CD – The John Walker Imaginarium – Time Shift Preorder Bundle USA AND CANADA ONLY
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Gil Galad returns with their most ambitious work yet “The John Walker Imaginarium – Time Shift”. Nearly 80 minutes of cinematic prog rock inspired by a world of shifting realities.
THIS VERSION FOR USA AND CANADA ONLY. PRICE INCLUDES SHIPPING SUPPLEMENT
You can now pre-order the CD and secure a truly unique keepsake:
Your name printed within the CD artwork and if you send us a head and shoulders photo, we will have your image “steam-punked” and sent back to you, as part of the release package.
Delivery is scheduled for early May 2026, CD Price: £18 (including a code to download high quality Wav and MP3 versions of the album and its stunning artwork free of charge) plus P&P.
Originally planned for late 2025, the band extended the writing period to fully realise the ambitious concept.
The John Walker Imaginarium
Time Shift
- Prisoners of Time (6:30)
‘We all have time machines...those that take us back are memories and those that carry us forward are dreams.’
H G Wells – Author
- We Are Scientists Not Philosophers (5:38)
‘Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know’
Bertrand Russell – Philosopher, logician, mathematician
- The Traveller: Altered Destiny (6:59)
‘We explore the vagaries of time; Parallel worlds where everything happens in tandem with everything else. However, our minds are ill-disposed to extract the truth behind the thin veils that blind us.’
Charles Peacock – Theoretical Physicist (The John Walker Imaginarium)
- A Chance to Speak (2:00)
‘I last saw her on the outskirts of Durham…How she danced on those silken, silver threads I will never know: She was elegance and strength, and light as floating feathers…’
John Walker speaking of his loss of Hai-Yun (The John Walker Imaginarium)
- The Watchers (5:05)
‘The primary objective of a Watcher is to ensure the safety and security of the community, by whatever means necessary within the limits of the primary directive set out in Principles of Service’
The Watcher Manual; Section 1; sub-section 2; para 1
- Escape From York (4:45)
‘We need to go, or you will not live out the hour!’
Victoria Blixen (The John Walker Imaginarium)
- A Walk in the Woods (6:14)
‘I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind.’
JRR Tolkien – Writer and philologist
- Dreams of Samira (4.39)
‘Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine. In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?’
Percy Byshe Shelley from Love’s Philosophy
- The Burghers (5.52)
‘The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed yet’
William Gibson - Writer
- Before Today is Yesterday (5.23)
‘And we danced on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past’
John Wyndham – Writer
- Darkened Embers of Suspicion (3.06)
‘In the wastelands of memory, our past haunts us when all is dark and rested. We become robed in lost moments, and half remembered phrases that twist and torment’.
Nev Tobin – (The John Walker Imaginarium)
- The Strange Long Night (3.40)
‘Believe what? That tomorrow night beneath the full moon, I’ll sprout hair and fangs and eat people? It’s bulls**t!’
David – American Werewolf in London
- The Storm (6.23)
‘Batten down and lock up! Sound the alarm! Storm coming!’
Citizen of Whitby (The John Walker Imaginarium)
- After the storm (5.03)
He raised his eye Soul-smitten; for, that instant, did appear large space ('mid dreadful clouds) of purest sky, An azure disc, shield of Tranquillity; Invisible, unlooked-for, minister of providential goodness ever nigh!
William Wordsworth from Composed During a Storm
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