Can I Speak to One of You

from Sparklemusik by Cloudland Blue Quartet

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8/08/19

Up early...

...and working on the computer on a new track...

...which ended up being called "Can I Speak to One of You", based around the opening bass synth line from the last of the three tracks that Edward Spark sent to me a few weeks ago now...

The final version (from this morning that is) was deemed very good indeed by him...

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The truck pulled up
As I was walking at the side of the road
The men got out
They approached me with their guns

They asked to see my papers
They asked me who I was
Their questions came too fast
I couldn't understand

Can I speak to one of you
Was the only thing I said

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from Sparklemusik, released May 7, 2021
David Reilly - Vocals, Short Wave Radio, Field Recordings, SFX, Arrangement, 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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