Whimsy

Whimsy, Disc One
Label:    Fabled Quixote
Voiceprint:    USR103CD
ASIN:    B000086EQE

Album 1:  Whimsy

  1. Nostalgia
  2. Slumberlite
  3. Let Flow The Wine
  4. Switch Off That Desert Sunset
  5. Magnetism Made Me Do It
  6. A Simple Thought Flashes Through My Mind
  7. Senor Mysterioso
  8. Ocean Full Of Wishes
  9. Swept Away
  10. Islands In The Sky
  11. Always Summer
  12. The Fundamental Blues
  13. My Favourite Urban Chrome Green Sky
  14. Dizzy In The Head
  15. I Looked At The Sea
  16. The Girl Who Disappeared Into A Cloud
  17. Whimsy
  18. So Far
  19. The Violins Of Autumn
  20. Will

 

Whimsy, Disc Two

Album 2:  Whimsy 2 (A Garage Full Of Clouds)

  1. Showtime
  2. Dumb Palooka
  3. Garage Full Of Clouds 2
  4. Organola
  5. Perfect Bliss
  6. Powder Blue
  7. Here We Go
  8. When We Were Young
  9. Fairyland Before The Fire
  10. Cowboy Christmas
  11. Struck Dumb By Beauty Again
  12. Don't Be A Stranger
  13. The Light This Universe Attracts
  14. Sing Ye Golden Sunbeams, Sing
  15. Superslippy
  16. The Fabulous Fountain Of Your Savoir Faire
  17. A Star Named Desire
  18. Buzz Was Honey
  19. Over The Moon
  20. Close Your Eyes (The Sleepytown  Symphony) 

Review of Whimsy at the Astro-Zombie web site.

 

Art School Ascended on Vapours of Roses
Guitar Arcade

From Bill's April 9 2003 diary entry:

I have made some headway with the guitar/tapes album project, although there is still more work to be done with it.  Titles completed so far are: 'Gloria Mundae';  'This Very Moment';   'Appolinaire';  'Nearly Everyone You Know';  and 'Locarno.' I'm still unsure whether to build these tracks into the 'ambient' guitar album, 'The Art School Ascended On Vapours Of Roses', or whether to treat them as a separate album.  The two things certainly compliment each other.  It may be that the most 'artistic' solution would be to make it a double album, one containing the newer, purely studio-based tracks and the other containing the performance pieces. A  working title for the performance piece album, for the moment at least, is 'Guitar Arcade', although this could change. I will be able to get a clearer view of things once I start to assemble track choices and running order.  It may be that the newer pieces will sit nicely alongside the older performance pieces on the same disc.  Then again, the combined running time of all that material may be too much for one album.  Unfortunately, I won't be able to solve this problem until I return from Japan, several weeks from now, probably.

Whimsy
From Bill's April 9, 2003 diary entry:

The artwork for 'Whimsy' is finally complete in every detail.  It is about to be put to the printers.  Let's hope they don't screw things up as they did on 'Hermetic Jukebox' and 'Chameleon.'  Those sleeves looked like they'd been run off on a cheap domestic PC printer.  I was not  amused.  The one fly in the 'Whimsy' ointment is the size of type in the accompanying booklet.  Squeezing 40 songs into its pages was a nightmare and, as a result, the print is tiny and far from easy to read.   Steve Lee (Voiceprint's art guy), and I suggested using more pages so that the type size could be increased but the idea was nixed on the grounds of cost and impracticality.  I'll just have to get my magnifying glass out to read the lyrics, it seems.

From Bill's March 31st diary entry:

Meanwhile, 'Whimsy' is immanent. I've been speaking with Steve Lee at Voiceprint who is laying out the artwork and sleeve design for me. The problem we're having is fitting everything into such a small packaging format. Inevitably, there will be some compromises. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be TOO long now. It's only taken three years to get it this far, after all! It's one of the easiest albums to listen to that I've made for quite a while...melodic and accessible, a simple 'pop' record really. I thought that about 'Noise Candy' too though, yet certain people thought it was a deliberately provocative set of songs so....who knows? What's simple and direct to me can appear complex and challenging to others, it seems.

From Bill's July 14th diary entry:

"I've already recorded and mixed an album's worth of material to DAT cassette, which I need to sequence, (invent a running order) for an album I intend to manufacture just for the internet audience. No one else will be made aware of it, no media coverage, (nothing new there then) no copies available in shops, etc. A very private, collector's affair, from artist to audience. It will be titled 'WHIMSY' and will be comprised of the first recordings made with the new digital system... A kind of collection of rehearsal pieces. The few people who have heard the material are very enthusiastic about it, despite my rather light hearted approach to the whole thing. Perhaps I shouldn't be so dismissive of this kind of 'casual' creativity...

"Some songs for inclusion on 'Whimsy' are :- ' Slumberlite'., 'Dumb Palooka'., ' A Simple Thought'., ' Nostalgia'., ' Islands In The Sky'., 'Struck Dumb By Beauty Again'., 'Always Summer'.,'Let Flow The Wine'., ' Don't Be A Stranger'., ' Buzz Was Honey'., ' Senor Mysterioso'., ' A Star Named Desire'., " Will'., 'Fabulous Fountain'., 'The Light This Universe Attracts.,' ' Magnetism Made Me Do It'.,'Swept Away'., ' An Ocean Full Of Wishes'., and an early draft of ' Garage Full Of Clouds'. I may also include a couple of recent instrumental pieces for good measure.

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