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)
Credits
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
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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