Crispycat Recordings: A flaw redeemed seamlessly...

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

A flaw redeemed seamlessly...

Playlist

Matthew Florianz - Nocturne : Soundtrack for Science Briefings

Anathema - A Sort of Homecoming

Dar Williams - Emerald

Mozart - String Quartets and Quintets

Steve Roach & Jeffrey Feyman - Trance Spirits

Soft Machine - Triple Echo

Various - Walk On The Wild Side: The Jazz Side Of Mod

Cannonball Adderley - Portrait Of Cannonball

Yes - Early Years 1969-1983

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things

Glen Campbell - The Glen Campbell Collection

Vivaldi - Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos Vol. 1

Udo Lindenberg - Epic Udo Lindenberg

Soler - Antonio Soler : Harpsichord Sonatas Vol.1

Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men

Various Composers - Piano Dreams

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

Portishead - Dummy

New Order - Music Complete

A big moon this morning, although it does still look small in this pic...

...as I headed into the city...

Last night, whilst preparing yesterday's entry, the pic of the cupola indicated a flaw in the nw camera, which was then corroborated by the uncropped pic of the magpie on our neighbour's roof from the previous day...

Accordingly, today, my task was to have the new machine replaced toute de suite...

Test pic w/ version two...

By way of "celebration", in HMV I bought the new New Order album and Portishead's debut from 1994...

The New Order did not disappoint although it meanders in places (says the man preparing his next release as a four CD set)...

As for Portishead - well, upon listening to what I always think of as the soundtrack to the TV series "This Life", I realised why it has taken 21 years to enter the collection...

It's just so one dimensional...

The best track, "Glory Road" relies on a sample of an Isaac Hayes track which, basically, is the tune - yet the Portisheads get the writing credit with nothing for Ike...

Weird...

Anyway, home in the dark...

...to listen to said new acquisitions, get some way to finalising my top 50 LPs released in 2015 (the ones I own that is), enjoy some tasty home-made soup and quite excelletn bread and watch the last "Holby" of the year...

That was it...

Highlight of the day : A seamless camera swop...

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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!