TUBULAR BELLS

I remember when 25 years ago my older friend who introduced me to MO was praising this album all the time without having it but having several excerpts from radio broadcastings. In the communist Hungary it was quite uneasy to get any Western musical material, so we had only ideas what it could be like. 10 years after I managed to buy the symphonic version and I was really amased (I was deeply in classical music that time) and I could hardly wait to get the original version but I had to wait another 10 years for that. I was blown away from the first notes to the last bar of the closing folk song. I like the opening piano in 15/8, I like the powerful electric guitar, the humble bass, the merry whistle, the caveman, everzthing. It was and it is so exciting when listening, the music is sometimes raw and sometimes sophisticated, I like the metric changes, I like the Irish and new age feeling and I like the tons of instruments (cos it is nothing else but cavalcade of them). And that's the point. MO simply invented new age and world music with this album and since music is simply instruments used at the right time and place, he just puts the instruments in the right order to create the unbelievable feeling of freedom which lifts the listener to celestial heights and my friends, to feel freedom is the greatest gift from God. Just go and live it through!