I found an album by Blanket in the reduced items bin at the record shop which I picked up for the following reasons, I quite liked the cover, it was cheap. I hadn’t heard of […]
Month: June 2019
Eluvium – Piano Works
Label: Temporary Residence Limited – TRR299LP-C1Format: 3 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Iridescent Mother Of Pearl Limited to 1000 copies. Includes Pianoworks Vol. 2 (new recordings of classic Eluvium piano pieces). This arrived in the […]
Later…..With Jools Holland
I’ve been watching ‘Later…..’ since it started and it is the only music show on British television that has got it right, I really can’t think of anything else that’s around at the moment that […]
Nina Simone – Pastel Blues
There are a lot of old jazz and blues albums being re-issued at very reasonable prices at the moment, this isn’t one of them, costing pretty much the same as a new release, but worth […]
Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile
For Fathers Day today, I received a couple of albums. By received I mean I went to the record store, chose them, paid for them and brought them home. I picked up a copy of […]
Johnny Too Bad – John Martyn BBC Documentary
Just stumbled over this excellent documentary on Youtube. I’ve seen it before but if you haven’t seen it, it is well worth watching.
Charity Shops Haul
Popped into town and two of the 4 charity shops had some new stock. As always, anything even remotely interesting found its way into my bag, taste doesn’t factor. Here is what I got today […]
London 7th June – Record Shopping
Back home from London and back at the MacBook. I had about 5 hours of wandering time on Friday morning with no pressure to be anywhere or do anything so it was time to have […]
1959 again
So I find myself let loose in London, which means record shops. I’ll write about some of them another time when I’m on my laptop and not my phone. I’m currently listening to John Lee […]
Dead Girl
I was tootling around on the internet and found a song I recorded years ago on a site I’d forgotten about. I used to write and record a lot of music, enough that I was […]
Best Albums of 2002
I was thinking that 2002 wasn’t that long ago, but of course it’s 17 years, and looking at the albums from that year I’m quite surprised that they were released that long ago. It really […]
