Future quartet booking can brighten a day...

Playlist

I Solisti Veneti - The Magic Of The Mandoline

Various Artists - The Divine Music Centre Vol 15

John Barry - The Real... John Barry

Emerson Lake & Palmer - King Biscuit Flower Hour: Classics Live

Brahms - Piano Works

Various Composers - The Romantic Age

Rawsthorne - Cello Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Symphonic Studies

Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Before the Day Breaks

The Troggs - Hit Single Anthology

The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Last Concert

Madredeus - Capricho Sentimental

France Gall - Poupée De Son

Bartók - The Piano Concertos

Various Artists - Love Actually OST

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

Various Artists - Front Line Presents Roots

Wagner -  Der Fliegende Holländer

Commodores - The Very Best Of The Commodores

Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence [Japanese Edition]

Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea

Sleepmakeswaves - Love Of Cartography

Suzanne Vega - ales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles

65DaysOfStatic - We Were Exploding Anyway

Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Crown and Treaty

John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

Françoise Hardy - La Pluie Sans Parapluie

Craig Armstrong - It's Nearly Tomorrow

Helbig - Pocket Symphonies

Brian Eno - Drums Between The Bells

2raumwohnung - Achtung fertig

Skadedyr - Kongekrabbe

Alice Cooper - Hollywood Vampires

Thomas Köner - La Barca (Complete Edition)

Asia - XXX

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Françoise Hardy - L'amour fou

Black Sabbath - 13

The Killers - Battle Born

Various Composers - Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2008

Dar Williams - Emerald

Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made

Lucy Kaplansky - Reunion

Brian Eno - Lux

Wajnberg  - String Quartets 8-10

Nine months of the year gone already...

Cloudy but good views this morning...

Nice breakfast...

Rearranged music scenario soundtracked the day...

iPod 2 - Recent CD acquisitions (4 years)...

iPod Touch - Blue Note Collection...

iPhone 4 - Last 12 months' podcasts...

iPhone 8 - Favourite music 1940s to 2010s...

Other than that, no "University Challenge" tonight...

But we did book seats to see Quator Danel in Hamburg next month, playing four quartets by recent discovery to me Wajnberg (aka Weinberg)...

So that was good...

Highlight of the Day : Quartet booking...

Perseverance can be daunting but nothing in the big scheme of things...

Playlist

Locanda Delle Fate - Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più

Roll The Dice - In Dust

Parliament - Tear The Roof Off 1974-1980

Klaus Schulze - Timewind

Edward Spark - Poppy

The Temptations - Psychedelic Soul

Various Artists - Maxi Disco

Martin Hall Project - Cutting Through

Herman Van Veen - Herman Van Veen I

Herman Van Veen - Herman Van Veen I

David Bowie - Pin Ups

John Coltrane - Black Pearls

Robert Fripp - Exposure

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

Françoise Hardy - In Vogue

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Various Artists - Strut'n' Get Up: Funky Fat Slices Of Groove Cut From Blue Note

Various Artists - Windows : Windham Hill 25 Years of Piano

David Sylvian - Everything And Nothing

Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (RM)

Krauze - Piano Works

Adele - 21

Fashiøn - The Height Of Fashiøn

The Bad Plus - It's Hard

Jherek Bischoff - Cistern

Gabi Delgado - 2

The Velvet Underground - The Very Best Of The Velvet Underground

Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty

Szymanowski - Piano Works, Vol. 1

Chopin - Piano Concertos 1& 2

Various Artists - The Mute Song Sampler

Sly & Robbie - Riddim: The Best of Sly & Robbie in Dub 1978-1985

Leisure Tank - Wetsuit

Various Artists - Night Fever

The London Orion Orchestra - Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here Symphonic

Yes - Heaven & Earth

The Bad Plus - Never Stop II

Henry Mancini - The Best Of Henry Mancini

The Ventures - Walk Don't Run

Chopin - Préludes, Sonata #2

Henze - Voices

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 27

Various Artists - Move On Up

Various Artists - Dancing In The Street

Sade - The Best Of Sade

DJ Hell - Misch Masch

Locatelli - Concerti Grossi Op. 1/7-12

Various Artists - Rockabilly : Red Hot & Rare Volume One

David Lloyd-Jones: Northern Sinfonia - English String Miniatures, Vol. 4

After yesterday's debacle with the loading music onto the iPod, Luna warned me today not to waste time trying it again...

In the end, she was right - it got to the very last track of 160GB of music and wiped everything again...

So, what did I do?  I started putting CD acquisitions since 2015 onto the 2nd iPod - that worked...

So who is the real winner?

Yes, it was Luna...

Meanwhile, Anne was painting...

A sample pot was sampled post a visit to the paint shop to buy the paint...

...after which, Anne returned to the paint shop to buy the full pot of the paint...

My moving music around continued...

Along with listening to some LPs...

Later, Luna was waiting for her mum and dad to come and take her home...

But, before that, we popped out to visit my mum - still a little under the weather and now on her second course of antibiotics...

Back home, Anne had her last get together with our wee friend - we are going to miss the lovely wee beastie...

Gillian and Oliver arrived just after 6:30 - a little tired after their flight back from America but happy to see Luna again...

..and all too soon, she was gone...

To cheer us up, Anne made lovely tasty Spaghetti Bolognese...

Yum...

The rest of the evening was spent in the continued putting music onto the iPod scenario...

So glad it worked this time...

All told, probably over 20 hours of the weekend taken up on this stupid project...

Very late on some changing of music on the phone to reflect the new situation...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Music remaining on the 2nd iPod...

Upstairs might now also be downstairs...

Playlist

Gang Of Four - Entertainment!

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tarkus

Bobby Womack - My Prescription

Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 06

Tony Williams' Lifetime - Emergency! (Verve Remaster)

The Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold

Miles Davis - The Miles Davis Quintet, March 19, 1963 - November 12, 1968

The Temptations - All Directions

Bryan Ferry - Bête Noire

Slade - Play It Loud

Françoise Hardy - L'amour fou

Telemann - 12 Fantasias For Solo Violin, TWV 40: 14-25

Tangerine Dream - The Virgin Years: 1974-1978

Albrecht Mayer/Bamberger Streichquartett - Bamberger Streichquartett - Mozart and Muller

Klein -  6 Cello Sonatas

Amsterdam Guitar Trio - Bach Chopin Debussy Faure

Hagen - Sonatas For Lute & Strings

Various Composers - Deutsche Grammophon : Original Masters : The Singles

Various Composers - Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr 2008

Colosseum - Valentyne Suite

Gentle Giant - Scraping The Barrel

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 10

Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground

Yello - Touch Yello

Dio - Holy Diver

Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus

Tangerine Dream - Tangerine Dream '70-'80

Chabrier - Piano Works, Vol. 2

Shostakovich - The Two Piano Sonatas and other works

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu

Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music

Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love

Umphrey's McGee - it's not us

Alice Cooper - School Days

The Animals - The Most Of The Animals

Maxwell Davies - A Celebration Of Scotland

Max Richter - Hostiles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Betts - Yasaka

Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Orrin Evans - Meant To Shine

Rush - 2112

John Lennon - Rock 'n' Roll

John Coltrane - Africa/Brass

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

John Coltrane - Coltrane

Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before

The Tubes - T.R.A.S.H.

Barber - Solo Piano Music

Roll The Dice - In Dust

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 01

First thing, a wee friend was to hand...

She soon disappeared onto a window ledge for the views...

...which were good...

...as was the first coffee of the day...

My goals for today were to delete all the music from both my 160GB iPods and fill one with all CDs acquired in the last 4 years and the other with all downloads over a similar period...

I also wanted to upload the podcast and bring this diary up to date...

And , I wanted to organise all the musical equipment put up into the attic over the course of the last six days...

But first, choose something to play...

A trip to the grocery store for provisions including a variety of pastries, ostensibly for Anne...

Post breakfast, Luna enjoyed rolling around in some catnip...

...and then looked fro more...

Then, she helped Anne with some paining...

..while I lazed around listening to music as CDs from 2015 to 2019 loaded into a wiped iPod...

Portuguese Custard Tarts were enjoyed...

...while we decided the bathroom was the wrong colour...

The view from the office later this afternoon...

...as I reconstituted the "recording console" up in the attic...

...with a cheeky wee finishing touch...

Nothing is, as yet, plugged into any source of electricity though...

Back downstairs but still upstairs, this John Coltrane album (and a couple of others recorded around the same time, at the start of the 60's) was found to be very good...

As last week, some reasonably healthy Indian fayre was enjoyed...

Meanwhile, the ipod I'd spent around 8 hours filling with loadsa CDs wiped itself empty as I approached the eighth hour of the exercise...

Which was a trifle annoying...

I started again...

After all, it was that or watch "Strictly"...

And that took me to midnight...

Goals achieved : 2/5...

Poor show...

Lights out...

Highlight of the day : Setting up the stuff...