Bill Nelson - Chimera (1983) {2005 Mercury Remaster 9831027}
Bill Nelson - Chimera (1983) {2005 Mercury Remaster 9831027}
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© 1983, 2005 Mercury / Universal | 9831027
Rock / Alternative / New Wave / Art Rock
Originally planned as a mere stopgap release between albums, Chimera turned out to be a welcome showcase for Bill Nelson at his peak, commercially and creatively. Following the triumph of his 1982 album The Love That Whirls, the British guitarist built Chimera in the same vein, setting his romantic and erotic poetry to the sort of synthesized settings favored by his younger pop peers. However, where much of Nelson's previous output had been a virtual one-man show, the six songs here benefit from his new desire to collaborate, most notably with Yellow Magic Orchestra drummer Yukihiro Takahashi (whose band Nelson had produced).
The result is the elegant dance music of "Everyday Feels Like a New Drug" and "Glow World"; the latter song also features the rubbery fretless bass of Japan's Mick Karn and is, perhaps, the best of all the attempts at this sort of oriental funk made by Karn's bandmates, Gary Numan, and several other artists. The guests don't seem to have sparked Nelson's desire to return to his Red Noise, guitar-hero days (although he does crank out some jagged, Robert Fripp-style leads in "The Real Adventure"), but the focus here was on balancing Nelson's instrumental and theoretical fights of fancy with the demands of modern pop, a job he performed with aplomb. The contents of this EP would later be combined with two songs apiece from the previous albums Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam and The Love That Whirls to form Vistamix, an excellent introduction to Nelson tailored for the American market. [The 2005 Universal International reissue includes one bonus track ("Hard Facts from the Fiction Department") and three versions of "Acceleration."]
Bill Nelson - Chimera (1983) {2005 Mercury Remaster 9831027}
Personnel:
Bill Nelson - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums, Sampling, Programming, Synthesizer
Yukihiro Takahashi - Drums
Ian Nelson - Saxophone, Backing Vocals
Preston Heyman - Percussion
Mick Karn - Bass
tracklist:
01 - The Real Adventure
02 - Acceleration
03 - Everyday Feels Like Another New Drug
04 - Tender Is The Night
05 - Glow World
06 - Another Day, Another Ray Of Hope
07 - Hard Facts From The Fiction Department
08 - Acceleration (Long Version)
09 - Acceleration (Dub)
10 - Acceleration (Short Version)
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Bill Nelson / Chimera
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EAC extraction logfile from 1. March 2008, 18:25
Bill Nelson / Chimera
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
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Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:13.37 | 0 | 19011
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3 | 8:11.41 | 4:40.31 | 36866 | 57896
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8 | 31:09.41 | 6:35.37 | 140216 | 169877
9 | 37:45.03 | 6:55.28 | 169878 | 201030
10 | 44:40.31 | 3:49.18 | 201031 | 218223
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Bill Nelson - Chimera (1983) {2005 Mercury Remaster 9831027}
Bill Nelson - Chimera (1983) {2005 Mercury Remaster 9831027}
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