Exposed (Mike Oldfield album)

Infobox Album|
Name = Exposed


Type = live
Artist = Mike Oldfield
Released = start date|1979|7|17|df=yes
Recorded = March–April 1979
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 97:31
Label = Virgin
Producer = Philp R. Newell, Mike Oldfield
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5wtqoa9awij9 link]
Last album = "Incantations"
(1978)
This album = "Exposed"
(1979)
Next album = "Platinum"
(1979)

"Exposed" is a 1979 live album by Mike Oldfield. The album was a collection of Oldfield's tours in Spain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and England from March to April 1979. It peaked at #16 on the UK Album Chart.

A double CD version was later released. A DVD version of the concert, recorded at Wembley Conference Centre, followed suit and was released in 2005.

Track listing

CD one

# "Incantations (Parts 1 & 2)" (Mike Oldfield) – 26:31
# "Incantations (Parts 3 & 4)" (Mike Oldfield) – 20:50

CD two

# "Tubular Bells (Part 1)" (Mike Oldfield) – 28:42
# "Tubular Bells (Part 2)" (Mike Oldfield, except The Sailor's Hornpipe) – 12:00
# "Guilty" (Mike Oldfield) – 5:37

Recording

Initially during the tour the concerts were being recorded without the knowledge of the musicians, so that they could be paid less money; for just a performance and not a recording, the musicians found out, but the recordings went ahead and the album was produced. [cite book |last=Oldfield |first=Mike |authorlink=Mike Oldfield |title=Changeling - Autobiography of Mike Oldfield‎ |year=2007 |publisher=Virgin Books |isbn=978-1852273811]

Personnel

* Mike Oldfield - guitars, producer
* Nico Ramsden - guitars
* Phil Beer - guitar, vocals
* Pekka Pohjola - bass guitar
* Pierre Moerlen, drums, percussion
* Mike Frye - percussion
* Benoit Moerlen - percussion
* David Bedford - percussion
* Ringo McDonough - bodhran
* Pete Lemer - keyboards
* Tim Cross - keyboards
* Maddy Prior - vocals
* Ray Gay - trumpets
* Ralph Izen - trumpets
* Simpo Salminen - trumpets
* Colin Moore - trumpets
* Sebastian Bell - flutes
* Chris Nicholls - flutes
* Don McVay - violins
* Pauline Mack - violins
* Danny Daggers - violins
* Melinda Daggers - violins
* Liz Butler - violins
* Ross Cohen - violins
* Nigel Warren-Green - celli
* Vanessa Park - celli
* David Bucknall - celli
* Jessica Ford - celli
* Nick Worters - bass
* Joe Kirby - bass
* Debra Bronstein - choir
* Marigo Acheson - choir
* Emma Freud - choir
* Diana Coulson - choir
* Mary Elliott - choir
* Mary Creed - choir
* Cecily Hazell - choir
* Wendy Lampitt - choir
* Clara Harris - choir
* Emma Smith - choir
* Catherine Loewe - choir
* David Bedford - string arrangements
* Philp R. Newell - executive recording supervisor, producer
* Alan Perkins - recording engineer
* Greg Shriver - recording engineer
* Kurt Munkacsi - recording engineer
* Ken Capper - assistant
* Chris Blake - assistant
* Sally Arnold, tour co-ordinator

* Recording Unit: The Manor Studio's Mobile
* Remixing Studio: The Town house, London
* Extract from 'Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

References

External links

* [http://tubular.net/discography/Exposed.shtml Mike Oldfield discography - "Exposed"] at Tubular.net