Spotting the difference...

Playlist
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Boltcutters
Thundercat - It Is What It Is
Burning Spear - Reggae Greats
Jason Lytle & Aaron Espinoza - This is Your Say - Original Soundtrack
Melanie De Biasio - Lilies
Rameau - Les Indes Galantes
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
Various - Singerman!
Miles Davis - Live in Copenhagen 1969
Various - The Big Payback
Phish - Sigma Oasis
Duodena Cantitans, Capella Rudolphina, Michael Consort, Petr Daněk - Musica temporis Rudolphi II
Black Pumas - Black Pumas
Norah Jones - ...Featuring Norah Jones
Various Artists - Pulp Fusion, Vol. 5: Evolution
Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith - Songs From the Bardo
Various Composers - Scandinavian Masterpieces
Various Artists - Do The Reggae: Skinhead Reggae In The Spirit Of '69
Francisco López - VirtuAural Electro​-​Mechanics
Evelyn Glennie - Touch The Sound
Joe Harriott - Southern Horizons
Eldorado Omega - Beatkits
Various Artists - Dub II
Various Artists - Hip City - Tales From The Funky Side Of Town
Luke Howard Trio - The Shadow
Bach, J S - Brandenburg Concertos
Bach, J S - Goldberg Variations (Gould 1955)
Bach, J S - Orchestral Suites & Concertos (Menuhin)
Starer - Excursions For A Pianist
Staude - Streichtrio etc Deutscher Musikrat
Stockhausen - Telemusik Mixtur
Takemitsu - Takemitsu: Piano Works
Ten Holt - Canto Ostinato XXL
Ter Veldhuis - JacobTV - Complete Solo Piano Music
Thiele - Orchestral
The Max Roach Trio - Featuring Hasaan
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - American Adventure
Network - Highly Committed Media Players
Eddie Harris - EH in the UK
Maria Schneider Orchestra - Sky Blue
Tangerine Dream - Recurring Dreams

A very strange April, gone...

Up, yes, you guessed it, early...

Rather dreich outside, so went monochrome...

But colour soon emerged...

Started off with the track list for this week's podcast, chosen on Tuesday - ahead of the game, then, Bach's Brandenburgs - not the best ever version, a bit lifeless really - on posting this pic I was given a few tips on the Twitter as to better versions...

Breakfast with the EP...

Then, to work..

This tried for a few seconds, before reverting to the previous storage solution...

Continued to make my way through the A-Z of less well known composers from the collection, hitting S and T today...

In the afternoon, a visit from Fang - he had something to say...

..but soon settled down...

...to become the subject of a couple of still lives...

For tea, my favourite - Anne's spaghetti Bolognese...

Yowsah!

We have two cute wee twins next door...

Cute but noisy...

A call to my mum - still doing comparatively well...

Then, the views from the office this evening...

I...

II...

III...

IV...

V...

  

...as records were played for International Jazz Day...

Max Roach...

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, featuring my distant relation, Bill Fleming, on Baritone Sax...

Some obscure late 80's fusion...

An excellent pick up session from Eddie Harris, feature the cream of British rock of the mid 70's but playing jazz...

..and the Maria Schneider Orchestra, members of whom featured on Bowie's "The Next Day", back in 2013...

The beast listened...

...and liked...

..and thought about growing his hair back...

Let's finish with the out-take of the collage at the top of this entry...

Spot the difference?

Highlight of the Day : Anne's Spag Bog of course....

Perhaps my brains are old and scrambled...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2019

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Menuhin)

Platti - Cello Concertos

Rasmussen, S - Dancing Raindrops

Rijnvos - Block Beuys

Rimple - January: Songs & Chamber Music of Mark Rimple

Ritter - 6 Quartets For Bassoon & Strings

Smutny - Klaviersonate; Symphonie; Streichquartett

Schenck - Nymphs of the Rhine, Vol 1

Sehrbrock - Static Music

John Coltrane - Stellar Regions

Yes - Relayer

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anything But Ill [Single]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah

Pink Floyd - Works

Joel Harrison - Free Country

London Sinfonietta - Warp Works & Twentieth Century Monsters

Various - Pop in Motion

James Last Orchestra - Classics

Earth Wind and Fire - The Box Set Series

Yehudi Menihun - Les introuvables de Yehudi Menuhin

Various - Maximum Minimalists

Hans-Martin Linde - Music in Sanssouci

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond

Love Unlimited Orchestra - The 20th Century Singles

VArious - Magic Moments 7 - Sounds of Surprise

The Czars - Music from the Film "I'd Rather Be....Gone" [Single]

Duke Ellington - Money Jungle

Brian Eno - Box II : Vocal

Francisco Lopez - Sonic Fields Vlieland

Early rise...

...for a shave and a haircut...

  

Reasonably good views...

A new project today based on a book found yesterday in the attic,"From Metal to Mozart" - which, within, amongst other advice to those into rock music but who have no knowledge of classical, sets out 100 classical pieces to "get you into classical music"...

So I am going to try and play one a day for the next hundred days...

Which will take me to early August...

Let's see how long it takes for this to break down?

First off, Vivaldi's Four Seasons - I have a few versions to choose from...

...but plumped for this...

A nice start to proceedings...

A squirrel accompanied a cereal based breakfast...

Also today, continuing my A-Z of classical, finishing off the second P quartet which was standing in for the lack of Q, then, moved on to R...

The Rijnvos was "out there" and particularly good...

..and, as an added bonus, it was recorded on my birthday...

This was also enjoyed, after it popped through the door...

I do love the tuneless contemporary stuff...

Lunch...

...with "Father Brown" and Fang...

An afternoon of work and moved into the first two S composers, the tasty viols of Herr Schenk and the modern but tuneful Sehrbrock...

Did I ruin my fish pie with too much ketchup?

No, I did not...

A call to my mum - in good spirits and reports her Covid cough is getting a bit better...

After that and some TV, upstairs to listen to some CDs, with half the records being included via suggestions from the Twitter as I went along...

Eclectic...

I particularly enjoyed hearing "The Western Edge" performed live at my "55 songs" series back in 2004...

A stonking Johnny Cash cover on this one...

Erm, Men at Work - not my choice!

For my mum and dad...

For Anne's dad - who would have been 91 today!

A composer beginning with Q...

Barry White covering Isaac Hayes, funk squared...

Manu Katche...

A very rare Czars item...

And finished off with Eno...

"Perhaps my brains are old and scrambled"...

Perhaps, but they do have this coming out of them in the pic above...

Some field recordings, some TV (Goldbergs and Schooled) and bed...

Highlight of the Day : Playing CDs...