Nelson, Bill
Be Bop Deluxe / Red Noise / Orchestra Arcana
- Country: U. K.
- Genre: Modern Pop, Techno Pop
- Members:
- Be Bop Deluxe: Bill Nelson, Ian Parkin, Robert Bryan, Nicholas
Chatterton-Dew -> Simon Fox, Charles
Tumahai,
Andrew Clarke
- Red Noise: Bill Nelson, Andy Clark, Ian Nelson, Rick
Ford, Dave Mattacks
- Affiliates: Be Bop Deluxe, Red Noise, Orchestra Arcana,
Jobson & Nelson, Revox Cadets, Last Man In Europe, Man Jumping, To A Heaven A Jet, SCALA
- Connections: Fiat Flux, A Flock Of Seagulls, Yukihiro Takahashi, Y.M.O.
- Labels: Cocteau
- Links: Permanent Frame - Official (English)
Be Bop Deluxe
- Albums:
- Axe Victim [1974] Harvest
- Futurama [1975] Harvest
- Sunburst Finish [1976] Harvest
- Modern Music [1976] Harvest
- Drastic Plastic [1978] Harvest
- Raiding The Divine Archive: The Best Of Be
Bop Deluxe [1990] Compilation; Capitol
Red Noise
- Albums:
- Sound-On-Sound [1979] As Bill Nelson's Red Noise; Harvest
Nelson, Bill
- Albums:
- Northern Dream [1971] Smile
- Quit Dreaming And Get On The Beam [1981] Mercury
- Sounding The Ritual Echo [1981] Mercury
- Das Kabinett (The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari) [1981] Cocteau
- The Love That Whirls (Diary Of A Thinking
Heart) [1982] PVC
- La, Belle Et La Bete [1982] PVC
- Chimera [1983] Mercury; Mini Album
- Savage Gestures Of Charm Sake [1983] Cocteau
- Vistamix [1984] Portrait; Expanded Re-release of Chimera
- A Catalogue Of Obsessions [1984] Cocteau
- The Summer Of God's Piano [1984] Cocteau
- Trial By Intimacy (The Book Of Splendours) [1984] Cocteau; Box Set
- The Two Fold Aspect Of Everything [1984] Cocteau; Compilation
- Getting The Holy Ghost Across aka On A Blue
Wing [1986] Portrait
- Chamber Of Dreams [1986] Cocteau
- Map Of Dreams [1987] Cocteau
- Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Light [1987] Cocteau
- Optimism [1988] Cocteau
- Pavillions Of The Heart And Soul [1989] Cocteau
- Simplex [1989] Cocteau
- Demonstrations Of Affection [1989] Cocteau
- The Strangest Things Sampler [1989] Cocteau; Compilation
- Duplex: The Best Of Bill Nelson [1989] Cocteau; Compilation
- Luminous [1991] Imaginary
- Blue Moons And Laughing Guitars [1992]
- After The Satellite Sings [1996] Resurgence
- Culturemix With Bill Nelson [1996] Resurgence
- Atom Shop [1998] Discipline Global Mobile
- What Now, What Next? [1998] 2 CDs Compilation
Orchestra Arcana
- Albums:
- Iconography [1986] Cocteau
英国ＳＦ的モダンポップ・バンドのビー・バップ・デラックスのネルソンは８０年にはニュー・ウェイヴ指向となり、テクノポップの先取り的ユニットであるレッドノイズおよびソロとして活動する。Be-Pop
Deluxe時代は技巧派ギタリストとして名を馳せたビル・ネルソンですが、ソロでは実験的テクノポップ派（エレポップというよりも）となり、メイン・ストリームから距離を置くべき彼の夢の工場的レーベルConcteauを立ち上げました。オムニバスの『Cocteau
Signature Tunes』ではJobson-Nelsonのクレジットで「イエヤス」という訳の判らない日本ネタ曲をやってます。Orchestra
Arcanaはビル・ネルソンの変名ユニットです。日本が好きみたいで、高橋幸宏の\EN時代の『Ｗｈａｔ Ｍｅ Ｗｏｒｒｙ？』やYMOの『君に胸キュン』にもギタリストとして参加しました。奥さんはエミコさんと言う日本人の方みたいです。
Nelson in British Sci-Fi Modern Pop band,
Be Bop Deluxe, became new wave oriented in
the 80's and he played as Red Noise, an leading
unit of Techno Pop, and solo. While Bill
Nelson was known as a skilled guitarist during
Be Bop Deluxe days, he became an experimental
Techno Pop (rather than Electro Pop) musician
in his solo days and started up his dream
factory label "Cocteau" keeping
the distance from the mainstream. In the
omnibus album "Cocteau Signature Tunes",
he did the song for Japan "Ieyasu"
with the credit of Jobson-Nelson. Orchestra
Arcana is Bill Nelson's unit with a different
name. He seems to like Japan and joined as
a guitarist in "What Me Worry"
by Yukihiro Takahashi in his \EN days and
"Kimi Ni Mume Kyun" by YMO. His
wife seems to be Japanese with the name of
Emiko.