There are very few experiences that can be compared to reading Arthur C. Clarke's novel of the same name while listening to this album... After that, whenever you hear a track of this album your mind floods with images from the book. And when you read a passage from the book, the music pops up in your head... Simply perfect.

A Mike Oldfield box set of the Warner era will be issued in October this year.
The Studio Albums 1992-2003 gathers together the eight albums released on the label, starting with 1992′s follow-up to the seminal Tubular Bells and ending again with that same album but this time the 2003 re-recording. In between are two further TB-related albums – Tubular Bells III (1998) and The Millennium Bell (1999).
The other four albums are 1994′s The Songs Of Distant Earth, Voyager from 1996, Guitars (1999) and Tr3s Lunas which was issued in 2002.