Making your way through the year, music-wise, can be good...

Playlist

Quator Ebene- 'Round Midnight

Sinfonia of London - English Music for Strings

Saunders - Rebecca Saunders: Solo

Davies - Tansy Davies : Nature

Vestbo Trio - Reflector

Gentle Giant - Octopus (Steven Wilson Mix)

The Weeknd - Dawn FM

Twin Atlantic - Transparency

Steve Roach - Zones, Drones & Atmospheres

Burial - Antidawn

Premiata Forneria Marconi - I Dreamed of Electric Sheep

Julia Gjertsen & Nico Rosenberg - Paisajes Imaginarios

Markus Reuter - TRUCE 2

Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Boy Named If

FKA twigs - CAPRISONGS

Cat Power - Covers

FLUX - Theorem

Tilman Ehrhorn - Kvar

Recondite - Taum

Michael A - Timeline

Years & Years - Night Call

Palace - Shoals

Biosphere - Shortwave Memories

Ludovico Einaudi - Underwater

Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha

Causa Sui - Szabodelico

Nortonk - Nortonk

Steve Vai - Inviolate

Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene

Immanuel Wilkins - The 7th Hand

Kanaan - Earthbound

Hannah Peel - Fir Wave

Kungens Män - Trappmusik

Møster! - Dust Breathing

Rose City Band - Earth Trip

Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

Jacek Sienkiewicz - Krasz

Zonderling - Ondertitel

Animal Collective - Time Skiffs

Gary Husband & Markus Reuter - Music Of Our Times

Big Scenic Nowhere - The Long Morrow

The Slow Show - Still Life

Voivod - Synchro Anarchy

Terence Blanchard - Absence

Ethan Iverson - Every Note Is True

Jonathan Blake - Homeward Bound

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Nur Noch Einer

Attacca Quartet - Of All Joys

And So I Watch You from Afar - Jettison

pan•american - the patience fader

Melt Yourself Down - 100% Yes

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Cold as Weiss

Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa

Hellbach - Ein Jahr kein Mensch

Frederico Albanese - Before and Now Seems Infinite

Melt Yourself Down - Pray For Me I Don't Fit In

Tangerine Dream - Raum

AES DANA - (a) period.

Warmth, Pepo Galán & Andrew Tasselmyer - Pale Sun

loscil - The Sails p.1

KYOTY - Isolation

D'Virgilio Morse Jennings - Troika

Rihm - Jagden und Formen

Max Richter - My Brilliant Friend (Season 3) OST

Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark

Band of Horses - Things Are Great

Solar Fields - Formations

Van Der Graaf Generator - Discography

Oops...

This is better...

Or is it?

That was the back, this is the front...

...as is this...

...and this is the back...

Struggling for content? Me?

Up at 7...

Had intended to get this up to date but got distracted with other, now forgotten and, therefore, most probably, inconsequential stuff...

Breakfast...

...and Anne's cat is declared "finished"...

Answers on a postcard please as to what these numbers mean...

Car insurance renewed...

Working on the pictures submitted by family members for the 2023 family calendar...

Never ceases to amaze me the lack of attention to detail as regards random stuff in the background that people apply to their photography...

Speaking of which, my mum during my visit this afternoon while Anne was off watching Hearts claw a 3-2 win over Motherwell with a last minute penalty, having been reduced to 10 men (really ought to have been 9 to be honest) and then going 2-0 up...

...as regards random stuff in the background...

This was the final choice (I really ought to have cropped it as regards random stuff in the background!) re sending to pretend cousin Robert...

...in relation to pics he sent me...

The house in Kilmarnock where many childhood adventures took place..

...with, from left to right, Evelyn, now 65, Anne 67, Robert 58, Liz 63, Alison 61 next Sunday...

Missing from the pic is eldest sister Laura, who would have been 70 next month but who succumbed to cancer at just 41 back in September 1994...

And here, Robert's two kids, Hannah (21) and Adam (23), father of Cole, who visited my mum last Sunday...

Having seen the cat, mum wanted to see Anne's other recent work - so, I showed her the tiger...

...and the boat...

She was impressed...

Also today, my listening was a track each from my 2022 LPs of the Day...

Here they are so far...

January...

February...

March...

April...

May...

June...

July...

August...

September...

October...

I got as far as 10 weeks into the year, which involved almost 7 hours of top music...

...and, on telly, more "Karen Pirie" (I think - or that might have been last night) and the SAS thing in the desert...

Lunch was unpictured porridge and the tasty tea was an equally unpictured rerun of the midweek hot chicken but with healthy chips replacing the potatoes and carrots...

It's all good...

Weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : New music...

Mucking about with a bee...

Playlist

Eloy - The Tides Return Forever

Various - C'est Chic! French Girl Singers Of The 1960s

Adam O'Farrill - Visions of Your Other

36 - Colours In The Dark

Miss Kitten & The Hacker - Third Album

Fabio Orsi - Reverse Diverse

FES - With Regards From Home

Tosca - Osam

Andrew Tasselmyer & Blurstem - Duets

Max Richter - The New Four Seasons - Vivaldi Recomposed

Blank & Jones - #Whatwedoatnight3

Mogwai - Black Bird

Daniel Lanois - Player, Piano

Melt Yourself Down - Pray For Me I Don't Fit In

Jeff Russo - The Man Who Fell to Earth (Original Series Soundtrack)

Ólafur Arnalds - Surface

MØ - Motordrome

Tom Rogerson - Retreat to Bliss

Angel Olsen - Big Time

Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Fallen Paradise

Blancmange - Private View

Ghost - Impera

Tim Bowness/Giancarlo Erra - Memories of Machines

Blancmange - Private View

Hainbach - Tagwerk

Mariusz Duda - Let's Meet Outside

Christian Lee Hutson - Quitters

Archive - Call to Arms & Angels

Swedish House Mafia - Paradise Again

Ólafur Arnalds - Surface

Ruo - A Dust in Time

Christian Lee Hutson - Quitters

Fabio Orsi - Reverse Diverse

Max Richter - My Brilliant Friend (Season 3) OST

The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta

Hannah Peel - Fir Wave

KYOTY - Isolation

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Toast

Gordon Staples & The Motown Strings - Motown Funk - 32 Pipin' Hot Funk Joints

Yvonne Fair - Motown Funk - 32 Pipin' Hot Funk Joints

Hawkwind - Master of the Universe

Max Richter - Expo 1

Sven Helbig & Fauré Quartett & MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony & Kristjan Järvi - Expo 1

YMusic & Bryce Dessner & Aaron Dessner & Richard Reed Parry - Expo 1

Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise

Niklas Paschburg - Oceanic

Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear (Deluxe Version)

Françoise Hardy - Françoise Mon Amour

Black Sabbath - Headless Cross

Black Sabbath - Forbidden

Kraftwerk - Computer World

Brian Eno - Solo Works 1974-2017

Alex Harvey - The Mafia Stole My Guitar

Keef Hartley Band - Seventy Second Brave

Heavy Metal Kids - Heavy Metal Kids

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Electric Blues

Jo Jo Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne

Creek - End of the Art World

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fifty Five SongsTiësto Feat. Tate McRae - 10:35

Tate McRae - uh oh (Single)

Tate McRae - i used to think i could fly

William Fitzsimmons - Covers, Vol. 1

Mathilde Nobel - Founds on Land

Voldo - Melting Pot

Morning Saturday morning…

Up early…

Doing stuff which will mostly go completely unappreciated…

Which is most probably most people’s lot…

Not to worry...

Onwards…

Best day of the week?

Probably...

First thing, finishing off the podcast and uploading it into the void...

...under good skies...

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2022 Vol 44

7 new LPs of the day;

14 further new releases;

2 other records new to the library;

and the run through of CBQ releases available on Bandcamp at the start of 2022 reaches June 2021 https://bit.ly/3haLpDa

...all pre breakfast...

The entire day was spent working on MusicBee - updating artwork and trying to learn about how it works...

Things I cannot do with it:

Transfer anything to my phone...

Copy artist/LP details to do the playlists here - hence the screenshots over the last few days (update - I worked out how to do it)...

So, I still need to keep iTunes up to date with new acquisitions to transfer stuff to my phone and iPods and loads of other stuff...

In other words, as a price for glitchless and unproblematic listening, I have to do everything twice...

Fucksake...

A reward for a hard day's work was a Beef and Green Pepper in Black Bean Sauce from Wongs...

...and "Strictly" was soundtracked by good music...

Blueberries later on as football was also watched...

Other things we might have watched today included "Taskmaster", "Helen Pirie" and, new thing on Netflix, "Blockbuster"...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Mucking about on MusicBee...

Once more off into the wild they go...

Playlist

Tiesto feat Tate McRae - 10:35

William Fitzsimmons - Covers, Vol 1

Soft Kill - Canary Yellow

Solar Felds - Formations

First Aid Kit - Palomino

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - Fallentime

Lehto - Between All Days

Mathilde Nobel - Founds on Land

Werd, MOG & Edward Spark - Childish Remixes

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Silversounds 1996-2021 (Remixes)

Fauré - Chamber Music, Vol. 2

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - Fallentime

Angus & Julia Stone - Down the Way

Saro Cosentino - The Road To Now

David Longdon - Door One

Fractal Sextet - Alchemy

SAULT - UNTITLED (God)

JG Stockton - Black Notes

Creek - Creek VIII (1997-10-09)

Lomond Campbell - Under This Hunger Moon We Fell

Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth

God Is An Astronaut - Somnia

First Aid Kit - Palomino

Spoon - Lucifer On The Moon

Devin Townsend - Lightwork

µ-Ziq - Hello

Mathilde Nobel - Founds on Land

Solar Fields - Formations

Markeno - DOCK LOWN [EXPLORING]

Carbon In Prose - Cataclysmic System Binding Loss

Soft Kill - Canary Yellow

Lehto - Between All Days

Once more into the dark...

The silver cat was ready for action...

It was new music Friday...

...it was frosty...

...and I was listening to the podcast from 2017, in which I interviewed nephew Olly re his then favourite tracks and, in which, we played them...

I let him know and he tried to recall his choices...

Here they are - those in bold, he remembered ...

Also this morning, two new releases for Bandcamp Friday...

Cloudland Blue Quartet’s “Variations on Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music” Vol IV".

This concluded the Quartet...

Side 1 (February): https://bit.ly/3d818Rv

Side 2 (May): https://bit.ly/3StyKJx

Side 3 (August) : https://bit.ly/3JzUjUI

Side 4 (November): https://bit.ly/3UqZj2e

Difficult Listening!

Kind of glad that whole project is over...

Also Creek's latest archival release, Creek VIII (1997-09-10), 34 minutes of electronic improvisation from me, Sparky, Stu and Brodski...

 https://bit.ly/3UaWYZF

I worked out, at the rate of one a month, it could take until August 2025 before all our recordings are released...

 All releases are free to stream/name your price to download...

At 8, out for a meet at the place I go to lose...

Home for a tasty breakfast of wholemeal toast with eggs, sliced bacon medallions and mushrooms...

...and work on this weekend's podcast, with reference, of course, to new music released today which was not released by me...

Out to my mum's for 11 to take her to her old friend Jeanette's brother, Alan's funeral at Mortonhall...

...and over to the Bamwell afterwards for chatting, reminiscing, coffee and sandwiches with old neighbours Ian and Diane and of course Jeannette and her daughters, Suzanne and Debbie...

Home...

Baked potatoes this evening...

I concocted cheese, onion and pineapple, after a fashion...

Both of us were "working" this evening...

Me, going through what are now relatively few missing items of artwork on MusicBee...

...and Anne putting the final touches to the cat...

...and me recording links for, and the first 90 minutes of, tomorrow's podcast...

We no doubt also watched some telly...

Highlight of the Day : Releasing things into the wild...

Another day of spinning...

Playlist

Bruford - One of a Kind

Medeski, Martin & Wood - Uninvisible

John McLaughlin - Music Spoken Here

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik IV

Black Widow - Black Widow III

The Animals - The Most Of The Animals

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Live)

Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

T Rex - Ride A White Swan

Various Artists - 20 Fantastic Hits Vol 2 (Arcade)

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Various Artists - Fill Your Head With Rock

The Who - A Quick One

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Genesis - Genesis Live

Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Mick Ronson - Slaughter On 10th Avenue

Can - Future Days

Tangerine Dream - Tangerine Dream '70-'80

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food

Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia

Various Artists - The Front Line

John Foxx - Metamatic

Hawkwind - 25 Years On

Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money

Yello - Solid Pleasure

The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos

The Clash - The Clash

Alice Cooper - Killer

Billion Dollar Babies - Battle Axe

The Doors - The Doors

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

Grand Funk Railroad - Shinin' On

The Mighty Diamonds - Ice on Fire

The Velvet Underground - Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

The Revolutionaries - Vital Dub Well Charged (RM)

Angus & Julia Stone - Life Is Strange

Creek - 1997-10-09

Up late...

Discovered that, despite working through the night, not a single piece of artwork had been updated on MusicBee...

Hugely annoying, frustrating and disappointing...

So, I bit the bullet, deleted the whole thing and reinstalled it, now totally empty...

Then, I commenced the long process of pulling through what now appeared to be over 19,000 albums from iTunes...

It was 7:30am...

Yesterday, I'd painstakingly added all the LPs that had been added to iTunes post the previous version of MusicBee...

All of these too were now gone but should now be involved in the new pull through...

We'd see...

And, in passing, I noted I have acquired over 1,800 new albums so far in 2022 but "only" 327 physically...

Fang popped by and impersonated...

...Anne's cat painting, which neared completion...

All of this was pre breakfast...

As the computer was occupied with the "pull through", I resorted to playing records...

This was the position at 1:30pm, a full six hours from outset, still spinning, still scanning...

Finally, at 4pm, after 8.5 hours, it was done - 19,525 LPs transferred into MusicBee - but not quite showing up yet...

Tea time - involving green beans...

I was allowed to prep the potatoes!

Some music enjoyed via a now full of loads of LPs MusicBee as I tried to learn a wee bit about it...

Also, via iTunes, 13 LPs from age 13, 14 from age 14 and music from 1979 all entertained...

Also today, Edward Spark sent me a remix he's completed for me to check over (for the record, this was JG Stockton's piece, "Xylophonics VII")...

As is my wont, I ended up doing a remix of his remix...

Sparky liked it...

This evening we probably watched some TV too...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : MusicBee transfer completing...