Songs Of The Blossom Tree Optimists

by Bill Nelson

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	1.	The Blossom Tree Optimists 02:55
	2.	Standing On Tiptoes, Reaching For The Sky 04:37
	3.	Memory Is A Data Cloud Forever Primed With Rain 04:26
	4.	Rambling Through The Meadows (Wonder Wise) 03:44
	5.	Garden Of Cascades 03:25
	6.	My Botticelli Angel 04:04
	7.	When Boys Were Lost For Words 04:09
	8.	Lovers In The Pleasure Gardens 04:36
	9.	The Buzz, Buzz, Buzz Of The Forever Bee 03:36
	10.	The Girl Who Was Electrically Carried Away 03:05
	11.	One Summer Night 04:27
	12.	Silent Glides My Armstrong Siddeley 03:39
	13.	These Are The Dreams 04:07
	14.	Gathered In At Gloaming 02:33
	15.	The Blossom Tree Optimists (Alternative Mix) 03:03

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'Songs Of The Blossom Tree Optimists' was originally released on CD in 2011...

"This album can be appreciated as a companion piece to 'Model Village' or as an independent project in its own right. It is a song-based album with the emphasis on vocals and acoustic guitar but with added orchestral colours and percussion to give a neo-baroque flavour to the music.
The album could also be thought of as the missing link between 'Northern Dream', 'Rosewood' and 'The Alchemical Adventures of Sailor Bill'.

"It's a warm, heartfelt fantasia with lots of detail and cross-references. An album for grown-ups who can appreciate music that paints pictures.

"A personal homage to a kind of long-lost, romantic, utopian 'Englishness'. Many of the songs on these albums attempt to capture an elusive, ancient spirit, a spirit of a place inhabited by quiet ghosts unique to old Albion, an English Arcadia, an imaginary Eden that only exists in the gentle souls of artists and poets. It's quite artificial, dreamlike, ethereal, a figment of Faerie, a Midsummer Night's Dream...Beautiful, fragile and utterly, seductively unreal." - Bill Nelson

The album comes complete with album artwork as PDF files.

For further Information, visit the album's page on the discography at www.billnelson.com/songs-of-the-blossom-tree-optimists

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released February 4, 2022

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Bill Nelson

Founder of Be-Bop Deluxe in 1973, guitarist Bill Nelson wrote all of the bands material. Signed to EMI, the band released five studio albums and scored a top ten UK hit with the single "Ships In The Night."
In 1979 Bill disbanded Be-Bop Deluxe and launched Red Noise.
As a solo artist he's worked with David Sylvian, Harold Budd and Cabaret Voltaire as well as producing The Skids and Gary Numan. ... more

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