Tr3s Lunas is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield

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...

. It was released in 2002 (see 2002 in music

2002 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...

) with a bonus CD containing a demo program for a PC game, Tres Lunas

Tres Lunas (video game)

Tres Lunas is a MusicVR video game published in 2002 by British musician Mike Oldfield.- History :Oldfield had been working on the idea of melding virtual reality and music throughout the 1990s. Oldfield worked with 3D graphics programmer Colin Dooley and graphic artist Nick Catcheside...

.

Title

When translated from the Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 language to English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, the album name Tres Lunas is Three Moons. This is reflected in the typeface on the album cover, with the letter 'e' being replaced with a numeric '3'.

Recording

Oldfield's sister, Sally

Sally Oldfield

Sally Oldfield is a singer-songwriter, and the sister of the composers Mike Oldfield and Terry Oldfield.-Early life:...

 makes a speaking appearance on this album. The last previous Mike Oldfield album which she had appeared on was 1978's Incantations

Incantations (album)

Incantations is the fourth record album by Mike Oldfield, released in late 1978 on Virgin Records.The first Oldfield to be divided into more than two movements, it is the second longest work Oldfield has ever released...

. The main vocalist for "To Be Free

To Be Free

"To Be Free" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 2002. It is from the album Tres Lunas. The main vocalist is the Jazz singer Jude Sim.- The Remixes CD :# "To Be Free" # "To Be Free"...

" is the Jazz singer Jude Sim. British-Asian vocalist called Amar, who first appeared on Tubular Bells III

Tubular Bells III

Tubular Bells III is the 18th album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1998. A sequel to Oldfield's 1973 Tubular Bells and his 1992 Tubular Bells II albums, it was released on the 25th anniversary of the first Tubular Bells album....

, also contributes vocals to the album. The album was recorded at Oldfield's Roughwood Studios, with additional parts recorded at Plan 1 Studios, Munich.

The saxophone sound is played with the use of a guitar synthesizer.

The game

Tres Lunas

Tres Lunas (video game)

Tres Lunas is a MusicVR video game published in 2002 by British musician Mike Oldfield.- History :Oldfield had been working on the idea of melding virtual reality and music throughout the 1990s. Oldfield worked with 3D graphics programmer Colin Dooley and graphic artist Nick Catcheside...

was the vehicle for Oldfield's first publicly released MusicVR

MusicVR

MusicVR is a virtual reality project created and developed by the musician Mike Oldfield. To date it has produced two standalone simulation games and inspired content for some of Oldfield's albums...

 game. It was followed by Maestro

Maestro (video game)

Maestro is a MusicVR video game by British musician Mike Oldfield. It is the second publicly released MusicVR game after 2002's Tres Lunas.- History :Oldfield had been working on the idea of melding virtual reality and music throughout the 1990s...

. Some of the music from the Tres Lunas game eventually ended up on Oldfield's Light + Shade album.

Track listing

1. "Misty" – 3:59
2. "No Mans Land" – 6:08
3. "Return to the Origin" – 4:38
4. "Landfall" – 2:19
5. "Viper" – 4:32
6. "Turtle Island" – 3:40
7. "To Be Free
   To Be Free
   "To Be Free" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 2002. It is from the album Tres Lunas. The main vocalist is the Jazz singer Jude Sim.- The Remixes CD :# "To Be Free" # "To Be Free"...
   
   " – 4:21
8. "Fire Fly" – 3:46
9. "Tr3s Lunas" – 4:35
10. "Daydream" – 2:15
11. "Thou Art in Heaven
    Thou Art in Heaven
    "Thou Art in Heaven" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 2002.It is from the album Tr3s Lunas. "Thou Art in Heaven" is a cut-down version of the 13-minute "Art in Heaven", which featured on The Art in Heaven Concert, live in Berlin on Millennium night...
    
    " – 5:22
12. "Sirius" – 5:47
13. "No Mans Land" (Reprise) – 2:56
14. "To Be Free" (Radio edit) – 3:56

Personnel

• Mike Oldfield
  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...
  
  
• Sally Oldfield
  Sally Oldfield
  Sally Oldfield is a singer-songwriter, and the sister of the composers Mike Oldfield and Terry Oldfield.-Early life:...
  
   – Spoken voice
• Jude Sim – Vocals on "To Be Free"
• Amar – Vocals
• Ben Darlow – Assistant engineer
• Philip Lewis – Percussion programming (assistant at Plan 1)
• Thomas Süssmair – Percussion programming (assistant at Plan 1)

External links

• Mike Oldfield Discography - Tres Lunas at Tubular.net
• Cover from an original idea by Hans Claesson of Kebawe