Name: Art Awakening Rounds at Optivoz (No Problem Craft Mix)
Duration: P00H06M22S
Description: This did not start out as a song. The early mixes (all three of which, you can hear in the bonus section) exclude any vocal or only include the synthesised voice. The vocal was added later, along with a rethink of much of the track and the introduction of many new elements - not least the lyrics re a time traveler. Science fiction!

Art Awakening Rounds at Optivoz (No Problem Craft Mix)

from Twentytwentyone by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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This did not start out as a song. The early mixes (all three of which, you can hear in the bonus section) exclude any vocal or only include the synthesised voice. The vocal was added later, along with a rethink of much of the track and the introduction of many new elements - not least the lyrics re a time traveler. Science fiction!

lyrics

I really don't see, the problem here.
Why can't we just, sit down, and talk things through?
I really want, to get to the bottom, of what has gone wrong.
I promise, I won't blame you, for the mistakes, that have been made.
But if we could, only just talk about it, it would, make me feel so much better!

As I clambered to the top of the hill
I saw the people gathered
I remember their faces still
And the crosses

I had left my craft behind
I had come in search of the man
His face though looked like mine
At first I didn't understand

But I had done this
I had changed everything
My face was not his
His face was mine

There was no way to return
I had left my craft behind
I knew now I would burn
I had left my craft behind

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from Twentytwentyone, released December 31, 2021
David Reilly : Vocal, Voice Simulator, Guitars, Treatment, Synthesisers, Sequencers, Rhythm Beds, Short Wave Radio

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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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