Monday, October 21, 2024

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DAVID REILLY

DIARY

This main page contains Cloudland Blue : A Diary, with daily entries since 5 March 2005 (scroll down for the latest entries).

The diary is up to date as at Thursday 17 October

Currently, 151 days are "picture only" entries, across 6 periods:-
2005 (5): 8-12 September (5)
2016 (3): 15-17 October (3)
2022 (85): 18 April - 10 May (23); 6 July - 5 September (62)
2023 (58): 21 September - 15 October (25); 18 October - 19 November (33)

It is always the intention to update "picture only" days with the relevant text but doing so is, of course, subject to opportunity (and, indeed, memory!)

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SCHEDULED LIVE PERFORMANCES

            

Planned performances include both solo, as Cloudland Blue Quartet, presenting sets of either songs or soundscapes, and group, with the current line up of David's 1980 new wave band, Capital Models, currently playing covers (from Elvis to Tay Tay).  At present there are no plans for his electronic improvisational quartet, Creek, to play live...

Current scheduled appearances are as follows:-

Saturday 9 November 2024, 1:40pm - Cloudland Blue Quartet
Switched On Electronic Music Weekender, Flowergate Hall, Whitby, YO21 3BB

Repertoire: 40 Minute Soundscape Set "Live Suite 2024/25" (LP to be released 1 November 2024 on Bandcamp)
Available on the Day: Very Limited Edition of Exclusive One-Off Live Suite CDs, each CD coming with its own Exclusive Content


Saturday 29th March 2025, 8:00pm - Capital Models
Leith Dockers, 17 Academy Street, Edinburgh, EH6 7EE

Repertoire: 3 sets of top covers, from Elvis to Taylor Swift


Saturday 24th May 2025, 8:00pm - Capital Models
Leith Dockers, 17 Academy Street, Edinburgh, EH6 7EE

Repertoire: 3 sets of top covers, from Elvis to Taylor Swift


In addition to these, there are these further possible appearances...

Occasional Thursdays, 8:00pm - Cloudland Blue Quartet
Out of the Bedroom, Safari Lounge, 21 Cadzow Place, Edinburgh EH7 5SN

Repertoire: 3 song acoustic set (if attempting to secure a slot the date will be added here)


CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS ON BANDCAMP

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Crispycat Recordings released the first 25 Cloudland Blue Quartet albums (recorded between 1996 and 2012) to Bandcamp in 2013.

A further 8 LPs were released between 2013 and 2019.

Then, with the advent of lockdown, David spent much more time on new Cloudland Blue Quartet works, with the result that, since May 2020, new music has been released almost every month, with some 60 releases having been issued over the last four and a half years.

At present, there are 14 further releases in the pipeline (see below) which will take matters through to August 2025.

This will take the total of Cloudland Blue Quartet releases available on Bandcamp to beyond 100.

Retrospective releases by David's groups Creek and Capital Models have also been issued over the years and these are set to continue with around 50 in the works all told, the first of which are due out on 4 October 2024...


CURRENT RELEASE SCHEDULE

Friday 1 November 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Live Suite 2024/25 (Soundscape Live Suite LP)
Note that a Limited Edition of One-Off CDs, each with its own Exclusive Content relating to the Suite, will be available at The Switched On Electronic Music Weekender, Flowergate Hall,
Whitby, YO21 3BB, on 9 November 2024

Friday 6 December 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Disquietmusik VIII (Soundscape Guitar Based LP)

   

Friday 13 December 2024
Sombre Reptiles & Cloudland Blue Quartet: Decades (Song Compilation)

Friday 20 December 2024
Sombre Reptiles: Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995 (Song Compilation)

     

Tuesday 24 December 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Twentytwentyfour: The Originals (Compilation of 2024 Releases)

Tuesday 31 December 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Twentytwentyfour (Compilation of Rare and Previously Unreleased 2024 Recordings)

     

Friday 7 February 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Variations on Brian Eno's "Discreet Music" (Soundscape Variations LP)

Friday 7 March 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Wrexham (Soundscape Piano & Guitar Based LP)

    

Friday 4 April 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Dissolution V (Soundscape Piano Based LP)

Saturday 12 April 2025 (Record Store Day)
Cloudland Blue Quartet: GLAM! III (RSD Special: Covers LP)

 

Friday 2 May 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Variations on Brian Eno's "On Land" (Soundscape Variations LP)

Friday 6 June 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Strand (Soundscape Piano & Synthesiser Based LP)

       

Friday 4 July 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Gould (Soundscape Composers LP)

Friday 1 August 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Variations on Fripp & Eno (Soundscape Variations LP)

   
(All Subject to Change)

In addition, a further 21 retrospective releases by Creek are planned between now and mid 2026 along with a further 25 from Capital Models over the same period...


BROADCASTS

David produces a weekly podcast on Mixcloud, reflecting his esoteric taste in music and encouraging listeners to broaden their musical horizons.

Since 2014, over 700 editions of the "Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection" have been recorded.  Unfortunately, only the most recent 10 are able to be made available on the Mixcloud platform.

To obtain an MP3 download link for any currently unavailable Cloudland Blue Quartet Eclectic Selection, simply e-mail your request to crispycat@hotmail.com.

Click on the pic to go to Mixcloud...


Thursday, October 17, 2024

A pot of gold in a chimney pot...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! III (Demo Version)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! FOUR (Demo Version)
John Lennon - Shaved Fish
Various Artists - Africa Express Presents...
David Baerwald - Triage
The Wilderness of Manitoba - Farewell To Cathedral
Various Artists - Selected Signs, I - An ECM Anthology
Bowen - String Quartets 2 & 3; Phantasy Quintet

Up at the "usual" time...




Working on "GLAM! III" and "GLAM! FOUR" re running orders...

Uploading to the phone for listening...

Just a coffee in the company of a squirrel...


Out around 9:30...




With stupid big headphones on, listening to my demos...



Onto a Number 1 bus...


The beast was about its business...


Listening to these...



Off at Dundee St and a walk to Polworth...



...to meet up with Dr Prog...


...for breakfast at Florentin...



As ever, the Doc found it impossible to have a coffee with a breakfast roll - he gave a wave to Anne back home...


A walk to Bruntsfield and then on to Morningside, soundtracked by good nonsense chat...

The Doc bought some stuff in Shelter...

..and, later a Keith Jarrett disc in Cancer Research, where I bought these, £2 each...



In a hospice shop, this joined the fray - an ECM sampler for £1.50..


In Oxfam, this for £2.99...


Turns out it's exactly the same recording reissued years later on Naxos, which I, of course, already have...

Hmmm...

Spotted a band to check out (turned out to be good)...

The Wilderness of Manitoba...


If I'm back that way...

In the BHF, these, £1...


...10 CDs for £2...


Castigated by the Doc for buying excerpts...

Final purchase for £1 in the last place...


Then, finally (for the Doc) coffee - which, for him, had to be accompanied by cake...




More chat - about music, concerts, 10cc, etc etc - his medal from the Inland Revenue for decades of service...

Au revoirs said and, as I stood at the bus stop waiting for a bus to Princes St, Count Brodski popped up in front of me - I'd been spotted as he drove past -  a lift all the way home was provided but, sadly, he had to head off and could not stop by...

Anne, Jane and Sheila were spending the afternoon going through mum's jewelry...


I was ripping and listening...



Later on a rainbow signaled the possibility of a pot of gold in a chimney pot...


Fish & Chips for tea...

"Fake or Fortune" - a good one...

Music listening...

To bed at midnight...

Felt like a Saturday...

It had been a Thursday...

Highlight of the Day : Out with Dr Prog...

Today's New Music:-