Crispycat Recordings: The songs of Brian...

Saturday, October 10, 2015

The songs of Brian...

Playlist

Various - October Hit Singles 1965-2015

Brian Eno - Discreet Music

Glenn Gould - Glenn Gould at the Cinema

Various - Night Fever

Electric Light Orchestra - All Over the World : The Best of ELO

James Blunt - Back to Bedlam
Handel - Water Music (Koopman)
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
Brian Eno - Songs
Matthew Florianz - Nocturne...

Up just after six and not really working...

Just before 9, some sorting out of classical box sets...

...and some moving about of guitars...

Out with Anne just before 10 to pick up the surprise cake for Jane's birthday...

...and took it to Bobby to hide until tomorrow's family get together, noting too the finished versions of the kids' baking featured here yesterday...

A late breakfast in Corstorphine...

French toast with bacon and maple syrup - a nice wee reminder of Canada...

In the Marie Curie charity shop, these acquired for just fifty of your English new pence each...

I have all bar a couple of the tracks on this...

I probably have the majority of the 40 disco classics on this...

This is my fourth full rendition of Handel's Water Music and it's a cracker...

..and everyone needs to have some James Blunt, don't they? This is my first Blunt CD - I follow him on Twitter - his put downs to insulting tweets are pure gold...

Some listening, some rugby watching with the headphones on, some reading, some surfing and some learning of 16 (count 'em) Brian Eno songs (for no particular reason that I can think of)...

...and the second of an excellent 2 part "Dr Who", based on "The Bootstrap Paradox" (see Heinlein's "By the Bootstraps" and Moorcock's "Behold the Man"), took up the rest of the day...

Oh, and Queens finally won a game, 1-0 at home to Morton - still in the top half of the table despite a particularly poor spell, out of which hopefully they are now emerging...

Oh pt 2, and the Matthew Florianz album I pre-ordered on Bandcamp was released this afternoon...

His second album of 2015 was my final listen of the day...

Ambience at its best...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Learning Eno songs...

3 comments:

Disco Stu said...: When were you in Canada?; 7:48 pm
Disco Stu said...: Only joking ;-); 7:50 pm
Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: Cheeky monkey!; 12:43 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!