A small box of wonderful stuff...

Playlist
Udo Lindenberg - Stark Wie Zwei Live
Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged
Cecil Taylor - Looking Ahead
Nitin Sawhney - Human
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
The Unwinding Hours - Afterlives
Various Composers - Musik in Alten Staedten und Residenzen
Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Kiss - Sonic Boom
Kiss - Kiss Klassics
Toots & the Maytals - Pressure Drop

A bus ride to Stirling first thing...

Picked up by Raymondo and a short drive to Airth Castle...

..for mucho chat and some tasty nosh...

In the afternoon back to a very sunny Edinburgh...

A walk towards Fopp, via Boots for replacement batteries re the much used pedometer...

In Fopp, several albums partaken of - the 2012 disc from new discoveries The Unwinding Hours, Blue Oyster Cult's classic "Agents of Fortune", an album I've never owned but have always kind of wanted since 1976...

I saw them at Edinburgh Odeon, 35 years ago tomorrow, supported by Japan (then a kind of Glam-Metal band)...

BOC had lasers!

Also acquired was Herbie Hancock's fusion improv "Sextant", a two disc Trojan retrospective of Toots and the Maytals and a rocking 2CD + DVD set of Kiss' last album but one, "Sonic Boom"...

A walk from Fopp to the airport bus...

...and home to find the 10CD box of "Musik in Alten Staden und Residenzen" had arrived - music written between 1600 and 1800 and performed in Venice, Lubeck, Vienna, Hanover, Leipzig, Dresden, Mannheim, Salzburg, Eisenstadt and Potsdam...

Wonderful stuff and worth every penny of the two squid per disc laid out for samples of over 40 different composers...

Suffice to say, much of the evening was spent a-listening and a-ripping...

Highlight of the Day : A small box of wonderful stuff...