Étude | |
Cover: | Etude (Mike Oldfield).jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Mike Oldfield |
Album: | The Killing Fields |
B-Side: | Evacuation |
Released: | 19 November 1984[1] |
Genre: | Folktronica |
Label: | Virgin Records |
Producer: | Mike Oldfield |
Prev Title: | Tricks of the Light |
Prev Year: | 1984 |
Next Title: | Pictures in the Dark |
Next Year: | 1985 |
Étude | |
Cover: | Nurofen (Mike Oldfield).jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Mike Oldfield |
B-Side: | "Gakkaen" (The Ono Gagaku Kai Society) |
Released: | 1990 |
Genre: | Folktronica |
Label: | Virgin Records |
Producer: | Mike Oldfield |
Prev Title: | (One Glance is) Holy |
Prev Year: | 1989 |
Next Title: | Heaven's Open |
Next Year: | 1991 |
"Étude" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It is from the album The Killing Fields, the soundtrack album for the film of the same name . It was reissued in 1990, when it was used in a commercial for Nurofen. The 1990 release also featured a track called "Gakkaen" by The Ono Gagaku Kai Society.
"Étude" is taken from the Francisco Tárrega piece "Recuerdos de la Alhambra".
The music video for "Étude" which appears on the Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield video shows a boy watching parts of The Killing Fields on a television from a reel-to-reel tape machine and looking through photographs. The boy also plays with a Fairlight CMI, which the soundtrack album was composed on.