A Couple Of Things

A couple of things.

The mobile phone works again now that it has dried out.
The moral of the story, make sure your phone is in a place where it cannot fall out of when in public toilets.

The other thing -
Now that I have told Mary about it and was going to give her Huawei model back she said to me "keep it. I have a better phone now", she said.

So, I have a backup just in case...

Music For The Night People

Right, so now I am gleefully in a good mood vis-a-vis the phone, here is some music for you night owls.

Penguin Cafe - More Milk

Peter Erskine - On the Lake

Julianna Barwick - Crystal Lake

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 Op. 47: Largo (Third movement)

WDR Philharmonic Orchestra, Cologne 1995
conducted by Rudolf Barshai

ENJOY

Just Wondering

Do you like bread pudding?

What's your favourite kind of bread and how do you best like it?

Do/Did you wear an apron when you work in the kitchen?

Good Night

Good Morning

Answers To Yesterday's Brain Teaser Quiz

1/ The link is that all these people are named "Vans" in the middle -

Vincent van Gogh - only sold one painting in his lifetime.
Ludwig van Beethoven - only wrote one opera which was Fidelio.
Martin Van Buren - the eighth US president from 1837 to 1841.
Edwin van der Sar - a Dutch footballer who is a goalie and scored only one goal in his lifetime. He played for Ajax, moved to Italian club Juventus, and then to the Uk, first for Fulham and then to Manchester United. He scored a penalty for Ajax to complete an 8–1 victory over De Graafschap in the 1997–98 season.

2/ This was about breeds of cats: the 'King of Beasts' is of course the lion, the greatest cat of them all, and he has much smaller cousins all distinguished by the epithet 'rex' or Latin for King. The California rex, Devon rex, Cornish rex, German rex and Selkirk rex are all popular breeds of the domestic cat.

R cazt

I had this on endless repeat five times today as it is the last track and I did not want it to end.

Autechre - r cazt

ENJOY

Nadia Sirota and Tomita

Remember those great 70s classical Moog albums of Tomita? Well here is an update I think which blew me away recently from the radio -

Nadia Sirota - From The Invisible To The Visible

Baroque
℗ Bedroom Community
Released on: 2013-03-18


And the original Moog master -

Isao Tomita- Clair de Lune (Debussy)

ENJOY

Three For Wednesday

Sounding like something that Ryuchi Sakamoto would do is this Japanese sounding score -

Shida Shahabi - Pretty In Plums

'Pretty In Plums' by Shida Shahabi from the album 'Homes' available on 130701 / Fat Cat Records and via Sing A Song Fighter in Scandinavia.
http://130701.com/release/homes/​
Listen + buy via Bandcamp, Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music + more: http://radi.al/homeshidashahabi​

A film by Jennifer Rainsford
Production EARTHColab, Artlab Gnesta


And now another form the BBC Radio 3 late night shows -

Hania Rani - Eden

A track from my best of Etta CD -

Etta James - At Last

Awesome song and version.

ENJOY

Bill Summers - Brazilian Skies

Percussionist Bill Summers released his "Feel The Heat" album in 1977 on Prestige Records. This track was also included in the 2002 compilation "Brazilian Boogie" on the Nascente label.

Gerardo Frisina - Joy Shout

Taken From The Album "Join The Dance"
SCCD452 - 2010 - Schema Records

Nico Gomez - Rio

After two great Latin jazz and fusion grooves from my bro coming42 is this slamming track that DJ Abo, Ally Smith, and myself use to play to death at The Northern Lights and The Quadrant back in the days in Brighton -

Nico Gomez  and His Orchestra - Rio

The LP had that typical bachelor pad exotica groove look to it.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo ....

ENJOY

The Vibrato Monologues

I often listen and watch his videos when it comes to discerning what versions of classical works to go for if I was buying. I also find these posts by Hurwitz illuminating and fun. This is one that had in hoots of laughter along the way esp. the bisexual violin.

Music Chat: The Vibrato Monologues--Sexual Politics and Expressive String Timbre

This talk consists of my reading a paper that I presented at a meeting of the New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society. The title speaks for itself, but the issues raised are fascinating ones that you don't need to be a musicologist to understand or find relevant. In brief, why was it that in the late 19th century so many sources decry the use of vibrato when we know that everyone was using it frequently? Have a listen--it may surprise you!