Creek – Masters Vols 1-15
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Happygolucky
Spent the majority of the morning and early afternoon listening to and transferring to the hard drive, the 15 or so discs of music created by our Electronic Improv Quartet, Creek, from its inception in June 1997 through to its initial hiatus in 1999, its reactivation in 2003/04 (which resulted in the LP "Somewhere Between") and our sporadic recordings in 2005 and 2006...
I was doing this because Creek may be stirring again – certainly both Stuart Cobley and Craig Sutherland have expressed an interest in reactivation while Count Brodski, who didn’t really participate beyond the recording of the 2004 album, is now almost finished with his studies and may also be ready to return to active service...
Last time we convened as a trio was towards the end of 2008 - but the resultant tracks ended up as CBQ songs and formed the basis of around half of the "Soundingfall" LP of 2009...
Late afternoon, all Creeked out, I whittled down the CBQ "Happygolucky" collection to half its original 24 songs...
...and had a couple of plays through but, frankly, I find my solo acoustic guitar playing rather boring to say the least...
Despite the Exec Producer’s advice on Friday, perhaps I ought to be reverting to playing a “Splinterheart” based set but utilising available technology to produce the true “quartet” sound of CBQ – and perhaps too playing sparse electric guitar as opposed to strumming the acoustic...
Or perhaps I spend too much time pontificating over my now seemingly once a year, probably inconsequential, 30 minutes or so in front of an audience...
Although, whichever set and set up I finally decide upon, it will be used too for the proposed internet gigs which are also in the pipeline...
A lovely tea at Anne’s mum’s with Jane, Bobby, Ollie, Kitty, Keith and Maureen took us to post 9pm and our holiday was all but over...
It’s been an enjoyable two weeks, with reasonable activity almost everyday and, really, not too much time spent by me at the PC, other than very first thing most mornings while Anne was still sleeping...
As ever on a Sunday between August and May, the evening was rounded off with “Match of the Day 2” – with no highlights of wins this weekend by both Hearts (3-1 away at Inverness Caledonian Thistle) or Queens (2-1 at home to Partick Thistle) both having won after coming back from a goal down...
Highlight of the Day : Creeking...
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