Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours)

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Summer of God’s Piano
• 1
  Antennae Two
  0:42
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Transmission (N.B.C. 97293)
  3:45
  5.0 ★
• 3
  The Sleep of Hollywood
  1:36
• 4
  The Celestial Bridegroom
  2:56
• 5
  Under the Red Arch
  3:06
• 6
  Orient Pearl
  2:22
• 7
  Sacrament
  2:40
• 8
  Falling Blossoms
  2:55
• 9
  The Difficulty of Being
  0:51
• 10
  Zanoni
  1:58
• 11
  The Chinese Nightingale
  1:19
• 12
  Tantra
  1:33
• 13
  Soon September (Another Enchantment)
  1:48
• 14
  Rural Shires
  2:46
• 15
  Perfidio Incanto
  1:16
• 16
  The Lost Years
  2:26
• 17
  The Charm of Transit
  3:42
• 18
  Night Thoughts (Twilight radio)
  1:24
• 19
  Wysteria
  0:40
• 20
  Swing
  2:23
• 21
  Snowfall
  2:00
• 22
  Realm of Dusk
  2:57
• 23
  Over Ocean
  1:26
• CD 2: Chamber of Dreams (Music from the Invisibility Exhibition)
• 1
  The Blazing Memory of Innuendo
  2:15
• 2
  Into the Luminous Future
  2:15
• 3
  A Dip in the Swimming Pool Reactor
  2:33
• 4
  Tomorrowland (The Threshold of 1947)
  3:12
• 5
  Listening to Lizards
  2:26
• 6
  My Endless Torsion
  2:01
• 7
  Sublime Perversion
  1:22
• 8
  Eros in Autumn
  1:13
• 9
  Sleeplessness
  6:08
• 10
  The Latest Skyline
  1:16
• 11
  Train of Thought
  3:24
• 12
  Parks and Fountains, Clouds and Trees
  2:52
• 13
  The Golden Bough
  3:34
• 14
  Forever Orpheus
  1:44
• 15
  In Arcadia
  2:11
• 16
  Sentimental
  1:59
• 17
  Autumn Fires
  2:16
• 18
  Wild Blue Yonder
  1:03
• CD 3: Pavilions of the Heart and Soul
• 1
  Gift of the August Tide
  2:34
• 2
  Loving Tongues
  4:02
• 3
  Blue Nude
  1:34
• 4
  In the Realm of Bells
  2:07
• 5
  Your Nebulous Smile
  2:38
• 6
  The Glance of a Glittering Stranger
  1:22
• 7
  Another Kiss for Your Slender Neck
  2:05
• 8
  The Warmth of Women’s Eyes
  1:19
• 9
  Seduction (Ritual With Roses)
  2:45
• 10
  Dreamed Embraces
  0:46
• 11
  Herself With Her Shadow
  0:27
• 12
  The Exquisite Corpse
  0:52
• 13
  Ardent Hands
  1:02
• 14
  Her Laughing Torso
  0:51
• 15
  Migrating Angels
  1:20
• 16
  Les Amoreux
  2:46
• 17
  Meshes of the Afternoon
  0:53
• 18
  Mountains of the Heart
  2:04
• 19
  Willow Silk
  2:09
• 20
  Tender Encounters (States of Grace)
  1:51
• 21
  Melancholia
  2:45
• 22
  The Eternal Female
  2:53
• CD 4: A Catalogue of Obsessions
• 1
  Sex Party Six
  4:41
• 2
  Wider Windows for the Walls of the World
  2:12
• 3
  Time in Tokyo
  3:01
• 4
  Happily Addicted to You
  1:00
• 5
  Snakes With Wings
  2:06
• 6
  The Boy Pilots of Bangkok
  2:25
• 7
  Erotikon
  1:45
• 8
  Birds in Two Hemispheres
  1:43
• 9
  Windmills in a World Without Wind
  2:19
• 10
  Love’s First Kiss
  1:38
• 11
  Initiation of the Heart’s Desire
  1:59
• 12
  Edge of Tears
  1:46
• 13
  Test of Affection
  2:25
• 14
  Words Across Tables
  1:46
• 15
  A Promise of Perfume
  3:05
• 16
  This Dangerous Age
  2:01
• 17
  The Glass Breakfast
  1:49
• 18
  Talk Technique
  2:08
• 19
  The Last Summer for Dancing
  2:06
• 20
  View From a Balcony
  1:51

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Release credits

• Bill Nelson
  performer [1.23, 4.9, 3.16], producer

Issues

• T
  Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours)

  4x 12" Vinyl
  25 January 1985
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  T
  Trial by Intimacy (The Book of Splendours)

  4x CD
  29 October 2012