Playlist
Various - The Klaus Devore Remixes
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - O Superman (EP)
Haydn - 2032, Vol. 12: Les jeux et les plaisirs
Il Giardino Armonico & Claudio Monteverdi - The Collected Recordings of Il Giardino Armonico
Haydn - 107 Symphonies
Abba - 1973-1982
After Crying - Starless - A Sampler
Laurie Anderson - Songs and Stories from Moby Dick
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire EP
Ark - Ark
The Album Leaf - An Orchestrated Rise to Fall
Ayreon - Universal Migrator I & II
Badly Drawn Boy - Have You Fed The Fish?
Alonso Arreola Project - Musica Horizontal
The Beatles - Yesterday
The Beatles - 1962-1970
Asia (Featuring John Payne) - Aura
Abba - 1973-1982
The Blue Nile - Rarities 1984-1996
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - HHA (Demos)
A day on which I stopped taking pics at breakfast...
So it goes...
Anyway...
Up as usual...
...just after six...
...and working pre breakfast, on this and on listening...
Breakfast...
Decided to try and ensure that my huge collection of CD-Rs from the old days is on the hard drives - so got down to this...
And listened to a few too...
An enjoyable project...
I was half way through "B" when, just after midday, a message from Edward Spark arrived...
He'd been f*cked over by his "friend" MOG, the one whose misogynist and racist raps got Sparky fired from his Sheffield Record Label deal (I say "deal" but the earnings were in the pennies)...
The album they did together is up - Sparky wrote and recorded ALL the music...
But, somehow, not a single mention of him anywhere...
"Not one single word from him regards our 50/50 collaboration album. You'd also think that he'd be kind enough to credit me for writing and producing 100% of the music wouldn't you. You know, with it being 50/50 and all. It's on all streaming services too"
So, I said, to try and cheer him up...
"What I'll do is I'll steal all the instrumental passages and create brand new tunes with me singing and give you 50% credit"
...and Sparky said...
"I'll give you all the instrumentals"
I started listening to the LP - the music was great, the rapping was super-annoying - even more so due to the broad Scottish accent...
I had to turn it off half way through the first track...
I let Sparky know the opinions from Crispycat Towers...
"I was playing it there - Anne came in "what's that shite - get it off - it's absolute rubbish. It's banned from this house" Fair play. She is the Exec Producer!"
Sparky laughed at this but was still pretty down...
"I get shafted at every turn. Used and abused but egotistical maniacs"
So I said...
"Send me the instrumentals - no work required from you and let's see how long it takes me to do the songs - I won't listen to the dickhead's version - it'll be like the Ed Sheeran LP I did which you loved"
I continued with the CD-R work...
At 5pm, the files arrived...
By 6:15 I had my first 10 minute demo, using the first three of the twelve tracks...
I also wrote three new lyrics, with view to these becoming songs...
"Petrol Station Flowers", "Vitriol" and "In the Red"...
But no singing was done...
I did not send my work to Edwardo...
Anne was off out to the Pickelball Xmas drinks night - I gave Lynn and her a lift to the Sports Club where Jamie, Keith and I once played to an audience of Paul Reynolds...
Back home via Lidl, having bought some macaroni cheese for tea...
Enjoyed "The Batman", which was so long, by the time it finished it was time to pick Anne and Lynn up from what they advised had been a very enjoyable evening of drinks and chat (no music though - should have asked me!)...
My 10 minute demo soundtracked the taxi trip...
Back home, I fired up the machines again and, by 10 past midnight, the demo was increased to 25 minutes, incorporating the first six tracks...
Tasty!
Off to bed - a productive day...
Highlight of the Day : Creating...
Today's New Music:-
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