Track Listing 1. Sentinel 2. Dark Star 3. Clear Light 4. Blue Saloon 5. Sunjammer 6. Red Dawn 7. Bell 8. Weightless 9. Great Plain 10. Sunset Door 11. Tattoo 12. Altered State 13. Maya Gold 14. Moonshine
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Mike Oldfield | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Cinram Logistics |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Mike Oldfield (various instruments); Vivian Stanshall (vocals); Sally Oldfield, The Pilt-Down Man.The 19-year old Oldfield played virtually everything on the mostly instrumental TUBULAR BELLS, which required hundreds of over-dubs in the recording process (2300 in total, according to Rolling Stone magazine). The effect he created, a densely layered, richly textured sound, put "minimalist" musical ideas in a pop music context, and was highly successful. TUBULAR BELLS was the first album to be released on the Virgin label. Excerpts from TUBULAR BELLS were used in the film "The Exorcist." A single version, sometimes called "Theme From The Exorcist" became a top-10 hit, and the album hit number-1 on the British album charts.
Editorial Reviews 5 stars out of 5 - ...The most incident-packed of his '70s releases: you're never more than 2 minutes away from a crescendo or a beautiful interlude... Q (09/01/2000)
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