Thursday, December 31, 2020

The end of 2020...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwenty
Max Richter - Black Mirror OST
Max Richter - Mary Queen of Scots OST
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
Gil Scott-Heron - We're New Again
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain

Last day of a long and weird year...

Here, a  picture a day...













Up at six...


First listen of the day, last night before hitting the sack post midnight, was this...


...which was also the first listen this morning...



Views...





First things first, I amended the title of the new collection from "Twenty Twenty Vision" to just plain old "Twenty Twenty", got all the notes and everything up to date and sent it out into the world...


Later on, after a lazy day of doing nothing much at all really (we may have watched the film with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg re adopting kids but I can't say for sure if it was today), the scene was set for the end of the year...


Happy new year everybody...


Of all the acquisitions I posted up on Twitter, this was the most popular in terms of "likes"...


So I gave that a listen this evening...

A tasty Indian Takeaway for tea...


...accompanied by Bob's gin from Xmas - lovely...



...and some not that great telly...

These blurry fireworks were from Stirling...





And so, it was all over...

A dreadful year, all told...

Although I did manage to release 8(!!) new works...

The previous 8 took 7 years...

Hmmm...

Off to bed just after midnight with "Billion Dollar Babies" in my ears...

Goodbye 2020...

Highlight of the Day : The end of 2020...

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Approaching the end by going outside and by playing LPs...

Playlist
Sons Of Kemet - Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do
Various Artists - Home Of The Hits - The Beserkley Story
Rameau - Pigmalion, Platée & Dardanus Ballet Suites
Caravan - Place Of My Own: The Collection
Ride - I Don't Know Where It Comes From (Remix)
Concordia - The Glory Of Venice
The Mothers Of Invention - Mothermania (CD)
Various Artists - Anthems: Electronic 80s
The Temptations - With A Lot O' Soul
Moby - Long Ambients Two
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 2
Gilbert & Sullivan - Operettas
Praetorius - Dances & Motets
Rodrigo Leão - O Aniversário
Joel Cohen: Boston Camerata - Musique Judeo-Baroque
The Damned - Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976-1987
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison [Live]
The Beatles - Rock'n'Roll Music
Various Artists - Willie Dixon's Dixonary
Albinoni - 8 Flute Concertos
2raumwohnung - Kommt Zusammen Remixes
Long Distance Calling - STUMMFILM - Live From Hamburg
Josquin Des Prez - Guitara Illuminata
Yes - Progeny 1972-11-11 Durham
Chuck Berry - All Time Greats
Various Artists - Perfect Blues
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - Crusade
Focus - Focus III
Can - Soon Over Babaluma
Avishai Cohen - From Darkness
Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust Inc [EP]
Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet
Alice Cooper - Da Da
Steve Harley - The Candidate
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting
Gleaming Spires - Welcoming a New Ice Age

Rather a large playlist today as the snow continued to lie...




Ooops...


That's better...


Up late...


But I'm on holiday...

As part of my listening today, I caught up with a couple of random LPs early on...

Alice Cooper from 1983...


His final Warners LP - what a cover and, actually, a great album...


The Coop claims to remember nothing about recording it...


It was his last LP for 3 years which, while perfectly acceptable these days, was a very long time between LPs in the 80s...


Then, this from Steve Harley, which I enjoyed a lot more than I expected to...



...of course, post Zenith in 1979 but still top...



Out and took Anne along to her mum's at Roseburn...


...from where I walked into town re a necessary errand...


Good views on a bright sunny day...





...although it was very cold...


Despite all shops supposedly being shut re non-essential items, I still managed to pick this up for a couple of quid...


I may watch it at some point...

Back to Anne's mum's and then, home...

Views as the sun went down...



More LPs played, while posting up on Twitter the final acquisitions of 2020 - in all, the tally rose to 497, counting the new Brian Eno LP...

Speaking of whom, of all 497 albums posted on Twitter through the year, it was this that received the most "likes"..
 

LP-wise though, today, I played this one, which is another all time fave, complete with inserts...





And Fripp & Eno - my original German pressing, bought in Berchtesgaden in 1974...





And Sparks' 80's backing band Gleaming Spires, their second LP...





And, last for today, the first Francoise Hardy LP I ever bought...





...and the final random LP of 2020, as it was due to be played tomorrow...

And so Wednesday was over and tomorrow is the last day of the year...

The strange, weird year, that has been 2020...

Highlight of the Day : Being outside...