No need for morpheus...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik (8CD Box Set)

Ronnie Laws - Harvest For the World

Fareed Haque - Deja Vu

Charlie Hunter Quartet - Natty Dread

George Howard - There's A Riot Goin' On

Bob Belden - Tapestry

Everette Harp - What's Going On

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Secrets & Lies

The Velvet Underground - The Best Of The Velvet Underground & Lou Reed

Up early and a day spent WFH but also listening to the, currently, 7CDs of the proposed 8CD "Sparklemusik" set... 

Scenes...

Breakfast...

Discussions with Edward Spark on various items...

The upshot is, he will, as well as working on remixes for the 8th CD, cook up a version of the song "The Traffic in the Distance" which was written up North last summer but has never been fully recorded other than with vocal and acoustic guitar...

He is also going to work on some acoustic drum tracks for possible future use...

At lunchtime "The Tick" continued...

In the evening, an interesting documentary on the fall of the Berlin Wall was fallen asleep to - the early mornings and late nights taking their toll...

So much so that I was able to retire with nothing in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Progressing...

Getting the new LP organised...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Glen Orchy 24 & 25 August 2019

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentyseventeen

Cloudland Blue Quartet - No Last Tilt [Single]

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Break the Ice Around Us

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Underground Like Doug McLure [Single]

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2019-12-01

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fly Across the World

Cloudland Blue Quartet - SXTY (Latest Mix)

John Martyn - Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology

Kelly Clarkson - My December

David Finckel, Wu Han - The Art of the Cello (BBC Music)

CB3 - Aeons

Nita Strauss - Controlled Chaos

Paul McCartney - Give My Regards to Broad Street

Beasto Blanco - We Are

Tommy Henriksen - StarStruck

Ryan Roxie - Me Generation

Laura Pausini - Io Si (Seen) [Single]

Marcin Dylla - Polish Guitar Music

Various Artists - Supa Funky

Various Artists - Instant Karma

Lindi Ortega - Cigarettes & Truckstops

Various Artists - Motown Sings The Beatles

Maciej Meller - Zenith

Flying Colors - Third Stage: Live In London

Big Big Train - Summer's Lease

Colin Bass & Daniel Biro - Still

I Hear Sirens - Stella Mori

Mariana Semkina - Sleepwalking

Metallica - S&M2

Jon Gomm - The Faintest Idea

Airbag - A Day At The Beach

John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth

Tears For Fears - The Seeds Of Love - Super Deluxe

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Secrets & Lies

Yes - The Royal Affair Tour

Derek Sherinian - The Phoenix

Gazpacho - Fireworker

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Attic Jams 2020

Various Artists - Blue Note Re:Imagined

Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, Kamasi Washington - Dinner Party

Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep

Die Ärzte - Hell

Schwefelgelb - Der Puls Durch Die Schläfen

Jeff Tweedy - Love is the King

BlackPink - The Album

Jónsi - Shiver

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik (8CD Box Set)

Richie Havens - Richard P. Havens, 1983

Earthworks - Earthworks Underground Orchestra

De Visée - La Musique De La Chambre Du Roi Vol 3

Ayreon - Transitus

Dar Williams - Emerald

Fareed Haque - Deja Vu

Charlie Hunter Quartet - Natty Dread

George Howard - There's A Riot Goin' On

Bob Belden - Tapestry

Everette Harp - What's Going On

Ronnie Laws - Harvest For the World

Up...

Coffee...

Twitterati horrified that I would use the microwave - but, sometimes, needs must...

The beast was listening to its new LP on the cans...

...under the morning skies...

Work today on exactly how this is going to pan out....

By the time I hit the sack, I had an 8CD box set - with the 8th disc comprising yet to be done Edward Spark remixes - and an agreed release date with Sparky of "early" 2021...

The format will be

CD 1 - The Original Album (12 Tracks) 53:55

CD 2 - Instrumental Versions (12 Tracks) 79:48

CD 3 - "Live" Version (10 Tracks) 73:44 - this will be an early set with guitar soundscapes, synths and bass guitar and singing, all done live to early BTs - so won't include all the songs, as some didn't exist at that point...

CD 4 - Long Version (12 Tracks) 72:41 - the songs as they were, before I remixed them in the summer, for what will now be the "original album"...

CD 5 - Live Edit Version (12 Tracks) 40:32 - this is the set I created to play at Club Nitty Gritty in October last year, which I ended up not being able to do...

CD 6 & 7 - Origins and the Ones That Got Away (26 Tracks) 134:05 - early demos, initial recordings plus, I think 3 or 4 pieces that didn't make it - these will include "Fly Across the World", which became "Wonderful Out Here" and a couple of band versions of "Underground Like Doug McClure" by Capital Models, when we were thinking of playing a set of CBQ songs at Club Nitty Gritty in January (we ended up doing a - very good - covers set). Most likley the 2 discs will be split between my original demos and recordings and initial Edward Spark work in progress stuff...

CD 8 - The Edward Spark Remixes (Tracks TBC) Timing TBC - Mr Spark has commenced work - let's see what happens...

Later, re the Twitter meme - "How it started; how it's going" - my first CD (which also meant having to buy a CD player)...

How it started...

How it's going...

Hmmm...

Also...

How it started...

How it's going...

Not changed that much - or, at least, it seems I may have reverted to type in my old age...

At lunchtime, we moved into the 2nd season of "The Tick"...

WFH was, late on, permeated by lovely aromas from the kitchen...

A very tasty curry from the EP...

Eschewing TV tonight, I listened to this by Earthworks...

...and the Random LP of the Day by Richie Havens - originally bought for Meg the Black Cat's mum Julia - but she was quite happy with a CD burn and left me the record...

Ended the day with a run through the 45 tracks for the weekend's podcast and downloading some previously unknown to me Blue Note titles...

A set of 6 cover LPs...

Nice...

To bed with those shuffling in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Getting the new LP organised...

Sparkling, kind of...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen Live V6 (2019-12-22)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - We Drove (2019 Edward Spark Reconstruction)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen

Cloudland Blue Quartet - SXTY (Latest Mix)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fly Across the World

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Underground Like Doug McClure

Die Ärzte - Hell

Yes - The Royal Affair Tour

Various Artists - Blue Note Re:Imagined

Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, Kamasi Washington - Dinner Party

BlackPink - The Album

Jeff Tweedy - Love is the King

Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep

Schwefelgelb - Der Puls Durch Die Schläfen

Colin Bass & Daniel Biro - Still

I Hear Sirens - Stella Mori

John Martyn - Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology

Kelly Clarkson - My December

David Finckel, Wu Han - The Art of the Cello (BBC Music)

CB3 - Aeons

Nita Strauss - Controlled Chaos

Paul McCartney - Give My Regards to Broad Street

Beasto Blanco - We Are

Tommy Henriksen - StarStruck

Ryan Roxie - Me Generation

Laura Pausini - Io Si (Seen) [Single]

Marcin Dylla - Polish Guitar Music

Various Artists - Supa Funky

Various Artists - Instant Karma

Lindi Ortega - Cigarettes & Truckstops

Various Artists - Motown Sings The Beatles

Maciej Meller - Zenith

Ayreon T ransitus

Flying Colors - Third Stage: Live In London

Big Big Train - Summer's Lease

Mariana Semkina - Sleepwalking

Metallica - S&M2

Various Artists - The Old Grey Whistle Test - Jetboys and Ladytrons

Joe Bonamassa - A New Day Now (20th Anniversary Edition)

Djabe - The Magic Stag

The Backstage - Isolation

Neil Young - Homegrown

Lonely Robot - Feelings Are Good (Bonus Tracks Edition)

Jon Gomm - The Faintest Idea

Airbag - A Day At The Beach

John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth

Tears For Fears - The Seeds Of Love - Super Deluxe

Derek Sherinian - The Phoenix

Gazpacho - Fireworker

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Secrets & Lies

After three days off, back to WFH...

Before that though, up early...

Scenes...

Spurred on by some chat with producer Edward Spark, looking to try and finalise the big, digital, (and so, vitual) "box set" that will be "Sparklemusik"...

The potential content runs to 48 hours!

At lunch time, the first season of "The Tick" was finished off...

All in all, faced by the stiff competition of "Chuck", "Stargirl", "After Life" and "Schitt's Creek", it didn't really come up to the standards...

Another tasty tea pulled out of the ether by the EP this evening, with Teriyaki Chicken Stir Fry...

A reasonably poor show on "University Challenge" - failing to breach the 100 mark...

Late on, some compiling and listening to 45 new acquisitions which I'm hoping to feature in this week's podcast...

And sending acapella vocal tracks to Edward Spark as he contemplates yet another mix of "Sparklemusik"...

Full circle...

Lights out with it on the cans again...

Highlight of the Day : Organising the next release...

Hell can be a good thing...

Playlist

Rheostatics - Best of Rheostatics

Paul McCartney - Pure McCartney

Jellyfish - Best!

Kansas - Ultimate Kansas

Various Artists - Instant Karma

Tommy Henriksen - StarStruck

Various Artists - The Old Grey Whistle Test - Jetboys and Ladytrons

Capital Models - Live at Club Nitty Gritty

Capital Models - Kind of Live at Club Nitty Gritty

John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth

Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin - Neue Meister Live in Berlin

Brian Eno - ENOBOX I / Instrumental

Maciej Meller - Zenith

Ayreon - Transitus

Flying Colors - Third Stage: Live In London

Big Big Train - Summer's Lease

Die Ärzte - Hell

Die Ärzte - Auch

Die Ärzte - Die Ärzte früher

Dio - Master Of The Moon

DJ Hell - Teufelswerk (CD)

Sunday once more...

The overnight plays had been from the "Best ofs" iPod Touch...

Out to Sainsbury for shopping for my mum and for us...

An extra hour provided for this by the clocks having gone back in the night...

Mind you, I thought they'd gone forward...

Breakfast upon our return home...

Finishing off the sausages, this time with onions and chili sauce...

A new German thing on the Tivo while we brunched, "The Same Sky"...

Promising...

Later, while Anne tended the garden, a run through the set from our gig in January, with the boys, on tape, in the attic...

Enjoyable...

Good to play those Eno songs again...

Then, out to my mum's...

Doing ok, despite being stuck in the house still and on yet another course of antibiotics re a new toe scenario...

Worst toes in the world - and that's with one of them completely missing!

Home via B&Q re some drain unblocking concoction...

Some new music in the Dropbox from Prog Rock Willie added to the collection (reciprocated with two Eno boxes) - a trawl too through October releases...

And so, over the last week or so, all these have entered the collection...

Meanwhile, Anne was now making some very tasty burgers with all the trimmings...

Yumtastic...

"Roadkill", the second of four, much enjoyed this evening...

Then, the listening to new stuff commenced...

I suspect Die Ärzte's new one, "Hell", is going to be my new release of the month...

Lights our with that in the cans...

Weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's cooking (again!)...

Back to the Kingdom...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2020

Japan - Gentlement Take Polaroids

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Yello - Point

Various Artists - The Milano Jukeboxes

Lindi Orteha - Cigarettes & Truckstops

Various Artists - Motown Sings the Beatles

Sumner McKane - Hunting For Salamanders

Once again up before 6...

Down for some coffee...

Podcast finished off - I only managed the first 45 minutes last night before the EP called time...

Done and uploaded...

A driech morning...

But...sausages...

Driech...

Sausages!

After breakfast was the short documentary on the making of the final season of "Schitt's Creek" - what a great show that was...

Late morning, we set off for St Andrews - It took just over 54 minutes - I know this as I took the opportunity to subject the EP to the proposed new LP...

She asked if those were all old songs - well they kind of are, I've been working on this album off and on for around 7 years...

Arrival...

...and a walk around...

...taking in the sites...

To chum Raymondo's family business for some bakery based lunch...

...followed by more walking around...

Anne was happy to be out of the house again - although she was in Fife yesterday too...

The castle...

The beach...

The university (to be fair you could probably take a picture of just about any building in the town and it'd have some connection or other to the university, or to golf)...

The university, again...

A nice old shop...

More walking around - in kind of circles and zig-zagging around - in all there are really only around four parallel streets in the old town...

The abbey loomed...

Another church...

A look in some of the many charity shops produced these two for one of your pounds sterling...

Turns out, I have 16 of the 20 tracks on this on another Motown/Beatles compilation...

Oh well...

We found a nice wee designer place, Spoiled Life Store, that served good coffees...

After a further short walk around, we headed for Anstruther, with the intention of some Fish & Chips for tea...

We first stopped off in Crail...

...and took a walk around...

...and down to the harbour...

It was a little stormy...

Goal achieved...

...and then, back to the car - to find Queen of the South had been thrashed at home, 5-2, by Raith Rovers..

The mighty Queens have zero points from two games, having narrowly lost away at Ayr last week...

Oh well...

Anne did not like the fact that Raith's last goal put them above Hearts on goal difference...

A long drive home ensued,...

We didn't stop at Anstruther, or anywhere else, and we did drive past Raith's ground in Kirkcaldy, Starks Park...

And tea was indeed Fish & Chips, secured though from the local Fish & Chippery, Roberto's...

An evening of Anne watching "Strictly" while I listened to the two new CDs and found both to be good, followed...

A long but good day...

Highlight of the Day : A visit to St Andrews...