Mike Oldfield / Five Miles Out reissue and Crises 5-disc box set

September 2013 sees the 30th anniversary (ish) reissues of two Mike Oldfield albums.

1982’s Five Miles Out, which features the single Family Man (covered with great commercial success by Hall and Oates) will be issued as a three disc 2CD+DVD edition, with the DVD featuring a 5.1 surround sound mix.

Oldfield’s follow-up to Five Miles Out was Crises, released little over a year later in May 1983. That album was responsible for another bit hit, this time Moonlight Shadow, which was a top ten hit in many countries around the world and in the UK is well known for being featured on the first of the long running Now That’s What I Call Music series.

Amazon are listing a 5-disc Crises box set, with a release date of 2 September, the same day as Five Miles Out. At this stage there is no official confirmation of exactly what will be on each disc, but the track listings are available on Amazon and Oldfield confirmed to his personal Facebook group earlier this year that Crises will be mixed for 5.1 surround sound. Here’s some of his message from Mike:

“Here is a screenshot of my studio Mac with “Crises” long instrumental all labelled and ready to mix.

I have started putting some automation down and it’s so great to work in 5.1 as there is so much more room for all the sounds in that lovely big space. I was working on Moonlight Shadow 5.1 last night and that’s easy to mix and everything is sounding amazing. The folks at the archiving company are having a bit of trouble finding the old masters of Taurus 3 and Foreign Affair but they have 2 mysterious big reels of Ampex tape in the oven so hopefully those tracks will be found. Shadow on the Wall will be the long version.”

In a later message he added:

“Have had a quick look at Moonlight Shadow and it’s magic you just push the faders up and it sounds fantastic. Found an extra Maggie Reilly vocal take so will have a good look at that.”

All in all exciting news for Mike Oldfield fans! Track listings for both releases are below, although with no official confirmation it may take some educated guessing to establish whether tracks are live versions, demos, 5.1 etc.

Crises 5-disc box set

• UK Pre-order: Crises box set

Five Miles Out 2CD+DVD

• UK Pre-order: Five Miles Out

Full track listings:

Five Miles Out track listing

Disc: 1

• 1. Taurus II
• 2. Family Man
• 3. Orabidoo
• 4. Mount Teidi
• 5. Five Miles Out
• 6. Waldberg (The Peak)
• 7. Five Miles Out

Disc: 2

• 1. Tubular Bells Part One
• 2. Sheba
• 3. Mirage
• 4. Family Man
• 5. Taurus II
• 6. Mount Teidi
• 7. Five Miles Out
• 8. Guilty

Disc: 3 (DVD – 5.1)

• 1. Taurus II
• 2. Family Man
• 3. Orabidoo
• 4. Mount Teidi
• 5. Five Miles Out
• 6. Five Miles Out – Mike Oldfield, Maggie Reilly

Crises track listing

Disc: 1

• 1. Crises
• 2. Moonlight Shadow
• 3. In High Places
• 4. Foreign Affair
• 5. Taurus 3
• 6. Shadow On The Wall
• 7. Moonlight Shadow
• 8. Shadow On The Wall
• 9. Mistake
• 10. Crime Of Passion
• 11. Jungle Gardenia
• 12. Moonlight Shadow
• 13. Shadow On The Wall

Disc: 2

• 1. Woodhenge/ Incantations Part Three
• 2. Sheba
• 3. Ommadawn Part One
• 4. Mount Teidi
• 5. Five Miles Out
• 6. Tubular Bells Part One

Disc: 3

• 1. Taurus I
• 2. Taurus II
• 3. Crises
• 4. Moonlight Shadow
• 5. Shadow On The Wall
• 6. Family Man

Disc: 4

• 1. Crises
• 2. Tubular Bells Part One
• 3. Moonlight Shadow – Mike Oldfield, Maggie Reilly
• 4. Shadow On The Wall
• 5. Moonlight Shadow – Mike Oldfield, Maggie Reilly
• 6. Crime Of Passion – Mike Oldfield, Barry Palmer

Disc: 5 (DVD 5.1)

• 1. Crises
• 2. Moonlight Shadow
• 3. In High Places
• 4. Foreign Affair
• 5. Taurus 3
• 6. Shadow On The Wall

Crises 5-disc box set

• UK Pre-order: Crises box set

Five Miles Out 2CD+DVD

• UK Pre-order: Five Miles Out