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BILL NELSON

DISCOGRAPHY FOR THE UK 1979-1985

25 Jan 1979 7" Bill Nelson's Red Noise: Furniture Music
    Furniture Music 3.30 // Wonder Toys That Last Forever 4.04 / Acquitted by Mirrors 4.57 (Harvest, HAR 5176)
9 Feb 1979 LP (+ CD) BILL NELSON'S RED NOISE: SOUND-ON-SOUND
    LP 1979:
  1. Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) 1.50
  2. For Young Moderns 4.24
  3. Stop/Go/Stop 3.09
  4. Furniture Music 3.30
  5. Radar in My Heart 1.36
  6. Stay Young 3.11

  7. Out of Touch 3.29
  8. A Better Home in the Phantom Zone 4.26
  9. Substitute Flesh 3.28
  10. The Atom Age 3.01
  11. Art/Empire/Industry 2.44
  12. Revolt into Style 3.23 (LP: Harvest SHSP 4095; CD 26 July 1999: Harvest 7243 5 21206 2 8)
    US CD 1989:
  1. Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) 1.50
  2. For Young Moderns 4.24
  3. Stop/Go/Stop 3.09
  4. Furniture Music 3.30
  5. Radar in My Heart 1.36
  6. Stay Young 3.11
  7. Out of Touch 3.29
  8. A Better Home in the Phantom Zone 4.26
  9. Substitute Flesh 3.28
  10. The Atom Age 3.01
  11. Art/Empire/Industry 2.44
  12. Revolt into Style 3.23
  13. Stay Young (Live 8 March 1979)
  14. Out of Touch (Live 8 March 1979) (US CD 1989: Enigma Records 7 73384-2)
    UK CD 2012:
  1. Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) 1.50
  2. For Young Moderns 4.24
  3. Stop/Go/Stop 3.09
  4. Furniture Music 3.30
  5. Radar in My Heart 1.36
  6. Stay Young 3.11
  7. Out of Touch 3.29
  8. A Better Home in the Phantom Zone 4.26
  9. Substitute Flesh 3.28
  10. The Atom Age 3.01
  11. Art/Empire/Industry 2.44
  12. Revolt into Style 3.23
  13. Wonder Toys That Last Forever 4.04
  14. Acquitted by Mirrors 4.57
  15. Stay Young (Live 8 March 1979)
  16. Out of Touch (Live 8 March 1979)
  17. Stay Young (BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show Ses)
  18. Furniture Music (BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show Ses)
  19. Don't Touch Me (BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show Ses)
  20. Out of Touch (BBC Radio 1 Friday Rock Show Ses) (UK CD 20 Aug 2012: EMI)
1 April 1979 7"/12" Bill Nelson's Red Noise: Revolt into Style
    Revolt into Style 3.23 / Out of Touch (Live 8 March 1979) (Harvest, HAR 5183)

    Revolt into Style 3.23 // Stay Young (Live 8 March 1979) / Out of Touch (Live 8 March 1979) (12": 12 HAR 5183; reissue 12" 1983: Cocteau Records COQ T 08)

B-sides recorded live 8 March 1979 at Leicester De Montford Hall.

(Feb 1983) reissue 7"/12" EP Bill Nelson's Red Noise: Revolt into Style

    Revolt into Style 3.23 // Stay Young (Live 8 March 1979) / Furniture Music 3.30 (7": Cocteau Records, COQ 8)

    Revolt into Style / Furniture Music 3.30 // Stay Young (Live 8 March 1979) / Out of Touch (Live 8 March 1979) (12": COQ T 08)

March or 9 May 1980 7" Do You Dream in Colour?

    Do You Dream in Colour? // Ideal Homes 4.15 / Instantly Yours 2.08 / Atom Man Loves Radium Girl 3.09 (Cocteau Records, COQ 1)
"The tracks on this record come from the spring/summer 1979 sessions that produced the as yet unreleased 'Quit Dreaming and Get On the Beam' album. Only the 'A'side will be included on the album, the remaining tracks being unique to this single."

20 Nov 1980 Belgian various artists MC/2-LP (+ CD 2007) FROM BRUSSELS WITH LOVE

Later included on "SOUNDING THE RITUAL ECHO" (May 1981).

Dec 1980 Belgian 7" Rooms with Brittle Views

    Rooms with Brittle Views 3.54 / Dada Guitare 2.53 (Les Disques Du Crépuscule, TWI 013)
Side A written, produced & recorded Autumn 1979 (also included on the Youth of Nation on Fire single in May 1981). Side B written, produced & recorded November 1980.

20 March 1981 7"/12" Banal

    Banal 3.30 / Mr. Magnetism Himself 3.09 (7": Mercury, WILL 1)

    Banal 3.30 // Turn to Fiction 2.43 / Hers Is a Lush Situation 4.20 / Mr. Magnetism Himself 3.09 (12": WILL 12)

All tracks recorded 1979.

7 May 1981 LP (+ CD) QUIT DREAMING AND GET ON THE BEAM

    LP 1981:
  1. Banal 3.53
  2. Living in My Limousine 4.10
  3. Vertical Games 3.15
  4. Disposable 5.55
  5. False Alarms 2.51
  6. Decline and Fall 4.43
  1. Life Runs Out Like Sand 5.23
  2. A Kind of Loving 4.16
  3. Do You Dream in Colour 3.46
  4. U.H.F. 4.41
  5. Youth of Nation on Fire 4.05
  6. Quit Dreaming and Get On the Beam 3.43 (Mercury 6359 055)
    CD 1986:
  1. Banal 3.53
  2. Living in My Limousine 4.10
  3. Vertical Games 3.15
  4. Disposable 5.55
  5. False Alarms 2.51
  6. Decline and Fall 4.43
  7. White Sound 4.10 [extra track from "Living in My Limousine" 12", 1981]
  8. Life Runs Out Like Sand 5.23
  9. A Kind of Loving 4.16
  10. Do You Dream in Colour 3.46
  11. U.H.F. 4.41
  12. Youth of Nation on Fire 4.05
  13. Quit Dreaming and Get On the Beam 3.43 (CD July 1986: Cocteau Records JC CD 15)
    US CD 1989:
  1. Banal 3.53
  2. Living in My Limousine 4.10
  3. Vertical Games 3.15
  4. Disposable 5.55
  5. False Alarms 2.51
  6. Decline and Fall 4.43
  7. White Sound 4.10 [extra track from "Living in My Limousine" 12", 1981]
  8. Life Runs Out Like Sand 5.23
  9. Indescretion 4.37 [extra track from "Dancing on a Knife's Edge" fan club 7", 1983]
  10. The World and His Wife 5.01 [extra track from "The World and His Wife" fan club 7", 1983]
  11. U.H.F. 4.41
  12. Youth of Nation on Fire 4.05
  13. Quit Dreaming and Get On the Beam 3.43 (US CD 14 July 1989: Enigma Records 7 73385-2)
    CD 2005:
  1. Banal 3.53
  2. Living in My Limousine 4.10
  3. Vertical Games 3.15
  4. Disposable 5.55
  5. False Alarms 2.51
  6. Decline and Fall 4.43
  7. White Sound 4.10 [B-side 12" Living in My Limousine, 1981]
  8. Life Runs Out Like Sand 5.23
  9. A Kind of Loving 4.16
  10. Do You Dream in Colour 3.46
  11. U.H.F. 4.41
  12. Youth of Nation on Fire 4.05
  13. Quit Dreaming and Get On the Beam 3.43
  14. Mr. Magnetism Himself 3.13 [B-side Banal, 1981]
  15. Living in My Limousine (Remix) 4.23 [12" A-side 1981]
  16. Birds of Tin 2.22 [B-side Living in My Limousine, 1981]
  17. Love in the Abstract 3.35 [B-side Living in My Limousine, 1981]
  18. Be My Dynamo 2.13 [B-side Youth of Nation on Fire, 1981]
  19. Rooms with Brittle Views 3.54 [B-side 2x7" Youth of Nation on Fire, 1981]
  20. All My Wives Were Iron 1.31 [B-side 2x7" Youth of Nation on Fire, 1981] (CD 21 Nov 2005: Mercury 983 1025)
Apparently this was supposed to be released as the second LP by BILL NELSON'S RED NOISE. Bill Nelson liner notes March 1981: "The music on this [original vinyl 1981] album was written during the latter part of 1978 and recorded at intervals between February and June of 1979. That it is only now publicly available I find ironic. Nevertheless, I am pleased that these tracks, which constitute approximately two thirds of the total material recorded for the album, have finally been aquitted... by mirrors if not by justice."

7 May 1981 free bonus LP (+ CD) SOUNDING THE RITUAL ECHO (ATMOSPHERES FOR DREAMING)

  1. Annunciation
  2. The Ritual Echo
  3. Sleep
  4. Near East
  5. Emak Bakia
  6. My Intricate Image
  7. Endless Orchids
  8. The Heat in the Room
  1. Another Willingly Opened Window
  2. Vanishing Parades
  3. Glass Fish (For the Final Aquarium)
  4. Cubical Domes
  5. Ashes of Roses
  6. The Shadow Garden
  7. Opium (free bonus LP 1981: ECHO 1; LP 1985: Cocteau Records JCS 12; CD Sep 1989: Cocteau Records JCCD 12)
First available as a free LP with initial copies of "QUIT DREAMING AND GET ON THE BEAM".

"Sounding the Ritual Echo was recorded in the privacy of my own home on broken or faulty tape machines & speakers, each track possessing its own technological deformity. For this I offer no apology as the music owes its existence to a very personal & selfish obsession. As a direct result, some pieces will require a little patience. This album, originally released in a limited edition in 1981 as a bonus album for Quit Dreaming & Get on the Beam , was the first in a series of purely instrumental albums issued by Cocteau Records from the archives of the Echo Observatory."

29 May 1981 7"/2x7" Youth of Nation on Fire

    Youth of Nation on Fire 3.06 [single version] / Be My Dynamo 2.13 (7": Mercury, WILL 2)

    Youth of Nation on Fire 3.06 [single version] / Be My Dynamo 2.13
    Rooms with Brittle Views 3.54 / All My Wives Were Iron 1.31 (2x7": WILL 22)

20 Aug 1981 7"/12" Living in My Limousine
    Living in My Limousine 4.10 // Birds of Tin 2.22 / Love in the Abstract 3.35 (7": Mercury, WILL 3)

    Living in My Limousine (Remix) 4.23 / White Sound 4.10 // Birds of Tin 2.22 / Love in the Abstract 3.35 (12": WILL 312)

25 Nov 1981 soundtrack LP (+ CD) DAS KABINET (The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari)

  1. The Asylum
  2. Waltz
  3. The Fairground
  4. Doctor Caligari
  5. Cesare the Somnambulist
  6. Murder
  7. The Funeral
  8. The Somnambulist and the Children

  9. Caligari Disciplines Cesare
  10. Caligari Feeds Cesare
  11. Caligari Opens the Cabinet
  12. Jane Discovers Cesare
  13. The Attempted Murder of Jane
  14. The Dream Dance of Jane and the Somnambulist
  15. Escape ovtr The Rooftops
  16. The Unmasking
  17. The Shot
  18. The Cabinet Closes (LP: Cocteau Records JC 2)

1 May 1982 7"/2x7" Eros Arriving

    Eros Arriving 3.48 [Single Version] / Haunting in My Head 4.27 (7": Mercury, WILL4)

    Eros Arriving 3.48 [Single Version] / Haunting in My Head // He and Sleep Were Brothers 4.41 / Flesh 3.29 (2x7": WILL 44)

22 June 1982 LP (+ CD) THE LOVE THAT WHIRLS (DIARY OF A THINKING HEART)
    LP 1982:
  1. Empire of the Senses 4.49
  2. Hope for the Heartbeat 3.53
  3. Waiting for Voices 1.37
  4. A Private View 5.28
  5. Eros Arriving 3.34
  6. The Bride of Christ in Autumn 2.24
  1. When Your Dream of Perfect Beauty Comes True 3.36
  2. Flaming Desire 4.53
  3. Portrait of Jan with Flowers 2.12
  4. The Crystal Escalator in the Palace of God Department Store 3.20
  5. Echo in Her Eyes (The Lamps of Oblivion) 2.01
  6. The October Man 6.42 (Phonogram WHIRL 3)
    CD 1986:
  1. Empire of the Senses 4.49
  2. Hope for the Heartbeat 3.53
  3. Waiting for Voices 1.37
  4. A Private View 5.28
  5. Eros Arriving 3.34
  6. The Bride of Christ in Autumn 2.24
  7. Flesh 3.29 [extra track from "Eros Arriving" 2x7", 1982]
  8. He and Sleep Were Brothers 4.41 [extra track from "Eros Arriving" 2x7", 1982]
  9. When Your Dream of Perfect Beauty Comes True 3.36
  10. Flaming Desire 4.53
  11. Portrait of Jan with Flowers 2.12
  12. The Crystal Escalator in the Palace of God Department Store 3.20
  13. Echo in Her Eyes (The Lamps of Oblivion) 2.01
  14. The October Man 6.42 (CD July 1986: Cocteau Records JC CD 16)
    US CD 1989:
  1. When the Birds Return 5.22 [extra track from "Sleepcycle" fan club 7", 1982]
  2. Hope for the Heartbeat (Remix) 3.34 [extra track from US promo 12" "Hope for the Heartbeat", 1982]
  3. Waiting for Voices 1.37
  4. A Private View 5.28
  5. Eros Arriving 3.34
  6. The Bride of Christ in Autumn 2.24
  7. Flesh 3.29 [extra track from "Eros Arriving" 2x7", 1982]
  8. He and Sleep Were Brothers 4.41 [extra track from "Eros Arriving" 2x7", 1982]
  9. When Your Dream of Perfect Beauty Comes True 3.36
  10. Dancing on a Knife's Edge [extra track from "Dancing on a Knife's Edge" fan club 7", 1983]
  11. Portrait of Jan with Flowers 2.12
  12. The Crystal Escalator in the Palace of God Department Store 3.20
  13. Echo in Her Eyes (The Lamps of Oblivion) 2.01
  14. The October Man 6.42 (US CD 1989: Enigma Records 7 73386-2)
    CD 2005:
  1. Empire of the Senses 4.49
  2. Hope for the Heartbeat 3.53
  3. Waiting for Voices 1.37
  4. A Private View 5.28
  5. Eros Arriving 3.34
  6. The Bride of Christ in Autumn 2.24
  7. Flesh 3.29 [extra track from "Eros Arriving" 2x7", 1982]
  8. He and Sleep Were Brothers 4.41 [extra track from "Eros Arriving" 2x7", 1982]
  9. When Your Dream of Perfect Beauty Comes True 3.36
  10. Flaming Desire 4.53
  11. Portrait of Jan with Flowers 2.12
  12. The Crystal Escalator in the Palace of God Department Store 3.20
  13. Echo in Her Eyes (The Lamps of Oblivion) 2.01
  14. The October Man 6.42
  15. Haunting in My Head 4.27 [B-side Eros Arriving, 1982]
  16. Hope for the Heartbeat (Remix) 3.34 [from US promo 12" "Hope for the Heartbeat", 1982]
  17. The Passion 3.09 [B-side Flaming Desire, 1982] (CD 21 Nov 2005: Mercury 983 1026)
Bill Nelson liner notes 1982: "Recorded between spring and winter 1981 at Ric-Rac Studios (Leeds), and Rockfield studios (Monmouth). The material on this [original vinyl 1982] album constitutes approximately half of the total recordings made at various intervals between April and November 1981. The remainder will hopefully appear in various forms throughout the coming months."

22 June 1982 free bonus LP LA BELLE ET LA BETE

  1. Overture
  2. The Family
  3. Sisters and Sedan Chairs
  4. In the Forest of Storms
  5. The Castle
  6. The Rose and the Beast
  7. Magnificent (The White Horse)
  8. Beauty Enters the Castle
  9. Beauty and the Beast
  1. Transition No. 1
  2. Transition No. 2
  3. The Hunt
  4. The Gift
  5. The Garden
  6. Transition No. 3
  7. Transition No. 4
  8. The Tragedy
  9. Transition No. 5
  10. The Enchanted Glove
  11. Tears As Diamonds (The Gift Reverses)
  12. The Beast i Solitude
  13. The Return of Magnificent
  14. Transition No. 6 (The Journey)
  15. The Pavilion of Diana
  16. Transformation No. 1
  17. Transformation No. 2
  18. The Final Curtain (free bonus LP 1982: WHIRL 2)
"The bonus LP La Belle Et La Bete (Beauty And The Beast) was recorded at the Echo Observatory (Yorkshire) in January 1982 for the Yorkshire Actors Company production of Jean Cocteau's film."

First available as a free LP with initial copies of "THE LOVE THAT WHIRLS (DIARY OF A THINKING HEART)".

24 July 1982 7"/12" Flaming Desire

    Flaming Desire / The Passion 3.09 (7": Phonogram, WILL 5)

    Flaming Desire (Long Version) // The Passion / The Burning Question 7.08 (12": WILL 512)

summer ca 1982 US promo 12" Hope for the Heartbeat
    Hope for the Heartbeat (Remix) 3.34 / The Passion 3.09 (PVC Records PVC EP 4)

1982 fan club 7" EP Sleepcycle

    Sleepcycle / Konny Buys a Kodak 2.39 // When the Birds Return 5.22 / The Beat That Can't Go Wrong Today (Cocteau Records, COQ 5)
1982 fan club 7" EP Touch and Glow
    Touch and Glow 3.16 // Dancing in the Wind / Love without Fear 3.56 (Cocteau Records, COQ 10)
1982 fan club 7" EP King of the Cowboys
    King of the Cowboys / Shadowland // Carnival / Spring (Cocteau Records, COQ 11)

1982 soundtrack 2-LP (+ US CD) DAS KABINET [1981] / LA BELLE ET LA BETE [1982]

    LP 1: DAS KABINET (The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari)
  1. The Asylum
  2. Waltz
  3. The Fairground
  4. Doctor Caligari
  5. Cesare the Somnambulist
  6. Murder
  7. The Funeral
  8. The Somnambulist and the Children

  9. Caligari Disciplines Cesare
  10. Caligari Feeds Cesare
  11. Caligari Opens the Cabinet
  12. Jane Discovers Cesare
  13. The Attempted Murder of Jane
  14. The Dream Dance of Jane and the Somnambulist
  15. Escape ovtr The Rooftops
  16. The Unmasking
  17. The Shot
  18. The Cabinet Closes
    LP 2: LA BELLE ET LA BETE (Beauty And The Beast)
  1. Overture
  2. The Family
  3. Sisters and Sedan Chairs
  4. In the Forest of Storms
  5. The Castle
  6. The Rose and the Beast
  7. Magnificent (The White Horse)
  8. Beauty Enters the Castle
  9. Beauty and the Beast

  10. Transition No. 1
  11. Transition No. 2
  12. The Hunt
  13. The Gift
  14. The Garden
  15. Transition No. 3
  16. Transition No. 4
  17. The Tragedy
  18. Transition No. 5
  19. The Enchanted Glove
  20. Tears As Diamonds (The Gift Reverses)
  21. The Beast i Solitude
  22. The Return of Magnificent
  23. Transition No. 6 (The Journey)
  24. The Pavilion of Diana
  25. Transformation No. 1
  26. Transformation No. 2
  27. The Final Curtain (2-LP 1982: Cocteau Records JCD 4; US CD 12 May 1989: Enigma Records 7 73374-2)

May 1983 LP (+ CD) CHIMERA

  1. The Real Adventure 4.11
  2. Acceleration 3.56
  3. Every Day Feels Like Another New Drug 4.38

  4. Tender Is the Night 5.09
  5. Glow World 4.05
  6. Another Day, Another Ray of Hope 5.22 (LP: Mercury MER B 19)

    CD bonus tracks:

  7. Hard Facts from the Fiction Department 3.35
  8. Acceleration (Long John Luongo Remix) 6.33
  9. Acceleration (John Luongo Dub) 6.53
  10. Acceleration (Short John Luongo Remix) 3.49 (CD 21 Nov 2005: Mercury 983 1027)
Recorded Autumn 1982 at The Garden and Riverside Studios. Mixed January 1983 at Ric-Rac Studio, Leeds.

1983 fan club 7" EP Dancing on a Knife's Edge

    Dancing on a Knife's Edge / Indiscretion / Contemplation (Cocteau Records, COQ 12)
1983 fan club 7" EP The World and His Wife
    The World and His Wife // Dream Car Romantics (In Death's Garage Antics) / Dancing Music (Cocteau Records, COQ 13)

1983 instrumental mini-LP (+ CD) SAVAGE GESTURES FOR CHARMS SAKE

  1. The Man in the Rexine Suit
  2. Watching My Dream Boat Go Down in Flames
  3. The Meat Room

  4. Narcosis
  5. Another Happy Thought (Carved for Ever in Your Cortex)
  6. Portrait of Jan with Moon and Stars (LP: Cocteau Records JCM 3; US CD 14 July 1989: Enigma Records 7 73373-2)

summer (?) 1984 fan club 7" EP Hard Facts from the Fiction Department

    Hard Facts from the Fiction Department / Daily Bells // Rhythm Unit / Junc-Sculpture (Cocteau Records, COQ 14)
Aug 1984 remix 7"/12" Acceleration
    Acceleration (Short John Luongo Remix) 3.46 / Hard Facts from the Fiction Department 3.35 (7": Cocteau Records, COQ 15)

    Hard Facts from the Fiction Department 3.35 / Acceleration (John Luongo Dub) 6.53 //
    Acceleration (Long John Luongo Remix) 6.33 / Acceleration (Short John Luongo Remix) 3.46 (12": COQ T 15)

I am not sure what album this single was supposed to promote (if any), but it appears as the first track on THE TWO-FOLD ASPECT OF EVERYTHING. It originally appeared on "CHIMERA" in 1983 but that album isn't mention on the single. Perhaps it was a fan club-only single?

autumn 1984 rarities 2LP (+ 2-CD) THE TWO-FOLD ASPECT OF EVERYTHING

  1. Acceleration (Short John Luongo Remix) 3.46 [7", 8/84]
  2. White Sound 4.10 [B-side 12" Living in My Limousine, 8/81]
  3. Living in My Limousine (Remix) 4.23 [12", 8/81]
  4. Flesh 3.29 [on "Eros Arriving" 2x7", 5/82]
  5. Eros Arriving (Single Version) 3.48 [7", 5/82]
  6. Hope for the Heartbeat (Remix) 3.34 [US promo 12", 1982]
  7. The Passion 3.09 [B-side Flaming Desire, 7/82]

  8. Ideal Homes 4.15 [B-side Do You Dream in Colour?, 1980]
  9. Instantly Yours 2.08 [B-side Do You Dream in Colour?, 1980]
  10. Atom Man Loves Radium Girl 3.09 [B-side Do You Dream in Colour?, 1980]
  11. Mr Magnetism Himself 3.09 [B-side Banal, 3/81]
  12. The Burning Question 7.08 [B-side 12" Flaming Desire, 7/82]
  13. Haunting in My Head 4.27 [B-side Eros Arriving, 5/82]
  14. He and Sleep Were Brothers 4.41 [on "Eros Arriving" 2x7", 5/82]
  1. Konny Buys a Kodak 2.39 [from fan club 7" EP Sleepcycle, 1982]
  2. Be My Dynamo 2.13 [B-side Youth of Nation on Fire, 5/81]
  3. Touch and Glow 3.16 [from fan club 7" EP Touch and Glow, 1982]
  4. Love without Fear 3.56 [from fan club 7" EP Touch and Glow, 1982]
  5. Dada Guitare 2.53 [B-side Belgian 7" Rooms with Brittle Views, 12/80]
  6. Turn to Fiction 2.43 [B-side 12" Banal, 3/81]

  7. Rooms with Brittle Views 3.54 [Belgian 7", 12/80]
  8. Love in the Abstract 3.35 [B-side Living in My Limousine, 8/81]
  9. Hard Facts from the Fiction Department 3.35 [B-side Acceleration (Remix), 8/84]
  10. Hers Is a Lush Situation 4.20 [B-side Banal, 3/81]
  11. When the Birds Return 5.22 [from fan club 7" EP Sleepcycle, 1982]
  12. All My Wives Were Iron 1.31 [B-side 2x7" Youth of Nation on Fire, 5/81] (Cocteau Records JC 10; UK 2-CD Feb 1985: Cocteau Records JCCD 10; US 2-CD 14 July 1989: Enigma Records 7 73380-2)
Bill Nelson autumn 1984: "Record One subtitled "Eaux d'Artifice" is a collection of remixes, obscure B-sides and rarities never before presented in album form. Record Two subtitled "Confessions Of A Four Track Mind" is made up of domestically recorded four-track demo tapes which due to lack of time were never developed further. Although their technical qualities are somewhat dubious, those songs are presented here in their charmingly naive and natural state."

late (?) 1984 fan club 7" EP Giants of the Perpetual Wurlitzer

    The Strangest Things, The Strangest Times / Phantom Gardens / French Promenades //
    Golden Mile / West-Deep / Threnolia (Cocteau Records, COQ 17)

Oct 1984 instrumental 4xLP (+ 4-CD) TRIAL BY INTIMACY (THE BOOK [OF] SPLENDOURS)

Bill Nelson liner notes Oct 1984: "Although recorded on 'low-tech' domestic equipment, these eighty-three pieces of music are not to be confused with 'demo-tapes' but as a continuation oof the process begun in 1979-1980 with my "Sounding The Ritual Echo" album. The set is presented unpolished and complete with all its technical deformities for which I offer no apology. Despite or perhaps because of this, these previously unreleased pieces have become very dear to my heart."

Link to 4-CD-box: https://www.burningshed.com/store/artrock/product/119/4143/

late 1984 instrumental LP (+ CD) THE SUMMER OF GOD'S PIANO

    (LP: Cocteau Records JC 6; CD 1989: JCCD 6)
late 1984 instrumental LP (+ CD) CHAMBER OF DREAMS (MUSIC FROM THE INVISIBILITY EXHIBITION)
    (LP: Cocteau Records JC 07; CD 1989: JCCD 7)
late 1984 instrumental LP (+ CD) PAVILIONS OF THE HEART AND SOUL
    (LP: Cocteau Records JC 8; CD 1989: JCCD 8)
late 1984 instrumental LP (+ CD) A CATALOGUE OF OBSESSIONS
    (LP: Cocteau Records JC 9; CD 1989: JCCD 9)
1985 instrumental LP (+ CD) SOUNDING THE RITUAL ECHO (ATMOSPHERES FOR DREAMING)
    (LP: Cocteau Records JC 12; CD 1989: JCCD 12)
To be continued...

Copyright (c) 2012-09-02 Jonas Wårstad.

Last update 2012-10-08.

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