This is one of my favourite albums although it is also one of the most frustrating as it never settles for long into a particular theme... and is interrupted by some annoying diversions along the way including the moment when Janet Brown appears...
It is now rather old too, with a special edition on vinyl coming out last year.
The album cover features a number of riddles.
I am told that when men hear its voice, it stays in their ears, they cannot be rid of it. It has many different voices: some happy, but others sad. It roars like a baboon, murmurs like a child, drums like the blazing arms of one thousand drummers, rustles like water in a glass, sings like a lover and laments like a priest...
Amarok was the final album that Mike Oldfield made for Virgin Records.
It contains a coded message for Richard Branson.
I had a vinyl version, requiring you to change half way through - the CD version is more continuous.
It's a brilliant and frustrating album.
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