Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights

by Bill Nelson

Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1987
  • Label: Cocteau
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:25:26
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Moving far away from his art-rock origins with Be-Bop Deluxe, the British guitarist and composer constructed a deeply spiritual, double-album ambient opus. 'Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights' utilizes synthesizers and subtle acoustic elements to create peaceful, meditative soundscapes inspired by his esoteric and philosophical interests. The release is widely regarded as a pinnacle of his ambient, instrumental catalog.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, ritualistic, instrumental, ambient, synthesizers, shimmering, minimal

Tracklist

  1. West Deep
  2. The Spirit Cannot Fail
  3. Pilots Of Kite
  4. Seventh Circle
  5. Phantom Gardens
  6. Angel Of Hearth And Home
  7. Villefranche Interior
  8. Night Tides (2:02)
  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 (2:58)
  25. My Dark Daemon
  26. The Dove Consumed (The Serpent Slumbers)
  27. Calling Heaven, Calling Heaven, Over
  28. Path Of Return
  29. Theurgia
  30. Staircase To No Place
  31. Evocation Of A Radiant Childhood
  32. The Kingdom Of Consequence
  33. The Divine Raptures Of Sisterhood
  34. Bright Star (Moonlight Over Ocean Blue)
  35. A Bird Of The Air Shall Carry Thy Voice
  36. Clothed In Light Amongst The Stars
  37. Gnosis
  38. Bringers Of Light To The Feast
  39. Hastening The Chariot Of My Heart's Desire
  40. Transcendant
  41. Consolamentum
  42. Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart
  43. Mysterium
  44. Katharos
  45. Day Of Eternity (1:14)
  46. Evening Adoration
  47. Ecclesia Gnostica
  48. Young Angels By An Ancient River
  49. Finis Gloria Mundi (3:01)

Credits

  • Allan Quinn - synthesizer [string]
  • Bill Nelson - Primary Artist, liner notes, photography

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