Another good Boards Of Canada Youtube docu...

 

Interesting review of the last Boards Of Canada Album Tomorrow's Harvest,

How true or not or intentional the Album's songs were listed, this lad is very clever to work this out...

https://youtu.be/DSzPD0jUxHc

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Winter Sun Cycle at John Muir Country Park...

 

A lovely blue sky day on the east coast and we made the most of it with a fun cycle around John Muir Country Park first along the beaches around the point and Hedderwick Bay before a loop of the woods...

Here is a good advert for Lanoguard anti rust/corrosion treatment, spoke nipples painted in Lanoguard are remaining corrosive free!...

Around the point and in the glow of the winter sun with all the sand movement here with wind and tide it was looking like a lunar landscape...

I found an old bottle top which had made its way here from across the Estuary in Kircaldy...

Next was an old horse shoe, G says a rear as they are smaller...

I left the horseshoe as pretty rough and we have a few nice ones already in the garden, and catching up with G she had just remarked it looked like too much sand for finding  any Hispano`s  and boom! right under her feet she spied one!, and it was a beauty!

Most of these we find are stamped 1942 but some like this are stamped 1941 but not seen one with a K prefix before...

Nice wee find along with the old bottle top....

We left the beach for a loop of the woods and some more filming before heading for home...

Apocalypse Now...

That old Hispano was a good find for G today and it easily polished up a treat with some Barmans best friend...

Today I set the Go pro HERO 10 to Activity setting in usual 1080 240 fps but changed the screen to Linear which is a flatter screen with a flatter horizon, it is more of a Letterbox view so not as good for close up riding along side on bikes but good for Landscape views, its a good view and will probably use it again...

Guess by the title you know what music is on this!, 3 tracks from BOC`s `Music Has The Right To Children` - `Bocuma`, `Olson`, and `Open The Light`,

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Boards of Canada; Hexagon Sun...

 

Fan Jeep...

BOC collection - favourite music to listen to when driving my van... 

I posted a real good film by a Boards of Canada fan in August of 2021, here is the link to the blog post incase you missed it; History of Boards Of Canada

I really enjoyed watching that and not having done much online searching for new BOC related features until recently came across this more recent Fan made docu  film which is really good, it's quite long but covers a lot of interesting facts about the brothers and their music and looking at the comments it is quite obvious many people don't know where they are today.... actual fact is their a few miles of coast away from here in the Shire... but respect peoples privacy and let them be...

This is such a good documentary on Scottish band Boards of Canada,  it is just a 1 minute documentary

but the full 1 hour plus film is on Youtube but strangely does not link so you will have to go searching from this link....

So here is a link direct to it on Youtube;  This Is Hexagon Sun; A Video on Boards of Canada

Enjoy....

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Tomorrows Harvest... Is there a new BOC album coming soon?

 

Harvest time soon in East Lothian, when the county turns golden brown as fields of Wheat and Barley are ready for the Combines to do their work, I love cycling through harvested fields as much as cycling on the coast,

You can get away from people and explore corners of the county with no tracks that often make them  unapproachable by bike the rest of the year...

BOC...

So... the internet is full of gossip of a possible new Album on the way by Boards of Canada, probably my favourite music to use on cycling films for my blog.

Social media pages are full of reports of something happening, wether there is something happening or not it gets the pulses beating as would love some new music to add to films,

Boards of Canada have a unique music which I love, it is music I would describe where you can lose yourself and find yourself when immersed  in their unique sounds when out cycling,   cycling to their music in headphones I can zone out when along the coast, dunno but I can't quite put how it makes me feel in words, but can experience a zone out feeling... oh if you know me then you will know what I am on about...

The Brothers live here in East Lothian and are seen going about their lives, to many others unaware who they are, legends in the Electronic music world,  respecting their want to just be out living a quiet life I have observed from a distance but never said hello, guess that is what I am also like, riding Fatbikes brings you strangers questions and I find it awkward to speak to strangers, once you know folk they will tell me they cannot shut me up!, but that's just my passion for the coast here and cycling in East Lothian.

It was a surprise though for myself when I received a copy of their last album Tomorrows Harvest a week before it's release date...

You can read about that Here...

This year has been a year of unusual circumstances with Covid 19,

3 months lockdown and self isolating, what better chance than to go to ground and get creative and produce some new music?, the local cafes were closed and so plenty of time to lock down and produce and refine stuff... in these uncertain times for many with The Covid and job security fans would be more welcome than ever for some new listening...

My year has certainly been a different year!, I became single at the start of the year,  wandering about a bit lost and unsure of what to do, sell the house?, jack my job?, pack a bike and just start cycling with my world possesions on me and go looking for answers?, always I have been looking for answers when things have fallen away, from Relationships, to jobs,  to receiving the news I had (a mild) MS condition, then a Kidney Tumour Cancer last year. I had a lot to think about last year after that Operation when off work 2 months.  

I then met and started started dating G just before lockdown in February and you know? it all just fell into place, I have met my Doppelganger partner and i now know everything is going to be ok whatever life throws at me.

And we then spent 3 months together in a bubble when lockdown was announced , staying away from people, and staying safe and and escaping with bikes to places far away from all the chaos...

And were still together as strong as ever, I moved in with G last month, my house will soon be sold, and I plan to work part time in the future to enjoy life out and about more here in the Shire cycling and blogging with a real big coast cycle planned for next year; Cycling and Documenting the whole Scottish East Coast mile by mile, which will take most of the year doing it a few days at a time - more of that in the Springtime next year...

But for now I hope to get in some harvest cycling next week when back off work on last week of Furlough...

And keeping my fingers crossed for a new BOC album soon!...

More stubble stuff soon...!