Crispycat Recordings: Bridge, bridge, the bridge is back...

Saturday, January 04, 2014

Bridge, bridge, the bridge is back...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twenty Four Paintings
The Doors - The Doors
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Thing - Beef Brisket
Lou Reed - New York Man
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
The Thing - Bag it!
Trio Elf - Discography

Up at 5:30 and, from 5:41...

...till 8:49...

...while listening to the full track versions of the first four pieces on the forthcoming CBQ album (which also took three hours)...

...I updated the Crispycat website, the CBQ Bandcamp page and the various individual CBQ song-based album blogs to reflect the new "no physical", "name your price" CBQ scenario...

At 10:30 out and driving to town to meet up with Dr Prog at the library at 11...

Borrowed the last Fiona Apple album, which has been on the radar for a while, and a 2 disc set by Swedish avante garde jazzers, The Thing...

Lunch included tasty cakes at Patisserie Valerie...

...along with much chat about Rush, Yes and prog rock in general...

Of course an extra cake was carried home for the Exec Producer...

Nothing for The Pie though...

Said chocolate éclair was much enjoyed by Anne with coffee as we watched the recent BBC4 documentary "Remembering Lou Reed" which, amongst others, included contributions from Bob Ezrin and Steve Hunter...

Very moving indeed...

At 15:40, ten hours into my day...

...while Anne enjoyed the latest in a long line of adaptations of "Jane Eyre", I was back at the computer ripping and listening - especially enjoying Lou Reed's personally compiled and remixed collection "New York Man" and investigating possible prog/music related trips I might make with Dr Prog...

Also did some research into the jazz trio Trio Elf, by whom a disc had been swithered about at the library...

A good discovery...

In the evening, home made soup accompanied the first two episodes in the second series of Scandinavian detective series, "The Bridge"...

A BBC4 documentary on British Rock'n'Roll was fallen asleep to, before finally hitting the sack just before 12...

Highlight of the Day : The Bridge is back...

2 comments:

Disco Stu said...: Take it to the Bridge and throw it overboard because i got fed up reading your bloody subtitles, they moved too fast!!; 8:22 pm
Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: LOL you're so uncosmopolitan Stu!; 11:44 pm

Crispycat Latest Release

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.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!