Crispycat Recordings: Over, under, through...

Thursday, December 05, 2024

Over, under, through...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - The Great Carving

Anna Butterss - Mighty Vertebrate

Kenny Warren - In the Heat

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno's "Evening Star"

Fripp & Eno - Evening Star (Remaster)

Sombre Reptiles - Love/War/Travel/Etc

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Sombre Reptiles - Decades

Up comparatively late...

Some tweaking on "The Great Carving" and updating the "pipeline" right here on the landing page of this very site...

It seems there is, indeed, a bit of a pipeline...

And, post breakfast, with Anne off out on some Xmas errands, I fired up the machines and added to it...

...by improvising the five guitar solos which will go over, under and through the Fripp & Eno backing tracks for my take on their 1975 classic "Evening Star"...

I have so much stacked up now though, that it won't see the light of day till next September...

Said pipeline as at today...

...not forgetting "Dissolution VI" and "GLAM! FOUR" in April 2026!

Lunch on Anne's return and a couple of "not me" music things enjoyed...

Then, listening back...

Nice...

A minute or so long visit from wee Rocky...

Not impressed with me coming down the stairs especially to see her...

Oh well...

Much time spent today uploading the 40 tracks to Bandcamp for next week's "Decades" - a retrospective of songs which has been ready to go since January - of course today, with a week to go, I decided to add the original 22 tracks recorded between 1980 and 1993 as bonuses (the versions on the LP itself are re-recordings from 1992, 1993 and 1996)...

Started that task...

Meanwhile, in Rosewell, my Great Uncle Bill's Tailor's Medal went under the hammer for 46% above the low estimate and 10% above the higher...

As yesterday, we will receive around 75% of the price paid...

It's a wee bit sad selling and giving away all mum's stuff but, in the main, we never even looked at any of it for decades...

Plus, sister Sheila and I are inveterate hoarders, so it's all the more difficult but probably for the best just to let stuff go...

A nice Katsu Chicken based tea from Annie...

...was followed by the mastering (the really early ones still don't sound that great) of the 22 tracks mentioned above...

Uploaded, done, dusted...

Three episodes of the second season of "Bosch"...

Some more listening and tweaking, then, bed, with the "Evening Star" guitar solos, unadorned, soundtracking my slip into sleep...

Highlight of the Day : Recording my guitar...

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