The speed of 80...

Playlist

Edgar Froese - Stuntman

Fayman & Fripp - A Temple In The Clouds

Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Bill Rieflin - The Repercussions Of Angelic Behavior

Rainbow - The Best Of Rainbow

Various Artists - Is This Love

The Buggles - Living in the Palstic Age

John McLaughlin - The Montreux Years

John McLaughlin - Liberation Time

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mountain Flame

Up late today...

The dusty heights...

The monochrome keys...

Sunny skies...

Daily Section No 45/432...

 Section 69, a box of Fripp & Froese...

I chose lesser known things: Fripp’s collab w/Mr Fayman and one of two I have with Crimso colleagues, Rieflin & Gunn. And thirdly, Edgar Froese’s 1979 solo LP “Stuntman” which may well have been the end of an era...

Meanwhile...

Out Friday on Bandcamp - the third session from Creek (me, Edward Spark, Stu Cobley and Count Brodski - a two track EP.  Meanwhile, catch up here...

A tasty Quorn and Mascarpone based Baked Potato tea before heading out to Lothian Road...

This would be good!

I met up with brother in law Keith outside - it ought to have been Dr Prog but he was double booked with Queen + Adam Lambert in Manchester - so Keith was going to enjoy tonight for around 25% of the face value of his ticket...

This the view...

In at 7 and good, mostly music related chat, till the show started at 8:30...

Superb musicianship all round...

The Italians in front of us did a lot of recording on their phones...

Two hours and it was over...

Johnny boy can still play at supersonic speed despite having hit 80 years old earlier this year...

Amazing...

A walk to the bus stop with a much impressed Keith, then, back to the car...

...and home to Anne...

This in the cans, almost inevitably, after a good day...

Highlight of the Day : John McLaughlin...

Alternative solution required...

Playlist

Pur - Nichts Ohne Grund

Capital Models - 2022-05-30 (DR Solo)

Capital Models - 2022-05-19 (DR Solo)

Capital Models - 2022-05-01 (DR Solo)

The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World

Martland - Martland

Jasmin Boivin - Vertical Influences

The Weather Station - Loyalty

Phil Manzanera - The Sound Of Blue

Symphony X - Underworld

Max Richter - Sleep

Muse - Drones

Caligula's Horse - Bloom

David Torn - Only Sky

Jean-Michel Jarre - Electronica 1

Various Artists - The Best Glam Rock Album in the World...Ever!

Various Artists - Progressive Rock

Capital Models - 2022-03-13

Capital Models - 2022-05-08

Capital Models - 2021-06-13

Capital Models - 2021-06-27

Capital Models - 2021-08-11

Apparat - Soundtracks: Equals Sessions

Teramaze - Her Halo

Gov't Mule - Sco-Mule [feat John Scofield]

André Bratten - Gode

Dar Williams - Emerald

BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul

Laurie Anderson - Heart of a Dog

City And Colour - If I Should Go Before You

Jimmy LaValle (The Album Leaf) - Spring OST

Madredeus - Capricho Sentimental

Glasperlenspiel - Tag X

Neal Morse - The Grand Experiment

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Neil Young - Monsanto Years

Shatner's Bassoon - The Self Titled Album Shansa Barsnaan

Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle

John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

Matthew Florianz - Nocturne - Soundtrack for Science Briefings

Joe Satriani - Shockwave Supernova

Ryan Adams - 1989

Everything Everything - Get To Heaven

Various Artists - Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years

Joy Division - Still

Charlie XCX - Crash

Animal Collective - Time Skiffs

David Bowie - Toy

The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree

T Rex - 1972

Cowboy Junkies - Songs of the Recollection

Everything Everything - Raw Data Feel

Band of Horses - Things Are Great

Years & Years - Night Call

Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

Robert Glasper - Black Radio III

Wet Leg - Wet Leg

Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century

Steve Vai - Inviolate

Sigrid - How To Let Go

Hannah Peel, Paraorchestra - The Unfolding

Alice Cooper - DaDa

Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet

Monday once more...

Upwards is the way to go. Onwards is also an option. Hoping to have a good start to the week…

DailySection No 44/432..

Section 14, a box of 65 CD-R compilations...

Here was my shortlist...

And here, my choices...

 Two home made efforts re Glam and Prog Rock plus a burn of the eclectic 4CD set, “Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years” from 2001, with its intriguingly different version of Joy Division’s “Transmission”…

Tracklists...

Also put together a "crowd pleaser" setlist for a proposed further gig for Capital Models in September...

Meanwhile, Anne was growing chilis...

My initial nominations for top 5 LPS of 2015 were compiled...

Over the course of the next 11 days, they will be whittled and honed to 100, 75, 50, 30, 20, 10 and the (my) final 5 (Live LPs are, of course, excluded). Let your memories be jogged...

As noted before today, my art project, a triptych of one of my digital paintings from 2013...

...looks kind of ok from this distance but is not cutting the yellow mustard I'm afraid...

Alternative solutions being sought...

To bed with Alice...

Highlight of the Day : New setlist...

32 days later...

Playlist

Family 5 - Wege zum Ruhm

Camille O'Sullivan - Changeling

Various - Escapism Vol 1

Moderat - More D4ta

Sex Pistols - The Original Recordings

Gentle Giant - Civilian (Remaster)

Family 5 - Stolpere nicht! (EP)

Nimbus Sextet - Forward Thinker

Various Artists - Sounds Of The Star Club

PUR - Nichts Ohne Grund

Lucilectric - Mädchen

BBC Symphony Orchestra - Adams: Shaker Loops / Reich: The Desert Music

Family 5 - Ran! Ran! Ran! - The Best of Vol 1

Various - Fifty Number Ones of the 60's

Wolf-Ferrari - Piano Trios

Reich - The Desert Music

Grant Green - The Main Attraction

Various Artists - 21st Century Trance 2

Various Artists - Trance Nation

Various Artists - Trance Nation 2001

Various Artists - Fifty Number Ones of the 60s

Various Composers - Absolute Classics

Various Artsists - Angel Beach Vol 3

The Bad Plus - The Basement Sydney March 2008

Bruno Bavota - Mediterraneo

Radiohead - OK Computer

Final solo day for now...

Up not too early...

Gloomy skies...

Brighter boxes...

Masses of music...

Breakfast at home... 

The Daily Section, No 43/432 was 429, the 4th last 25 acquisitions sitting on "The Shelf"...

 Since I did the, then, very latest 25, 12 days ago, I’ve bought a further 47 CDs so “The Shelf” sections are a moveable feast and some discs may never be in the running (i.e. they’ve been filed into already chosen sections)...

Today, I chose a superb interpretative collection by Camille O’Sullivan, a 2CD set of Jacques Brel and a cheeky wee compilation of ambient things - a single CD in a nice box…

With these in the cans, it was off to Stockbridge for a wander...

...which resulted in yet another pile...

I am out of control...

The first three, from BHF were not too bad...

The next three from Cancer Research (taken re their being 3 for £1), were all German but not so good...

And the last, from Shelter for 99p, not Reich's best (and I have another version) but nice to have...

This afternoon, some filing undertaken...

There were some wee moves needed re these 50 boxes of jazz, in which there was only space for 35 more CDs re the 1,250 capacity. Annoying work indeed! Not helped by Steve Reich playing two versions of “The Desert Music”, out of phase, in two rooms.  I needed something more entertaining!

Grant Green hit the spot and I was soon finished - many of the displayed covers having changed re box content...

Later on, while prepping to pick Anne and Jane up, the errant toenail finally came off - 32 days after the injury event...

Look away now...

Oops, too late...

At six, post finally having toes that allowed me to walk again with some modicum of normality, I was at the back of Waverley Station to welcome home and give a lift home to the two Chelsea Flower Show girls, who'd enjoyed a trip to said show, Phantom and to that Oxford yesterday...

No celebratory "Anne's Home" pics for some reason...

Oh well...

Here's a wee squirrel instead...

Some "Rita" enjoyed and off to bed with the Radiohead...

Highlight of the Day : Toe fixed, Anne home...