Wonderful, insane...

Playlist
David Reilly – Anthology 1977-2007
Concerto Koln – Mannheim School
Vizzana – Componimenti Musicali
John Coltrane - Sun Ship

As is my narcisstic way, I started listening to my 10 CD Anthology from beginning to end – not sure if I'll make it...

Today I reached track 59 out of 170 – making it to 1993 – just over half way through, years-wise...

Continuing tomorrow...

To HMV at lunchtime and they’ve started to stock up for Christmas, with lots of interesting Classical Box Sets, none of which I’ll probably end up acquiring...

The Complete Haydn Symphonies on Naxos for example, 34 CDs for £69 (Amazon has it for £81)...



But you can get the famous Adam Fischer box now on Brilliant, 33 CDs for around £50 on e-bay...

Concerto Koln accompanied some lovely pesto chicken, before I rummaged through the classical box sets I do have and found one I don’t think I’ve ever listened to – bought in FOPP one time as we were flying out from Prestwick somewhere and had stopped off in Glasgow on our way to the airport...

Some beautiful music written by a young nun, Lucrezia Vizzana, who published her own music but who, due to the conflicts which developed within her convent and with Church officialdom, was eventually driven quite literally insane...

And a wee bit insane is how the next musical interlude sounded in places, John Coltrane’s August 1965 recording “Sun Ship”, purchased recently in Vancouver (even though it turned out I already had all the tracks on a multi disc box of the complete John Coltrane Classic Quartet)...

As you can see, I’m scraping the barrel for anything of any significance now (no change there then) so here’s today’s Anthology track before I return to the Living Room to watch Brian Eno guest as a panellist on “Question Time”...



It’s a song from Sombre Reptiles’ 1983 album “World of Fire” called “You Said You’d Love Me”...

It started out as a backing track for a cut-up “vocal” I constructed from a Marc Almond interview – the track was called “The Boy Cut Up”. This lyric is one of my “twisted” ones...

It's available via the link to download my music for free...

ANTHOLOGY 1983
SOMBRE REPTILES - YOU SAID YOU'D LOVE ME



PS Eno was a bit of a damp squib on "Question Time", though he scored a few good points against Jack Straw re the Iraq war...

I had to disagree with him totally when he opined that the current financial crisis is down to "free markets" gone wrong...

Anyone with any true knowledge of the situation will understand that the reason we're in the mess we are is the lowering of interest rates out of step with what the market indicated, creating huge amounts of cheap money, which led to the mispricing of risk, leading people to taking greater and greater risk in the false belief that they were safer than they were...

Today's 1.5% cut in interest rates may well come to prove that we've not learned anything from this crisis...

Our own incompetent idiotic government has tried to stave off the NATURAL cycle of so-called "boom and bust" by encouraging profligate private and private sector borrowing and letting its own borrowing get totally out of control...

We have borrowed the future and now the debt has been called in...

Reducing interest rates and printing money - that's how they're going to try and get out of it but it's doomed to fail and push us even further into the mire...

As for "playwrite" Bonnie Greer, she needs to get over the fact that she's black - almost every response or interjection she made referred to her skin colour - and you'd almost think from listening to her that the only reason Barrack Obama has been elected president is because he's black...

As Martin Luther King jnr once said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character"...

I believe this has happened...

Now let's get on with it...

Highlight of the Day : Wonderful, insane music...