Trial by Intimacy (The Book Splendours)

by Bill Nelson

Trial by Intimacy (The Book Splendours) cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 January 1985
  • Label: Cocteau
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Comprising multiple volumes of home-recorded material, this expansive box set showcases the former Be-Bop Deluxe frontman's pioneering work with instrumental, synthesized ambient structures. The collection features heavily layered tape experiments, drum machines, and surreal keyboard sketches designed to evoke specific visual moods.

Genres

Descriptors: sampling, melodic, minimalistic, electronic, synth, ambient, guitars, instrumental, atmospheric, dreamy

Tracklist

  1. Antennae Two
  2. Transmission (N.B.C. 97293)
  3. The Sleep Of Hollywood
  4. The Celestial Bridegroom
  5. Under The Red Arch
  6. Orient Pearl
  7. Sacrament (2:46)
  8. Falling Blossoms
  9. The Difficulty Of Being
  10. Zanoni
  11. The Chinese Nightingale
  12. Tantra
  13. Soon September (Another Enchantment)
  14. Rural Shires
  15. Perfidio Incanto
  16. The Lost Years
  17. The Charm Of Transit
  18. Night Thoughts (Twilight Radio)
  19. Wysteria
  20. Swing (4:26)
  21. Snowfall
  22. Real Of Dusk
  23. Over Ocean (1:30)
  24. The Blazing Memory Of Innuendo
  25. Into The Luminous Future
  26. A Dip In The Swimming Pool Reactor
  27. Tomorrowland (The Threshold Of 1947) (3:16)
  28. Listening To Lizards
  29. My Endless Torsion
  30. Sublime Perversion
  31. Eros In Autumn
  32. Sleeplessness
  33. The Latest Skyline
  34. Train Of Thought
  35. Parks And Fountains, Clouds And Trees
  36. The Golden Bough
  37. Forever Orpheus
  38. In Arcadia
  39. Sentimental
  40. Autumn Fires
  41. Wild Blue Yonder
  42. Gift Of The August Tide
  43. Loving Tongues
  44. Blue Nude
  45. In The Realm Of Bells
  46. Your Nebulous Smile
  47. The Glance Of A Glittering Stranger
  48. Another Kiss For Your Slender Neck (2:09)
  49. The Warmth Of Women's Eyes
  50. Seduction (Ritual With Roses)
  51. Dreamed Embraces
  52. Herself With Her Shadow
  53. The Exquisite Corpse
  54. Ardent Hands
  55. Her Laughing Torso
  56. Migrating Angels
  57. Les Amoureux (2:51)
  58. Meshes Of The Afternoon
  59. Mountains Of The Heart
  60. Willow Silk
  61. Tender Encounters (States Of Grace)
  62. Melancholia
  63. The Eternal Female (2:58)
  64. Sex Party Six
  65. Wider Windows For The Walls Of The World
  66. Time In Tokyo
  67. Happily Addicted To You (1:03)
  68. Snakes With Wings
  69. The Boy Pilots Of Bangkok
  70. Erotikon
  71. Birds In Two Hemispheres
  72. Windmills In A World Without Wind
  73. Love's First Kiss
  74. Initiation Of The Heart's Desire
  75. Edge Of Tears
  76. Test Of Affection
  77. Words Across Tables
  78. A Promise Of Perfume
  79. This Dangerous Age
  80. The Glass Breakfast
  81. Talk Technique
  82. The Last Summer For Dancing
  83. View From A Balcony

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