Crispycat Recordings: Grandiose instrumental overture...

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Grandiose instrumental overture...

Playlist
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness
MGMT - Congratulations
The Roy Hargrove Quintet - Earfood
John Scofield - This Meets That

Up around 6:30 and comparing the synchronisation of the proposed live set to the visuals created yesterday...

I realised I had around two and a half minutes of time still available...

I had a brainwave - create an introductory piece...

If I do an acoustic set (it's not set in stone yet that I won't), I would enedeavour to include songs from the previous seven albums as well as "Splinterheart"...

So, I thought why not create a sound collage incorporating said older songs along with the four missing-on-account-of-being-too-left-field "Splinterheart" pieces...

And so I did - and, given that the first half of the first song in the set involves no singing, that too became part of the collage...

So the backing track was complete...

Then I sang through the set, recording it for the "Souvenir" CD for the night - should my plans remain unaltered...

Spring cleaning (even though it's Autumn) was also taking place in the house and I chipped in with some tidying and moving of furniture and consideration of future plans to rearrange matters...

Outside, it was a beautiful sunny day but, rather than go for a walk, we watched the film, "The Secret Garden"...

In the evening, nourishment came in the form of a tasty and much missed recently Red Thai Chicken Curry, while entertainment was supplied by "Inspector George Gently" and "Match of the Day 2"

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Creating and Anne's curry...

2 comments:

Sour Grapes said...: ahhh Trick Of The Tail.....good to see you throw that one in MR CBQ. VEry hard to beat this record...; 12:55 pm
Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: All in all, probably their most "rounded" album of their "progressive" period (1970-1978). No weak tracks (other than "Los Endos" being faded out at the end)...; 12:08 pm

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