Return To Ommadawn

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Ultratop.be – Mike Oldfield – Return to Ommadawn" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 January 2017.

Reprise of Oldfield’s third

There are pros and cons to this approach. On the one hand, Return To Ommadawn is Oldfield the solipsist wunderkind in excelsis, there is a consistency to the sound, and the fact that Oldfield did virtually everything adds to the feeling of a lovingly handcrafted piece of work. On the other, the original was more quixotic, with more twists and turns and a greater melodic and textural variety.