Sunday, January 04, 2009

Close to St John...

Playlist
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – From the Beginning
Various – The Best Prog Rock Album in the World...Ever
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Soundingfall
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Freddie Hubbard - Hub Cap

Up late today – 8:15 am...

On the BBC’s I-Player, by way of a link from King Crimson’s site, I found the Prog Rock programmes shown recently on BBC4 and enjoyed the first of these, “Prog Rock at the BBC” – or at least half of it before Anne appeared, wanting to go out for breakfast...

Our first of the year then at Patisserie Florentin, where we’ve not been for quite a while...



The coffee’s so good, I had two cups as I read music chum Ian Sclater’s coffee house and art magazine, Instant and Anne read the sports reports...

Then some shopping and I procured a couple of jerseys before heading to Tesco for the week’s supplies...

Back home, as Anne watched Rangers thrash Inverness and Man Utd beat Southampton, I was upstairs reworking two songs – “We Drove”, for which I re-recorded the guitar parts and the lead vocal and remixed it and “My House Could Be Your Home” to which I added another guitar and judiciously edited and remixed the track...

Results available for download here in the folder marked “2009 Cloudland Blue Quartet Demos for New Album”...

I’ve also added the new version of “The Fire in the Clearing”, which I remixed last Sunday, and have removed previous versions of all the songs...

So those in the folder now are the most up to date versions of each of the seven songs being worked on at present...

I’ve not mentioned it, but I’ve been making sure I play my guitar at least once a day so far this year – I’m not getting any better though...

In the evening, a compilation of previously seen bits of “Harry Hill’s TV Burp” and "Top Gear" entertained followed by some jazz listening with the late Freddie Hubbard and some leafing through books on art, architecture and the Blue Note label...

Highlight of the Day : Breakfast at PF...

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