Always nice to find the real thing of something you like...

Playlist

Sneaky Jesus - For Joseph Riddle

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2022

Lou Reed - I'm Set Free the 1971 RCA Demos

Imagine Dragons - Mercury Acts 1 & 2

Long Distance Calling - Eraser

Ruo - A Dust in Time

Julian Lennon - Jude

FKA Twigs - Caprisongs

Johannsson - 12 Conversations

KYOTY - Isolation

The Fernweh - Torschlusspanik!

Part - Whereever I go

Sreve Roach - Zones, Drone & Atmospheres

Solar Fields - Altered

William Orbit - The Painter

Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet - Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet

Haliene - Heavenly

Luke Howard - All of Us

Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes

Gerald Clayton - Bells on Sand

Conrad Praetzel - Adventures Into Somethingness

k.burwash - Holding Air

Years & Years - Night Call

Immanuel Wilkins - The 7th Hand

Adam O'Farrill - Visions of Your Other

Banks - Serpentina

AES DANA - (a) period.

Envy of None - Envy of None

D'Virgilio Morse Jennings - Troika

Max Richter - The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed

Kayak - Out of this World

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Cold As Weiss

Jewel - Freewheelin' Woman

Jäde - Météo

pan•american - the patience fader

Archive - Call to Arms & Angels

Rolf Hansen - Tableau

Max Cooper - Unspoken Words

Chicago - Born For This Moment

Michael Rother & Vittoria Maccabruni - As Long As the Light

loscil - The Sails p.1

Porcupine Tree - CLOSURE / CONTINUATION

Clint Mansell - She Will

Brad Mehldau - Jacob's Ladder

Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind

Demi Lovato - HOLY FVCK

Purple Disco Machine - Club Exotica

MONO - My Story, The Buraku Story

Matthew Florianz - mist schimmen

Roger Eno - The Turning Year

Voivod - Synchro Anarchy

Loscil - The Sails, Pt 2

Josh Rouse - Going Places

Lori Carson - Stolen Beauty

Sinead Lohan - No Mermaid

Carla Bruni - French Touch

Freya Ridings - Freya Ridings

Melanie - Beautiful Hits

Various Composers - Geografia Da Musica IV

Campay Segundo - Gracias Campay

Sarah McLachlan - Rarities B Sides Etc Vol 2

Keaton Hemson - Birthdays

Phil Spector - A Christmas Gift For You

Variosu - Deep Down & Discofied

Saturday, not too early...

Overcast, a little...

Inside, Picasso...

Uploaded the podcast last night, so, writing this up for yesterday...

Also, what's this?

For 2022 (so far), on the left, CDs purchased, on the right, downloads acquired...

Yesterday, this...

Humans like numerical milestones...

 I have reached the point where I have 1,000 (24 hour) days of music on my hard drives, including rips of my around 12,000 CD collection and rips of the remains of my 1972-1986 LP collection (330 of the 335)…

 It’s all good, kind of…

Here a breakdown of my records...

This morning, some playing through of more of the new repertoire recently collated, Roxy, Eno, Bowie, Velvets...

Then, out...

Geese leaving...

Took Anne along to Jane's - the two of them were taking Mary out to The Steading with her almost 100 year old friend, Edith, for the two of them to enjoy a lunch for Mary's birthday...

Anne and Jane lunching elsewhere...

Meanwhile, the beast was about its business...

...in Morningside...

I've not been her for a while...

A sandwich based lunch was enjoyed and a few things were chanced upon...

 ...and added to the collection...

Not previously heard of but very nice indeed...

I think I may well have this in the attic for sale on Amazon - idiot...

I have this too - but not with the DVD - still shrink wrapped too...

Again not heard of but there are around 6 successful singles on this album (apparently)...

A 2003 set of covers in a not the original sleeve - again, still shrink-wrapped...

All 50p each...

Then, at a quid each...

An interesting repertoire classical disc promoting, I think, a Portuguese bank...

A 2CD best of, of a Cuban Star...

I thought I had this, having bought it on our visit to Toronto in 2015 - bought this copy for the better cover but it turns out the Canadian purchase was volume 1 and this is volume 2 - result...

I already have a download of this - his music inspired a track on the "Fallingsky" CBQ album - always nice to find the real thing of something you like...

This is wall of sound-tastic...

Back to Corstorphine and, while I awaited a call to take Anne back home, further trawling turned up this 2CD set of little known disco tunes for £2...

Picked Anne up from Jane's and back home, Fang entered almost immediately and took up residence on the bed...

The ripping and listening began - as we noted, rather amazingly, 8th placed Queen of the South were winning 4-0 against 3rd top Edinburgh City...

A 93rd min penalty for 4-1 took some shine off but a great result...

A swift drive to my mum's around tea time following a call from her medical alarm people...

I arrived to find her sitting watching her TV as normal, without a clue as to her having somehow pressed her alarm and having been oblivious to the alarm people trying to speak to her through the system...

And a swift drive back home - better safe than sorry...

In the evening, "Elementary" entertained as we continued to avoid the wall to wall coverage of the dead monarch...

A good Saturday...

Highlight of the Day : Shopping...