Crispycat Recordings: It's called Niagara and it's on the lake...

Sunday, September 06, 2015

It's called Niagara and it's on the lake...

Playlist

Rheostatics - Epic Rheostatics

Ornette Coleman - New York Is Now!

Michael Rother - Flammende Herzen (Remaster)

Medeski Martin & Wood - Shack Man

Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men

Oscar Peterson - Canadiana Suite

Sarah Harmer - All Of Our Names

The Tragically Hip - The Tragically Hip

Last garden breakfast in Toronto...

Out to pick up the car - spotted one of the kittens in the neighbour's garden...

Last use...

...of the extremely economical Weekly Pass...

The Cloudland Blue Mobile (Canadian Division)...

On to the Gardiner Expressway...

...which becomes the Queen Elizabeth Way...

...and which took us all the way round to St Catherine's in around 2 hours...

Lunch at Tim Horton's...

Absolutely boiling outside!

Took refuge in this flea market, despite the Exec Producer's protestations...

I do like a flea market...

Last time in Canada I picked up a Sarah Harmer album in Banff - this time I'd acquired another for a couple of your Canadian dollars...

...along with the debut release by Tragically Hip - both these artists are virtually unknown in the UK...

New soundtrack as we headed for Niagara on the Lake, staying off the soul destroying highway this time...

Three hours and twenty minutes (including the stop) and we arrived...

...at this beautiful boutique BnB...

Bags dropped and out for a walk...

A lovely little town...

...with a popular beach on the opposite side of Lake Ontario from Toronto...

Mr CBQ was on tour...

Now that would be a house to have...

They're still building...

After our explorations, at the request of the EP, we drove to an outlet park...

Some stuff was bought - including something by me that was not music related...

Maybe someday soon it'll fit me properly...

The room - before...

...and after...

We never actually got round to enjoying the garden...

Dinner at the Sand Trap...

Mexican and Italian in a Canadian sports bar...

Meanwhile, the Rheos were playing their last night at the AGO, followed by an impromptu set at The Monarch...

Not to worry...

Tomorrow to Niagara Falls...

Highlight of the Day : Niagara on the Lake...

No comments:

Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!