Reports Done, Time To Relax I Think

Just finished the last of my four reports from yesterday. Today i have decided to have a day off instead of doing the North Kent coast visits.I have a new CD to listen to anyway and i also need to finish a book.

The only sad news i have is that Andy , my neighbour, had to be removed yesterday.He had some sort of mental breakdown and although i knew he was slightly bipolar it had got so worst yesterday that staff feared for his safety and the safety of others. In fact they had the police and an ambulance to remove him. And yet he was a gentle soul overall, apart from occasional fits, and we never had a cross word, had similar musical values and esoteric interests.

I only heard about this when i came back around eleven at night to use my laptop in the common room. It was Connor ,the opposite neighbour to me who told me about the incident.

I just hope that Andy will get better and recover. Whether he is allowed back here though is a moot point.

Relaxing Sunny Afternoon

Well,i am glad i took the day off. The afternoon has been very sunny and hot.In fact it allowed me to have a couple of hours of sunbathing That tan stills looks good and i am often asked if i have been on holiday abroad. LOL!

I picked up a few Cheap CD's in town,including a great compilation of the music of Jeff Buckley.

I also listened to the Panda Bear CD "Perfect Pitch" which i fund cheap on Amazon.

I was talking to Annie (whom had a minor fling with Andy) about the aforementioned guy later,and then we got onto music, She said that i have the most incredible musical knowledge , and the breadth of my tastes she finds outstanding. I blushed and thanked her.

Talking of music,i have rejoined Discogs - as it afar better site for music than Ebay - and i am getting fed up with the charges on Ebay which i will eventually leave within the next few weeks.

https://www.discogs.com/seller/whatrecords/profile

Friday Musical Selection - Mixed Bag

Time for some music - quality singer songwriter stuff and interpretations

Jeff Buckley - So Real

( More music here )

Enjoy.

Birthday Greetings

Happy birthday to elenbarathi and cat_tail_x. May you both had a great day.

Perfect Pitch

I finally have this great album from 2007 and a top five album of the year from the Wire magazine -

Panda Bear -Perfect Pitch

Comfy In Nautica
Take Pills
Bros
Im Not
Good Girl
Carrots
Search For Delicious
Ponytail

The radical evolution of Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear's sound over the course of his solo catalogue is inextricable from the concordant developments happening with his collaborations in Animal Collective. Both entities shifted gears quickly from album to album, but the wildly different places Lennox would take his experiments truly found a voice of their own with Person Pitch, his 2007 quilt work of samples, textures, and unprecedented explorations of joy and sorrow.

The approach made Person Pitch feel all the more out of left field, with Lennox deftly constructing the album almost entirely from carefully mapped-out samples, minimal beats, and endless layers of his own reverb-saturated vocal harmonies. The divergence from band playing toward electronic composition would inform and influence a huge swath of indie rock that came after, with Animal Collective themselves catching up to Panda's electronic leanings by the time of their high-water mark, 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Though comprising just seven tracks, not a second of time is wasted over the course of Person Pitch. From the loop of clapping that brings "Comfy in Nautica" into focus to the gentle guitar chords and steady kick-drum pulse of album closer "Ponytail," each sound is economical and deliberate. Lennox's gift here is assembling small sounds to create a bigger picture. "Take Pills" builds its rhythm from interlocking samples of scraping skateboard wheels and an anonymous oldies radio loop before walls of Beach Boys-esque harmonies come in on top. The song goes on to a second half made up of a bouncing, skeletal bassline and more waves of harmonies, occasional sound effects of distant atom bombs, screeching animals, and splashing puddles all culminating in a blurry pastiche that seconds as a perfect pop song. This is also true of album centrepiece "Bros," a 12-minute collage of chiming guitar arpeggios, stony vocal harmonies, hooting owls, and phasing loops that fade in and out of each other. More electronic impulses are blended into the respective grooves of two-parter "Good Girl/Carrots," while hazy tape manipulation, wordless vocal loops, and soft noise make up the more ambient "Search for Delicious." Disarmingly simple, perfectly metered, and striking in both its playfulness and vulnerability, Person Pitch stood as a perfectly executed statement for Lennox, and in at least some circles of indie rock, a musical revelation.{AllMusic.com}

Definitely a winner in my books.