Crispycat Recordings: Out of the (cloudland) blue...

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Out of the (cloudland) blue...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Soundingfall

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Live Set

Cloudland Blue Quartet - We Drove (2019 Edward Spark Reconstruction)

Roy Harper - Valentine

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

Deodato - Prelude

Edgar Froese - Aqua

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Well, the first month of 2019 gone already...

Freezing this morning...

In the sky, Venus, the moon and Jupiter were lined up nicely...

A trip to Stockbridge at lunchtime resulted in zero purchases...

On the way up the hill as I made my way home, a discarded pair of glasses lay frozen on the ground...

Nice skies...

...and back to where it began, ten hours ago...

Today, a remix of my 10 year old track "We Drove" arrived from Creek compadre, Craig "Edward Spark" Sutherland...

It's here for the next few days only...

It is quite excellent - my vocal, I think, is all that remains of the original song - which you can find here...

A couple of covers were mocked up...

Pictures of St John in Canada...

...although the lyric is based on a passage from "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway which name checks the Basque town of Saint Jean de Luz...

Which actually looks like this...

...and here's the Spark cover...

This evening, a trip back out to Roslin to pick up the recorder accidentally left behind on Sunday; and a chance for Anne and I to have a coffee and a chat with drummer Johnny and his lovely wife, architect and cake baker, Moira...

Back home around 9:30 and "Death in Paradise" entertained...

Highlight of the Day : A "new" CBQ track arriving...

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Crispycat Latest Release

"I know I produce an awful lot of music, which can make it hard to keep up. But, at the end of each year since 2021, I've produced a tasty compilation ("The Originals") featuring one track from each release. So, every year, if you're only going to buy one CBQ album, make it that one!" "Twentytwentyfour: The Originals" is a 130 minute selection of tracks from the fifteen 2024 releases by Cloudland Blue Quartet. The collection is issued in anticipation of (and includes a track from) the fifteenth and final record of the year, "Twentytwentyfour", a multi disc compilation of rare and previously unreleased recordings made by CBQ throughout 2024, which is due on 31 December.

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!