Friday 26 September 2003

very late, on the road home from Nenthorn, Adrian driving rather fast

I spent today embroiled with various CDs one way and another. Mhairi and Adrian picked me up first thing this morning to drive to Nenthorn for a day with Tony Kime on the 2nd edit of the La Serenissima Vivaldi in Arcadia disc.

It was my first time back there since Tony's builders cleared us a space on the floor in February for us to could record the quartet material for SADN, and being back in the room again was quite an emotional moment. The scaffolding outside has gone now (picture in the gallery), but otherwise it looks much the same. 

While sat outside having lunch, my phone rang and it was Philip from Linn Records calling from Las Palmas(!), sounding hopeful about the prospects for our Kellie CD actually making it to completion. We should know one way or the other in the next few days.

I let Mhairi have a listen to the first edit of The Red Red Rose, which features her wonderful Burns singing, and then later David G rang from Canada to say that Marquis have decided to handle the UK and European release of SADN, dates to be confirmed. So the various debts from that project should be paid off very soon, and we can look towards the next quartet CD, which we started recording with no particular plan in mind on Monday. Did I mention that we've decided to rebrand the quartet 'Lion'? Anyway, now we have a total of four CDs in various states of completion - given the classical record industry is in a state of collapse and we've recently had our SAC funding withdrawn, this is something of a miracle.