Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Ninety one...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Coldclear
Yes - Close To The Edge
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
Genesis - Foxtrot
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
Uriah Heep - Magician's Birthday
Focus - Focus III
If - If 4
If - Tea Break's Over
Rzewski - Rzewski Plays Rzewski Piano Works 1975-1999
Various Composers - Vivarte 60CD Collection
Matsudaira - Bugaku Dance Suite
Bach, J S - St. John Passion (Herreweghe)
Pesson - Dispositions Furtives
The Fugs - Electromagnetic Steamboat: The Reprise Recordings
Craig Armstrong - Music for the Films of Peter Mullan
The Divine Comedy - Promenade
Various Composers - Darmstadt Aural Documents Box 4 - Pianists
Various Composers - Decca Sound : The Analogue Years 1954-1968
Die Ärzte - Wiir wollen nur deine Seele
Laurie Anderson - Walk the Dog : Live
Kaidi Tatham - An Insight To All Minds
Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement (Special Edition)
Rabbitt - A Grunt and a Croak in the Night
L'Uovo di Colombo - L'Uovo di Colombo
Dallapicolla - Modern Times
Concerto Köln - Concerto Köln 10CD Box Set
Roy Brooks - Understanding (Live)
Phish - Hoist
Styx - Crash of the Crown
Pierre Monteux - Pierre Monteux Conducts Elgar & Brahms
Various Composers - The Planets & Enigma Variations
Kronos Quartet - 25 Years
Jean-Michel Jarre - The Concerts in China
Various Composers - Revelation & Fall; Tragedia
Various Composers - Year of Wonder (Vol 3: March)
Iestyn Davies - Arias For Guadagni
Carl - White Heron
Sam Baker - Mercy
Ornette Coleman - Skies Of America
Craig Armstrong - Dirt Music OST
R Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner - Make It Be
Mozart - Complete Works
Klaus Schulze - La vie électronique, Vol. 13
Die Ärzte - Bäst of
Die Ärzte - Im Schatten der Arzte
Lang - The Little Match Girl Passion
Tarwater - Donne-Moi La Main OST
Caccini - La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina
Ibert - Piano Music
Tarentel - Ghetto Beats on the Surface of the Sun
Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Power
Craig Armstrong - Bridget Jones's Baby OST
Craig Armstrong - The One and Only Ivan OST
Frank Zappa - Zappa 88 The Last US Show
Grainger - Complete Piano Music
Tchaikovsky - Complete Ballets
Tcherepnin - Chamber Music
Strauss, R - Der Rosenkavalier
Downes Brade Association - IV Halcyon Hymns
Various Composers - Organ Concertos
Bootsy Collins - The One Giveth
Malaria! - Versus
Various Composers - Year of Wonder (Vol 9: September)
Roedelius - Selbstportrait IX: Wahre Liebe
Roy Wood - Look Thru' the Eyes of Roy Wood & Wizzard - Hits & Rarities, Brilliance & Charm... (1974-1987)
Pink Floyd - Complete BBC Sessions 1967 - 50th Anniversary Edition (Hd Remastered Edition)
Frank Zappa - Under the Covers
Craig Armstrong - Mrs Lowry & Son OST
Heller - Piano Studies Etuden Op 45, 46, 47
Steffen Schleiermacher - Soviet Avant Garde 2
Various Artists - From Brussels With Love
Various Composers - Music From The Era of Pieter Bruegel The Elder Vol 1
St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
Die Ärzte - Live Die Nacht der Dämonen
King Crimson - Meltdown : Live in Mexico City
Peter Serkin - The Ocean That Has No West and No East
David Cassidy - Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes
Peter Serkin - Webern & Takemitsu
Craig Armstrong - Burnt Orange Heresy OST
Roy Harper - Descendant of Smith
Jethro Tull - A La Mode (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix)
Sex Pistols - Indecent Exposure
Squid - Bright Green Field
Christ Church Cathedral Choir - English Choral Music (1514-1682)
The Church - Shriek OST
Fee Waybill - Fee Waybill Rides Again

Morning Tuesday morning…

In 1930, today was the fifth Sunday in August. My mum turns 91 today. Without her, no new CBQ ambient LP this Friday. Yes, she bears responsibility. Happy Birthday mum…

And, as usual on her birthday, August is away...


Over the last 48 hours, it's become very apparent that you really have to be in the right mood to actively enjoy the output of the best Italian prog bands of the 1970's...

Up early and to work...


...which included prepping mum's card...


...under grey skies...


..and above a tidy garden...


Downstairs, one more fly to be let out...


The soundtrack today was no Italian prog, my upcoming LP, 1972 and the shortest tracks of those which have entered the collection in 2021 so far and which have not yet been listened to...

My system tells me I've not listened to 19,000 tracks from the almost 1,500 items acquired in the first 8 months of 2021 (almost 18 twenty four hour days of music).

I played a goodly chunk of the 400 tracks that last under a minute - had I gotten through them all, that would have taken almost 5 hours...

Perhaps my library is too big?

Nah...

Breakfast...



Eggs on toast...


Around mid-day, a break from WFH and a quick trip out to wih Happy Birthday to an old lady...


...who enjoys fresh cream bramble apple turnovers...


...but who does not like to open her blinds as she thinks people will see in, despite this proof that a massive tree and, notwithstanding that, the built in tnting of normal windows...


...precludes any such situation...


Back home to more WFH...

In the evening, it was Tuesday and so, "Holby City entertained...

That was, most probably, it...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Mum being well on her birthday for the first time since 2018...

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