Surfing (song)
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"Surfing" is a Spanish promo single by Mike Oldfield
from his album Light & Shade
released in 2005 (see 2005 in music
).
Oldfield's attraction to vocal modification surfaced again, this time in the form of Vocaloid
, a virtual vocal software package. One of the Vocaloid tracks, "Surfing" was meant to be the albums first full single, according to zm.nu.
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...
from his album Light & Shade
Light & Shade
Light + Shade is a two-disc album by English musician Mike Oldfield. It is the first album to be released by Oldfield following his signing with Mercury Records. The album was released on 26 September 2005...
released in 2005 (see 2005 in music
2005 in music
-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...
).
Oldfield's attraction to vocal modification surfaced again, this time in the form of Vocaloid
Vocaloid
is a singing synthesizer application, with its signal processing part developed through a joint research project between the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and Japan's Yamaha Corporation, who backed the development financially—and later developed the software into the commercial product...
, a virtual vocal software package. One of the Vocaloid tracks, "Surfing" was meant to be the albums first full single, according to zm.nu.