Everything off to Deutschland...

Playlist

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen

The Steve Howe Trio - New Frontier

Roll The Dice w/Pär Grindvik - Buried

Roll The Dice w/Glasser - Elevate

Roll The Dice w/Sophia Loizou - Head Drop

Roll The Dice w/Alessandro Cortini - Hydra

Roll The Dice w/Goran Kajfes - Sketches Of Pain

Roll The Dice - Roll the Dice

Porter Ricks - Porter Ricks

Roll The Dice - Born to Ruin

Robert Fripp & Andy Summers - Bewitched

Marino Formenti - Nothing is Real

Porter Ricks - Angilla Electrica

S.P.Y. - Dubplate Style

S.P.Y. - Radio 1 Essential Mix January 2015

Tangerine Dream - In Search of Hades

Up late...

Listening back to yesterday's work..

Organising loads of recent downloads into the iTunes and onto the various players...

And, finished off the sending of all my music 1977-1988 to Germany for next years's proposed box set...

In the afternoon, to my mum's...

Her feet are not as big as they look - its the perspective...

Good to see she's fully recovered from the recent infection...

We quizzed her on various things to keep her on her toes...

Loanhead Room View... 

Then, to Anne's mum's...

Roseburn Room View...

A birthday tea tonight, with both Jane and Maureen enjoying celebrations on 10/10...

Meanwhile, Kitty certainly enjoyed some mozzarella balls...

...and we both agreed, neither of us had really recognised each other at the bus stop earlier in the week - without first taking a really good look...

Oh how we laughed...

Back home, listening back again to yesterday's work and then some new music via Creeker Craig, Drum'n'Bass maestro S.P.Y...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day :  New music, family visits...

A day at the screen, shortening...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2019
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Set 2019
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen

A day spent almost entirely at the computer...

Firstly, with tasty coffee, recording and uploading today's podcast...

...while tweeting pictures of records...

Then, I have been invited to play at Club Nitty Gritty as Cloudland Blue Quartet on 26 October (you may recall I played there at a Neil Young tribute night back in June, or you may not, but I did, I assure you)...

Anyway, after discussions with the EP, I decided to play this solo and indeed to feature all new songs...

Which was the reason for the day spent looking at stuff like this...

It's a 40 minute set but the new LP is currently a CD stuffing 80 minutes...

So, what was I doing?

I was firstly going back to all the mixes done so far and judiciously editing each track into a new, shorter, formation...

Then I recorded new vocals for each of the twelve songs and produced a new mix for each of the twelve...

And lo, by the end of the day after, all told, around 15 hours' work, it was good...

Other than music work, I enjoyed some tasty but healthy Indian food with Anne and enjoyed monitoring Queen of the South's 1-0 away win at Partick Thistle, on the Twitter...

Anne was surprisingly upbeat re her live viewing at Tynecastle of Hearts going down by a similar score to Kilmarnock...

It seems it is, indeed, only a game...

Highlight of the Day : Musicking...

Variety is, as they say, the very spice of life...

Playlist

MacMillan - Triduum, Part I: The World's Ransoming, Triduum, Part II: Cello Concerto

Weyse - Sovedrikken

Carlos Perón - 11 Deadly Sins : Music for Fetish and Erotic Sessions

Deadmau5 - For Lack Of A Better Name

Various Composers - Pachelbel: Canon ... and other Baroque favourites

Brahms - Piano Works

Chicago - Greatest Hits Live

Wagner - Der Fliegende Holländer

Julie London - At Home....

Various Artists - Generación Fnac - Volumen 2

Julie London - Around Midnight

Haydn - Piano Trios Complete

Various Composers - The Classic Experience

Lou Reed - Transformer (RM)

Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (RM)

Various Artists - The Man Who Fell To Earth

Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby (RM)

Chicago - Chicago II - Live On Soundstage

David Briggs - Vierne: Symphony #3; Widor: Symphony #5

Laura Pausini - Hazte sentir más

Coheed And Cambria - The Unheavenly Creatures

Haydn - Armida

Lou Reed - Berlin (RM)

Bach, J S - Orchestral Suites & Concertos (Menuhin)

Various Artists - Blaxploitation : The Payback : Volume Three

Various Artists - 100 Hits: Boogie Nights

Various Artists - The 60s U.S. Playlist

The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze: The Best Of The Isley Brothers

Beethoven - Complete String Quintets

Various Composers - The Score

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen

Eels - Daisies Of The Galaxy

The Clash - Sandinista!

Bryan Adams - 18 'Til I Die

Fehlfarben - 26½

Vangelis - Albedo 0.39

The Blue Nile - High

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1960s

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1970s

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1980s

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1990s

Keith Emerson - Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla

Rush - Roll The Bones

Various Artists - We Got The Funk

The Ventures - Walk Don't Run

Roll The Dice - In Dust

Edward Spark - Poppy

Paolo Conte - The Best Of

Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love

Wire - Pink Flag

Herman Van Veen - Herman Van Veen I

Herman van Veen - Liederbuch

Up late...

Beethoven on the bus...

Party night...

...soundtracked initially by my "A History of the Single" compilation re October hits - and, then, by Luna's mum Gillian's DJ choices...

Diet Coke and Diet Irn Bru for your correspondent - 100 days without alcohol...

Penne Arrabiata nourished...

Of course, everyone else was not on Diet Soft Drinks...

It seems I made a judicious choice to leave when I did - judging by the pics Whatsapp'd to me later...

Back home, the podcast was compiled and the links recorded ready for putting together tomorrow...

Then to Fife to pick up the EP who had been out bowling with chums...

I got rather lost and did a wee tour of the ancient kingdom before eventually finding Anne and bringing her home...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : An enjoyable night of some variety...

Aiming to be topper notcher...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen
Various Artists - The 60s U.S. Playlist
Brand X - Product
Trettioariga Kriget - Krigssang
Alice Cooper - Lace And Whiskey
Be Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic
Neil Young - Decade
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Pilot - Second Flight
Pete Sinfield - Still
Eagles - Eagles
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
Eagles - Desperado
Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet
Gentle Giant - Giant For A Day (Remaster)
Carole King - Tapestry
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen
Various Artists - And The World's All Yours - An Essential Selection Of World Music
Beethoven - Complete String Quintets
The Velvet Underground - Boston Tea Party, March 13, 1969

Good views this morning...

Post me, soundtracked by 1960's US hits and then random music from the 1970's - always good...

At lunchtime, this for just 50 of your so-called new pence - a double CD set of tasty wonder...

...while, back home, this had arrived unexpectedly and indeed enjoyably early...

A quick listen before heading out into the night to see how top notch I am...

I am top notch but am aiming to be topper notcher...

A couple of tests are coming up in that regard...

Highlight of the Day ; Beethoven and "world" music...

New music, new song...

Playlist

Barclay James Harvest - Gone To Earth

Van Der Graaf Generator - Godbluff

Vanhal - Six Quartette Concertante

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen

Mozart - Surrealistic Classics of Mozart

Various Composers - The Score

Mozart - Symphonies 38-41

Carly Simon - No Secrets

Various Artists - The 60s U.S. Playlist

Various Artists - 100 Hits: Boogie Nights

Uninteresting skies this morning so here are subjectively better views...

At lunchtime a free big coffee, thanks to my phone contract...

I always feel guilty when ordering but, to be fair, my phone company is paying for the coffee...

Then, along to Dalry and some nice finds...

In the Cats Protection shop, these compilations - sadly, replete with very sticky price tags...

...and this, not very good "modern" versions of Mozart, disc - all for a fiver...

Next door in the BHF shop, these classical discs...

...for a further £6.50...

A good, yet most likely in the big scheme of things, stupid haul...

Back home for some very tasty chili indeed...

And sending all my albums from 1982 over to Germany..

Then, giving feedback on a minute or so long track that Creeker Craig had created for his daughter's dance show...

It was good...

And, of course, I ended up stealing it and turning into a new CBQ track which, before the night was out, was up on the Twitter for limited stream/download...

Track 12 on the new LP perhaps...

Finished the day with three episodes because it was so good of new to us legal comedy "Defending the Guilty" - top notch...

The mock up of the new LP soundtracked my drift into dreamland...

Highlight of the day : Big bargains and a new song...

Enjoyable listening and a bit of uh oh....

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen

Various Artists - Krach & Getoese - Der Hamburger Musikerpreis 2009-2013

Brian Eno - Music For Films 2

Udo Lindenberg - Bunte Republik Deutschland

Mathilde Santing - Mathilde Santing

Laurie Anderson - United States Live

Alice Cooper - Da Da

Fehlfarben - 33 Tage in Ketten

David Sylvian - Alchemy - An Index Of Possibilities

Falco - Wiener Blut

Yes - Yesshows

Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Plateaux Of Mirror

Jerry Burns - Jerry Burns

Joy Division - The Best Of Joy Division

The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze: The Best Of The Isley Brothers

Carly Simon - No Secrets

Paolo Conte - The Best Of

Encouraged by Creeker Craig, listening again to the mock up of the new LP after being away from it for a while...

Enjoying it..

reason for doing so was a remix with new treated vocal track on "Can I Speak to one of You" plus Edward Spark 's first finalised mix of the last of my "new" songs, "Fly Across the World"...

Enjoyable...

Meanwhile, cloudy skies again...

At lunchtime, a trip up to Tollcross and, uh oh...

Italian crooner...

Glasgow songstress...

Early seventies classic...

Doom-mongers' best of, including 2nd disc of Peel Sessions...

2 CD set of funkiness...

Outlay, £6.50...

Better skies this evening...

...accompanied  by ripping listening, tasty pasta, "The Capture" with a penultimate episode denouement - and, closing the day, "Holby City" with the final demise of Evan, thank heavens...

Also, the sending of music to Germany recommenced and got me to the end of 1981...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : The Capture...