Alan Burns
@alanburns.bsky.social
Kilmarnock-born Edinburgher, civil servant who likes a lot of music, niche trivia and funny stuff
"LLOYDS BANK COPROLITE!"
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"LLOYDS BANK COPROLITE!"
Watching this nonsense because Kerry Condon
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Watching this nonsense because Kerry Condon
@davidwilloughby.bsky.social definitely getting his shagging cock on here
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
@davidwilloughby.bsky.social definitely getting his shagging cock on here
Not much music posting from me this week - as with most times I use up a few days' leave, end up doing other things - but been playing this a lot for nighttime relaxation. 2026 may end up being a big lute year, who knows
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Not much music posting from me this week - as with most times I use up a few days' leave, end up doing other things - but been playing this a lot for nighttime relaxation. 2026 may end up being a big lute year, who knows
[checks images for how much Disraeli is likely to have fucked] good lord it's like a Victorian Tom Waits
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
[checks images for how much Disraeli is likely to have fucked] good lord it's like a Victorian Tom Waits
Now playing (just the last track, see thread)
![Album cover of Anthology 1: Come Organisation Archives 1979-1981 by Come, Whitehouse, Nurse With Wound etc [Susan Lawly 2xCD compilation, 1998]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreifuylkdtmvdckt7u5i6fiofkugf4i37szhaxrnpcpa6bohoz47l4e@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Now playing (just the last track, see thread)
I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways
This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white
Flying visit to Stockbridge Oxfam
November 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Flying visit to Stockbridge Oxfam
Clocking off for the day, ladies, my pelvis is so very fractured
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Clocking off for the day, ladies, my pelvis is so very fractured
For full-on Phil Collins fuck apologia, see his back half of the 70s jazz-funk side-hustle (and there being at least a chance that's a tin of Hofmeister lager)
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For full-on Phil Collins fuck apologia, see his back half of the 70s jazz-funk side-hustle (and there being at least a chance that's a tin of Hofmeister lager)
Now luteing (luting?)
Anyway, favourite ECM release this quarter of the year (still tempted by the Scofield/Holland, mind)
Anyway, favourite ECM release this quarter of the year (still tempted by the Scofield/Holland, mind)
![CD cover of Libro primo by Rolf Lislevand [ECM NS 2848]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreihak7spawqowonqojhro6hnrdclwqgfweyg4r2wnzyp6dpsnq4xwq@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Now luteing (luting?)
Anyway, favourite ECM release this quarter of the year (still tempted by the Scofield/Holland, mind)
Anyway, favourite ECM release this quarter of the year (still tempted by the Scofield/Holland, mind)
Right back up to date now with this absolute belter
![CD cover of The Shieling by Fergus McCreadie [Edition Records, 2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreia4lligb3e3efac5cea5onl3ralm4xxnnnnfy3okoxxku37kkxlmy@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Right back up to date now with this absolute belter
While I'm on 'piano plus electronics', dug this out because I still rate it as one of the best things Erased Tapes have ever released, really need to catch up on what Boysen's done since
![CD cover of Spells by Ben Lukas Boysen [Erased Tapes, 2016]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreigpanettelcmupon6fphm6f3ehfk6hua53s6f772ozk43b2ipbiai@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
While I'm on 'piano plus electronics', dug this out because I still rate it as one of the best things Erased Tapes have ever released, really need to catch up on what Boysen's done since
![CD cover of Feathers by Poppy Ackroyd [One Little Indian, 2017]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreidyecbawcqitbuf3gj36tehlnd7coyhvr7vxqhbwzs66rs5ncfdna@jpeg)
Back on my regular obsessions, opening track of this one is so good (is Winston doing plucked piano strings in the intro? Almost like proto-Frahm/Ackroyd)
November 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Back on my regular obsessions, opening track of this one is so good (is Winston doing plucked piano strings in the intro? Almost like proto-Frahm/Ackroyd)
Satie a la Windham Hill time. Starting to get used to this one and how resolutely unadorned Quist's renderings are, it's very pure in a way. Can imagine young Gould at his most mechanical doing Satie like this
![CD cover of Erik Satie: The Piano Solos performed by Bill Quist [Windham Hill, 1979]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreiaxq3cdnk3u672eifjxyufyjeyzymhqhb75kfkaq4ab7xugjbe44u@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Satie a la Windham Hill time. Starting to get used to this one and how resolutely unadorned Quist's renderings are, it's very pure in a way. Can imagine young Gould at his most mechanical doing Satie like this
Weirdo percussion time, and respecting the Random Acoustics label's commitment to the bit of 'album covers no, most inaccessible CD sleeves ever made yes'
![CD cover of Electro-Acoustic Solo Works 1984-95 by Gerry Hemingway [Random Acoustics, 1996]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreihasvizmvtxwzwywoy2mrufcjmajc4y2kt5ry6mstt6egztcblrla@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Weirdo percussion time, and respecting the Random Acoustics label's commitment to the bit of 'album covers no, most inaccessible CD sleeves ever made yes'
This again to start the morning
![CD cover of Philip Glass: Violin Concerto, Company, Akhnaten performed by Ulster Orchestra cond. Takuo Yuasa [Naxos, 2000]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreifk5bx5xzxikvamr3r53xeyfbroskeycgkhkhxter5jcda3p5salm@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This again to start the morning
Some nice lighthearted teatime viewing, never actually seen it
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Some nice lighthearted teatime viewing, never actually seen it
Returning now to piano, for this oddity I've still not quite got to grips with, probably because there's so much to it, Mikrokosmos-style
![CD cover of William Duckworth: The Time Curve Preludes, performed by Neely Bruce [Lovely Music, 1979]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tzkttulzcpjkfy2ohmblfcnf/bafkreihpefoilfj7ghsw2vw2m3pjs74koc6efdglxb5cju2dcaunsx5xd4@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Returning now to piano, for this oddity I've still not quite got to grips with, probably because there's so much to it, Mikrokosmos-style