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We have been attending Wave-Gotik-Treffen, in Leipzig, since 2019 – minus the pandemic years – and 2026 is no exception.
As usual, Wave-Gotik-Treffen will be captured through the lens of Gustavo Hochman this year supported by image editor Milena Katzman.
Wave-Gotik-Treffen is the world’s largest gothic festival. It also includes Punk, Rivethead, Romanticism, Steampunk, Victoriana and other alternative and subcultures.
Our previous years’ full photologs.
Why Sessions at The Listening Room HQ Matter. Reading can open a door, but insight needs a place to live. The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – sessions offer men a rare space to speak freely and discover clarity through deep, attentive listening. You can book a session at: https://www.thelisteningroomhq.com/p/sessions.html
Hi with Forget by Goldenstar. Have a nice afternoon.
words: António Carvalho (edited by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: Ricardo Silva
Upon arriving at RCA – Radioclube Agramonte concert hall, I spotted a low table in the center of the room, with a paraphernalia of interconnected devices under a dim light. A real challenge for Ricardo Silva, our photographer.
The spectators were seated or lying on mats, rugs, and cushions. It seemed an invitation to immersion and contemplation. Concepción was kneeling in front of this table. Although she is a multidisciplinary artist, this concert focused on the sound she created using the chosen devices, which included a cassette player and two walkmen.
She delicately manipulated buttons and potentiometers, inserting and removing cassettes, completely focused on producing sounds, loops, and drones resulting from the manipulation of the recordings on these tapes. Sometimes the sources were identifiable, but that didn’t seem to be the goal.
The transitions were smooth but clearly defined. This exploration of the sound spectrum, more concentrated in the mid-frequencies, but with occasional strong bass and atmospheric treble, rarely presented obvious rhythmic patterns, as drones and sonic brush strokes dominated.
This entire sequence of ambient themes took the audience on a wordless sonic journey, which induced alternating sensations in me, such as harmony and connection, agitation and strangeness. I am convinced that this was the purpose.
Concepcion clarified at the end that this presentation was based on her latest album, El Sol de los Muertos.
There’s a photo gallery on our Instagram @mondobizarremagazine
Hi and Happy Sunday with Call Me Up by Julez and The Rollerz.
Field Notes – Porto, The Mountains, and Human Crossings my new post on The Polymath site https://www.thepolymathisme.com/ is a lived note on Porto, exhibitions, transport hubs, mountains, symbolic conversations, creativity, and the unexpected human crossings that open new possibilities, and of how, often, the path appears afterwards. It can be read here.
Good morning with Poet Wong Pt. 2 by Khun Narin. Have a nice weekend.
The News Cycle Attention Loop and The Nervous System
is a post on The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – about the news cycles, attention loops, and nervous system overload. Of how constant information streams and updates shape how we think, feel, rest and its effect on everyday life. You can read it at The Listening Room HQ site
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My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – edition was broadcasted Monday 20th and 27th April, 2026, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com and is now available on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #95 – The Of Light & Gentleness edition is, as the title says, a programme that mostly revolves around light in different ways, and gentleness. You can read more about the show here.
Tracklist:
01: José Gonzalez – The Light
02: The New Pornographers – Pure Sticker Shock too
03: Francisco Fontes – Copiloto
04: Laurie Shaw – Chimney Breast
05: Kevin Morby – Badlands
06: Stone Dead – Plasticine
07: Bruce Springsteen – Rainy Night In Soho
08: Tinariwen – Imidiwan Takyadam feat. José Gonzalez
09: Butler-Black-Grant – Not Alone
10: The Lemon Twigs – I Just Can’t Get Over Losing You
11: Michael Weston King – Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore
12: Red Sun Atacama – Sundown
13: Hanemoon – We Didn’t Know
14: Baby Suicida – Se Me Deixares, Eu Digo
15: The Dharma Chain – Clockwork
16: Special Friend – Isolation
All previous shows on mixcloud:
All previous shows on mixcloud:
words: António Carvalho (edited by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: António Carvalho
Attending a concert by Canadian singer-songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage is like discovering a hidden gem. The modest stage of Lovers & Lollypops seemed too small for everything he delivered in just over an hour.
His exuberant presence, his larger-than-life poetry, his attention towards the audience, his virtuoso and expressive voice are just parts of a larger whole that is difficult to describe. His electronic pop, heavily indebted to the eighties, reveals itself as confessional, honest and with a dose of apparent naivety, where joy and melancholy, loss and gain, mystery and revelation, pleasure and pain coexist, sometimes within the same song.
Whether in ballads or upbeat music, the classic themes of love – the euphoria of passion, the discovery of the other, the broken hearts – are dominant and served in catchy and well-crafted melodies, like many of the pop classics. Sean’s excellent technical mastery of his voice, including a delightful falsetto, doesn’t take away any of the moment’s authenticity, as if he were pouring his heart out and offering it to the audience.It was almost impossible to take your eyes off this magnetic, barefoot figure.
Besides the privileged ones in the audience, Clara Phends on synthesizers and Max-Elie Laroche on electronic drums joined him in this brief, intimate journey. Sean covered a representative sample of his prolific discography, with some emphasis on his latest album The Knowing, a record he is very proud of, so he told me after the concert.
He even granted a request from the audience, performing half of Chin Chin, and finished with one of his favourites, the single It’s Happening. Thank you, beautiful freak!
There’s a photo gallery of the concert on our Instagram
Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song – Go Away by Ian James. Have a nice day.
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