Crispycat Recordings: The nixing of a track by a collaborator can lead to work which produces a better outcome...

Wednesday, April 07, 2021

The nixing of a track by a collaborator can lead to work which produces a better outcome...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Surrender of Barcelona (1934-1937) (EP)

William Fitzsimmons - Goodnight

Edward Spark/Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallen Remix EP

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik (2021)

Graham Parker & The Rumour - The Parkerilla

Up early again to work on the proposed new tracks before WFH...

Views...

Some slight lyric re-writes re "Crack a Smile" and "The Surrender of Barcelona" (my collaboration with drummer Johnny Weitzen from Capital Models from the end of last year) and remixing etc etc...

Squirrel breakfast...

Later, Fang - he spent a considerable amount of time with us today spread over three separate visits...

Fang I...

Meanwhile - a new running order...

Fang II...

This evening, I sent MP3s of the proposed LP to the collaborators - niece Kitty, re her co-write in 2012 (aged 8) of "Break the Ice Around Us", the aforementioned Johnny and Stu and to Edward Spark re using the beatless version of my remix of his instrumental track "Emperor", for which I wrote and recorded lyrics last month...

No response from Stu or JW but Kitty Whatsapp'd me back showing her listening to her track...

That was nice!

Unfortunately Ed nixed his collaboration, opining it has too much of his own track in it - which he will release later this year and doesn't want to pre-empt that...

So, to work and, after a couple of hours, a brand new version created - his synths being replaced by my own manipulated Frippertronics...

A thumbs up hoped for tomorrow...

He was watching the darts...

Erm...

Meanwhile...

Fang III...

Eventually, he left but not before having gouged a big chunk of flesh out of Anne's hand...

In this pic, she is in the kitchen dressing the wound...

He is Fang!

Highlight of the Day : Musicking...

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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.

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