As we drove, we could see the fire in the clearing...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - New Songs
Various – Mr Quartet’s Best of 2008
Emerson Lake and Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
Emerson Lake and Palmer – Works Vol 2
After Crying – 21st Century Schizoid Man
Yes - Live November 2008
UK - Cleveland September 1978

Up at 7 and out to Tesco for some final Xmas shopping – one more thing to buy...

Back home to find Anne watching the final of “Strictly Come Dancing” – Tom won apparently but shouldn’t have – I pointed out that most of the viewers are female and Tom is rather handsome...

Continued to work on the two new songs for most of the day, refining the lyrics, adding new vocals and moving around guitar lines etc etc...

With no way of adding any keyboards to the pieces (without much mucking about in the attic), I instead used some of a Beethoven string quartet in the instrumental section of “We Drove” which works rather well...

Also did some remixing on “The Sound of the Fall” pts 1 & 2...

By 5pm, with the new stuff now sounding roughly the way I want, I have 36 minutes of new CBQ stuff all told, over seven pieces...

By 6pm the two new songs and the slightly remixed versions of the two parts of “The Sound of the Fall” were uploaded to the 2009 demos folder in the Crispycat Library for free download - taking the total number of tracks available to beyond 500..

Not sure if it’s a good thing to put stuff up which is less than 24 hours old but I suppose not many people will ever hear it anyway...



The picture is cropped from one taken by Stuart Cobley at Craig Sutherland’s exactly two years ago tonight...

I just hope Craig and Stuart aren’t too upset that I’ve used Creek backing tracks to help with the creation – they are songs though and I imagine the upcoming Creek pieces, whilst having the self-same rhythm beds, should be very different indeed from what I’ve done this weekend...

The rest of the evening was taken up with listening back to this stuff, listening to other stuff, downloading stuff, watching the telly and enjoying a nice curry...

And from tomorrow, we can officially say “the nights are fair drawing out”...

Highlight of the Day : Musicking again...