In and out and in and out...

Playlist

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

King Crimson - Live in Vienna

Sparks - Angst in Your Pants

King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic

Roxy Music - Country Life

UK - Night After Night

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Cold Clear Morning (Ambient Mix)

Jacques Loussier Trio - Play Bach No1

Brian Eno - Another Green World

Fehlfarben - Die Platte Des Himmlischen Friedens

Capital Models - 2020-02-25

Capital Models - 2020-03-10

Alice Cooper - Paranormal

Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories

Middle of the week...

Almost the end of February...

Time is marching on...

Coffee...

Then, a thought and some action - I created an "ambient mix" of the six edits I have on hard drives of three pieces, spread over three cassettes, all recorded in early 1989, my first time using any sort of looping machine, which repeated every second, with the sound diminishing gradually...

My work today involved merely slowing each of the six 12 minute or so edits to a quarter their original speed, leaving me with six dense 48-50 minute pieces with which to possibly work with on a new thing...

We'll see...

Then, initially with King Crimson, to WFH...

These were lined up for later...

A quick visit from Fang re the hoovering up of some Dreamies...

The last Sparks LP in the "Random LP of the Day " project - of the 14 I own  - out of the 308 LPs remaining in my collection...

Produced by Mack for Giorgio Moroder...

...and recorded in Munich with the Gleaming Spires as the band...

Choc full of great, clever (as ever), songs...

Then, another King Crimson classic, the only one by the early 70's quintet line up of Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Cross and Muir...

every second of this one is worthwhile...

...not a single one is wasted...

Yowsah!

Salad for lunch with two episodes of "Superstore" - creatures of habit...

Back to work and two more great albums...

"Country Life" - subtitled "The Fourth Roxy Music Album"...

Due to the front cover above, a version of the back cover, below, was used in the USA...

The second of the trilogy that features the violin and keyboards of Eddie Jobson...

...who had replaced Eno after the 2nd album...

Jobson was later chosen by King Crimson's management to front a new version of the band, with Robert Fripp, John Weton and Bill Bruford, around 1977...

Fripp declined, Allan Holdsworth joined and UK was born...

This is their third LP, recorded live in Japan - by this time Holdsworth and Bruford had departed, replaced by "just" Terry Bozzio on drums...

Much of the material on the 2nd LP had been played live by the initial quartet...

This is far and away my least favourite of the three UK albums released during the band's short-lived career...

It has its moments but neither of the two new songs are up to the standards of what had gone before - this could easily have been an excellent double album, rather than the whimper with which they left the stage...

 Wetton would form Asia a couple of years later, while Jobson briefly joined Jethro Tull...

Oh well...

I still have the two studio LPs...

A brief listen to some of the new ambient mixes created first thing - I did not listen at the time, merely created...

That can be how I work these days...

Fishcakes (with unpictured beans - Mmmm, beans) for tea...

The new Alice Cooper LP will arrive on Friday but, tonight, Herr Sonnenschein e-mailed me the MP3s from Deutschland...

It rocks, big style...

It will be my new release of the month for February...

Also today, I compared and contrasted my "Top Ten Albums of the Year" lists from 1959 to 2020 to the "New Release of the Month" from May 1959 to now and looked at those from the former not on the latter, finding their release dates and checking what had been chosen for the latter list and, in 49 instances, decided to make a change...

These LPs joined the fray...

...while these 49, 6 of which only came on to the list a couple of weeks ago, when I made 59 changes, exited the number one spots for their respective months...

So, over the last couple of weeks, 108 out 740 choices (around 15%) changed and 6 changed twice...

This is how I waste my time...

Highlight of the Day : Compiling...