Motel Modesto Bourne End Rising
09.56
Motel Modesto, Bourne End.
Rising heroically at 07.25, a further incremental advance towards this time zone.
Now that’s what you call breakfast I…
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… The Dramatic Universe and coffee.
At the request of the only patron present at the trough, the amplitude of Anthemic Hits Of The 1980s With Driving Drums was decreased to Unrecognisable Simpering Something Background Noise. Two young staff persons, male & female, acted honourably to be useful while struggling to function in a language alien to their own.
11.15 Off to work.
19.02 Arriving with cakes at the door of Wilson World HQ c. 11.40, beginning today’s sonic adventures at 12.03 I…
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… mixing Larks’ Tongues In Aspic in 5.1. The last time we looked at this was in January 2009. Now, further advancing.
A cake break, with interesting conversation, then to new mixing of Starless And Bible Black in stereo. The original release is now superseded. We’ll Let You Know (live improv in Glasgow at Green’s) signals an increasingly muscular band, following Jamie’s departure, and from a group together for less than a year. The Nightwatch belongs in a different space, with echoes of a particular Crim pastoralism more obvious in Cadence & Cascade (from ITWOP) and Lady Of The Dancing Water (from Lizard). Book Of Saturday is also close to this sense of an English pastorale, but with its own special space; eg action not quite commingling with shepherds & their flocks, not quite taking place within a rustic idyll, and some three of four centuries late in arriving. So where, how, what?
Leaving Steven at 16.00 & into Berkhamsted for shopping & bibliophiliacal tumescence. Returning to these modest and acceptable accomodations – a riverside room that is actually by the side of a/the river I…
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… for e-flurrying & practising.
23.14 done.
