Sunday, February 28, 2021

The perplexed face of a seven month old great nephew can entertain...

Playlist
Downes Brade Association - IV Halcyon Hymns
Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Chicago Underground Quartet - Good Days
Transatlantic - Forevermore
Haim - Women in Music Part III
Future Islands - As Long As You Are
Einaudi - 12 Songs From Home
Blue Oyster Cult - The Symbol Remains
In Continuum - Acceleration Theory Special Edition Pt 1 & 2
The Utopia Strong - Ninth Art
Reena Sawayama - Sawayama
Lambert - False
Hainbach - Schwebungssummer
East - Music for Viols & Voices
Autechre - PLUS
The Prog Collective - Worlds on Hold
Tobias Karlehag - Process
Detroit - Detroit
Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Alice Cooper - Paranormal
Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette
Lou Reed - New York
Brian Eno - The Ship
Jackie McLean - It's Time
Genesis - Foxtrot
Thomas Köner - Nunatak
Strawbs - Settlement
Christian Löffler - Parallels
The Danish String Quartet - From Bach
Christian Löffler - Graal (Prologue)
Tale of Us - Unity
Arriaga - Symphonia in re; String Quartet
Roy Buchanan - Roy Buchanan
Roy Harper - Songs Of Love And Loss
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Invisible Cities OST
Various Artists - Olivia Twenty One
Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet
Diego Pinera - Odd Wisdom
Beyond - Crawl
Yes - Heaven & Earth
David Bowie - Lodger
Elvis Presley - GI Blues
King Crimson - Red
Blumfeld - L'Etat Et Moi
Taylor Swift - Reputation
Reicha - Rediscovered Vol 3
Hedvig Mollestad - Ekhidna
Brian Eno - Rams: Original Soundtrack Album
Front Line Assembly - Mechanical Soul
Mogwai - As The Love Continues
April Rain - Mirror of Ether
Moses Boyd - Dark Matter
arovane - Wirkung
Aitana - 11 Razones
Relayer - Broken Branches
Son Lux - Tomorrows II
Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess
Marek Malinowski / Robert Rychlicki-Gąsowski / Wojciech Zadrużyński - Scratching Fork

Last day of the second month of 2020 part 2...


Up...


The views around the house...




Out for my mums shopping then back home to work on chum Christine's daughter, Olivia's 2CD set of (mostly) number ones on her birthdays over the last 21 years...


In the afternoon, firstly, to my mum's...

Although she looks suspicious of the little piece of salted caramel Belgian Chocolate, she loves it really...



...as she does a cheeky wee snowball...



She had been thiking all sorts about the noise coming from the house next door which is being renovated by the young couple who have recently taken ownership...

This picture reassured her they were not, as the sounds she had been hearing seemed to suggest, destroyed the interior...


Then, to nephew Ali and niece in law Julie and tiny tot Harris's new house...



...for a flying visit and wee look around...


They are planning all sorts - about which young Harris looked a little perplexed...







Back home, some Arriaga in the back room as soon to be step nephew in law Blair popped by to size up the work required on the shelves...


In the evening, my current top 60 albums (acquired since December 2020 and released in 2020 or 2021) was on shuffle and entertaining...


..along with the second episode of "Bloodlands" which is shaping up nicely...

Anyway, weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Out and about and visits etc...

Saturday, February 27, 2021

A distinct lack of Coop...

Playlist
Uriah Heep - Outsider
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Laura Pausini - Fatti sentire
Udo Lindenberg - Stark Wie Zwei
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Rheostatics - 2067
Anthéne - Divisions
Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men Of Tain
Cloudland Blue Quartet - SXTY (Latest Mix)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik (8CD Box Set)
The Necks - Three
Tale of Us - Unity Pt 2
Schnittke - Works for Violin & Piano
Blue Oyster Cult - The Symbol Remains
Aitana - 11 Razones
The Weather Station - Ignorance
Jaga Jazzist - Pyramid
Autechre - SIGN
Future Islands - As Long As You Are
The Prog Collective - Worlds on Hold
Reicha - Rediscovered Vol 3
Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans
Front Line Assembly - Mechanical Soul
East - Music for Viols & Voices
Autechre - PLUS
Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess
In Continuum - Acceleration Theory Special Edition Pt 1 & 2
Einaudi - 12 Songs From Home
Rick Wakeman - The Red Planet
Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle
Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
In The Pines - Slow Blink
Lambert - False
The Utopia Strong - Ninth Art
J.Peter Schwalm, Arve Henriksen - Neuzeit
April Rain - Mirror of Ether
Sparkplug - The Music of Melvin Sparks

Up but not quite listening to the Coop - as I needed to get the last hour of the podcast done...


Recorded, uploaded and out just after 8...


Coffee time...


Still no Coop...


A plea from chum Christine to do a collection of hits for her daughter Olivia's 21st on 6 March...

Following on from Anne and Kitty's recent collections...

Here, the selection...


Robin breakfast...


Out to the canal - Dr Prog declined our invite as he has "issues with social distancing along the canal"...

Fair enough...

A lovely walk...






...and a coffee stop, buying from a barge...


Foreground...


Background...


We continued our walk down into the Grassmarket...


...and up Candlemaker Row, down Chamber St, along the Bridges, up the Royal Mile and down the Mound to Princes St, from where, having not found anywhere suitable for lunch, we took a bus back to the car...


A bus with the Coop on its side...


Back to our starting point...


...and home for lunch, some listening and football monitoring - another win for Queens, beating Dr Prog's Dunfermline 1-0 in Dumfries - another raker from veteran Wullie Gibson...


For tea tonight a lovely big takeaway curry - mine a dhansak, full of lentils and with a big piece of pineapple...


Yumtatsic...

The film "Sisters" with Tina Fey watched and enjoyed...

That was Saturday...

No coop...

Highlight of the Day : The Canal...

Friday, February 26, 2021

Playing some new records....

Playlist
Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Hollywood Vampires - Holywood Vampires
Alice Cooper - Paranormal
Hollywood Vampires - Rise
Pyramid Theorem - Beyond The Exosphere
Einaudi - 2 Songs From Home
April Rain - Mirror of Ether
Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell - The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer
Cuarteto Quiroga - Granados & Turina Piano Quintets
Kirk Franklin - Long Live Love
Calidore String Quartet - Babel
Sparkplug - The Music of Melvin Sparks

Friday...

Up...


Today was an Alice Cooper day...


The new album was out today...


Coffee...


...and, while listening to Alice over the last 10 years, uploading the new CBQ LP to Bandcamp - out next Friday...


At lunchtime, taking a CD box set to the post office to send it back as it arrived with only 4 of the 8 CDs it ought to have had within...

I'm in a dispute with the seller over a refund of the postage cost to return it, as they did not check the product (a) before listing and (b) before shipping...

Don't see why I should pay £3.20 for nothing...


In the afternoon, this arrived...


It rocks...


Later this evening, I watched the DVD which came with it...

It was almost like being there...




Here's Alice with his wife (right) and daughter (left)...





He was, of course, beheaded...





...and his head held up to the baying crowd, before her returned for the encore...



Great stuff...

Other new music today was suggested by Ethan Iverson, ex of The Bad Plus - Kirk Franklin; bass chum from Kittery in Maine - Wadada Leo Smith; Prog Rock Willie - April Rain; and me, Sparkplug...

Some Prosecco tonight as Anne's pension payments started from a previous employer while she continues to work...


And a tasty home mad curry for tea...


...before recording this weekend's podcast - or the first two hours anyway - as Anne raged about yet another draw for the JTs...

Uh oh...

Highlight of the Day : New Alice, new music...