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I'm #PlayEverything in my record collection (now at 72%) but I keep buying more. Includes #DailyVinyl & #MonksMusic

Here for music and art.
#ASD but not in a good way. I post disability stories but avoid politics.

Not a monk, don't dance
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#MonksMusic Part 2 starts today. Working forwards with roughly 225 composers & compilation albums from my collection, starting in 900 and ending in 1700 exploring the rich tapestry of Medieval, Renaissance & Early Baroque music.
As before I'll post a composer, their years, a work & a link
It's that time of the year spent wondering whether to buy that album or has someone already bought it for you as a Christmas present
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Year - c.1422
Album - The Spirits of England & France, Vol. 5
Band - Gothic Voices
The Spirits of England & France, Vol. 5
<p>This latest release from Gothic Voices forms a pair with the <i>Missa Caput</i> (<hyperion:link album="CDH55284">CDH55284</hyperion:link>). <i>Missa Veterem hominem</i> is an anonymous English…
www.hyperion-records.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#NowPlaying 🎻
Wizlav von Rügen
Mare Balticum, Vol. 3
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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*Wednesday November 26th 21:15

Windy says most of us are hovering about +10/12c degrees the now, with highs of +13/15c degrees tomorrow but wet and WINDY with it
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Just watched a helicopter travel the ten miles between Scotland's two 2 Star Michelin restaurants. All of ten miles. Obviously too posh to travel by road
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Years - 1390-1453
Composer - John Dunstaple
Album - Motets & Chansons
Power & Dunstaple: Masses & Motets
Power & Dunstaple: Masses & Motets. Erato: 6024932. Buy download online. The Hilliard Ensemble
www.prestomusic.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#NowPlaying
Airs de cour

a popular type of secular vocal music in France from about 1570 until around 1650
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
If you have any interest in Scottish music this concert is worth a watch. 🎻 18th century Consort Music blending traditional tunes and classical techniques.
youtu.be/wdBE_XXAia8?...
Scottish Early Music – For Ever Fortune (Robert Getchell & Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien) | Ambronay
YouTube video by Total Baroque
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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‘The Porter’ (1972)
This was the first piece of Ladybird artwork I ever bought. It drew me in.

Artist: John Berry
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Anyone who remembers the brutal WRAG cuts of April 2017 under the last govt will know why this research is important. Please share it with MPs + peers so ministers know the grim consequences of cutting out-of-work benefits for disabled people.
#DWP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...
Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds
Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
#NowPlaying 🎻
Mare Balticum Vol. 1 - Music In Medieval Denmark
Ensemble Peregrina
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
#NowPlaying 🎻🎻🎻🎻

Kenneth Dempster - The Cold Dancer
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Philippe Verdelot
Madrigals For Four Voices
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Year - c.1420
Album - Argentum et aurum
Band - Ensemble Leones
Argentum et aurum: Musical Treasures from the Early Habsburg Renaissance
Argentum et aurum. Naxos: 8573346. Buy CD or download online. Els Janssens-Vanmunster (voice), Raitis Grigalis (voice), Miriam Andersen (Swedish cowhorn), Tobie Miller (symphonia), Liane Ehlich…
www.prestomusic.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#NowPlaying 🎻
Josquin des Prez
Septiesme Livre de Chansons

Ensemble Clément Janequin
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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I’m starting Tuesday with Dvorak, his heart-felt cello concerto.

He was emphatic about its final shape, writing to his publisher, “I give you my work only if you will promise me that no one … shall make any alteration in it without my knowledge and permission.”

youtu.be/wBFeeOt_SGY?...
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 | Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich & Anastasia Kobekina
YouTube video by DW Classical Music
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
apparently we're ranking Star Wars movies. so
1 Hidden Fortress
2 Star Wars (original release)
3 who cares
November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
How on earth didn't I know about Schola Cantorum Basiliensis?
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
#NowPlaying 🎻
Natale Monferrato - Salve Regina
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Review of the week: Wes Anderson: The Archives @designmuseum.bsky.social
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Emily LaBarge is charmed by a deep dive into the pastel-hued world of the American film director, through the lens of his costumes, props, scripts and more

www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#Highlandcops #Iplayer Well it may just be me but do these beat-coppers up North come across as at least part-human?! Some fantastic scenery shots intertwined with some real tragic stories. The mountain rescue volunteers deserve high praise for sure. 😱👏👏
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Symphony 57 In D Major - Joseph Haydn
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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But it'll be the west and the NW (including the Western Isles) that have the brightest of afternoons me thinks

Mind now. All the gunk is over in EASTERN Scotland today, especially the NE, although it does track further south as we go through the day
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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*Monday November 24th 08:10

MONDAY UPDATE SCOTLAND

Windy says happy Carpenters Day - rainy days and Mondays always get me down

Anyway. As forecast. We have a clear east WEST divide today with the best of the brightness over in the WEST, although parts of the SOUTH do okay as well early doors
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM