Preparing for tomorrow...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Untitled

Rhye - Home

Marek Malinowski / Robert Rychlicki-Gąsowski / Wojciech Zadrużyński - Scratching Fork

Rhye - Spirit

Various Artists - January Hit Singles

Cliff Richard - The Whole Story

The Shadows - The Shadows' Greatest Hits (Stereo)

Various Artists - 60's Pop Classics

Various Artists - 60s Jukebox - The Ultimate Collection

The Monkees - The Works

Various Artists - Pure... Psychedelic Rock

Various Artists - Jackie The Album

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Various Artists - 70s School Days

Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Various Artists - Wow! That Was The 70's

Abba - Gold

Various Artists - This Is...The Front Line

Various Artists - Best Of The 80s

John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth

Various Artists - Sunday Times Music Collection Vol 4

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Maximum Joy

Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1985

a-ha - Hunting High And Low

Various Artists - NOW That's What I Call 30 Years

Soft Cell - Memorabilia: The Singles

Sinéad O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1991

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1990s

Various Artists - The Best TV ADS...Ever!

Various Artists - Billboard Top 100 1997

Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

Lady Gaga - The Fame

Clean Bandit - New Eyes [Special Edition]

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 2010s

Yes - Yesterdays

Sparks - No 1 In Heaven

Neu! - Neu!

Working first thing on the new LP due next Friday...

...then, compiling a list of the number one singles on each of Anne's birthdays from 1961 till tomorrow...

Breakfast...

And some records to play...

Seven randomly chosen, the first three were eventually played as my last listening of the day...

Anne was out somewhere or other - it's Sunday as I write this and I can't remember - but she brought back Belgian Chocolate Éclairs...

Which were nice...

This evening, recorded the links for the weekend's podcast..

Also, assistance sought of me by Edward Spark re when his debut EP might have been issued and if I had the artwork...

I found this on the old version of the Crispycat site...

...and so was able to advise its release date was 10 October 2005...

Then, I managed to locate my copy...

...and scanned the artwork to him - but it turns out my artwork was an early version...

Later, I found a blog entry with the art he was looking for...

It's all good...

The 61 track playlist of Anne's No 1s 1961-2021 was completed...

On telly this evening, a "Call My Agent" (of course) and part 2 of "The Investigation" - no wait, that was tomorrow...

Well, "Call My Agent" and "Death in Paradise" and "Scot Squad" - that was it...

OK, lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Compiling...

265 years on...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Untitled

Charles Tolliver - Connect

Jadin - String Trios

Sylvester - Step II

Golden Hymns Sing 'Hurrah' - The Great Dystopian Songbook I: Songs For The Setting & Rising Sun

Hainbach - Schwebungssummer

Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity

Gary Boyle - The Dancer

Ficarra - Frantic Mid Atlantic

Huelgas Ensemble - The Magic of Polyphony

Alpha Rev - Cas.e Sessions - Volume 1

Dennehy - Elastic Harmonic

Front Line Assembly - Mechanical Soul

Various Composers - Bach Sons

Bend Sinister - Foolish Games

Max Jury - Modern World

Cassie Dasilva - Unsolicited Contact EP

Teresa Salgueiro - La Golondrina y el Horizonte

Fee Waybill - Fee Waybill Rides Again

Bill Spooner - Warren S. Richardson JR.

Roger Steen - Roger Steen

Various Artists - All This And World War II ( The Original Movie Soundtrack )

Mathilde Santing - Both Sides Now (Live)

Flying Colors - Flying Colors

Heidi Berry - Pomegranate - A Heidi Berry Anthology

Paul Buchanan - Featuring Paul Buchanan

Starless - Earthbound

Jason Falkner - All Quiet on the Noisefloor

Psychic Lemon - Studio Jams Volume 2

Roy Wood - Look Thru' the Eyes of Roy Wood & Wizzard - Hits & Rarities, Brilliance & Charm... (1974-1987)

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Live at Hammersmith 1975

The Summer Kills - Last Night We Became Swans

R Stevie Moore - Reforms the Beatles 1975

Mozart - The String Quintets

Up...

...and another new track emerged...

...taking us up to nine...

"Peking, Oppenheimer and Time" - another 6 minute track, involving elements of “Requiem for M Oppenheimer (1995)” and “Time Overcome by Hope, Love and Beauty (1627)”, both from “Disquetmusik III”, plus a found short wave radio recording of Radio Peking (6 November 1970) and rhythm bed...

Enjoyable...

Also refined the line up for the podcast...

Blue Nile-esque, new pop, solo Tubes, Joni covers, Motorik jams, New prog, Fado, Live Wood n Harley, Be Bop Deluxe covers, Beatles covers, the Bach boys and another new thing from CBQ...

WFH...

Anne was out at the Botanics with Lynn, so no telly at lunchtime today...

Back to WFH...

Yet another tasty tea from Anne - is there any other kind...

No...

A couple of "Superstore" episodes...

Today was Mozart's 265th birthday - so I looked to choose something to play...

...and dug out all these...

...and chose this...

..before heading back down for this week's "The Bay" - getting interesting...

Late on, another "Call My Agent" - best thing we watch right now - and there is a lot of competition...

Highlight of the Day : Another new piece emerging...

Hospitals and guns, only on a soap...

Playlist

Pink Floyd - Meddle

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

Heidi Berry - Pomegranate - A Heidi Berry Anthology

Starless - Starless

R Stevie Moore - Reforms the Beatles 1975

The Summer Kills - Last Night We Became Swans

Jason Falkner - I'm OK, You're OK

Jason Falkner - All Quiet on the Noisefloor

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Untitled

Up with an idea and to work...

A new CBQ record for February release - I have been creating a new piece each week to put in the podcasts - so why not put them together (with a couple of alternates to flesh it out to LP size)...

A new track created this morning... 

"The Escorial Conscience Reservoir" - 6:15 of fun comprising elements of “The Immaculate Conception of the Escorial (1678)” from “Disquietmusik I”, “The Awakening Conscience (1853)” from “Disquetmusik II” and “Reservoir (1961)” from “Disquetmusik III”, with judicious treatments and a rhythm bed...

The rest of the day was spent WFH...

"Call My Agent" at lunchtime...

A baked potato for tea...

Some new music downloaded...

"Holby City" this evening and a shocker - looks like Jac is leaving...

That hospital is pretty lax for the number of times people have brought guns in and shot people...

Oh well - it's a soap...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : A new idea...

Something came up, as it always seems to do...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2019

Max Jury - Modern World

John Cale - Honi Soit

Sumner McKane - Allot Upon

The Bad Plus & Wendy Lewis - For All I Care

Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo

Bidiniband - The Motherland

Udo Lindenberg - Stark Wie Zwei

Paul Buchanan - Mid Air

Rainbow - Rainbow Rising

Elton John - Honky Chateau

Harry NilssonvNilsson Schmilsson

Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet

Jellyfish - Bellybutton

Nazareth - Razamanaz

Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour

Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run

Robert Fripp - A Blessing Of Tears 1995 Soundscapes - Volume Two - Live in California

Teresa Salgueiro - La Golondrina y el Horizonte

Mathilde Santing - Half Moons, Whole Truths & Heartbreaks

Mathilde Santing - Luck Be a Lady (Live)

The Blue Nile - High (Deluxe Version)

The Blue Nile - Peace at Last (Deluxe Version)

The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops (Deluxe Version)

The Blue Nile - Rarities 1984-1996

Roger Waters - Encores

Paul Buchanan - Featuring Paul Buchanan

Flying Colors - Flying Colors

Starless - Starless (Remix EP)

The Blue Nile - Hats (Deluxe Version)

Various Composers - Music From The Era Of Pieter Bruegel The Elder Vol 7

Starless - Earthbound

Crass - Stations of the Crass

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra (US Version)

Les McCann Ltd - Les McCann Ltd. Plays The Shout

Various Composers - The World of Your 100 Best Tunes Vol 5

Various Artists - All This And World War II ( The Original Movie Soundtrack )

Huelgas Ensemble - Ciconia: The Complete Works

Yukihiro Takashi - Wild & Moody

The Revillos - Rev Up!

The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It

Brand X - Morrocan Roll

Various Artists - From Brussels With Love

Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity

Jadin - String Trios

John Cale - Words For the Dying

Robert Calvert - Lucky Leif And The Longships

Eric Carmen - Eric Carmen

Masami Tsuchiya - Rice Music

Herman van Veen - Andere Namen

Various Composers - Bach Sons

Ippu Do - Radio Fantasy

Rabbitt - A Grunt and a Croak in the Night

Huelgas Ensemble - The Magic of Polyphony

Pink Floyd - British Winter Tour '74

It's Monday morning and the weeks are just starting to meld into each other...

But, I'm on holiday today...

Or was supposed to be...

As ever, "something came up"...

So, I was on holiday this afternoon...

Anyway, I was up early - quelle surprise...

Plugged in...

Ready for some kunst...

I did not play these but pictured them...

A nice morning - very cold still and the snow is lingering...

Anne's latest is coming along at pace...

Much less finicky than those derived from our own photos...

Random LP of the Day was the last of my 15 vinyl albums by Francoise Hardy...

This, a compilation released in the UK in 1968, featuring 10 tracks taken from her LPs from 1962 and 1964...

10 tracks but just 21minutes long...

Still very good despite this short length...

A couple of bits of bread were broken up and chucked out the window for our furry and feathered friends...

Anne was sceptical but, soon...

...and, later, it was all gone - the spot where the bread had lain, was covered in the footprints of the big pigeons...

A discussion on Twitter on the relative merits of Weather Report, Return to Forever and the Mahavishnu Orchestra - whom I dub "The Triumvirate of Fusion"...

I have all their studio albums...

They range from the heaviness (in places) of MO, through the jazziness of RTF, out to the wider, kind of all encompassing range of WR...

So, having all 3 is the best position of course but, depending on your mood, you can turn to any of them at the right time...

Out for an annual trip...

I waited in the car, listening to a piano recital from the Wigmore Hall on Radio 3 - I wonder if we will ever be able to return...

Goodies purchased on the way home, in the form of an unpictured chocolate donut for the EP and a German biscuit for your correspondent...

Enjoyed with some coffee and some "Call My Agent"...

Back home, the long list for this week's podcast stretched to over 80 tracks...

Whilst I listened to quite a few of them, the EP prepped a lovely lamb casserole...

We were hopeless on "University Challenge" tonight, coming a very poor third indeed - we got no starters at all so, had we been on the programme, would have scored zero.  In the event, we managed around 55 points...

The rest of the evening drifted by...

That was Monday...

Highlight of the Day : Afternoon holiday...