Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Lights

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Release Date: 1988

Labels: Cocteau Records, Enigma

Composed, performed and recorded at 'The Echo Observatory', Yorkshire, England.

Dedicated, with gratitude for the gift of love, to Jan, Julia, Elle and Elliot Nelson.

℗ © 1988 Cocteau Records Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Manufactured in USA.

Both CDs come in separate Jewel cases, making it possible for them to be separated or acquired separately. The CDs were never sold individually.
Tracks 1-25 to 1-38 not available on album or cassette, tracks 2-18 to 2-25 taken from the "Ecclesia Gnostica" 7" EP.

The music on these two compact discs marks the consolidation of several years of musical and philosophical practice.
Almost every piece was conceived during moments of intense stillness or 'magical vacuity'.
For this I acknowledge the influence of the late Austin Osman Spare, whose technique for creating 'automatic drawing' has found a sympathetic resonance in my own work.
Of all the music I have made, this is, perhaps, the most personal and yet the least demonstrative.
Attempting nothing and existing purely for itself, it is, nevertheless, a practical music, ideally suited to the occultist in search of ritual atmosphere or serene meditation.
With such a purpose in mind I offer this work to my fellow initiates as a testament to the Gnosis and a confirmation of The World Within.
Bill Nelson 1987.

"The way of heaven is a purpose - anterior to and not induced by thought.
Desire, other than by the act, shall in no wise obtain: Therefore believe SYMBOLICALLY or with caution'
'Art is love. Wisdom and folly is a difference of degree'
AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE (1888-1956).

Printed in Canada (on tray cards)

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