Someone taking an interest is good...

Playlist

Various Composers - Scandinavian Masterpieces

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2019

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - StarTruckin' 75 Tour

UK - Chicago 1978-07-20

Alice Cooper - The Killer & Muscle of Love Demos

Alice Cooper - LA Forum 1973-05-11

Alice Cooper - Hollywood Bowl 1972-07-23

Francisco López - VirtuAural Electro​-​Mechanics

Francisco López - Sonic Fields Vlieland

Various - Feelin' Soulful

Various - Sonar 2000

Various - 10 Years of Phonica

Various - Blueprint

David Bowie - Pin Ups

The Who - My Generation

The Who - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame

Chris Isaak - Forever Blue

Various - Dub Chillout

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Introducing

Gil Scott-Heron - Glory

Rodrigo Leao - Anniversaro

The Bad Plus - Club Ferrara, 2019-11-30

Craig Taborn & Dave King - Club Ferrara, 2019-02-02

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Aftersilence (Soundscapes)

Up and bringing this up to date, whilst giving my first listen to the box of Scandinavian music which popped through the door last week...

The views...

The shadow of the beast...

Slightly later view...

...and a walk to the grocery store for, mostly, bread-based and meat product-based provisions...

...and a walk back...

Noting this little chap/ess...

Home for a tasty breakfast...

Then, to organising all my various artist compilations...

Piling, then filing...

...whilst listening to some of the things I was sorting out...

100 minutes later, with Anne off to visit her mum, I was finished...

Aargh - but then I noticed a small corner of reggae that had not been integrated - such is the fate of the piler and filer...

New soundtrack required...

Take two...

Some learning of David Bowie's version of The Who's "I Can't Explain" - 47 years after first hearing Bowie's slowed down version, I realised that he took out part of the song and also amended the middle 8 form the normal verse chord sequence to a 12 bar blues based section...

There you go...

A tasty tea re last night's lasagna remains...

...and scones - accompanied by "Father Brown"...

Later some Twitter inspired listening...

...a chum suggested getting a stand for the hi fi - I pointed out that this Chinese amp cost £20 from Amazon...

...these speakers cost around a tenner from Richer Sounds...

...but the CD payer was reasonably expensive (back in the late 80's that is)...

The sound, despite the cost - is superb...

So I wn't be moving it to a stand alone set up any time soon (or at all, given space restrictions)

My Kirk collection...

My Scott-Heron collection...

...who was the next play...

...as I wondered to myself when this lock down might end...

No time soon is my bet...

With the sunset from the back window...

...a call to my mum - still doing ok but the Covid-cough sounds horrendous...

Final record, before "Killing Eve", was a comp from Madredeus' Rodrigo Leao, bought in Spain in January - seems a lifetime away now...

"Killing Eve", despite its detractors, seems up to the usual standards...

Some final listening re various downloads collected earlier today and weekend over...

No, wait, on checking my e-mails, a Canadian Twitter chum just bought my entire discography from Bandcamp - all 67 hours of it!

Wow!

Highlight of the Day : Someone taking an interest...