Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyfour
Funk Inc. - Funk, Inc.
Funk Inc. - Superfunk
Thomas Stieger - Choices
Ensemble Enigma, Ensemble Peregrina, Grace Newcombe - The Krasiński Codex (Fifteenth-Century Music from Cracow)
Cornell Campbell - The Gorgon Dubwise
Post Malone - F-1 Trillion
Steve Roach - The Desert Winds Of Change
Mr Mibbler - Falling Ladder
Jelly Roll - Beautifully Broken (Pickin’ Up The Pieces)
Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
deadmau5 - some
Elephant9 - Mythical River
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
Loscil - Umbel
Laurie Anderson - Amelia
Sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
Skyjack - Light Cycle
Arild Andersen, Daniel Sommer, & Rob Luft - As Time Passes
DAÏDA - LA TRAVERSÉE
Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
Flower Face - Girl Prometheus
The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
Luca Calabrese - I Shin Den Shin
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey - Compassion
Goose - Ted Tapes 2024
Various Artists - The Best Country Album In The World… Ever!
Various Artists - 100 Hits - Girls Night
Grandaddy - Blu Wav
Goose - Chateau Sessions pt II
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Today saw the end of 2024...
Another year of unbelievable stupidity on the part of mankind...
So it goes...
Here, a picture a day...
Good times, mostly...
But 2025 will be the first year since 1930 without my mum in the world...
But we go on...
Started off stormy - official Hogmanay celebrations cancelled...
I was up early sorting pics for last three days, writing this diary for last three days, downloading more Funk Inc (while enjoying the two LPs from yesterday, and Geza Anda re my dad's cassette that I found, that he'd bought at Reptile records...
And, of course, releasing the new LP
...and out it went, quite successfully all told, at 8am...
My releases this year...
2024 was my most successful year yet in terms of numbers of sales, numbers of downloads and numbers of streams...
Nos of sales (up 286% over 2020 and 31% over 2023)
Downloads (up 164% over 2020 and 41% over 2023)
Streams (up 206% over 2020 and 10% over 2023)
However, reflecting the ongoing decimation of musicians' earnings, the average price paid per sale has dropped by 70% since 2020 and is down 30% over the last year, while overall turnover, while up on 2020 by over 20% is down on last year by 9% despite a 31% increase in numbers of sales...
Bottom line, people are paying much less for music than they used to....
As Robert Fripp once said "if you want to be a musician, be a plumber..."
This is, of course, compounded by me, in that, here are my Top 20 LPs of 2024, not one of which I shelled out for (I did, however, buy over 340 CDs this year, just not any that were going to cost me £15-£20 when I can download them to my hard drives for free)...
Top Five
1 The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2 The Bad Plus - Complex Emotions
3 John Grant - The Art Of A Lie
4 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
5 Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets' Department
And my CD purchases?
Here you go (including my home made Alice Cooper remasters), chronologically by release date...
Anyway...
Also today, the final Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection of 2024 recorded and uploaded...
And so, The Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2024 is now Complete!
52 Podcasts Produced (Latest 10 Still Available)
Over 1,600 Tracks Featured
Over 120 Hours of New Music Played
1,000s of Listens from all over the World
Coming soon...
Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2025
Volume 1 will be my 700th podcast uploaded to Mixcloud...
Also, I chose an LP of the day, every day in 2024...
252 of those 366 were by artists I'd never heard of before....
All of these were featured in my podcasts over the course of the year...
January (21/31)
Illegal Crowns
Thierry Maillard
Martin Stürtzer
Lustmord
Tusmørke
Extraworld
This Celestial Engine
Folly Group
Bill Ryder-Jones
Marika Hackman
Anna Hillburg
Vestbo Trio
Mr Mibbler
zakè
Mali Obomsawin
Ringo
Mayuko
Kinoteki
Courting
Úlfur Eldjárn
Turning Jane
February (19) (40/60)
DAÏDA
Plantoid
Trans Upper Egypt
Echorift
Fernando Utreras
Skyjack
Astral Bakers
The American Analog Set
Grossstadtgeflüster
Henrik Meierkord
Black Art Jazz Collective
Raymond Tani
Danielle Durack
Willebrant & Williamson
mark david hadley
From Flowers to Flies
Fire!
Friends & Neighbors
German Error Message
March (16) (56/91)
Herne von Bòrmanvs
Maps and Diagrams
Red Rum Club
Daniel Herskedal
Olivia Belli
Magic Tusk
Labrinth
Low Altitude
Adrian Lane
Laetitia Sadier
The Blinders
Moritz Stahl
Christian Wittman
Ill Considered
Mark Lockheart
Corde
April (19) (75/121)
Ghost Funk Orchestra
E. Lundquist
Vessel
Unchained
Lizzy McAlpine
Still Corners
Catching Flies
Gesaffelstein
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Supercaan
Moon Goose
Jane Weaver
Ascendant
Mikael Máni
English Teacher
Lucy Rose
ambienteer
Water Damage
Palace
May (15) (90/152)
claire rousay
Kelly Moran
Charlotte Day Wilson
Andrew Ostler
LOCRIAN
Mdou Moctar
Martin
The Lumberjack Feedback
Reinvere
S1gns Of L1fe
The Janitors
Sundrifter
Iota
Abrams
DIIV
June (20) (110/182)
IDAHO
Guster
A Sudden Burst Of Colour
Alex Sipiagin
Michael Brückner
Shaboozey
King Hannah
salvia palth
Rachel Chinouriri
El Perro del Mar
DarWin
The Vernon Spring
Mojo Jojo
Christophe Marguet
Skee Mask
Normani
Slow Heart Music
Braulio Lam
Martha Skye Murphy
Loula Yorke
July (24) (134/213)
Arooj Aftab
Loma
Bolis Pupul
Jonas Johansen
Tarbaby
Glasshopper
Njet Njet 9
Otohito Fuse Trio
Beings
Outlander
The Omnific
Tryp Tych Tryo
Mario Ganau & Mathieu Robert
aespa
Cassandra Jenkins
Odie Leigh
Orange Goblin
Mas Aya
The Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus
The Lunar Effect
Knut Reiersrud Band
Haunted Plasma
Tobias Meinhart
Otis Sandsjö
August (15) (149/244)
Lalén Ríos Luna
Ingrid N & Fabio Keiner
Field Lines Cartographer
distance prefix
Rojinski
Lux Quartet
LA LOM
Christian Holm-Svendsen
Grice
John Escreet
Amanda Gardier
Jeff Schroeder
Der Neue Planet
Morgan Wade
Dawn Chorus And The Infallible Sea
James Bernard
September (22) (190/274)
The Windmill
Old Amica
Mario Allard Quintet
Philip Weberndoerfer
Chris Lee
The Laconic
Ocoeur
Underwater Airport
Downscope
Bleachers
pomni menya
Imaginary Towers
Unknown To Known
The British Stereo Collective
Luca Calabrese
The Firebirds
Nilüfer Yanya
Jason Stein
Chad McCullough
Quartet Diminished
Polaroid Notes
Spring Silver
October (16) (206/305)
Rubber Oh
Kirk Degiorgio
Sharlene Wallace & Frank Horvat
Britt Warner
RÜFÜS DU SOL
Walter Smith III
JellyRoll
KASHIWA Daisuke
Office Culture
Glacis
Starterra
William Tyler
Craven Faults
Rutger Zuydervelt
Daniel Sommer
Benjamin Croft
November (22) (228/335)
Hypnopomp
Pyramid
Naissoo Freeform Quintet
Warmth
Darius Jones
Andreas Wildhagen's Spiralis
Yoo Doo Right
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Cahill Costello
Kevin Sun
Isleptonthemoon
Nessa Barrett
Glåsbird
SHOLTO
SOPHIA
Jonas Munk
Taroug
One Far West
The Folk Implosion
Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet
Ngwenyama
From Indian Lakes
December (24) (252/366)
Mabe Fratti
Anna Butterss
Kenny Warren
Heavy Moss
Behzod Abduraimov
Tides From Nebula
Fractal Sextet
Florian Weiss' Woodism
Gabríel Ólafs
Eiko Ishibashi
Dame Area
Snakes Don't Belong In Alaska
Lampen
Daniel Blumberg
Flower Face
Pijn
Ghost Dubs
Dog Unit
Einstellung
Void Stasis
Gabriele De Leporini
AuB, Alex Hitchcock & Tom Barford
Chris Stieger
Jessica Pratt
That's 68.8%...
There is great new music around in abundance but there's just not enough time to listen...
At 1, round to Jane and Bob's to bring them back for an afternoon of New Year's Eve fun...
Anne had her timings ready for what turned out to be a top tasty lunch/tea...
Salmon and trout nibbles with drinks then a chicken with roast potatoes, carrots and asparagus...
...followed by a lovely trifle...
Xmas/NY was in full swing at Crispycat Towers...
Our guests made there way home around 6:30 and we relaxed for the rest of the evening...
As of tomorrow, all these LPs will be 50 years old...
Unbelievable...
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Almost asleep by 11, we struggled on to midnight, me accompanied by this as my last listen of the year...
A few post midnight minutes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and then, bed...
Into 2025...
Highlight of the Day : End of year lunch with Jane & Bob...
Today's New Music:-
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