the winds change, the seasons change (heavy laden dub)

the only classical music horsemouth knows (apart from the records he would find in his dad's collection - grieg, holst, tchaikovsky) is the french piano stuff (debussy, satie, fauré). it's tempting (when asked for a recommendation) to go with one of those. but instead here's monteverdi's zephiro torna (the winds change, spring comes). it's kind of baroque though. does that count? plus it's rare to find classical music with a djembe. 

how did horsemouth learn of it? from the flux wedding of billie and george maciunas. 

his brother's youngest recently sang fauré's les roses d'ispahan as an exam piece. she's the only person in the family other than horsemouth (as far as horsemouth knows) to express any interest in music (though his grandparents on his dad's side did have a piano, so maybe horsemouth needs to as some questions). 

yesterday horsemouth spent a lot of time extracting figures from a spread sheet (only for them to be changed later). he's trying to get his head around 'things' - two large things look like landing together, that's a lot to have on your plate for one meeting. 

from a discussion of the painting on the cover of led zeppelin 4 (old man carries unfeasibly large load of sticks) horsemouth learned that it was supposed to represent the tarot card the ten of wands (where you see another man similarly afflicted with a heavy load). horsemouth certainly has felt heavy laden of late - he feels a lack of someone to talk about this stuff (hence he's driveling on  here - er. but in code). 

at last some good news. rob lawson has sent horsemouth two CDs of music recorded by his band. (so that's horsemouth's listening for a while sorted). should you wish to purchase one here's the bandcamp page to be going on with. horsemouth continues to be delighted with the track he played on on sunday (did he mention he played some bass on it?)

today a rainy and grey day. tomorrow horsemouth goes for a zoom meeting in the morning and round to his brother's for food in the evening. at the end of the week the weather changes (allegedly) and gets much colder. so far the house has barely had the heating on and they still haven't broken into the government's 66/ month overwinter allowance - but if they run the heating they are almost certainly going to have to.