Hey, put more food out you humans...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Mercurial

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2014

Anoice - Aria: The Singles 2019-2024

Election Day!

Breakfasted and out around 10 and a walk along...

...to the polling station and votes cast...

Then, a walk back home to pick up the car and into the Modern Art Gallery 2 - the view from the car park...

...and the gardens...

...and the city in the distance...

Arty...

And in, for this...

As ever , many impressive works and many not so impressive works but the underlying theme of the exhibition brought home just how much things have progressed in the last 50 years or so...

For this piece, the artist lay below heat proof glass and had lighter fluid set alight on the glass above her...

An insight into a woman's day...

Miss World demos...

Hegemony...

X-Ray Spex...

The original piece which was commissioned as the cover for the Buzzcocks' "Orgasm Addict"...

In this room...

...the sound of...

...screaming...

A belly through pregnancy...

A woman inside kitchen apliances - Pet Shop Boys-esque...

Greenham Common protests...

Colonialism and Multiculturalism...

We did not go to the cafe...

Instead, out and along to Stockbridge...

Bumped into Lady Penelope in Waitrose, prepping for her cousin's visit to her and Brodski's place...

It was agreed we would go out soon...

Lunch enjoyed on a bench...

...and shopping for a lightshade - but not this one as we determined a possible stain - we await a call from the creator...

Back to BHF and a couple o things partaken of...

Home and emptied my bag...

On our way back, we'd stopped off at Anne's mum's apartment and gathered some things, including her remaining paintings...

Via Whatsapp, they were distributed amongst the family...

Kitty...

Keith...

Rebecca...

Us...

Us...

Craig...

Jillian...

Craig...

Rebecca...

This magpie enjoys the feeding station - when the food runs out, out looks into the living room from the window sill as if to say "hey, put more food out you humans!"...

Tasty chicken for tea...

...and, eventually, the election Exit Poll at 10...

Labour landslide but, best news, SNP decimated...

Reaction shot...

To bed at 2am with only 7 results in...

Probably shouldn't have bothered staying up...

Highlight of the Day: SNP rejected at long last...

Today's New Music:-

A lack of interest will not deter...

Playlist

Shearwater - The Great Awakening

Shearwater - The Dissolving Room

Loma - Don't Shy Away

Shearwater - Sherawater Plays Lodger

Angélica Garcia - Gemelo

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Splinterheart

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Soundingfall

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietsongs

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Doveloveshawk

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Callingstill

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ampersand

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anotherhappyday

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Deeperdown

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ersatzreal

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallingsky

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Auden

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Everything Ends

Zsela - Big For You

µ-Ziq - Grush

Skee Mask - Resort

Normani - DOPAMINE

Fana Hues - Moth

Slow Heart Music - Hope

Braulio Lam - Redscale

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-06-27 OOTB Rehearsal

Capital Models - 2024-06-27 Maggie May

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-06-27 Out of the Bedroom

Ashhy - Sad Poetry (EP)

DAFÔ String Quartet - Polish Chamber Music: Penderecki, Szymanowski, Bacewicz, Górecki, Lukaszewski

Sue Decker - Keeping Time

Donna McKevitt - The Swimming Diaries (OST)

Gavin Bryars - 11th Floor (After Film Noir)

Various Artists - 21st Century Breaks

Rhonda Rider - The Petrified Forest Project

Various Artists - Superfly Soul: Riding Through The Ghetto

Acies Quartet - Gould Gulda: The String Quartet

Cola - The Gloss

Adès - In Seven Days (CD)

lofield - drifting

Janna Polyzoides - Klaviermusik

Matt Choboter - Unburying, From Liminals, Emerging

Kühr - Revue instrumentale et Électronique

López - Works for Ensemble

Roger Waters - Stand Up For Palestine (EP)

Mozart - Momentum 1785

Vinsent Planjer - Warm to the Touch

Neuwirth - Goodnight Mommy (OST) (Ich seh, Ich seh)

Willi - Chamber Music

Washed Out - Notes from a Quiet Life

William Boughton, English String Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra - The Spirit Of England

The Beatles - Let It Be (2009 Remaster)

Right, this was only yesterday so surely I can recall what I got up to?

Well, I got up to this...

Which was rather late...

Scenes...

I intend to play my now 50 year old copy of "(No Pussyfooting)" soon...

Took Anne along to Lynn's just after 10 and she didn't appear back till almost 6.  A wlak along the Water of Leith and pizza at Stockbridge...

So, more Penne Arrabbiata for me - and it was indeed "angry" as I accidently tipped rather more than anticipated chili flakes into the pan...

It was superb...

As Eno once said, "honour thy error as a hidden intention"...

More "Better Than Us" enjoyed...

Podcast which should have been out on Saturday finally recorded and uploaded...

Of course, hardly anyone gives a flying fuck...

Their loss...

Also today, I chose three song sets for Out of the Bedroom (ensuring three different CBQ LPs are featured in each) which will take me through to mid 2025 I think - 135 songs in all - that's including the 21 already played across my seven appearances since returning to the club in March...

This is how I waste my time...

On telly tonight, having watched the first episode recently, we binged Nos 2, 3 and 4 of "Douglas is Cancelled" - excellent performances all round...

Highlight of the Day : Penne...

Today's New Music:-

Pasta, Fado, Funk, Eno, CBQ...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Hessler Nowik Liminal Conundrum

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Wrexham

Focus - Focus 50: Live In Rio / Completely Focussed

Hawkwind - The Flicknife Years 1981-1988

Various - A Beginners Guide to Fado

Various - Funk Fever

Brian Eno - On Land

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Brian Eno's "On Land"

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Brian Eno's "Discreet Music"

Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 1996-2005

Up and perhaps work would be done in the back room today...

It's what Tuesday's are for...

It was, however, too early to start anything...

The sun was coming over the roof of the houses opposite...

...as it does...

Downloaded some new music (just for a change), well, old music, actually - Focus and Hawkwind sets - and gave it a listen...

Nice...

Anne was off out to see if her mum's house received any offers re its cosing date today...

It did indeed and they were good...

Now to see if all goes smoothly...

Hopefully...

Accordingly, I cooked my lunch - Penne Arrabiatta...

...which was a success, although the pic I took of the finished article got lost along the way...

A couple more episodes of the Russian robot thing "Better Than Us" were enjoyed...

Then to work at last in the back room...

Time to reinstate the third speaker, per Brian Eno's liner notes on the original LP edition of "On Land"...

...soundtracked by items from the newly reinstalled compilations rack...

This...

...and this...

Speaker in place and connected...

...and, of course, had to be tested with this...

...and , then, this...

...and this...

...and, finally this...

All good...

On Anne's return, more pasta for tea...

But, you know, I love pasta so that was just fine...

This time, Prawns, Peppers and Zuccini to the fore...

On telly tonight - I can't recall but ought to mention having watched and enjoyed the whole 3rd series of "Outlaws" recently...

OK, that'll do...

Jeez oh, two days ago and my mind's a blank...

No, wait, also today, I created another "Live Suite" - this time using pieces released between 1996 and 2005 - not bad - we'll see...

OK, lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Pasta and speaker...

Today's New Music:-

Strange sounds which, five decades ago, spurred this on...

Playlist

Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Hessler Nowik Liminal Conundrum

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2024-06-30 OOTB Rehearsal (Crazy Wisdom)

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (45th Anniversary Edition)

Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?

Armand Margjeka - Move Slow

Emerson Lake & Palmer - 1971/72

King Tubby - The Best Of King Tubby

Three Friends - Think of Me With Kindness

My first record of July, just after midnight, was this, in the cans as I drifted off...

I bought the LP in Berchtesgaden on my trip to the Bavarian Alps around this time on 1974...

Amazing that such a hellish sounding LP could have inspired the just turned 15 year old me into an aspiring (and failing to this day) "musician"...

Up late...

A new day, a new week, a new month...

Post this breakfast...

...I decided to combine two of my upcoming LPs, my collaborations with old school chum Fred Hessler and Blue Sun Chasing/Matthew Nowik, recorded way back in January, into one LP - which involved some remixing etc etc...

Soon it was done and time once again to visit my mum, here seen enjoying a couple of Satsuma's post a soup based lunch...

Turned out the next food delivery is not till a week on Wednesday and so I must return my Beef and Potato delights taken home on Saturday...

Second of my new hats arrived and Anne bought me yet another pair of jeans, she having been dissatisfied with my choices...

Both garments accompanied some filing this afternoon...

...as did these records...

The Waters is still superb, the Margjeka shows what hidden gems there are in all these boxes of music I've collected over the last 39 years and the ELP was top - a compilation burned for my dad back in August 1999 - he had fewer than 4 years to live - I wonder if he ever listened to it...

I thought of him though as I did...

Filing done...

I now have around 25 empty boxes to spread out the CDs stored on this side of the room, leaving space for new additions...

...and I moved most of my "strangely shaped items" to the top of the five lower shelves on the left...

Just a few comps now to integrate - and then, of course, spread out my "everything that's not classical or jazz" A-Z as described above...

Lovely home-made burgers for tea...

I didn't bother watching France v Belgium, but caught the very late own-goal which won it for France...

Instead...

...trying to catch up with this - I was a week behind as I approached the machines but only managed a couple of days while Portugal and Slovenia had a 0-0 after extra time draw...

I watched the penalty shoot out - Portugal scored their first three penalties...

And their goalie, unprecedentedly (in the Euros anyway), saved each of the Slovenians first three...

All over...

As was the day...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's home made burgers...

Today's New Music:-