Sally Oldfield - Mirrors: The Bronze Anthology (Bonus Tracks) (2007)

This double-disc is a very solid collection of Sally Oldfield's recordings for the CBS subsidiary Bronze (don't laugh, Uriah Heep was on there too). Before her brief resurgence in the '90s, Oldfield's recordings were new age before there was such a term. She brought not only a songwriter's sense of elegance to tape, but also an instrumentalist's sense of silence and dynamic. Brother Mike Oldfield helped out on "Waterbearer," perhaps he best-known offering here, as well as on some of the subsequent tracks on later records. Oldfied was the real precursor to people like Enya and Loreena McKennitt, marrying a classicist's sense of arrangement and dynamic to a mystic's heart and a Celtic woman's abiding folk history, myth, and legend. These two discs are impeccably remastered and offer a wonderful introduction to a talent who, at least on this side of the pond, never got her proper due.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Sally Oldfield - Mirrors (3:32)
1.02 - Sally Oldfield - Water Bearer (6:27)
1.03 - Sally Oldfield - Sun in My Eyes (4:19)
1.04 - Sally Oldfield - Sons of the Free (3:55)
1.05 - Sally Oldfield - You Set My Gypsy Blood On Fire (3:43)
1.06 - Sally Oldfield - First Born of the Earth (4:39)
1.07 - Sally Oldfield - The Boulevard Song (3:31)
1.08 - Sally Oldfield - Celebration (5:03)
1.09 - Sally Oldfield - Blue Water (8:09)
1.10 - Sally Oldfield - Playing in the Flame (4:54)
2.11 - Sally Oldfield - Rare Lightning (4:46)
2.12 - Sally Oldfield - Strange Day in Berlin (6:55)
2.13 - Sally Oldfield - Manchild (3:48)
2.14 - Sally Oldfield - Songs of the Quendi Medley (8:36)
2.15 - Sally Oldfield - Man Storm (5:17)
2.16 - Sally Oldfield - Mandala (5:02)
2.17 - Sally Oldfield - Woman of the Night (5:05)
2.18 - Sally Oldfield - My Damsel Heart (6:09)
2.19 - Sally Oldfield - A Land I Can See (3:42)
2.20 - Sally Oldfield - Mirrors (Remix) (3:16)