Bill Nelson

performer, producer, vocal, recording, guitar, engineer, acoustic guitar, arranger, keyboard, percussion, drums, bass, bass guitar, slide guitar, recorder, synthesizer, flute, electric guitar, marimba, grand piano, programming, tambourine, piano, guitars, mandolin, afuche / cabasa, whistle, cymbals, electric piano, electronic instruments, cowbell, harmonica, vocoder, bells, bass synthesizer

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
John Spence (Engineer) engineer, mastering All These Days Are Gone (For Ian), Always You, Beautiful Nudes, Billy Builds the World of Tomorrow, Blink Agog, Deeply Dazzled, Dreamland Illuminated, Fearless Beauty (Kisses and Cream), Flipside, For You and I, Gleaming Without Lights, Glittering Rails, It's a Big World and I'm in It (The Great Rememberer), Memory Babe, Mysterious Chemicals of Love, North-East, Now Is Not and Never Was, October Sky, Old Goat, Ordinary Idiots, Phantom Sedan, Pilgrim (Fantasia on a Distantly Remembered Hymn), Return to Jazz of Lights, Rialto, Rocket to Damascus, Skull Baby Cluster, Squirm, Steam Radio Blues, Streamliner, Tomorrow Yesterday, V-ghost, Velocity Dansette, Windswept, Wow! It's Scootercar Sex Kitten!, Zoom Sequence
Be Bop Deluxe
Spiralheadz (tekno)
Raptor (Manuel Toso & Emiliano Pompili)
Rob Ayling producer Beautiful Nudes, Blink Agog, Deeply Dazzled, Flipside, Memory Babe, Old Goat, Ordinary Idiots, Phantom Sedan, Rocket to Damascus, Skull Baby Cluster, Squirm, Streamliner, Tomorrow Yesterday, V-ghost, Wow! It's Scootercar Sex Kitten!, Zoom Sequence

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
John Spence (Engineer) engineer, mastering All These Days Are Gone (For Ian), Always You, Beautiful Nudes, Billy Builds the World of Tomorrow, Blink Agog, Deeply Dazzled, Dreamland Illuminated, Fearless Beauty (Kisses and Cream), Flipside, For You and I, Gleaming Without Lights, Glittering Rails, It's a Big World and I'm in It (The Great Rememberer), Memory Babe, Mysterious Chemicals of Love, North-East, Now Is Not and Never Was, October Sky, Old Goat, Ordinary Idiots, Phantom Sedan, Pilgrim (Fantasia on a Distantly Remembered Hymn), Return to Jazz of Lights, Rialto, Rocket to Damascus, Skull Baby Cluster, Squirm, Steam Radio Blues, Streamliner, Tomorrow Yesterday, V-ghost, Velocity Dansette, Windswept, Wow! It's Scootercar Sex Kitten!, Zoom Sequence
Rob Ayling producer Beautiful Nudes, Blink Agog, Deeply Dazzled, Flipside, Memory Babe, Old Goat, Ordinary Idiots, Phantom Sedan, Rocket to Damascus, Skull Baby Cluster, Squirm, Streamliner, Tomorrow Yesterday, V-ghost, Wow! It's Scootercar Sex Kitten!, Zoom Sequence
Richard Brown (Bill Nelson keyboard player) drums, harmonium, piano Bloo Blooz, Chymepeace (An Ending), End of the Seasons, Everyone’s Hero, House of Sand, Love’s a Way, Northern Dreamer (1957), Photograph (A Beginning), Rejoice, Sad Feelings, See It Through, Smiles
Ian Nelson clarinet, saxophone Acceleration, Acceleration (dub), Acceleration (long version), Acceleration (short version), Finks and Stooges of the Spirit, Heart and Soul, Illusions of You, Word for Word
高橋幸宏 drums Acceleration, Acceleration (dub), Acceleration (long version), Acceleration (short version), Everyday Feels Like Another New Drug, Glow World, The Real Adventure
Iain Denby bass Finks and Stooges of the Spirit, Heart and Soul, Living for the Spangled Moment, Nightbirds, Word for Word
John Leckie engineer, producer Do You Dream in Colour, Finks and Stooges of the Spirit, Heart and Soul, Illusions of You, Word for Word
Leon Phillips (of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry) engineer Finks and Stooges of the Spirit, Heart and Soul, Illusions of You, Living for the Spangled Moment, Word for Word
Steve Nye engineer Finks and Stooges of the Spirit, Heart and Soul, Living for the Spangled Moment, Word for Word
Jan Nelson vocal, vibraslap Acceleration, Acceleration (long version), Acceleration (short version), Empire of the Senses
Gareth Eilledge bass guitar Rejoice, See It Through, Smiles
Preston Heyman percussion Finks and Stooges of the Spirit, Heart and Soul, Word for Word
Andy Davis (member of the Korgis) keyboard Finks and Stooges of the Spirit, Heart and Soul, Word for Word
Preston Hayman percussion, tom-tom Another Day, Another Ray of Hope, Everyday Feels Like Another New Drug, Glow World
Leom Arthurs bass guitar Everyone’s Hero
Mick Karn bass guitar Glow World
Bogdan Wiczling drums The October Man
Will Gregory (Saxophonist) soprano saxophone Living for the Spangled Moment
Dick Morrissey saxophone Living for the Spangled Moment

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Be Bop Deluxe producer, vocal, acoustic guitar, afuche / cabasa, bells, cowbell, cymbals, drums, electronic instruments, guitar, keyboard, mandolin, marimba, percussion, piano, synthesizer, tambourine, whistle 15th of July (Invisibles), Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape, Blazing Apostles, Crying to the Sky, Dangerous Stranger, Electrical Language, Fair Exchange, Island of the Dead, Islands of the Dead, Kiss of Light, Life in the Air Age, Lights, Love in Flames, Maid in Heaven, Maid in Heaven (live), Mill Street Junction, Modern Music / Dancing in the Moonlight / Honeymoon on Mars / Lost in the Neon World / Modern Music (reprise), New Mysteries, New Precision, Panic in the World, Piece of Mine, Possession, Shine, Ships in the Night, Sister Seagull, Speed of the Wind, Stage Whispers, Superenigmatix, Superenigmatix (Lethal Appliances for the Home With Everything), Surreal Estate, Third Floor Heaven, Visions of Endless Hopes
Spiralheadz arranger, producer, vocal, acoustic guitar, grand piano, guitar, keyboard, percussion Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape, Axe Victim, Between the Worlds, Darkness (L’Immoraliste), Jean Cocteau, Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus, Jets at Dawn, Love Is Swift Arrows, Love With the Madman, Music in Dreamland, Night Creatures, No Trains to Heaven, Piece of Mine, Rocket Cathedrals, Sister Seagull, Sound Track, Stage Whispers, Swan Song, Third Floor Heaven
Raptor producer A Day in Europa, Aftermath Dub, Animation, Another Emotion, Charade, Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori), Grey Parade, Home of the Saved, Masquerade, Out of Town, Peaceful Times, Pros & Cons, Pros and Cons, Thanatos, The Olympian, Vanguard’s Crusade, Working for the Yankee Dollar
Harold Budd guitar A Child in a Sylvan Field, Albion Farewell (Homage to Delius, for Gavin Bryars), Arcadia, Blind Bird, Boy About 10, Dead Horse Alive With Flies, Down the Slopes to the Meadow (For Ruben Garcia), Poem: Aztec Hotel, Poem: Distant Lights of Olancha Recede, Saint's Name Spoken, She Dances by the Light of the Silvery Moon, The Corpse at the Shooting Gallery, The Photo of Santiago McKinn, The Place of Dead Roads
Thug Entrancer producer, vocal, bass, drums, electric piano, guitar, harmonica, percussion, synthesizer, vocoder A Better Home in the Phantom Zone, Acquitted by Mirrors, Art/Empire/Industry, Don’t Touch Me (I’m Electric), For Young Moderns, Furniture Music, Out of Touch, Radar in My Heart, Revolt Into Style, Stay Young, Stop/Go/Stop, Substitute Flesh, The Atom Age, Wonder Toys That Last Forever
Amon26 producer Days of Delay, Heartland, I've Been Searching, In a Lonely World, Lament, Mister Bosco, Our Man in Havana, Rain Outside an Open Door, Song of Songs, The Blue Sea, The Familiar, The Wonderful Year, We Stay Still
David Sylvian acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar, guitars Answered Prayers, Before the Bullfight, Silver Moon, Sunlight Seen Through Towering Trees, The Healing Place, Wave
Cabaret Voltaire guitar Don't Argue, Here to Go, No One Here, Trouble (Won't Stop), White Car
A Flock of Seagulls producer (It's Not Me) Talking, (It’s Not Me) Talking, Telecommunication
Ruben Tevreden performer Exactly the Way You Want It, News From Nowhere, Um, Ah Good Evening
Rain Tree Crow guitar Big Wheels in Shanty Town, Blackcrow Hits Shoe Shine City, Blackwater
Skids producer Charade
Saint Man programming, guitar Golden Dream of Circus Horses
Original Mirrors producer Night of the Angels
Gary Numan producer Poetry and Power