Friday, April 19, 2024

Finally meeting the Kraftwerk Kats...

Playlist
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-03-07 Out of the Bedroom
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-03-21 Out of the Bedroom
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-04-04 Out of the Bedroom
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-04-18 Out of the Bedroom
A Certain Ratio - It All Comes Down to This
Vanden Plas - The Empyrean Equation of The Long Lost Things
Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 2: Fiction
Supercaan - A Tiger Walks The Streets
Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2
Capital Models - 2024-04-14 Leith Dockers Club (Mastered)
Crazy Wisdom - I Am Your World/Angel of Mercy (EP)
Good Morning - Good Morning Seven
De Beren Gieren - What Eludes Us
Erika Angell - The Obsession With Her Voice
Moon Goose - Murmurations
Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle
Ascendant - Starfall
MARIOLA MEMBRIVES - Ajuares Primavera
Pat Smythe Quartet - New Dawn: Live 1973
Sex Magick Wizards - Your Bliss My Joy
Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Orefice - Piano Works
Mikael Máni - Guitar Poetry
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-04-18 Out of the Bedroom
Don Ellis - Connection
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye E.P.
Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me
Bill Frisell - Orchestras (Live)
Trifecta - The New Normal
Dodgson - Mirage
Univers Zero - Lueur
Reger - Melancholy (Vocal Works)
Cowie - The Kreutzer Effect
Johnson - 12 Preludes & Fugues
Yass Big Band - ImMATHEMATICs (Live)
Melvins - Tarantula Heart
Laughing Bastards - Fetish
Various Artists - Reimagining In The Court Of The Crimson King
Wadada Leo Smith, Kresten Osgood & Soren Norbo - Dét, som ikke kan kaldes tilbage
Hawkestrel - Chaos Rocks
Abel - The Drexel Manuscript
Aki Takase - Aki Takase Japanic: Forte
Builder - Renewal Manifestation
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2024 Vol 16

Up early and to the machines, to upload last night from my phone and work on deftly repairing/removing all the mistakes and occasional audience coughing etc etc...



Took a little longer than expected but a satisfactory outcome...

New music Friday provided a few nice things, like new LPs from Taylor Swift and Ian Hunter - plus, of course, the daily surfeit of stuff which I really don't need but which is nice to have in the library...

Then, finally, found a power supply (from an ex hard drive) to work with the headphone mixer and checked with electronics wizz Johnny Weitzen, that it would be ok to use, given the minor differences...



He answered in the affirmative...

So that's good...

And, while I remember, I found a reverb box in the attic the other day I'd forgotten I have (which does not have a power unit but takes batteries - might try it on Sunday)...

Compiled the content for this week's podcast...

Post a "Monk" and lunch, it was over to Castle Brodski for the first time in too long a time...


...to meet the 4 year old Kraftwerk Kats, Ralf and Flo...



...and spend a top afternoon being shown the progress made on Alan and Penny's apartment (STILL not finished after 17 years) plus home made plum cake, lashings of coffee and excellent chat...


Great to have the old band together again...

Around 6, they were off to see Harry Hill's silent film, with HH present for a Q&A, post screening, while we stopped off at Wong's on the way home...


Alan had given Anne some advice re her mum which included the printing of a form, only for us to find the "Maintenance Box" on the printer required to be replaced...


A new one ordered for delivery tomorrow - another £10 down the pan...

Podcast recorded ready for upload tomorrow morning...

On telly tonight "Beyond Paradise", "Avoidance" and "Have I Got News For You"...

Yet another good day, all in all...

Highlight of the Day : A visit to Castle Brodski...

Today's New Music:-

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