Crispycat Recordings: Rehearsing, mixing, posterising...

Friday, May 10, 2024

Rehearsing, mixing, posterising...

Playlist

The Tangent - To Follow Polaris

David Bowie - Sound & Vision : Milton Keynes Bowl 1990

David Bowie - Tokyo FM 1990

North Sea String Quartet - Splunge

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Mercurial (Rejected Mixes)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Zero Eight Three (Ambient Mix)

Angus & Julia Stone - Cape Forestier

Capital Models - 2024-05-09 (DR & JB Instrumental)

Capital Models - Leith Dockers Mock Up (No JB)

Harry Nilsson - A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Zero Eight Three (2024 Mixes) (Mastered)

Positive Force - We Got The Funk

Pere Ubu - 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo

Scant pickings on yet another New Music Friday (see below)...

More rehearsing today following the feedback between me and Impossible John last night re the session...

I will play bass on 10 of the, now, 38 songs across the three sets...

It was, as ever, early...

Breakfast...

...and I decided to redo the ambient LP created yesterday, shortening the tracks by removing around 18 minutes of "between pieces" field recording based stuff...

And so I have bonus tracks!

At lunchtime, I managed to damage the kitchen work surface with a knife while cutting cheese on a piece of plastic...

Very depressing (First World Problems)...

A call from Leith Dockers' Sarah, asking for some posters for the 25 May gig...

Duly created, based around this...

Out and over through town - good chat and the distinct possibility of more gigs there (if we go down well on the 25th)...

In the charity shop on the corner, this for £1 (and a Nilsson CD I already have...)

Home via our old street...

...and to rehearsing, creating a mock up of the sets and running through the first two, using both guitar and bass, as per the plan...

A break for tea...

...then, back to it and the third set done...

Not too bad but I still haven't sung along with playing the bass...

Felt like a Saturday or a Sunday today but it was, as noted here, Friday...

Some "Monk", of course...

It had been another good day...

Highlight of the Day : Encouraging Dockers feedback...

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!