Monday, June 17, 2024

Everyone loves a list, part 798...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variation on Brian Eno's "Discreet Music"
Bach, J C - London Symphonies
Bach, C P E - Sonatas & Rondos
The Velvet Underground  - Loaded - Fully Loaded
DarWin - Five Steps On The Sun
Tusmørke - Hestehoven
Extraworld - Perihelion
Klavierduo Neeb - Déjà-Rêvé
Vestbo Trio - Out of Place
Ethan Iverson - Technically Acceptable
zakè - Lapis
Mali Obomsawin - Greatest Hits
Stefanovich, Dell, Lillinger, Westergaard - SDLW
Echorift - Monolith
Charlotte Day Wilson - Cyan Blue
Goose - Ted Tapes 2024
The American Analog Set - For Forever
Friends & Neighbors - Circles
Leander Reininghaus, Rainer Frey, Bernhard Wöstheinrich - Polyphony Performance Series 004-20240220
Nils Frahm - Day
Potter Mehldau Patitucci Blade - Eagle's Point
2raumwohnung - 2raumwohnung Singles
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variation on Brian Eno's "Discreet Music"
Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English - Selene
Various - The Very Best of Latin America
Avison - Concerti Grossi, Op. 9 & 10
2Raumwohnung - Club Mix Collection 2022
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 2024/25
Klaus Schulze - Mirage

Aftr listening overnight to the quick work last night on "Discreet Music", up early this morning with some ideas...



But first, Luna's biscuits...


To work...


...under treated light...



By the time Anne arose, it was done and ready for playback to determine goodness...

It was good...

During breakfast, which, for me involved a couple of very over-ripe bananas, Luna ventured into the garden...



...watched over by Anne - as Luna is an "indoors cat"...


Just before 9, took Anne along to Jane's - the two ladies taking their mum for a hospital appointment...

Post drop off, it was out to Loanhead to visit my own mum...

An inventory was carried out to let her see what she has - given she can no longer shuffle into the kitchen with her zimmer...







A list of all the frozen meals and desserts in her freezer was also provided, the quantity of which surprised...


Here is my poor old mum - this is her life now - either in tis chair or in the nearby bed...


...but, as time goes on post her return after 7 months in hospital, she is coming to terms with things...

Home for lunch and a "Monk" before Anne headed off to do the shopping - she prefers solo re me putting unwanted items in the basket...

I listened to music and got this almost up to date (again)...

Sent some lists to Dr Prog of music so far this year he might wish to investigate...

What's that? You'd like to see those lists too?

OK

Firstly, 43 LPs which have impressed both me and, it would seem, the general music buying/streaming public - in that these are my choices from all the LPs that have made the UK LP charts so far this year (in order of chart entry)...

Sprints - Letter to Self
Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
Marika Hackman - Big Sigh
Kali Uchis - Orquideas
Green Day - Saviors
Smile - Wall of Eyes
Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy
The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This
IDLES - TANGK
Steve Hackett - The Circus and the Nightwhale

Grandaddy - Blu Wav
Red Rum Club - Western Approaches
Everything Everything - Mountainhead
Big Big Train - The Likes of Us
Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
Four Tet - Three
Elbow - Audio Vertigo
Beyonce - Cowboy Carter

Ride - Interplay
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Black Keys - Ohio Players
Khruangbin - A La Sala
Hawkwind - Stories From Time and Space
Palace - Ultrasound
Fred Again - USB
James - Yummy
English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
Maggie Roberts - Don't Forget Me

Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
Lucy Rose - This Ain't the Way You Go Out
Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless
Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
Rachel Chinouriri - What a Devastating Turn of Events
Sia - Reasonable Woman
Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Slash - Orgy of the Damned

Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: NeX Gen
Becky Hill - Believe Me Now?
Charli XCX - Brat

Then, some 2024 Jazz LPs to check out (alpha order)...

Alex Sipiagin - Horizons
Arild Andersen, Daniel Sommer, & Rob Luft - As Time Passes
Black Art Jazz Collective - Truth to Power
Brad Mehldau - Après Fauré
Caporaso Ensemble - Encounter
DAÏDA - LA TRAVERSÉE
Dave Harrington, Max Jaffe, Patrick Shiroishi - Speak, Moment
Ethan Iverson - Technically Acceptable
Fergus McCreadie - Stream
Fire! - Testament

Friends & Neighbors - Circles
Gary Husband - Songs of Love & Solace
Ill Considered - Precipice
Jasper Høiby - 3Elements: Like Water
Mark Lockheart - Smiling
Mark Wingfield - The Gathering
Mikael Máni - Guitar Poetry
Moritz Stahl - Traumsequenz
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin - Ghosted II
Potter Mehldau Patitucci Blade - Eagle's Point

Skyjack - Light Cycle
Splashgirl - More Human
Thierry Maillard - Maman
This Celestial Engine - This Celestial Engine
Trio HLK - Anthropometricks
Vestbo Trio - Out of Place
Willebrant & Williamson - Night Daze

...none of which, unsurprisingly, have troubled the charts...

Seven classical...

Anna Meredith - The End We Start From (OST)
Beethoven - Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 "Archduke"
Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field
Klavierduo Neeb - Déjà-Rêvé
Frank Martin - Piano Quintet, Quartet, Pavane couleur du temps
North Sea String Quartet - Splunge
Jüri Reinvere - Ship of Fools

...and four funk/soul items...

Booka Shade - Link To The Invisible
E. Lundquist - Art Between Minds
Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon
Trans Upper Egypt - No Dub

Finally, here are just over 100 others, all of which have impressed in one way or another so far this year...

A Sudden Burst Of Colour - Galvanize
Abrams - Blue City
Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal
Adrian Lane - Vignettes
Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English - Selene
ambienteer - énouement
Anchor and Burden - Extinction Level
Ascendant - Starfall
Astral Bakers - The Whole Story
Black Sky Giant - The Red Chariot

Boris Blank - Resonance
Cage The Elephant - Neon Pill
Catching Flies - Tides
Celer - Cursory Asperses
Charlotte Day Wilson - Cyan Blue
Christian Wittman - The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars
claire rousay - sentiment
Contours - Elevations
Corde - Schema
Cosmic Ground - melt

Courting - New Last Name
Daniel Herskedal - A Single Sunbeam
Danielle Durack - Escape Artist
DarWin - Five Steps On The Sun
David Rothenberg, Bernhard Wöstheinrich, Ali Sayah - Don't Hide From What You Seek
DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water
Don McLean - American Boys
EELS - EELS TIME!
El Perro del Mar - Big Anonymous
Elephant9 - Mythical River

Extraworld - Perihelion
Fernando Utreras - Reflejos
Folly Group - Down There!
For All We Know - By Design Or By Disaster
From Flowers to Flies - We Built This Machine
German Error Message - German Error Message
Gesaffelstein - GAMMA
Goose - Ted Tapes 2024
Goose - Chateau Sessions pt II

Grossstadtgeflüster - DAS ÜBER-ICKE
Guster - Ooh La La
Henrik Meierkord - Proscenium
Herne von Bòrmanvs - Toward the Sun
IDAHO - Lapse
Iota - pentasomnia
Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle
Jogging House - Rendezvous
John Grant - The Art of the Lie
King Hannah - Big Swimmer

Kinoteki - Faith and the Vessel
Kungens Män - För samtida djur 1
Labrinth - The Kitchen (OST)
Laetitia Sadier - Rooting For Love
Leander Reininghaus, Rainer Frey, Bernhard Wöstheinrich - Polyphony Performance Series 004-20240220
Lizzy McAlpine - Older
LOCRIAN - End Terrain
Loscil - Umbel
Low Altitude - Boat
Lustmord - Much Unseen Is Also Here

Magic Tusk - Beyond the Crescent Moon
Mali Obomsawin - Greatest Hits (not a comp!)
Maps and Diagrams - if all will be lost
mark david hadley - homegrown apples
Martin Stürtzer - Lander Modules
Martin Stürtzer - Spaceport
Mayuko - Songs To Whistle When Strolling Along The Abyss
Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
Michael Brückner - THREEQUENCES
Moon Goose - Murmurations

Mr Mibbler - Falling Ladder
Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph, Pt. Two
Nils Frahm - Day
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
Peony - Vast Animals
Plantoid - Terrapath
Raymond Tani - Midnight to Daylight to Midnight
Ringo - Pax Texiana
S1gns Of L1fe - Portal to Transcendence
salvia palth - last chance to see

Shaboozey - Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going
Sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
Steve Roach - The Desert Winds Of Change
Still Corners - Dream Talk
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Nimbus
Sundrifter - An Earlier Time
Supercaan - A Tiger Walks The Streets
TERAMAZE - Eli : A Wonderful Fall From Grace
The Blinders - Beholder
The Church - Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars

The Janitors - An Error Has Occurred
The Lumberjack Feedback - The Stronghold
The Pineapple Thief - It Leads To This
Tinlicker - Cold Enough For Snow
Tu-Ner - T-2 Tu-Ner for Lovers
Turning Jane - Death Us DO Part
Unchained - Gabbeh
Vessel - Wrapped In Cellophane
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Your Community Hub
Water Damage - In E

William Doyle - Springs Eternal
worriedaboutsatan - If Not Now, When
Yellowcard & Hammock - A Hopeful Sign
zakè - Lapis

Including, of course...

Cloudland Blue Quartet - String Quartet No 2 (2023)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dark Room
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution IV
Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Vanilla Receiver
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Everything Ends

I advised Dr Prog that, if he had just taken a couple of hours each week out of his stupid conspiracy theory YouTube viewing and listened to my podcasts, he'd be familiar with all of these already as, in point of fact, the full listing (save a few of the chart LPs) comprises my, so far, 169 LPs of the Day for 2024 (save the handful released prior to 2024)...

Everyone loves a list...

We completed some online Anti Money Laundering nonsense re Anne's mum's apartment - viewings are a-happening and we are hopeful - before Anne headed to Pilates with Lynn...

It was the night of "Nosferatu" as the two ladies moved simultaneously from prone to sitting, much to the amusement of coach, Tom...

Anne home and Baked Potatoes for tea before the football - France scraping past Austrai just as England scraped past Serbia last night...

We are yet to see a team as seemingly bad as Scotland...

Surprise wins to day for Romni over Ukraine and Slovenia over favourites, Belgium...

Hmmm...

Music listening for the second half of the game - listening back to the "Live Suite 2024/25" which I am hopeful now of playing instore at Fopp some time soon...

Luna, uninterested in the football, found a new place...


Some late on listening, final updating of the diary (and reading back 19 years ago today, as we set off for the Mosel, the laptop having been hacked) and off to bed with Klaus Schulze...

Highlight of the Day : Discreet Music done...

Today's New Music:-

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