Crispycat Recordings: Consolation platform boots and dog...

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Consolation platform boots and dog...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2

Capital Models - 2024-04-14 Leith Dockers Club (Mastered)

Soft Cell - What? E.P.

Various Artists - The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed

Elephant9 - Mythical River

Falco - Junge Roemer - Deluxe Edition

Aleksi Perälä - CHILDREN OF LIGHT 8

Simon McCorry & Wodwo - Every Creeping Thing

Andrew Heath - The Cloud Machine

Musica Antiqua Köln - Deutsche Kammermusik vor Bach

PAKT - No Steps Left To Trace

Gary Husband - The Complete Diary Of A Plastic Box

Stevenson - Piano Music, Vol. 5

Capital Models - 2024-04-21

Up and listening again to the new GLAM! and then the Leith Dockers tapes...

...the latter of which, post breakfast...

...soundtracked the trip over to Paul's to pick him up and then out to Roslin for our final rehearsal pre the wedding on 4th May...

We made our way through the four sets but only playing any songs which any one or more of us reckoned we needed to tighten up or work on...

...which amounted to 25 of the 45...

As a reward for this work, there was cake at the break...

Met up with Anne later at Jane and Bob's - they were watching the Hearts semi final against Scotland's newest club, said club doing for the JT's 2-0...

Oh well, by way of consolation, here are fave niece Kitty's platform boots...

...and Rafa the Dog...

Tesco/Lidl for tea on the way home, haggis and mash for me, Macaroni Cheese for Anne...

In today's English semi-final, Coventry City came back from 3-0 down at 70 mins against Manchester United at Wembley to make it 3-3 at 90+6 and forced extra time...

They scored a fourth in the dying seconds of said Extra Time only to have it chalked off by VAR for a millimeter measurement offside - and then Man U had their first penalty saved but Coventry subsequently also had one saved and then ballooned one over the bar...

Such is football...

A very good "Astrid", then, to the machines, where I noted, reliability of the laptop is back up again over the last week or so, which is good...

Edited the sessions from today - 3 hours of playing whittled down to 90 minutes of music...

Some discoveries nabbed for the library and then a "Monk" and lights out...

Another good day...

Highlight of the Day : Rehearsing

Today's New Music:-

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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!