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Having used samples of recordings by Brisbane’s “Sour Grapes Productions” on “Black Earth and the City Falls” from “Splinterheart”, I’d kept in touch with their Ryan Williamson. He posted an old instrumental piece of his on his blog. I loved the beautiful chord sequence he was using as soon as I heard it and felt I had to make this into a CBQ song (with his permission of course). For lyrics, I read up on the French town in question and just cut up phrases taken from descriptions of it. I doubled the length of Ryan’s track, added lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitars and some sampled birdsong and the piece was finished...
Favourite Line : “A tear shed by Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus”

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from Aftersilence​:​Songs, released May 7, 2011
Vendôme
(David Reilly/Ryan Williamson)
Original Source : Previously Unreleased
David Reilly - Vocals, Guitars, Samples; Ryan Williamson – Guitars, Keyboards, Bass, Vocoder, Drum Loop
Recording Date : 2001, 2007, November 2010

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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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