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This main page contains Cloudland Blue : A Diary, with daily entries since 5 March 2005 (scroll down for the latest entries).

As of 5 March 2024, the diary moved into its 20th year.  By then, 6,941 days in, there had been 7,351 entries to date, of which, 148 were "picture only", across five periods:-

2022 (90): 18 April - 10 May (23); 13 - 17 June (5); 6 July - 5 September (62)

2023 (58): 21 September - 15 October (25); 18 October - 19 November (33)

It is always the intention to update those days with the relevant text but doing so is, of course, subject to opportunity (and, indeed, memory!)...

A day well spent/wasted - depending on your point of view...

Playlist

Manuel Fischer - Exxodus

Univers Zero - Lueur

Jane Weaver - Love in Constant Spectacle

Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ampersand

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Fallingsky

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Splinterheart

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Doveloveshawk

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietsongs

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Two Two One Zero

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Auden

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Anotherhappyday

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Soundingfall

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Decades

Don Ellis - At Fillmore

[Ahmed] - Wood Blues

Off World - 3

Capital Models - 2024-04-14 Leith Dockers

Crazy Wisdom - Music For Holland

Don Ellis - Connection

Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2

Sleepmakeswaves - It's Here But I Have No Names For It

Crazy Wisdom - Attic Rehearsal 1998-04-28

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Peri Urban - 1998 Remixes

Crazy Wisdom - Cowgate Rehearsal 1998

Crazy Wisdom - We Live The Foreigner's Life

Ascendant - Starfall

Well, a day of discovery...

Up into the attic this morning to find an Allen & Heath mixing desk I bought from old Dancers of San Martino chum, Stewart Robinson, aka Peri Urban, probably over 30 years ago now - and which I have never actually used...

I found a few things as I searched - our second shop's bag for example...

A huge apple box full of tapes - one of tens of boxes of cassettes up there...

Regular readers may recall one Fritha Lewin getting in touch recently - here is the only Call Me Clive recording on which she appears (as far as I know)...

...and here, some other examples of the Clive history...

Aha - I finally spied the desk, seen here under a cassette player, a CD recorder/player and, yep, another CD player...

...and out it came...

I took some pics to determine what should be plugged in where...

...and put the Yamaha CS5 synth through it to test it and gave a listen on headphones...

It might just work but it would be a big risk, so, back in the box it went - to be honest, it wasn't as high tech as I'd always imagined - of course, I was forgetting that it's well over 40 years old...

However, I brought down the wee MiniDisc player, which can be plugged into my recorder to transfer disc content to the hard drives...

...and so, much time was spent doing this - of course, everything has to be transferred from the MiniDiscs in real time, so it takes an absolute age - we are all so lazy now...

And so, a day was well spent/wasted - depending on your point of view...

It was, however, very enjoyable and I came across a few Crazy Wisdom recordings I'd long forgotten about including an entire unreleased LP's worth of material which Malcolm, Brodski and I recorded for Malcolm to take with him to Holland in 1999 to work on (of which, surprise, surprise, nothing ever came)...

For tea, a very, very, very tasty concoction from Anne, involving Gnocchi and sausages, creme fraiche and cheese and onions...

Yum-tastic...

...the rest of the evening was spent watching "Monk" and "Almost Paradise" as far as I recall...

Lights out...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : Rediscovering old music...

Today's New Music:-

A lack of obligations can make a refreshing change...

Playlist

Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye E.P.

Arushi Jain - Delight

Stegosaurus - leaving / loving

Plantoid - Terrapath

Grandaddy - Blu Wav

Khruangbin - A LA SALA

James - Yummy

Lizzy McAlpine - Older

Ghost Funk Orchestra - A Trip To The Moon

Max Richter - Spaceman OST

PAP - Tranchant

Mark Wingfield - The Gathering

Skyjack - Light Cycle

Ethan Iverson - Technically Acceptable

Elbow - AUDIO VERTIGO

Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

Jogging House - Rendezvous

IDLES - TANGK

Ride - Interplay

The Church - Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars

Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2

Mark Molnar - Ensemble dans le tact venu de loin

Low End Activist - Airdrop

FYEAR - FYEAR

Noon Goose - Murmurations

A day with no mums-related obligations...

Of course I slept in...

Tongue-tastic...

Scrambled egg, with just a smidgeon of chili flakes involved...

Scene...

Out and over to Flotterstone for a walk to Glencorse Reservoir...

Lovely...

Although we heard the sound of a Woodpecker, we could not see it - but we did see these geese...

..and these fishermen...

Back to the car...

...and to Penicuik, to visit sister Sheila, Andrew Senior and new recruit to the family, Maisie the dog...

...who is a wee cutie...

Aaaw...

Them to the Navaar House Hotel for a leisurely lunch...

Unpictured shared mushrooms were followed by Macaroni/Lasagne, Diet Irn Bru and a White Wine for the Lady...

...all enjoyed by a roaring wood based fire, providing a wonderful aroma...

To nearby Tesco for shopping...

...and home for some "Monk" and to do my charts for the week - reducing everything down from a weekly Top 100 to a more manageable Top 30...

...and, here, my Top 50 LPs of 2024 so far (average over weeks 1-15 with minimum total points of 40)

Some further music downloading also entertained...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : No obligations, out and about, lunch and meeting Maisie...

Today's New Music:-