Starlight Stories, by Bill Nelson

Starlight Stories

by Bill Nelson

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	1.	A Wide Open Window (With A View Of The Stars) 04:30
	2.	Sailing Through Skies Of Blue 03:29
	3.	Antoria 02:09
	4.	My Signal Light 03:57
	5.	Goodbye Golden Sands 03:22
	6.	Everything Is Ancient Now 04:20
	7.	Standing In A Starlit Room 02:58
	8.	Slow, Slow, Slow 04:13
	9.	Meanwhile, Elsewhere 03:18
	10.	Ghosts Of Ancient Houses 03:09
	11.	Celestrum 03:42
	12.	Starlight Stories 03:23
	13.	The Land Of Lost Dreams 02:46
	14.	The Doctor Was An Alchemist 05:08
	15.	Ian's Radio Is On 02:41

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"The tracks on ‘Starlight Stories’ were recorded during the same 2022 recording sessions that produced tracks for the ‘All The Fun Of The Fair’ album. However, ‘Starlight Stories’ has a quite different atmosphere and intent.

The inspiration for many of the songs came from my memories of a set of children’s story books, published in the 1920s, that my Mother had owned when she was a child in the early 1930s. She had kept these books and would read to me from them when I was an infant in the early 1950s. They were thick, heavy bound books with embossed covers and had titles such as ‘The Golden Wonder Book For Children’. They were brilliantly illustrated by artists who displayed a combination of Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. The books contained stories by famous authors such as HG Wells, Miguel De Cervantes, Homer, William Blake and others, plus poems by various poets, both classical and contemporary to those times. I was entranced by the wonderful stories and illustrations they contained. They had an aura of magic and mystery about them, with fairy tales and evocatively British poetry, filled with seasonal and rustic imagery. A treasure trove of fantasy and adventure, which I loved.

‘Starlight Stories’ doesn’t attempt to directly portray those old books but it does try to capture some of their atmosphere and manifest my nostalgia for them. Consequently the songs on this album have a softer, melancholic quality about them, albeit with some distressed, patina-like textures that evoke the scent and feel of those old books. They are dreamy meditations, wistful reveries fed through the filter of my contemporary musical sensibility. I hope they will, in some small way, connect you with your own lost story books, as well as with mine." - Bill Nelson 2023.

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For further information, please visit the album's page in the discography section of Bill's website - www.billnelson.com/starlight-stories

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released December 1, 2023

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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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