Friends now, forever...

Playlist

Robert Wyatt - EPs

McStine & Minnemann - McStine & Minnemann

Maxwell Farrington & Le Holard - Once

The Undisputed Truth - Law of the Land

The Undisputed Truth - Method to the Madness

The Undisputed Truth - The Undisputed Truth

Jean-Michel Jarre - Electronica 1: The Time Machine

Eddie Hazel - Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs

Parliament - Chocolate City

Ashra - New Age of Earth

Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop

Ingrid Michaelson - Stranger Songs

Nashville Ambient Ensemble - Cerulean

Yello - Eccentric Remixes

Steely Dan - Aja

Vikingur Olafsson - Philip Glass Piano Works

Isaac Hayes - For the Sake of Love

Isaac Hayes - Groove-A-Thon

Isaac Hayes - Juicy Fruit

I Roy - Crisus Time

U Roy - Dread in a Babylon

Johnny Clarke - Rockers Time Now

The Gladiators - Trenchtown Mix Up

Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell - The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer

Quintet For a Day - What We Live

Michael Bruce - Rock Rolls On

Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Enescu; Strauss, Shostakovich

Bach, CPE - Flute Concertos

Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald - Recomposed

Peter Serkin & Guarneri Quartet - Brahms & Henze Piano Quintets

Stephen Mathieu & David Sylvian - Wandermüde

Cassie Dasilva - Unsolicited Contact EP

Isaac Hayes - Chocolate Chip

Isaac Hayes - Joy

Adam Lane Trio - Absolute Horizon

Jadin - String Trios

Martina Bertoni - All the ghosts are gone

Against All Logic - 2017 - 2019

Grouper - Grid of Points

Tuber - Desert Overcrowded

Andrea Belfi - Ore

Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ

Whatever The Weather - Whatever The Weather

Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe (Complete Edition)

Nina Hagen - Unity

Nina Nastasia - Riderless Horse

Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn - Pigments

Roger Waters - The Lockdown Sessions

Sarsathy Korwar - KALAK

Makaya McCraven - In These Times

Binker and Moses - Feeding the Machine

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Empire of Light OST

Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

Kansas - Can I Tell You

Ben Frost - Broken Spectre

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variation on Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon"

UFO - Obsession

Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentytwo

David Bowie - Fun Mix - EP

The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes [Single]

Funkadelic - Funkadelic

Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life

Palais Schaumburg - Palais Schaumburg

Miles Davis - Miles Davis with the Modern Jazz Giants

Gestalt - Gestalt

Barbie Bertisch - Prelude

Afrorack - The Afrorack

Various Artists - ZZAJ - Jazz From The 23rd Century

Dennis Dunaway Project - Bones From The Yard

Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles

Isotope - Illusion

Once more the end of the week and the start of the weekend...

The 9th of December is always a sad day - 11 years ago today, my wee sister Pam died, after a year long struggle against brain cancer...

Devastating...

Here she is on the right with me, my older sister Sheila and my mum, back in August 2010 - just a couple of months before the diagnosis...

I usually put a pic of Pam up on my very rarely visited Facebook page on this day and, very sadly, today, after posting this...

...I heard from her friend Anna, down in Hemel Hempstead, that Pam's best friend Debbie, has now joined her, after succumbing herself to cancer just last week, having only been diagnosed in August and having not advised anyone of what she was going through...

This is the only picture I could find of them together, taken a few weeks after Pam's initial op to have her tumour removed - hence the hairstyle...

Friends forever, especially so now...

Anyway, all of that is a bit maudlin and, if Pam were here today (she was an avid reader of the blog), she'd no doubt say "get on with it David!"...

So, here I go...

Out into the snow...

...and a walk along...

...to the place I go to lose and to find I have indeed lost one half of one stone thus far...

An immediate walk back, to be in, in case a thing that was being delivered for my Xmas from Anne, arrived while she was off to her Zumba class...

This spotted on the way home - Xmas is coming...

Back at my desk just before 9...

...for new music Friday, including prior to this morning unaware of releases from Roger Waters (although I already had all the tracks), Lana Del Rey and Nina Hagen...

The views from the office this morning...

The day was spent listening to music and compiling the content for this week's podcast, along with a couple of episodes of "Astrid"...

A lovely new curry from Anne, tomato and chicken...

...better than any takeaway, it must be said...

This evening, revealing my Top 5 for 1999...

...and to recording the podcast, getting 1.5 of the 2 hours done by bed time...

At which point, lights out...

Lowlight of the Day: Finding out about Debbie...