New Releases Discover Articles Recommendations Staff Picks Year in Review Advanced Search Remove Ads

Voyager Mike Oldfield

Rating: 3
Author: AllMusic

AllMusic Rating

User Rating (0)

Your Rating

STREAM OR BUY:

Release Date

August 26, 1996

Duration

58:25

Genre

New Age, Pop/Rock

Styles

Art Rock, Prog-Rock, Progressive Electronic

Recording Location

Air Studios (Lyndhurst) Ltd

Air Studios (Lyndhurst) Ltd.

Roughwood Studios

Set Your Streaming Service

Suggest Streaming Links

To Set Your Preferred Streaming Service, Log In to Your AllMusic Account

To Submit Streaming Links, Log In to Your AllMusic Account

Don't have an Account?

Discography Timeline

See Full Discography

Tubular Bells (1973)

Hergest Ridge (1974)

The Orchestral Tubular Bells (1975)

Ommadawn (1975)

Incantations (1978)

Platinum (1979)

Exposed (1979)

QE2 (1980)

Five Miles Out (1982)

Crises (1983)

The Killing Fields [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (1984)

Discovery (1984)

Islands (1987)

Earth Moving (1989)

Amarok (1990)

Heaven's Open (1991)

Tubular Bells 2 (1992)

The Songs of Distant Earth (1994)

Voyager (1996)

Tubular Bells III (1998)

Guitars (1999)

The Millennium Bell (1999)

Tres Lunas (2002)

Tubular Bells, 2003 (2003)

Light + Shade (2005)

Making Tracks (2007)

Music of the Spheres (2008)

Music of the Spheres: Live in Bilbao (2008)

Man on the Rocks (2014)

The Space Movie [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2015)

Return to Ommadawn (2017)

Opus One (2023)

Voyager Review by AllMusic

Voyager Review by Ross Boissoneau

Mike Oldfield has always been a bit of a musical dilettante, and Voyager is no exception. If he didn't come by it honestly, one might almost suspect this album's Celtic influences derived from that music's being in vogue when this disc was recorded. There are certainly some enjoyable melodies herein, but nothing that rises above the ordinary. Oldfield's stinging guitar work is in evidence, and some synthesized bagpipes try to lend it an air of majesty, but ultimately this recording doesn't really voyage much of anywhere.

Voyager User Reviews

To Write a User Review, Log In to Your AllMusic Account Log In Don't Have an Account?

Kim Alsos March 18, 2018

Here Oldfield continues the meditative style of his previous "Songs of Distant Earth", and throws in some irish/celtic melody and intrumentation for good measure.
I think it works rather well, and it certainly rises above the mindless new-age drone found on most "relaxation-albums".
But to be fair, this album has none of his usual gripping and exciting qualities. But it's obviously not meant to!
People have to realize that just as Beethoven made blasting symphonies, he also made small quiet pieces. Pop and rock musicians must be able to do the same without being critisized.

Was this review helpful?

Report Inappropriate

Voyager Track List

The Song of the Sun

Bieito Romero

Mike Oldfield