Been there, not done that...

Playlist

Jeffrey Skidmore: Ex Cathedra - Moon, Sun & All Things - Baroque Music From Latin America, Vol. 2

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 34

Glasperlenspiel - Licht & Schatten [Deluxe Edition]

Various Artists - Baby Boomers Greatest Hits of 60s & 70s

Leo Parker - Let Me Tell You 'Bout It

Various Composers - Classic Experience II

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Musica Concertiva - Giocattoli di Musica Barocca

Les Éléments And Joël Suhubiette - Iberia

Various Artists - The Skatalites & Friends : Phoenix City

Moby - Music From Porcelain

Various Composers - Prokofiev; Scriabin; Shostakovich: Complete Piano Sonatas

Haydn - String Quartets (Complete)

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette - The Cure: Live At Town Hall New York

Mike Oldfield - The Complete Mike Oldfield

John Grant - John Grant With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Live In Concert

Ellie Goulding - Delirium

Various Composers - The Classic Experience

Various Artists - Trojan Presents: Lovers Rock

Kaito - Hundred Million Light Years

Leo Kottke - The Best

Jens Rachut - Der Seuchenprinz

Madredeus - A Nova Aurora

Locatelli - Concerti Grossi Op. 1/1-6

John Holt - Baby I'm a Want You

Japan - The Very Best Of

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

Aitana - Spoiler

Villa-Lobos - The Complete String Quartets

The Impressions - This Is My Country

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall

Debussy - Images, Nocturnes

Françoise Hardy - Best of des années Flarenasch

Various Artists - Heat

Lothar & The Hand People - This Is It, Machines

LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem [2CD]

Eric Prydz - Pryda

Beastie Boys - The Sounds Of Science

Suzi Quatro - The Wild One: The Greatest Hits

Lou Reed - Transformer (RM)

Kraftwerk - Computer World

Britten - Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge; etc.

Herbert Von Karajan - Karajan Orchestral Spectaculars 1949-1960
David Bowie - Christiane F OST

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova  - Once OST

Tchaikovsky - Symphonies 1-6; Orchestral Works

Peter Baumann - Machines of Desire

Family 5 - Die Neueste Terroridee Des Verrückten Oberst / Play Great Ones

Family 5 - Ein Richtiges Leben In Flaschen

Family 5 - Leistungskurs Leben (1981-1984)

Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag (Live)

Uriah Heep - Return To Fantasy

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Ich Denk An Dich [Single]

Purcell - Triosonaten Für 2 Violinen Und Continuo

Harbison - String Quartets Nos. 1-4

Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments
Yello - Solid Pleasure

Memory Tapes - Seek Magic

Fläskkvartetten - Pärlor från svin 2

Various Artists - Hammond Heroes Celebrating The B-3 Organ

Sleepingdog - With Our Heads In the Clouds & Our Hearts In the Fields

Various Artists - The Rough Guide To The Music Of Morocco

Jean-Luc Ponty & Stéphane Grappelli - Compact Jazz: Jean-Luc Ponty & Stéphane Grappelli

Various Composers - Best Of Baroque Music

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - The Traveler

Yes - Topographic Drama - Live Across America

The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request (SACD Remastered)

Rush - Vapor Trails Remixed

Holmboe - The Complete String Quartets

Various Artists - Willie Dixon's Dixonary

Various Composers - Shakespeare in Music

Up just before 6...

...and noted I'd left a site open overnight about which I'd forgotten but which, this morning, led me to collect some German music for the collection...

A solo LP from ex-Tangerine Dream stalwart, Peter Baumann...

Two late 70's/early 80's synthi LPs by Adelbert von Deyen...

Two "singles2 by Deutsch-Amerikanische Feundschaft - with the welcome news that remaining member, Robert Gorl, is working on recordings made with the late Gabi Delgado Lopez to produce some new DAF stuff...

Six (count 'em) albums, including two career spanning compilations by Peter Hein (of Fehlfarben)'s other band, Family 5...

And, to cap it all, a Record Store Day release for 2020, said Fehlfarben, playing their classic debut "Monarchie und Alltag" in its entirety, live in Dusseldorf in 2017, a thing the Exec Producer and I witnessed in Berlin in 2018...

Quite a haul...

Some listening ensued...

Followed by today's classical piece, the final Tchaikovsky and possibly the best, his 6th symphony, from this box...

Yesterday's random album of the day was the soundtrack from "Christiane F : Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo"...

I don't have a record of exactly when I bought this but that means it was post 1983...

With tracks from “Station to Station”, “Low”, “Heroes”, “Stage” and “Lodger” and including the German version of “Heroes/Helden”, it is, of course, a top Bowie compilation...

Meanwhile, outside...

...the squirrels and birds have found a rival feeding station...

Breakfast, bacon rolls - to which an egg was added re mine...

Most of the day was spent watching TV and listening to the new acquisitions, although Anne also made an unrecorded rhubarb and custard dish with rhubarb from chum Lynn, which actually originated from Anne's mum's old garden...

Following on from Bowie above, today's random LP was Yello’s debut, “Solid Pleasure”, acquired on release as a 21st Birthday present from my chum Jorg Sonnenschein...

...followed by some posting up on Twitter of CDs acquired back in January - and given them a wee listen too...

In the evening, an Indian takeaway was followed by however many episodes of "Berlin Station" it took to get us to the end of series 2 - either 5 or six...

Then...

...time for bed...

Highlight of the Day : Binge-watching Berlin Station...

A kind of baker can be a thing to be...

Playlist

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith - Songs From the Bardo

Lindemann - F&M

Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - No Tether

Jason Lytle & Aaron Espinoza - This is Your Say - Original Soundtrack

Sons Of Apollo - MMXX

Melanie De Biasio - Lilies

William Fitzsimmons - Mission Bell

Betts(JP) - Ogushi

Rush - Vapor Trails Remixed

Luke Howard Trio - The Shadow

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2020

Tchaikovsky - Symphonies 4 & 5; Serenade; Suite No 3

Brahms - The Complete Concertos

Skids - Days in Europa

Afenginn - Retrograd

Various Artists - The Ultimate Collection Running Songs

Various Composers - Shakespeare in Music

Tears For Fears - Edited Songs From The Big Chair [30th Anniversary Edition]

The Comet Is Coming - Channel the Spirits

Various Artists - Shutter Island OST

Ayers, Cale, Eno, Nico - June 1, 1974

Cabanilles - Harmonie Universelle

Various Artists - Willie Dixon's Dixonary

Rameau - Les Indes Galantes

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) - Etudes 4 Violin & Electronix

Tears For Fears - Remixed Songs From The Big Chair (30th Anniversary Edition)

Herman van Veen - Fourteen Songs

Bach, J S - Genie des Barock

David Bowie - The 1983 Rehearsal Broadcast

Locanda Delle Fate - Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più

Prokofiev - String Quartets Overture on HEbrew Themes

Andrew Hill - Life Every Voice

Serge Gainsbourg - Volume 2

Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures

Taylor Swift - Fearless

Francoise Hardy - The Vogue Years

Television - Marquee Moon

Alice Cooper - Dragontown

Rush - Permanent Waves

Joy Division - Substance

Phil Manzanera - Guitarissimo

Shawn Colvin - Fat City

Tronzo/Gabrels - Night in Amnesia

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Ammunition Dub Collection

Harbison - String Quartets Nos. 1-4

Up quite probably too early but couldn't sleep due to a painful shoulder...

Accordingly, made my way to the back room at stupid o'clock...

..for some monochrome scenes...

1st task of the day was to listen to the recording of last night's podcast to make sure it was ok...

Some outside views as it became brighter...

...then to uploading the podcast...

...while coffee was enjoyed...

..along with today's classical piece, Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony - the penultimate by Mr T...

For breakfast, Anne cooked some bacon - I eschewed the roll and, instead took some scrambled eggs and mushrooms...

As is the way on a Saturday morning, the radio was enjoyed...

..while the hare looked on...

By 11, I'd also managed to bring this nonsense up to date...

And so, to making some scones...

Another reasonable batch...

...one each of which was enjoyed by us with strawberries and a "Father Brown"...

Early afternoon, a hotel was booked for a still hoped for holiday Bavaria in September - we have already cut it short by a week just in case - along with postponing our Welsh trip from May to October - hopefully that too can go ahead...

Soundtracked by some late 70's Italian prog...

...which was deemed merely OK although raved about by some prog-loving Twitterchums...

Another chum, who is more into glam rock, advised he'd just got Dennis Dunaway's Alice Cooper Group biography and was asking if it was any good - I opined it was probably the best of this bunch...

...but that he should also avail himself of the Michael Bruce book - he was the "outsider" of the band but also wrote the best tunes and, indeed, as Dunaway acknowledges, spurred the band on to writing their own material, pushing them on from being a Yardbirds/Who covers band...

Meanwhile, the shoulder was getting worse and, outside, it was now pouring...

...as Prokofiev stepped up to the plate - this the one of the three quartet discs which arrived last week which didn't make it into the podcast...

It's rather good...

  

..and was followed by a 50 year old album I suggested a while back to a Twitterchum which, today, was suggested back to me so why not....

The CD contains a second session of a further six pieces with an almost completely different lineup - the singing is, of course, hellish but the musicking saves the day...

Another "Berlin Station" late in the afternoon...

Later still, a delivery arrived, a tasty Purcell disc...

...and more new to me quartets...

Before partaking though, I decided to pick CDs at random - three numbers determined the wall section, the subsection within the wall section and the disc itself - while I played the first couple of tracks...

My first two random choices were these...

...both of which were better than expected...

Then, I threw it open to Twitter and got four more suggestions...

...which were enjoyed before a superb, Red Thai Chicken Curry and a half glass of wine...

...which was followed by an episode of "Vera" and a late call to my mum...

Another six suggested discs awaited...

An entertaining random selection...

By this time, the shoulder and, indeed, arm were in agony and I was ready to hit the sack...

Lights out with Harbison's quartets in the cans, Purcell will wait till tomorrow...

Owya!

Highlight of the Day : Being a kind of baker...