Variation on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports"

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The download version of "Variation on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports"" contains a further 239 minutes of material.

If it were to be available in physical form, it'd be a 4CD set - including three bonus discs, only available on download.

The bonus discs would comprise elements of the main track (which has had to be split into 2 parts due to Bandcamp's track length restrictions - you can hear the full track, "gapless", by downloading).

On the first bonus disc would be the 80 minute Guitarscape which permeates the main variation, comprising elements of three tracks from Cloudland Blue Quartet's "Disquietmusik" Series .

The second and third bonus discs would accommodate 80 minute solo versions of the choir and piano elements of the main variation.

If you download, you can choose WAV files of all the tracks and burn them to a 4CD box set or even have them pressed to around 8 LPs ... more

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	1.	Variation on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports" Pt 1 39:56	info	buy track
	2.	Variation on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports" Pt 2 39:59	info	buy track

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"Variation on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports"", like last month's companion LP, "Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon"", stems from a chance conversation re "the 1st 3 CDs you bought".

My first CD purchase, in October 1985, 36 years before this recording, was Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon".

I had to buy a CD player to listen to it. At 61 minutes long, it was the first recording to be made specifically to be released on the Compact Disc format.

Following the conversation, and while working on "Thursday Afternoon", I recalled that, at some point in the past, I had downloaded short replica loops of the piano and choir phrases which comprise much of Eno's ambient work "Music for Airports".

The day after recording my variation on "Thursday Afternoon", I set about recording this, second record.

As with the first of these two Eno Variation LPs, I added some CBQ to the mix, this time utilising three pieces from my "Disquietmusik" series, the opening track from the first of those albums and two backwards, half speed versions of two pieces from the third in the series.

Due to the chance nature of the combination of the various piano loops being utilised, a painstaking exercise to remove any clashing notes was also undertaken to ensure a reasonably peaceful listening experience (ok apart from, perhaps, some of the guitarscape!).

At 80 minutes, the full piece lasts much longer than either of the two tracks from "Music For Airports" upon which it's based ("2/1" & "1/2") but, due to time constraints placed by Bandcamp, it is split here into two parts, which can be rejoined and listened to "gaplessly" if you download the LP.

For bonus tracks (only available to downloaders), I added a further three pieces (again, each is necessarily split into two parts due to their 80 minute length).

Each is an element of the main work - the guitars, the choir and the piano.

I hope you enjoy this alternative take on a seminal piece from the birth of ambient music.

David Reilly
Edinburgh
4 November 2021

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released November 5, 2021

"Variation on Brian Eno's "Music For Airports"" is the 30th soundscapes album from Cloudland Blue Quartet (Crispycat 2111 - 5 November 2021)

Based on "2/1" and "1/2" from "Music For Airports", composed by Brian Eno. Arrangement, chance and additional guitarscapes by David Reilly

Guitar, treatment and manipulation, chance piano and choir loops, cover ("MFA", 23 September 2021) and production by David Reilly for Crispycat Recordings.

Source material comprises replica choir and piano loops, based on the pieces "2/1" and "1/2" by Brian Eno, with treated guitarscapes by David Reilly, "The Crucifixion (1515)" from "Disquietmusik", "Reservoir (1961) (Backwards) (16 RPM)" and "Smiling Landscape (1967) (Backwards) (16 RPM)" from "Disquietmusik III" by Cloudland Blue Quartet

Recorded at Crispycat Studio, Edinburgh, UK, 23, 24 September 2021. Guitars recorded at Crispycat Studio, Edinburgh, 8, 9 July 2017 and 10 November 2019.

(p) 2021 Crispycat Recordings © David Reilly 2021

Executive Producer : Anne Reilly

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

Bonus Material 239:14 (Download Only)

Disc 2:
Smiling Reservoir Crucifixion (Guitarscape) Pt 1 (48:14)
Smiling Reservoir Crucifixion (Guitarscape) Pt 2 (31:26)

Disc 3:
Music For Airports Choir Variation Pt 1 (39:56)
Music For Airports Choir Variation Pt 2 (39:59)

Disc 4:
Music For Airports Solo Piano Pt 1 (42:28)
Music For Airports Solo Piano Pt 2 (37:11)

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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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