Nileism: The Strange Course of the Blue Nile

Nileism: The Strange Course of the Blue Nile by Brown, Allan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781846971853.

Next year sees the 30th anniversary of The Blue Niles first work together. Four albums – containing a total of just 33 songs – have followed since. Yet scarcity has served only to intensify love for the bands intensely romantic songs. The Blue Nile are one of modern musics greatest mysteries, as secretive about their plans and status as they are about their painstaking methods. For the first time Allan Brown, a fan from the time of the bands first album in 1983 and friend of the bands composer Paul Buchanan, gets behind the veil to analyze the bands appeal through personal memoir, critical study, access to unreleased recordings and encounters with those who have been central to the strange romantic, melancholy course of The Blue Nile.