Playlist
First thing, compiling the long list for my LPs of the year - swithering about categories (of course, at the end of the day it doesn't matter)...
e.g.
Rock
Pop
Reggae
Progressive Rock
Leftfield
Ambient
Electronic
Funk & Soul
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Hubris Ahoy!!
Jazz
Singer/Songwriter
Post Rock
Soundtrack
Classical - Chamber
Classical - Symphonic
Classical - Concerto
Classical - String Ensemble
Classical - Solo Instrument
Classical - Choral
Live
Compilation
Various Artists Collection
Various Composers Collection
Classical Artist Collection
and, possible podcasts...
1. LPs of the Year Vol 1 1/1- 31/3
2. LPs of the Year Vol 2 1/4 - 20/6
3. LPs of the Year Vol 3 27/6 - 26/9
4. LPs of the Year Vol 4 26/9 - 31/12
5. Classical Albums of the Year
6. Collections of the Year
7. Back Catalogue CDs of the Year
Anyway...
...that took me to breakfast - and another Wordle...
When I went back upstairs the picture for today had changed...
I decided I'd go to Glasgow as Anne had Zumba and then a family visit to her mum, with sister Jane, Auntie Margaret and cousin Elaine...
And so, with Anne off to Zumba, the gym for me...
Leg press-tastic...
Message of condolence to chum Christine who, on the office afternoon out yesterday, fell over and bashed her face...
Out...
Home and a quick change and down the hill again, this time on foot...
I meant to keep this pic on my phone for future reference...
I do, however, often forget what I've thought I was going to do (like putting the butter back in the fridge)...
The bus arrived within minutes and I was on my way, using the recharging facilities...
An uneventful journey...
The driver of the bus announced
“Ladies and gentlemen please do not use your phone speakers on the bus. No one wants to hear what you are listening to. That’s why headphones were invented!”
Brilliant!
I checked and it wasn’t me. Tangerine Dream remained inside my head!
On alighting later, I thanked her for this...
She said she had to do it on almost every journey...
Onwards...
I was recording the music that popped up on my soundtrack...
...and we were soon arriving in Glasgow...
First stop was Love - nothing found...
...but the entertainment continued with these...
Down Buchanan St and over to Union St...
Two purchases at Shelter...
...a still shrink wrapped disc of Bruch's 2nd & 3rd Violin Concertos and Jean-Michel Jarre's "Equinoxe", which I couldn't recall if I already had but, at 50p each, what the hell...
(I do have it already)...
A quick pop into Fopp and the BHF opposite, again, nothing found...
Then, round to Missing...
In all, I spent two hours here, going through thousands of CDs...
The soundtrack continued...
...and I emerged just after 2pm...
...with another 18 purchases in my bag, for a further 19 quid - so, 20 CDs for £20...
But, for Annie, it's not the cost she's worried about, it's the space being taken up...
A quick lunch on the way back to the bus station and I was soon on the 2:45 bus back to Edinburgh...
...still being entertained...
One clock on the bus was an hour ahead...
I alighted at the bottom of the hill in, the pouring rain, just before 4, with a bus up the hill promised in a couple of minutes...
It was pushed back...
...but, I was home around 4:30...
These, pictured later, were the final selections chosen by Mr Samsung...
So what were the tracks that popped up that made me think "Hey, that's superb, what is it??"...
Caligula's Horse
James K
Josh Meader
Kerry Politzer
Kinski
Steve Morse Band
[Ahmed]
Let the ripping and listening begin...
Today's haul...
Got this already...
A great find for 50p...
These next six were 33p each...
Disappointingly, this is festooned with vocals - but these can be removed if I'm so inclined...
A nice reggae disc, from the "Black Star Liner" man...
A superb guitar quartet jazz disc...
A not quite as superb jazz guitar disc....
The guitaring is top but funny how using cutting edge technology and sounds, subsequently, often makes your music dated within just a few years...
A garage band formed by Tim Finn, of Crowded House (playing drums), with his wife on bass, in their garage, once their kids had left home...
Pleasingly, sounds nothing like Crowded House (even though I like Crowded House)...
Had heard of but never heard Mr P - again quality pop - didn't realise he is heavily involved with the mystery soul band Sault...
These three were 67p each...
A career spanning retrospective of the excellent Dave Edmunds...
My first music by Stanford - I am a fan of chamber pieces...
...and of classical guitar...
Those last two could easily have already been in the collection but they are not...
The rest were 3 for a fiver, so, just £1.67 each...
None of the stuff I've written about these was known when I took the chances - I went on the covers, the instrumentation and just an idea they might be good...
Lovely singer-songwriter sounds from 2017 - I had a feeling she had a lauded LP in 2024, that was correct and it's one which I already have...
Argentinian Paula Garcia aka Sobrenadar (swimmer?)...
This is her latest LP, even though it was released in 2018...
Experimental but tuneful...
I have downloaded further music by her...
Will Samson from 2019...
Indie experimental folk ambience, kind of - good stuff - he has supported faves Efterklang and Olafur Arnalds - again more music downloaded...
Has a little of the Efterklang about it, which is no bad thing...
Max de Wardener - I was drawn to this by the wee book like packaging - it was only once back home, reading through the booklet, that I realised this also features Tom Skinner, the jazz drummer we will see in Amsterdam in January...
A couple more things by him downloaded, including a collaborative film soundtrack...
Well now, you can't go wrong with this, surely?
James McAlister - LA based purveyor of "textural" synth/keyboard pieces - his only other LP partaken of tomorrow morning as I write this...
James Vincent McMorrow, Irish singer-songwriter who subsequently moved into soul music - this is his third LP, of which I found some demos too, to add as a second digital disc in the library)...
I have also downloaded his latest, from last year...
Everything is Recorded - debut from this solo project of Richard Russell, owner of XL Recordings...
Includes guest appearances of various luminaries, including Peter Gabriel and Kamasi Washington...
Once again, further LPs downloaded...
And, finally, Son Lux, by whom I have loads of stuff and so, was very surprised to find, upon returning home, that this, from 2015, was not one of them...
I find it amazing that, so many times, when I buy a load of CDs entirely on spec and, let's face it, based on the price (rather than one thing I know, for £15), just how good they very often turn out to be...
I am on a voyage of constant discovery...
In addition to these, at various points during my visit, I was probably carrying around an equal number of discs which I decided against...
For example, six multi disc 70s' pop music comps - surely I already had the majority of the 400 or so tracks involved?
Some Jacques Loussier, some John Etheridge but guitar and violin on their own? Unlikely to contain any Soft Machine-esque playing, so, nah...
(erm, yes, I downloaded the Loussier and Etheridge tomorrow morning)...
Some classical piano music, Frank Sinatra "Circles", a Pantha du Prince remix disc and various other things, now gone from my head as I write this tomorrow morning...
Music to one side for now...
A couple of "Chicago PDs" accompanied a very tasty takeaway, ordered and collected from Wong's, followed by Newcastle v Fulham in the League Cup - the Magpies winning 2-1, with a header in the 95th minute...
Then, eschewing a "Bones" and, with Anne watching a documentary on Mozart, I listened to more tracks from the new purchases, pre bed at 11:30 or so...
An enjoyable day...
Highlight of the Day : Shopping...
Today's New Music :
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