Crispycat Recordings issue the work of musician, broadcaster and abstract artist, David Reilly.

This main page is Cloudland Blue : A Diary, with daily entries since 5 March 2005.

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The current missing, or "picture only" days count is 166

2022

18 April- 10 May (23)

6 - 17 June (12)

6 July - 5 September (62)

2023

16, 17 September (2)

20 September - 15 October (26)

18 October - 27 November (41)

Missing days will be updated "shortly"!

Upcoming Live Dates...

Upcoming Live Dates

46 years after creating his first soundscape, "The Drone Effect" back in December 1977, Cloudland Blue Quartet has finally made the first of two live soundscape performances...

Still to come is Newcastle in January 2024, where CBQ will headline TQLive...

Thursday 18 January

TQLive

The Globe

11 Railway Street

Newcastle

NE4 7AD

Doors at 7pm

On 4th November 2023, preceded by a 40 minute improv, the new CBQ album "Live Suite 2023/24" was performed live in its entirety instore at FOPP, 42 Shandwick Place, Edinburgh,  EH2 4RT...

The suite, released on Bandcamp on 3 November 2023, available here, is 40 minutes long and contains elements of these 27 CBQ albums, recorded between 2016 and 2023, a couple of which are still to be released, plus a few other items for good measure...

The download contains a further five and a half hours of related material...

In addition, CBQ’s band, Capital Models, will perform two hours of material from the back catalogues of David Bowie, Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground, Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music and Brian Eno in early 2024

Grey Horse Inn

20 Main St

Balerno

EH14 7EH

Date : TBC

Tracks from these albums are in rehearsal...

Filling the day with nonsense while waiting on a call...

Playlist

King Crimson - Starless Improvs

Superless - Superless

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Single)

Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday

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Making some noise and sorting out the boxes...

Playlist

King Crimson - A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Acoustic EP

Laura Pausini - Anime parallele

Asia - Asia

Laurie Anderson - Big Science

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire

Mary Yalex - Fantasy Zone

Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen

Françoise Hardy - Françoise Hardy II (In Vogue) (UK LP)

Gary Glitter - Glitter

Yes - Going For The One

David Bowie - Heroes

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

Sparks - Kimono My House

Robert Fripp - Let The Power Fall

Bach, J S - Lionel Rogg : Bach - Exploring the World of Music

Udo Lindenberg - Livehaftig

Mathilde Santing - Mathilde Santing

Klaus Schulze - Mirage

Fehlfarben - Monarchie Und Alltag (Remixed)

Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia

Neu! - Neu! 75

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

Rainbow Rainbow - Rising

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Roedelius - Selbstportrait I

Yello - Solid Pleasure

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Providence

Cloudland Blue Quartet - String Quartet Songs

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dark Room

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Orig CD)

UK - UK

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno (Single)

La Düsseldorf - Viva

The Tubes - Young and Rich

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Digging out the old stuff...

Playlist

Hellbach - Letzter Tag im Paradies

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik VII

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2023

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Two Two One Zero

Reimann - Complete Piano Works

Brian Eno - Obscure 03 : Discreet Music

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Kiss - Destroyer

Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia

The Skids - Scared To Dance

William S.Burroughs - Nothing Here Now But The Recordings

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

Chicago - Chicago

Henry - Messe Pour Le Temps Présent

Various Composers - Children's Introduction to Good Music

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

Focus - Moving Waves

Sibelius - The World of Your Hundred Best Tunes - The Top Ten

Mick Ronson - Slaughter On 10th Avenue

Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting

Wizzard - Introducing Eddy and the Falcons

King Crimson - Lizard

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

King Crimson - 1973-1974 Improvs

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