Instrumental

Hi Steve

Love the instrumentals. My fave is model village; one of my fave BN albums overall.

Pleased to see 'Model Village' getting a mention by Pail Smith, (thanks Paul!) Surprised that he's the only one to mention this album, which is one of my personal favourites.

It's a 'concept' album that paints a picture of village life between WW1 and WW2. The album begins at dawn and ends at dusk with various characters and scenes appearing in between.

Partly inspired by old British documentary films it's a poem in sound for an imaginary, idyllic English village.😊

At the minute am stuck on the instrumental releases And We Fell Into A Dream, Neptune's Galaxy, The Jewel, Rosewood Volume 1 and Dreamland To Starboard

For me the 'found vocal' aspects of Bill's (seemingly) instrumental albums work as an instrument all of their own, and become an integral part of the 'instrumental mix' as it were. 'Signals' is run through with such 'found vocals' , but for me it still seems an instrumental album......up for debate I suppose.

Albums such as Neptune's Galaxy, Theatre Of Falling Leaves, and Model Village are instrumental without these inclusions.....'purely instrumental'......but there's a cockerel crowing on Model Village.....that's a 'found voice'......where does it begin or end with sounds hey?

After all these years, I still see the majestic Pink Buddha Blues as an 'instrumental' track, but it's riddled with 'found voice' to it's musical advantage, so what is what and what is not is a purist's conundrum..... - it's all some glorious 'Rock ' n ' Roll Madness' anyway...…..

Sorry, I have to argue for the "found sound" albums - which Bills calls instrumental. The amount of programming, texturing, mixing and matching marvels me. Go ahead and tease me again for: Roses and Rocket Ships. Now tell me you aren't playing Air Guitar right now.

Thought so.

... can't find custom deluxe either ...

Can't find Dreamland to Starboard ...

Drunkenly listening to Drastic Plastic ...

A purple patch here was Plaything, Dreamland To Starboard and And We Fell Into A Dream

Hi. include these! I just want to get a general consensus of opinion of ALL the non-vocal stuff. I'm loving it all & getting to know it in a very individual way, with a very strange non-linear trajectory, so,having an ocd obsessive sort of personality, i'm applying a sort of scattergun approach to try to get the thoughts of all the die-hard fans!

Anticipating imminent arrival of Albion Dream Vortex & Satellite Songs ... deep joy will ensue ...

1. And We Fell Into A Dream (“The Raindrop Collector” alone makes this so very special)

2. Gleaming Without Lights

3. Albion Dream Vortex

4. Quiet Bells

5. Neptune's Galaxy

6. Signals From Realms Of Light

7. Silvertone Fountains

8. Illuminated At Dusk

9. Rosewood 1

10. The Sparkle Machine

There are a number of instrumental albums that actually contain extensive “found vocals” that Bill has recorded off the radio & elsewhere. I sort of count those as vocal albums. Otherwise, discs like “Iconography” would pop up on the list.

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But .. what about Altar Pieces & Beauty & Beast? Lovely things indeed!

Obviously, the top tens have to include things like Simplex & Chamber Of Dreams etc.

More top tens please!

Thanks Paul,

That's exactly what i was after!

Being a newby, the only one of those i can comment on is Quiet Bells, which is gorgeous.

I'm collecting all these albums very swiftly, so it's sometimes quite hard to gauge their various merits, hence the question to long-term fans for their faves etc,

Cheers

Steve

…..Simplex is a favourite of mine without doubt.... and the rest that have been mentioned....but these are my ones in no particular order:

Signals From Realms Of Light

Neptune's Galaxy

Theatre Of Falling Leaves

And We Fell Into A Dream

Illuminated At Dusk

Plectrajet

Albion Dream Vortex

Gleaming Without Lights

Quiet Bells

Custom Deluxe

There's my ten...….could've put in some older instrumental albums but these are from the last fifteen years or so.

Push comes to shove.....Signals From Realms Of Light is a work of sheer genius that I will treasure listening to for the rest of my mortal coil...…!

Bless The Funk,

Paul

... So is Crimsworth ...

Simplex is great for reading Proust to!

Yes - really liked Dynamos And Tremelos, love Quiet Bells, have been listening to the two Rosewoods & played Neptune's today - different again - long dreamy pieces with lots of different sections - think i'm going to continue with Sparkle Machine, The Unrealist - was hoping allthe fans out there might consider compiling a list of their all time top 10 purely instrumental Bill albums?