The Uncertainty Touch
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With this release, Cloudland Blue Quartet accepted a challenge to create a new album utilising material originally created by The Cheeky Girls. He has succeeded! He has made one of the most reviled singles in music history more “listenable”. The main LP is the equivalent of a 2LP set or a single CD. Downloaders receive five bonus tracks (a further 80 minutes or so), giving, in total, the equivalent of two double LPs or 2CD set.
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Variations on Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music” Vol I
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Cloudland Blue Quartet has undertaken the difficult task of trying to make one of the most reviled albums in music history more “listenable”. The variations are the equivalent of a new 2LP set or single CD. Downloaders receive eight bonus tracks (a further 129 minutes), giving the equivalent of a further two double LPs or 2 CDs.
Twentytwentyone
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“Twentytwentyone” is a 2CD equivalent collection of 29 previously unreleased songs, soundscapes, demos and remixes from across the spectrum of music recorded by Cloudland Blue Quartet from January to December 2021, including a selection of collaborations and “integrations” with Edward Spark, Tim Webb, Stu Cobley and Capital Models. For downloaders, there are a further 28 tracks in the bundle, taking the duration up to almost 6 hours.
Twentytwentyone : The Originals
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Twenytwentyone : The Originals, released on Christmas Day 2021, is a collection of four songs and ten instrumentals featuring one track from each of the 14 items issued by Cloudland Blue Quartet during 2021, all of which, including extensive bonus material for those who download, remain available exclusively on Bandcamp.
Disquietmusik V
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The fifth in an annual series of Guitarscapes albums from Cloudland Blue Quartet, following on from the successes of “Disquietmusik” in 2017, “Disquietmusik II” in 2018, “Disquietmusik III” in 2019 and “Disquietmusik IV” in 2020. The album has a duration of just over 40 minutes, while the download-only version includes a further three and a half hours of bonus material, comprising three alternative versions of the album, “Disquietmusik V (Reversed)”, “Disquietmusik V (16 RPM)” and “Disquietmusik V (16 RPM) (Reversed)”.
Variation on Brian Eno's ``Music For Airports``
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Like “Variation on Brian Eno’s “Thursday Afternoon””, this almost simultaneously recorded piece is based on replica loops used by Eno in his original work, comprising piano & choir phrases used on “2/1” and “1/2” from “Music For Airports” (1978), combined, in chance formations, with a new CBQ guitarscape, created by the treatment and manipulation of three pieces from the “Disquietmusik” Frippertronics series. The 80 minute variation can be listened to “gaplessly” by downloading (Downloaders also receive 4 hours of exclusive bonus material).
Variation on Brian Eno's ``Thursday Afternoon``
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Stemming from a chance conversation about “the first three CDs you bought” (David’s 1st was Eno’s “Thursday Afternoon” in October 1985), this LP uses replicas of the piano, sine wave, drone and shimmer loops used by Eno on the original recording, along with half speed “sky saw” guitar recorded by David in 1997. The new piece is roughly the same length as Eno’s original and can be listened to “gaplessly” if you download the LP (Downloaders also receive 2 hours of exclusive bonus material).
Coldclear
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Twenty six relatively short ambient works, created by the treatment of six edits of pieces originally recorded and released by David as The Heavenly Music Corporation in January 1989. Many of the pieces on the album appear to have absolutely nothing going on except a far off drone but, if you listen closely, you may hear what are, by definition, almost imperceptible changes in the ambience, created by the treatment.
Fallingsky
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Eight new songs, seven written and recorded in quick succession in July 2021, while the opening track was created shortly after the release of “Sparklemusik”. Each is based around loops and samples (including of CBQ’s own work) which have been edited, manipulated, treated and arranged into brand new creations.
Haydn
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Along with my previous works based on the music of Satie, Cage, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, I had long wanted to create an album around the music of Joseph Haydn but the inspiration for these recordings came, initially, from the music of Steve Reich.
Silversounds 1996 - 2021 (Remixes)
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“Silversounds 1996-2021 (Remixes)” is a companion collection to the “Silversongs 1996-2021 (Remakes)” set, also available on Bandcamp, with the two albums being released simultaneously, on the 25th anniversary of the first CBQ release.
Silversongs 1996 - 2021 (Remakes)
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“Silversongs 1996-2021 (Remakes)” is a companion collection to the “Silversounds 1996-2021 (Remixes)” set, also available on Bandcamp, with the two albums being released simultaneously, on the 25th anniversary of the first CBQ release.
Sparklemusik
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Since the release of my last song-based LP “Starlightnight”, in August 2012, I’ve been concentrating on soundscape releases and am now, probably, better known for those LPs, than the nine, song-based records, I released from 1997 to 2012, all of which are still available here.
But now, at last, these are the sixteen songs of “Sparklemusik”, the follow up to “Starlightnight”.
Schoenberg Webern Berg
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I was listening to a disc of Schoenberg’s piano music in early February and it occurred to me that the next recording in my “composer” series, following on from “Satie”, “Cage” and “Beethoven”, could be based on the Second Viennese School.
Elements
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Elements is a collection of new pieces created in January 2021 by Cloudland Blue Quartet, originally to be included on his long-running weekly podcast on Mixcloud (“Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection”).
Twentytwenty
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Twentytwenty (Crispycat 2008 – 31 December 2020) is a compilation of recordings made during 2020 by Cloudland Blue Quartet, often in collaboration with others or integrating others’ work into the pieces.
The Surrender of Barcelona (1934 - 1937) EP
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This EP represents the fruits of an improvisational collaboration between David Reilly of Cloudland Blue Quartet and Capital Models drummer, John Weitzen and is based around the guitarscape “The Surrender of Barcelona (1934-1937)”, taken from the CBQ album “Disquietmusik IV”, released earlier in December.
Disquietmusik IV
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The fourth in an annual series of guitarscapes albums from Cloudland Blue Quartet, following on from the successes of “Disquietmusik” in 2017, “Disquietmusik II” in 2018 and “Disquietmusik III” in 2019.