Sunday, November 09, 2008

The sound of the fall...

Playlist
Brian Eno – Remaster Samplers Ambient/Song
Cloudland Blue Quartet – The Sound of the Fall Pts 1 & 2

Up reasonably early after a good long sleep, still ill...

At 9:30 started writing another new song, finishing to my own satisfaction around 2 pm...

Once again the lyric was revised from one which had lain unused for over two years...

We set off for Anne’s mum’s just before 3 to try and fix her TV, adding our old Freeview Box to her set up to try and save her money on her Virgin subscription – all to no avail though as her ariel isn’t up to the job – she’s going to get a booster and we’ll try again...

On the way I’d played Anne the new song and, in her role as Executive Producer she advised the lyrical content to be a tad on the depressing side – which is, more often than not, the usual situation for CBQ – I do, after all, strive to make Joy Division sound like S Club 7...

And so a rewrite was required and, after some delicious Macaroni for dinner....



....I returned to the music room to rewrite the lyrics and re-record the vocals – I ended up carrying out a complete remix too and finally finished around 9:45 – combining the two versions to produce a song with a depressing first half and what is, for me anyway, a bit more of a happy-go-lucky second half...

Consequently it’s over 9 minutes long and may take a bit longer than usual to download...

It's available via the link to download my music for free...

CLOUDLAND BLUE QUARTET - THE SOUND OF THE FALL



“Match of the Day 2” followed, featuring Spurs’ latest comeback, which was enjoyed by Meg the Black cat from the vantage point of the coffee table...



“Graham Norton” ended the day...

The Anthology track is, rather aptly, given it’s Remembrance Sunday, “Poppies” from the 1986 Sombre Reptiles album of the same name...

When, a couple of years after its original release, this song was brought into the repertoire of my then band, Call Me Clive, it quickly became the group’s most popular song. This is the original version....

It's also available via the link to download my music for free...

ANTHOLOGY 1986
SOMBRE REPTILES - POPPIES PT 1



Highlight of the Day : While I enjoyed writing and recording, it has to be Anne's macaroni - another string to her culinary bow...

1 comment:

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...

Very nice snakes Tom. Presumably my blog came up when you Googled "reptiles". I'm afraid they probably wouldn't go down too well with Meg the Black Cat...

Sorry...