Crispycat Recordings: Sculpture as music

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Sculpture as music

Playlist
Krauze - Piano Works
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2016 Vols 1-52
Richard Tognetti/Australian Chamber Orchestra - Janáček, Haas, Szymanowski String Quartets arr for String Orchestra
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Callingstill
Pet Shop Boys - Super
Harry Bertoia - Sonambient
Soft Machine - Seven

The view from the office this morning...

...and this evening...

...at which point this disc had arrived - found in a trawl of Amazon for reasonably priced string quartets...

It's three quartets, arranged though for string orchestra...

Possibly my first Haas - which will appear in the next podcast I imagine - certainly short-listed at present...

In addition to this, chum Chris-with-a-Ch supplied me with the new Pet Shop Boys album - which is up to their usual high standards - favourite track, probably "The Dictator Decides"...

Also downloaded a 6 hour, 11 CD set of ambient music created by Italian sculptor and furniture designer Harry Bertoia, using his sculptures as instruments - intriguing, if slow moving...

On telly, "Line of Duty" was quite superb although I am apprehensive about how things are going to pan out in next week's 90 minute finale...

My favourite show of many current favourites...

Highlight of the Day : Line of Duty...

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Crispycat Latest Release

David Reilly AKA Cloudland Blue Quartet, created his first soundscape, "The Drone Effect" back in December 1977. 46 years later, he finally gave two live soundscape performances, in Edinburgh on 4 November 2023 and in Newcastle on 18 January 2024, playing the 40 minute piece available here on Bandcamp as "Live Suite 2023/24". On 30 August 2024 he premiered a new 40 minute suite for 2024/25 at Fopp in Edinburgh and this piece was performed again at the Switched On Electronic Music Festival in Whitby, Yorkshire on 9 November 2024. This album, "Live Suite 2024/25" was created specifically to be performed at these last two events and, like "Live Suite 2023/24", may well be performed again in the future. Free to Stream/Name Your Price to Download, the download bundle contains the studio mix of the live performance version of "Live Suite 2024/25"

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!