The Dreamshire Chronicles

by Bill Nelson

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Nick Bradey Superb set - Bill is in fine form here . This music is highly addictive. My long term aim is to get all of Bill’s music . Sadly this will take some time ….
Keep up the good work Bill 👍👍👍 Favorite track: Garden Railway.

notjustdad I have to say that I am playing this album a lot. The many layers reveal something new with each listen. As always, the guitars sound great but the overall production of the piece is very, very good. Love it.

thirdsystem This is excellent. Diverse, different, many changing moods with some great melodic themes. One of my favourite albums already. Thanks Bill, great stuff.

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	1.	Prelude: The Night Is Lit By Diamonds 02:44
	2.	Welcome To Dreamshire (Monitor Mix) 03:33
	3.	The Pleasure Boaters 01:35
	4.	This Everyday World 03:44
	5.	Rainboy And Whistledog 05:49
	6.	Young Marvelman 02:39
	7.	Garden Railway 02:34
	8.	The Shimmering Threshold (On Your Bike Emperor Ming) 05:22
	9.	Evening Star Electric Park 08:45
	10.	Sailing To The Moon 02:11
	11.	The Milky Way (Burning Bright) 02:49
	12.	The Sparkling Idea 03:27
	13.	Ghosts Wind The Parlour Clock 01:20
	14.	Spooky Little Thing 02:47
	15.	Now I Come To Think Of It 03:32
	16.	Spinning Pentagrams 04:53
	17.	The Ruins Of Youth, The Twang Of Tomorrow 01:49
	18.	The Reality Of Imagination 05:32
	19.	Smoke Drifts Silent In Autumn Air 05:27
	20.	Bubbledreamer 03:40
	21.	My Little Book Of Secret Knowledge 02:58
	22.	Robots On Parade 02:58
	23.	Dark And Complicated 03:26
	24.	Blue Beams 02:44
	25.	More Than Glory, More Than Gold 03:26
	26.	The Lost Planet Of Sunday Afternoon 01:38
	27.	Mass Equals Energy 02:10
	28.	The Light Gathering Garden Of Omar Kadiz 03:26
	29.	Windsong Of The Flying Boy 04:10
	30.	Henrietta Through The Looking Glass 04:42
	31.	Luna On The Beach 03:21
	32.	Neither Puck Nor Pan 06:37
	33.	Welcome To Dreamshire (Luxe Mix) 03:33
	34.	This Everyday World (Instrumental Version) 03:59

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'The Dreamshire Chronicles' is a double album mixing vocal and instrumental pieces, first released on CD in November 2012.

"It contains a wide variety of styles, all of which have proved popular with many fans these last ten or fifteen years...and every track sounds, I'd say, just like 'me'.
The only way to describe it is for you to hear it. It's a cornucopia type of album, mixing styles and genres as if they were ingredients in a sonic cocktail. A track may start out in one mood but mutate through several others to end in a completely different place. It's music to listen to and follow as if you were reading an adventure story.
'Dreamshire' is richly blessed with golden and beautifully artificial orchestras. The whole kit n' imaginary caboodle! It also has warped blues guitars, sublime jazz guitars, ambient keyboards, broken beats, ethereal loops, haunted lyrics and oblique arrangements.
It's not in the least 'experimental', as I know exactly what I'm doing with it...but it will challenge anyone who thinks a few synth bleeps equals adventure.
This is adult music and not a throwback to '80s big-shoulder, analogue fashion, or '70s rock guitar macho chest-beating histrionics. It will confuse the bejesus out of anyone expecting the obvious pop 'avant-garde' signifiers. (At least, that's what I'm hoping for...)
Speed of light, speed of sound, stand back, mind the blast! This will be a sublime listening experience for those whose lightbulb is switched on! It's neither experimental nor rock, it's kind of beyond those categories.
It's like a bunch of different coloured fireworks going off at once and I just enjoy the individual bangs and whooshes, then try to decipher patterns from it all later, when the smoke clears.
'Dreamshire' isn't meant to be an exterior location...it's an inner landscape, located in some mysterious backwater of the mind, surreal and illogical.

"A thought struck me when I was listening through this album to prepare the listening notes:
If there was to be such a thing as a Bill Nelson 'steampunk' album, 'The Dreamshire Chronicles' might well qualify. There's something antiquated, rustic yet futuristic about this one, a kind of neo-Victorian rock n' roll, steam-powered guitar amps and Tesla-coil keyboards coupled with a symphony orchestra staffed by women in long leather dresses and tall hats. Patinated copper pipe flutes and oboes, drums fashioned from old stoves and railway engine boilers, guitars that resemble a cross between crystal sets and concert harps. Everything lit by candlelight." - Bill Nelson

Artwork files and Bill's album 'Listening Notes' are included with this download.

For further album information, visit www.billnelson.com/dreamshire-chronicles

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released August 1, 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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