The Uncertainty Touch, by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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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1.	The Uncertainty Touch I 12:50	buy track
2.	The Uncertainty Touch II 25:41	buy track
3.	The Uncertainty Touch III 12:50	buy track
4.	The Uncertainty Touch IV 25:41	buy track

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A new soundscape album recorded in November last year and made available at the time for 7 days via WeTransfer but only as a low quality MP3 download, "The Uncertainty Touch" has been expanded to four tracks with a further 25 minutes of music. For downloaders, there are a further 5 tracks to give a 2nd CD. Recorded as a reaction to a reaction on Twitter re his working on variations on Lou Reed's unlistenable "Metal Machine Music" - he was asked "when are you doing The Cheeky Girls". Here that is...once again, the unlistenable has been made listenable.

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released March 4, 2022

The Uncertainty Touch is the 33rd soundscapes album from Cloudland Blue Quartet (Crispycat 2202 - 4 March 2022)

Credits

Guitars, treatments, cover (“Girls of Uncertainty", 19 November 2021) and production by David Reilly for Crispycat Recordings

Created at Crispycat Studio, Edinburgh, UK, 19 November, 2021
"The Uncertainty of the Poet (1913)" guitarscape recorded 9 July 2017, originally released on "Disquietmusik"

With thanks to Andy Long for the inspiration.

For best results, please listen on headphones, in the dark

(p) 2022 Crispycat Recordings © David Reilly 2022

Executive Producer : Anne Reilly

Bonus Material (Download Only)
The Uncertainty of the Poet (2013) (Uncertainty Touch Mix) 12:50
Touch V (Part I) 25:50
Touch V (Part II) 18:36
Touch V (Part III) 11:31
Touch V (Part IV) 10:53

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Cloudland Blue Quartet Edinburgh, UK

A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting... ... more

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