Laid low but still going...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-30 Demos

City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near

Wollschleger - Dark Days

Kx5, deadmau5 & Kaskade - Kx5

Lucas Brode - TACONIC: songs in the Hudson Valley

Mythic Sunship - Light/Flux

The Natural Lines - The Natural Lines

Nita Strauss & Alice Cooper - Winner Takes All (EP)

Timo Andres - Home Stretch

The Undisputed Truth - The Undisputed Truth

Julian Klaas - Impromptu

Andre Matos & Jeremy Udden - Wandering souls

Al Di Meola - The Grande Passion

Various Artists - Fractals

Walter Gieseking - Beethoven Sonatas 8, 9, 10, 13, 14

Guerrero - Zayin (String Quartets)

Grosskopf - String Quartets

Cerha - String Quartets 1-3

Turnage/Scofield - Scorched

London Brew - London Brew

Cloudland Blue Quartet/Joe Higham - Dpearture

Karl Jenkins - Piano

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2023 Vol 13

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 39

OK Friday (yesterday)...

Up late and feeling grim - have been under the malevolent influence of a Covid type thing since Tuesday evening...

I am indeed, laid low...

And so I did not go to the place I go to lose - although re home measurements I was the same as last week...

As ever on a Friday, more new music than normal - including very welcome new items from Cosmic Ground and City & Colour - along with a digital box set from the mighty Hawkwind, a very tasty jazz item based loosely around "Bitches Brew" and a superb collection of minimalist piano music...

Secured too, Walter Gieseking's Beethoven Sonata 14 - when very small, my dad had a 72 single of his take on the piece...

Anyway, almost all the new things were squeezed into this week's podcast which was recorded today...

Total time taken from commencing recording the links to creating the final 3 hour MP3 via Audacity was just around 100 minutes...

Of course, then I had to listen back for 3 hours to ensure no botches...

Not to worry...

Lovely chicken, leek, babycorn, cream cheese and mustard rice dish from Annie for tea...

"The Sinner" continued" and we also enjoyed "Beyond Paradise" and The Cleaner"...

And Anne managed some painting too...

Both here..

...and in the kitchen, as the window sill there was finished off...

Off to bed, coughing...

Highlight of the Day : New music and chicken thing...

Today's new music:-

Old LPs versus interesting things...

Playlist

Benoit Delbecq - Gentle Ghosts

King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

Andres - Home Stretch

Wollschleger - Dark Days

Bermel - Intonations

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023 Demos

Well, Thursday and, after a mammoth effort, I finally, tonight, got this up to date to yesterday...

Of course now it's Saturday and I am behind again but battling valiantly against both time and memory loss...

Up...

Monochrome scenes...

Computer versus real life?

No of course not...

Some excellent new classical items partaken of (see below) pre breakfast - which was top...

And so, some listening and reading...

Span this today (ok an MP3 version of it) to celebrate it's recent 49th birthday...

On Twitter, a picture of this old LP garnered likes like there was no tomorrow, while interesting new classical acquisitions and a nice book about chamber music (see above) got hee haw attention...

Idiots...

Anyway, decided to change the position of the main speakers to have them point towards my head rather than past my ears...

And, lo, it as good...

In the afternoon, with Anne out re something or other I can no longer recall, I recorded 6 covers...

On her return, while she prepped a very tasty but unpictured pasta Bolognese, I recorded 12 more...

Takes my covers total up to over 300 (18 hours) since early February...

On telly, "The Sinner" continued to entertain - so slow though compared to "The Black List" - but, hey, that's "arty" for you...

Ok I think that was it, though it probably wasn't...

Highlight of the Day : New music...

Today's new music:-

Out of nowhere, into the ether...

Playlist

Lucas Brode & G. Calvin Weston - Imagination/Meditation

Lucas Brode - TACONIC: songs in the Hudson Valley

Julian Klaas - Impromptu

Rosegold - These Hazy Frames

Lucas Brode - Shapes, December 2021

Euan Burton - Occurrences

Mozart - String Quartets & Quintets

Pat Metheny Group - Quartet

Lucas Brode & G. Calvin Weston - Imagination/Meditation

Lucas Brode - TACONIC: songs in the Hudson Valley

Julian Klaas - Impromptu

Rosegold - These Hazy Frames

Lucas Brode - Shapes, December 2021

Pat Metheny Group - Quartet

Darren Jessee - Central Bridge

Brian Eno - Who Are We (single)

Vinnie Sperrazza, Ethan Iverson, Michael Formanek - Saturday

Seamus Blake, Avishai Cohen, Marc Miralta - Sun Sol

Love.Stop.Repeat - For Everybody Who Got Left Behind

Charles McPherson - Charles McPherson

DUNZA - Decadence

dEUS - How To Replace It

Scanner - The Homeland of Electricity (DiN72)

Up late again...

Still listening to old podcasts overnight but not necessarily recording that I'm doing so, as regards the daily playlists...

However, I started at 2016 Week 1 and am now at 2017 week 33 - so 85 and we're on day 88...

Someone on Twitter liked a tweet from 3 years ago explaining my listening options - I updated it slightly...

The iPhone 4 needs to be updated...

To work, turning the 3 minute "best mix of a new thing" winner, into a full LP...

Done and out on Bandcamp just after 11...

1992 reduced to this 20...

And, while Anne was out with her mum at the hairdresser, a couple of CDs listened to (along with bits and pieces from today's new music - see below)...

Bought this on this day back in 2005...

Still sounds great...

A new thing found on Netflix, "The Sinner" - 2 of 8 watched - the first of 4 seasons...

This evening, loadsa new music enjoyed too, manly jazz...

Into the end of the week now...

Highlight of the Day : New LP released out of nowhere...

Today's new music:-

Hoping for ear work that has worked...

Playlist

Aglinskas - Daydreamer

Black Sky Giant - Primigenian

Tower Of Power - Back To Oakland

Bach, C P E - Double Concertos

Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday (Expanded)

Anchor and Burden - Feels Like Forever (V)

Tim Garland - One

Heldon - Stand By (Heldon VII)

JD Allen - Americana, Vol. 2

Sebastian Knauer - The Mozart / Nyman Concert

Kid Arrow - Happy New Strange Year, Part 2

Scary Pockets - 2am Funk Dance Party

Allan Holdsworth's Legacy - The Nineteen Men of Tain

William Ryan Fritch - Polarity

m o s - Mnemonic

State Azure - Pale Light of a Hollow Moon

Krzysztof Komeda - Ballet Etudes - The Music Of Komeda: A Jazz Message From Poland Presented By An International Quintet

Art Pepper - Intensity

Various Composers - Bartok: Sonata for 2 Pianos & Percussion; Stockhausen: Kontakte

Don Wilkerson - Elder Don

State Azure - Winter's Chill

Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars

Iona Marshall - Higher Than the Leaves

iamamiwhoami - Be Here Soon

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway [2008 Remix]

Mariola Membrives - La Babilonia

Stoto - System

Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour (DL)

Corvus Corone - Abandoned in Spring

Triángulo de Amor Bizarro - Año Santo

Natalia Lacunza - Tiene Que Ser Para Mí

Marea - Los potros del tiempo

Larry Young - Heaven On Earth

Guerrero - Villanescas III

loscil // lawrence english - Colours of Air

Up super late today...

...and reduced to setting the scene with pics of wires and rechargers...

While Anne stayed at home and painted the kitchen window sill...

...I was wheeling my mum round to the doctor to have her ears syringed to improve her hearing...

We'll see how that goes...

For now though, we were off out for lunch...

...at the Navaar in Penicuik...

Prawn Mary Rose and small fish & chips for the mum, haggis rissole and normal fish & chips for the son...

Enjoyed!

Back to Loanhead around 3 pm...

Many declarations of "I can't do this" and"I can't do that" all of which were eventually done...

Such things can be a trifle annoying but, I suppose she is 92 going on 93...

Hoping against hope the ear work has indeed, worked...

Home and no tea required for me...

This evening, trying to fill a Black List sized hole, we enjoyed "Unforgotten" and the film version of "What We Do In The Shadows"...

Not quite as good as the TV version...

Still good though....

To bed...

Highlight of the Day : Slap up lunch...

Today's new music:-

Quiet times can be the best times...

Playlist

Mozart - String Quintets K515 & 516 

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-15 Demos (Setlist 4 & 5)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-24 Demos (Ziggy Stardust - High)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-07 Demos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-28 Demos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-14 Demos (Setlist 2)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-12 Demos (Setlist 1)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-22 Demos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-14 Demos (Setlist 3)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-04 Demos

Various Artists - Some of Our Parts

Various Artists - Open House : The Best of Out of the Bedroom Vol 2

Lindsay West - Cramond Island

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Do As Others Do (Single)

Lindsay West - Song Assignments

Kronos Quartet - Short Stories

Brodsky Quartet - Golden Oldies – More Favourite Encores

Lindsay West - No Place (EP)

Victoria - Masses

Byrd - Cantiones Sacrae 1575

Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans

Here we go for another week...

Into the light and Anne has been painting....

Some nice quiet time spent this morning just reading Gramophone magazine, soundtracked by their LP of the month (Mozart quintets)...

Then, out...

The "new kitchen project" necessitated a visit to B&Q to check out things like lights...

I liked this one but it is somewhat impractical to be honest...

Anne was enjoying herself

We also managed our weekly shop at Aldi...

I put some off piste items in the trolley...

Home and a new lightshade is in the bedroom...

On the new music front, I stumbled across old Out of the Bedroom colleague and great songwriter (and singer/guitarist) Lindsay West - plus the ten best composers of the Renaissance according to Gramophone...

Meanwhile, on the "The Black List" front, we discovered Season 9 is now available but each of the 22 episodes costs £2.50 - so perhaps the DVD is the answer...

Either that or we wait till we can buy the series as a whole for less than the DVD box set...

And so, we're on the lookout for a new thing...

Highlight of the Day : Shopping with Anne...

Today's new music:-