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“Semi-Automatic” was one 80 minute improvisation, recorded in one take in late 1998 using the newly acquired looping technology which I’d coveted for some considerable time – since 1974 probably, three years before I started musicking. This is from the opening piece of the album which, later, featured some sample and guitar work too. This edit is restricted to synthesisers though. The album set the tone for the next period of instrumental CBQ work...

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from Aftersilence​:​Soundscapes, released May 7, 2011
Early (David Reilly)
Source : Semi-Automatic
David Reilly – Synthesisers
Recording Date : November 1998

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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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