Brian Eno - Music For Airports
The Durutti Column - Idiot Savants
Fripp & Eno - Evening Star
Kat McKenzie - Shine On
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twenty Four Paintings
King Crimson - The Road to Red
Alex Machacek - 24 Tales
Up at 7:45, late for me for a Saturday, and to the laptop to get down to some work...
Sidetracked initially by taking time to "clean up" the 32GB USB Stick for the car which contains my top ten albums for each year from 1959 through to, now, 2013 (so far)...
However, somewhere along the line, a horrendous glitch took hold of the computer and I truly believed it to be goosed...
I am of course no PC whizz and so put a call into the only person I thought might be able to help, Creek buddy Craig...
Before he could come back to me however, after much mucking about and doing stuff about which I had no idea and much turning everything off and disconnecting everything and then turning it on again, everything came back and it was hunky dory once more...
And so to work...
In all, four new pieces added to the new ongoing project...
I have 18 of a projected 24 - another two added post this pic...
Coincidentally, as I was listening back to my work, the postie arrived - with the prototype of the book re said multi-CD plus book project...
Here's a wee preview...
Very nice indeed, if I say so myself...
A quick trip into town to return CDs to the library, coincided with a downpour...
Home...
Both Queens and Hearts lost again - this season not turning out as well as might have been expected for Queens and, if they can avoid relegation, it looks more and more like they will be playing Hearts next season...
Continued to work on matters, then, got down to some listening to this...
It's the road to red...
Over two and a half hours of improvs from messrs Cross, Fripp, Wetton and Bruford on their US tours of 1974 plus between 1 and 16 versions of each of the 11 previously or subsequently recorded songs and instrumentals which featured in their setlists...
Today I concentrated mostly on the improvs...
Yowsah!
The remainder of the day was spent on more listening - including a new purchase (CD winging its way to me while I listen to a free download) from UK guitarist Alex Machacek, recorded around a 51 minute drum solo by Marco Minneman (much better than that description sounds - see this video for the methodology...
...stick with it, it's amazing stuff - musically not visually) followed by a leisurely playback of the new creations of the day...
After a rather bad start, a good day in the end...
Highlight of the Day : My book of paintings...
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