Enjoyable impromptuness...

Playlist

Solution - Cordon Bleu

Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen

Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash

Chicago - Chicago X

Joy Division - Still

Deep Purple - Made In Japan

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds

The Clash - Sandinista!

Curved Air - Air Conditioning

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things

Donna Lewis - Brand New Day

Joachim Kühn - Springfever

Thomas Köner - La Barca (Complete Edition)

Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere

Tom McRae - The Alphabet of Hurricanes

Muse - Drones

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place

Herman Van Veen - Kersvers

Eddie Harris - The Eddie Harris Anthology

Isaac Hayes - The Best Of The Polydor Years

The Czars - Best of Czars

Yello - Motion Picture

King Crimson - Live At the Orpheum

King Tubby - King Tubby's Special 1973-1976

Laura Veirs - July Flame

Chicago - The Best Of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition

The Bad Plus/Joshua Redman - The Bad Plus Joshua Redman

Yes The Chris Squire Collection

UK - UK Final World Tour 2015

Creek - Creek 2015

Eddie Harris - E.H. In The U.K
Borngräber & Strüver - Clouds
Bruckner - Symphony #5
Spocks Beard - X

Teresa Salgueiro - Obrigado

Chantal Juillet - Entartete Musik : Korngold; Weill; Krenek: Violin Concertos

Up at 5:55 am, this, the view from the office...

Working on the new CBQ album...

The present thought is that it will be a single disc length collage piece amalgamating recordings from four different sets of sources, with the physical version being available with four bonus CDs, each of which will contain one of the four sets of sources which will constitute the whole work...

But plans can change...

An initial mix undertaken and listened back to...

Further work required...

For example, as I write this, early tomorrow morning, I am listening closely to one of the field recordings, recorded in March 2014, which will form part of the work...

I am painstakingly removing extraneous noises (including two neighbourly sneezes around the 34 minute mark) which may encroach on the overall sound of the finished piece...

Breakfast in the garden...

Here comes the toast lady...

Scoffed...

Into the car and off down the coast on a spur of the moment trip...

...firstly, to Alnwick and Barter Books...

...where coffee and a roll were enjoyed...

...and a 26 month old credit note was finally reduced to zero, the Exec Producer benefiting too with a couple of holiday reading items...

Three CDs (see below) and yet another art book joined the CBQ fray...

To the town for a wander in the sun...

A week long music festival was taking place - Tom Jones was the headliner but probably wasn't going to be gracing this stage...

A very flowery town...

Back to the car...

...and on to Warkworth, accompanied by newly acquired minimalistic sounds from Borngräber & Strüver...

A gallery was visited but no suitable artwork was found, hares and puffins having been on the EP's agenda...

These were not partaken of either...

To Bertram's coffee and cake place...

..where coffee and cake were duly enjoyed, oats having been eschewed for the day...

A bit of cry wolf re the camera being close to plates but these scones were, in reality, tiny - I realise the butter looks like a full pack here but the true perspective is missing...

I would not lie...

The coffee was excellent...

This interlude of tastiness was followed by a walk down by the river...

...and coveting this cottage, minimum rental three nights for £600...

Back on the main street, a wee chum...

Then, accompanied by a newly acquired Bruckner CD, on to Seahouses...

...where we'd intended to have our tea but were not hungry enough - might have been something to do with the earlier toast, roll and cake?

Off in the distance..

Bamborough Castle...

..and then, the drive home, via said Bamborough but without making a stop...

...soundtracked now by the radio, discussing today's Scottish football results with wins for Hearts, 2-1 away at Dundee (despite not being the better team) and for Queens, 3-1 at home to Brodski's Alloa...

We stopped off in Haddington for further sustenance, appetites having returned after a couple of hours driving...

Home and listening again to Bruckner...

...and music banned by the Third Reich...

Minimalism from Berlin...

This from 1969, too early for my fave, Gerhard Richter, to be deemed worthy of a mention...

...whereas, the latest edition, from 2001, has a Richter work on the cover...

Meanwhile, behind the door from the postie, this, from Andrew Hill's brief return to Blue Note in 2006...

Looking forward to a listen tomorrow...

More work late on on the new CBQ project and then, listening back again...

Fell asleep...

Highlight of the Day : An impromptu trip...