kestrelblazer
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If only my record-room still looked that tidy
Baudelaire, Yvette Mimieux, Ali Akbar Khan? That's a mad idea is it not? Turns out it was a great idea. According to Nat Hentoff the idea to record Baudelaire came from Yvette Mimieux. Ali Akbar Khan was in the room at the time and was asked if he would be interested in providing musical settings.
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Baudelaire, Yvette Mimieux, Ali Akbar Khan? That's a mad idea is it not? Turns out it was a great idea. According to Nat Hentoff the idea to record Baudelaire came from Yvette Mimieux. Ali Akbar Khan was in the room at the time and was asked if he would be interested in providing musical settings.
Perfect music for this cold, wet, and windy autumn day. Sounds just like the cover looks. Tetuzi Akiyama and Michel Henritzi- Shinjuko No Kage. The two electric guitarists drift through three reverberant and melancholy scenes in pleasing fashion.
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Perfect music for this cold, wet, and windy autumn day. Sounds just like the cover looks. Tetuzi Akiyama and Michel Henritzi- Shinjuko No Kage. The two electric guitarists drift through three reverberant and melancholy scenes in pleasing fashion.
Yes, one of my favourite LP covers
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yes, one of my favourite LP covers
We planted Liquidambar 'Worplesdon' about 20 years ago and at this time of year you really get a most beautiful leaf drop.
October 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We planted Liquidambar 'Worplesdon' about 20 years ago and at this time of year you really get a most beautiful leaf drop.
This Pharoah Sanders live CD is a real stunner. There's a version of 'Ole' on here that gives me goosebumps.
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This Pharoah Sanders live CD is a real stunner. There's a version of 'Ole' on here that gives me goosebumps.
I can hardly believe I took this photograph only 3 weeks ago. We sit under blankets of an evening now.
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I can hardly believe I took this photograph only 3 weeks ago. We sit under blankets of an evening now.
Perhaps you should go into record sleeve design?
September 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Perhaps you should go into record sleeve design?
Any of these hard-bitten characters turn up in it?
September 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Any of these hard-bitten characters turn up in it?
Big house just up the road sold off some land a few years ago for house building. Smallish house built, but there was a tree that had to stay.
September 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Big house just up the road sold off some land a few years ago for house building. Smallish house built, but there was a tree that had to stay.
Photographing Phlox paniculata Barci, our best Phlox, and was delighted to see a Hummingbird Hawk Moth. We often have them in the evening, but I've not seen one flying during the day.
August 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Photographing Phlox paniculata Barci, our best Phlox, and was delighted to see a Hummingbird Hawk Moth. We often have them in the evening, but I've not seen one flying during the day.
Nobody told this Ipomea, or the Begonia, that they shouldn't be growing out of a gap in the paving.
August 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Nobody told this Ipomea, or the Begonia, that they shouldn't be growing out of a gap in the paving.
Rosa 'Raymond Carver'.
August 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Rosa 'Raymond Carver'.
Other injured knees are available.
August 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Other injured knees are available.
I usually select a record I want to listen too and that suggests another, and so on. This weekend I just randomly pulled out some records to play whilst I was in the kitchen. These be they. I'm hardly ever near my 'proper' record player these days; like everything else it's most unsatisfactory.
July 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I usually select a record I want to listen too and that suggests another, and so on. This weekend I just randomly pulled out some records to play whilst I was in the kitchen. These be they. I'm hardly ever near my 'proper' record player these days; like everything else it's most unsatisfactory.
This is a kind of torture. Whenever I see these cats I want to get another cat, but I can't have another cat.
Sleep on my old friend.
Sleep on my old friend.
July 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is a kind of torture. Whenever I see these cats I want to get another cat, but I can't have another cat.
Sleep on my old friend.
Sleep on my old friend.
Some Penguin Modern European Poets. Probably picked up quite a few of these at Skoob Books when it was in Sicilian Avenue. Osip Mandelstam 85p. Yehuda Amichai was a highlight. Another world, another life.
July 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some Penguin Modern European Poets. Probably picked up quite a few of these at Skoob Books when it was in Sicilian Avenue. Osip Mandelstam 85p. Yehuda Amichai was a highlight. Another world, another life.
That is Jerry Jeff Walker. The back cover is similar. Contains the original version of 'Mr Bojangles' which he played live on the radio whilst a little the worse for wear on drink. The DJ can hardly believe it, "you wrote that"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PdU...
July 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
That is Jerry Jeff Walker. The back cover is similar. Contains the original version of 'Mr Bojangles' which he played live on the radio whilst a little the worse for wear on drink. The DJ can hardly believe it, "you wrote that"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PdU...
Snap- could do with a spare shelf.
July 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Snap- could do with a spare shelf.
Ela Laboriel 'Sin Final' ('Senza Fine) a jaunty version on the Mexican Musart label. Peggy Lee does it best and her version is quite the most beautiful of them all, but this little 7" is still a treat. A version of 'Call Me' on the A side so it's win win. #nowplaying
www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Sg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Sg...
July 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ela Laboriel 'Sin Final' ('Senza Fine) a jaunty version on the Mexican Musart label. Peggy Lee does it best and her version is quite the most beautiful of them all, but this little 7" is still a treat. A version of 'Call Me' on the A side so it's win win. #nowplaying
www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Sg...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Sg...
Doing a spot of Afro-Rocking in this kitchen- temp 85 of our UK degrees.
July 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Doing a spot of Afro-Rocking in this kitchen- temp 85 of our UK degrees.
Damn! If it had been that would have been like a sacred relic for me. I'd have scoured it for little curly hairs. I love Donat, but for me there's only one Hannay. On a similar theme I bought a Brotherhood of Ruralists type painting years ago and was told it came from Anita Harris.
June 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Damn! If it had been that would have been like a sacred relic for me. I'd have scoured it for little curly hairs. I love Donat, but for me there's only one Hannay. On a similar theme I bought a Brotherhood of Ruralists type painting years ago and was told it came from Anita Harris.