Channel Light Vessel - Automatic

Available at The Bill Nelson Record Store

Note: In 1997 All Saints has switched their distribution in the US to the Warners subsidiary Thirsty Ear. In Japan, new distribution will be through the label For Life. 

1. Testify
2. Train Travelling North
3. Slow Afternoon
4. Ballyboots
5. A Place We Pray For
6. Bubbling Blue
7. Duende
8. Flaming Creatures
9. Bill's Last Waltz
10. Thunderous Accordians
11. Fish Owl Moon
12. Little Luminaries
13. Faint Aroma of Snow 
14. Lost In Tijuana

Roger Eno - piano, keyboards, horn, accordian, banjo, and trundle guitar 
Bill Nelson - acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, percussion, e-bow, soft piano, keyboards, and vocals 
Kate St John - vocals, saxophone, cor anglais, and oboe 
Laraaji - zithers, bells, kalimba, chimes, and alien whispers 
Mayumi Tachibana - cello and ghost girl voice 

Recorded at Real World Studios, Wiltshire and Fairview Studios, Yorkshire. 
Assistant at Real World Studios, James Cadsky. 
Mixed at Fairview Studios. 
Engineered by Markus Dravs and John Spence. 
Mixed by Bill Nelson. 
Produced by Channel Light Vessel. 
Mastered at Chop 'Em Out, London. 
All music by Channel Light Vessel. 

Special thanks to: Kazu Koike, Mariko Takahashi, Ray Hearn, Debbie Hon, Bee Eno, Owen Leech, Jon Poth, Richard Chadwick, Emi Togo, Sid Griffin, Davis/Winstanley Design, Yojiro Ikebe, Artwork and Design: Dave Coppenhall. CLV Photographs: Yuka Fujii. All Saints Records would like to thank Brian Eno for his encouragement and support. Bill Nelson is represented world-wide by Opium (Arts) Ltd. 

Information on All Saints Records, please write to: The All Saints Bugle, PO Box 2767, London NW1 8HU, England 

Ambient Weather Report, Clear Sailing For Channel Light Vessel by Chris Twomey 

Gyroscope's site on Channel Light Vessel 

Q Magazine 
by Johnny Black 

If the idea of an ambient supergroup wasn't so paradoxical, it would fit this lot like the proverbial glove. It's hard to tell who does what with which in this largely improvised dreamscape, but it's likely that former Dream Academy member Kate St. John, lately out on the road with Van Morrison, is providing the sax and oboe lines, while Be-Bop  Deluxe's Bill Nelson's guitar doodles atmospherically. Roger Eno's keyboards gyre and gimbal with the toves provided by Mayumi  Tachibana's wispy cello and Laraaji's haunting  rhythmic devices. There is singing, usually by Bill Nelson or a multi-tracked St John, and the whole is lusciously soothing. 

(four stars out of five)

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