Crispycat Recordings: Saturday Morning

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Saturday Morning

A final visit from the gas people this morning so staying in for breakfast, though I drive to Patisserie Florentin for a couple of croissants and a French Stick (you can see me reflected in the door). The stick reminds me of our holiday last year in Foix in the Pyrenees - every day, every person who walked past in the steet had a French Stick...

Lovely coffee (still percolating) and lovely croissants....

Listening to the recordings from Thursday this morning and here are my first impressions:-

Impossible Songs - Good sound, good mix (though IS will probably find flaws...)
Norman Lamont - Good sound, good mix (though NL will probably find flaws...)
CBQ & JJ - Good sound, I found flaws - CBQ vocal too loud in places, plenty of small mistakes etc which will probably preclude the majority of songs from being released

Good to relive it though....

1 comment:

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: Yes, it is. But like anywhere you live, things get taken for granted..an outsider's comments can give a new perspective...; 2:38 pm

Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!