Striving to live to 100....

Playlist

Purcell - Odes & Funeral Music

Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble - The Spirit Of Trane

Radio.String.Quartet - In Between Silence

The Thing - Shake

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik III

Monkey3 - Sphere

Mono - Nowhere Now Here

Mott the Hoople - The Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll

Britten - The Canticles

Bill Evans - Jazz Masters 5

Frances Eustace - Bassoon Collection on Historic Instruments

Pärt - Sanctuary

Half Moon Run - A Blemish in the Great Light

Various Artists - The Jazz Collection

Various Artists - Country Gold

Beck - Odelay

Amalie Malling - Abrahamsen / Ruders / Nielsen / Pade: Piano Music

The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze: The Best Of The Isley Brothers

Miles Davis - The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux

Genesis - And Then There Were Three

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition

Barclay James Harvest - Time Honoured Ghosts

Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quintet 1965-68

Mike Stern - Give And Take

Schnittke - Complete Piano Music

Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 Way Street

Messiaen - Catalogue D'Oiseaux

Mathilde Santing - Matilde Matilde

The Clash - The Clash

Soft Machine - Seven

Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming

Norah Jones - Not Too Late

Morricone - Film Music By Ennio Morricone

Sébastien Tellier - Sexuality

Stile Antico - The Phoenix Rising

Prokofiev - Piano Concertos #2 & 3

Calliope Chœur De Femmes - Litanies À La Vierge Noire

Dowland - The Elizabethan Collection (Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares)

Haydn - Creation Mass / Mass Rorate Coeli Desuper

Various Artists - World Circuit Presents...

Ultravox - The Very Best Of Midge Ure & Ultravox

James Rhodes - Fire On All Sides

Up early and again refining the choices for this week's podcast, which comprise, now, 28 new entries into the collection since last Saturday morning - including a track from the upcoming CBQ LP, "Disquietmusik III", recorded on Sunday and out Friday 29 November on the Bandcamp...

This soundtracked the day...

Manwhile, the artist checked her work...

And the other artist headed out into the morning...

The view from the office I...

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At lunchtime, some chat on emerging markets, global equity income and unconstrained investing - it's what keeps me able to acquire new music and all the other nonsense "projects" I undertake...

Quite literally, the view from the office this evening...

..where, prompted by a Tweet from Mr Sid Smith, some tasty Soft Machine, not "Fourth" but "Seven", was enjoyed, "Fourth" not being on my phone (which will be rectified)...

I had missed my stop this morning on my way into town, which afforded an opportunity for some more walking than normal...

The same thing happened this evening, which, in turn, afforded some new views...

The stop-missing beast was about its business...

Post a thing that helps, as I strive to live to 100, the best thing in the world (at that precise moment in time), the Exec Producer's Spag Bog...

Yumtastic, as we in the music and investing business say...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's tasty Spaghetti Bolognese...