Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon"

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The download version of "Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon"" contains a further 124 minutes of material. If it were to be available in physical form, it'd be a 3CD set - including two 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 30 minute Piano and Sine wave version and the 28 minute Guitar, Drone and Shimmer version of the piece. The second bonus disc would accommodate the almost hour long "Flitterkram" version, along with the ten minute final bonus track, which features the voice of Mr Eno, recorded in 1983. If you download, you can choose WAV files of all the tracks and burn them to a 3CD box set or even have them pressed to around 7 LPs.

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	1.	Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" (Pt 1) 30:38	info	buy track
	2.	Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" (Pt 2) 31:38	info	buy track

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This album stems from a chance conversation about "the first three 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, I recalled that, back in January 2021, I had downloaded replica loops of the short phrases of both piano and sine waves used by Eno on his original recording, along with replicas of the three elements that made the background drone.

And so, I had the raw materials to create a new variation of his piece.

I also recalled that, back in February 1997, I had recorded a 30 minute guitar solo over a loop of part of the original track. This was briefly available as a 2CD set by Cloudland Blue Quartet, entitled "Flitterkram : The Music of Fripp and Eno" (which also contained versions of "Swastika Girls", "Discreet Music" and "Evening Star").

I added that element to the new piece, slowing it down to half speed and keeping it mainly in the background, apart from some of the final bursts of guitar from the very end of the piece, which I excised, edited and treated and turned into a further loop which features throughout the new 2021 variation.

The full piece lasts roughly the same time as Eno's original but, due to time constraints placed by Bandcamp, 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 created a further three mixes.

Firstly, the random loops of piano and sine wave which run twice through the main piece.

Then, the CBQ elements of the slowed down original recording and final sky saw guitar bursts (with Eno's replicated shimmer in the background).

Finally, an hour or so long piece which brings the 1997 "Flitterkram" version out of the background and into the foreground, albeit at half the original speed.

As one more bonus, I created a comparatively short mix of the track but with the addition of a found interview with Brian Eno, from 1983, again treated and processed.

Whilst recording this LP, I have also prepared a "variation" album based on Eno's "Music For Airports", which will be released in 2022. For now, though, I hope you enjoy this alternative take on a seminal piece from the birth of the CD.

David Reilly
Edinburgh
29 September 2021

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released October 1, 2021

"Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon"" is the 29th soundscapes album from Cloudland Blue Quartet (Crispycat 2110 - 1 October 2021)

Based on the original recording of "Thursday Afternoon", composed by Brian Eno. Arrangement and additional material by David Reilly

Guitar, sine and piano loop manipulation, drone and shimmer manipulation and treatment, cover ("Page Seven", 23 September 2021) and production by David Reilly for Crispycat Recordings.

Source material comprises replica sine wave, piano, drone and shimmer loops, based on the piece "Thursday Afternoon" by Brian Eno, along with treated sky saw guitar from the now deleted Cloudland Blue Quartet LP "Flitterkram : The Music of Fripp & Eno"

Recorded at Crispycat Studio, Edinburgh, UK, 22, 23, 28, 29 September 2021. Sky Saw Guitar, recorded at Reptile Studio, Edinburgh, February 1997.

(p) 2021 Crispycat Recordings © David Reilly 2021

Executive Producer : Anne Reilly

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

Bonus Material 124.22 (Download Only)

Disc 2:
Piano & Sine Wave Variation (30:14)
Guitar, Drone & Shimmer Variation (27:56)

Disc 3:
Flitterkram Variation (56:25)
"You Have A Lot More To Do, Rather Than Less To Do" (9:47)

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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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