Head over to Burning Shed to secure your copy of Transcorder.
Acquitted By Mirrors was a Bill Nelson Fan Club magazine published between 1982 and 1990. Transcorder collects all the EPs Bill Nelson produced for the magazine plus hard-to-find B-sides and rare tracks. The album closes with five previously unreleased instrumentals.
Recorded on 4-track and 8-track analogue equipment at The Echo Observatory (Bill’s home studio), some of the tracks can be found on various CD releases, while many other pieces are making their long-awaited CD debut with this release.
Click on the album cover for full track listing and album information!
Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow!
... more than a bit pleased about this one!
Thanks so much, Bill.
ordered straight away today. yay!
Ordered as a double pack - Transcorder AND New Vibrato Wonderland!
Great news! Ordered both just now.
All ordered for joyous Christmas sounds......
Double pack ordered. Wow! New and old at the same time. Great idea. I do have all the ABM singles, but can't wait to hear them all in one place especially with the bonus tracks. Some great stuff on this. Also really looking forward to hearing what Bill has been able to produce with the new recording system. Feels like it's been a long time since the last new works were released.
We’ve all been through a particularly crappy year, Bill more than others so hopefully this is the point where things start to improve. Top job, bring ‘em on!
Mick
Wow, look at the track listing! Amazing. Apart from a few that made it onto later CDs (eg West-Deep), I've not heard these tracks for such a long time (since I gave away my Hi Fi deck to a charity shop when moving house years ago). I have extremely fond memories of many of these pieces - it'll be good to hear them all together!
Great. Most of this older stuff his very new to me. Cant wait to hear this.
Love the cover art.
Ordered the double pack. Can't wait to get them both. Really looking forward to getting Transcorder and having all the old ABM recordings collected in one place and a few brand new recordings thrown in. Big shout out to Eddie, Martin and John who helped to source the best available recordings.
I took all my abm singles down to a studio and put 'em on a cd,
can't wait for the deluxe treatment...is Konny going to have the volume increase : )
Though I have most of these tracks converted to digital from my vinyl and tapes, I'm still getting this for what will hopefully be (as far as is possible) a pristine collection.
I learned of this release yesterday! For me it is going to be my most eagerly awaited Bill release in yonks! I have all of the tracks on vinyl except for the previously unreleased tunes and have recently converted what I have to digital items for playing with ease on my system, but I cannot wait for this to arrive; (I've ordered the other CD as well)!
Really looking forward to both Transcorder and New Vibrato Wonderland. Just ordered both. A bright spot in what has been a year unlike any other. Thank you for the music Bill.
I have now put some 'samples' of half a dozen of the tracks on the album's page in the Discography...
Absolutely worth the price of entry for 'The Jitters' alone.....this is a great track that has finally seen the light of day!
Thanks so much for putting this hidden gem out, and the whole comprehensive package together with the team.....very much appreciated Jon!
Quick correction - "Hard Facts" was NOT included on the 2CD version of "Two-Fold Aspect Of Everything". Much to my chagrin!
@Mr. Odd Thanks for pointing that out - the note on the album's page in the discography has been altered! 👍🏻
Wow, merry Christmas to me! Now I can pretend Bill was my not -so - secret Santa!😎♥️
Kudos to Jon for compiling these tracks, and Eddie McSheffrey, Martin Bostock and John Spence for their help! That's 2 new Bill Nelson CDs to put under the tree!
You'll here them more clearly if you put them in the drawer of a CD player.......ho ho.....ahem......
So pumped for this. Like others, I have vinyl rips from the old singles, but have long wanted hi-fi versions of these irresistible lo-fi gems. Already pre-ordered.
Can we now hope that a reissue of The Two-Fold Aspect of Everything is forthcoming?
The 2005 Mercury CD reissues of Quit Dreaming, Love that Whirls and Chimera gave us roughly half of that compilation in remastered form. The new release adds two more ("Konny Buys a Kodak" and "When the Birds Return"). Going by the original vinyl release, that still leaves the following tracks unreleased in remastered form:
Acceleration (Single Remix)
Eros Arriving (Single Version)
Ideal Homes
Instantly Yours
Atom Man Loves Radium Girl
The Burning Question
Touch and Glow
Love Without Fear
Dada Guitare
Turn to Fiction
Hers is a Lush Situation
With those 3 2005 CDs and the new Transcorder release, we can almost compile a complete remastered Two-Fold, but it nags at the completist in me to have the above tracks orphaned into temporary oblivion.
BTW, I'm lucky that I have the increasingly rare Engima 2CD edition from the late 80s, which substitutes "The Beat That Can't Go Wrong Today" for "Acceleration (Single Remix)" and "Daily Bells" for "Hard Facts from the Fiction Department," which already appeared as a bonus track on the 2005 "Chimera" and reappears on Transcorder" alongside its fellow tracks from the original Cocteau EP. That CD sounds just fine, but falls short when compared to the remastered editions on the 2005 CDs. And so a beautiful bright red digipack re-issue of Two Fold, with Savage Gestures tacked onto CD2, would be a godsend.