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We issue the solo and collaborative work of musician, podcaster and abstract artist
DAVID REILLY
This is the Cloudland Blue Diary, with daily entries
from Sunday 5 March 2005 through to Monday 1 December 2025...
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ABOUT NEWS MUSIC PODCASTS ART RECOMENDED LISTENING
In the diary, currently, 150 days are "picture only", across 6 periods in 4 of the 21 years:-
2016: 15-17 October (3 Days)
2021: 8-21 May (14 Days)
2022: 18 April - 10 May & 6 July - 5 September (85 Days)
2023: 1 - 15 October & 18 October - 19 November (48 Days)
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
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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 over 85 further new releases having been issued in the last five years.
The current 14 strong pipeline (see below) will take matters to October 2026 and beyond the 30th anniversary of Cloudland Blue Quartet's debut recordings, pushing the total CBQ releases available on Bandcamp to almost 140.
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...
In 2025, Crazy Wisdom and Capital Models have also released new recordings...
LATEST CBQ RELEASE
As always from Crispycat Recordings, entirely Free to Stream or Name Your Price (including zero) to Download (with bonuses)
For lovers of Frippertronics, "Disquietmusik IX" is the ninth in the annual series of Guitarscapes albums from Cloudland Blue Quartet, following on from the successes of "Disquietmusik" in 2017 through to "Disquietmusik VIII" in 2024, all eight of which remain available on Bandcamp.
These annual recordings of, frankly, weird and, occasionally, very annoying "music", have become the basis of much of what Cloudland Blue Quartet does over each following twelve month period, popping up, often re-pitched and/or re-tempo-ed, in the strangest of places, underpinning other new recordings or in his remixes of his own and of other artists' works.
"Disquietmusik" has come to represent a signature sound of CBQ's oeuvre.
Free to Stream/Name Your Price to Download, the 67 min LP is expanded in the download bundle by over 5hrs 20mins, making this the equivalent of a 6CD Box Set.
The 3 bonus albums, "Disquietmusik IX (Reversed)", "Disquietmusik IX (16 RPM)" and "Disquietmusik IX (16 RPM) (Reversed)", each give a different perspective on the pieces.
CBQ has said: "If I decided not to do anything else from now on, I'd still do these every year..."
CURRENT CBQ RELEASE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, 24 December, 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyfive: The Originals (17th in The Collections Series) (to be compiled December 2025)
Wednesday, 31 December, 2025: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyfive (Compilation of Rarities recorded throughout 2025) (18th in The Collections Series) (to be compiled December 2025)
Friday, 2 January, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Shostakovich (10th in The Composers Series) (Recorded March 2025)
Friday, 6 February, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Low Peach Winter Sun (40th in The Soundscapes Series) (Recorded July 2025)
Friday, 1 May, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Cobalt (42nd in The Soundscapes Series) (Recorded August 2025)
Friday, 6 March, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet & Joe Higham - Materialisation (41st in The Soundscapes Series) (Recorded June and July 2025)
Friday, 3 April, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution VI (6th in The Dissolution Piano Series) (to be recorded March 2026)
Saturday, 11 April, 2026 (Record Store Day): Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! FOUR (5th in the GLAM! Covers Series) (Recorded February-October 2024)
Friday, 5 June, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dark (43rd in The Soundscapes Series) (Recorded August 2025)
Wednesday, 10 June, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Drift (Slow Songs 1996-2026 30 Years of Cloudland Blue Quartet) (19th in The Collections Series) (to be compiled May 2026)
Friday, 3 July, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Across the Landscape (44th in The Soundscapes Series) (Recorded October 2025)
Friday, 7 August, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Broken (19th in The Songs Series) (Recorded November 2025)
Friday, 4 September, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Elevation (45th in The Soundscapes Series) (Recorded November 2025)
Friday, 2 October, 2026: Cloudland Blue Quartet - Music for Guitar and String Quartet in 18 Movements (46th in The Soundscapes Series) (Recorded November 2025)
(All artwork, releases and release dates subject to change)
UPCOMING LIVE PERFORMANCES
There are currently no performances planned
Performances include solo appearances, as Cloudland Blue Quartet, presenting sets of either songs or soundscapes, and group performances, with the current line up of David's 1980 new wave band, Capital Models
At present there are no plans for his electronic improvisational quartet, Creek, to play live and nothing in the calendar for Cloudland Blue Quartet or Capital Models but a gig by vocal/electronic trio, Crazy Wisdom, is mooted in 2026...
PODCASTS
Since 2014, David has produced almost 750 editions of the "Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection", his weekly podcast on Mixcloud, reflecting his esoteric taste in music and encouraging listeners to broaden their musical horizons.
Unfortunately, with only the most recent 10 able to be made available on the Mixcloud platform, each new podcast replaces the one from 10 weeks before.
To obtain an MP3 download link for any currently unavailable Cloudland Blue Quartet Eclectic Selection, simply e-mail your request to crispycat@hotmail.com.
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