Playlist
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2021 Vol 10
Edward Spark - Emperor Remixes
Brand X - Morrocan Roll
Focus - Focus 11
Guitar PK - Psychomotor
Silverhead - 16 and Savaged
Masami Tsuchiya - Rice Music
Yowie - Synchromysticism
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Schoenberg Webern Berg
Fehlfarben - Rarities EP
Delroy Washington - Freedom Fighters
UK - Night After Night
Kraftwerk - The Mix (Deutsch) (Remastered)
Whitney - Candid
Jiva - Jiva
Isaac Hayes - Disco Connection
Outrageous Cherry - Our Love Will Change the World
Ranzgen Quartet - For Feldman
Various Artists - Into The Future
Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Long Day Star Assembly
Up before 6 to record the second half of this week's podcast...
Some monochrome scenes...
...and colour scenes...
At 8, the podcast was released - all over for another week...
Meanwhile, last night, Edward Spark sent me a supposed ambient remix of the opening track of his EP released yesterday, "Emperor"
I love the original track...
Parts of the remix were indeed ambient but parts weren't - a Whatsapp discussion followed and, by 10am, a CBQ ambient remix was in his inbox, my having excised the non-ambient elements and "treated" a combination of what was left to, eventually, produce a 17 minute soundscape - the original track is under 2 minutes...
With that off to him, and some discussion as to the nature of ambience, to which he is new, having been had, it was off out for a walk with the EP, parking again near Dr Prog's house for an enjoyable stroll along the canal...
Strange graffiti - "Eat yer bread", "Doon yer tea"...
Hmmm...
Our goal was the coffee barge...
.
...from which coffees were enjoyed...
...before walking back to the car, not along the canal but, at one point, over it...
We also passed the hotel (now flats) where we were married in 1983...
We stood...
..on these steps, surrounded by family and friends, many of whom are now gone...
On the way back to the car, we were passed by this strange sight...
And so, off home...
We had secured tasty baguettes and muffins from Margiotta and enjoyed those while watching the first episode of "Deutschland 89", having enjoyed, over the last 5 years or so, "Deutschland 83" and "Deutschland 86"...
Of course, Fang popped by for some Dreamies...
...and sat on the window ledge as we enjoyed German TV...
Then, he settled down for a reasonably long stay...
Anne watched Hearts scrape a 2-1 win against Dundee, while I monitored Queens going 2-0 down to Arbroath away from home, only to come back to 3-2 by half time and run out 4-2 winners at the end...
Amazing - they only had 4 points at the turn of the year - now they're on 27...
A random LP listened to...
8th from last was this artefact of the German punk scene....
A Hamburg concert on 24/02/79 featuring Ffurs, PVC, Hinterbergers Wut, Kleenex, Male, Mittagspause (forerunners of Fehlfarben), DAF & S.Y.P.H...
Sounds like it was recorded on a handheld portable cassette recorder...
At 5:15, I noted I had finally made it past 1,000 followers on the Twitter...
..which was good...
Also on the Twitter, a random Tweet led me to this site - a presentation made a few years ago on Ableton Live...
Buried within the details of Generative Music, its history and how it works, was a programme which allows for random piano music to be created...
And so, along with the ambience created this morning via Edward Spark, the next CBQ LP started to take shape...
The beast was pleased, making some rapid progress...
So much so that, what might be a new LP, was already "in the can" before tea time...
A 35 minute collection, the first half comprising one long and three short piano pieces, side two being my long ambient mix of "Emperor"...
Seemed to make sense...
In the evening, a listen back to "The Long Day Star Assembly" (as it was now called) and a previously unseen two hour episode of "Vera" entertained, before hitting the sack...
Another packed Saturday...
Highlight of the Day : Creating new music...
