Collaboration can be good, even when your collaborators are unaware...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2020
Udo Lindenberg - Livehaftig
Various Artists - Trojan Reggae Brothers Box Set

Various Artists - Ten Years Of Phonica

Various Artists - 101 Trance Anthems

Various Artists - Wait a Minute : The Stax & Satellite Story

Various Artists - Right On! Vol 3

Various Artists - Monster Floorfillers

Various Artists - Ska Party

Various Artists - Rock The World

Various Artists - Roswell OST

Various Artists - The Best Rock Ballads In The World... Ever!

Tim Webb & Cloudland Blue Quartet - Double Bass Improvisation

Tim Webb - Solo Bass Improvisations

Various Artists - 101 Disco Anthems

Various Artists - Dub

Various Artists - The Greatest Seventies Album

Various Artists - Motown Dance Party, Vol 2

Various Artists - Trojan Dub Box Set

Various Artists - Northern Soul

Various Artists - Rockabilly : Red Hot & Rare Volume One

Various Artists - Les Femmes De La Chanson Francaise

Various Artists - 101 Drivetime

Various Artists - Verve/Unmixed 3

Various Artists - Anthologie De La Chanson Française

Various Artists - A Beginner's Guide to African Funk

Various Artists - The Best Of British Folk

Various Artists - Clicks & Cuts 2

Various Artists - Disco Discharge: Euro Disco

Various Artists - 8-bit Operators: A Tribute to the Music of Kraftwerk

Various Artists - A Beginners Guide To Fado

Various Artists - Funk Fever

Various Artists - A Hard Nights Day - A History Of Stiff Records

Various Artists - Essential Interpretations

Various Artists - 20 Jahre Kompakt

Various Artists - The Rough Guide To The Music Of Morocco

Various Artists - The Mute Song Sampler

Various Artists - Punky Reggae Selecta

Various Artists - A Homage To NEU!

Various Artists - Return To The Dark Side Of The Moon

Various Artists - So Young But So Cold

Various Artists - Uncut: Starman

Various Artists - Strange Hip-Hop

Various Artists - Tighten Up - Volume 2

Various Artists - Trance Nation 2001

Various Artists - Velvet Goldmine
The Abyssinians - Satta : The Best of the Abyssinians

A day of various, mostly...

Up...

Random record of the day was Udo Lindenberg...

...the 2LP set from his 1978 tour...

...bought in Munich, 5 July 1979 for the Deutschmark equivalent of £4.25 (£21.42 today)...

 It was his first live set - I now have nine and we finally got to see him live last year, in Erfurt...

...speaking of which, I took a 45 second double bass improvisation by Twitterchum Tim Webb of Kittery (scene of our American crash in 1999) and did some remixes - two of which incorporate a field recording made in Erfurt last June...

Coincidences...

A 55 minute LP created...

Quite enjoyed that and so some jazz stuff may be in the offing in the future...

But, for now, breakfast...

...with a squirrel outside...

I know I have probably cried wolf too many times now about the back room maybe being finished...

But...the four walls now...

Of course, since then, I have added back the rocking chair, in the vicinity of the CD and amp - I can sit on it with my headphones on, listening to music (as it's close enough not to have to use the long extension lead) and reading a book...

That's the plan anyway - I''ll probably never do it of course...

More views - I amended the front card in the Cage set to No 4, my favourite - due to the inclusion of red...

At lunchtime, "Chuck" continued...

For dinner this evening, Keralan Coconut Curry...

V tasty indeed...

...made using this, suggested by nephew Ali...

...who, coincidentally, just as we were in the kitchen, phoned for a chat...

I advised him my dad used to like this in the early 1970's...

Messages from Creeker Stu about Lalo Schiffrin...

These are what I have - plus some comp tracks...

...speaking of which, an idea for this week's podcast...

...taking a track each from each of one CD from each of these 25 boxes of comps...

Readied...

..and, on listening, sounded good...

Of course, it would mean no room for new acquisitions...

Let's see...

On telly this evening, 160 points (22 questions) on "University Challenge" but Birbek London got 295...

Oh well...

Second again...

More listening for me and painting for Anne and bed around midnight...

Highlight of the Day :  Creating new music...