Mike oldfield

Tubular what? Long overshadowed by its illustrious predecessor, Oldfield’s 1974 hymn to the British landscape gets the belated Golden Jubilee treatment – and it’s never sounded so brooding or beautiful.

Taking flight: Mike Oldfield prepares to launch his ...

Tracks II: The Lost Albums SONY

Eleven years after his first ambitious homage to Mike Oldfield, Robert Reed is back with the long-awaited fourth instalment in his Sanctuary series. With a little help from Oldfield collaborators Les Penning, Tom Newman and drummer Simon Phillips, the Magenta and Cyan mastermind tells Prog about his mission to keep long-form music alive.

The Fateful Symmetry MUTE 7/10

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.