Bill Nelson Session Discography
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Sea of Wires - Leaving the Electric Circus
Bill collaborated with the band on the song 'The Sunglass' with both guitars
and writing.
Available from the Sea of Wires website
via PayPal.
Follow this link to the web site from which to order.
Leaving
the Electric Circus
You can read the "Sea of Wires" press release at the following
link:
Sea
of Wires Press Release
Honeytone Cody - Believe In The Promise Of Tomorrow
Available from the Honeytone
Cody web site
Produced by Bill Nelson
Bill contributed a "secret track" to the EP, which consisted of music
he wrote that the band plays before their gigs.
Various Artists - Drop 5 (The Liquid Side of Dance)
Released May 5, 1998 on Materiali Sonori
Bill Nelson on guitar (possibly just a guitar sample)
Album also features David Torn, Richard Barbieri, Brian Eno, Jah Wobble, Steve Jansen,
Hector Zazou, and possibly David Sylvian. I'll have a track listing shortly.
Honeytone Cody - Pink & Clean EP
Elle Nelson - vocals, Elliot Nelson - guitars, Grant Patterson - bass, Matthew Lunn -
drums
Produced by Bill Nelson. Engineered by John Spence. Recorded at Fairview Studios
All music by Honeytone Cody
To purchase, send £5.50 to Honeytone Cody, 5 Fern Court, Riccall, York, YO19 6RS, United
Kingdom for a copy of the 4 track CD. Make cheques payable to Elle Nelson.
Nautilus Pompilius
- Yablokitay (or Jablokitay) CDNautilus Pompilius
Directed a video for track "Tender Vampire"
Video was shot at Carlton Towers, home of the Duke of Norfolk, in Yorkshire
Gillcover and the Monkey - 360 Degrees
Label: Stillwaters / Sony Music (Japan)
Catalog Number: ESCB 4018
Release Date: 1996-11-11
Tracks: 10 on CD
Producer: Bill Nelson, Gillcover & the Monkey
Engineer: John Spence at Fairview Studio
Check out a sound sample
from this album - does the final part sound familiar???
The credits do not list any musical contributions by Bill Nelson. All instruments were played by the band:
Fumitoshi Suganuma - vocals, guitars
Minchie Kamikubo - bass, vocals
Takahu Tsuji - guitars, vocals
Jun Inoue - drums, vocals
Culturemix with Bill Nelson
Released December 1995
UK: Resurgence RES113CD
Bill played keyboards, guitars, synth bass; sang on "Luna Park" - also some
co-arranging, co-production, and co-mixing
some track were available on the 1993 Japan-only release
"Geography"
Available through the Bill Nelson Record
Store
Su Lyn - "Lines of Desire" CD (Bruce's Fingers BF12, UK)
Production, bass guitar, electric guitar, and ebow on three tracks
Bill worked on the three tracks in 1991
Available through the Bill Nelson
Record Store
Audio Active & Laraaji - "The Way Out Is The Way In" CD
Guitar on "Music & Cosmic" (sampled from Channel Light Vessel's Automatic)
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Joe Hisaishi - Chizyou No Rakuen ("Paradise On Earth" in Japanese)
Label: Pioneeer (Japan-only)
Catalog Number: PICL-1085
Release Date: July 27, 1994
Available through the Bill
Nelson Record Store
Bill Nelson sings lead, wrote lyrics, and played guitar on "Hope".
Played guitar on "The Dawn". Probably played guitar on other tracks as
well.
Ian Ballamy - saxes
Bill Bruford - percussion, drums
Hugh Burns - guitar
David Cross - violins
Lance Ellington - vocals
Motoya Hamaguchi - drums, percussion
Joe Hisaishi - keyboards
Mitsuo Ikeda - ?
Nick Ingman - string arrangements
Rap Jonzi - lead vocals
Mike Mondesir - basses
Bill Nelson - guitars, lead vocals
Tessa Niles - lead vocals
Jackie Sheridan - lead vocals
Kenji Takamizu - basses
Gavyn Wright - violins
and The London Session Orchestra
Bill did some session work in Japan with former Boomtown Rat Johnny Fingers after completing the album Automatic by Channel Light Vessel in 1994.
Culturemix - "Geography" LP - Voice Records (Japan) VOC3-007
Bill played guitar
Japan: VOICE RECORDS VOC3-007
Tracks 2, 6 and 7 are identical to 3, 4 and 8 on Culturemix With Bill Nelson. Remaining six tracks appear only here.
Promotional - Gyroscope Label Sampler 1993
US: Gyroscope GYR PRO 001
Includes three songs from The Familiar by Roger Eno with Kate St John
In A Lonely World/Rain Outside An Open Door/The Blue Sea
co-production
Roger Eno & Kate St John - The Familiar
Ramon Tikaram - Chill and Kiss
Germany: DSB (Deutsche Schallplatten GmbH Berlin) DSB-3049-2
Recorded at Fairview Studios, Hull, England; Engineer, John Spence
Guitar on "Love So Terse", "Get It On", "This Song In You",
and "Get Stoned"
Bill also directed a video for the single, "Johnny's Coming Home"
Ian Nelson played sax on 'Togetherness Blues"
Ian Leese (bass on "After The Satellite Sings", "Excellent Spirits")
played on this album as well.
Various Artists - Loose Routes
UK: double LP on Holyground HG 121, gatefold foldover sleeve
includes Global Village's "Global Fantasy" (a re-working of Traffic's "Dear
Mr. Fantasy) and other tracks
guitar, vocal
Recorded from other Holyground sessions from c.1968-1970
Rain
Tree Crow - "Rain Tree Crow" LP (Virgin Records CDV 2659)
Guitar on: "Big Wheels In Shanty Town" and "Blackwater"
Available through the Bill
Nelson Record Store
"Blackwater" was also released as a single.
Supermodel Cindy Crawford later lost a lawsuit over the unauthorized use of a
sample of Big Wheels In Shanty Town in one of her workout videos.
Harold Budd - "By The Dawn's Early Light" LP (Opal/Warner Bros 9 26649-2)
Acoustic and electric guitars on all non-poem tracks.
Co-authorship with Budd on The Place of Dead Roads
Available through the Bill
Nelson Record Store
The Rhythm Sisters - "Willerby" LP (Imaginary ILLCD 027)
Production, Guitars, Sitar, Keyboards
also features Ian Nelson on saxes and clarinet
Bill directed a video for a song, the track is unknown at this time.
Various Artists - Gagalactyca
UK: LP on Holyground HG 1135/MM 3, with booklet, 425 copies only
Recorded from other Holyground sessions from c.1968-1970, guitar
The Mock Turtles - "Magic Boomerang/Take Your Time" single (Imaginary
Records, MIRA CD 022)
Production
Both tracks appear on the "87-90" LP (Imaginary ILLCD 019)
The Mock Turtles - (as part of) "Heaven & Hell Volume 2" (a
Velvet Underground tribute album) LP (Imaginary ILLUSION
017)
Production & keyboard solo on "Pale Blue Eyes"
LP also contains the track "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" credited to Bill Nelson
& The Roy Rogers Rocketeers
The Rain Poets - "Rain/She Rides" single (Scorp Records, SCORP 001)
Production, Guitar on "Rain," Sitar on "She Rides"
The Rhythm Sisters - "Infotainment/Please Mr Postman" single (Imaginary
Records, MIRA CD 023)
Production, Guitar, Keyboards
Crazy House - "Still Looking For Heaven On Earth" LP
Released on Chrysalis Records (US) VK 41576 (compact disc), BVT 41576 (cassette)
Guitar on: Burning Rain, This Means Everything To Me, Feel The Fire, Heaven Said My Name,
and Shake (Sell Your Soul)
Yukihiro Takahashi - "EGO" LP (Toshiba EMI Records)
Lyrics on "Only the Heart Has Heard"
Cabaret Voltaire - "Code" LP (Parlophone CDP 7 46999 2 UK)
Guitar on: Don't Argue, Here To Go, Trouble (Won't Stop), White Car, No One Here, and Here
to Go (Little Dub)
Played guitar in the video for Here To Go
David Sylvian - "Gone to Earth" LP (Virgin Records CDVL-1)
Guitar on: Before The Bullfight, Silver Moon, The Healing Place, Answered Prayers, Wave,
and Sunlight Through Towering Trees.
Co-authorship with Sylvian on Answered Prayers
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Yukihiro Takahashi - "Wild & Moody" LP
Released on Cocteau JCS11 (UK), Alfa Records (Japan)
Rereleased on the French label Spalax in 1996 (SPALAXCD 14503)
Lead Vocal and Guitar on "Helpless" (Neil Young song), and lead vocal and guitar
on "Bounds of Reason, Bonds of Love"
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Yukihiro Takahashi - "Stranger Things Have Happened" 12" single
(Cocteau COQT18)
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards on "Bounds of Reason, Bonds of Love" and guitar,
keyboards, and writing credit for "Metaphysical Jerks"
Sandii & The Sunsetz - "Viva Lava Liva: LP - Y.E.N. YLR-28017
"Walk Away" - lyrics by Bill Nelson
Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Naughty Boys" LP (Alfa Records, Japan also PickUp
LPU0014)
also the "Naughty Boys Instrumental" LP (PickUp, LPU0015)
Guitar
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Yukihiro Takahashi - "Time and Place" (live LP)
Japan: Yen Records, YLR28015
Guitar
Yukihiro Takahashi - "Tomorrow's Just Another Day" LP
Japan: Yen/Alpha YLR-28009
Guitar on This Island Earth", guitar and backing vocals on "Are You Receiving Me
(remix)"
Yukihiro Takahashi - "Are You Receiving Me" 7" single
Japan: Yen/Alpha Records
Guitar and backing vocals
Gary Numan - "Warriors" LP
UK: Beggars Banquet 240241-1
Production, guitars, keyboards
Bill later asked to remove his name from the credits after Numan remixed it.
Available through the Bill Nelson Record
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Gary Numan - "Warriors/My Car Slides" single (Beggar Banquet BEG95, also
in picture disc BEG95P)
Production, guitars, keyboards.
Gary Numan - "Sister Surprise/Poetry And Power" 7" single
Production, guitars, keyboards, backing vocals on "Poetry and Power"
This particular song was covered by Gravity Kills for RANDOM.
A Flock of Seagulls - "(It's Not Me) Talking" single, (Jive Records,
7" JIV47, 12" JIVT47)
Production
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Units - "New Way To Move" 6 track mini-album, (Epic 5E 38992)
Production, additional musician on New Way to Move, Your Face, and More Alike
Bill also contributed an "audio track" to the Jorvik Project - a Viking Museum in York, England
Masami Tscuhiya - "Rice Music" LP (Epic EPC85936)
Bill plays Ebow Guitar
Yukihiro Takahashi - "What Me Worry" LP
Released on Alfa ALF85964 (Japan)
Reissued in 1996 on Spalax SPALAXCD 14502 (France)
E-Bow, Guitar, co-authorship of "My Highland Home in Thailand"
Monsoon - "Third Eye" LP (Phonogram MOBIL 1 UK)
E-bow guitars, Electric Guitar
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Monsoon - "Tomorrow Never Knows/Indian Princess" 7" single (Phonogram
CORP6), 12" single (CORP612)
Guitar and "Base" (sic)
Monsoon - "Wings of the Dawn/Ever So Lonely/And I You" 7" single
(Phonogram CORP7), 12" single CORP712)
E-bow Guitar
A Flock of Seagulls - "Telecommunication" single (Jive Records, JIV4)
Production
Available through the Bill Nelson Record
Store
Nash the Slash - "Novel Romance" 7" single (Dindisc 33, UK)
Production
Snips - "La Rocca!" LP (EMI, UK)
Synthesizer
Yellow Magic Orchestra - X Multiples (LP on A&M, CD on Restless)
electric guitar
Stranger Than Fiction - "Losing You/You Don't Turn Me On Anymore"
(Ambergris Records, AGM1S)
Production
Skids - "Animation/Pros & Cons" single (Virgin UK)
Production, keyboards
Available at Gemm.com
Skids - "Days in Europa" LP (Virgin Records, UK)
Production on all tracks except one, Keyboards
Skids - "Charade/Grey Parade" single (Virgin UK)
Production, co-authorship with Adamson/Jobson
Skids - "Working for the Yankee Dollar/Vanguards Crusade" single (Virgin
UK)
Production, keyboards
note: there is a "Best Of" CD by the Skids released in 1995 that features tracks that Bill worked on, entitled Sweet Suburbia, Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store
1978:
John Cooper Clarke - Disguise in Love LP (CBS 83132)
guitar on three tracks: (I don't want to) Be Nice; Readers Wives; Health
Fanatic.
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Store
Astral Navigations
UK: LP on Holyground NG 114/NSR 172, 250 copies only, poster cover and booklet, some
numbered
UK: LP on Magic Mixture MM 2, 425 copies only, re-issued in 1989
UK: compact disc on Holyground NBG 122/1 CD
three tracks
A: Lightyears Away
Fourth Coming/Path of Stone/Windows of Limited Time - The Astral
Navigator/Yesterday/Today (North Country Cinderella)/Tomorrow (buffalo)
B: Thundermother
Someday/Country Lines/Boogie Music
Yesterday by Chris Carrodus Coombs
Chris Carrodus Coombs - vocal, piano, stylophone
Brian Wilson - bass
Ted Hepworth - drums
Bill Nelson - guitar
Today (North Country Cinderella) by Chris Carrodus Coombs
Chris Carrodus Coombs - vocal, organ, steel guitar
Bill Nelson - guitar, lead guitar
Tomorrow (Buffalo) by Chris Carrodus Coombs
Chris Carrodus Coombs - vocals
Bill Nelson - guitar, vocal
Martin Snell - piano
Ron - double-bass
A to Austr (Musics From Holy Ground)
UK: LP on Holyground HG 113, 99 copies only, with booklet, March 1970
UK: LP on Magic Mixture MM 1, 425 copies only, re-issued in 1989
UK: LP on Holyground 010101LP, foldover gatefold sleeve, second reissue in 1995
UK: compact disc on Kissing Spell KSG 022 in 1995
"Hawaiian War Chant" (credited with "Hawaiian Guitar impersonations"),
possibly acoustic guitar on "It's Alright"
1968:
Global Village EP
Long Grey Mare/You Don't Love Me Baby/Dear Mr. Fantasy
three copies of an acetate EP pressed
Guitar, vocal
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