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Let op, deze 24 bit kan je het beste streamen en beluisteren via Foobar=gratis (ff googelen).
En... ALS er nog een bedankje af kan wordt dat zeer op prijs gesteld, dat motiveert om verder te gaan.

1. Taurus II.flac
2. Family Man.flac
3. Orabidoo.flac
4. Mount Teidi.flac
5. Five Miles Out.flac

"Taurus 2" is 25 minutes long, very coloured and dynamic instrumental track, which opens with a heavy guitar pattern, playing fil-rouge "Five Miles out" theme, introducing the whole album in first three minutes, soon to be followed by Paddy Moloney's pipes and Mike's guitar, briliantly merged in a kind of traditional tune. It slowly increases with more and more instruments added, then explodes in a blast and drowns toward the horizon... here, the most beautiful part of "Taurus 2" begins, when Maggie Reilly sings the heart of a track, "Deep deep sound" melody, like she was singing somewhere above the clouds. Then guitars start again, repeating the melody and fade into a second part of the track, which features female voices, used as an instrument, and "Five Miles out" theme again, this time in screaming, frenzy guitars. The track is softly closed with zither tune. "Family Man", one of the Oldfield's biggest pop-hits, opens the other side. It features Mike's characteristic guitar passages, often captured in his later successes as "Moonlight Shadow". The track ends in a big blow and turns into a picturesque preface to "Orabidoo" - this track is consisted of five very different parts, but Mike managed to combine them into a little master-piece. First, vocoder sings "Message from Kathmandu" tune, using all kind of voices from the pilot cabin, then turns into a furious guitar theme, already attached in "Taurus 2". In a few minutes, you'll get an impression like you're walking at the huge plane-runway, people communicating over radio-connections, before another guitar rush takes over. Maggie Reilly ends the track gently, singing a melody about Ireland. "Mt. Teide" is a short instrumental piece, built on a beautiful melody, slowly increasing toward the end... you can picture yourself watching this highest peak of Tenerife Island with its cone-shaped crater, covered with snow, rising from the clouds. The album is closed by "Five Miles out" track, which now sounds very familiar with its characteristic tune, accompanied by Maggie and Mike again - the sound of a diving plane finishes the album.