End of another season...

Playlist

Teho & Gregory Terlikowski - Backfirewall (OST)

Reuter Motzer Grohowski - Bleed

Bryan Adams - Shine a Light

Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-28 Demos

John Coltrane - Ascension [2009 Remaster]

Motörhead - Everything Louder Forever: The Very Best Of Motörhead

John Coltrane - Blue Train

Into Tuesday and there was work to be done...

Not too much pre 8...

Today. I'd be going out...

But, first, some work on this...

Then, recording my first demos for four days , as a further 12 songs took me to almost 300 since 7 February, and 18 and a quarter hours of material...

With that done, I edited it and transferred it into my phone for it to soundtrack my journey into town for a (salmon followed by chicken) lunch at the Kimpton, with chums Matt, Kris, Jack, Josh, Alex, Gillian and Sarah...

After that, half an hour or so in the office then round to Fopp...

A couple of things were bought and things to possibly download were also noted...

...and a pic of the hip hop section was sent to Creeker Craig...

A bus home and walk down the hill...

Where this annoying car was noted...

Home with my two purchases...

A pristine 2009 remaster of Coltrane's "Ascension" - noting too my previously not so ship-shape versions and the initial copy I have as part of a larger 2CD set...

And two rocking discs of Motorhead...

Home made soup for tea (the rmeains of yesterday's unmentioned lunch and the finale o "The Black List" season 6, satisfactory as ever...

We then moved onto the spin off "The Black List: Redemption", featuring a character who, where we are in the main series, is already deceased - sadly, as he was a fave...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Out and about...

Today's new music:-

It's music, not packaging, collecting...

Playlist

Kris Kristofferson - The Very Best Of Kris Kristofferson

Various Artists - Rawkus 2000

Elvis Presley - Elvis At The Movies - 60 Essential Recordings

Various Artists - A Star Is Born (OST)

Various Artists - NOW 60s & 70s Summer

Various Artists - Now That's What I Call 30 Years

Delain - Dark Waters

Motörhead - Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC

Teho & Gregory Terlikowski - Backfirewall (OST)

Jon Anderson - 1000 Hands

Boa Morte - Before There Was Air

Valgeir Sigurðsson - An Acceptable Loss

Max Jury - Modern World

Pendragon - Love Over Fear

R+Dido - The Last Summer

Shaw - Orange

Lindstrøm - On A Clear Day I Can See You Forever

A Formal Horse - Here Comes a Man from the Council with a Flamethrower

Thom Brennan - Elysian Fields

Freya Ridings - Freya Ridings

Mariola Membrives - Lorca, Spanish Songs

Joep Beving - Henosis

William Ryan Fritch - Artifishal (Original Score)

Ferry Corsten - Don't Go OST

A Band In Ship - The Ark

Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code

Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

Francisco López - VirtuAural Electro​-​Mechanics

Graham Costello's Strata - Obelisk

Solarstone - One+

Malcolm Galloway - Transitions

Jóhannsson - 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Bruce Soord - All This Will Be Yours

FKA twigs - MAGDALENE

Taylor Swift - Lover

Laurie Anderson - Songs From the Bardo

Amanda Tenfjord - Die Together

Earthworks - Anthology, Vol. 2: The 1990s

William Doyle - Your Wilderness Revisited

Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place

Lambchop - This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You)

Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance

Warmduscher - Tainted Lunch

Pan American - A Son

White Denim - Side Effects

Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest

Miles Davis - Rubberband

Lee "Scratch" Perry - Rainford

The Divine Comedy - Office Politics

Wilco - Ode to Joy

Boris - LOVE & EVOL

Battles - Juice B Crypts

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I Made A Place

The National - I Am Easy to Find

Föllakzoid - I

Gang Of Four - Happy Now

Elbow - Giants of All Sizes

Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips

Iggy Pop - Free

Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel

Amon Tobin - Fear in a Handful of Dust

Devin Townsend - Empath

M83 - DSVII

Hauschka - A Different Forest

Julia Jacklin - Crushing

Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited

Norah Jones - Begin Again (EP)

Tim Hecker - Anoyo

Thom Yorke - ANIMA

Bryan Adams - Shine A Light

New Order - ¿(No,12k,Lg,17Mif)

Beth Gibbons - Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs)

Falco - Emotional (Deluxe Version)

Okonski - Magnolia

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-22 Demos (Wedding Set)

Laura Pausini - E Ritorno Da Te

Laura Pausini - From The Inside

Laura Pausini - Escucha

Laura Pausini - Laura Pausini

Laura Pausini - Laura

Into another week...

Just before 7...

...and under reasonable skies that I would not see "in the flesh" today...

Rather, I'd be inside...

A day off from this...

...as I compiled my initial very large list of LPs released in 2019...

I also looked at which I might have bought if I'd had unlimited cash but been restricted to chart LPs only...

Discussions with Creeker Craig re my CD intake...

This is the haul thus far for 2023...

So, 46 CDs so far this year...

I have bought all these, mainly, from charity shops and bargain bins, which accounts for the levels of eclecticism...

Of the 46, only 6 were bought "new"...

And, and...

The ability to now download anything I like at zero cost has badly impacted my CD intake...

I have added some 700 or so downloaded albums to my collection in the first 58 days of 2023...

I may well be out of control...

For example, to collate my 2019 list above, I went through the "Albums of the Year" website's page for that year and, of the almost 800 LPs there, I ID'd nearly 40 LPs I "needed" to have...

And, now I do...

Of course, I am lucky to be of the mindset that it's the music, rather than the medium, that matters...

This evening, baked potato duties with Anne at Pilates and "University Challenge" was recorded and watched post "The Black List", with the end of Season 6 now just 2 episodes away...

On "UC", a disappointing 85 - bonus questions letting us down...

I think that was about it...

Highlight of the Day : Music (rather than "packaging") collecting...

Today's new music:-

Working on backing...

Playlist

the humble bee - lichen cloak on a white stone

Volker Kriegel - Inside: Missing Link (Remaster)

Ryan Hurtgen - A glorious body (EP)

Johannes Luley - Follow Your Heart

Multiverse 3 - Epicentre Maximised (Single)

Volker Kriegel - Elastic Menu

Cat Clyde - Down Rounder

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody

Lana Del Rey - Dayglo Reflection (Single)

Gracie Abrams - Block me out (Single)

Quatuor Byron - Turina, Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Souvenir d'Espagne

Quarteto de Matosinhos - Raízes: Portuguese Chamber Music

Pisendel - PI

Durante - Concerti per archi

Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love

Josquin Desprez - Messes Fortuna - Desperata Une Musque de Biscaye

Babin - Saint-Exupéry: De Coeur, De Sable Et D'étoiles

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Ultimate Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Vol II 1983-1984

Joe Higham - Claude's Garden

Fabio Orsi - Random Shades Of Day

Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes - Tear It Up

Wynton Marsalis - The London Concert

Up late on a Sunday morning...

Some work then to the shops for my mum and back home for breakfast...

Carpet shot...

Shelf shots...

At 11, Vassia arrived and we spent two unphotographed hours on backing vocal ideas for Capital Models playing at her wedding,,,

Songs covered were "Proud Mary", "Starman", "Satellite of Love", "A Hard Rains-A Gonna Fall", "Stuck in the Middle with You", Make Me Smile" and "Suspicious Minds"...

Then I took her back to Dalkeith and popped in to see my mum and deliver her shopping...

Back home again, Anne was painting...

Time was spent editing today's recordings to send to Vassia for reference...

And, of course, some "The Black List"...

And, all too soon, the weekend was over - which is not as much of a disaster now we are no longer having to go out to work!

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Working on music...

Today's new music:-

Music purchasing idiots ahoy...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 8

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2023 Vol 8

Quarteto de Matosinhos - Raízes: Portuguese Chamber Music

Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love

Volker Kriegel - With a Little Help from My Friends

Lana Del Rey - Watercolor Eyes (Single)

Volker Kriegel - Mainz Studio Recordings (1963-1969)

Perfect Beings - Vier

Chósta - Twilight Transmission

Volker Kriegel - Topical Harvest

Johannes Luley - Tales From Sheepfather's Grove

Gracie Abrams - This Is What It Feels Like

Jesse Nason - Synthplex 2022 (EP)

Mono Sources - The Stillness (Headphone Mix) (Single)

Volker Kriegel - Spectrum

Johannes Luley - Qitara

Lisel - Patterns For Auto-Tuned Voices And Delay

Andrew Osterhoudt - Out Together

Mono Sources - Our Own (Single)

Volker Kriegel - Octember Variations

The Jordan - Nowhere Near The Sky

Mono Sources - Ninth Path (Single)

Ryan Hurtgen - Nary A Day

Moth Vellum - Moth Vellum

Ryan Hurtgen - Moon Dreams

Mono Sources - Mono Sources

Gracie Abrams - minor (EP)

Volker Kriegel - Mild Maniac

Gracie Abrams - Mess It Up (Single)

Ryan Hurtgen - Mental Travel

Okonski - Magnolia

Volker Kriegel - Lift

Sigh Of Relief - Lifespan

A happy birthday today to nephew Andy, seen here many many years ago, on guitar while his younger brother Ali does some singing...

The dynamic duo indeed...

Up just after 7...

No work to be done re the podcast apart form uploading it and applying the tracklist and notes...

I had been listening to an old one overnight - the one with nephew Olly guesting - released 6 years ago this week...

Then to sourcing and downloading the latest classical releases - too late for he podcast but there was plenty (and then some!) to fill it in any case...

Out around 10:30 heading for the record fair at Summerhall...

Past the Odeon, where, 49 years ago this month I witnessed Wizzard - my first concert...

Into the fair - chocka with records and idiots buying them...

(OK I realise you will adjudge me an idiot too re what is shown below)...

The paintings (Iain Patterson's "Balance" collection) adorning the walls were good though...

...and out in the corridor too...

Dr Prog was on form...

...and we retired, purchases having been made - and stopped in at Till's bookshop (where the Doc returned later to purchase a Michael Palin diary)...

Coffee and cake time at the place on the corner of Buccleuch St - which, it turned out Dr & Mrs Prog attended just yesterday...

Your correspondent's pile...

The bottom two acquired at the fair, those above at pre fair charity shops...

The doc looked suitably smug at the deal he'd got re a 3CD/DVD Weather Report box set (which I already have)...

Across town, Jane and Anne and their mum were enjoying lunch...

There was a loose arrangement for me to go and bring everyone home so, having bidden farewell to the doc, I drove to Dalry and bought more charity shop discs as I awaited a taxi call...

It turned out Anne and family made their own way home..

I arrived back at Crispycat Towers shortly before her, bearing this pile...

£3...

£1...

£1...

£1...

From the fair for £4...

...idiot...

And this, foregone the last time and now acquired for £7.50, a 3CD set...

Turned out to be not as good as I'd hoped....

Oh well..

These four for 25p each...

...including a hip hop selection which turned out to be a CD-R with photocopied cover which wouldn't rip (I sourced it instead from the net)...

And, finally, there for a quid each...

As the listen and rip commenced, Fang arrived once more...

No tea for Anne but this fish based item nourished your correspondent...

...and an evening of, mainly, "The Black List" and prepping for a session tomorrow re backing vocals...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Out with the doc...

Today's new music:-