It'll come out in the mix...

Playlist
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vols 1-52
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Rubinmusik 1977-2017 (Remixed Remastered)
Wizzard - Wizzard Brew
T Rex - The T Rex Wax Co. Singles - A's And B's, 1972-77
Shawn Colvin - Holiday Songs And Lullabies
Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls
Various Artists - The Best Xmas EP in the World...Ever!
Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1988

And so the penultimate month of 2017 is away...

Where has this year gone?

This morning, a baldy man was working on party music...

Or was he listening to oblique 20th Century American piano music?

A bit of both...

This afternoon the EP reported the return of Fang, for the first time since peeing on our TV (kind of)

In the evening, Anne was out and some party mix recording was undertaken...

Late doors, the tail end of "Question Time" - it really is abysmal these days...

And "This Week" - which was no bad - but we both fell asleep...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Mixing...

Man down but hopefully not out...

Playlist

Miles Davis - Olympia, Paris, Oct. 11th, 1960
Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Der Daf/Dos Staat
Cabaret Voltaire - The Golden Moments Of Cabaret Voltaire
Various - Rockabilly : Red Hot & Rare Volume One
Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost
Barber - Solo Piano Music
Fauré - Complete Music For Piano
The John Dummer Band - Blue
Eluvium - Shuffle Drones
Taylor Swift - Reputation
Locatelli - Concerti Grossi Op. 1/1-6
Various - Pure... Electronic 80s
RVarious - Ten Years Of Phonica
Various - Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 Vol 4 : 1958-1962
Ahmad Jamal - Jamal At The Penthouse
Barber - The Songs
Schubert - String Quintet C Major; String Trio in B Flat Major
Prokofiev - Piano Sonatas 2, 7 & 8
Various - The Cream Of Rare Groove Vol. 1
Earth, Wind & Fire - The Box Set Series
Chicago - Live In Japan 1972
Medeski Martin & Wood - Shack Man
Shostakovich - Prokofiev; Scriabin; Shostakovich: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 5
Various - Années 80 Vol 2
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Greatest Hits
Copland - El Salon Mexico, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Etc.
Johnny Mathis - Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization - Up All Night
David Cassidy - Then And Now
Kansas - The Prelude Implicit
VArious - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 48

A Mexican lunch today as Xams kind of started - out with chums Spike, Baz, Lodger and Wenders...

Opted for a small long-cooked lamb w/Mexican honey based dish, with some chilli mash - fiery but tasty...

Soundtracked today by music bought over the last 3 years - on the old shuffleplay...

In the evening, recording this week's podcast...

Twitter discussions re pre King Crimson Fripp led to this pic...

The Brondesbury Tapes is now on many wanted lists...

It's not that great but, hey, collectors...

Balked potato post Exec Producer Zumba...

"Man Down" came to an end and "Scot Squad" continued to entertain...

Highlight of the Day : Mexican...

Don't forget the beans...

Playlist

Eluvium - Shuffle Drones

Taylor Swift - Reputation

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus

Freddie Hubbard - Keystone Bop: Sunday Night

Muse - The 2nd Law

Grandaddy - Just Like The Fambly Cat

Various - The Wire Tapper 35

Earthworks - A Part, And Yet Apart

Jeroen Van Veen - Piano Music

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Various Composers - Minimal Piano Collection Vols I-IX

The Marvelettes - The Essential Collection

Various - Sónar 2000

Daniel Cavanagh - Monochrome

Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard - Early Morning Migration

Sons Of Apollo - Psychotic Symphony

Nordic Giants - Amplify Human Vibration

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pocono International Raceway 8th July 1972

No-Man - Returning Jesus

The Flower Kings - Unfold The Future

Knower - Knower 2010-2017

Snarky Puppy - Family Dinner Volume One

King Crimson - Tour

The Bad Plus - It's Hard

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Flitterkram! - The Music of Fripp & Eno

Various Composers - Baltic Voyage - Heroic Symphonies from Estonia

Various Composers - Minimal Piano Collection Vols X-XX

Various - Move On Up

Charles Mingus - Tijuana Moods

Today more time on stuff including how people with more money than they could ever spend can avoid paying anything to the collective pot that provides free schooling and free healthcare for the populace at large...

It's their money I suppose...

Xmas is coming...

Nice tea, comprising chicken and mushroom pie and a few chips - with the excellent extra of baked beans...

Commenced (again) trying to ensure all classical box sets are in the iTunes...

...and listening to this week's podcast shortlisted tracks...

On telly, the extended "Have I Got News for You" and two episodes of "Gameface" which has us hooked already...

And, of course, "Holby City", with two ultimately annoying characters heading off for Amsterdam...

No notice given, no-one told - just "we're off to Amsterdam"...

It is a soap I suppose...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Chicken pie tea...

Fiendishly clever robot...

Playlist

Taylor Swift - Reputation

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Live Set Podcast

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Live Wet Run Through

The Sires - My Universe

Morrissey - Low in High School

Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift

Taylot Swift - Fearless

Taylor Swift - Speak Now

Various - Sonar 2000

A quick visit to the BHF shop at lunchtime - there's been nothing of interest there for a few weeks now but, today, I found this for just 199 of your new English pence...

I do like this kind of pseudo country, you know, well produced and extremely tuneful, like Lady Antebellum - this is in that vein...

It sounds easy to do but it's not...

So welcome to the collection The Shires...

Back home, after having dipped into this on the way, I made a tasty bowl of pasta as Anne was out with chum Gillian for a catch up...

I enjoyed the film "Ex Machina" which I'd been swithering about for a few weeks given its stupidly low price of £3 in Fopp at present - but, it was shown by Channel 4 on Sunday night in their "Rise of the Robots" season and duly Tivo'd for just such a home alone scenario...

A film with robots seldom disappoints Mr CBQ...

And this one did not disappoint...

Some work on new tracks for this week's podcast as Anne made her way home...

Fell asleep on the sofa watching something or other...

To bed...

Highlight of the Day : Ex Machina...

Fixing, moving, visiting, watching, podcasting...

Playlist

T Rex - Great Hits

Various - Trojan Presents: The Producers

Alice Cooper - Paranormal

Various - Electronic Panorama

The Weeknd - Trilogy

Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour

Ollie Howell - Self-Identity

Shostakovich - Symphonies 5 & 9

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Rubinmusik 1977-2017 (Remixed Remastered)

Various - The Wire Tapper 14

cults - Offering

Various - Alternative 60s: From Woodstock To Vietnam

Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference

Makoto Ozone & The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Jeunehomme - Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 K-271

Pepe Romero, Chano Lobato, Maria Magdalena, Paco Romero - Flamenco

Tori Amos - Native Invader

Hedvig Mollestad Trio - EVIL in Oslo

Manu Katché - Unstatic

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik

Avatar - Feathers & Flesh

Various - Musik zur Zeit CD 139 Spex No 376

Puma - Half Nelson Courtship

Lambert - Reworks

Beyond the Black - Songs of Love and Death

Alice Cooper - Paranoiac Personality [Single]

Madredeus - Capricho Sentimental

The Supremes - Baby Love - The Essential Diana Ross & The Supremes

Forndom - Dauðra Dura

Anathema - The Optimist

Brian Eno - The Drop

Jon Anderson - The More You Know

King Crimson - The ConstruKction Of Light

Terje Rypdal - If Mountains Could Sing

The Physics House Band - Mercury Fountain

Spock's Beard - Onomatopoeia
KD Lang - Hymns of the 49th Parallel
Various - Pure... Rock
Paul Simon - Greatest Hits: Shining Like A National Guitar
John Cale - Artificial Intelligence
Kats-Chernin - Unceremonious Processions
Various - American Graffiti OST
Villa-Lobos - Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto
Anathema - The Optimist
!!! - !!!
Various - Electric Blues
Soler - Harpsichord Sonatas Vol.1
Monteverdi - Monteverdi & His Contemporaries: Madrigals
Dexter Gordon - The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon
Various Composers - The Pity Of War - Songs & Poems Of Wartime Suffering
Adiemus - Songs Of Sanctuary
Sarah McLachlan - The Freedom Sessions
Various - Written In A Song
Stan Tracey - Under Milk Wood
Various - Mega Funk
Haydn, M - Serenade - Symphony in D Major
Fauré - Complete Music For Piano
Various - Rockabilly : Red Hot & Rare Volume One
Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire; Serenade; Die eiserne Brigade
Edgar Broughton Band - Edgar Broughton Band
Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low
Ten Holt - Canto Ostinato XXL
James Brown - Try Me
Simon & Garfunkel - Live From New York City, 1967
Various - The Hard Bop Collection
Tchaikovsky - Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
!!! - Louden Up Now
Bill Evans - At The Montreux Jazz Festival
Lidl - Divertimenti for Baryton Trio
The Three Sounds - Blue Genes
Various - Divine Music Centre • Volume 16
Wolff - Early Piano Pieces
Various - The Blues
Piebald - Barely Legal & All Ages
King Tubby - I Am The King

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Live Set Podcast

Up around 5:30, fixing the iPod and loading albums into it, also sorting the music on the iPod Touch and my phone...



To the gym with Anne at 9...

Home around 10:30 for breakfast...

Tiger followed us into the house...

More work on music sorting and adding and some re-work done in the back room re being Executively Produced as regards the unsuitability of  what I did yesterday...

Tiger helped...

Showing me where some CDs ought to go...

And it was made so...



...while he headed downstairs and made himself comfortable...

Yes these next three pics are the right way up...

Sleepy wee monkey...

Lunch...

Out to my mum's around 2:30...

Home via the chippy - a foolish move in retrospect given the two weekend gym sessions...

"Blue Planet II" watched then upstairs for more music listening etc...

Started putting together a talk-less podcast of the proposed CBQ live set which is unlikely ever to be heard - using the original recordings plus the August live run through for the four new songs...

Some dodgy downloading while Anne watched the Strictly results - I already knew thanks to a Twitter Spoiler last night...

It was Susan's time - i.e. time for it to be about actual dancing...

Listening back to the proposed CBQ podcast...

Weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Sorting out my mobile music...

Changing, arranging and the levity ball...

Playlist

Various - Trojan Presents: The Producers

Frank Zappa - Meets The Mothers Of Prevention

Weeknd - Starboy

Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band

Scott Fields Feartet - Haydn

Bennie Green - Horn Full Of Soul

Sons Of Apollo - Psychotic Symphony

The Flaming Lips - With A Little Help From My Fwends

Various Composers - Maximum Minimalists

Soft Machine - Drop

Julian Bream - The Ultimate Guitar Collection

Bushman´s Revenge - A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza

Strawbs - From The Witchwood

Rheostatics - The Horseshoe Tavern - May 26 2017

Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol

Loscil - 100 Minutes

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Remixes

Prokofiev - Piano Sonatas 1, 4, 5 & 9

Various Composers - Piano Music of Our Century

Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition Fanfare 1970-1997 Remastered

Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way

Graham Park, Mike Pickering, Peter Hook & Manchester Camerata - Haçienda Classiçal

Various - Lust For Life

Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes

Jaco Pastorius - Anthology: The Warner Bros. Years

Various - Musik zur Zeit CD 139 Spex No 376

Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III

Snarky Puppy - GroundUp

Yves Montand - Chante Jacques Prévert

Scott Fields Ensemble - Music for the Radio Program : This American Life

John Coltrane - Sun Ship

Chic - The Chic Organisation

Various - A History of December Singles 1959-2016
Loeffler - Music for Four Stringed Instruments
Alice Cooper - Prime Cuts (DVD)
Roll The Dice - In Dust
Various - The Wire Tapper 24
Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind
Various - The Wire Tapper 26
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour
Various - William Orbit Odyssey
Various - The Wire Tapper 33
Vangelis - Albedo 0.39
Bacewicz - Streichquartette, Nr. 4, Nr. 6, Nr. 7
James Brown - Live At The Apollo
Torke - Color Music

Up early to upload the podcast, before heading to the gym, only to discover my iPod had been accidentally wiped - I use the passive tense because I certainly didn't do it and neither did the Exec Producer so, unless Tiger or Fang somehow gained access to the house and the iPod in the night and have an understanding of these things, it's a mystery...

Several hours today were spent trying to solve this situation...

At 9:15, with the EP under the weather re cold symptoms, your correspondent headed to the gym solo...

Taylor Swift was there - or at least her lookalike who spends an inordinate amount of time on a treadmill walking up a hill, was there...

For my part, I spent and inordinate amount of time on a bike...

Home with bread-based provisions, to find Tiger in the house but not admitting to having done anything to my iPod and this in the post...

I can advise it is "far out, maaan"...

...and, post lunch and Anne heading to Tynecastle to see Hearts remain undefeated at the new version of the stadium (but also without a win there) after a 0-0 draw with Ross County, this new disc soundtracked some work in the back room and the following on the Twitter of Queens going down 3-0 at home to Livingston and having a man sent off to boot...

Just as well football (and sport in general) is, in reality, of no consequence whatsoever...

What was of consequence was that I was rearranging some CDs to give the illusion of more space - it's not over of course...

The view from the office late this afternoon as the exercise was put on hold post initial work...

...and some Alice Cooper, from 1991, was watched on DVD - strange to see him again with a smooth face...

Meanwhile the trying to fix the iPod continued too...

On Anne's return, a tasty Indian selection was ordered and collected - one starter, one side dish, one main, a chapati and a couple of unordered poppadoms...

"Strictly" and "Michael McIntyre's Big Show" were watched and enjoyed, as was an hour of Josh Widdicombe's stand up on the Tivo...

Then, back to the iPod and, finally, it seemed to be working again...

Weird but with a hint of "we'll see"...

Lights out..

Highlight of the Day : Getting the iPod to work...

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 47

More new stuff and stuff from the vaults, with music from across the spectrum as opposed to one small niche. You'll find rock, pop, jazz, classical, reggae, soul, funk, ambient and leftfield tracks nestling up against each other in this cornucopia of fun...

Featured Recordings:-

After Crying - Live : Struggle For life

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Nightlightstar

Collapse Under The Empire - The Fallen Ones

Corb Lund - Things That Can't Be Undone

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Der Daf/Dos Staat

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Remixes

Frank - Sheik Yerbouti

James Brown - James Brown Presents His Band

John Cale - Artificial Intelligence

Loscil - 100 Minutes (Remixes)

Prokofiev - Piano Sonatas 1, 4, 5 & 9

Rush - Hold Your Fire

Scriabin - Piano Sonatas 2, 3, 6, 8 & 10

Snarky Puppy - Family Dinner Volume Two

Soft Machine - Drop

Steve Roach - Structures of Silence

Taylor Swift - Reputation

The Beatnuts - A Musical Massacre

Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop: The Definitive Collection

Various - A Break From The Norm

Various - Blue Broadway - Show Tunes Blue Note Style

Various - Disco Classics: The Greatest Disco Anthems

Various - Move On Up

Various - Soul Jazz Records Singles 2008-2009

Various - Trojan Producer Series Box Set

Various Composers - The Complete Classical Collection

Do fave, share, comment and pop back next week for more (or delve into the back catalogue)...

Thanks for taking the time to listen...

Wisdom which goes against the grain...

Playlist
Wuorinen - Works 1969-2008
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vols 1-52
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2016 Vols 1-52
Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds
Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider
Rufus Harley - A Tribute to Courage
Alice Cooper - Killer
Various - You're The Guy I Want to Spend My Money With
Various Composers - Music Before Revolution

Started the day with some piano music from new to me composer and recommendation from The Bad Plus' Ethan Iverson via his page on The Fleecebook, Charles Wuorinin...

Nice and oblique...

Good views this morning as I made my way down the hill on a particularly cold day...

I was out around an hour earlier than usual to enjoy a talk from Brian Wesbury, over from the USA on a visit to talk about how things are not, actually, all doom and gloom and how QE did not save the world, how government intervention just slows everything down and ends up making everyone poorer in the long run...

Watch this to understand...

Seldom have I ever heard someone talk so much sense on matters...

On his first ever visit to Edinburgh, he'd even gotten up super early to visit the grave of Adam Smith...

Anyone who does that is ok in my book...

Here's a link to his blog - take a look at the videos to learn how stuff actually works, as opposed to the pish people peddle on the Twitter and the Fleecebook...

But don't think he's a supporter of Trump, he knows Trump's a moron - he also knows that higher taxes and higher government spending are not good...

This the day after Trump's election...

Elsewhere, a walk to Fopp at lunchtime and took a chance on this, noting that Mr Harley was playing the bagpipes in a jazz context...

On reading up on him, I found it was Rufus Harley who supplied the bagpipe content on Laurie Anderson's classic 1981 debut, "Big Science"...

Truth be told, this album's not that great when he's bagpiping, but side two, where he reverts to flutes and saxes, is excellent...

On telly, we finally finished "I Know Who You Are"...

Not sure if it was good or bad how things turned out - and not sure it was worth the time invested over the piece but, hey ho, that's watching stuff on TV...

Ended the day with more listening, a classical box set from 1972 featuring Morton Feldman, John Cage and Christian Wolff - and a double LP I'm pretty sure I used to have but it's not in my records, featuring Laurie Anderson, William S Burroughs and John Giorno...

So, some interesting listening today...

That was it...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Wisdom which goes against the grain...

Up on the roof...

Playlist
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 47
Wuorinen - Works 1969-2008

Good views as I made my way down the hill this morning, soundtracked by the podcast I'll upload on Saturday morning...

Dark skies and rainbows during the day...

...and, in the evening, a meet up with the Exec Producer for drinks at Foundry 39 and on to rooftop Thai restaurant, Chaophraya...

Thai tacos...

...and fishcakes to start...

...and two different takes on a sirloin steak for the mains...

A reasonable Spanish red accompanied...

Life is not bad really...

A bus home and some Tivo'd stuff watched...

Highlight of the Day : Out with my best girl...