Saturday, November 09, 2019

And, for less than half the price of a cup of coffee...

Playlist
Brian Eno - Apollo: For All Mankind (2019)
Anthéne - Divisions
Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (RM)
Bjørn Riis - A Storm is Coming
Lenny White - Streamline
The Undisputed Truth - The Collection
Tasavallan Presidentti - Milky Way Moses
Andy Williams - The Very Best Of Andy Williams
The Blue Nile - High
Craig Armstrong - The Quiet American: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming
Norah Jones - Not Too Late
Morricone - Film Music By Ennio Morricone
Volker Kriegel - Inside: Missing Link
Sébastien Tellier - Sexuality
Stile Antico - The Phoenix Rising
Prokofiev - Piano Concertos #2 & 3
Calliope Chœur De Femmes - Litanies À La Vierge Noire
Dowland - The Elizabethan Collection (Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares)
Haydn - Creation Mass / Mass Rorate Coeli Desuper
Ali Farka Touré - World Circuit Presents...
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Ultravox - The Very Best Of Midge Ure & Ultravox
Beethoven - Fire On All Sides
Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble - The Spirit Of Trane
Radio.String.Quartet - In Between Silence
The Thing - Shake
Spock's Beard - The Oblivion Particle

Up to write this up and upload the podcast...


Coffee assisted...


The view from the office this morning I....


II...


Getting there...


Once Anne emerged from the land of nod, we went out for breakfast for the first time in a while...

We parked at "The Saturday Place" and walked to Newington....


...and new to us, Himalaya Cafe - which was rather good and not too expensive...


Post nourishment, some shopping...

There is a huge number of charity shops in this area and, in the first of those, Shelter, your CD buying correspondent partook of the first ten of the items below, thinking the outlay would be £10 - in fact it was 3 for £2, so, £7 covered it...

Amazing...


Post listening to "Vienna" recently and thinking perhaps the Ure era Ultravox (no apostrophe post the change from John Foxx) weren't that bad after all, a best of was also secured in the Cancer Research shop, for just one of your United Kingdom pounds...

Instead of heading home immediately, a walk down the bridges....



...and a quartet of tastiness was procured in Blackwell's music department...

A piano recital disc from James Rhodes, a Coltrane tribute from Gilad Atzmon, an excellent non-classical string quartet disc of original material by Radio.String.Quartet and an (also) excellent, if pretty much tuneless (as you'd expect of them ), disc by The Thing...

In all, the average price per title was just £1.43 - half the price of a cup of coffee at Kilimanjaro...

Back to the car, noting this top notch tree...




...and home for an afternoon of, post the remains of Anne's tasty broccoli soup from last night, ripping and listening, while watching Queen of the South beat Ayr Utd 3-1 on the Twitter with Anne off witnessing Hearts eventually overcoming a plucky St Mirren at Tynecastle, 5-2...

Also, some lyrics supplied to Edward Spark re his own projects...

Meanwhile, a week after the Capital Models session, the equipment has still not been returned to the attic to be re-set up...


I'm so lazy...

In light of the wins for Hearts and Queens, some takeaway Indian fayre was enjoyed...

The remainder of our Saturday was taken up with:-

(a) "Strictly" (Anne) / more listening to the new stuff (me) and

(b) four, count 'em, episodes of "Spiral"...

To bed just post midnight...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : Shopping for CDs....

Friday, November 08, 2019

Whittling once more, with added beans...

Playlist
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 19
Asaf Sirkis - Full Moon
Capital Models - 2019-11-02
Peter Locketts Network of Sparks Feat. Bill Bruford - One
Rammstein - Made in Germany
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Efterklang - Piramida
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music
Journey - Next
Shalamar - Gold
The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
Neneh Cherry - Sampled
Anton Eger - Æ
The Church - Sometime Anywhere
Bill Frisell - This Land
Merula - Viaggio Musicale
Lemon Juice Quartet - Republic
Taylor Swift - Red
Various - Nag Nag Nag (No Wave & New Wave)
The Bad Plus - Inevitable Western
Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise - Inner Noise
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
Various - Kompakt Total 12
Rex the Dog - The Kompakt Singles 2004-2019

Up and collating the content for this week's podcast...


As I've been mostly listening to full albums this week, the pool was smaller than normal...


...and was whittled down to this, which soundtracked most of the day...


To breakfast, today, with added beans...


Good views going down the hill - treated of course...


Nothng much to report re the day...

A walk up to Tollcross at lunchtime but no acquisitions...

In the evening, recording the links for the podcast and then putting it all together, with breaks for "Have I Got News For You" and nephew Craig's "A View From the Terrace...

Lights out at almost 1am...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

Thursday, November 07, 2019

Slashing and mercenary can also be cute and innocent...

Playlist
Rex the Dog - The Kompakt Singles 2004-2019
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 10
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 8
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 4
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 1
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 6
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 9
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 7
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 3
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 2
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 5
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 11
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 12
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 15
Various Artists - Kompakt Total 19

Breakfast is made thus...




Yum...


Not so nice today...


...but autumnal colours on the ground and to the side, pleased...





Nothing to report from the day, other than it was spent listening to (mostly) German electronic music on the Kompakt label...

Tasty...

Late on, post a very tasty tea...


...and two episodes of "Travel Man" - and a visit from local monkey Fang the Slashing and Mercenary Black Cat - seen here in innocent sleeping on my jacket mode...


...the day ended with further listening to Kompakt stuff...

To bed with it in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Tasty tea and a rare these days visit from Fang...

Wednesday, November 06, 2019

It's always nice when your photographs turn out to be surprisingly good...

Playlist
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music
The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
The Church - Sometime Anywhere
Lemon Juice Quartet - Republic
The Bad Plus - Inevitable Western
Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise - Inner Noise
Caligula's Horse - Bloom
Earthworks - Heavenly Bodies
Caligula's Horse - In Contact
Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise - The Song Within

Some very good views this morning...






My listening today comprised mainly one LP from each of the seven decades in which i have been alive...

At lunchtime, some accidental pics of the inside of my jacket pocket occured...










It could become a thing...

A second visit to Fopp in two days (yesterday's unmentioned here), once again resulted in no purchases...

Late on though, a new Twitter chum reminded me about Australian prog rockers, Caligula's Horse and their latest work was acquired, while a veritable plethora of new to me electronic music was downloaded from Cologne's Kompakt label...

Which was nice...

Also tonight, calendars created for Xmas and more still to be done...

Highlight of the Day : My pics of the morning... 

Tuesday, November 05, 2019

The nature of a library...

Playlist
Efterklang - Parades
Journey - Revelation
Shalamar - Gold
Michael Janisch - Worlds Collide
Efterklang - Piramida
Anton Eger - Æ
Bill Frisell - This Land
Taylor Swift - Red
Various Artists - Nag Nag Nag (No Wave & New Wave)
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues
Giovanni Antonini: Il Giardino Armonico - Viaggio Musicale
Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague

A day, in the main, of listening to whole albums, being recent collection input CD-wise...

Of course I still have some LPs - all of which I have most likely listened to at least once...

But hardly at all now...


But then, I have not listened to every CD I own...

Which is the nature of a library...

Highlight of the Day : New listening...

Monday, November 04, 2019

A milestone can be both good and bad...

Playlist
TEAR (Reuter and Wingfield) - Secret Music
Led Bib - It's Morning
Asaf Sirkis - Full Moon
Jean Lapouge Trio - Hongrois
Hound Dog Taylor's Hand - Hound Dog Taylor's Hand Vol II
Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
Journey - Journey
Journey - Look Into The Future
Journey - Next
Shalamar - Gold
Journey - Revelation
Various - Sampled
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (RM)
Gregor Schwellenbach - Spielt 20 Jahre Kompakt
Efterklang - Parades
Various  - Nag Nag Nag (No Wave & New Wave)
Shalamar Gold
Michael Janisch - Worlds Collide
Efterklang - Piramida
Anton Eger - Æ
Bill Frisell - This Land
Taylor Swift - Red
John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues

A day spent listening to acquisitions from the weekend, both physical and digital, started early...


The view from the office this morning...


In the evening, following a remarkable 160 at "University Challenge" which still saw us come in third, writing up my “Red Books of CDs I Own”...

It seems I hit 10,000 in September, roughly 34 years after my first CD purchase in the autumn of 1985...


That’s an average of 5.67 CDs acquired every single week for 34 years...

And, since then, another 125 appear to have joined the collection - including these four today from the BHF on a visit along to Dalry at lunchtime...





Better get listening...

Highlight of the Day : On fire at UC...