Break the Ice Around Us

from Sparklemusik by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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20/12/12

Up very early and a finalised version of “Riverleaves” created...

Shortened tracks, cross-faded with bursts of short wave radio to signify changes...

Kitty asked how to write a song...

So I told her of my often used lyric writing process of opening a book randomly, seeking an interesting sentence and using that as a starting point...

We went back upstairs to get some books and she took a look through the Documenta XII catalogue and opened it at a page featuring a work entitled “A Dance For Those of Us Whose Hearts Have Turned to Ice”...

....a video installation by the Peruvian born Toronto artist Luis Jacob...

Within a half an hour or so, we’d worked out two verses and chorus...

So we headed back upstairs to try out some chord sequences and some singing...

Within 90 minutes of opening the Documenta Catalog, we had a song called “Break the Ice Around Us”...

lyrics

A dance for those who play the game, whose hearts have turned to ice
And no one knows the real real name, and no-one knows the price
Give us one chance and our hearts will dance, and break the ice around us
You and I will dance so free, baby this was meant to be
Take my hand we’ll break the ice around us

A chance for those who play the game, whose hearts can hide a secret
And we all know who is to blame but deep down dare not speak it
Give us one chance and our hearts will dance and break the ice around us
You and I will dance so free, baby this was meant to be
Take my hand we’ll break the ice around us

credits

from Sparklemusik, released May 7, 2021
David Reilly - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Organ, SFX
Edward Spark - Synthesisers, Electronic Percussion, Additional Rhythm Bed
Kitty Gourlay - Backing Vocals
Oliver Gourlay - Backing Vocals

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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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