``Due to a contractual dispute with his record label, prolific art punk turned electro rock pioneer Bill Nelson was obliged to record under his Orchestra Arcana alias on several 1980s releases.
Recorded in the mid-80s in Nelson’s Echo Observatory home studio – as he grandly christened the room above his kitchen – Optimism was an album of musique concrète montages, programmed beats and loops, layered with found sounds and vocal samples.``
\"Supreme Cold New Age Beat! And the magnificent ambient world that spreads out and spreads ... The sound work like a sound image of the universe in the brain stings! New Wave ~ Ambient ~ Rock ~ New Age likes An essential board that hits the spinal cord!\"