Remembering the old days...

Playlist

Creek - 1998-03-03

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Neu! Variations

Norman Lamont And The Heaven Sent - Turn

Seven Impale - SUMMIT

Aaron Pilsan - Schumann: Kreisleriana & Geistervariationen - Widmann: Elf Humoresken

Sparks - Annette OST (Unlimited Edition)

Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (Single)

Sparks - Angst In My Pants

Sparks - The Latte Tour

Neal Smith - Platinum God

Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream

Models - Local And/Or General (UK)

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Golden Earring - The Best of Golden Earring

Various Artists - 101 Disco Anthems

Various Artists - The Best Disco Album In The World... Ever!

Various Artists - Disco Classics: The Greatest Disco Anthems

Various Artists - The Best Disco Album In The World... Ever! Vol 2

Various Artists - 100 Hits: Disco Classics

Various Artists - Dale's Disco Divas

Various Artists - Disco Podcasts

Capital Models - 2023-05-27

Matthew Good - Arrows Of Desire

Wednesday but writing this next Tuesday...

Once again, things have gotten behind and I must (well, you know, not "must" but...) try and recall what happened...

Looks like I was up early...

...and breakfast was good...

Some time today spent uploading "The Neu! Variations" and "Creek XV" to Bandcamp, re their upcoming release on Friday...

(note that the bonus tracks shown in the pic above, were not created until early on Friday morning)...

Also spent some time downloading Alice Cooper Group connected music which I somehow didn't have after going down an ACG rabbit hole on the internet...

And, as it was the end of May, I looked up my diaries from 1974-1983 and located music bought/watched around this day in those years and came up with this playlist...

1974 David Bowie: Hunky Dory (2nd Hand LP purchase)

1975 Golden Earring: Instant Poetry (my then current No1 single)

1976 10cc: I'm Mandy Fly Me (my most played record in May 1976)

1977 KC & the Sunshine Band: I Like to Do It (72 single purchase) - downloaded today

1978 Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear the Reaper (Concert attended - Japan supporting)

1979 Siouxsie & the Banshees: Staircase (7" single purchase)

1980 Brian Eno/Jon Hassell: Fourth World: Possible Musics (LP purchase)

1981 PIL: Flowers of Romance (LP purchase)

1982 Models :Local and/or General (2nd Hand LP purchase) - re-downloaded today

1983 The Tubes :Outside Inside (LP purchase)

We probably watched some TV...

Highlight of the Day :  Up and downloading...

Today's New Music:-

An afternoon in a sunny garden...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Morphinecodex (24 Disc Set)

SHRVL - Limbus

Various Artists - Now That's What I Call Movies

Various Artists - Hôtel Costes, Vol. 9

Various Artists - The Best Disco Album In The World... Ever!

Capital Models - 2023-05-27

Various Artists - Adventures In And Beyond Dub

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Ammunition Dub Collection

Various Artists - Trojan Dub Box Set Volume 2

Various Artists - Island Presents: Lovers Rock

Various Artists - Trojan Foundation Dub

Rico - Man From Wareika / Wareika Dub

Various Artists - Birthday Playlist on Shuffle

Quintette Moragues - Ligeti, Villa-Lobos, Barber, Hindemith etc

Seven Impale - Summit

Various  Artists - Albums of the Day 2023

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Neu! Variations

Creek - 1998-03-03

Second last day of May began with a relaxing morning...

The slimmed down set up...

I listened to the full one hour version of "Morphine Codex" from "Morphinecodex", the name of the picture which now hangs on the living room wall of chums Impossible Songs in South Queensferry...

Post some Capital Models, disco and reggae listening, we drove to SQ to spend the afternoon with IS i.e. John and Ali...

A gloriously sunny afternoon in their garden - your correspondent now has a rather burnt neck...

Lovely salad for lunch, with prosecco and wine for the others and non-alchohol beer for me...

Took this while John and Ali attended an unexpected scenario with their fridge...

The views from the bottom of the garden...

The best home made scones in the world with fruit, jam and cream followed...

...before we moved down into the garden and spent the entire afternoon chatting about this, that, and, indeed, the next thing - with much pontification and laughter...

IF you look closely you can see a bee having a rest on Anne's hat...

She was also attended to, at one point, by an unpictured small blackbird...

Sadly, my phone died mid-afternoon before being able to record Ali and I for posterity...

John also provided me with a copy of the new CD by old chum and birthday buddy, Norman Lamont and his band...

A top notch day indeed...

A bit of a traffic jam on the way home led to a convoluted route being chosen by the driver but, eventually, we made it...

Later on, a late tea enjoyed...

...along with episode 2 of "Annika"...

Even later on, I set about uploading the next CBQ and Creek releases to Bandcamp, which will be sent into the void on Friday...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : An afternoon in a sunny garden...

Today's New Music:-

Maglocklin no more...

Playlist

Bloch - String Quartets

Bloch - Piano Quintets

Arrowounds - Therianthrope Series

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Bartok

Frost - Through the Eyes of Love

Praetorius - Magnificat

Dittersdorf - Sinfonias

Earthworks - All Heaven Broke Loose

Tangerien Dream - Botanique Orangerie Session

Capital Models - 2023-05-27

Snowdrops - Volutes

port-royal - 2000-2010: The Golden Age

Various Artists - Studio One Selector

Raam Chandra - Indian Meditation

Various Artists - Now That's What I Call Movies

Various Artists - Dad Dancing

Ute Lemper - All That Jazz: The Best of

Various Artists - Hotel Costes 9

Tele-Port - Please Disperse

Yes - Mirror to the Sky

Another week begins and, it was a lovely sunny day - the need for my onesie now becoming a memory...

Up and illustrating the situation...

Yesterday, or the day before, someone recommended Bloch - I looked up Ernst Bloch and ended up with a 2CD best of by Italian electro outfit, port-royal...

Today I looked for Ernest Bloch (turns out Ernst was a philosopher, not a composer) and was much impressed by his string quartets (a disc of all four, recorded on the same day back in 1954) and piano quintets...

So that was a nice start to the day...

A tasty egg, mushroom and tomato based breakfast...

Then, to changing the listening set up in the back room to what I'd swithered about the other day...

The CD player, amp and speakers set up removed..

The better CD player brought through from the computer room (optional speaker is now an option, if it comes to it)...

The final position...

Some CD listening via the AKG K702s...

..and then, into the office to sign some paperwork, before heading out to Loanhead...

Today, my mum was off to the Womens' Rural...

Thunderbirds were go...

Into the car no problem...

Cup at the ready (has to be a light one or she can't lift it!)...

Early arrival, sitting next to her old cum, Jetta Fisher...

Leaving her there for an afternoon of fun, I drove to Sainsbury's to do her shopping, then, on up to Penicuik to deliver a birthday card...

The beast was about its business in the hot sun...

Some £1 CDs partaken of in two charity outlets in the town...

3CDs of fun...

2 CDs of fun with an awful cover...

Turns out a couple of the tracks on this are exactly the same as the dodgy CD of Indian music I bought a few weeks ago...

There is no place for vocals in jazz...

A box with just 1 CD of unknown dance music...

Collected my mum, took her home, gave her the opportunity to sit in the sun in her garden...

"No thanks"...

Chum Craig did this...

Showed it to mum - "oh the garden looks nice!"...

Home after a convoluted rush-hour journey - home made soup from Anne - her best ever possibly...

Looks dreadful in this pic but it is super tasty...

Some listening and ripping while Anne was at Pilates...

...along with Baked Potato duties...

Said potato...

Grand Final of University Challenge - Durham v Bristol...

Kind of glad that "Maglocklin" wasn't on the winning side...

Us?  We only got 40...

Pathetic...

"Midsomer Murders" was its usual nonsense self for two hours of Gilbert & Sullivan related rubbish..

Which entertained...

Highlight of the Day : It was sunny...

Today's New Music:-