Friday, July 26, 2024

Football can do for your face and feet...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Hessler Nowik Liminal Conundrum
Modern String Quartet - Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier (for String Quartet)
Crack Cloud - Red Mile
Pat Metheny - MoonDial
Peter Chilvers - Dust 2 (EP)
Bill Callahan - Resuscitate!
Slowly Rolling Camera - Silver Shadow
kenzie - biting my tongue
KMRU - Natur
SVLBRD - Elsewhere
Martin Martyn & Hideyuki Hashimoto - Coral (EP)
Modern String Quartet - Four Composers
Bach, J S - Watermusic
Schoenberg - The Juilliard String Quartet Plays Schoenberg
Glass - Fever
Modern String Quartet - Enrico Guerzoni: String Quartets
Modern String Quartet - Elephants and Strings
The Violet Archers - Animal Song
Jacques Loussier Trio - Play Bach No 5
Mas Aya - Coming And Going
GlÄsbird - A Sonic Expedition
Daou - Bluebird
deadmau5 - some
The Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus - The Dream We Carry
The Lunar Effect - Sounds Of Green & Blue
Joep Beving & Maarten Vos - vision of contentment
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-07-23 OOTB Rehearsal
Dave Bidini - Aftermath (Single)
Efterklang - To a New Day (Single)
Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I'm Called
TheAdelaidean & Steve Roach - Parallels
Van Morrison - The Best Of Van Morrison
Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew
Various Artists - Africa Rising
Communism - Lovespeech
Stryczek - Item. Objects.
Modern String Quartet - Fever
Dag Arnesen Trio - Dag Arnesen Trio
Elias Stemeseder, Robert Landfermann, & Leif Berger - Neon Dilemma
Erlend Skomsvoll Trio - Noshk Blues
Knut Reiersrud Band - Antropomorfi
Various - The Music Buddy Sessions
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 1977-2005
UFO - Seven Deadly (Deluxe edition)
Scanner & Neil Leonard - The Berklee Sessions
Njet Njet 9 - Toivo
Otohito Fuse Trio - Isol
Various - Docker Hits Sets
Capital Models - Dockers July Sets Mock Up

Could.  Not.  Sleep.


Up to views...








Football can do for your feet...


...as well as your face...


Glasses covering up the slight black eye scenarios...


Anyway, coffee...


..and, as the sun came up, new music gathering...


...because it was new music Friday...


More views...

With the bridge camera...



Too shaky...


Too shaky...



This, the best...


Post breakfast, Anne off to Zumba...

I created the podcast - taking just 45 minutes or so to produce a 2.5 hour programme of tasty, mainly new, music...

And uploaded and out...

Cover with blood...


Content...


Post lunch and a "Maisel", out...

Super parking from a mystery visitor to one of our neighbours...


Hot...


To my mum's for a visit - face and side pain to the fore and so, Anne driving...

Mum was pleased to see Anne and looking forward to a visit tomorrow from her grandson Andy, with wife Tori and Kids Dougie and Lockie......


Freddie the Fly was keeping her company on our departure...

To Tesco on the way home, for petrol and ingredients for tonight's ultra tasty sausage casserole...


...which was accompanied by the Guy Ritchie film "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" which was very enjoyable and based on actual events in 1942 re how it was that Britain finally removed the obstacle of German U Boats in the North Atlantic, allowing US troops and supplies to cross the ocean and assist in the fight against the Nazis...

The true story of what was "Operation Postmaster" is here - with almost all of those featured in the film killed within months or a couple of years of the action shown...

Some music listening and then closing the day with a final "Mrs Maisel" and to bed with tomorrow's sets in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

Today's New Music:-

WELCOME TO CRISPYCAT...

CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS
issue the solo and collaborational work of musician, broadcaster and abstract artist
DAVID REILLY

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LIVE PERFORMANCE
SCHEDULED APPEARANCES

TODAY!! - Saturday 27 July 2024, 7:30pm - Capital Models
Leith Dockers Club, 17 Academy Street, Leith, EH6 7EE
Repertoire: 3 Sets of Top Covers

 Thursday 22 August 2024, 8:00pm - Cloudland Blue Quartet
Out of the Bedroom, Safari Lounge, 21 Cadzow Place, Edinburgh EH7 5SN 
Repertoire: 3 song acoustic set (if slot secured)
and the following Thursdays, 8:00pm
29 August 2024
5 & 19 September 2024
3, 17 & 31 October 2024
14 & 28 November 2024
12 December 2024
and fortnightly Thursdays thereafter throughout 2025

Friday 30 August 2024, 2:00pm - Cloudland Blue Quartet
Fopp, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh
Repertoire: 40 Minute Soundscape Set "Live Suite 2024/25" (LP to be released 1 November 2024 on Bandcamp)
Available on the Day: First Very Limited Edition of Exclusive One-Off Live Suite CDs, each with Exclusive Content

Saturday 9 November 2024, 1:40pm - Cloudland Blue Quartet
Switched On Electronic Music Weekender, Flowergate Hall, Whitby, YO21 3BB
Repertoire: 40 Minute Soundscape Set "Live Suite 2024/25" (LP to be released 1 November 2024 on Bandcamp)
Available on the Day: Second Very Limited Edition of Exclusive One-Off Live Suite CDs, each with Exclusive Content

Date TBC - Capital Models
Scots Guards Club, Haymarket Edinburgh
Repertoire: Trio Formation (TBC) 2 Sets of Top Covers


CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS CURRENT RELEASE SCHEDULE

UPCOMING LPs (Subject to Change)

Friday 2 August 2024 (pre release issue Friday 26 July 2024)
Cloudland Blue Quartet: The Hessler Nowik Liminal Conundrum
(Soundscape LP)

Friday 30 August 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Live Suite 2024/25
First Very Limited Edition of Exclusive One-Off CDs, each with Exclusive Content
(Soundscape LP)

Friday 6 September 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Front Porch (CBQ Edition) 
(Soundscape LP)

Friday 4 October 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Providence
(Soundscape LP)

Friday 1 November 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Live Suite 2024/25
(Soundscape LP)

Saturday 9 November 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Live Suite 2024/25
Second Very Limited Edition of Exclusive One-Off CDs, each with Exclusive Content
(Soundscape LP)

Friday 6 December 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Disquietmusik VIII
(Soundscape LP)

Friday 3 January 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Variations on Brian Eno's "Discreet Music"
(Soundscape Variations LP)

Friday 7 February 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Wrexham
(Soundscape LP)

Friday 7 March 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Variations on Brian Eno's "On Land"
(Soundscape Variations LP)

Friday 4 April 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Dissolution V
(Piano Based Soundscape LP)

Friday 2 May 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Strand
(Soundscape LP)

Friday 6 June 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Gould
(Soundscape Composers LP)

Friday 4 July 2025
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Variations on Fripp & Eno
(Soundscape Variations LP)


UPCOMING COMPILATIONS (Subject to Change)

Friday 13 December 2024
Sombre Reptiles & Cloudland Blue Quartet: Decades (Compilation)

Friday 20 December 2024
Sombre Reptiles: Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995 (Compilation)

Tuesday 24 December 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Twentytwentyfour: The Originals (Compilation of 2024 Releases)

Tuesday 31 December 2024
Cloudland Blue Quartet: Twentytwentyfour (Compilation of Previously Unreleased 2024 Recordings)


CRISPYCAT RECORDINGS ON BANDCAMP

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DIARY

This main page contains Cloudland Blue : A Diary, with daily entries since 5 March 2005 (scroll down for the latest entries).

143 days are "picture only", across 4 periods:-
2022 (85): 18 April - 10 May (23); 6 July - 5 September (62)
2023 (58): 21 September - 15 October (25); 18 October - 19 November (33)

It is always the intention to update those days with the relevant text (for example, on 10 June 2024, first thing, I wrote up five missing days in June 2022) but doing so is, of course, subject to opportunity (and, indeed, memory!)...

Thursday, July 25, 2024

A day of rest and of not going out...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 1977-1996
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 1997-2005
Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1980s
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours [Expanded]
Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 2010s
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Various Artists - Blues & Soul Masters
Various Artists - Pure... Rock
Various Artists - Dockers Hits Sets
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2024 Vol 30 Long List
Various - The Marvelous Mrs Maisel OST
Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Hessler Nowik Liminal Conundrum

Up late...

And listening to the two suites I created a few weeks ago now using music recorded between 1977 and 1996 and between 1997 and 2005...


Not sure...

I have recharged the battery in my Samsung bridge camera and took a few pics...





Not sure...

Breakfast...




My face was pretty sore and I discovered too, overnight, that I have pain down my right side in my ribs, no doubt from the clattering I took...

Despite this, I spent a few hours today rehearsing for Saturday, going through all three sets (but no singing)...

On completing all of that satisfactorily, I packed up the equipment...


...and took a couple of pano shots of the tidied room...



I sourced a list of "100 songs every covers band should play" and, from that, around 50 which we don't and decided to test them out on Saturday re popularity by playing mixes of them between our sets - meaning I had to put those mixes together...

And so, I did...

I also rehearsed my three songs for Out of the Bedroom tonight...

This was me supposedly "resting"...

However, Anne persuaded me that to go would be a mistake, given my condition, and so I stayed in and will return in late August - and we enjoyed fayre from Wong's...


...and a few episodes of "The Marvelous Mrs Maisel", our new fave...

Later, I spent some time compiling a virtual 2CD set of the best of the "60s onwards" tracks used across the show's 5 seasons (we are at the start of season 2 already)...

This, and my new LP, out tomorrow, soundtracked the rest of the night...


Retired towards midnight, having taken a goodly amount of painkillers to assist with sleeping...

Highlight of the Day : Rehearsing...

Today's New Music:-