Crispycat Recordings: Spades...

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Spades...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - New Recordings
Alice Cooper - The Eyes of Alice Cooper
Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard
Various Composers - Great Recordings of the Century

8:00 am Up and working on the new album, including two almost complete reworks of already started tracks "He Thinks of You" and "Go Away and Leave Me Here" - they are much better now...

12:00 am Brunch - a home made pizza using ingredients Julia gave us away with us last night - extremely tasty and accompanied by an episode of "Ugly Betty"...

1:00 pm Following exercises on the arm, a run through on guitar of the seven songs worked on so far...

2:00 pm To my mum's for a visit where we are joined by sister Sheila and her grandson Kerr - who didn't utter a single sound the entire time we were there - during the visit, confirmation that nephew Andy (Kerr's dad) will be part of CBQ for the upcoming gig...

5:00 pm To Sainsbury to purchase ingredients to cook a curry for tonight's evening meal...

6:00 pm More exercises on the arm then to work on preparing the curry - my tasks involve much chopping of vegetables and opening and pouring a bottle of excellent Spanish Red Wine. Whilst cooking, we listen to the latest version of the new CBQ recordings. The Executive Producer even sings along with some of them - a good sign!

6:30 While the curry continues to cook on its own, we watch the last episode of "Ugly Betty" we have on tape, halfway through which, dinner is served. It is frankly the best curry ever to have been made at Crispycat Towers....

7:30 Coronation St...

8:00 Write up the blog and surf the net. Checking my e-mails it seems Jim Park may not be able to play with CBQ on 1 March (perhaps he'll still be able to) but that doesn't rule out further appearances by the percussive comedian...

9:30 Finish off on the computer for the day with a couple of purchases from E-Bay (3 more jazz CDs). I listen to the very tasty CD I bought yesterday, a sampler from the series below. On first listening in the car yesterday it promised little, tonight however, it delivers in spades...

Highlight of the Day : Home cooking - what a team...

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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!