Crispycat Recordings: Taking something small and making it bigger...

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Taking something small and making it bigger...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2021

David Bowie - Space Oddity

Ingrid Michaelson - Stranger Songs

Bach J S - Brandenberg Concertos

Fee Waybill - Fee Waybill Rides Again

Chausson - Opium

Schoenberg - Peter Serkin : Schoenberg Klavierwerke

Ciconia - Ciconia: The Complete Works

Christian Löffler - Parallels

Kraftwerk - The Mix (Deutsch) (Remastered)

Nielsen - The Four String Quartets

Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames and Guitar

Tate McRae - Too Young to Be Sad

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Crack a Smile (Single)

Up early and working on a small but aggressive guitar piece mailed to me last night by Stu Cobley...

Anne's paints awaited her in the dining room...

...as did her latest test...

No action ended up being taken until a week form now...

Here's one I did (28 years) earlier...

Some chat on Twitter about CDs that won't fit on normal CD shelves - I have almost 2 shelves worth...

...and quashing some nonsense about David Bowie having ruined a band's career after they supposedly blew him offstage in 1969 - in fact a few months after that gig (in contemporary reports of which no mention was even made of this other band's performance on the day), he asked them to support him at the Purcell Rooms, an act which directly led said band to be offered a record deal - indeed the band acknowledge this on their own website...

Jeez, this is how real fake news starts - people just say utter pish without checking actual facts...

The concert in question is the subject of Bowie's track "Memory of a Free Festival" on the LP which came to be known as "Space Oddity" - the bonus versions on the Rykodisc issue of that album are even better perhaps, with their full band renditions...

Anyway, a big breakfast post mum-shopping...

Said mum, enjoying one of Anne's stories...

Back home and back to work on the Cobley track...

By the end of the day, a new single, "Crack a Smile"" with four mixes of the track sent to Stu...

No release plans as yet but, no doubt, this will see the light of day at some point...

Steak tea from Anne...

...and the second episode of "Line of Duty" as things start to move along nicely...

As I type, I am 56 minutes away from episode three, such has been my laxness in keeping this up to date...

Onwards!

Highlight of the Day : New track...

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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!