Tippett and the beard...

Playlist

Spocks Beard - Discography

Tippett - Symphonies 2 & 4

Maxwell Davies - Trumpet Concerto

Soundtracked for the most part today by the beard of Spock...

A wee walk down to Stockbridge for a trawl amongst the very many charity shops down there...

This display caught my eye...

I have a collection of stuff like it in the attic - which has not yet fallen prey to the ongoing purge...

Back home and Anne had cooked a superb chicken and spinach curry...

...which was accompanied by a couple of glasses of vino rosso and an episode of "New Girl""...

Then, a listen to the final purchase of July...

Now that's what I call prog...

 The problem...

... about having all this...

...is that...

...you can only...

...listen...

..to one...

...at a time...

...onwards...

Two episodes of "Person of Interest"...

July away...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day :  Tippett and the beard...

Jazz and funk replace the Bach man...

Playlist

Dionne Warwick - Dionne Warwick Sings The Bacharach & David Songbook

Various - Hotdogs, Hits & Happy Days

Lowell Greer - Brahms: Horn Trio; Beethoven & Von Krufft: Horn Sonatas

Robert Palmer - Addictions, Vol. 1

Tom McRae - Just Like Blood

Tangerine Dream - Epic Tangerine Dream

Morrissey - Epic Morrissey

Gram Parsons - GP

Yello - Epic Yello

A Liquid Landscape - The Largest Fire Known to Man

God Is An Astronaut - Helios | Erebus

Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel

Gavin Harrison - Cheating The Polygraph

Bjørnseth - Thomas Bjørnseth : Works

Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett

Various - Backbeat : Gimme a Break

Various - July Acquisitions

Overcast morning as I walked from Haymarket...

The oats continuing to do their magic it would seem...

At lunchtime, yesterday's Dionne Warwick doubler taken back to Fopp, via a different route...

No quibbles and an extra £4 spent as two £3 discs taken away...

...via a third route...

Home under the sun but, with July almost over, it's not really been July...

In the evening some "Bluestone 42" from way back then Anne was off to see Hearts beat Arbroath in the League Cup, 4-2..

I enjoyed the new purchases...

Some jazz...

...and some funk...

That'll do I think...

Right you two...

Highlight of the Day : A quick steak pie and beans following a day of oats...

Some influence, others do not...

Playlist

Billy Cobham - Spectrum

Theo Travis' Double Talk - Transgression

The Tubes - Epic Tubes

Laura Pausini - Epic Laura Pausini

Grace Jones - Island Life

Riverside - Memories In My Head

Dionne Warwick - Dionne Warwick Sings The Bacharach & David Songbook

Gram Parsons - GP

Fela Kuti - Alagbon Close

Fela Kuti - Afrodisiac

Fela Kuti - Zombie

Fela Kuti - Shakara

Gram Parsons - GP

Tom McRae - Just Like Blood
Tangerine Dream - White Eagle

Another found leaf impressed this morning...

...as did the new Theo Travis album - a present from Prog Rock Willie...

It may be too early to be scientific but the oats appear to be working - boredom, of course, being a downside...

A walk to Fopp to take my mind off matters...

Inside, a new haul of second hand discs at £2 each attracted your correspondent's attention...

Four were purchased...

And then, a walk back from Fopp...

Home this evening under the sun, despite forecast rain...

...and, with Anne out at Zumba, some listening...

I found I had my first purchase already - albeit with slightly less impressive packaging...

It will be returned unopened in the hope that i can take something else,,,

My second was Tom McRae - a burn of which I already had...

So, nothing new thus far...

Thirdly, do you recall when we were all slaves to the rhythm of Grace Jones?  Me neither...

A spiffing collection of tunes nonetheless...

And, finally, this - a much revered pair of albums from 1973 and 1974 which I had never heard until tonight, despite said reverence from, it would seem, judging by my Twitter feed, all and sundry...

Yeehaw country music as far as I can hear...

In its defence, I do tend to be automatically against any music which loads of people tell me is good...

Weird...

I much preferred Tom McRae's more complex arrangements or, indeed, Brian Eno's top five Fela Kuti tracks, as found here...

You can also stream loads of Fela releases over on Bandcamp...

Maybe if Eno, one of the few arbiters of taste out there to whose opinion I tend to give some weight, curated a top five of Gram Parsons tracks, I might like GP's music better...

Weird...

A zingy salad for tea and, post more listening and a tweeting and a twattering (so much more interesting than Facebooking I find), the final episode of "The Interceptor" - a satisfactory end to proceedings...

I wonder if it will return...

You never know...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Music and Interceptor...