progressive rock.
Crown Records – iTunes download – A cover of Tubular Bells by the Crown Star Records studio musicians.
Marcel Bergmann made two arrangements of Tubular Bells “Part One”, in 2005 (for two pianos and two synthesizers as well as four pianos); A CD with both versions was released by Brilliant Classics in 2008.
California Guitar Trio covers most of the first side of the original album on their album Echoes released in late March 2008.
Tubular Bells for Two – in April and July 2009, in association with Universal Music Australia, two multi-instrumentalists Aidan Roberts and Daniel Holdsworth performed the work live in its entirety, in two exclusive performances in Sydney. Holdsworth and Roberts had spent 9 months arranging and rehearsing the work, and in order to represent Oldfield’s complex original arrangements they utitilised loop pedals, multiple percussion and keyboard setups, various guitars and a custom-made set of abstract tubular bells. Holdsworth and Roberts made a recorded version of their arrangement but for copyright reasons it has not been released.
Furthermore, many dance acts and other artists have used the intro to Tubular Bells as the basis for their songs. A long list can be found at Rainer Muenz’ discography. Computer games Commodore 64
With the aid of the software house CRL and distributor Nu Wave, Mike Oldfield released an interactive Commodore 64 version of the album in 1986, which utilised the computer’s SID sound chip to play back a simplified re-arrangement of the album, accompanied by some simple 2D visual effects.
The “interactivity” offered by the album/program was limited to controlling the speed and quantity of the visual effects, tuning the sound’s volume and filtering, and skipping to any part of the
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