Black is back...

Playlist

72 items in the playlist - only half of them are re the podcast recorded today - the rest, mostly catching up, still, with the new input on Friday...

Work done first thing, as usual, these days, under treated skies - treated to look better than they do...

Next two CD Boxes...

No 76 Kuss Quartet - London Chamber Orchestra...

A disc bought in Leipzig...

...by the Leipziger Streichquartett...

Featuring new string quartets by Leipzig composers...

Schenker, Thiele, Terzakis and Steffen Schleiermacher...

Then, box 77...

London Chamber Orchestra - (an unpictured) Robert McDuffie...

Volume 2 of the London Sinfonietta's "Jerwood Series"...

...featuring (then) new compositions by Morgan Hayes, Dal Fujikura...

...and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood...

What with all the new stuff coming in, I'm getting a bit behind with actually listening to these CDs from the boxes, rather than just photographing them...

Breakfast...

...eggs and mushrooms...

Into week 14...

A good chunk of the day spent on compiling, recording and uploading this week's podcast...

A message from chum Bernie just before 3 asking if I was up for a beer...

I wasn't really but took the opportunity for a walk down the hill...

..and a couple of Cherry Pepsi Maxs... 

Two hours later, a bus back up - Anne was out at Pilates...

On her return, salmon based tea...

...was followed by "The Black List" season 9, episodes 1 and 2 - it's turned up (along with seasons 1-8) out of the blue on Channel 4's streaming platform...

Later on, more listening to new stuff...

Bed around 11:30...

Jiggered...

Highlight of the Day: Achieving access to The Black List once more...

Today's New Music:

225 reduced to 168 but still a marathon...

Playlist

Up and working and listening - still making my way through the new download acquisitions from Friday...

As regards the 33 CDs acquired, I have only managed one, so far...

The views from the office this morning...

Second day of the weekend...

Driech...

At 8:30, took Anne along to Stewarts Melville for her PickleBall session, then, post a visit to LIDL for new bread and some biscuits etc, back to the house and loaded up the car for today's Capital Models session, our first with stand in guitarist Martin McQueen...

On the way to Roslin, I stopped off at our old house to see if much progress had been made - no pics - but there were two cars parked outside the house, one kind of across the front garden and a big truck up the driveway...

Sorry old neighbours!

Then, found the venue we will play in June...

A little out of the way but we should have a built in audience...

No pics either of today's session but here's the chocolate I took along, which turned out to be unneeded, as Moira baked a sponge from scratch, in honour of Martin's first visit to Moat View...

In all, 3 hours 45 mins of our two sessions were recorded - with around the first 20 minutes having been lost due to a recorder failure...

So, arrived at 10:30 and left at 3:30 - but very good work done - we played through all 48 songs on our list...

Objective achieved...

Back home and unloaded before Anne took the car off shopping...

Edited the sessions...

An hour of pfaffing about removed...

Good result...

Sent out to the boys in the band and to Mr Barclay to keep him in the loop...

A tasty brisket based tea...

..was followed by "Death in Paradise", "Father Brown", some listening back to today and the final two episodes of Season 11 of "Chicago PD"...

Weekend over...

Good one...

Highlight of the Day: Rehearsing...

Today's New Music:

A list not quite completed...

Playlist

Started the day with a wee list of things to do...

Listen to the new releases brought in yesterday...

Record the podcast a day early due to tomorrow's band session...

Record "Dissolution VI"...

Rehearse for tomorrow's band session...

Write up the last two days of this...

Rip all the new CDs purchased yesterday...

Etc. etc...

Let's see how I did...

Off to a good start with my rising time...

Under treated skies...

And, rather than carry out mu daily online tasks to keep stuff up to date, I commenced with the ripping of yesterday's acquisitions (see below - noted as "Today's New Music" - even though, in reality, they form part of yesterday's)...

...while being soundtracked with yesterday's new release input (which continued throughout the day, hence the large playlist above)...

Did not write the diary - although I did prep the entries for everything except the writing...

Chose the next two CD Boxes...

No 74 JACK Quartet - Emma Kirkby...

Violinist Leila Josefwicz, a disc purchased in New York in 1999 at Academy Records...

...recorded before she was 20 - she's now nearly 50 - time flies...

Features works by de Falla, Messiaen, Grieg and Bartok...

And, Box 75, Emma Kirkby - Tatjana Kukoc...

Chose the last in the box, guitarist Tatjana Kukoc...

Mostly multi tracked guitars...

Playing the music of Steve Reich, Stepehen Funk Pearson and Howard Bashaw...

Quite looking forward to that one...

Then, writing up the red book of CDs I own (Vol 2) with purchases so far in March...

The listening continued...

It was the weekend...

Anne made soup and then set off to Pickleball coaching - I ran through the new songs for tomorrow...

On her return, said soup enjoyed and a new thing discovered, "Good Cop, Bad Cop" - only 8 episodes in the first season, after which it was inexplicably cancelled...

As it is very funny indeed and much recommended...

By close today we'd watched the first four...

Music listening continued as we watched Scotland v Japan in a friendly...

Japan are 19th in the world (18th after this game), Scotland 38th (40th after this game) but, somehow, it was deemed a disappointing start to the World Cup build up to have lost 1-0...

In our group we face 7th and 8th ranked Brazil and Morroco - plus rank outsiders ranked 83rd(with whom we might get a draw), Haiti...

Tasty prawn pasta for tea...

While being prepped, I managed to write up the diary for the last two days..

Tasty tea was followed by the 4th of our 4 "Good Cop, Bad Cop" and three "Chicago PD", dishes and then, at 10:30, bed - due to losing an hour over night and Anne needing to be at Pickleball by 9...

Lights out without have accomplished much off my opening list...

...although I did manage to rip all yesterday's CDs...

Highlight of the Day: New music...

Today's New Music: