Calne (Thursday 27th February 2020)

I'm not especially fond of this sculpture that was commissioned to stand outside the library by the Mayor on behalf of Calne Town Council for the Millennium. The sculptor, Rick Kirby, has made a number of sculptures on the theme of the human head so I rather suspect that its supposed symbolism of a student's open mind at a place of learning was rather after the fact. If it seems familiar, I have blipped it a couple of times before over the years.
Very near by, the swan was on its sweet spot again (see Extra).

L.
27.2.2020 (1630 hr)

Better in Large

Blip #3155 (#2905 + 250 archived blips taken  27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #002
Blips/Extras In 2020 #037/265 + #015/100 Extras
Day #3625 (823 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2284 (#2125 + 159 in archived blips)

Calne series
Art series
The Head series

Taken with Pentax K-x (White) and Pentax smc P-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL II white kit lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Chrissie Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble - Meditation (Of a Pair of Wire-Cutters) (recorded Air Studios, London, 2019)
Valve Bone Woe is actually the second solo album by Chrissie Hynde though the first was really the Pretenders in all but name. This is certainly not the case with this album in which she is supported by the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble, consisting of some fifty-two members plus guests. It is her tribute to the jazz she grew up with melded with dub, and plays to her love of melody. All 14 tracks are covers and mostly date from the thirties onwards, though come to a stop at 1969 with Nick Drake's River Man. She also includes a song by former husband Ray Davies (No Return from 1967).
Meditation is a Charles Mingus composition from 1960 and is an instrumental. The musicians on the album are all meticulously listed, including Marcel Camargo who plays classical guitar on this one track, apart from Chrissie Hynde who is uncredited. Obviously she is the singer throughout, but perhaps she is playing rhythm guitar on this?
I bought this album last September upon release, complete with Chrissie Hynde's signature, but only played it in its entirety for the first time today. I played it twice.


One Year Ago:
The Old Forge (Plum cherry blossom)