Bill Nelson - Joy Through Amplification (2012) {Sonoluxe}

Bill Nelson - Joy Through Amplification (2012) {Sonoluxe}

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Rock / Art Rock / Experimental / Modern Instrumental

Released July 2012. Limited Edition of 1,000 CDs. 'Joy Through Amplification' is perhaps the most 'rock' oriented Bill Nelson album for some years. It features raw, edgy guitar work and strong percussion. The album's 13 vocal tracks are separated by 13 short, abstract guitar instrumental interludes which provide an experimental element, almost like an album within an album.

Subtitled The Ultra-Fuzzy World Of Priapus Stratocaster, the latest release from the Be Bop Deluxe/Red Noise founder is a 26-track collection with short ambient guitar pieces interpolating the songs proper. Ampex 1 to 13 are thrilling in their own right. Nelson’s unerring ear for guitar tone and texture comes into its own. A Fripp comparison’s flippant, but gives a taste of these ‘sonic sorbets’: sustained, echoing lines that reverse and rumble, feedback and sparkle and charm with melody. All good experimental stuff, but the real meat here’s in the songs. Few people marry leftfield pop, punk and art-rock like Nelson has in the past 40 years. He’s 63 now, but is clearly still hungry, and with plenty of ideas in his locker. At its peaks Joy Through Amplification could be Peter Hammill fronting The Fall. Sex Magic, Vortexion Dream and The Conjurer’s Companion are clever, oblique rock songs with off-kilter riffs, unusual and unsettling tonalities. Imps In The Undergrowth is infectious, Arc Volta urgent. Like the album as a whole, To What Strange Place Will This Transport You and Orpheus Dreams Of Disneyland are surreal, imaginative and wonderfully off-beam. All instruments and vocals by Bill Nelson tracklist: 01. Ampex One 02. Sex Magic 03. Ampex Two 04. Vortexion Dream 05. Ampex Three 06. The Conjurer's Companion (Every Blessed Thing Is So Damned Fragile) 07. Ampex Four 08. Orpheus Dreams Of Dinsneyland 09. Ampex Five 10. Imps In The Undergrowth 11. Ampex Six 12. Arco Volta 13. Ampex Seven 14. Fire Gods Of The National Machine 15. Ampex Eight 16. To What Strange Place Will This Transport You? 17. Ampex Nine 18. Heaven Holds A Grand Parade 19. Ampex Ten 20. Weather Blows Wild Inside My Head 21. Ampex Eleven 22. Why Does It Do That? 23. Ampex Twelve 24. These Tall Blue Days (Are Lark Amazed) 25. Ampex Xtra 26. Monsters From Heaven (Flowers And Rain)