Twentytwentyone : The Originals, by Cloudland Blue Quartet

Twentytwentyone : The Originals

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This is a selection of tracks from the fourteen 2021 releases by Cloudland Blue Quartet. The collection is issued in anticipation of the final record of the year, "Twentytwentyone", due on 31 December.

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1.	Frica As Fear (Apples Mix) 02:58	info	buy track
2.	Berg II - Violin Concerto 03:37	info	buy track
3.	In Detail 06:06	info	buy track
4.	Wonderful Out Here 03:19	info	buy track
5.	The Actor Takes the Stage 02:17	info	buy track
6.	The Fourth Moveable Sky (2021 Remix) 05:14	info	buy track
7.	Esterházy 18:07	info	buy track
8.	Underground Like Doug McClure (Edward Spark West End Remix RSD 21 Ltd Edition) 06:59	info	buy track
9.	The Sky is Always Falling 06:24	info	buy track
10.	Cruel, Working (Like Patience on a Monument Pt II) 02:56	info	buy track
11.	Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" (Edit) 04:58	info	buy track
12.	Variation on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports" (Edit) 05:02	info	buy track
13.	The Wreck of the Hope (1824) 07:09	info	buy track
14.	The Uncertainty Touch (Edit) 03:35	info	buy track

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Released on Christmas Day 2021, this collection of four songs and ten instrumentals features 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.

Elements (February)
Schoenberg Webern Berg (March)
Dissolution (April)
Sparklemusik (May)
Silversongs 1996-2021 (Remakes) (June)
Silversounds 1996-2021 (Remixes) (June)
Haydn (July)
Underground Like Doug McClure (Record Store Day Limited Edition Single) (July)
Fallingsky (August)
Coldclear (September)
Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" (October)
Variation on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports" (November)
Disquietmusik V (December)
Twentytwentyone (December)

The album is issued a week before the final record of the year "Twentytwentyone", due on New Year's Eve, which will close off the year's work, by bringing together an extensive collection of previously unreleased songs, soundscapes, demos and remixes created during the last twelve months.

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released December 25, 2021

Twentytwentyone : The Originals is a compilation of tracks previously released by Cloudland Blue Quartet during 2021 (Crispycat 2113 - 25 December 2021)

Credits

All instruments, voices, treatments, cover (“28 November 2021 Inverted”) and production by David Reilly for Crispycat Recordings
with
Anne Reilly (Voice on "Frica is Fear")
Edward Spark (Synthesisers and Rhythm Beds on "Wonderful Out Here" and "Underground Like Doug McClure")

Recorded at Crispycat Studio, Edinburgh, UK, January to December, 2021

All pieces written by David Reilly

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

(p) 2021 Crispycat Recordings © David Reilly 2021

Executive Producer : Anne Reilly

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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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