Artist: Mike Oldfield
Tracklist:
Soundtrack for 1979 The Space Movie, official release on CD with included DVD of Director's cut. Unreleased orchestral recordings of Hergest Ridge appear on this soundtrack. The DVD is region free.
Made in 1979 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the moon landing. NASA and The United States National Archive made all the footage available for the very first time including unseen film of the lunar landscape, life on the spacecraft, Mars, Venus and beyon. incle new tracks specially composed for this movie, beside known tracks.
A few years back Gonzo released the original soundtrack for Tony Palmer's "The Space Movie" 1979 documentary by Mike Oldfield. It consisted of consists of the un-edited sountrack (movie commentaries and all) which includes pieces from Oldfield's released "Tubular Bells", "Hergest Ridge", "Ommadawn" and "Portsmouth" and also excerpts from what was Oldfield's then-new album, "Incantations". The film also made use of the orchestral arrangements of Oldfield's first two albums, "The Orchestral Tubular Bells" and notably "The Orchestral Hergest Ridge" (with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra), which has never been released before. And now... The demos!
