18 years in...

Playlist

Josquin Desprez - Messes Fortuna - Desperata Une Musque de Biscaye

Babin - Saint-Exupéry: De Coeur, De Sable Et D'étoiles

Fabio Orsi - Random Shades Of Day

Wynton Marsalis - The London Concert

Various Artists - A Star Is Born (OST)

Iggy Pop - Free

Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest

White Denim - Side Effects

Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited

Elbow - Giants of All Sizes

Boris - LOVE & EVOL

Bryan Adams - Shine A Light

Motörhead - Everything Louder Forever: The Very Best Of Motörhead

Karl Jenkins - Piano

Eyal Maoz Band - Eyal Maoz's Edom: It's Back!

Jasper Høiby - What It Means to Be Human

John McLaughlin - Tokyo Live

Stenhammar - The String Quartets

Ruisi Quartet - Big House

Spektral Quartet - Behind The Wallpaper

Greenhouse Ensemble - Rez-de-chaussée

Often the Thinker - Sincere Insanity

stereossauro - Tristana

William Basinski - The Clocktower at the Beach (1979)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-04 Demos

Good Saturday morning, on the final diary entry of the first 18 years of this ongoing nonsense...

Up early to finish the podcast...

...an get it uploaded complete with tracklist and notes...

Anne slept on so this was not fired up...

With that done and dusted, I set about locating the lyrics for a further 15 songs and demoed them this morning...

Total recordings since 7 February now come to 311, almost 20 hours of stuff...

We'll see...

Post sorting that out, lunch with "Father Brown" and then over to Jane and Bob's re a visit today to Tynecastle...

...for Hearts v St Johnstone, which I enjoyed from nephew Olly's seat, next to Bob, while Anne and Jane were in the stand opposite...

Also in attendance was old fives chum Mark Gray - who I only ever see these days at occasional Hearts matches, usually at Hampden...

And, in the end, easy 3-0 win for the Jam Tarts although, at 1-0 up, there were some hairy moments...

Good to learn, on exiting, that Queens had triumphed in Dumfries, 3-2 against higher in the league Airdrieonians...

Met up with chum Spike in the "Fans Bar" post match for a pint...

 ...and then walked to Roseburn, met with Anne and picked up a Chinese takeaway on the way home...

Telly tonight was pretty awful but an episode of "Gold" re the Brinks Matt heist was enjoyed (we started on this a week or so ago)...

Other than that, footie highlights and listening back to this morning's work...

To bed...

18 years in...

Highlight of the Day : Football outing...

Today's new music:-

Planets and cheese...

Playlist

Bruce Wolosoff - Memento

Martin Statdtfeld - Genesis

stereossauro - Tristana

Megumi Masaki - Transformation

Ô Lake - Still

Stenhammar - The String Quartets

Elvis Costello - The Songs Of Bacharach & Costello

Daniil Trifonov - BACH: The Art of Life

Greenhouse Ensemble - Rez-de-chaussée

Bruce Wolosoff - Memento

Volker Kriegel - Spectrum

Ryan Hurtgen - Nary A Day

Various Artists - A Star Is Born (OST)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-28 Demos

Miles Davis - Rubberband

Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes - Tear It Up

William Basinski - The Clocktower at the Beach (1979)

Johannes Luley - Follow Your Heart

Teho & Gregory Terlikowski - Backfirewall (OST)

Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips

Weather Report - Mr Gone

Johannes Luley - Follow Your Heart

Reuter Motzer Grohowski - Bleed

DoomCannon - Renaissance

Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (Single)

Multiverse 3 - Epicentre Maximised (Single)

Chósta - Twilight Transmission

 Friday morning once again...

Downloading new music first thing then off to the place I go to lose and I did indeed lose...

Then, post breakfast, into the office to do some brief work and then out for lunch at 1 with chums Raymondo and William H, to La P'tite Folie...

Mussels were followed by the vegetarian option, which, unfortunately, while being cheese based was bot based on a cheese which I found particularly enjoyable - should have had the fish like my compadres...

...but, I persevered and put the taste of the cheese to the back of my mind and, as a bonus, it was followed by a top notch crème brulee...

Meanwhile, Anne was with her mum in the park - herons were the guest stars...

I made my way home around 4 and we both arrived back at the same time...

We finished of "The Black List: Redemption" which, of course, despite having been cancelled after a season of just 8 episodes, ended on a cliff hanger which, as far as we could recall, was never really resolved in the main programme...

Oh well, we thought it was good...

Also tonight, the spin of from "Death in Paradise" continued...

Then, compiling the podcast, recording the links and putting together the first half, with the rest left for tomorrow morning...

And, Venus and Jupiter were out...

...and not being pictured very well by your correspondent...

Off to bed...

Highlight of the Day : Another nice lunch...

Today's new music:-

We should be thankful for what remains to us...

Playlist

Various Artists - The Best Of Wattstax

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-11 Demos (Piano)

Various Artists - The Best Of Wattstax

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-11 Demos (Piano)

John McLaughlin - Tokyo Live

Various Artists - True Blue: The Jazz Message From Blue Note

Berg - Violin Concerto; Chamber Concerto

Grant Green - Solid

Various Composers - Fricker, Orr, Simpson: Symphonies

Up late, not feeling particularly well so a bit longer in bed...

Looked like it might be nice out...

My specs were ready for action, even if I wasn't...

Porridge and in came Fang...

Sadly, not long after, he had to be let out /ejected as we were going out...

As part of the kitchen change project, glasses and crockery taken to charity outlets...

Then, a bag of 641 5p pieces (and one 2p piece) was put through the machine at the bank...

Followed by rolls and sausages and coffees for lunch...

Then, here's a sight you don't see very often..

Anne was searching, at my request, for "All the Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople - the first LP I ever bought...

It was, however, as ever, fruitless...

I did pick these four up for £10 though...

Back home, as I enjoyed an afternoon of actual CD listening, some discussion about sets of Beethoven Symphonies...

I have these, plus Karajan on DG and a download of the "Re-Sound" set...

I wondered if it's possible to have too many Blue Note compilations...

The answer seemed to be "No".  I also looked out LPs featured on the new comp purchase today...

...and filled holes in my collection re the content, with downloads...

Meanwhile, on the Twitter, Sid Smith's cat, The Bug, was spotted with his mug...

This afternoon, Anne finished her latest painting...

Top notch, notwithstanding the lengthy gestation period due to Xmas and holiday hiatuses...

Tonight, some Weather Report listening, following the sad news of the death, at 89, of Wayne Shorter...

A sad loss indeed and deeply sad news for his family and friends. The rest of us should be very thankful for his myriad works, both solo and collaborational (e.g. Miles, Weather Report) and that they remain available to us…

As I enjoyed the far out jazz, Anne was prepping another top Spaghetti Bolognese...

...enjoyed with wine received from nephew Craig at Xmas...

This evening, more "The Black List: Redemption" and so, of the 8 episodes, only 2 remain for us, before we head back into Season 7 of the main thing...

More listening pre bed as Anne enjoyed "Corrie"...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Listening to CDs...

Today's new music:-

Another day, another lunch...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017

Natalia Lacunza - Tiene Que Ser Para Mí

Larry Young - Heaven On Earth

loscil // lawrence english - Colours of Air

65daysofstatic - The Destruction Of Small Ideas

Stars of the Lid - Music for Nitrous Oxide

ELIF - ENDLICH TUT ES WIEDER WEH

LOTTE - WORAN HÄLTST DU DICH FEST, WENN ALLES ZERBRICHT?

Yuurei Shimai (幽霊姉妹) - Just Like Gold

Isaac Hayes - The Instrumentals

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

Creek - 1998-02-10

Creek - 1998-02-17

Creek - 1998-06-01 End of the Art World

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-08 Demos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-07 Demos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-08 Demos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-08 Demos (Piano)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 023-02-09 Demos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-10 Demos

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-02-11 Demos

Various - Wattstax: The Living World (Complete Concert)

Fabio Orsi & Massimo Amato - Inerte

DoomCannon - Renaissance

Toyah - In the Court of the Crimson Queen

Karl Jenkins - Piano

Jasper Høiby - What It Means to Be Human

Markus Reuter - Falling for Ascension

Reuter Motzer Grohowski - Bleed

Motörhead - Everything Louder Forever: The Very Best Of Motörhead

Up late...

...and updated my top LPs (thus far) for 2023...

And gave the initial new additions a wee listen...

Also uploaded the 12th in the archive series from Creek, which will be released on Friday...

Then, into town, with an initial potential set list re the hundreds of recently recorded songs soundtracking...

I was out for another lunch...

Today, with chums Prog Rock Willie and Bernardo...

We were at Mia's Italian Kitchen in Dalry...

Mussels to start...

I always make a soup before eating...

Unpictured pizza and panna cotta followed, along with a beer and some red wine (possibly negating yesterday's lunch time Diet Coke intake)...

Good chat was enjoyed with the boys...

Then, with Bernie heading back to the office, to Platform 5 for one last drink with Willie before we both headed home...

The views coming down the hill...

New music enjoyed (see below), mainly based on yesterday's Fopp research...

It was around...

Pre bed, more "The Black List: Redemption" enjoyed...

Highlight of the Day : Another lunch...

Today's new music:-