Saturday, January 31, 2009

Tomorrow or the day after next...

Playlist
Brian Eno – Discreet Music
Freddie Hubbard – Greatest Solos
Juicy Lucy – Lie Back and Enjoy It
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Soundingfall
Justin Rutledge – Man Descending
Yes – Going For the One
Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain
Harmonia – Deluxe

Up at 7 and working on mixing acoustic versions of “We Drove” and “Fire in the Clearing”...

Tidying to the sounds of Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music”...



Breakfast to the sounds of Freddie Hubbard...

With the Exec Producer off out late morning, I worked on an idea for a new song and, before I knew it, had written one...

The key was a little low and so I decided to transpose the chords (rather than use the capo)...

In doing so, I stumbled across another chord which just seemed to make the song...

Title? "Tomorrow or the Day After Next" - take a listen (see below) and see if you can guess what it's about...

Upon Anne’s return we swithered as to whether to go over to Dunfermline to support Queen of the South – in the end I decided I wanted to try and record this new song, so we stayed at home...

While I was busy – on a bit of a roll actually, recording the new song and adding acoustic bass to five of the seven songs recorded thus far – Hearts were also busy disappointing Anne with a defeat away at lowly Hamilton Academical...

Wonder of wonders though, Queen of the South won at Dunfermline for the first time in over 50 years, coming away 2-0 winners and moving up a spot in the table to eighth – the revival starts here?

I hope so...

We cooked tonight as, once again we prepared our current favourite, Red Thai Chicken...



Accompanied by Mr Justin Rutledge and, of course, a cheeky wee red...



TV most of the night – Eurovision – upon hearing Lloyd-Webbers ballad, I changed my allegiance from The Twins to Jade as, while the former could have done well on an upbeat number with some kind of choreography gimmicky thing, Jade is the best singer and handled the song the best...

I predict bottom three in May...

Rather predictably, Meg the Black cat remained unimpressed...



Listened back to “Soundingfall” while watching “Holby” – I’m getting there...

All seven of the latest demos are now available to listen to, or indeed download, at the Crispycat Library in the “2009 Cloudland Blue Quartet – Soundingfall” folder...

“Match of the Day” with Eno and Harmonia in the cans rounded off an enjoyable, productive day...

Highlight of the Day : New song, Queens’ win, cooking with Anne...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just discovered 'last.fm' amazin'.
Hearts need a good striker, maybe they would have more chance signing Kaka!

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...

Cool re LAst FM - I've only had their player on here for a couple of years...

Aye tell me about the JTs by the way - Exec Producer's sick as a parrot re Berra and Driver leaving...

Anonymous said...

Driver gone??? Who's gonny steer us back to the top 'o the table noo?
It's falling down around my ears!
AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!