Playlist
Wizzardd - See My Baby Jive
Roy Wood - Look Thru' the Eyes of Roy Wood & Wizzard - Hits & Rarities, Brilliance & Charm (1974-1987)
Wizzard - Main Street
Various Composers - Lumieres : La Musique du XVIIIieme Siecle
Pleyel - Preussischer Quartette 1-3
Peter Serkin & Guarneri Quartet - Brahms & Henze Piano Quintets
Then The Wild Sea - Then The Wild Sea
Charles Tolliver - Connect
Various Composers - The World of Your 100 Best Tunes Vol 5
Elvis Presley - GI Blues
Brand X - Morrocan Roll
Price - Florence Price Piano Discoveries
Various Composers - Music From The Era of Pieter Bruegel The Elder Vol 1
KD Lang - Shadowland
Sting - The Soul Cages
Richter, F X - Trio Sonatas
Les Chausettes Noires - Le 2.000.000EME disque
Oliver Nelson - Full Nelson
Brian Eno - Film Music : Jarman > Stillness
Jackie McLean - Makin' the Changes
Eric Carmen - Eric Carmen
Downes Brade Association - IV Halcyon Hymns
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Alice Cooper - Social Debris [Single]
Gordon Lightfoot - The Way I Feel
Lambert - False
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
George Braith - Soul Stream
Parsons - Patterns of Connection : Instrumental Music 1962-2017
Paul Simon - Graceland
William Hooker Quintet - Channels of Consciousness
The Weather Station - Ignorance
Holger Czukay - Moving Pictures
Wilko Johnson - Solid Senders
Herman Brood - Wait a Minute
Tori Amos - Under the Pink
Herman van Veen - Andere Namen
Various Artists - Polski Top Wszechczasów 2018
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
MC5 - High Time
James Spence - Suzerain (Original Soundtrack)
The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
The Future Sound Of London - ISDN
Marc Almond - Jacques
Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Mirror
Madlib - Sound Ancestors
The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man
Erik Schilke - Synthesis
Caccini - La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
Florestan Quartet - Fanny Mendessohn & Jaell Marie String Quartets
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Various Artists - The Age of Atlantic
Thorvaldsdottir - In the Light of Air
Kronos Quartet - 25 Years
Martin Gore - The Third Chimpanzee
Popol Vuh - Herz aus Glas
Various Composers - Mannheimer Schule, Vol. 1-5
Schoenberg - Peter Serkin : Schoenberg Klavierwerke
Cabaret Voltaire - The Pressure Company Live in Sheffield 1982
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra (US Version)
Stephen Mathieu & David Sylvian - Wandermüde
Mal Waldron - The Quest
Diego Pinera - Odd Wisdom
Various Artists - Trojan 50 : The Rare and Unreleased
Fish - Weltschmerz
Robert Calvert - Lucky Leif And The Longships
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Elements
Schnittke - Works for Violin & Piano
East - Music for Viols & Voices
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Yes - Drama
The 8th February is always a day for the music of Roy Wood, seeing as it marks the anniversary of my first ever gig - Wizzard at the Edinburgh Odeon, 8/2/74...
And so it was this morning as I rose early and whacked a tasty Wizzard compilation on the cans...
Of course it was so loud and I got distracted by deciding to do last night's dishes, that I completely forgot to disarm the alarm...
I may have woken the whole street - I certainly awoke a rather annoyed Executive Producer who came down to the kitchen to sort it out...
Ooops...
Coffee as Anne returned to the land of nod...
Coffee time...
..and more Roy Wood and Wizzard soundtracked the morning while WFH...
Meanwhile in Felsberg, just outside Kassel, Germany, chum Jorg is frozen in at home...
Not quite so bad here...
I sent Jorg this pic...
He came back with these...
He has been trying to sort his collection out for years...
When he split with his wife Yvonne, he left his records behind and Yvonne locked the room so he could never access them...
When he finally di, he found all his Blue Note and Impulse titles and all his prog rock and krautrock originals had mysteriously disappeared...
All the rarest records of his collection...
I cannot imagine how angry and sad this must make him feel - but he conveyed a little of that to me in our exchanges this morning...
Here, more snow as the day progressed...
...and the listening moved on to tracks from new acquisitions I have lined up for the podcast - I can fill four 2 hour episodes with the waiting list...
The afternoon turned into the late afternoon...
...and became the evening...
Downstairs, Anne's latest painting is now complete and looking excellent...
..and her cooking continues to be top notch...
Tonight, pasta, including some of the Calabrian Nduja Sausage from the box of goodies gifted to her on her birthday by Keith & Maureen...
Yum...
As ever, my own art was confined to making the coffee...
After a not too bad 90 on "University Challenge", it was back upstairs to enjoy a couple of classic records...
An all time favourite album and the first Gentle Giant LP I owned...
Bought 4/12/76 for £1.55, 2nd hand (this is the very one)....
Saw them on 15/5/76 (ticket £1) and was blown away by the musicianship...
But, somehow, inexplicably...
...it took me nearly 7 months to buy a record - but, maybe not that inexplicable as the delay may have been down to scarcity of the records and a lack of available cash to a schoolboy!
It was the first of many, of which just 5 now remain...
Next was this...
A superb return to form after the aberration that was "Tormato"....
Of course, many Yes fans eschewed this due to the absence of Anderson and Wakeman...
But, for me, there isn't a weak track on the record...
Perhaps the last Yes LP of which that can be said?
And that was it...
Mondays eh...
Highlight of the Day : Nduja...
2 comments:
A bit harsh re Tormato David. I am quite fond of it, especially "Future Times", "On the Silent Wings of Freedom", "Onward". Ok "Circus of Heaven" is still a "difficult" listen!
Hi Barrie! Good to hear from you. Agree, it was slightly harsh. "Circus of Heaven" was once my fave from the LP - Now it's probably "On the Silent Wings of Freedom". Still think Drama is a better record though...
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