A day well spent/wasted - depending on your point of view...

Playlist

Manuel Fischer - Exxodus

Univers Zero - Lueur

Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle

Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ampersand

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallingsky

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Splinterheart

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Doveloveshawk

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietsongs

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Two Two One Zero

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Auden

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anotherhappyday

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Soundingfall

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Decades

Don Ellis - At Fillmore

[Ahmed] - Wood Blues

Off World - 3

Capital Models - 2024-04-14 Leith Dockers

Crazy Wisdom - Music For Holland

Don Ellis - Connection

Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2

Sleepmakeswaves - It's Here But I Have No Names For It

Crazy Wisdom - Attic Rehearsal 1998-04-28

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Peri Urban - 1998 Remixes

Crazy Wisdom - Cowgate Rehearsal 1998

Crazy Wisdom - We Live The Foreigner's Life

Ascendant - Starfall

Well, a day of discovery...

Up into the attic this morning to find an Allen & Heath mixing desk I bought from old Dancers of San Martino chum, Stewart Robinson, aka Peri Urban, probably over 30 years ago now - and which I have never actually used...

I found a few things as I searched - our second shop's bag for example...

A huge apple box full of tapes - one of tens of boxes of cassettes up there...

Regular readers may recall one Fritha Lewin getting in touch recently - here is the only Call Me Clive recording on which she appears (as far as I know)...

...and here, some other examples of the Clive history...

Aha - I finally spied the desk, seen here under a cassette player, a CD recorder/player and, yep, another CD player...

...and out it came...

I took some pics to determine what should be plugged in where...

...and put the Yamaha CS5 synth through it to test it and gave a listen on headphones...

It might just work but it would be a big risk, so, back in the box it went - to be honest, it wasn't as high tech as I'd always imagined - of course, I was forgetting that it's well over 40 years old...

However, I brought down the wee MiniDisc player, which can be plugged into my recorder to transfer disc content to the hard drives...

...and so, much time was spent doing this - of course, everything has to be transferred from the MiniDiscs in real time, so it takes an absolute age - we are all so lazy now...

And so, a day was well spent/wasted - depending on your point of view...

It was, however, very enjoyable and I came across a few Crazy Wisdom recordings I'd long forgotten about including an entire unreleased LP's worth of material which Malcolm, Brodski and I recorded for Malcolm to take with him to Holland in 1999 to work on (of which, surprise, surprise, nothing ever came)...

For tea, a very, very, very tasty concoction from Anne, involving Gnocchi and sausages, creme fraiche and cheese and onions...

Yum-tastic...

...the rest of the evening was spent watching "Monk" and "Almost Paradise" as far as I recall...

Lights out...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : Rediscovering old music...

Today's New Music:-