Crispycat Recordings: Looking back is the reason...

Monday, February 21, 2022

Looking back is the reason...

Playlist

Various Artists - Last 175 CDs on Shuffleplay

Donny McCaslin - Exile & Discovery

Haydn - Complete String Quartets on Period Instruments

Susanne Kessel - 250 Piano Pieces For Beethoven

Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes

Gas - Koenigsforst

Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note

Various Artists - Miles Not Miles

Various Artists - The Miles Davis Quintet, March 19, 1963 - November 12, 1968

Various Artists - The Wiretapper 55

Up at 6:40 or so and updated this...

Even though it's a fairly pointless task, it allows me to look back and recall the good (Anne's cooking, the views), the bad (self portraits) and the ugly (self portraits)...

It was just before seven...

Posted up the ninth and penultimate Tweet in my series covering the first 10 years of my record buying "career". On the 21st of February, here are 21 faves, to this day still, of the 90 LPs I bought when I was 21...

Breakfast pre WFH...

I like how this turned out...

Later this morning, with Anne out and about (Mary is doing OK re her Covid, thankfully), good skies...

Front...

Back...

Baby clothes for, now named, Lily, secured...

...and the first pic from Kitty - enjoying herself in Central America with chums...

Meanwhile, here, once again, Fang popped by and, one again, stayed for a while...

All in all, today, we watched at least 6 episodes of "Family Business" and finishing off yet another "thing" of which we've watched the entirety during the pandemic...

It was very good indeed and will be missed...

Pilates this evening for Anne and Lynn - which meant tasty baked potatoes for tea - which I cooked (under instruction obviously)...

Then, a pathetic 85 on "University Challenge"...

And reacquainting myself with a quasi Miles Davis compilation I put together back in 2009...

Being able to look up what I was up to when I did it, brings me back to the reason for keeping this going...

Finally tonight, an interesting "Imagine" from Alan Yentob on choreographer (and much more), Wayne McGregor...

... set me up for some listening to Thomas Ades and Max Richter tomorrow...

Lights out post midnight...

...and to bed with a Wiretapper in my ears, only hearing the first couple of pieces before entering Nodland...

Highlight of the Day : Family Business, which will be missed...

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Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

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In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!