She shoots, she scores...

Playlist

Golden Earring - Moontan (European Edition)

Rivers & Robots - Presents  ... Still Vol. 1

Circus Maximus - Havoc In Oslo

Mykja - North Paths

Matthew Bourne - moogmemory plus

Sardonyx - Sons of the Kingdom

Martin Archer & Engine Room Favourites - Safety Signal From A Target Town

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Live At Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Haydn - Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross, op 51

Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 2 - Return To The Tough Side

Gil Scott-Heron - Blaxploitation : The Payback : Volume Three

Ben Frost - The Wasp Factory

Zombie Picnic - A Suburb of Earth

Soft Machine - Hidden Details

Markus Guentner - Empire

King Tubby - Declaration Of Dub

John Coltrane - Live In Seattle

Gil Scott-Heron - Free Will

Zombie Picnic - Rise of a New Technology

Oddsfiche - Can't Autograph a Snowball

Saturn's Daughter - Fibonacci Forever

Snufmumriko - Drömboken

Locatelli - The Art of the Violin

Art Pepper - Smack Up

Various - The Story Of Blue Beat: The Birth Of Ska

The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)

Chicago - Chicago

Sainte-Colombe Le Fils - Les Six Suittes Pour Basses De Viole Seule

Focus - Moving Waves

Leighton - Piano Sonata Opus 64/Chamber Works

Various - Boogie Chillen: Early Mods' First-Choice Vinyl

France Gall - Poupée De Son

Gil Scott-Heron - A New Black Poet : Small Talk At 125th And Lennox

Various - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968

Craig Armstrong - Sun On You

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Submotion Orchestra - Alium

Gestalt - Gestalt

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Remaster)

Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

The Shires - My Universe

Lalo Schifrin - Talkin' Verve

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1994 Remaster)

k.d. lang - Drag

Eagles - Hell Freezes Over

Taylor Swift - Reputation

Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

David Gilmour - About Face

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire (Deluxe Edition)

Klaus Schulze - X

John Coltrane - Transition

Robert Berry - The Dividing Line

Eric Prydz - Pryda

John Coltrane - Live in Seattle 30/09/1965

September gone - just a quarter of 2018 left...

Up at 6:15 and writing this and listening to and downloading, new music - what's new?

Today's new stuff, Zombie Picnic, Soft Machine, Oddsfiche, Saturn's Daughter and Snufmumriko...

A leaf through the great big book of Documenta 11 from 2002 - there was only one piece in the whole book that I actually recall seeing...

Out around 9:30, with the EP, post breakfast, to sort out a possible new phone scenario - for the time being, a new SIM and a better tariff achieved - for both of us...

Very good service from O2...

Some shopping including rolls for lunch (and my mum) and ingredients for a new dish Anne was going to try this evening...

Back home and more listening - with a view to whittling down the 200 recordings sampled over the last seven days to the 25-30 or so required for next week's podcast...

Some tidying in the attic, then, the first half of "Captain America : Civil War" on BluRay...

Enjoyable but rather a convoluted and pointless plot when it came down to it...

A visit to my mum - doing ok and looking forward to a few outings this week...

Home for the remainder of "Captain America"...

Anne was cooking this...

Spiced cauliflower and sweet potato bake with prawns
Recipe taken from The Doctor's Kitchen by Dr Rupy Aujla

Serves: 2

Ingredients

½ tsp turmeric
1 tsp chilli powder
5cm piece of root ginger, peeled and grated
6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 limes, halved
2 shallots, quartered lengthways and peeled
300g cauliflower, broken into florets
300g sweet potato, cut lengthways into 2-3cm thick wedges
250g raw shelled jumbo prawns, deveined
100g spinach, finely chopped
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

Preheat the oven to 200C / 180C Fan / gas 6

Mix the spices, ginger and 5 tbsp of the olive oil in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Squeeze in the juice from the limes.

Finely chop the juiced lime halves. Spread them out in a baking tray with the shallots, cauliflower florets and sweet potato. Drizzle over the spiced oil and coat the ingredients well, then bake in the oven for 35 minutes, stirring halfway through to ensure they cook evenly.

After the vegetables have been in the oven for 30 minutes, heat the remaining oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Add the prawns, season with salt and pepper and saute for 2 minutes, then turn over and saute for a further minute, or until cooked through. Remove from the heat, add the spinach, stir, and cover the pan for 1-2 minutes – the residual heat will wilt the spinach.

Transfer the tangy baked cauliflower and sweet potato to a serving dish, fold in the prawns and spinach and dress it with the oil from the baking tray

Here's how it turned out...

Extremely tasty indeed!

Kudos to the EP...

The aftermath...

...while I was mucking about with music as ever...

Late on, plumped on the 30 tracks for this week's programme, which will be recorded soon...

Then, yesterday's John Coltrane purchase which, coincidentally, was recorded on this very date 53 year ago...

Spooky...

Today's artwork, "Achieving the Aim "...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's cooking...

An excellent haul while, for others, it's surely not really about the music...

Playlist

Slow Meadow - Those Who Rush Across the Sea [Single]

Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow

Slow Meadow - Hananel's Recovery [Single]

Slow Meadow - Costero

Slow Meadow - We're Losing the Moon [Single]

Slow Meadow - The Tragedy of the Commons [Single]

Slow Meadow - Lachrymosia [Single]

Slow Meadow - Palemote [Single]

Slow Meadow - Clouds Not Clocks [Single]

Slow Meadow - Armoire Nocturne [Single]

Slow Meadow - A Magnificent Gray [Single]

Slow Meadow - Absence [Single]

Slow Meadow - Blue Aubade [Single]

Acqua Fragile - Mass-Media Stars
Markus Guentner - Empire

John Coltrane - Transition

Sainte-Colombe Le Fils - Les Six Suittes Pour Basses De Viole Seule

Jerry Butler - Chicago Hit Factory - The Vee-Jay Story 1953-1966

Sam Smith - The Thrill Of It All (Special Edition)

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire (Deluxe Edition)

Mendelssohn - Fantastic Cenčić

Gabrielli, G - A Venetian Coronation

Inward Oceans - Weather the Storm

Pleyel - String Quartets, Op. 2/1-3

Twilight Fields - Our Time Is Now

The Shires - My Universe

Tori Amos - Tales Of A Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection

Various - Restoration: The Songs Of Elton John And Bernie Taupin

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

Puma - Half Nelson Courtship

John Grant - John Grant With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Live In Concert

Fauré - The Romantic Age

Grouper - Grid of Points

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

White Out with Nels Cline - Accidental Sky

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (2017 Remaster)

Ke$ha - Rainbow

Gestalt - Gestalt

Jon Hopkins - Singularity

Craig Armstrong - The Quiet American: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen: Early Mods' First-Choice Vinyl

Lalo Schifrin - Talkin' Verve

Gil Scott-Heron - A New Black Poet : Small Talk At 125th And Lennox

Cream - Wheels Of Fire

Focus - Moving Waves

Robert Berry - The Dividing Line

France Gall - Poupée De Son

k.d. lang - Drag

Klaus Schulze - Timewind

Spirit - Time Circle

Golden Earring - Moontan (European Edition)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Starting the day (up early as ever at the weekends) listening to new discovery, Slow Meadow...

Then, more new music into the collection - from Markus Guentner and a rejig of some John Coltrane tracks into an LP I didn't previously have...

Breakfast at home, then, out to a Record Fair - solo, Dr Prog having turned down my invite...

Funny to see all these guys digging through the crates of vinyl paying extortionate prices...

  

...while I calmly partook of a goodly number of CDs at the quite ridiculous price of £2 each - in fact the stallholder, making a killing out of the old records, knocked some money off and gave me another disc for free...

I was particularly pleased with the Golden Earring - a European pressing with a different tracklisting - I'd known about this for years (and have a rip on a hard drive) but had never seen the actual disc before...

The Klaus Schulze for just £2 was a top notch find too...

Home in time for a quick lunch with Anne, before she headed off to the footie (Hearts 2-1 winners against St Johnstone - Queens drawing 0-0 in Inverness) leaving me to some ripping, listening and recording of purchases in the red books of CDs I own...

An attempt was made to set up speakers in the back room (the PA system having been disconnected re the recent gig) but, to be honest, even at reasonable/aka "lowest worthwhile" volumes, the sound was encroaching on downstairs - and so, headphones are indeed the way forward...

A purchase this afternoon of "Starlightnight" lead me to give that a listen...

Probably my best song-based album but the lyrics are a little tough to read through re what was happening at the time...

...which is odd for me, as my lyrics are usually hardly ever autobiographical...

...or rather never intentionally autobiographical...

In the evening, tasty home-made pasta accompanied "Strictly" for Anne, while I watched whilst listening to the new acquisitions on headphones...

"Killing Eve" continued excellently, though - *spoilers* - sad to see one of the main characters exit on episode 3...

A reasonable - no, update - very good Saturday...

Today's artwork, "The Crate Diggers"...

Highlight of the Day : An excellent haul...

Impromptu singing can be a good precursor to Argentinian nosh...

Playlist

We Lost The Sea - Departure Songs

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Love Beach Fanfare 1970-1997 Remastered

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Various - Pulp Fusion [15th Anniversary Crystal Edition - 2CD]

Renaud - Rouge Sang

Mark Templeton - Gentle Heart

Brian Reitzell - Auto Music

Evie - Balades électriques

Various - Chicago Hit Factory - The Vee-Jay Story 1953-1966

Capital Models - 2018-06-10

Slow Meadow - The Tragedy of the Commons [Single]

Slow Meadow - Absence [Single]

Slow Meadow - A Magnificent Gray [Single]

Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow

Some cakes this afternoon from new chum Gina...

Followed by some drinking, some games and an impromptu performance from Mr Quartet and his guitar...

Then to meet up with the EP, Chris-with-a-Ch and Gillian for some more drinks and tasty steaks at Los Argentinos...

 None of us had been there before but we all left suitably impressed...

A long walk down to Princes St post exit - with Chris stopping off on the way for more beer to help him home to that Fife on the train...

Fast mover...

We left them at Waverley and jumped on a 26...

Turned out neighbour Gail was on our bus but we didn't notice each other till the terminus...

Good chat on the way down the road though...

Today's artwork, "Chris on the Left"...

Highlight of the Day : Performing; and tasty Argentinian nosh...

Setlist

Bad Moon Rising

Folsom Prison Blues

Stuck in the Middle With You

Proud Mary

Mrs Robinson

Brown Eyed Girl

The bridges of observation...

Playlist

Tangents - Stents and Arteries EP

Ben Frost - A U R O R A

John Denver - Rocky Mountain High

Brad Mehldau Trio - Seymour Reads the Constitution!

Various - Chillout Moods

Various - The Story Of Blue Beat: The Birth Of Ska

Dohnányi - Winterreigen, 6 Piano Pieces, 3 Singular Pieces

Donna Summer - Endless Summer: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits

Various - 101 Northern Soul Anthems

The Shadows - The Shadows' Greatest Hits (Stereo)

Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls

Druckfarben - Druckfarben

Schnellertollermeier - X

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Umphrey's McGee - 2018/02/02 Kalamazoo, MI

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly

Frank Zappa - FZ:OZ

Thomas Stronen - Lucus

Pharoah Sanders - Save Our Children

Leighton - Piano Sonata Opus 64/Chamber Works

Kool & The Gang - The Collection

Various - Chicago Hit Factory - The Vee-Jay Story 1953-1966

A long, long day, broken up by a wee visit to the BHF and a couple of CD purchases Pharoah Sanders...

...and a disc of chamber music by, new to me English composer, Kenneth Leighton...

Finally a bus along to the top of Leith Walk to meet up with the EP, Jane and Bob for a slap up at Kushi's (not pictured)...

Yum...

Out into the twilight, noting the cranes re the redesign of the area on which once stood the St James Centre...

Into the Playhouse...

...for tonight's entertainment, Paul McCaffrey, who did pretty well as an opener, followed by the excellent Kevin Bridges...

Observational comedy at its best and, of course, based on experiences experienced in Scotchland, so all the more pertinent to the sold out audience (he's doing four nights)...

A bus home, reciting various lines from the evening...

On the downside, a txt from Olly advised he'd failed the theory for his driving test...

Oh well, a resit beckons...

Today's artwork, "Crane Skyline"...

Highlight of the Day : Kevin Bridges...

Preparation is everything...

Playlist

Riversea - The Tide
Frank Zappa - 1984-09-01 - Saratoga, NY
Firminus Caron - Twilight of the Middle Ages
Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light
Im With Her - See You Around
Thomas Stronen - Lucus
Locatelli - L'arte del Violino Op.3
Frank Zappa - Everything Is Healing Nicely
Borealis - The Offering
Various - The Wire Tapper 29
Various - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968
Laura Pausini - Laura Xmas (Deluxe)
IAMX - Alive In New Light
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Live At Élysée Montmartre, Paris Fanfare 1970-1997 Remastered
Frank Zappa - Guitar
J S Bach - Orchestral Suites & Concertos (Menuhin)
Isaac Hayes - Raw & Refined
Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour
Various - 100 Hits: 80s Essentials
Various - Island Presents: Ska
Muse - Muse Greatest Hits
Sonny Rollins - The Definitive Sonny Rollins On Prestige, Riverside, And Contemporary
CB3 - Live in Action!
Slow Meadow - Costero
Soen - Lykaia
Sia - This Is Acting (Deluxe Version)
Gabi Delgado - 2
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1994 Remaster)
Frank Zappa - Buffalo
The Upsetters - Africa's Blood
John Surman - Invisible Threads
Circles - The Last One
CB3 - Charlotta's Burnin' Trio
Various - Across The Universe OST
Murphy Radio - Murphy Radio
Yello - Solid Pleasure
John Cale - Music For A New Society
Depeche Mode - Spirit
Marcia Griffiths - Play Me Sweet And Nice
tide/edit - Lightfoot
Gestalt - Gestalt
Morrissey - Low In High School
Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom
Various - Stax-O'-Soul: A Sampler Of Stax Trax
Muddy Waters - The Anthology 1947-1972
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Gabi Delgado - 1
The Temptations - Cloud Nine
David Bowie - David Live
The Bad Plus - Never Stop II
Uriah Heep - Living The Dream
Rhye - Blood
Sparks - Kimono My House
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Alice Coltrane - Huntingdon Ashram Monestary
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound-On-Sound
King Crimson - Beacon Theatre, New York 14 December 2001
Mathilde Santing - Mathilde Santing
Joseph Arthur - Lou
Takemitsu - Complete Solo Guitar Works
Kamaal Williams - The Return
Michał Milczarek Trio - Ambient Works
Capital Models - DR & JW 2018-09-23
Capital Models - Live 29 November 2014
Submotion Orchestra - Alium

It's getting darker in the morning...

Although I was out a little earlier than usual for some chat on the future from the man who designed the new State Pension...

On the way back from that, popped into Fopp and picked up a couple of Alice Coltrane titles - having heard some of her stuff recently and having been suitably impressed - I think, prior to today I only had one track in the collection - now I have 4 LPS...

Then, at lunchtime, at the BHF, took a chance on the Submotion Orchestra, having first sampled them on Youtube via my phone (even though it was only £1.99 - less than a sandwich)...

In the evening, Anne was out at Hearts v Motherwell in the League Cup Quarter Final, the JTs winning 4-2 in the end...

I took the opportunity to record this week's podcast - last week was a nightmare taking up almost half my Saturday - far better to be prepared well in advance of upload...

Mission accomplished..

Today's artwork, "Dark Morning"...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

Some pop ups can be good...

Playlist

Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Art Pepper - Smack Up

David Arnold - Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project

Take That - Wonderland

Django Django - Marble Skies

Sloth Racket - Triptych

Rhye - Blood

Craig Armstrong - Sun On You

Regal Worm - Pig Views

Various - 100 Hits: 80s Essentials

Various - Unmasked: The Platinum Collection (Deluxe)

Kauan - Kaiho

Eels - The Deconstruction

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (2017 Remaster)

Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III

Berit Alette - Mienna Arban

Beethoven - Chamber Music For Horns, Winds & Strings

Moby And The Void Pacific Choir - More Fast Songs About The Apocalypse

Mondonville - Titon et l'Aurore

Eagles - Hell Freezes Over

Various - The Wire Tapper 29

Händel - Tamerlano (Gardiner)

Enchant - A Blueprint Of The World

Paul Rodgers - Free Spirit [Live]

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Songs Of Freedom

Die Ärzte - Debil

Adams - Maximum Minimalists

Marilyn Manson - Heaven Upside Down

Kadebostany - Monumental

G.S. Schray - Gabriel

Tom Paxton - #6

Lloyd Parks And The Techniques - Trojan Reggae Rarities Box Set

Scott Walker - Scott

McFly - Greatest Hits

Max Nagl Ensemble - Quartier Du Faisan

Frank Zappa - Thing-Fish

Eric Prydz - Pryda

Various - Blaxploitation : The Payback : Volume Three

Various Composers - A Venetian Coronation

The Beatles - 1 (2015 Remix)

Eluvium - Curious Things

Various Composers - Music from Renaissance Portugal

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (Definitive Edition Remaster)

Gabi Delgado - 2

Françoise Hardy - Story 1964-65

Various - Kehakuma

Ben Frost - The Centre Cannot Hold

Dohnányi - Winterreigen, 6 Piano Pieces, 3 Singular Pieces

Gregory Isaacs - Yesterday

Matt Jencik - Weird Times

Donald Byrd - Blackjack

Miles Davis - The Musings of Miles

Taylor Swift - Fearless (Japanese Edition)

The Who - Quadrophenia

Derek And The Dominos - Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

Klaus Schulze - X

Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is

Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

XTC - English Settlement

Marc And The Mambas - Torment And Toreros

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Remaster)

The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!

The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Another big playlist today but, to be fair, mostly shuffleplay and one track from each LP...

The view from the office this morning...

The Double LP playlist was amended re taking a few out due to live tracks being included (need to be studio LPs) and one compilation (albeit of previously unreleased material)...

And a few oversights added - how could I have missed "Out of the Blue"?

Late on, "Holby City" took last week's story line even further into the dark...

Today's artwork, "Satellite Dish"...

Highlight of the Day : New music popping up....

A one picture and twin vinyl day...

Playlist

Capital Models - DR & JW 2018-09-23
James Stein's Locksmith Isidore - After Caroline
The Dear Hunter - All Is As All Should Be
Genesis - ...And Then There Were Three... (1994  Definitive Edition Remaster)
Ranges - The Ascensionist
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Various - Chill Out Moods
Hiolly Johnson - Blast
David Gilmour - About Face
Arovane & Porya Hatami - Organism
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses (New Shoes Edition)
Telemann - Viola Concertos
Bill Spooner - Mall to Mars
Gabi Delgado - 2
Soccer Mommy - Clean
Händel - Alessandro
Mondonville - Titon et l'Aurore
Frank Zappa - 1984-10-12 - Viareggio Italy
Juliette Armanet - Petite Amie (Deluxe)
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Françoise Hardy - Alone
Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Chicago - Chicago
Focus - In And Out Of Focus
Focus - Focus III
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
Richie Havens - Richard P. Havens, 1983
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Up early and further editing of yesterday's tapes and added to an iPod for on the go listening...

Today was the day of Anne's "long walk" - 3 hours across the Pentlands with chum Teresa and her black lab Mac...

Anne is a lady of few (but, generally, good) pics...

Meanwhile, your correspondent was down in Stockbridge shelling out on more nonsense...

This for 50p, as it gives a shout out to Michael Rother in the credits...

It's actually quite good...

This box for £4, as the interesting outweighed the absolute pish full of synthesised panflutes, of which there's quite a lot...

Used to have this smooth item on LP, although, strangely, not on my list so, must have been beyond 1983...

And I had this previously on CD - it's quite good, in a Frankie kind of way...

Finally, an excellent condition replacement...

...for a not excellent condition ex-library disc...

In the evening, the upcoming reissue of "The Beatles" (White Album) prompted a playlist of double LPs, almost all of which are better IMHO - although I do like the fab four's effort - but a multi disc box set of outtakes of an album that seems already full of out takes?

Hmmmm...

What we really need re "The Beatles" is the cut down single LP version...

I can't believe the gullibility being relied upon here - no, wait, I can, because it's the world's most over-rated group...

A group I do actually like, despite said continual over-rating...

Anyway, here are the double albums...

Today's artwork, "A Better Replacement"...

On telly, we beat the Paris branch of University of London quite easily, in one of the worst ever episodes of "University Challenge"...

The rest of my evening was taken up with double albums...

As is the way...

Highlight of the Day :  Double LPs...

From 2.5 to 1.5...

Playlist

Taylor Swift - Reputation

tide/edit - All My Friends

Uriah Heep - Living The Dream

Capital Models - DR Covers Learning

Capital Models - Live at the Dean

Modern Jazz Quartet - Django

Rhye - Blood

Sparks - Kimono My House

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

Capital Models - DR & JW 2018-09-23

Up reasonably early...

Breakfast at home with visiting wildlife...

Still life...

Peeping duck...

Out to my mum's, where we enjoyed some Joe Loss and his Orchestra, including one of my first ever records, gifted from my dad, "Wheels Cha Cha"/"Latino Cha Cha"...

On out to Roslin for a two and ahlf hour session with drummer Johnny (no pics)...

...bashing through 25 new covers for possible covering by the group...

The 2.5 hours produced 1.5 hours' of recordings...

Back to my mum's with rolls...

Then, on to Anne's mum's for the fortnightly family tea...

Kitty was tired...

...but managed a glimmer of a smile...

I tried to get less serious looking shots than usual...

...as we need to fill up the 2019 calendar for Mary...

Home for the last of "The Bodyguard"...

*Spoilers*  :  A strangely "everything kind of turned out ok" ending...

Today's artwork, "Is This a Red Admiral"...

Hihglight of the Day : Musicking...