Bill Nelson Discography - Solo Albums

Wah Wah Galaxy
To be released at Nelsonica '04.

Satellite Songs
To be released in conjunction with the Bill Nelson and the Lost Satellites Tour this fall.

 
Custom Deluxe
No more information at this time,
But please sit tight, we'll keep you advised!

Dreamland to Starboard
All sold out!  Sorry.

Plaything
Released on January 25, 2004.
Is now sold out!  Good luck on eBay.

 
Luxury Lodge
Released Nelsonica 2003
Originally available to attendees of Nelsonica '03, is now sold out!  Good luck on eBay.

Romance of Sustain
Released September 2003
Originally available to attendees of the Romance of Sustain Tour '03, has just a few copies left.  Link to PayPal on the Romance page..

 
Whimsy
Released Spring 2003
Orders now available through Voiceprint and Amazon (US and UK)..

Chameleon
Released December 2002
Available from Amazon (US and UK) and Voiceprint.

The Hermetic Jukebox
Released December 2002
Available from Amazon (US and UK) and Voiceprint.

Astral Motel
Released Nelsonica 2002
Originally available to attendees of Nelsonica '02, this was briefly available through the Rooms With Brittle Views web site.

Noise Candy
Released June 6, 2002.  
Available only through Lenin Imports via mail-order.

Disc One:       Old Man Future Blows The Blues
Disc Two:       Stargazing Ranger Bill
Disc Three:    Sunflower Daily Product
Disc Four:      King Frankenstein
Disc Five:       Console
Disc Six:        Playtime

Caliban and the Chrome Harmonium (The Piano and Vibraphone Variations)

This is not an "official" release, it is a "Custom Culture Edition for Almost Opaque Records", a heretofore unknown label.  Rather, it's a CD-R that Bill and Jon Wallinger put together for the Nelsonica '01 convention.  Bill also made additional copies to thank those fans who participated in the purchase of Bill's old studio equipment.  Having heard this CD i lament that Bill has no plans to go wide release with it.  Its another Piano and Keyboards album, full of lighter and more "pop" tunes than Simplex.

Simplex
UK: March, 2001 on Toneswoon/Lenin Imports mail order
Click here for order information

Whistling While The World Turns
UK:  June 16, 2000 via Lenin Imports mail order
Click here for more info about this album including ordering information

Atom Shop
UK:  September 29, 1998 on Discipline Global Mobile (DGM)
US:  October 13, 1998 on Discipline Global Mobile (DGM), distributed by Rykodisc
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store
Click here for more info about this album.

Confessions of a Hyperdreamer (My Secret Studio, Volume 2)
A two-CD set featuring Weird Critters and Magnificent Dream People
   
UK: Populuxe/Resurgence (POPBOX1) on or around March 4, 1997
US:  Populuxe/Resurgence, distributed by Caroline on June 24, 1997
Limited edition of 2000
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

Weird Critters was re-released as a single album in the UK on July 14, 1998 on Resurgence (POPU001CD)

Weird Critters (POPU001CD)

1. Rain and Neon
2. Candyland
3. Birds and Blue Stuff
4. Radiated Robot Men
5. Coney Island
6. Weird Critters
7. Golden Satellites
8. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
9. Quarter Moon and Stars
10. Wonder Story
11. Cool Blue Heaven
12. Far Too Flip
13. Realm Rider
14. Angels In Arcadia

Magnificent Dream People (POPU002CD)

1. Sun at Six Windows
2. Bird Ornaments
3. My Favourite Atom
4. The Girl I Never Forgot
5. Circle The World In A Paper Canoe
6. Queer Weather
7. Astro Coaster
8. Brutal Tinkerbell
9. The Waltz at the End of the World
10. Secret Agents at Science Park
11. The Twentieth Century
12. Aura Hole
13. Radiant Nature Knows Not the Worker's Sorrow
14. Essoldo Stripshow

"One is totally instrumental and has a lot of 24-track recordings, including some solo piano pieces and some more elaborate works. The 'Weird Critters' album has a combination of vocal and instrumental pieces, all from my home studio. It's a very eclectic collection, but it's not like a four album box set where it's daunting and takes ages to absorb. I feel this album is a little more immediate. I've also made some colour collages for the artwork." - Bill Nelson, November 1996

After The Satellite Sings
additional info
US: April 30, 1996 on Gyroscope
UK: May 14, 1996 on Resurgence RES114CD
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

1. Deeply Dazzled
2. Tomorrow Yesterday (Dreamster 2.L.R.)
3. Flipside
4. Streamliner
5. Memory Babe
6. Skull Baby Cluster
7. Zoom Sequence
8. Rocket To Damascus
9. Beautiful Nudes
10. Old Goat
11. Squirm
12. Wow! It's Scootercar Sex Kitten!
13. Phantom Sedan
14. Ordinary Idiots
15. V-Ghost (for Harold and Ellen)
16. Blink Agog

My Secret Studio (Vol. 1) Music from the Great Magnetic Back of Beyond
A four CD box set, containing:

1. Buddha Head
2. Electricity Made Us Angels
3. Deep Dream Decoder
4. Juke Box for Jet Boy.

Released December 1995
UK: Resurgence RES111CD
US: Gyroscope
Limited Edition of 2000

Buddha Head
Originally released as part of a 4CD boxed set, My Secret Studio, in December 1995 as Resurgence RES111CD in the UK and on Gyroscope in the US, limited edition of 2000.
UK: re-released as a single CD on Populuxe/Resurgence (POPU004CD) on February 24, 1997
US:  re-released as a single CD on Blueprint in October 1997
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

1. My Philosophy
2. Killing My Desires
3. Buddha Head
4. The Way
5. Big River
6. Karma Kisses
7. We Will Rise
8. Signs and Signals
9. Lotus in the Stream
10. Enlightenment
11. Eternally
12. Duality
13. Perfect World
14. The Heart Has Its Reasons
15. Sun Will Rise
16. The Big Illumination
17. Life As We Know It

Electricity Made Us Angels
Originally released as part of a 4CD boxed set, My Secret Studio, in December 1995 as Resurgence RES111CD in the UK and on Gyroscope in the US, limited edition of 2000.
UK: re-released as a single CD on Populuxe/Resurgence (POPU003CD) on February 24, 1997
US:  re-released as a single CD on Blueprint in October 1997
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

1. Begin to Burn
2. Heavens Happy Hemisphere
3. God In Her Eyes
4. Float Away
5. Big Blue Day
6. Sweet Is The Mystery
7. If Wishes Were Horses
8. Fair Winds and Flying Boats
9. Ocean Over Blue
10. River of Love
11. This is Destiny
12. Wonders Never Cease
13. Nothing Yet
14. God Thundered Boy
15. She Sends Me

Deep Dream Decoder
Originally released as part of a 4CD boxed set, My Secret Studio, in December 1995 as Resurgence RES111CD in the UK and on Gyroscope in the US, limited edition of 2000.
re-released as a single CD on Populuxe/Resurgence (POPU005CD) on April 28, 1997
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

1. Things to Come
2. God Bless Me
3. Rise...(Above These Things)
4. Snowing Outside
5. It's All True
6. A Head Full of Lights and a Hat Full of Haloes
7. The Girls I've Loved
8. Amazing Things
9. Deep Dream Decoder
10. Dissolve
11. Year 44 (The Birthday Song)
12. Wing and a Prayer
13. Dreamnoise and Angel
14. Tired Eyes
15. Golden Girl
16. The Spark

Juke Box for Jet Boy
Only released as part of a 4CD boxed set, My Secret Studio, in December 1995 as Resurgence RES111CD in the UK and on Gyroscope in the US, limited edition of 2000.  This was a bonus album for buying the boxed set and will not be released separately.

1. She's So Extreme
2. On a Train I Never Boarded
3. Sail Away
4. Only Dreaming
5. Swing With the Rhythm Boys
6. The King and Queen of Now or Never
7. Hold on to your Heart
8. Turn Me Over
9. Run Away
10. It's Always Maybe
11. Dream Up, Billy
12. All You Need To Know
13. Warm and Wonderful
14. A Thing About That
15. No Fool For You
16. Living For Today
17. Birds In Blue Sky Again

Practically Wired (or how I became...Guitar Boy)
Released on May 23, 1995
UK: All Saints
US: Gyroscope GYR 6613-2
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

1. Roses and Rocketships
2. Spinning Planet
3. 1000 Fountain Island
4. Plane 45
5. Pick Buddah Blues
6. Kid With Cowboy Tie
7. Royal Ghosts
8. Her Presence In Flowers
9. Big Noise In Twangtown
10. Tiny Little Thing
11. Wild Blue Sky Circle
12. Every Moment Infinite
13. Friends From Heaven
14. Eternal For Emiko

Crimsworth (Flowers, Stones, Fountains and Flames)
Released in early 1995
UK: Resurgence RES104CD
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

Commissioned by artist Rob Ward as music for an installation

1. Untitled (31:01)
2. Untitled (31:06)

Blue Moons and Laughing Guitars
Released in 1992
UK: Virgin Venture
US: Caroline 1878-2
Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

1. Ancient Guitars
2. Girl From Another Planet
3. Spinnin' Around
4. Shaker
5. God Man Slain
6. The Dead We Wake With Upstairs Drums
7. New Moon Rising
8. The Glory Days
9. Wishes
10. Angel In My System
11. Wings And Everything
12. Boat To Forever
13. The Invisible Man And The Unforgettable Girl
14. So It Goes
15. Fires In The Sky
16. Dream Ships Set Sail

Luminous
Released in 1991
UK: Imaginary Records ILL CD 24
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. A Luminous Kind Of Guy
2. Tiny Aeroplanes
3. Bright Sparks
4. Is This Alchemy?
5. Language Of The Birds
6. All I Am Is You
7. Life In Reverse
8. Telepathic Cats
9. Two Hearts Beating
10. Blood Off The Wall
11. She's Got Me Floating
12. It's OK
13. Burning Down
14. Her True And Perfect Serpent
15. Wait For Tomorrow

Altar Pieces
Limited edition cassette, 500 released, numbered
Released in 1990
UK: The Orpheus Organisation
Currently out of print with no plans to reissue.

side one:

1. Prima Materia (First Matter)
2. Arbor Philosophica (Tree of Philosophy)
3. Opus Hermeticum (The Work of Hermes)
4. Signum Natura (Symbolic Nature)

side two:

1. Mysterium Magnum (The Great Secret)
2. Clavis Angelicae (Key of Angels)
3. Sanctus Illuminatus (The Sacred Illuminated)
4. Accessio Lucis (The Coming Light)

Demonstrations of Affection
a four album box set, containing: Chimes and Rings, Nudity, Heartbreakland, and Details and a T-shirt.

Released in 1990
UK CD: Cocteau JEAN89
UK Cassette: TCJC 24-27

Chimes and Rings
Originally released as part of the Demonstrations of Affection 4CD boxed set in 1990 in the UK on Cocteau (JEAN89)
Released as a single CD, Cocteau JCD24
Released on cassette TCJC 24
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. Lady You're a Strange Girl
2. Kiss Goodbye
3. Call of the Wild
4. Lost To Me
5. Dangerous Lady
6. Working Man
7. Giving It All Away
8. Ice And Fire
9. Wonder Where We Go
10. Dreams Of Yesterday
11. Sell My Soul
12. Back To Dreams
13. I Wait For You
14. Walk Away From Paradise
15. Playing Jesus To Her Judas
16. Something's Going On
17. The Miracle Belongs To You

Nudity
Originally released as part of the Demonstrations of Affection 4CD boxed set in 1990 in the UK on Cocteau (JEAN89)
Released as a single CD, Cocteau JCD25
Released on cassette, TCJC 25

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. Feels Like Up To Me
2. Prize Of Years
3. Still Waiting
4. Lover Boy At Heart
5. The Wonder Of It All
6. Devil In Me
7. A Little More Time
8. What's It All About?
9. Thunder On The Wing
10. Shake It Up
11. Love To Win
12. Running
13. If Love Were Gold
14. I Want You
15. Kiss It Off
16. Angel Like You
17. Crying All Night
18. Only Love Can Tell

Heartbreakland
Originally released as part of the Demonstrations of Affection 4CD boxed set in 1990 in the UK on Cocteau (JEAN89)
Released as a single CD, Cocteau JCD26
Released on cassette, TCJC 26

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. You Know How To Hurt
2. Broken
3. You Make Me Cry
4. Mess Around
5. Why?
6. Insanity
7. Confused
8. Heartbreakland
9. Lucky Star
10. Heartbreak Thru The Telephone
11. One Day At A Time
12. Tip The Wink
13. Shadow Haunting Me
14. Raining
15. Love's Immortal Shining Angel

Details 
Originally released as part of the Demonstrations of Affection 4CD boxed set in 1990 in the UK on Cocteau (JEAN89)
Released as a single CD, Cocteau JCD27
Released on cassette, TCJC 27

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. Maybe It's The Future
2. Wondering
3. Wasted Lives
4. The Best Of You
5. Stay With Me
6. Love And A Bucket Full Of Holes
7. Prisoner Of Love
8. Don't Wait
9. Man On Fire
10. Visionary
11. The World To Me
12. Strong Enough
13. Everything Permitted
14. Aeroplane Wings
15. One For You
16. Let It All Pass You By

Simplex
UK: compact disc on Cocteau JCD 23 in late 1990.
995 copies pressed for the Cocteau label in 1990, 299 of them distributed to Acquitted by Mirrors members in late 1990 to early 1991. The remaining CDs were sent to See For Miles Records LTD but never released.

Simplex was music done as a "first draft" for a British TV film on sculptor Henry Moore. It was planned on being released but didn't make it as Cocteau Records was falling apart and Enigma had gone bust in the US. The documentary for which Bill Nelson composed the music subsequently released as 'Simplex' is called 'Henry Moore and Landscape'. It was originally intended for release on Cocteau JC23 (UK) and Enigma/Cocteau (US). According to Court records during Bill's lawsuit against Mark Rye, 995 copies were pressed for the Cocteau label in 1990, 299 of them distributed to Acquitted by Mirrors members in late 1990 to early 1991.  (Originally ABM club members were asked whether they wanted a cassette or compact disc, but according to court records the cassette idea was a "typo" and none were ever pressed.)  The remaining CDs were allegedly sent to the label See For Miles Records LTD.  Whatever actually happened to the remaining CDs is speculation at this point.  People have found copies for sale all over the world. Bill says he considers all copies of this album to be bootlegs and he has yet to receive any royalties from its sale. He discourages any fan from buying it. This album will eventually be properly released.

1. Awakening
2. Almost Unchanging
3. Bittersweet
4. Ringing True
5. Celestial East
6. Some Distant Time
7. The Profaned Sanctuary Of The Human Heart
8. Forms In Open Spaces
9. Raindrum
10. Female Form
11. Archetypes
12. Solid Spaces
13. Abstracted
14. Heptarchia
15. Climbing
16. Waiting For Rain
17. Aqua Magica
18. Summer Shower
19. Hammertheme
20. The Cloud Of Unknowing
21. Bending A Knee At The Altar Of Sacrifice
22. A Parting Of The Ways
23. Bronze
24. To Jan From The Shining Stars
25. Arrangement Of Roses
26. Likewise Is Said Elsewhere
27. Child Of The Dream
28. The Enclosed Garden
29. The Christmas Gift
30. Heroes De Lumiere
31. Your Morning Blessing

Optimism
Released under the name Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana because of his contract with CBS at the time.
UK: vinyl on Cocteau JC 21 in September 1988
UK: compact disc on Cocteau JCCD 21 in September 1988
US:  compact disc on Engima/Cocteau
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

Released on Cocteau JCCD 21 (UK)

1. Exactly The Way You Want It
2. Why Be Lonely
3. Everyday Is A Better Day
4. The Receiver And The Fountain Pen
5. Welcome Home, Mr Kane
6. This Is True
7. Greeting A New Day
8. The Breath In My Father's Saxophone
9. Our Lady Of Apparitions
10. The Whole City Between Us
11. Deva Dance
12. Always Looking Forward To Tomorrow
13. World Thru Fast Car Window
14. Profiles, Hearts, Stars
15. Daughter Of Dream Come True
16. Alchemia
17. Um, Ah Good Evening
18. Kut Up In Cartoonsville
19. Short Wave

Released on Enigma/Cocteau 7 73344 2 (US)

1. Exactly The Way You Want It
2. Why Be Lonely
3. Everyday Is A Better Day
4. The Receiver And The Fountain Pen
5. Welcome Home, Mr Kane
6. This Is True
7. Greeting A New Day
8. The Breath In My Father's Saxophone
9. Our Lady Of Apparitions
10. The Whole City Between Us
11. Deva Dance
12. Always Looking Forward To Tomorrow
13. World Thru Fast Car Window
14. Profiles, Hearts, Stars
15. Daughter Of Dream Come True
16. Alchemia

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights
UK: Released on vinyl with 41 tracks on Cocteau COQ 22 with 7" EP of Ecclesia Gnostica, in November 1987
UK: Released on cassette with 49 tracks on Cocteau (all 41 tracks of the vinyl album plus the eight tracks featured on the Ecclesia Gnostica EP, in November 1987
UK: Released on compact disc with 63 tracks on Cocteau JEANCD 20 in 1988
US: Released on compact disc with 63 tracks on Enigma/Cocteau in 1988
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

Vinyl album 1:  The Angel At The Western Window:

1. West Deep
2. The Spirit Cannot Fail
3. Pilots of Kite
4. Seventh Circle
5. Phantom Gardens
6. The Angel of Hearth and Home
7. Villefranche Interior
8. Night Tides
9. First Memory
10. Azure Extension
11. Radiant Spires
12. The Evening Peal
13. Threnodia
14. A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
15. Body of Light
16. At the Center
17. Self-Initiation
18. The Word That Became Flesh
19. The Hermetic Garden
20. Revolving Globes
21. The Four Square Citadel
22. Little Daughters of Light
23. Orient of Memphis
24. The Angel At the Western Window

Vinyl album 2: The Book of Inward Conversation

1. My Dark Daemon
2. The Dove Consumed (the Serpent Slumbers)
3. Calling Heaven, Calling Heaven, Over
4. Path of Return
5. Theurgia
6. Staircase to No Place
7. Evocation of a Radiant Childhood
8. The Kingdom of Consequence
9. The Divine Raptures of Sisterhood
10. Bright Star (Moonlight Over Ocean Blue)
11. A Bird of the Air Shall Carry Thy Voice
12. Clothed In Light Amongst the Stars
13. Gnosis
14. Bringers of Lights to the Feast
15. Hastening the Chariot of My Heart's Desire
16. Transcendant/Consolamentum

Compact Disc 1: The Angel at the Western Window:

1. West Deep
2. The Spirit Cannot Fail
3. Pilots Of Kite
4. Seventh Circle
5. Phantom Gardens
6. The Angel Of Hearth And Home
7. Villefranche Interior
8. Night Tides
9. First Memory
10. Azure Extension
11. Radiant Spires
12. The Evening Peal
13. Threnodia
14. A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain
15. Body Of Light
16. At The Centre
17. Self-Initiation
18. The Word That Became Flesh
19. The Hermetic Garden
20. Revolving Globes
21. The Four Square Citadel
22. Little Daughters Of Light
23. Orient Of Memphis
24. The Angel At The Western Window
25. The Piano Room
26. Rain Dance
27. Aching Heart
28. Arising
29. Welcome To Realm Seven
30. Without A Blue Horizon
31. Female Nebula
32. Demon Raising
33. Burning The Grove Of Satyrs
34. The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
35. Realm Of Archons
36. The Rossetti Effect
37. Infinite Station
38. Piano Angelica

Compact Disc 2: The Book of Inward Conversation:

1. My Dark Daemon
2. The Dove Consumed (The Serpent Slumbers)
3. Calling Heaven, Calling Heaven, Over
4. Path Of Return
5. Theurgia
6. Staircase To No Place
7. Evocation Of A Radiant Childhood
8. The Kingdom Of Consequence
9. The Divine Raptures Of Sisterhood
10. Bright Star (Moonlight Over Ocean Blue)
11. A Bird Of The Air Shall Carry Thy Voice
12. Clothed In Light Amongst The Stars
13. Gnosis
14. Bringers Of Light To The Feast
15. Hastening The Chariot Of My Heart's Desire
16. Transcendant
17. Consolamentum
18. Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart
19. Mysterium
20. Katharos
21. Day Of Eternity
22. Evening Adoration
23. Ecclesia Gnostica
24. Young Angels By An Ancient River
25. Finis Gloria Mundi

Map of Dreams (Music from the Soundtrack of the TV Series) 
UK: Cocteau JCCD 19 in September 1987
US: Enigma/Cocteau 7 73389 2
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. Legions Of The Endless Night
2. Spinning Creatures
3. At the Gates Of The Singing Garden
4. Heavenly Message Number One
5. Heavenly Message Number Two
6. Heavenly Message Number Three
7. Fellini's Picnic
8. Dark Angel
9. Infernal Regions
10. Dance Of The Fragnant Woman
11. The Alchemy Of Ecstasy
12. Aphrodite Adorned
13. The Wheel Of Fortune And The Hand Of Fate
14. Forked Tongues, Mixed Blessings
15. Another Tricky Mission For The Celestial Pilot
16. Water Of Life (Transfiguration)

Iconography
Released under the name Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana because of his contract with CBS at the time.
Released on Cocteau JCD18 in the UK in 1986
Released on Enigma/Cocteau 7 673388 2 (US)
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. Christ Via Wires
2. Clock Conscious
3. I Wonder
4. Eastern Electric
5. Search And Listen
6. News From Nowhere
7. One Man's Fetish Is Another Man's Faith
8. Right, Then Left
9. Iconography
10. The Gods Speak
11. Life Class
12. Altar Native
13. Sex, Psyche, Etcetera

On A Blue Wing (US title)
Getting the Holy Ghost Across (UK title)
Currently out of print, neither album has ever been offered on compact disc. No future re-release is planned. It's up to CBS (now Sony?) to release these on compact disc.

On A Blue Wing
US version, released on Portrait/CBS

1. Suvasini
2. Contemplation
3. Wildest Dreams
4. Lost In Your Mystery
5. The Hidden Flame
6. Rise Like A Fountain
7. Heart And Soul
8. Living For The Spangled Moment
9. Because Of You
10. Pansophia

Getting The Holy Ghost Across
UK editions, released on Portrait:

vinyl edition:

1. Suvasini
2. Contemplation
3. Theology
4. Wildest Dreams
5. Lost In Your Mystery
6. Rise Like A Fountain
7. Age Of Reason
8. The Hidden Flame
9. Because Of You
10. Pansophia

cassette edition:

1. Suvasini
2. Contemplation
3. Theology
4. Wildest Dreams
5. Lost In Your Mystery
6. Rise Like A Fountain
7. Age Of Reason
8. Living For The Spangled Moment
9. The Hidden Flame
10. Word For Word
11. Illusions Of You
12. Heart And Soul
13. Finks And Stooges Of The Spirit
14. Because Of You
15. Pansophia

Chameleon (The Music of Bill Nelson)
Released on Themes International Music LTD, TIM1050
Currently out of print and extremely rare, this album of "library" music was made for use in film & television programs.
Click here for more information about this album

1. City One
2. Science & Sacrament
3. Machine Voodoo
4. Chameleon
5. Circular Tour
6. The Shape of Things to Come
7. Astro Logic
8. Tropicus
9. O Vee
10. On The Beam
11. Mex-Arcana
12. Man Machine
13. Hip-No-Tize
14. New Dream Land
15. Blue Sky
16. To the Sea in Ships
17. Blonde and Built to Last
18. To a Child
19. Rosalia
20. Golden Shrine
21. Playback
22. Designer Dance
23. On the Beach
24. Like a Dream
25. Mitsukini

Trial By Intimacy (The Book of Splendours)
Four album box set, limited edition of 3000, hand-signed and numbered, containing a book, poster insert, eight post cards, and: The Summer of God's Piano, Chamber of Dreams (Music from the Invisibility Exhibition), Pavilions of the Heart and Soul, A Catalogue of Obsessions

UK:  Released in 1984 on Cocteau

Originally entitled Sensoria but was changed at the last minute as to avoid confusion with the then-recently released single by Cabaret Voltaire.  Originally expected to have Sounding The Ritual Echo included as the 4th disc, but this was later changed.

Out of print and not planned for re-release as a boxed set.

The Summer of God's Piano
Originally released as part of the Trial by Intimacy boxed set in 1984
Released on Cocteau JCCD 6 (UK)
Released on CD Enigma/Cocteau 7 73376 2 (US) in 1989
Released on cassette Enigma/Cocteau 7 73376-4 (US) in 1989 with an extra track, "Tantra", the first song on side 2.

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

Compact disc:

1. Antennae Two
2. Transmission (NBC 97293)
3. The Sleep Of Hollywood
4. The Celestial Bridegroom
5. Under The Red Arch
6. Orient Pearl
7. Sacrament
8. Falling Blossoms
9. The Difficulty Of Being
10. Zanoni
11. The Chinese Nightingale
12. Soon September (Another Enchantment)
13. Rural Shires
14. Perfidio Incanto
15. The Lost Years
16. The Charm Of Transmit
17. Night Thoughts (Twilight Radio)
18. Wysteria
19. Swing
20. Snowfall
21. Realm Of Dusk
22. Over Ocean

Cassette edition:

1. Antennae Two
2. Transmission (NBC 97293)
3. The Sleep Of Hollywood
4. The Celestial Bridegroom
5. Under The Red Arch
6. Orient Pearl
7. Sacrament
8. Falling Blossoms
9. The Difficulty Of Being
10. Zanoni
11. The Chinese Nightingale
12. Tantra
13. Soon September (Another Enchantment)
14. Rural Shires
15. Perfidio Incanto
16. The Lost Years
17. The Charm Of Transmit
18. Night Thoughts (Twilight Radio)
19. Wysteria
20. Swing
21. Snowfall
22. Realm Of Dusk
23. Over Ocean

Chamber of Dreams (Music from the Invisibility Exhibition)
Originally released as part of the Trial by Intimacy boxed set in 1984
Released on Cocteau JCCD 7 (UK)
Released on CD Enigma/Cocteau 7 73377 2 (US) in 1989
Released on cassette Enigma/Cocteau 7 73377-4 in 1989

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

In 1981 and 1983, I organised a series of live performances under the general title of The Invisibility Exhibition. This event toured throughout Great Britain and included contributions from the Yorkshire Actors Company, Richard Jobson, Frank Chickens and David Claridge as well as myself and Ian Nelson. Besides theatre, poetry, mime, and musical performances, there were eight TV screens and one large movie screen on which were shown films by Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. My own musical contribution included live improvisation of guitar, percussion and synthesizer over pre-recorded tapes from the archives of the Echo Observatory. Chamber of Dreams presents two facets of this event. Tracks 1-9 is a selection of the 'backing tapes' which were used as a basis for my performance. They are presented here in their virgin state without any live improvisation. Musicians owning this album might enjoy sketiching their own ideas over these tracks in the privacy of their own home. Tracks 10-18 represents a selection of the interval music which was played between the various performances during the Exhibition itself. These are complete and were not intended as part of the improvisational work. For those who attended the performances, this record is intended as a souvenir for the ear. For those who missed the Invisibility Exhibition perhaps Chamber of Dreams will make you curious enough to attend the next one. - W. Nelson '84

1. The Blazing Memory Of Innuendo
2. Into The Luminous Future
3. A Dip In The Swimming Pool Reactor
4. Tomorrowland (The Threshold Of 1947)
5. Listening To Lizards
6. Endless Torsion
7. My Sublime Perversion
8. Eros In Autumn
9. Sleeplessness
10. The Latest Skyline
11. Train Of Thought
12. Parks And Fountains, Clouds And Trees
13. The Golden Bough
14. Forever Orpheus
15. In Arcadia
16. Sentimental
17. Autumn Fires
18. Wild Blue Yonder

Pavilions of the Heart and Soul
Originally released as part of the Trial by Intimacy boxed set in 1984
Released on Cocteau JCCD 8 (UK)
Released on Enigma/Cocteau (US) in 1986

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. Gift Of The August Tide
2. Loving Tongues
3. Blue Nude
4. In The Realm Of Bells
5. Your Nebulous Smile
6. The Glance Of A Glittering Stranger
7. Another Kiss For Your Slender Neck
8. The Warmth Of Women's Eyes
9. Seduction (Ritual With Roses)
10. Dreamed Embraces
11. Herself With Her Shadow
12. The Exquisite Corpse
13. Ardent Hands
14. Her Laughing Torso
15. Migrating Angels
16. Les Amoureux
17. Meshes Of The Afternoon
18. Mountains Of The Heart
19. Willow Silk
20. Tender Encounters (States Of Grace)
21. Melancholia
22. The Eternal Female

A Catalogue of Obsessions
Originally released as part of the Trial by Intimacy boxed set in 1984
Released on Cocteau JCCD 9 (UK)
Released on Enigma/Cocteau (US) in 1986

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

1. Sex Party Six
2. Wider Windows For The Walls Of The World
3. Time In Tokyo
4. Happily Addicted To You
5. Snakes With Wings
6. The Boy Pilots Of Bangkok
7. Erotikon
8. Birds In Two Hemispheres
9. Windmills In A World Without Wind
10. Love's First Kiss
11. Initiation Of The Heart's Desire
12. Edge Of Tears
13. Test Of Affection
14. Words Across Tables
15. A Promise Of Perfume
16. This Dangerous Age
17. The Glass Breakfast
18. Talk Technique
19. The Last Summer For Dancing
20. View From A Balcony

The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart)
Original vinyl copies came with a bonus album, La Belle Et La Bete
Originally released on Cocteau (UK), PVC/Jem (US) in 1982
Later re-released on compact disc in 1986 on Cocteau JCCD 16 (UK) and Enigma/Cocteau (US)
The US CD release had a different track listing as listed below
Highest UK Chart position: 16

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

UK edition: Empire Of The Senses/Hope For The Heartbeat (Remix)/Waiting For Voices/A Private View/Eros Arriving/The Bride Of Christ In Autumn/Flesh/He And Sleep Were Brothers/When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True/Flaming Desire/Portrait Of Jan With Flowers/The Crystal Escalator In The Palace Of God Department Store/Echo In Her EyesThe October Man

Original US edition: Empire Of The Senses/Hope For The Heartbeat (Remix)/Waiting For Voices/A Private View/Eros Arriving/The Bride Of Christ In Autumn/When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True/Flaming Desire/Portrait Of Jan With Flowers/The Crystal Escalator In The Palace Of God Department Store/Echo In Her Eyes/The October Man

US CD reissue edition:

1. When The Birds Return
2. Hope For The Heartbeat (Remix)
3. Waiting For Voices
4. A Private View
5. Eros Arriving
6. The Bride Of Christ In Autumn
7. Flesh
8. He And Sleep Were Brothers
9. When Your Dream Of Perfect Beauty Comes True
10. Dancing On A Knife's Edge
11. Portrait Of Jan With Flowers
12. The Crystal Escalator In The Palace Of God Department Store
13. Echo In Her Eyes
14. The October Man

La Belle Et La Bete
Originally released on Cocteau (UK) and PVC/Jem (US) in 1982 as a bonus album with The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart)
re-released on Cocteau (UK) in 1985 as a double album with Das Kabinet
re-released on Enigma/Cocteau (US) in 1986 as a double album with Das Kabinet

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

Overture/The Family/Sisters and Sedan Chairs/In The Forest of Storms/The Castle/The Gates/The Corridor/The Great Hall/Dreams (The Merchant Sleeps)/Fear (The Merchant Wakes)/The Rose and the Beast/Magnificent (The White Horse)/Beauty Enters the Castle/The Door/The Mirror/Candelabra and Gargoyles/Beauty and the Beast/Transition No. 1/Transition No. 2/The Hunt/The Gift/The Garden/Transition No. 3/Transition No. 4/The Tragedy/Transition No. 5/The Enchanted Glove/Tears as Diamonds (The Gift Reverses)/The Beast in Solitude/The Return of the Magnificent/Transition No. 6 (The Journey)/The Pavilion of Diana/Transformation No. 1/Transformation No. 2/The Final Curtain

Das Kabinet
Originally released in 1981 on Cocteau JC2
re-released in 1985 on Cocteau JCM3 with La Belle Et La Bete as a double LP
Double LP re-released in 1986 on compact disc on Enigma/Cocteau in the US

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

The Asylum/Waltz/The Fairground/Doctor Caligari/Cesare The Somnambulist/Murder/The Funeral/The Somnambulist And The Children/Caligari Disciplines Cesare/Caligari Opens The Cabinet/Jane Discovers Cesare/The Attempted Murder Of Jane/The Dream Dance Of Jane And The Somnambulist/Escape Over The Rooftops/The Unmasking/The Shot/The Cabinet Closes

Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam
Originally released in 1981 on Mercury with Sounding The Ritual Echo as a bonus album
Highest UK Chart Position:  7
Later re-released on compact disc by itself as Cocteau JCCD 15 with White Sound added
re-released on compact disc in 1989 by itself on Enigma/Cocteau in the US with White Sound added

Originally intended to be the second Red Noise album. Red Noise is featured on the track Disposable.
Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

UK edition: Banal/Living In My Limousine/Vertical Games/Disposable/False Alarms/Decline And Fall/White Sound/Life Runs Out Like Sand/Do You Dream In Colour/A Kind Of Loving/U.H.F./Youth Of Nation On FireQuit Dreaming And Get On The Beam

US edition: Banal/Living In My Limousine/Vertical Games/Disposable/False Alarms/Decline And Fall/White Sound/Life Runs Out Like Sand/Indescretion/The World And His Wife/U.H.F./Youth Of Nation On Fire/Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam

Sounding The Ritual Echo
Originally released in 1981 as a bonus album for Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam
Later re-released on compact disc in 1985 by itself on Cocteau JCCD 12
Later re-released on compact disc in 1989 by itself on Enigma/Cocteau in the US
US cassette released Enigma/Cocteau 7 73382-4 in 1989

Currently out of print, tentatively scheduled for rerelease in the future.

Annunciation/The Ritual Echo/Sleep/Near East/Emak Bakia/My Intricate Image/Endless Orchids/The Heat In The Room/Another Willingly Opened Window/Vanishing Parades/Glass Fish (for The Final Aquarium)/Cubical Domes/Ashes Of Roses/The Shadow Garden/Opium

Northern Dream
UK: Originally released on Smile LAF 2182/HG 116, private pressing by Bill Nelson of 250 copies in foldover gatefold sleeve & lyric sheet, numbered with booklet in 1971

UK: Re-pressed on Smile LAF 2182/HG 116 with gatefold sleeve and lyric sheet in the mid-1970's

UK: re-released on Butt 002, different sleeve, omitting final track, in 1980

UK: Re-released on Butt 002 with a different cover in 1986

UK: Released on compact disc on Smiled SM 777CD in 1995

Available through the Bill Nelson Record Store

Photograph (a beginning)/Everyone's Hero/House of Sand/End Of The Seasons/Rejoice/Love's A Way/Northern Dreamer (1957)/Bloo Blooz/Sad Feelings/See It Through/Smiles/Chymepeace (an ending)

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