RIP Junior Byles, you are remembered.

Needed some rousing and whimsical Rossini. Thieving Magpie did the job nicely.

A solo piano performance of a piece called ‘Castaglia’ by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023). He originally wrote it in 1979 for the album ‘Solid State Survivor’ by a Japanese synth-pop trio called Yellow Magic Orchestra which he co-founded. Ryuichi Sakamoto subsequently became a noted film score composer. His credits  included “Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence” (1983) in which he also played an acting role as Captain Yonoi. “The Last Emperor” (1987), and “The Revenant” (2015) which was his final film score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFDJzj12T7M&list=RDwFDJzj12T7M&start_radio=1

My heart goes out to those in Lisbon who died or lost loved ones in the terrible funicular accident yesterday. This famous song was composed to commemorate the opening of the first funicular on Mt Vesuvius - I'm not posting it frivolously or to make light of a tragedy, but just as a musical nod to the history of the funicular and the love that it inspires.

I'm a huge fan of jazz so right now I have John Coletrane's 'Giant Step' playing on the headphones. Almost as good of an album as 'A Love Supreme.' which I consider his best work.

Kula Shaker