An uptick but spacey...

Playlist

Eric Dolphy - Out There

Sonny Clark - Leapin' and Lopin'

David Fathead Newman - Fathead Comes On

Joe Henderson - Our Thing

Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff

Mike Taylor Quartet - Pendulum

Larry Young - Unity

The Beatles - Sgt Pepper (Mono)

Steamhammer - Fill Your Head With Rock

Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh

Cream - Best of Cream

The Marmalade - Greatest Hits
Black Widow - Black Widow III
Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground - Rock'n'Roll Diary 1967-1980
Umphrey's McGee - it's you
Michał Milczarek Trio - Squirrels & Butterflies
Various - The Front Line : Best Of
William Basinski - For David Robert Jones
Catacombe - Quidam
Soft Machine - Third
Gregson - Terminal
Thomas Köner - Kontakt Der Jünglinge - 1
Richard Barbieri - Variants.2
DJ Hell - Misch Masch
Rocket Miner - Elegy
L.T.D. - Love To The World
Matthew Bourne - Moogmemory
Sloth Racket - Shapeshifters
Dinosaur - Together, As One
Max Richter - Sleep
Monk Higgins - Extra Soul Perception
Hollywood Vampires - Hollywood Vampires
Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?
Franck  - Symphony in D minor, Symphonic variations, Prelude, choral et fugue
Berwald - Symphonies #1 & 2
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Animals
Various Artists - 100 Hits Presents Karaoke
Lou Reed - Satelite of Love '04 [Single]

Another beautiful day, with much of the soundtrack prepping for this week's podcast and tomorrow night's Roger Waters gig... 

The beast was...

...about its business...

In the evening, a solo visit to the hospital, mum much improved...

...but, it must be said, still very much off her face on drugs...

The views from the office this evening - she is on the same ward which housed me post op in late 2015... 

...and so, today's artwork is "A Now Familiar Corridor"...

Highlight of the Day : Mum uptick...

Looks is deceiving...

Playlist

DJ Hell - Misch Masch
Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground - Rock'n'Roll Diary 1967-1980
Monk Higgins - Extra Soul Perception
Various - Covering The Covers
Umphrey's McGee - it's you
Michał Milczarek Trio - Squirrels & Butterflies
Various - The Front Line : Best Of
Willie Hutch - Soul Portrait
William Basinski - For David Robert Jones
Catacombe - Quidam
Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
Jackie McLean - New Soil

First thing, a visit from a wee friend...

...who, shortly after this, bit and scratched the hand that fed him...

But, hey, that's cats...

This evening, to the hospital with a bitten and scratched Anne to visit my mum...

She looked as if she was dead...

She was, in fact, fast asleep but very yellow indeed...

The slumber was caused by the massive sedation which had been required to carry out a procedure this afternoon, during which it was realised that the stones in her bile duct were too large to "fish out" as had been envisaged...

Instead, stents were placed around the stones to stop the blockage which has caused this illness...

A further procedure will be required at a later date...

Leaving her to sleep, we made our way home...

And probably watched some football...

Today's artwork, "Looking Out the Window"...

Highlight of the Day : Mum still being alive, despite appearances...

Chance meeting leads to possible new music...

Playlist

Tuber - Desert Overcrowded
Various - Covering The Covers
Various - Jazz Fusion Highlights

Donny McCaslin - Beyond Now

Matthew Bourne - Moogmemory

Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground - Rock'n'Roll Diary 1967-1980

L.T.D - Love To The World

Matthew Bourne - Moogmemory

Sloth Racket - Shapeshifters

VArious - The Front Line : Best Of

Dinosaur - Together, As One

Max Richter - Sleep

Chum Marta will shortly be away for a year re an imminent baby scenario...

She provided very yummy cupcakes...

At lunchtime, a chance meeting with Craig Sutherland of Creek, and a longtime CBQ collaborator...

We have an agreement, following our meeting, that he will take my vocal tracks and create new works around them...

Now I just need to find the time to record said vocal tracks...

In the evening, deciding on the running order for this week's podcast...

Today's artwork, "The Icing on the Cake"...

Hihglight of the Day : Chance meeting leads to possible new music...

Keep the hall doors closed...

Playlist

Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Face To Face
Various - Covering The Covers

Alice Cooper - Raise the Dead : Live From Wacken

Nothing much to report today, other than...

A hall in Roslin has been booked for Sunday 22 July for Capital Models - it will, however, be a closed session...

And the new printer arrived for puicking up and was indeed picked up, post a visit to my mum, who continues to be "not too bad all things considered" and expects a procedure any day now...

Adios old printer, you served us well, probably the longest service we've had from your kind...

We went for a new Epson...

Setting up did take an age though...

Today's artwork, "The New Machine"...

Highlight of the Day : New printer...

How best to amplify can be a question...

Playlist
Falco - Symphonic
Capital Models - 2018-06-10
Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground - Rock'n'Roll Diary 1967-1980
Alice Cooper - The Sound Of A [EP]
Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On
Wobbler - From Silence to Somewhere
Federico Albanese - By the Deep Sea
Pleyel - String Quartets, Op. 2/1-3
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall
Falco - Einzelhaft
Ravel - Arrangements for Wind Quintet
Various Composers - The Romantic Age
Various Composers - Treasures of Russian Chamber Music
Praetorius - Praetorius: Magnificat
Falco - Junge Roemer
Gouvy - Tal & Groethuysen play Gouvy
Falco - Falco 3 (European Edition)
Genesis - The Best...Genesis
Capital Models - 2018-06-24

The heatwave has started in Scotchland - apparently the weather wasn't that great here last week while we were away...

Anne took the opportunity to potter in the garden - neighbour Pietro was doing the same...

In the afternoon, to drummer/bassist Keith's, where he showed me his amplification supplies...

Out to drummer Johnny's in Roslin for this week's rehearsals, which went well, before a well earned rest in the back garden, where amplification was the main topic of conversation...

...with Chloe providing the entertainment...

Today's artwork, "The Drummers Amplification"...

As ever the recording sounded better than expected, this the cover...

In the evening, some amplification research and an e-mail to the soundman for the gig in September and the suggestion we book a hall before hand to try things out...

Hihglight of the Day : Rehearsing...

Back in the old routine, in more ways than one...

Playlist

Various Composers - The Romantic Age

The Amsterdam Chamber Music Society - Treasures of Russian Chamber Music

Falco - Einzelhaft

Falco - Falco 3 (European Edition)

Falco - Symphonic

Falco - L.I.V.E Donauinsel

Various - Covering The Covers

Ravel - Arrangements for Wind Quintet

Up not too early after yesterday's long day and finished off the ripping of the new CDs...

Did not get round to recording or uploading this week's podcast though - in fact didn't decide on a track list till later in the day, all comprising the German purchases plus a 3CD set of weird noise type stuff which arrived around lunchtime...

In the afternoon, to the hospital - a text received from Sister Sheila yesterday at Baden Baden railway station advised my mum was being admitted yet again...

Mum was looking a bit yellow - but there's no news on what might be wrong - an abdominal scan is promised for tomorrow - we'll see...

Back home, for a salad and Germany v Sweden...

Tony Kroos' goal in the 95th minute was amazing...

The English commentators forced to eat their words...

That was followed by the third and second last episodes of "The Bridge IIII" - top notch stuff...

The day was finished off with the recording of the links for the podcast - around 75 mins of the 120 taken up with new classical purchases...

To bed with that in the cans - will put it all together first thing tomorrow...

Today's artwork, "Back to the Infirmary"...

Highlight of the Day : It still only being Saturday...

Another last day...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vols 1-52

Ravel - Ravel: Arrangements for Wind Quintet

Various Composers - The Romantic Age

Last day...

No breakfast on the balcony today, instead, packed and bags left while we went down the hill to the town for breakfast....

...followed by a walk...

 ...along the Lichtentaler Allee...

...to the Cistercien Monastery at Lichtenthal...

...and the Lutherkirche...

...and back again, spotting this wee chum...

...and having a seat in the Rose Garden along the way...

Behind the church which has been pictured so many times over the past week, the Nazis burned books on 17 June 1933...

...here...

As Heinrich Heine advised "where you burn books, you will eventually burn people"...

Up the stairs to the apartment for the last time, spotting only our second cat of the trip...

Out, now with case in tow, hoping to visit the Roman baths before we departed but they were shut...

Instead, coffees...

...and taking in the views...

Then, a further seat in the roasting heat, while waiting for the bus to the railway station...

Past the scene of the excellent ballet...

...for a further bus to the airport...

...and much sitting about...

Finally boarding...

Auf wiedersehen, Baden Baden...

Over the North Sea...

...to Scotchland once more...

Out over the Forth...

Cramond Island...

Hopetoun House...

..and down...

Security, baggage pick up, airport bus, walk up the hill and home to rip CDs, treat pics, catch up on TV missed and, eventually, write this up...

An excellent trip, all told...

Today's artwork, "Mmmm, Lovely Coffee"...

Highlight of the Day : Actually, probably the coffee at the Baden Baden coffee house...