Cloudland Blue from Aftersilence:Soundscapes by Cloudland Blue Quartet
In 2003, having returned to live performance, I took a break from song writing for what would become the “Anotherhappyday” album and worked on some remixes of various “ambient” pieces produced over the previous ten years. When I say “remixes”, I mean adding rhythm tracks from a newly acquired drum machine in one take over unaltered slowly evolving pieces – I particularly liked the results of the rhythm improvs on this piece, the source having originally been recorded back in 1993 and which went on to be the name of the “band”...
Tracklist
| 21. | Cloudland Blue | 3:00 |
Credits
Cloudland Blue
(David Reilly)
Original Source : File Under Electronica
David Reilly – Keyboards, Rhythm Bed
Recording Date : April 1993, April 2003
License
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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...