Old Man Crotchety has been busy lately. There's another post in the pipeline but it needs some lengthy research and won't be ready on the usual weekly schedule. So, in the meantime, rest assured that the wheels are still turning here at Crotchety Mansions and when the cogs have aligned there will be much more…Read more Matte Kudasai
Rain Tree Crow
Occasionally we come across a band, an album and a track that all share the same name. If my memory serves me correctly, the Vinyl Connection blog site gave a technical term for this nominal trinity a few months back, but I have been unable to track it down. So please forgive me if this…Read more Rain Tree Crow
A Life Worth Living
Facebook sucks. It's unattractive, riddled with annoying advertisements and never, ever does what I want. So I've been looking around for alternatives. Google threw up this article comparing four somewhat similar apps and diaspora sounded interesting. It's an open source project that provides social networking facilities, much like Facebook, but it's distributed over a network…Read more A Life Worth Living
New Release Pick & Mix
Today you can pick your own treats from an assortment of recent releases that tickled the Crotchety taste buds over the last week or so. Two of these songs came to my attention via Josh Gering's Fortnightly Playlist; the other three appeared on my Release Radar on Spotify. --- *** --- First up we have…Read more New Release Pick & Mix
An Outcast of the Islands
Or, Finding Colin This week Burning Shed is inviting pre-orders for an album called Still. This new release appears to be by a fish called Colin (Bass) and a pen called Daniel (Biro). Crotchety Man recognised the pen as a writer of ambient aural pieces but the fish was hidden in the aquatic weeds of…Read more An Outcast of the Islands
Killing Moon
Echo was a naughty nymph. When Zeus came down to dally with the maidens of Mount Cithaeron, he told the loquacious Echo to engage his wife, Hera, in long conversations so that she would not find out about her husband's indiscretions. And Echo did as she was told, for it would be most unwise to disobey…Read more Killing Moon
Corona Rhapsody
A Bohemian lockdown song. https://youtu.be/9Eo9M4-BrJA
Another Language
I enjoy a challenge. Persuading a computer to do what you want is always challenging, but it can be immensely rewarding, too. That's why I chose a career in programming. When I retired after nearly 40 years of writing software I assumed I'd continue to do a bit of coding for fun to fill the…Read more Another Language
Indie Interlude
Now that the humans are all stuck indoors some of the shyer animals have come out to saunter through our gardens and streets. While they take over outside I have been drawn to those easy-to-listen-to songs that the Indie bands do so well. And, with time on our hands, I thought the Crotchety readership deserved…Read more Indie Interlude
Noise In Your Eye
Some people, it seems, can hear their eyes move. Whether this is a terrible affliction or simply a benign curiosity I can not say. What is certain, though, is that Noise In Your Eye is a very appropriate title for a music project by a pair of musicians steeped in the visual arts. Daniel Pennie’s…Read more Noise In Your Eye
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