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Also stemming from live shows in 2004, the “Fifty Five Songs” series which comprised song-based performances over five weeks featuring, as you might have surmised, fifty five different songs from the CBQ and Sombre Reptiles back catalogue. Each night began with a soundscape and “A Tendency to Persist” was the 17 minute piece which survived from the recordings. The edit featured here is a little frantic and tuneless to begin with before settling into the usual routine - but it offsets some of the other material on this disc quite nicely I think....

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from Aftersilence​:​Soundscapes, released May 7, 2011
A Tendency to Persist
(David Reilly)
Original Source : Fifty Five Songs
David Reilly - Guitar
Recording Date : August 2004

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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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