Crispycat Recordings: Thought to be gone but still somehow around...

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Thought to be gone but still somehow around...

Playlist
Doug Tielli - Keresley
Bach - Cello Suite #3
Mozart - Piano Concerto No 12
Ideal - Eitel Optimal
Various - Be My Baby
Biffy Clyro - Opposites
Klaus Schulze - La Vie Electronique Vol 41
Cloudland Blue Quartet - SS SQ XIX
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Gunnar Moller Pedersen - A Sound Year
Klaus Schulze - La Vie Electronique Vol 3

Up early and, after a sleepless night, a good breakfast then out for a walk...

...looking for music, having researched shops pre trip...

This one was not open and there was no sign of a designated time when it might be...

On, past this plaque to the work was purchased yesterday...

...and into Wicklow Street...

...to the strangely still open and possibly now completely independent, Tower Records...

Masses of CDs and vinyl (why do people still buy vinyl when albums are either digitally recorded or mastered?)...

...and a great classical selection, including much "contemporary" stuff...

Three items purchased, two 3CD sets by Klaus Schulze and a 6CD box of a 6 hour work by Danish electronic composer Gunnar Moller Pedersen..

Back out...

...and further walking...

...including more Joyce related nonsense...

Back to Temple Bar...

..and some work elsewhere in the city before heading back to the airport by taxi, accompanied by chum Scott...

These from the chatty driver's window...

To the terminal...

...for a ten to four flight - Scott's was not till ten to eight...

He tried to secure a ticket for my flight but was asked for a fare around ten times the amount shown on my ticket...

Consequently, through to the gate solo...

...for a propeller driven, turbulent flight...

...over the Irish Sea...

..and the Scottish Lowlands...

...and home...

Buses back to Crispycat Towers and then taking Meg the Black Cat round to Castle Brodski for Alan and Penny to enjoy her company while the Exec Producer and I swan around London for the next four days...

Too much time spent ripping the new purchases to allow them to be taken along tomorrow, resulted in a later than ideal hitting of the sack...

Highlight of the Day : Tower Records...

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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!