Morrocan Lamb, nephews, great nephews and new music can make for a good day...

Playlist

Hindemith - Piano Pieces

Soft Machine - BBC Sessions (1971-1974)

Julian Velard - The Planeteer

Black Mountain - In The Future

OSI - Free

Jordi Savall: Le Concert Des Nations - Subterranea

Jordi Savall: Le Concert Des Nations - Marquise

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 17

Gary Glitter - Glitter

Agricola - Chansons

Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection Vols X-XX

Kenny Dorham - Inta Somethin'

Various Artists - Ska Party

Hawkwind - Electric Tepee

Soft Machine - NDR Jazz Workshop – Hamburg, Germany, May 17, 1973

Joshua Redman - Walking Shadows

Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag

Various Artists - 100 Hits: The Best Jazz Album

Soft Machine - Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology 1967 -1973

Félix Dyotte - Félix Dyotte

The Who - Tommy

Various Artists - Time Machine - A Vertigo Retrospective

John Barry - The Real... John Barry

The Beatles - Chronology

Jackson Browne - The Very Best Of Jackson Browne

William S.Burroughs - Nothing Here Now But The Recordings

Udo Lindenberg - Stärker Als Die Zeit

Mendelssohn - The String Symphonies

Scanner - Fibolae

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Songs of the Sombre Reptiles

cults - Offering

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Cloudland Blue

Nazareth - Play 'N' The Game

Spontini - La Vestale

Various Composers - The Art of the Countertenor

The Clash - Sandinista!

Pat Metheny Group - Speaking Of Now

Various Artists - Milano Jukebox 2001

Schubert - Die Schöne Müllerin

Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention

Beyonce - LEMONADE

Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon

The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker

Stekpanna - Ouch!

Kansas - There's Know Place Like Home

Uriah Heep - Acoustically Driven

Cheikha Rimitti, Robert Fripp & Flea - Sidi Mansour

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - Bewitched

The Explorers - The Explorers

King Crimson - Live at the Marquee 1969

Phil Manzanera - K-Scope

It Bites - Cartoon Graveyard/Lighthouse [Single]

Alex Machacek Raphael Preuschl Herbert Pirker - Fat

Neal Morse - It's Not Too Late

Neal Morse - Neal Morse Plays Pink Floyd

Chris Spedding - Backwoods Progression

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Liverpool (DeLuxe Edition)

Lou Reed - Perfect Night: Live in London

Uriah Heep - It Was 40 Years Ago

Andy Mackay - Resolving Contradictions

Jeff Lynne - Armchair Theatre

Pulsar - The Strands Of The Future

Eno, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank - Begegnungen

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age

Brian Eno - Sisters

Brian Eno - My Squelchy Life (Re-Issue)
Piazzolla - Tango Ballet
Oxford Camerata - Renaissance Masterpieces
Chick Corea & Friedrich Gulda - Mozart: 2 Pianos Concerto, K.365
Kim Walker & Leonard Hokanson - Beethoven, Schumann & Brahms: Pieces for Bassoon and Piano
Bartók - 44 Violin Duos
Jordi Savall: Le Concert Des Nations - Marquise
Rimple - January: Songs & Chamber Music of Mark Rimple
Muffat - Propitia Sydera
Colori Ensemble - Colori Miti
Maxwell Davies - A Celebration Of Scotland
Christina Pluhar: L'Arpeggiata - Cavalli: L'Amore Innamorato
Bruch - Violin Concerto, Scottish Fantasia
Simpson - String Quartets #1 & 4
Pärt - Cello Concerto, Perpetuum Mobile, Symphonies #1-3

Rough Diamond - Rough Diamond

Neal Smith - Platinum God

AndersonPonty Band - Better Late Than Never
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Trio : The Creation of the Universe

84 albums dipped into today...

Mainly because I started the day on shuffle and then, took some time to delve into Jorg Sonnenschein's second hard drive, to add some albums to the iTunes - in the end adding over 50, mainly from the "Roxy Music Solo" and "Neal Morse" sections, but some other interesting stuff too...

That was how the morning was spent, with Anne once again off to help her mum re the new kitchen scenario, which was finalised, bar a couple of small items, by around 2pm...

By that time I was sitting in the back room leafing through "1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die" (quite a decent proportion of which, we have indeed seen), while listening to a new discovery - a four track hour-long Brian Eno ambient album, "Sisters", which was released, unbeknownst to me, as a companion to his last ambient LP, "Reflection", back in 2017...

Anyway, on Anne's return, we drove over to Loanhead with Eno's "My Squelchy Life" on the stereo, doing my mum's shopping and then, arriving at my mum's to find sister Sheila and husband Andrew Snr already there, along with nephew Ali and nephew Andy, the latter with his three boys, Kerr, Wee Dougie and Lachie...

Sheila and Andrew headed off and left us to it with the boys - fun was had...

...including the classic, "let's put Lachie in a bag"...

...which he seemed to enjoy...

Photo time with Great-Grandma...

...followed by Lachie pointing out people he knows...

...including his Great-Uncle...

Then, time to go as Ali headed off for tea at his mum's and Andy prepared the boys for the drive back to Yorkshire...

"Bye boys!"...

Back home, Anne prepped tea with the last of the three very tasty concoction mixes we purchased at Stockbridge market, four weeks ago now, when Jorg and Manu were here...

With lamb being the meat ingredient, it took a long time to become ready and filled the house with a wonderful aroma...

I took the opportunity to record and upload volume 14 of my classical podcasts, inspired by the number of Twitterchums joining the so-called #ClassicalClub, where they post up pics of things they're listening to from the, in the main, relatively small collection of classical recordings they own and comment thereon - it seems they are mostly into large orchestral staples of the classical world...

I am hoping to turn them on to the weird and the wonderful but, most likely, won't...

Meanwhile, tea was ready...

...and it was extremely tasty...

And was followed by tonight's two episodes of "What We Do in the Shadows" and bed...

Weekend over...

Lights out with Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio, released in 2008 but not heard by me until today...

Highlight of the Day :  Moroccan lamb/seeing the boys/new music...