Crispycat Recordings

Friday, April 18, 2025

WELCOME TO CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS

We issue the solo and collaborative work of musician, broadcaster and abstract artist

DAVID REILLY

ABOUT NEWS MUSIC BROADCASTS ART RECOMENDED LISTENING

This is the Cloudland Blue Diary - to go to another section of the site, click on an icon

DIARY

The diary is up to date, with daily entries for over twenty years...

First Entry: Sunday 5 March 2005

Latest Entry: Wednesday 16 April 2025...

(Scroll down for the latest entries)

Between those dates, 146 days are "picture only", across 5 periods in 3 of the, now, 21 years:-

2016 (3 Days): 15-17 October

2022 (85 Days): 18 April - 10 May (23); 6 July - 5 September (62)

2023 (58 Days): 21 September - 15 October (25); 18 October - 19 November (33)

It is always the intention to update "picture only" days with the relevant text but doing so is, of course, subject to opportunity (and, indeed, memory!)

CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS ON BANDCAMP

To go to the Bandcamp discographies of these Crispycat related artists, click on an icon.

Crispycat Recordings released the first 25 Cloudland Blue Quartet albums (recorded between 1996 and 2012) to Bandcamp in 2013.

A further 8 LPs were released between 2013 and 2019.

Then, with the advent of lockdown, David spent much more time on new Cloudland Blue Quartet works, with the result that, since May 2020, new music has been released almost every month, with almost 80 further new releases having been issued in the last five years.

The current 14 strong pipeline (see below) will take matters to April 2026, pushing the total Cloudland Blue Quartet releases available on Bandcamp to well beyond 100.

Meanwhile, retrospective releases by David's groups Creek, Crazy Wisdom and Capital Models have also been being issued by Crispycat Recordings and these are set to continue, with around 50 planned over the next 18 months or so...

LATEST RELEASE

Saturday 12 April 2025 (Record Store Day): Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! III (RSD Special: Covers LP)

As always from Crispycat Recordings, entirely Free to Stream or Name Your Price (including zero) to Download

Following on from the 2023 and 2024 Record Store Day releases, "GLAM!" and "GLAM! #2" comes the equally imaginatively entitled "GLAM! III", a further two and a half hours of Glam Rock (kind of) from Cloudland Blue Quartet, the equivalent of a 2CD set or, indeed 4LP Box Set.

Recorded over 14 days from February to June 2023 and one additional day in October 2024, as demos for his band Capital Models re songs they might cover or, in a few cases, already do, CBQ has compiled another 36 performances for this Record Store Day release.

Most have never been heard before, while a few have been featured on his weekly Eclectic Selection podcasts on Mixcloud.

Every vocal is a 1st take - indeed, as with 2023's "GLAM!" and 2024's "GLAM! #2", David had never sung many of these songs prior to these renditions.

So, you may spot vocal fluffs & errors from the very off (e.g. the initial cue on "Rebel Rebel" slightly missed, the less than absolutely in tune "Sound and Vision", or some shockingly bad vocalising on "Crazy Horses" - mind you, everyone else scrapes the barrel for Record Store Day!), but is he really desecrating the catalogues of David Bowie (6), Brian Eno (5), Lou Reed (2), The Beatles (2), Uriah Heep (2), Roxy Music (2), The Electric Light Orchestra (1), Alvin Stardust (1), Bad Company (1), Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1), Bread (1), Frank Sinatra (1), Bryan Ferry (1), Kraftwerk (1), Kiss (1), Status Quo (1), The Monkees (1), The Osmonds (1), Elton John (1), Alice Cooper (1), T Rex (1) or Elvis Presley (1)?

You are the judge!

CURRENT CBQ RELEASE SCHEDULE

Friday 2 May 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Brian Eno's "On Land" (Soundscape Variations LP)

Friday 6 June 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Strand (Soundscape Piano & Synthesiser Based LP)

Friday 4 July 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Gould (Soundscape Composers LP)

Friday 1 August 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" (Soundscape Variations LP)

Friday 5 September 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno's "Evening Star" (Soundscape Variations LP)

Friday 3 October 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet & Robert Scott Thompson - Forest Ascent (Collaborative Soundscape LP)

NEW! Friday 7 November 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Like a Sunday (Soundscape Ambient LP)

Friday 5 December 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik IX (Soundscape Guitar Based LP)

Wednesday 24 December 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyfive: The Originals (Compilation of 2025 Releases)

Wednesday 31 December 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyfive (Compilation of Rarities recorded throughout 2025)

NEW! Friday 6 February 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Shostakovich (Soundscape Composers LP)

Friday 3 April 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution VI (Soundscape Piano Based LP)

Saturday 11 April 2026 (Record Store Day): Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! FOUR (RSD Special: Covers LP)

(All artwork, releases and release dates subject to change)

SCHEDULED LIVE PERFORMANCES

Capital Models - Saturday 24th May 2025, Doors at 7pm, Band on at 8pm

Leith Dockers, 17 Academy Street, Edinburgh, EH6 7EE
Repertoire: 3 sets of top covers, from Elvis to Taylor Swift

In addition to these, there are these further possible appearances...

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Occasional Thursdays, from 8pm
Out of the Bedroom, Safari Lounge, 21 Cadzow Place, Edinburgh EH7 5SN
Repertoire: 3 song acoustic set (if attempting to secure a slot the date will be added here)

Performances include those solo, as Cloudland Blue Quartet, presenting sets of either songs or soundscapes, and group, with the current line up of David's 1980 new wave band, Capital Models, currently playing covers (from Elvis to Tay Tay but about to embark on a project to re-lrearn the bands original canon from 1979/80).

At present there are no plans for his electronic improvisational quartet, Creek, to play live...

BROADCASTS

David produces a weekly podcast on Mixcloud, reflecting his esoteric taste in music and encouraging listeners to broaden their musical horizons. Since 2014, over 700 editions of the "Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection" have been recorded. Unfortunately, only the most recent 10 are able to be made available on the Mixcloud platform. To obtain an MP3 download link for any currently unavailable Cloudland Blue Quartet Eclectic Selection, simply e-mail your request to crispycat@hotmail.com. Click on the pic to go to Mixcloud...

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Crispycat Latest Release

As always from Crispycat Recordings, entirely Free to Stream or Name Your Price (including zero) to Download. Recorded over 14 days from February to June 2023 and one additional day in October 2024, as demos for his band Capital Models re songs they might cover or, in a few cases, already do, CBQ has compiled another 36 performances for this Record Store Day release. Most have never been heard before, while a few have been featured on his weekly Eclectic Selection podcasts on Mixcloud. Every vocal is a 1st take - indeed, as with 2023's "GLAM!" and 2024's "GLAM! #2", David had never sung many of these songs prior to these renditions. So, you may spot vocal fluffs & errors from the very off (e.g. the initial cue on "Rebel Rebel" slightly missed, the less than absolutely in tune "Sound and Vision", or some shockingly bad vocalising on "Crazy Horses" - mind you, everyone else scrapes the barrel for Record Store Day!), but is he really desecrating the catalogues of David Bowie (6), Brian Eno (5), Lou Reed (2), The Beatles (2), Uriah Heep (2), Roxy Music (2), The Electric Light Orchestra (1), Alvin Stardust (1), Bad Company (1), Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1), Bread (1), Frank Sinatra (1), Bryan Ferry (1), Kraftwerk (1), Kiss (1), Status Quo (1), The Monkees (1), The Osmonds (1), Elton John (1), Alice Cooper (1), T Rex (1) or Elvis Presley (1)? You are the judge!

Podcasts

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 his seven new releases of the week, the latest items from CBQ, seven new back catalogue items into the collection followed by an eclectic selection for the rest of the show. Get ready to hear stuff you've never heard before, ultra-familiar stuff, far out jazz, tuneless contemporary classical music, long tracks, short tracks - anything and everything. It's eclectic!