Crispycat Recordings: New stuff can be good stuff...

Wednesday, July 08, 2020

New stuff can be good stuff...

Playlist

Various Composers - 20th Century Classics

The Tubes - What Do You Want From Live

Iggy Pop - TV Eye

Man - Slow Motion

Tim Curry - Fearless

Magazine - Play
Bill Spooner - First Chud
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dead Kennedys - In Go We Trust Inc [EP]

The Bears - The Bears

KMRU - Variations (Installation)

KMRU - East

KMRU - Byculla

KMRU - Continual

KMRU - Odra

KMRU - Luft

Moe - This Is Not, We Are

Eric Dolphy - Out There

Micachu & The Shades; LondonSinfonietta - Chopped and Screwed at Kings Place 01-05-10

Grand Funk - Survival
Pet Shop Boys - Hyde Park

Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown

Ok it was definitely Wednesday today...

Some bathroom shots...

Before getting the day off to a good start with Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" - the whole 32 minute thing though, not just the opening from "2001"...

Today, following yesterday's successes, I finally tracked down another seven long lost titles from the old LP collection (plus last night's late acquisition from Buddy Miles)...

I was pleased...

Record of the day, following on from playing yesterday's random choice by The Tubes, a day late, was "The Bears", by The Bears...

The band features Adrian Belew...

...which is the reason I have this LP...

...and its follow up, which will, no doubt, also be randomly chosen at some point in the coming months...

An article on The Wire's website, bemoaning the lack of non-white contributers to weird left field music, led me to download a plethora of releases by Kenyan soundscaper, field recordist and looper, Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU...

Most of these are one track singles - I didn't go that mad...

...but here's a good wee film about how he works...

(This film then led me tomorrow, to download a load of stuff by another performer - but that's for tomorrow)...

Lovely spag bog for tea...

...followed by a visit from a wee friend...

...who was, of course, only here for one thing...

Cheeky boy...

Later on, some upstairs listening in the back room - Eric Dolphy, London Sinfonietta...

...and...

...Grand Funk...

...before falling asleep downstairs to Pet Shop Boys at Hyde Park...

To bed early doors, with ELO...

Highlight of the Day : New music from Kenya...

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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!