My second post of the evening (which probably isn't a great idea) but I wanted to make a note here of my thoughts on the Chris Watson album "Weather Report" that I have played a couple of times in the last week or so during the evenings.

Even by my standards, it's weird. It's not even, almost, or is it, actually 'music' at all.
Founder member of the extraordinary (and I know far too little about them) Cabaret Voltaire in the late 1970's early 80s, Watson is now one of the world's leading wildlife sound recordists as well as being a member of the experimental industrial noise scientists Hafler Trio. I've mentioned this before, but I hadn't really played it then.

This is an album that consists of three 20-minute pieces, each a 'reduced' time compression of a much longer project recording the various effects of weather on our lives and landscape
Ol-Olool-O is a fourteen hour drama in Kenya's Masai Mara from 0500h - 1900h on Thursday 17th October 2002.
The Lapaichis the sound of a Scottish highland glen through autumn and into winter during the four months of September to December.
Vatnajökull presents the 10,000 year climatic journey of ice formed deep within this Icelandic glacier and its lingering flow into the Norwegian Sea.

I think your reaction to this album depends on how you interpret and define 'music', which isn't something I've really done before and probably can''t do very effectively in five minutes.Wikipedia describes 'music' as: an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner.
This album doesn't feature instrumentation or vocal tones. Its made up of the sounds of the natural world, from the electricity of storms and the sound of wind and rain, though birdsong, animal calls and noises to the creaking and reverb of glaciers and ice fields. But that makes it sound like a 'sound effects' album from the BBC wardrobe which would be ridiculous. Although it is exactly what Chris Watson has recorded before.
What makes this album different from that is his treatment of the sounds and the way he has compressed the aural projects into short pieces, organising, structuring and repeating the sounds to create atmosphere, rhythm, emotion and harmony.
It's very, very clever and haunting. The sound of serious rainfall is mesmeric.

Tx hates it of course, and it has pushed the boundary of 'ridiculous' even further into the abyss.
Perhaps its a preparation for my forays into Polish and Russian traditional music which should be much easier to bear.