HERGEST RIDGE

I must confess that when Mike Oldfield recorded his initial trilogy, I didn't understand it. My love for Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Tangerine Dream, VDGG, PFM, and classical music made me lose sight of these magnificent works, whose revisiting the pandemic allowed me to do. Hergest Ridge seems to me to be the most evenly matched of the three. Plus, today we have the demo, which includes a few new features as interesting as the final album. I'm going to commit the sin of ranking them side by side: 1) Ommadawn, Part 1 is my favorite; 2) Tubular Bells, Part 1 follows; 3) Hergest Ridge?except for the riff at minute 12 of the second part?is the most even and valuable overall; 4) Tubular Bells, Part 2 is somewhat worse; and 5) Ommadawn, Part 2 seems downright poor to me. I don't want to go on too long. I simply wanted to come and pay my belated homage, an admiration that has now expanded into later works (Incantations, The Wind Chimes, etc., etc.

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