Saturday, June 28, 2014

The return of the Exec Producer...

Playlist
Various Artists - 2014 Weekly Playlists
Wilson Steven - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
Taketi Uloomu - The Fifth Season
Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus
Haken - The Mountain
Sumner McKane - Select Visual History
The Who - Then And Now (1964-2004)
John Foxx - Metadelic
John Foxx - Glimmer
Suzanne Vega - Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles
She & Him - Volume One
Trey Gunn and Marco Minnemann - Modulator
Paul McCartney - Off The Ground
Paul McCartney & Wings - Paul McCartney & Wings Singles 1972-1977
Various - Island Presents: Dub 1976-1990
Cut Copy - Free Your Mind
The Presets - Pacifica
The Presets - Pacifica Remixes
Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock
Paul Corley - Disquiet
Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga
Jellyfish - Best!
John Scofield - A Go Go
Zola Jesus - Stridulum II
Ladyhawke - Anxiety
Ochre Room - Box, Bar & Diamond
Ymir's Blood - Voluspa: Doom Cold As Stone
Ars Moriendi - La Singuliere Noirceur D'un Astre
The Pack A.D. - Do Not Engage
Nebelung - Palingenesis
Moebius Neumeier Engler - Other Places
Cluster - Apropos Cluster
Barry White - The Collection

Up at 7:30...


..despite last night's, and every other night this week's, late sack hitting...

Some house work carried out in preparation for the return of the Exec Producer...

Then, a leisurely drive through to Glasgow, a wee day out for Mr CBQ, seeing as how I've spent most of my spare time this week in the house, cooking, watching footie, listening to music etc etc...

Erm, so actually just what I normally do then...

Anyway, parked at Byre's Rd around 9:50...


...and took a look around the shops here, making my first purchases of the day at Fopp, comprising CDs by John Foxx, Suzanne Vega and Zooey Deschanel's music vehicle, She & Him...


Took the Clockwork Orange into the city centre...


...where I discovered the very large HMV store at the top of Buchanan Street has closed...


So it goes...

On to nearby Love Music, where I spent almost an hour trawling through just about every CD in the shop, before exiting with three purchases - Trey Gunn, Paul McCartney and a 2CD set of dub from the vaults of Island Records - tasty...

Down to Union St and the main Fopp, where I was wandering around with three CDs in my hand having checked out reviews online - Band of Horses and two Australian "dance" duos, Cut Copy and The Presets...

Upstairs has been changed around and now houses much of this...


...the "comeback" of vinyl, seen here on the right, while, on the,left, a huge quantity of little known CDs at £3 each...


Of course, this was a display that Mr CBQ could not ignore and much time was spent swithering about various items, some chosen due to the artist, some due to the artist location, some due to the instrumentation - at £3 a pop, what did I have to lose - except £3 a pop...

Eventually, I stepped back out onto Union St with ten CDs in my second Fopp bag of the day - the aforementioned Cut Copy, Presets (including a remix disc) and Band Of Horses...

...along with known artists Canadian Dan Mangan, jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo's sitar crossover classic from 1967 "Jazz Raga", a greatest hits set from Jellyfish, a cracking disc by John Scofield with Medeski, Martin & Wood in support, and the latest CDs by Zola Jesus and Ladyhawke...

In fact the only chance I took was on a disc by "composer and sound sculptor", Paul Corley - which, on later listening, turned out to be a beauty...

I thought about heading for the car but just couldn't resist one more shop and so made my way along to the East End and Mono, taking some time to peruse the works at a nearby gallery on my way...




Oh no, a further ten discs purchased, albeit for under £11...

Chances taken with Finnish Americana(?) outfit, Ochre Room, growling in places heavy metal from Ymir's Blood and Frenchmen Ars Moriendi and some interesting low key stuff from a German band called Nebelung...

Added to that were discs by artists known to me - more Canadians, The Pack A.D., German faves Moebius and Roedelius (including a not previously seen Cluster release) and greatest hits sets from The Who and Barry White...

Total outlay for the day was....

Quite a lot...

But it worked out at just over £2.50 per title...

If I'd bought this haul on Amazon (which, of course, I wouldn't have) it'd have required an outlay of four times what I spent...

The Szabo Gabor disc (which is excellent btw) is going for over £25, while the Paul Corley disc is over £16 (as are the best of by Jellyfish and the new The Pack A.D. disc)...

And so another waste of money is justified - the defence rests m'lud...

Back onto the street...


... a walk back to the subway station and back to Byre's Rd - where I was almost tempted by a man with a series of wallpaper tables straining under the weight of more CDs and DVDs than you could shake a stick at - but I held firm - thirty (counting multi-disc sets purchased) discs in one day is surely enough for any music listening idiot to take on board...

A drive back along the M8 and some provision shopping carried out before spending the rest of the day ripping and listening...




...with one eye on the footie - after a 1-1 draw post extra time, Brazil scraped through 3-2 on penalties against a very good and very unlucky Chile (it could have gone either way), while Columbia beat Uruguay 2-0, to face the hosts in the Quarter Finals...

Meanwhile, the Exec Producer, Lynn and Penny, who had been in touch throughout their day of travel,  landed at Newcastle and headed up the A1...

With Anne's return, it's time to be Executively Produced once again...

Which is welcome...

Highlight of the Day : The return of the Exec Producer - and buying loads of CDs...

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