Approaching release...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things

Gál - The Complete String Quartets Vol 2

Igor Levitt - Bach, Beethoven, Rzewski

Cozy Powell - The Best Of Cozy Powell

Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts

Keith Emerson - Emerson Plays Emerson

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (Remaster)

Genesis - And Then There Were Three

Ijahman Levi - Island Presents: Roots

Matthew Florianz - Wasteland Signals

Vanilla Fudge - Then And Now

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits

Various - Craig Charles Funk & Soul Classics

Various - The Best Of Hallyday, Rivers, Mitchell, Anthony & Vartan

Moondog - Moondog

Ornette Coleman - To Whom Who Keeps a Record

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Seven Days of Falling

Brett Garsed - Big Sky

Van Nostrand - Voyage in a White Building I

The Nice - The Best Of The Nice

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Love Beach

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Pass By

Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way to Fall

Up at an ungodly hour to work on the new album...

The main stream will be the 4CD set (although there will be no physical release)...

The cover now features a portrait of the beast from last November by niece Kitty...

Front...

Back...

....and the download will feature a load of extras...

All these in fact...

Elements...

Alternatives...

...and extras...

...including some songs...

(this, for Jamie)...

The last CBQ song...

A new look too for the CBQ Bandcamp site...

...which will soon be displaying this...

Later, at Anne's mum's, no wonder Kitty looked so pleased with herself...

A rare pic of nephew Olly in which he does not look surprised...

This did not make the album cover, funnily enough...

Off out tonight with a not too well Exec Producer to see Ulrich Strauss..

First up Ben Chatwin, whose set seemed marred by an overdriven sound  - possibly though, of his own making...

In the interval Count Brodski, these days looking a bit like the old man of the sea, arrived, sadly sans Lady Penelope who, like Anne was unwell...

A quiet drink in the bar...

...before returning to the fray for a top notch set from the Schnaussmeister...

...with his trusty sidekick and visuals provider, Nat Urazmetova...

What a lot of stuff this small set up was eminently capable of producing...

Out into the night, farewell to Brodders and off home...

...entertained...

Highlight of the Day : After two years, nearly there with the new album - and the Schnaussmeister...