Beautiful Thing

from Sparklemusik by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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29/08/19 & 30/08/19

Some work tonight...

...re working out some chords for Creeker Craig...

...which led me to work on a new piece based around an old track he did...

Some quick lyrics written but not yet sung...

Another dark piece...

I stumbled across an e-mail which arrived late last night from a German record company wanting to issue a limited edition vinyl box set of my cassette recordings made between 1977 and 1988...

Talk about a bolt from the blue...

Amazing - it seems it's perfectly genuine and I will pursue it...

That was of course the highlight of my day...

30/8/19

Early this morning, downstairs to record the vocal for the new piece "Beautiful Thing"...

...and a quick mix put together and uploaded for Creeker Craig's comments..

He loves it, of course...

lyrics

You are a beautiful thing
We have such beautiful fun
I like your beautiful face
You like my beautiful gun

We move with beautiful grace
We ride a beautiful wave
We die a beautiful death
One last beautiful breath

Spilt blood on our beautiful skin
No one knows where we have been
Till they find what we have done
Beautiful people beautiful gun

All the way down the beautiful road
Nothing to lose nothing to show
We live the beautiful life
We die the beautiful death

You for me and me for you
It comes to this it has to do
Nothing to say nothing to sing
We are the beautiful thing

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from Sparklemusik, released May 7, 2021
David Reilly - Vocals, Guitars, SFX, Field Recordings, Rhythm Bed
Edward Spark - Synthesisers, Rhythm Bed

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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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