"Caliban and the Chrome Harmonium will be issued properly/officially before too long as part of a projected box set of all the Nelsonica limited edition recordings. AND it will be given a proper mastering process, something which the original didn't receive. There will be no rarity value in any of my recordings, before long, as none of them will ever be permanently out of print."
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I would think that a box set of the Almost Opaque collection would sell. The Titles I am thinking they are:
Calaban
Astroluxe
Astral Motel
Luxury Lodge
Wah-Wah Galaxy
Bonus cd: Exhibition Pieces.
All limited editions. All long out of print.
If I remember correctly Bill used to put out, do it yourself titles and artwork. Big Yellow Moon comes to mind.
I only had a dot matrix printer, so my artwork was of lesser quality. I would gladly pay for new copies.
Did I miss any AO titles?
The original statement isn't quite right though, is it, Jim? 'Caliban' wasn't a Nelsonica CD: it's much rarer than that. I have a rubbish mp3 copy somewhere and I would/will definitely pay to have that and other 'not properly released' stuff. 'Astroloops', anyone? I also have this theory that there are either two or three of the amazing backing tapes used for the Wakefield Cathedral gig thirty-something years ago that weren't released when the original set from the audio cassette were Bandcamped. I'm hoping that there will be some proper digging into the archives going on.
That would only be of interest to people who didn't already have all the Nelsonica CDs (which I do). I'm not buying a box set to get one album, however much I would like to have it.
I suspect the pandemic has kicked a lot of projects into touch, some artists, Ian Hunter, are still postponing albums till next year. We're not back to normal yet.
That's a good question, Steve! I'd been wondering just the same.