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Along with “We Drove”, this is probably my favourite song on “Soundingfall” and, indeed, one of my all time favourite CBQ songs. I’d been working on the music and the strange way of playing the opening two chords for around a year before finalising the song. The majority of the lyric, other than the opening and closing verses, was written in Canada in 2008, based on a piece by Alistair Cooke in his “Letters from America” series, which I was reading at the time...
Favourite Line : “I walked through the silence and the colour and the heat and in the twilight saw his fingers play the barrel of his gun“

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from Aftersilence​:​Songs, released May 7, 2011
Blend
(David Reilly)
Original Source : Soundingfall
David Reilly - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Percussion
Recording Date : September 2008 – April 2009

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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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