Orchestra Futura Live - Vinyl interest...

For those that missed the announcement in the recent newsletter...

Orchestra Futura - Live Album Update

Following years of planning and preparation, a CD of Bill Nelson’s Orchestra Futura is nearing fruition. Many people have commented about how much they enjoyed Orchestra Futura's sets at Nelsonicas and how they would like to have an album released by the trio, comprising of Bill with Theo Travis on saxophone and flute (Soft Machine/Robert Fripp/ David Sylvian) and Dave Sturt on bass (Gong/Jade Warrior). Theo and Dave also appeared with Bill as members of the Gentlemen Rocketeers and on the Live at Metropolis DVD.

An album's worth of Orchestra Futura performances recorded at various live shows has now been mixed and Bill is overseeing the entire project.

Mastering is happening this week at one of London’s top mastering studios and the artwork is currently being designed using the working title of 'Live At Nelsonica'.

The album will be released independently on Theo's Ethersounds label. There will be a crowdfunding campaign with various options to raise funds to complete the project prior to its release - more details about that will be announced shortly.

Watch this space!

There are also rumblings that there could be a very limited number of vinyl copies pressed...however, this would be dependant upon demand as vinyl is expensive to produce.

To better judge interest in a vinyl edition, it would be appreciated if you could send an email registering your desire to own a (vinyl) copy. The vinyl edition would cost approximately £25 plus postage.

And to sweeten the pot even more...we’d like to know if you’d be willing to pre-order an autographed copy; only 50 would be made available, and would sell for approximately £45 plus postage.

If either of these options sound appealing to you, please send a quick email to info@billnelson.com so that we can gauge interest.

(Note: the original email link was causing issues for some people, so I have provided an alternative one).

If you have already been in touch and I have replied, or commented on the forum and I have replied that you're on the list, there's no need to do so again - we shall be in touch should there be enough interest to go ahead with the vinyl release.