The creation and movement of space...

Playlist
Miles Davis - Panthalassa: The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974
Miles Davis - The Best Of Seven Steps: Complete Columbia Recordings 63-64
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Berio/Cage - The Voice of Cathy Berberian
Mayuzumi - Nirvana Symphony
Wizzard - Wizzard Singles 1972-1975
Miles Davis - Panthalassa: The Remixes
Mingo Lewis - Flight Never Ending
Various Composers - Classic CD Issues 001-003
UK - Best of UK
Michael Bruce - In My Own Way : The Complete Sessions
Replicants - Replicants
Michael Bruce - Halo Of Ice
Madredeus - Ainda
Madredeus - Essência
Madredeus - O Espírito Da Paz
Roedelius - Wenn der Sudwind Weht

First project of the day was filing...

Watch as the space created makes its way from A to Z...

...soundtracked by Miles Davis...

...and The Beatles...

...and some rather tuneless but interesting experimental classical music from the 50s and 60s...

Finished...

Then, some unpictured filing of classical CDs too...

Then, out to the Grocery Store for breakfast provisions...

...listening to Wizzard...

On this day 41 years ago, their performance at Edinburgh Odeon was my first live rock concert...

The birds were in the hedgerows...

...and the sky was blue...

Back home for breakfast, then some ripping of the over 100 various composer classical CDs I collected in the 1990s via the now defunct "Classic CD" magazine......

Meanwhile, in the garden, a robin...

..and a squirrel...

...were partaking of their own breakfast provisions...

...provided by pink beasts...

...with a camera...

Out to my mums for a good visit...

She gifted us a bottle of port which she reckons she and my dad bought on a Mediterranean cruise...

It must surely be well matured because my dad died nearly 12 years ago...

Home for the evening and the second part of the programme enquiring as to whether animals can fall in love entertained...

As did a tasty (vegetarian for me) curry...

As did the highlights of yesterday's Queens match...

As did the shelved 1974 solo album by Alice Cooper guitarist and songwriter Michael Bruce...

As did the music of Portuguese faves Madredeus as I ensured their entire output was on the various hard drives...

To bed with Roedelius in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Filing and everything else too really...

Playlist : February Music Volume 1 1965-1969

The 2015 series of playlists on Cloudland Blue continues...

This is the first of fifteen (count 'em) podcasts tracking February released albums over the last 50 years...

Six tracks, including two each from John Coltrane and Vanilla Fudge, kick off the series, taking us from 1965 through to 1969...

Some psychedelic sounds from the Jefferson Airplane and some funky soul from The Temptations round things out - if you make it through the first 25-30 minutes of far out Coltraneness that is...

Featured albums
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965)
John Coltrane - Ascension (1966)
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967)
Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On (1968)
The Temptations - Cloud Nine (1969)
Vanilla Fudge - Near the Beginning (1969)

More Soon...

Enjoy...

Using the button over to the right, you can join 1,300 or so followers of these ongoing selections on Mixcloud...

If you're interested in knowing about any of the tracks, contact me...

Press play and away we go...

Cloudland Blue February Music Vol 1 : 1965-1969 by Cloudland Blue Quartet on Mixcloud

All aboard for funtime...

Playlist
Miles Davis - Agharta
King Crimson - Live at the Orpheum 2014
Various - February Music
Various - Cloudland Blue Weekly Playlist 2014 No 46
Miles Davis - Panthalassa

Up early and to work on the February playlists - tracks from albums released in Februaries from 1965 to 2014...

Also, forgot to mention the securing on Wednesday of very expensive indeed tickets to see King Crimson in Edinburgh in September...

Finally got round to listening this morning to the new live album recorded on their US Tour last year...

While many are saying great things about this line up, to be honest I don't see much difference in what they're doing to what Yes are doing now - i.e. going out and satisfying the fans by playing their back catalogue, albeit with a different singer...

However, the live set is a lot longer than the content of the album so perhaps I am wrong and they will surprise when Anne and I see them...

In the post, this arrived from China - not the recorder but its hat...

This will assist with field recordings, on which I've been working re CBQ since the start of the year...

After much mucking about, mainly ensuring my entire Miles Davis collection is ripped to hard drives, I set off for the library at 11, Dr Prog having advised of his unavailability due to laptop problems...

As you can see, my long term weight loss project has a long way to go and events later in the day meant that today was not a particularly good day for matters of the reduction variety...

But what is life for, if not to have fun - and I remain almost two stones lighter than I was a couple of years ago...

However, being a further two stones lighter would probably give me more time to listen to all the CDs I buy before they inevitably end up in a skip...

Anyway, Fela Kuti and two Earle Brown boxes handed back and a third EB box borrowed, containing another three CDs of very probably unlistenable modern classical music - not so modern now I suppose, as it was written in the 50s and 60s...

Back to the car, past the University...

Home around 12:20 and a quick turnaround and walking down Crispycat Hill with the EP, heading back into town on the bus...

We were on a mission (only stopping off to purchase a card for sister Sheila) to be at The Bonham Hotel for 1:15...

..to meet up with Count Brodski and Lady Penelope for the first time in far too long...

An excellent long, boozy lunch was very much enjoyed...

...and the chat was top notch too...

Penny won the prize for best pom pom...

A walk to the West End, where we bade farewell to our old chums and caught another bus home - checking the footie scores on the way...

Hearts continued their dominance of the Scottish 2nd tier, with a 3-2 win away at Livingston...

Meanwhile, Queen of the South knocked holders St Johnstone out of the Scottish Cup with a 2-0 win in Dumfries - reaching the Quarter Finals for the first time since the glorious run to the final in 2008...

A great sunset was under way as we alighted at the top of Crispycat Hill...

Back home, some CD filing awaited my attention...

Later on episode three of the not very good "Broadchurch" was watched, along with episodes nine and ten of the far superior French series, "Spiral", one of the best things on telly right now...

...and then the highlights of Queens' much deserved win against their Premier League opponents from Perth...

And that's about it...

Ended the day as I began - with Miles Davis...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Much needed catch up with Brodski and the Pennster...

Prediction of soporifics...

Playlist
Chicago - Chicago IV : At Carnegie Hall
Various - Wait a Minute : The Stax & Satellite Story
Various - 3/60 Northern Soul
Miles Davis - Agharta
King Crimson - Epic King Crimson

The early morning walking continues - some new views...

A big moon in this did not come out...

Two compilations of 60's soul soundtracked most of the day - groovy...

Despite numerous reminders from the Exec Producer, I forgot to obtain a birthday card for sister Sheila...

Good views on the way home - more walking...

..and up the hill...

...accompanied by annoying speeding cars where cats and squirrels are out and about...

Anne was out for a long lunch with chum Debbie so the remains of last night's casserole accompanied new arrivals...

Tangerine Dream's debut - replacing a very old illegal burn...

...was much better than this, which, while some of it I enjoyed, a lot of it I found to be irritating in the extreme...

Wish I'd listened to it before shelling out big style for tix to see it live in Glasgow in May with Dr Prog but hey ho - last time we saw Philip Glass I fell asleep - I predict the same outcome this time around...

On Wednesday my under a three year guarantee and replaced once already at the end of 2012 headphones went on the blink - a very efficient service resulted in further replacements arriving today, free of charge...

On Anne's return home, we enjoyed episodes 7 and 8 of this year's "Spiral" and the new cast establishing episode of "Death in Paradise"...

Late on, eschewing Mr Glass, I got back into Mr Davis...

I have rather a pile of his stuff, so to speak...

"Turn that noise off", opined the Exec Producer...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Left over casserole and back into Davis...