Aftersilence:Soundscapes by Cloudland Blue Quartet

"From pure sensation to the intuition of beauty, from pleasure and pain to love and the mystical ecstasy and death — all the things that are fundamental, all the things that, to the human spirit, are most profoundly significant, can only be experienced, not expressed.

The rest is always and everywhere silence. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

When the inexpressible had to be expressed, Shakespeare laid down his pen and called for music. And if the music should also fail?

Well, there was always silence to fall back on. For always, always and everywhere, the rest is silence."

Aldous Huxley "The Rest is Silence"
from "Music at Night", 1931

For background on each piece, see the notes on individual tracks

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...

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