Track 1 from the Cloudland Blue Quartet LP "Bartok"

"Bartok" is the seventh in an ongoing series of "composer" releases by Cloudland Blue Quartet, which aim to take pieces by various composers (previous albums have featured treatments of works by Satie, Cage, Beethoven, Schoenberg/Webern/Berg, Haydn and Wagner) and warp them into something completely new, whilst retaining elements of the "DNA" of the original works.

"Bartok" was created in November 2022 in the midst of a complete changeover of the Crispycat Studio, a time of much stress indeed but which was eventually gotten through.

Diary entries here
21 November 2022 bit.ly/3LO92hD
23 November 2022 bit.ly/3LPRiCC
25 November 2022 bit.ly/3LPDCHW
27 November 2022 bit.ly/421uA00
28 November 2022 bit.ly/42kRS0q

The final day, on which the bonus tracks were created, also marked the recording of last year's "Disquietmusik VI" LP.

The pieces started out as treatments of the slow movement from Bartok's 1st string quartet, the results of which were deemed to be "not music" by the Exec... more

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released May 5, 2023

"Bartok" is the 45th soundscapes album from Cloudland Blue Quartet (Crispycat 2305 - 5 May 2023)

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Samples, field recordings, short wave radio, treatments, cover (“Bartok 3", 28 November 2022) and production by David Reilly for Crispycat Recordings

Created at Crispycat Studio, Edinburgh, UK, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28 November 2022.

Based on the following pieces by Bela Bartok
String Quartet
No.1 in A minor, op.7 - I, Lento
Solo Piano Pieces
The First Term At The Piano, Sz 53, 3 Dialogue Moderato
For Children, Sz. 42, Vol 1, 3 Quasi Moderato
For Children, Sz. 42, Vol 1, 9 Song Adagio
For Children, Sz. 42, Vol 3, 10 Funeral Song, Largo
For Children, Sz. 42, Vol 4, 34 Farewell, Adagio
Improvisations On Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz 74, 7, Sostenuto, rubato. A la memoire de Claude Debussy
Two Elegies, Op.8b, Sz.41, 1, Grave

Shortwave Radio
131492 (Backwards edited) (Forwards)
131491 (Fade In)
131534 (Heavily Edited, Partially reversed)
130199 (Edited)
131535
130200
131490
131493

Field recordings taken from "Tbilisi City Ambience" by Freetousesounds, available on Bandcamp

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

(p) 2023 Crispycat Recordings © David Reilly 2023

Executive Producer : Anne Reilly

Bonus Material (Download Only) (76:31)
Tracks 3 and 4 are clean mixes of the pieces, without field recordings and short wave radio.

3. Bartok Pt I (Clean Mix) 38:22
4. Bartok Pt II (Clean Mix) 38:09