Coming up for sixty...

Playist

Glasperlenspiel - Licht & Schatten [Deluxe Edition]

Microtrauma - Soñar

Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth

Ministry - AmeriKKKant

John Grant - Love Is Magic

The Eternalist - Nothing is Going Back to How it Was Before

The Sea Within - The Sea Within

Soft Machine - Hidden Details

Laura Pausini - Fatti sentire

Bill Frisell - Music IS

Craig Armstrong - Sun On You

Dinosaur - Wonder Trail

Max Richter - Hostiles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Nightports with Matthew Bourne - Nightports with Matthew Bourne

Jlin - Autobiography

Toundra - Vortex

Martin Speake - Intention

Françoise Hardy - Personne d'autre

Nils Frahm - All Melody

Tangents - New Bodies

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall

Van William - Countries

Rocket Miner - The Long Goodbye

The Paper Kites - On the Train Ride Home

Uriah Heep - Living The Dream

Eels - The Deconstruction

Johnny Jewel - Digital Rain

Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism

CB3 - From Nothing to Eternity

God Is an Astronaut - Epitaph

Markus Guentner - Empire

Rhye - Blood

Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt

Capital Models - 2018-09-01 Roslin Fun Day

Rhythms Del Mundo - Classics

Capital Models - 2018-06-24/2018-07-08

Joseph Arthur - Lou

Various - Soul 1962, Vol 1

Today at lunchtime, Secret Santa purchases made - which included a trip to Fopp, where this was acquired for me - 100 tracks for £3...

Tasty...

In the evening, excellent fishcakes were followed by a welcome visit from 60 on Friday Keith...

We musicked...

..and chatted with Anne and decided on a 10 song set list for the next Capital Models outing in February - at Keith's then belated birthday bash...

Post his leaving, some listening, ripping and "Holby"...

Today's artwork, "Rehearsal Space"...

Highlight of the Day : Musicking with a chum...

New quartets are usually good...

Playlist

Umphrey's McGee - it's not us

The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution

Matthew Florianz - Onontgonnen

Rhye - Blood

Bill Frisell - Music IS

John Grant - Love Is Magic

Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism

Son Lux - Brighter Wounds

God Is an Astronaut - Epitaph

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik II

CB3 - From Nothing to Eternity

Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth

Federico Albanese - By the Deep Sea

Glasperlenspiel - Licht & Schatten [Deluxe Edition]

Haken - Vector

Ministry - AmeriKKKant

The Sea Within - The Sea Within

Martin Speake - Intention

Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt

Villa-Lobos - Villa-Lobos: The Complete String Quartets

Liszt - Liszt: Oeuvres pour Piano

Love Parade - Half the Civilised World

Spock's Beard - Noise Floor

Luke Howard - Open Heart Story

Microtrauma - Soñar

A cold morning...

This evening this box arrived...

Had tried to buy it in Karlsrhue back in June but it had been sold out...

Top notch music from Brasil's No 1 composer - much recommended...

Today's artwork, "Early Morning Car"...

Highlight of the Day : New String Quartets...

No animals were injured...

Playlist

Haken - Vector

Meshell Ndegeocello - Ventriloquism

Cosmic Ground - Cosmic Ground IV

King Crimson - 2018 Tour

Various - 101 Northern Soul Anthems

Eklund - Music For Orchestra, String Quartet

Umphrey's McGee - it's not us

Van William - Countries

Max Richter - Hostiles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Microtrauma - Soñar

John Surman - Invisible Threads

Nils Frahm - All Melody

Rhye - Blood

Long Distance Calling - Boundless

Johnny Jewel - Digital Rain

Son Lux - Brighter Wounds

Matthew Florianz - Onontgonnen

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall

Al Di Meola - Opus

Federico Albanese - By the Deep Sea

Moby - Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt

Ministry - AmeriKKKant

Laura Pausini - Fatti sentire

Bill Frisell - Music IS

CB3 - From Nothing to Eternity

Eels - The Deconstruction

The Paper Kites - On the Train Ride Home

Martin Speake - Intention

GoGo Penguin - A Humdrum Star

Grouper - Grid of Points

God Is an Astronaut - Epitaph

Françoise Hardy - Personne d'autre

Jon Hopkins - Singularity

Trio HLK - Standard Time

Shatner's Bassoon - Disco Erosion

Brad Mehldau Trio - Seymour Reads the Constitution!

Spock's Beard - Noise Floor

Rocket Miner - The Long Goodbye

Dinosaur - Wonder Trail

Sloth Racket - A Glorious Monster

Nightports with Matthew Bourne - Nightports with Matthew Bourne

The Sea Within - The Sea Within

Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth

Creek - 1997-06-08

Zwoyld - Zgond

Tangents - New Bodies

Toundra - Vortex

The Eternalist - Nothing is Going Back to How it Was Before

The Necks - Body

The Bad Plus - Never Stop II

The Pineapple Thief - Dissolution

Uriah Heep - Living The Dream

Craig Armstrong - Sun On You

Kamaal Williams - The Return

tide/edit - All My Friends

Markus Guentner - Empire

Soft Machine - Hidden Details

Luke Howard - Open Heart Story

Mark Wingfield - Tales From the Dreaming City

Glasperlenspiel - Licht & Schatten [Deluxe Edition]

Jlin - Autobiography

John Grant - Love Is Magic

Roine Stolt's The Flower King - Manifesto Of An Alchemist

Madredeus - O Paraiso

Lucy Kaplansky - The Tide

Shelby Starner - From the Shadows

Once again up early...

Working away on inconsequential pish...

My music collection is like Anne's garden...

No matter how much you tidy it up, there's always more work to do and the tidying never lasts too long...

Anyway...

By the wonders of technology, we watched a recital streamed live from the Wigmore Hall...

Then, a visit from new kid on the block, Sid...

She did not come in...

Over to the infirmary in the afternoon to visit my mum and gee her on to do some walking about...

On the way home, some shopping - I picked up these - raved about by Nashville chum Chris Schappert on the Twitter recently...

Hopes were high but, sadly, no better really than Quorn...

Later, the last in the current, extremely disappointing series of "Dr Who" - the worst since its revival in 2005...

This episode was pretty good - but only in comparison to those which preceded it in the series - which is not saying much..

Oh well, i'll still watch on New Year's Day...

Today's artwork, "No Animals Were Injured"...

Highlight of the Day : Kind of being at the Wigmore Hall...

New boxes and prep for release...

Playlist

Capital Models - 2018-12-02
Capital Models - 2018-09-01 Roslin Fun Day
The Notet - Silent D
Capital Models - 2018-05-13
Dover Quartet - Haydn Bartok Zemlinsky Edinburgh Queens Hall 2018-08-06
Roine Stolt's The Flower King - Manifesto Of An Alchemist
Various Composers - 16th Century Music for Viols
Various Composers - Music For The Spanish Kings
De Rore - St John Passion
Joanna MacGregor - Play
Dowland - Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares
Monteverdi - Teatro D'amore
Allegri - Miserere/Messe/Motets
D'India - Il Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (1607)
Schütz - Symphoniae sacrae I
Marini - Curiosi & Moderne Inventioni
Corelli - La Folia
Marais; Sainte-Colombe - The Greatest Masterworks
Purcell - Essential Purcell
Albinoni - Oboe Concertos Complete Op 7 & 9
Vivaldi - LCO 07 : Vivaldi
Telemann - Parisian Quartets
Rameau - Suites pour Ballet
Heinichen - Dresden Concerti
Händel - Chamber Music (Complete)
J S Bach - Das Orgelwerk - Complete Edition
Richter - Quatuors opus 5
Boyce - The Eight Symphonies (Menihun)
Bach, C P E - Cello Concertos, WQ 170-172
Haydn - Streichtrios
Bach, J C - Johann Christian Bach Symphonies
Dittersdorf - Symphonies in D Major, A Major and E Flat Major
Mozart - Requiem
Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets
Field - Piano Music, Vol. 1
Schubert - Piano Trios
Mendelssohn - Streichquartette
Schumann - String Quartets No. 1 & 2
Liszt - Piano Concertos 1 & 2; Totentanz
Janacek - Piano Works
Debussy - Works For Piano
Satie - Piano Works
Zemlinsky - String Quartets 1 & 2
Scriabin - Piano Works
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik II
Liszt - Oeuvres pour Piano

Herbert von Karajan - Karajan Orchestral Spectaculars 1949-1960

Up super early...

Working on the recording of the Capital Models gig from, unbelievably, 14 weeks ago today - and, finally, issuing the tracks out to the boys for them to have a listen...

Also, seven (count 'em) podcasts uploaded - the part 2's of this year's volumes 1-5, my Top 20 UK Number 1 singles - all recorded over the last couple of weeks, with minimal, if any, chat - plus this week's actual programme - 30 tracks of superbness...

On the Twitter - chum Sid Smith slated a documentary on Roxy Music on BBCFour last night which I didn't see - I suggest people just watch this and make up their own minds and maybe do some background reading instead of a slapdash talking heads pile o pish...

Also inspired by Twitter - by the Dancing Monk - from whom I recently bought my second iPod Classic - listening to my playlist of 500 years of music - 10 classical pieces from each of the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries - while doing some background reading...

Nice...

At 10, as arranged, the arrival of drummer/bassist Keith....

But no drumming or bassing took place - instead, he was very kindly sorting out some roof work...

Post work, some coffee, lovely biscuits and music chat - accompanied by the Squirrel...

Then, down to Corstorphine to trawl the charity shops to find some books for my mum to read to stave off the boredom of hospital life...

Two secured - erm, along with these tasty treats...

In the afternoon, took Anne to her mum's for today's triumph by the Jam Tarts, 1-0 over the Steel Men of Motherwell - while, in Dingwall, Queens snuck into 4th position with a well earned away 1-1 draw against Ross County, sans Mr Dobbie...

Meanwhile, your correspondent was back at the infirmary...

Mum was pleased with her raggedy second hand books...

...and took a walk along the corridor...

Alison Reilly, yes...

She was pretty good - better at walking than I've seen her on previous "visits" to this establishment...

Out into the dark...

A year ago tomorrow, a picture of this very wall adorned the cover of my LP "Disquietmusik" - tomorrow, the Berlin Wall will adorn the second volume...

The walk back to the car...

...watched by crows...

Hello Mr Crow...

Back where I'd started...

Home and some ripping and listening to the new boxes - on Anne's return, very tasty steak pie tea and the semi-final of "Strictly", followed by more ripping and listening...

Sibelius rocks...

And the new album, uploaded to Bandcamp for release tomorrow...

To bed near midnight...

Today's artwork, "Oxygen Tower"...

Highlight of the Day : Prep for release...

There being no point in moaning doesn't seem to stop the moaning...

Playlist

Tarwater - Inside the Ships

Various - The Best Air Guitar Album In The World Ever

Lou Donaldson - Midnight Creeper

Danny Driver - Dale: Piano Sonata; Bowen: Miniature Suite

Al Green - The Hi Records Singles Collection

Jackson Browne - The Very Best Of Jackson Browne

Steep Canyon Rangers - Nobody Knows You

Various - 101 Stax

Various - 60s Jukebox - The Ultimate Collection

Ghost - In Stormy Nights

Françoise Hardy - Love Songs

Weather Report - The Agora, Columbus Ohio October 17 1972

Lang Lang - Best Of Lang Lang

Various Composers - Baroque Trio Sonatas

Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker Plays It Cool

Roedelius - Kollektion

Capital Models - Live at the Kilted Pig 2012-04-21

Various - The Spoken Word - British Writers

Anthony Phillips - Soiree (Private Parts & Pieces X)

Moby - Music From Porcelain

Jean-Claude Vannier - En public & Fait maison

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Reworx

Miles Davis & Gil Evans - Complete Columbia Recordings/Sampler

Cluster - Japan Live

Ed Sheeran - Plus

Another day...

To Dunfermline this afternoon to assist a company with my knowledge of things companies can do...

Home, then, with the EP, over to the infirmary to visit my mum...

It seems she has cellulitis and some kind of small blood infection...

After 15 minutes of moaning and complaining about stupid stuff she really just ought to be accepting, she was in good spirits and enjoyed a walkabout...

On leaving the hospital, we phoned in an order to Bombay Feast then drove over to pick it up and headed home...

"Big Bang" and the last ever "New Girl" entertained...

However, your correspondent konked out during "The Graham Norton Show"...

So it goes...

Today's artwork, "In the Corridor"...

Highlight of the Day : Mum doing not too badly...