Crispycat Recordings: From the sublime to the ridiculous pt 371...

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

From the sublime to the ridiculous pt 371...

Playlist

King Crimson - The Elements 2015 Tour Box

Mendelssohn - String Quartet No 4(Cherubini Quartett)

Janacek - String Quartet No 1 (The Lindsays)

Brahms - String Quartet No 2 (Vertavo Quartet)

Janacek - String Quartet No 2 (Alban Berg Quartett)

Brian Eno - Dover Beach
Brian Eno - On Land

Little to report today, other than a recent struggle to determine a fault with Anne's mum's TV (formerly the TV of sister Pam) continued...

Tonight we brought it to our house and (albeit with no signal) it worked perfectly - given the problem is that it keeps switching off for no reason...

I took it back to its home and, within 10 minutes of my leaving, it was reportedly off again...

I can only suspect there is a problem with Mary's electrics and an electrician rather than a mucking about with your TV son-in-law is what's required...

On the way home, Radio 3 was broadcasting a concert from Skipton Town Hall by the Escher String Quartet, featuring works by Mendelssohn (Quartet No 4), Janacek (Quartet No 1) and Brahms (Quartet No 2)...

I was able to kind of recreate it from my own extensive collection of quartets - and threw in Janacek's second for good measure...

Wonderful stuff..

The evening's listening was rounded off by a rare Eno track...

Then, this week's "Holby"...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : String quartets

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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.

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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!