Thursday, January 06, 2022

Repetition is the way...

Playlist
Haydn - Hunt, Lark & Emperor Quartets
David Bowie - Toy
Gentle Giant - Octopus (Steven Wilson Mix)
David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle
Gentle Giant - Free Hand [2021 Steven Wilson Mix]
David Bowie - Metrobolist (aka The Man Who Sold The World) [2020 Mix]
Vestbo Trio - Gentlemen...
Isaac Hayes - The Spirit Of Memphis (1962-1976)
Jackie McLean - Jacknife (2LP)

Up and to editing and uploading the podcast...




Done and still dark...


Later, as predicted, a rejig - much more satisfying lay out...


A visit from Fang...



Much smaller and rounder and less prone to jumping on everything than Niko...


For tea tonight, Anne's "best ever pasta" - limited use of chorizo and, I think, crème fraiche, uplifts...


This evening, another programme on an artist...






These, in tribute of his tendency for repetition...





Yep, Andy Warhol...


Post this, upstairs to enjoy one of my Blue Note records - two sessions recorded 1965 and 1966 and previously unreleased until this in 1975...


One of those double LPs with sides 1 & 4 on LP 1 and sides 2 & 3 on LP 2...


...to accomodate auto-changers in the old days...


I do not have an auto changer...


...while listening, I perused...


...my great big Andy Warhol Xmas present from the EP...


A good way to end the day....

Highlight of the Day : Anne's pasta...

Wednesday, January 05, 2022

A new regime but nothing too onerous...

Playlist
Brian Eno - Lux
Brian Eno - On Land
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Events One and Two
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music
The Kinks - Kinks
King Crimson - Islands
Zhu - DREAMLAND (Deluxe)
Erika de Casier - Sensational
Various Artists - Rough Trade Shops Electronic 01
The Gladiators - Dreadlocks The Time Is Now
Ten Walls - AA
Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
Quatuor Ébène - Round Midnight
R+R=Now - Collagically Speaking
Genesis - We Can't Dance
Riccardo Chailly: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Prokofiev/Varèse/Mosolov
Sinfonia of London - English Music for Strings
Queen - Greatest Hits II
King Crimson - Music Is Our Friend (Live In Washington & Albany 2021)
King Tubby - Father of Dub
Various Artists - Trance Anthems (The Best Uplifting & Hard Trance)
Various Artists - Trance Masters
Saunders - Rebecca Saunders: Solo
Juniore - Un, Deux, Trois
Various Artists - Acoustic Vol. 3
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
Davies - Tansy Davies : Nature
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger [Deluxe Version]
George Braith - Extension
Knussen - Knussen Conducts Knussen
Skrillex - Bangarang EP
Vestbo Trio - Reflector
Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
Abba - Voyage
David Bowie - Toy
Various Artists - Trojan UK Hits Box Set
Bread - Essentials
Don McLean - American Pie
Slade - Sladest
Paul Simon - Paul Simon
Colin Blunstone - One Year
Lindisfarne - Fog On The Tyne
Various Artists - Top Of The Pops 1972
Neil Young - Harvest
Jo Jo Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne
The Marmalade - Greatest Hits
Various Artists - Jackie The Album
Gentle Giant - Sight and Sound In Concert

Up early to get stuff done pre the resumption of WFH...


Twitterchum, Dancing Monk, on playing Eno's "On Land", pointed me to this wee film on Youtube, in which a man who knows what he's talking about, explains the system Eno sets out on the back of his LP - which is actually know as the Hafler Circuit...


I use it for both of my systems re listening sans headphones...




No further pics - too busy...

Start of a new regime tonight re the podcasts, as I returned to recording on a Wednesday night (thus freeing up my Fridays once again after a few years)...

And, rather than including - or trying to include - every new item I acquire, I am including a formula of tracks, covering all of these:-

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2022
32 Tracks

CBQ Track
1972 Single
Thursday's Album of the Day
Rock
1972 LP
Funk & Soul
Friday's Album of the Day
1982 Single
Reggae
Ambient
1982 LP
Saturday's Album of the Day
Contemporary Jazz
1992 Single
Classical
Sunday's Album of the Day
1992 LP
Prog Rock
Dub
2002 Single
Monday's Album of the Day
Pop
2002 LP
Leftfield
Tuesday's Album of the Day
2012 Single
Classic Jazz
Contemporary Classical
2012 LP
Wednesday's Album of the Day
2022 Single
2022 LP

I only decided yesterday to insert all the "looking back on this week" tracks, which, of course takes the length back up to, in the region of, three hours a week...

But doing it remains enjoyable...

So, onwards..

The last section of listening today was singles from 1972, likely to grace future podcasts...

For CBQ, I have 52 albums up on Bandcamp so it'll be a track a week...

So, pre-determined can be the CBQ track, the LPs and singles of the week from now, 2012, 2002, 1992, 1982 and 1972 and the seven LPs of the day (although I won't know the last one till the day of recording)...

The remainder, the "category tracks" (indicated in bold on the list above) will be new stuff in, of that ilk, or stuff from the past, of that ilk...

It's a plan...

Let's see...

As I publish this, the first of these "new" eclectic selections is available over to your right...

I know you won't click play but someone will...

Wait, one more pic - also today, I moved the PA through from the back room and ushered in a slightly new layout...

I like to move things around...


I will probably do so again - not that happy with the old "printer under the turntable" solution...

We'll see...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

Tuesday, January 04, 2022

If it's not exactly the same, it's not exactly the same...

Playlist
Creek - Fake Leopard Coat
Various Composers - The British Symphonic Collection
U2 - Boy
Sinfonia of London - English Music for Strings
Mr McFall's Chamber - Like The Milk (1998)
Adrian Sherwood - ON-U Sound Crash
Keith Hudson - Pick A Dub
Various - Soul To Soul D.J.'s Choice
Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
The Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes
Léo Ferré - chante Verlaine et Rimbaud
Joe Henderson - Our Thing
Françoise Hardy - Françoise Hardy II (In Vogue)

Up pre 7, Creek having entertained overnight...


All was quiet downstairs - Xmas well and truly over with all the cards and decorations gone...


Cats fed...


Coffee cooked...


On their last day, Mia was looking out for her mum and dad, who were now back from the Canaries...


Last of the New Year provisions for breakfast...


Anne packed up all the cat stuff - Niko made sure it was all there...


While we waited for Abbie and Blair to arrive, I chose a couple of things to listen to in the back room, via a random number generator...

Selected from the whole of the room...


A set of shelves chosen...


A shelf chosen...


A row chosen...


A title chosen (bought in Munich on our second last visit there, back in 2013)...


A disc from the box chosen...


A work chosen...


...and played - and found to be good...


Niko enjoyed it too, from his various vantage points...







A second disc selected from the room...


Shelf unit...


Shelf...


Section...


Box...


Somehow, the generator avoided 21 Uriah Heep titles and came up with this...


...the original LP was an Xmas present received in 1980, back when U2 were, subjectively, good...

Out around midday, as Bob came to pick Anne up for the two of them to take a walk through the Pentland Hills...

Anne does not take photos...

Meanwhile, I drove to Morningside for a look around but could find nowhere to park...

So I drove on over to Portobello, to the shop where I picked up quite a lot of top notch jazz titles a few weeks back...

Nothing there now of course...

But, in a nearby place, I found these reasonably tasty items for a quid each...



On the way back, I stopped in on my mum...


She's trying to get her doctor to visit to attend to an infection she's had for far too long now...

We are both looking forward to the visit of the hearing aid man on Friday too...

She was glad of my pop in...

Home to listen and rip...

Turns out I already have this - but with a different sleeve and the previous version is an enhanced CD - released in 1999 (this is from 1998)...

Oh well, for a pound, who's complaining?


A good mix...


A tasty title...


And another good reggae collection...


This evening, extremely tasty ravioli for tea from the EP...


And some telly was watched (the return of "Holby City" after a couple of weeks off) and some music was listened to - the new discs and recently downloaded stuff from 1964...

Lights out...

Holidays over...

Highlight of the Day : Ravioli...