TRIAL BY INTIMACY (THE BOOK SPLENDOURS)

The Summer Of Gods Piano
A1 Antennae Two
A2 Transmission (N.B.C. 97293)
A3 The Sleep Of Hollywood
A4 The Celestial Bridegroom
A5 Under The Red Arch
A6 Orient Pearl
A7 Sacrament
A8 Falling Blossoms
A9 The Difficulty Of Being
A10 Zanoni
A11 The Chinese Nightingale
B1 Tantra
B2 Soon September (Another Enchantment)
B3 Rural Shrines
B4 Perfidio Incanto
B5 The Lost Years
B6 The Charm Of Transit
B7 Night Thoughts (Twilight Radio)
B8 Wysteria
B9 Swing
B10 Snowfall
B11 Real Of Dusk
B12 Over Ocean
Chamber Of Dreams
C1 The Blazing Memory Of Innuendo
C2 Into The Luminous Future
C3 A Dip In The Swimming Pool Reactor
C4 Tommorowland (The Threshold Of 1947)
C5 Listening To Lizards
C6 My Endless Torsion
C7 Sublime Perversion
C8 Eros In Autumn
C9 Sleeplessness
D1 The Latest Skyline
D1 Train Of Thought
D3 Parks And Fountains, Clouds And Trees
D4 The Golden Bough
D5 Forever Orpheus
D6 In Arcadia
D7 Sentimental
D8 Autumn Fires
D9 Wild Blue Yonder
Pavilions Of The Heart And Soul
E1 Gift Of The August Tide
E2 Loving Tongues
E3 Blue Nude
E4 In The Realm Of Bells
E5 Your Nebulous Smile
E6 The Glance Of A Glittering Stranger
E7 Another Kiss For Your Slender Neck
E8 The Warmth Of Women's Eyes
E9 Seduction (Ritual With Roses)
E10 Dreamed Embraces
F1 Four Pieces For Imaginary Strings: Herself With Her Shadow
F2 Four Pieces For Imaginary Strings: The Exquisite Corpse
F3 Four Pieces For Imaginary Strings: Ardent Hands
F4 Four Pieces For Imaginary Strings: Her Laughing Torso
F5 Migrating Angels
F6 Les Amoureux
F7 Meshes Of The Afternoon
F8 Mountains Of The Heart
F9 Willow Silk
F10 Tender Encounters (States Of Grace)
F11 Melancholia
F12 The Eternal Female
A Catalogue Of Obsessions
G1 Sex Party Six
G2 Wider Windows For The Walls Of The World
G3 Time In Tokyo
G4 Happily Addicted To You
G5 Snakes With Wings
G6 The Boy Pilots Of Bangkok
G7 Erotikon
G8 Birds In Two Hemispheres
G9 Windmills In A World Without Wind
H1 Love's First Kiss
H2 Initiation Of The Heart's Desire
H3 Edge Of Tears
H4 Test Of Affection
H5 Words Across Tables
H6 A Promise Of Perfume
H7 This Dangerous Age
H8 The Glass Breakfast
H9 Talk Technique
H10 The Last Summer For Dancing
H11 View From A Balcony

Composed By, Performer, Recorded By - Bill Nelson

4 LP boxed set, limited to 5000 copies, containing four previously unreleased albums, a set of 8 postcards and a book of Bill's photography entitled "The Arcane Eye". Cocteau Records JEAN 2 (UK)


The first releases of "Trial By Intimacy" did not have a book due to problems with assembly. Cocteau included a letter on how you can receive a book in the box.

The albums each have their own catalogue number and are as follows:

The Summer Of Gods Piano (JC6)
Chamber Of Dreams (Music From The Invisibility Exhibition) (JC7)
Pavilions Of Heart And Soul (JC8)
A Catalogue Of Obsessions (JC9)

Some versions of this Boxset appear to omit the track "Tantra" from "The Summer Of God's Piano" (B1).