My first BN album. Not a bad place to start. Bought from Boots, (yes, Boots), in York back in the days. I bought it principally on account of the 'what in the hell is going on here' cover.

Agree with you. Though disc 2 is my personal favourite. 'Back of Beyond' is superb as you say. I much prefer the instrumentals to the songs but then I always have.

Thank you. Will take a look!

You can. Click on the three little dots top right of your post and it's an option.

Thank you Andre. Will check out these when we get back from holiday.

Thank you Jon. I decided that Rosewood Vol. 1 and Neptune's Galaxy both needed to go on holiday with me! So just downloaded now.

Track 7, disc 2, 'Back of Beyond' - like lying under the dark cosmos and bathing in the stars, dark, mysterious energy. Awash. Partial to tracks 9 and 10 now too. The deeper, the darker, the more mysterious the better!!

Ok, so discs three and one are growing on me rapidly. I am automatically drawn to disc two, what with being an introverted miserable Puritan (!!) but I cannot fault the creativity and energy of it's bookend discs. I do find that listening on the car or van stereo is not really conducive to appreciation - it really needs play back on a decent hi-fi system to hear all the wonderful subtleties. Overall, a really great album. I took a punt on Auditoria having been, (largely), away from Bill 's music from a great many years since Optimism. (There are three CDS that made it though the 'gap' years though') But I bought Quiet Bells at Christmas and was blown away - still am, it's playing right now. Questions for Bill: anything in particular going on with the two Crimsworth references??; do I detect a revisit to 'Another Happy Thought'?; you seem to have gone all Aphex Twin on Hocus Pocus!! - plus there's something on the end of this track I cannot quite place - it's really bugging me!!

By far the disc I like most. You could have written three discs of 'the same' for me!!

That's my favourite track too! Although I tend to listen to the track before it over and over again too.