Ooft that Hitachi Opus 1 (here's a higher res pic of one that's going on ebay) is a gorgeous piece of design, CD deck & the two tape decks all in a neat row- it's like 70s top-load configuration reimagined in an 80s design; and the control panel on the right is giving video editor vibes! No. Notes.

The never-confirmed (but widely suspected) rumour of a male French teacher and female English teacher having an affair. Due to notorious dental hygiene, his nickname was "Hairy Teeth", and the number of times she spun round her blackboard to find "SHAVE HIS TEETH" scrawled on it became legendary

Bet if you wound back time by fifty-odd Newport Folk Festivals this would be a gathering of the hippest sexiest motherfuckers on the planet

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More solo piano: this one was a kind of do-over from scratch of Michael Jones' cassette-only second album, never reissued in its original form; perhaps he just wasn't happy with how it turned out. This version is classic mid-80s Jones: four tracks, hour in total

I love how if you were wanting to launch a retrospective prosecution of this, you could probably date it to within a couple of years, that format really was a flash in the pan

Solo piano time, the artist's only album under her own name. Discogs sez "sang backing vocals on Womack & Womack's Teardrops" which doesn't seem to have documented evidence, although she definitely did a fair bit of backing vocals for Julia Fordham. Anyway this is very nice post-Winston stuff

Watching this, quite an uncanny proto-Mean Girls right down to the four character templates and the split-screen 'multiple characters on a phone call' bit. Couldn't recall this being in UK cinemas at all (this was my first year at uni, went a lot) and it looks like it didn't even get released here

Enjoying the Pitchfork review of the Taylor Swift album, especially the withering little deadpan detail that this line ends on

Romeo Had Juliette by Lou Reed

Now this: The Arild Andersen Quintet, as Andersen wishes he'd stuck to, but also, badass band name. What a cracking line-up too

Now playing (Newton also had a one-off ECM that I wouldn't mind getting hold of) - playing flutes in a big canyon at night, crickets and all, what's not to like

Interrupting the Saturday chazzer haul, as from South Holland cometh the month's Discogs splurge: was on a tear through their new age section to fill some gaps, then very glad I also thought to check them for ECM, got two great OOP wants ticked off

A film I've never got around to watching, despite its title being lodged in my memory pretty much since I learned to read: it was in every single classical compilation my folks had around the house over the years, in some cases not even bothering with the actual Mozart piano concerto number/mvmt

Staying at the same venue, some years earlier

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from. 1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

Onwards with the weekend haul. Newer deluxe edition of this looks tempting too

Reading up about the full-length concert release and loving how the track immediately following the Gonsalves barnstormer is called "Announcements and pandemonium"

This now, in its original 'not really live' form

had a good rant about the absolute shambles I've had to go through over the past two years, anyone dealing with ADHD provision should do likewise

Right let's get some of this played

mfw you hear there is an immoral culture going down in a sex district

Godfather trilogy. Even when flatsharing with the 2 most 'seen every film ever' people ever, that gap somehow never closed (and the one of them who became my life partner certainly wouldn't have advocated for it, but I'm surprised the other never did). Is the first one good? Just can't be arsed now

Legendary bassist Cecil McBee's Mutima is coming back into print on CD! (And LP, if you're one of those.) mackavenue.com/collections/...

Getting the Hibees vote sewn up on Strictly, masterful gambit

Fucking hell, Stockbridge Oxfam (this haul could easily have been doubled if not for stuff I already had/wasn't fussed with)

Please enjoy Marie Osmond (the smurfette of the Osmonds) discussing and reciting Dadaist sound poetry youtu.be/USTQgu229Wc?...

Coltrane Time. Let's have a Coltrane.

Oh YES, won't miss lurking on the Discogs page for this and watching secondhand prices go ever skyward

I took the coward's way out and bought both cassette singles so I couldn't lose

Now playing: my pick for #CDFriday is the late John Taylor in a cracking trio show from 23 years ago. More like this from the ECM vaults, please

Tibor Szemző dust-off pt. 2: definitely prefer the flutey birdcall loveliness of the Snapshot album, but this is engrossing strings & voices stuff in its own way

Couple of random shelf picks now, and they're both this guy's pleasantly odd downtempo atmosperic soundtracky sound world

Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Back on this to start the day

Lazily watching a Sunday selection of Simpsons on C4 is wild: a 4:3 aspect ratio with crap animation will give pure gold with deathless quotes and references to 20 different pieces of classic culture; a 16:9 ratio with eerily perfect animation will be a dull trudge around with that week's guest star

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Let's have some more scintillating strings now

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Thorough the Eyes of The Tiger A poem interpolating the work of Nael (age 6) and Peter Hazel (age 5). The tiger I hav for breakfast Weetabix He destroyed his cage I have for lunch some meat Yes I have for tea 2 sosajis YES The tiger is out and that's enuf to eat

Any excuse to post the greatest music video ever made

Mass time, let's have a mass

Breakfast time, let's have a breakfast

Sticking with Gould for one more: I misread Frances' reply which happily reminded me I picked up a charity shop copy of the 5th Symphony transc. Liszt a while back, and barely listened to it. This rocks

You know it's what every cat is thinking, all the time

Good morning, now playing

Stopped counting when I'd definitely cleared the four-figure mark (sometime in 2018)