Pies, potatoes, pickles'n'peas II...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Ersatzreal Deluxe
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Deeperdown
Cloudland Blue Quartet – 1997-2007 on Shuffleplay
Creek – 2009
Shawn Colvin – Holiday Songs and Lullabies
Shawn Colvin - Various Albums on Shuffleplay

A couple more presents secured today for Anne - though, truth be told, they would probably be better labelled on Xmas morning as being to the both of us from Santa...

A surprise on my return home as chum Chris has rewarded my work on his mum's and sister's tapes re transferring them to CD with a token for my favourite music emporium...

Thanks Chris!!

This evening Stuart Cobley and Craig Sutherland, one half of the quartet Creek popped by to start work on our proposed new album – the fourth member, Count Brodski, was indisposed...

We pulled up four of the pieces which have been created over the last couple of years by Craig and, subsequently, tweaked by me into their current form, and Stuart recorded some lines to be added to the musical melange...



In the past we have worked almost completely improvisationally – in the early days Craig would create a beat, then the rest of us would play along for a bit till we had something reasonably interesting going, then we’d stop, press record on the recorder and start again...

This time however, we are recording small snippets of music which compliment the backing track and these will be cut, spliced, manipulated and pasted around the tracks in question to create something, hopefully, good...

It’s two years almost to the day since we first discussed doing another album and over a year since the four of us were in the same room together – and we still didn’t manage that tonight...

But it was a promising start and an enjoyable evening which ended up with us watching defeated X-Factor contestants on Youtube along with Pet Shop Boys, Killers, Girls Aloud and Katy Perry...

After the boys headed off, I listened to a new CD from e-bay, Shawn Colvin’s beautiful Xmas disc “Holiday Songs and Lullabies”...

Nice...

Highlight of the Day : Creeking...