Fair warning, the gavel is up...

Playlist

Pawel Ignatowicz - Here and Now

John Lewis - Evolution II

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - The Great Carving

David Bowie - Five Years (1969-1973)

David Bowie - Rare

Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

Clara Haberkamp Trio - Reframing the Moon

Oli Rockberger - Sovereign

Alister Spence Trio - Not Everything but Enough

Tom Bancroft: Trio Red - First Hello To Last Goodbye

David Bowie - Pin Ups

Cream - Cream On Top

David Bowie - There Is Old Wave There Is New Wave

David Bowie - Best Of Bowie

Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire EP

The Beatles - Chronology

Cream - Cream On Top

Up...

...sidedown...

Late today...

Kind of...

Three weeks till Xmas...

Coffee time...

A re-split of the tracks on the main CBQ/ES LP and added a smidgen of SW Radio at start and end...

Done...

Some remixing of the three "Great Carving" songs...

Done...

Then, breakfast and goggle boxing...

Then, the auction in Rosewell, monitored remotely...

First item...

Sold for 150% of the lower estimate, 140% of the higher...

We'll get around 75% in a few weeks...

Then, an episode of "Bosch" while we waited for the next item to come up - around an hour away...

Here it comes...

Sold for the higher estimate price, 125% of the lower estimate...

Again, we'll get around 75% in a few weeks...

Watching all the bids for everything was quite exciting - almost everything went for above the lower estimate and around 75% of stuff went for more than the higher...

Then, the last two episodes of "Bosch" - Season 1 done - satisfactory outcome...

Lunch...

By 2:30, I'd basically done nothing apart from a couple of mixing things...

Anne was under the weather and had skipped Zumba - we were both lounging in our onesies...

It was that kind of day...

Now, to the machines...

An afternoon of work and corresponding with Edward Spark on said work...

I advised...

"I have redone the splits in the overall album to give 18 tracks, separating out a few of the interludes (giving the Great Carving I-VI instead of just parts 1 and 2)...

I have not changed the underlying Complete LP WAV while doing this, other than to reduce the volume slightly on your 9th piece and adding a wee bit of SW Radio at start and end...

So all I've done is added a bit of SW to the opening ambience and split it into 2 tracks - ditto the closing ambience and I have separated out two pieces of soundscape pre Milwaukee Rd and pre Lake State...

I have made bonus LPs of (a) your 12 elements, (b) my soundscape elements, including a medley of the Great Carving I-VI (c) my minimised mixes of your first 5 tracks and (d) the 3 songs...

I have remixed the three songs slightly but have not change the lyrics on the 1st..."

Sparky advised he wanted the lyric on the first song changed...

I advised I would do so...

"This is a great LP IMHO" I opined...

Eddie advised "I'm going to title my next track, "The day David thought he knew more about the murky world of underground hip-hop in Edinburgh than the murky world of underground hip-hop in Edinburgh knew""...

I said I was already working on that track...

Listening to the main LP, I am always amazed at what the chance element throws up re the juxtapositions - small things shining through from the soundscapes...

Weird - but great...

Sparky asked "Who would have thought that 12 backing tracks could become a 5 disc box-set" to which I responded "Mr CBQ can always turn a small amount of original material by a friend into something enormous"...

Some discussion on sourcing SW Radio recordings and then, off I went to rewrite some lyrics and re-record a song...

25 minutes later, a quick rewrite done, the vocal re-recorded, a further re-mix of the three tracks and the new version of the "Song EP" WeTransferred to my co-conspirator...

I noted there is still one backing track missing...

This may be rectified when ES sends me the remaining stems...

Enough music work for today - despite the laziness this morning...

I re-created the Bowie "Rare" LP I saw yesterday - a good selection, even though it was done without his approval...

Then, to listening to the new jazz CDs from yesterday...

And to a tasty pasta tea...

Four CDs enjoyed - good choices, even though I didn't know what I was choosing, other than by checking the line ups on the records...

Late on, back upstairs and re-started my project to ensure all CD-Rs are on hard drives...

I dipped in to a few things as I worked...

A reasonable end to another good day...

Highlight of the Day : Auction results...

Today's New Music:-