Getting Into Relax Mode

Slept soundly last night, fell asleep at eleven and woke up just after seven this morning. I was more tired than i thought i was. Anyhow, apart from hoovering using the new vacuum cleaner, it will be a day of relaxing.

I also have some online reports from yesterday's visits to do. Oh well.

More Pics Of Riley

I must share these with you. More pics of Riley the cat. He is definitely a big lad, not fat, just muscular! Stoic and proud, and in a way, very happy to have a loving family.

Ebay Listing, Reports and Music

So all the reports are now done, and the rest of the day spent listening to some music ,and adding items to my Ebay sales, as at the moment they are offering up to 100 items listed for free. I have 74 items listed already. I shall put up 26 mor either later on tonight or tomorrow evening before the offer expires.

I have so far listened to the following CD's -


Kool And The Gang - Best Of the Early Years
Nina Simone - The Best Of The Colpix Years
Bjork - Post

So some funky jazz funk grooves, some soul and blues and some electronica. I love Bjork anyway.

I found this book  for a quid the other day on my travels.

Don Ralke Gems

Some more musical gems.

This time from Don Ralke and a track called Ritual of the Cobra.

Also from Don Ralke is this wonderful tune Four Paces East.

Don Ralke was born in 1920 and was a prolific arranger, composer and producer, working for four decades in the Hollywood studio system in films, television, and pop recordings.

A killer bongo player, Ralke collaborated with versatile flautist Buddy Collette on "Jazz Heat" and "Bongo Beat". Warner Brothers then hired him for "Gershwin with Bongoes" and "The Sensuous and the Savage", which is widely regarded as one of the best jungle exotica albums of that era. He worked with Warren Barker on the music for '77 Sunset Strip' and his orchestra backed Sam Cooke on several 1959-1960 songs.

Ralke also recorded two monster garage punk hits by Ty Wagner: "I'm a No Count" as well as "Slander".

FOUR PACES EAST was the flip of a cover of Teen Beat, released on Warner Brothers in 1959. It's an incredible piece of music: playful, frenetic, exotic, deranged. Perfection!

He passed on in 2000 in Santa Rosa, California.

Killer Polish Jazz

Another musical gem. I have discovered over the years some fine modern Polish and Czech jazz as well as Russian. Here is one such groove from Jerzy Milian and a track called Thema Con Variazioni ,and is a 19 minute wild killer groove.

Enjoy!