Red sky at night...

Playlist

Various Artists - Black Saint & Soul Note (1975-1985)

Roger Waters - Amused to Death (Remixed)

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Roger Waters - Pros & Cons of New York

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Various Artists - A Journey Into Deep Jazz Vol. 1

g.rag/zelig implosion deluxxe - Tanz NoWave

Händel - Italian Cantatas

Sonny Rollins - A Night At The Village Vanguard

United Studio Effects - Sound Effects

Bartók - Solo Piano Works

Händel - Messiah

Luigi Archetti & Michael Heisch - Niederländische Sprichwörter

Mondonville - Titon et l'Aurore

Craig Armstrong - Plunkett & Macleane

Various Composers - 20th Century Masterpieces

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova  - Once OST

Locanda Delle Fate - Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più

Chilingirian Quartet - Borodin Dvorak Shostakovich String Quartets

Brian Eno - ENOBOX II / Vocal

Various Artists - Black Saint & Soul Note (1975-1985)

Luke Howard Trio - The Shadow

Purcell - Triosonaten Für 2 Violinen Und Continuo

Peter Baumann - Machines of Desire

Harbison - String Quartets Nos. 1-4

Family 5 - Ein Richtiges Leben In Flaschen

Cedar Walton - The Pentagon

Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag (Live)

Various Composers - Schlosskonzert in Sanssouci

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Ich Denk An Dich [Single]

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Die Sprache Der Liebe [Single]

Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments

Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim

Various Composers - MoMu II - Erfolge Und Entdeckungen

Os Mutantes - Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol

Various Artists - A Journey Into Deep Jazz Vol. 1

Milton Nascimento - Clube Da Esquina

Maconchy - The Complete String Quartets Vol. I

Casa das Máquinas - Lar de Maravilhas

Various Artists - A Journey Into Deep Jazz Vol. 2

Fehlfarben - Rarities EP

Kocian Quartet - Franck; Lalo : String Quartets

Ragnarok - Ragnarok

Rare Earth - Get Ready

Rare Earth - Dreams/Answers

Rare Earth - Ma

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Timeless Flight

Various - C'est Chic! French Girl Singers of the 1960s

Up just before 6...

The watch was amongst the boxes...

The room is finished...

Space has been made...

I could make more by converting all the rest of the "spine out" CDs to boxes but discovered Ikea no longer make the sets of shelves...

Oh well...

Breakfast....

...followed by Elgar's "Enigma Variations" on the CD player in the new back room...

Again, easily found re the new system...

Then, a day of full on WFH - plus finishing off "Picard" at lunchtime...

We will miss that but it's set up for a new series...

Chicken pasta for tea...

...and a call with my mum - this the view...

 She was advised yesterday she will get home, at last, on 21 July - however, she has yet another infection - back in her legs - ironically, the very thing for which she was hospitalised in the first place, all those weeks ago...

After a day of seeing how things go, the doctor has put her back on antibiotics...

This evening, recording the podcast links and then, the random LP of the day, this from Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel...

I have no record of when I acquired it but I know I didn't buy it at the time...

I did, however, buy the single "Black or White" on 22 November 1975, the same day as Queen's “Bohemian Rhapsody” 7" (both on EMI)...

 ...and I recall being of the opinion that Steve would outperform Queen's effort on the charts...

How wrong I was... 

Later, I demonstrated my BJH haul to the Twitter...

...and enjoyed some French music too...

Francoise Hardy's French language cover of Nirvana's "Tiny Goddess" is sublime...

The views at the end of the day...

Forgot to say, today was one of those days on the Bandcamp where they forego their fees to help artists...

First thing, I reduced all my albums to "free/pay what you like"...

At the end of the day, I'd made more than if I'd kept my prices where they were...

It's a funny old word...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : People buying more of my music...

Culinary art beats boxs...

Playlist

Gubaidulina - String Quartets 1-3 & String Trio
Tippett - Piano Sonatas No. 1 - 3
Pärt - Fratres, Festina Lente, Summa
Glass - The Hours
Feldman - Music For Cello
Carter - Oboe Concerto; Penthode etc
Stockhausen - Stockhausen: Piano Music
Rihm - Piano
Kronos Quartet - White Man Sleeps
Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherazade, The Tale Of Tsar Saltan
Miles Davis - Live in Copenhagen 1969
Neu! - Neu! 2
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Cedar Walton - The Pentagon
Various Artists - Black Saint & Soul Note (1975-1985)
Milton Nascimento - Clube Da Esquina
Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim
Casa das Máquinas - Lar de Maravilhas
Fehlfarben - Rarities EP
Os Mutantes - Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol
Corelli - La Folia
Purcell - Instrumentalmusik
Bach, J S - Goldberg Variations (Gould 1955)
Marin Marais - Suites pour viole de gambe
Albinoni - 12 Concertos, Op. 10 1-6
Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonatas
Händel - Oboe Concertos #1-3 Suite In G Minor
Heinichen - Concerti Grandi
Locke - The Broken Consort

A good up time...

..and listening to my ten "fave" composers of the 20th century on shuffleplay...

...while today's classical piece in my stupid project to play 100 of them over 100 days, was Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" - the one, the recording of which eluded me and led me to buy the version played today...

Kitchen views...

With coffee acquired, it was time to finish off the adornment of the boxes...

It took an hour and a half...

Breakfast, a sausagey treat...

Progress may be made again today...

These pictures are an attempt to explain (on the Twitter) why my music, if displayed via the spines, is always filed from right to left...

Thus...

...which has meant that, when I transferred them into the boxes, I could put them straight in...

Were I to have filed them left to right - as the majority of people do - despite the printing on the CD spines...

Thus...

...then, when I'd come to put them into the boxes, I would have had to have reordered every single CD or they would have been upside down...

As noted above the new boxes are, of course, filed left to right, perfectly logically, as they do not display the spines...

Very few seem to get this...

Like my "spine-outwards-displayed" CDs, my LPs are filed right to left, of course...

Anyway, talking of LPs, today's random LP was this from Neu! from 1973...

  

...bought on the 14th of February, 1980 for £1.60 (£7.41 in today's money)...

They ran out of cash, so side two comprises two sides of a 7” single, played at the correct and other various speeds and recorded onto cassette and manipulated...



I must admit that, as regards side two, I only played the two sides of the single today...

Meanwhile, Anne was doing something eminently more worthwhile in creating a superbly tasty beef chili...

...before my Zoom meet with the ladies who lose...

Some "Picard", having watched the final available "Father Brown" at lunchtime...

Then, lights out...

Nearly the weekend...

Highlight of the Day : Boxes done - no, wait, Anne's chili...

Progress on the box front...

Playlist

Various Composers - Shutter Island OST

Leif Ove Andsnes - Grieg; Liszt: Piano Concertos

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova  - Once OST

Family 5 - Ein Richtiges Leben In Flaschen

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Ich Denk An Dich [Single]

Purcell - Triosonaten Für 2 Violinen Und Continuo

Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag (Live)

Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments

Luke Howard Trio - The Shadow

Locanda Delle Fate - Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più

Harbison - String Quartets Nos. 1-4

Various Artists - Baby Boomers Greatest Hits of 60s & 70s

Peter Baumann - Machines of Desire

Various Artists - The Rough Guide To The Music Of Morocco

Chilingirian Quartet - Borodin Dvorak Shostakovich String Quartets

Various Composers - Schlosskonzert in Sanssouci

Various Composers - MoMu II - Erfolge Und Entdeckungen

Maconchy - The Complete String Quartets Vol. I

Family 5 - Ein Richtiges Leben In Flaschen

Kocian Quartet- Franck; Lalo : String Quartets

Icebreaker - Rogue's Gallery

Prokofiev - Peter und der Wolf

Zemlinsky - Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid)
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Miles Davis - Circle In The Round

Wilhelm Kempf - Plays Chopin Vol 1

Lucia Micarelli - Music from a Farther Room

Monesisi Ensemble - Crossroads

Gabriela Montero - Baroque

Various - Chilled Out Euphoria

Nyman - The Draughtman's Contract

Satie - Cubist Works - 1913-1924
Rihm - Piano
Ligeti - String Quartets

Up before six and debris on the back room window sill...

Down for coffee and Anne's painting is progressing...

Some other views...

Today's classical piece was a Grieg piano concerto - the first disc I'd had to locate...

... re the new filing system...

Some more adorning of the boxes...

... pre breakfast...

Today's random album was "Hunky Dory"...

...my 48th LP, the 24th of 1974...

...bought 31st May for £1.50 (£16.07 in today's money)...

Some absolute crackers on here - "Changes", "Queen Bitch", "Quicksand", "The Bewlay Brothers", "Oh You Pretty Things" and, of  course," Life on Mars?"

Only a couple of lunchtime "Father Brown"s remain aftre today's...

More WHF in the afternoon...

This evening, an excellent tea, featuring salad, home made egg mayonnaise...

..and a baked to perfection by the EP potato...

A visit too from Fang...

Then, post "Star Trek : Picard", more box adornment...

...while listening to a choice few CDs...

This the scene by close of play...

Progress...

Highlight of the Day : Progress on the box front...