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I’m a Local Government lifer, Musician and Linux dabbler. This is a large and sprawling disorganised mess - a bit like me really. I’m interested in lots of things at the same time but a LOT of music. I’m not really doing this for any particular purpose other than being an old-ish dog learning some new tricks

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  • Feb 09, 2025
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The Sportsman

Colley’s Dog 5.2% ABV Yeast, hops, water and malt. Lots and lots of malt. Tasting notes This dark ruby premium ale is all about the malt, and we’ve packed a lot into this brew. It’s nutty, it’s malty and full of body. An old school strong English bitter.

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  • Feb 06, 2025
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Dog

“Dog” by artist Diego De La Rosa. oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches 2022.

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  • Feb 06, 2025
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More Mermaid

More adventures in reluctant software development.

Having discovered last week that a heady brew of Mermaid scripting and AI could speed up some epic and dull process mapping for a caseload database system, I thrashed out some charts to send to the overseers.

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  • Feb 06, 2025
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The Rainy Daze - Fe Fi Fo Fum (Blood of Oblivion)

The Rainy Daze was a psychedelic pop group formed in Denver, Colorado in 1965. They were composed of singer/guitarist Tim Gilbert with his brother Kip on drums, lead guitarist Mac Ferris, bassist Sam Fuller, and keyboardist Bob Heckendorf.

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  • Feb 01, 2025
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Pete La Roca - Basra

By the time drummer Pete La Roca recorded his debut album Basra in 1965 he had already appeared on 9 Blue Note sessions as a sideman and spent time in bands led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But it was another tenor titan, Joe Henderson, that La Roca brought in as the sole horn voice to front a dynamic quartet that was completed by what liner note writer Ira Gitler called “one of the most attuned rhythm sections in jazz” featuring bassist Steve Swallow and pianist Steve Kuhn. The resulting album is one of the great underrated gems of the Blue Note catalog featuring an expansive 6-track set that includes 3 compositions by La Roca (“Basra” “Candu” “Tears Come from Heaven”), Swallow’s tune “Eiderdown,” “Malagueña” by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, and a stunning ballad performance of the standard “Lazy Afternoon.”

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  • Feb 01, 2025
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Spiritual Jazz 17 - Saba/MPS

The Jazzman label continues its excellent Spiritual Jazz compilation series with a focus on the SABA and MPS labels from Germany, who released tons of music by a diverse range of international jazz artists in the sixties and seventies. Few have heard of these labels next to colossuses like Blue Note and Impulse! - Spiritual Jazz 17 ought to change that, containing music from artists range from Elvin Jones to Pedro Iturralde and Hideo Shiraki.

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  • Feb 01, 2025
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Mermaid

Mermaid - Diagramming and charting tool

JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.

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  • Jan 27, 2025
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Syrinx - December Angel

Syrinx was a Canadian electronic music group active from 1970 to 1972. Propelled by the compositions of keyboardist John Mills-Cockell and backed by saxophonist Doug Pringle and percussionist Alan Wells, the group broke musical ground with their innovative use of the Moog synthesizer and their world music inspirations. Their song “Tillicum” received national attention as the theme music for the television series Here Come the Seventies.

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