The arrival of the once avant garde..

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2020

Bob Dylan - Desire

Joni Mitchell - Dreamland

Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale

Moderntimes_1800 - Johann Gottlieb Graun : Concertos for Strings

Stevie Wonder - Music of my Mind
Ravel - Complete Orchestral Works

Cosmic Ground - Relics Vol 1

Mott the Hoople - The Collection

Yo La Tengo - We Have Amnesia Sometimes

Up early and bringing this slightly up to date - of course it's now Wednesday morning and I'm way behind again but, hey ho...

The views...

Some sourcing of records I ought to have had a long time ago by Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell - some already there on hard drives, just not in the iTunes but, rather, languishing - now languishing no more...

Coffee...

..and, according to my diary, on this Saturday (tomorrow date wise) in 1974, I bought “Space Ritual” for £2.95 & “The Man Who Sold the World” for £1.10 (£30.99 & £11.56 in today’s money)...

I was 15...

How did I afford that?

Well, it seems I sold 8 unnamed LPs for £4.50 (£47.28 today), post taping them, of course...

Anyway, podcast uploaded and a wee solo shopping trip to Lidl before returning for breakfast with Anne - accompanied, as usual, by the Rev Richard Coles and his gentle Saturday morning show on Radio 4...

Once again the new flowers entertained...

...before, for Anne, the painting began...

She reckoned I should just leave the stuff like this for the next 10 days until the shelves arrive...



A nice salad for lunch...

With tasty bread I had sourced from Lidl earlier this morning...

Nice arrivals in the post - a six CD set of, mostly, avant garde classical music recorded live in Leningrad a year before the collapse of communism...

...and a two CD set of a reasonably little known composer and one of his pupils - his brother, C H Graun, is more well known...

In the afternoon, I put the boxes of CDs backas I didn't want to not have access to everything for 10 days...

Tea was a tasty takeaway from Abida...

...while the squirrel had something it liked...

...as did young Fang later on...

Having put the boxes back, I was able to access today's classical piece of the day, Ravel's "Bolero", in order to record the cover - as you do...

And so, the room ended the day like this - with more painting due tomorrow...

Another entertaining episode of "Vera" entertained...

A Richter book was looked into with even some reading going on - the result of an order made from the Tate Modern for a few books and a new mug - bought with birthday money received from my mum on her return home on Thursday night...

to bed, early...

Highlight of the Day : The arrival of the once avant garde...