine a point on it...
From the article:

Return to Ommadawn is the first album since Incantations (1978) that follows the format of having one track per side of vinyl simply titled "Part one", "Part two" etc.

This statement is technically true, in that the tracks on side one and side two of Amarok weren't titled "Part one" and "Part two" and in that Tubular Bells 2003 never had an official release on vinyl.

But a statement that's true only on a technicality and which requires jumping through semantic hoops only weakens the article. Can we find a (sourced?) statement that comments on Oldfield's return to long-form tracks for this album? -- Heath 184.170.93.196 (talk) 20:58, 30 January 2018 (UTC)


 * A very quick search has found this - http://teamrock.com/feature/2016-12-08/mike-oldfield-returns-to-ommadawn
 * From the TeamRock article:


 * Oldfield readily admits that he’s specifically designed the album for vinyl. There are just two tracks here, titled Part I and Part II, each of which is around 20 minutes long.
 * "I tend to think of them as being Side One and Side Two of an LP. This was deliberately done because I love vinyl and the way it brings people closer to music. As far as I’m concerned, if you listen to downloads, that has the same impact as what you hear in a lift! Of course, the album will be made available in all the usual formats. But for me it’s the vinyl one that matters."


 * TubularWorld (talk) 21:13, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Unclear sentence
I stumbled over this bit:

"which Oldfield took onboard and has bits that feature one guitar."

Maybe the result of some re-jigging and re-wording? I don't know what that part is supposed to mean, so I can't rewrite it. Jules TH 16 (talk) 21:25, 31 May 2021 (UTC)