Saturday, September 07, 2024

WELCOME TO CRISPYCAT...

CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS
issues the solo and collaborative work of musician, broadcaster and abstract artist
DAVID REILLY

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DIARY

This main page contains Cloudland Blue : A Diary, with daily entries since 5 March 2005 (scroll down for the latest entries).  After a long and hard effort, the entries re the recent German trip are now all up, as is the period since then and so, the diary is up to date...

Although, 143 days are currently still "picture only", across 4 periods:-

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!)


SCHEDULED LIVE PERFORMANCES

            

David performs solo, both songs and soundscapes, and with his covers band, Capital Models.

Current scheduled appearances are as follows:-

Saturday 5th October 2025, 8:00pm - Capital Models (Quartet Format)
Leith Dockers, 17 Academy Street, Edinburgh, EH6 7EE
Repertoire: 3 sets of top covers, from Elvis to Taylor Swift

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

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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CURRENT RELEASE SCHEDULE

Since the start of lockdown, David has released new Cloudland Blue Quartet music almost every month, with some 60 releases having been issued since May 2020.  This will continue until, currently, August 2025, by which time a further 14 LPs will have been made available on Bandcamp...

Friday 4 October 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Providence (Soundscape Synthesiser Based LP)

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)

   

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)


BROADCASTS

David produces a weekly podcast, 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 broadcast.  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, September 05, 2024

Forgetting a door had been slammed can lead to much wastage of time...

Playlist
Philip Weberndoerfer - Tides
Alternative Guitar Summit - The Middle of Everywhere: Guitar Solos Vol. 1
Erskine, LĂȘ, Benita - Dream Flight
Liberty Ellman - The Pi Collection
Philip Weberndoerfer - Tides
Dio - Dream Evil
Gang of Four - Return the Gift
Mondeville - Titan et Aurore

Thursday and slept in...



Luna was wanting her breakfast...






...and, of course, what Luna wants, Luna gets...




Breakfast for the humans too...

The CBQ scrambled egg was top...


Working on stuff - uploading the podcasts...

However, on listening back, post upload, of course I'd forgotten I'd called my neighbours rather a nasty thing for slamming their door (for the billionth time) while I was recording the links..

And so, one more reason to justify having called them that, I had to take three podcasts down and re-upload them, with all that that entailed, as the edited one was Vol 33 and 34 and 35 needed to be uploaded post 33 to keep them in the right order...

So, door slamming very much the proximate cause for wasting my time...

Meanwhile, Anne was out at the funeral of her old school friend Susan's mum...

On her return, lunch with "Brassic" - we will most likely reach the end of the 4 available seasons tomorrow...

Luna is making herself at home...



Late afternoon, some eclectic listening...


Recent book purchases...


...to be added, somehow, to the shelves of those neither downstairs nor in the attic…


Definitely didn’t pay £25.99 for this but, if I had, it would’ve been worth it....


On checking here, it appears I secured it (at a record fair on 18/3/2018) for £1…

Bargain!


The view from the office this afternoon...


For tea tonight, pizza...



...and "Colin From Accounts"...

...and more "Brassic"...

This evening, downloading jazz and a Refugee box set and prepping the playlist for this weekends podcast which will, hopefully, be devoid of the "C" word...

Highlight of the Day: Getting the podcasts up to date...

Today's New Music:-