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A year on from “Sospiri” I was working on the song based “Ersatzreal” but became sidetracked while trying to use Elgar’s “Nimrod” in some way. I ended up with a 40 minute or so track split into three parts on the unreleased album “Concrete”. It features the ultra slowed down “Nimrod” of the title, superimposed with treated-out-of-all-recognition tracks by Madonna and The Beatles – so much so that, while I can recall the Madonna track used was “Hollywood”, I can no longer make out which Beatles song was stretched and twisted. Nice to give it its first airing here though...

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from Aftersilence​:​Soundscapes, released May 7, 2011
Nimrod
(David Reilly)
Original Source : Previously Unreleased
David Reilly - Samples
Recording Date : December 2006

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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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