Bill Nelson – Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Lights (2xCD, Album) (Near Mint (NM or M-))

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Notes:

Composed, performed and recorded at ‘The Echo Observatory’, Yorkshire, England.

Dedicated, with gratitude for the gift of love, to Jan, Julia, Elle and Elliot Nelson.

℗ © 1988 Cocteau Records Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Manufactured in USA.

Both CDs come in separate jewel cases, making it possible for them to be separated or acquired separately. The CDs were never sold individually.
Tracks 1-25 to 1-38 not available on album or cassette, tracks 2-18 to 2-25 taken from the “Ecclesia Gnostica” 7″ EP.

The music on these two compact discs marks the consolidation of several years of musical and philosophical practice.
Almost every piece was conceived during moments of intense stillness or ‘magical vacuity’.
For this I acknowledge the influence of the late Austin Osman Spare, whose technique for creating ‘automatic drawing’ has found a sympathetic resonance in my own work.
Of all the music I have made, this is, perhaps, the most personal and yet the least demonstrative.
Attempting nothing and existing purely for itself, it is, nevertheless, a practical music, ideally suited to the occultist in search of ritual atmosphere or serene meditation.
With such a purpose in mind I offer this work to my fellow initiates as a testament to the Gnosis and a confirmation of The World Within.
Bill Nelson 1987.

“The way of heaven is a purpose – anterior to and not induced by thought.
Desire, other than by the act, shall in no wise obtain: Therefore believe SYMBOLICALLY or with caution’
‘Art is love. Wisdom and folly is a difference of degree’
AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE (1888-1956).

Printed in Canada (on tray cards)

Track durations are not printed on the release.

. The Angel At The Western Window
1-1. West Deep 1:20
1-2. The Spirit Cannot Fail 2:08
1-3. Pilots Of Kite 1:59
1-4. Seventh Circle 2:18
1-5. Phantom Gardens 1:43
1-6. The Angel Of Hearth And Home 1:48
1-7. Villefranche Interior 1:14
1-8. Night Tides 2:01
1-9. First Memory 1:29
1-10. Azure Extension 1:32
1-11. Radiant Spires 1:01
1-12. The Evening Peal 1:11
1-13. Threnodia 1:11
1-14. A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain 1:29
1-15. Body Of Light 1:32
1-16. At The Center 2:10
1-17. Self-Initiation 2:05
1-18. The Word That Became Flesh 2:02
1-19. The Hermetic Garden 1:27
1-20. Revolving Globes 1:48
1-21. The Four Square Citadel 1:19
1-22. Little Daughters Of Light 2:00
1-23. Orient Of Memphis 1:48
1-24. The Angel At The Western Window 2:58
1-25. The Piano Room 1:47
1-26. Rain Dance 2:10
1-27. Aching Heart 1:45
1-28. Arising 2:22
1-29. Welcome To Realm Seven 2:09
1-30. Without A Blue Horizon 3:00
1-31. Female Nebula 2:39
1-32. Demon Raising 2:12
1-33. Burning The Grove Of Satyrs 1:13
1-34. The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of 3:16
1-35. Realm Of Archons 3:26
1-36. The Rossetti Effect 1:04
1-37. Infinite Station 2:07
1-38. Piano Angelica 1:37
. The Book Of Inward Conversation
2-1. My Dark Daemon 3:17
2-2. The Dove Consumed (The Serpent Slumbers) 1:31
2-3. Calling Heaven, Calling Heaven, Over 3:44
2-4. Path Of Return 3:35
2-5. Theurgia 1:05
2-6. Staircase To No Place 0:53
2-7. Evocation Of A Radiant Childhood 5:42
2-8. The Kingdom Of Consequence 1:56
2-9. The Divine Raptures Of Sisterhood 1:23
2-10. Bright Star (Moonlight Over Ocean Blue) 1:03
2-11. A Bird Of The Air Shall Carry Thy Voice 3:15
2-12. Clothed In Light Amongst The Stars 3:33
2-13. Gnosis 2:42
2-14. Bringers Of Light To The Feast 1:01
2-15. Hastening The Chariot Of My Heart’s Desire 3:13
2-16. Transcendant 2:43
2-17. Consolamentum 3:42
2-18. Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart 1:26
2-19. Mysterium 1:23
2-20. Katharos 1:35
2-21. Day Of Eternity 1:13
2-22. Evening Adoration 1:09
2-23. Ecclesia Gnostica 1:41
2-24. Young Angels By An Ancient River 1:12
2-25. Finis Gloria Mundi 3:01

Barcode 0 1877-73337-2 6
Barcode 018777333726
SPARS Code AAD
Matrix / Runout DIDX-003361 4
Matrix / Runout 73337 DISC 1 4-1-6 CAPITOL JAX 1 D
Matrix / Runout 73337 3-1-3 CAPITOL JAX 1 D
Matrix / Runout DIDX-003361 4
Matrix / Runout 73337 DISC 1 4-1-7 CAPITOL JAX 2 D
Matrix / Runout 73337 DISC #2 3-1-3 CAPITOL JAX 1 D

Phonographic Copyright (p) Cocteau Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) Cocteau Records Ltd.
Recorded At The Echo Observatory
Manufactured By Capitol Jax
Glass Mastered At DADC