Bill Nelson

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights

West Deep

The Spirit Cannot Fail

Pilots of Kite

Seventh Circle

Phantom Gardens

The Angel of Hearth and Home

Villefranche Interior

Night Tides

First Memory

Azure Extension

Radiant Spires

The Evening Peal

Threnodia

A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

Body of Light

At the Center

Self-Initiation

The Word That Became Flesh

The Hermetic Garden

Revolving Globes

The Four Square Citadel

Little Daughters of Light

Orient of Memphis

The Angel at the Western Window

The Piano Room

Rain Dance

Aching Heart

Arising

Welcome to Realm Seven

Without a Blue Horizon

Female Nebula

Demon Raising

Burning the Grove of Satyrs

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Realm of Archons

The Rossetti Effect

Infinite Station

Piano Angelica

My Dark Daemon

The Dove Consumed (The Serpent Slumbers)

Calling Heaven, Calling Heaven, Over

Path of Return

Theurgia

Staircase to No Place

Evocation of a Radiant Childhood

The Kingdom of Consequence

The Divine Raptures of Sisterhood

Bright Star (Moonlight over Ocean Blue)

A Bird of the Air Shall Carry Thy Voice

Clothed in Light Amongst the Stars

Dreamy Screens: Soundtracks from the Echo Observatory

After the Satellite Sings

Northern Dream

The Practice of Everyday Life (Digital Anthology)

Originally planned as a mere stopgap release between albums, Chimera turned out to be a welcome showcase for Bill Nelson at his peak, commercially and creatively. Following the triumph of his 1982 album The Love That Whirls, the British guitarist built Chimera in the same vein, setting his romantic and erotic poetry to the sort of synthesized settings favored by his younger pop peers. However, where much of Nelson's previous output had been a virtual one-man show, the six songs here benefit from his new desire to collaborate, most notably with Yellow Magic Orchestra drummer Yukihiro Takahashi (whose band Nelson had produced). The result is the elegant dance music of "Everyday Feels Like a New Drug" and "Glow World"; the latter song also features the rubbery fretless bass of Japan's Mick Karn and is perhaps the best of all the attempts at this sort of oriental funk made by Karn's bandmates, Gary Numan, and several other artists. The guests don't seem to have sparked Nelson's desire to return to his Red Noise, guitar-hero days (although he does crank out some jagged, Robert Fripp-style leads in "The Real Adventure"), but the focus here was on balancing Nelson's instrumental and theoretical fights of fancy with the demands of modern pop, a job performed with aplomb. The contents of this EP would later be combined with two songs apiece from the previous albums Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam and The Love That Whirls to form Vistamix, an excellent introduction to Nelson tailored for the American market.

Chimera

It's possible to find through-lines of the new romantic strain of pop throughout this Bill Nelson release, with washes of synthesizer and dance-of-electrocution rhythms going on all over the place, but the true fascination is the mix of a post-ironic tone and a cultured sensitivity to art and beauty. While Nelson puts his guitar chops on display periodically through the album (much of it with E-bow in hand), this is far from being a guitar album ? all of the disparate elements are too well-integrated for any to assume a point of focus. There is a sweetness and a lightness to a great deal of the work Nelson put into this album, and this makes it infinitely listenable. In some respects, this is also a record that will teach listeners everything they need to know about Bill Nelson ? it touches on all aspects of what he does.

The Love That Whirls

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Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights

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