Crispycat Recordings: The rock of the herb...

Sunday, July 03, 2016

The rock of the herb...

Playlist

Alpha Rev - Bloom
Morgaua Quartet - Progressive String Quartets

Embryo - Rocksession

Gomorrha - Trauma

McChurch Soundroom - Delusion

Niagara - Niagara

Rufus Zuphall - Phallobst

Corelli - Concerti Grossi, Op. 6

Muffat - Concerti Grossi #1-6

Goldstein - Cyclorama

Holzmann - Wandelung

Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance

Monteverdi - Vespro Della Beate Vergine

Spocks Beard - The First Twenty Years

The view from the office this morning...

Downloading some previously unknown to me Krautrock from the early 70's...

Amongst the haul, which comes in much more quickly with the aid of the new router, an album by Keith Weiss, under the guise of Niagara...

It's is basically two sides of drum jams - it features Keith Forsey, Giorgio Moroder's go to drum man prior to the use of drum machines (yes, his timing was that good - e.g. Sparks' "Number One in Heaven") and Udo Lindenberg - who was a jazz drummer before becoming Germany's biggest rock superstar...

So there you go...

Out for breakfast to the leafy suburb of Polworth...

..and some comfy chairs...

This was...

...Odds and Ends...

A good find...

...and tasty fayre - and another very good coffee...

Bumped into this wee monkey on the way back to the car...

The quest to ensure all 8,500 of my CDs are in my iTunes continues - these were found to be missing this afternoon - from the section"classical by composer, A-Z" between D and M...

A drive to my mum's...

On reasonable form and enjoyed a few pics from our Hamburg trip...

...along with the ubiquitous biscuit...

Then, to Anne's mum's for tea with Mary, Keith and Maureen...

Tales of recent trips to three destinations...

This the view later on from Mary's kitchen...

...where I was caught taking a picture...

Luckily, my subjects saw the funny side...

Home to see Iceland go down 5-2 to France - they did win the second half 2-1, I suppose...

A tough semi final now awaits Germany...

The view from the office this evening...

...at which point, this weekend's "Musketeers" was enjoyed...

Updating this, some late on listening and lights out on another weekend...

Highlight of the Day : New Krautrock...

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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!