Crispycat Recordings: Strange but good...

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Strange but good...

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Cloudland Blue Quartet - Splinterheart Live

A strange experience tonight....

Drove to Lasswade, to the home of Mr Pol Arida for what I thought was to be rehearsal for proposed upcoming gigs in the alternate universe that is Second Life...

In fact I ended up playing two sets live over the internet to a couple of promoters who own clubs in this virtual world...

After adding a couple of solo acoustic numbers to the end of the second run through of the "Splinterheart" live set, the people (actually located in Ireland and the USA) deemed me to be good enough to appear in their establishments...

First though, I needed an Avatar...

In Second Life, your Avatar usually bears no resemblance to you...

It appears I am no exception...

An enjoyable experience indeed, if a little strange...

Highlight of the Day : Playing live in a completely new way...

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Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

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