In The End of an Epoch and The Begining of The Year of The Fire Horse is my concise overview on The Polymath The Polymath of the end of an epoch meeting the beginning of the Lunar Year of the Fire Horse. A structural reset, from diffusion to direction, from dissolution to ignition. It can be read on The Polymath site.
The Walk – A Discipline For Peace the new post at The Listening Room HQ The Listening Room HQ comes from the Walk for Peace the Buddhist Monks walk, and speaks about peace as discipline, not performance. A 2,300-mile walk for peace that formalized an ongoing path. It can be read on The Listening Room HQ site.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition is broadcasted Monday February 16 & 23, 3-4pm (London time) on YÊ YÊ Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Monday February 14 is Carnival Day. Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition combines carnival, fair, fetes, rodeo songs, or songs that mention those things with the circus, the carny, arriving and leaving.
The programme titles comes from Bert Jansch’s When the Circus Comes to Town and Kyuss’ … And The Circus Leaves Town. Interestingly, both albums were released in 1995.
There’s a fair deal of my beloved Elvis, three songs, enough Chico Buarque and Bert Jansch, two songs each.
Bert is essentially the starting point of this show. I’ve only recently found Jackson C. Frank, through the book Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival, and marvelled.
I came up with another of mine apparently implausible to make sense of such diverse type of songs and genres. Feira Popular, Chic, The Magnetic Fields, Kyuss, The Smiths and others keep company to Elvis, Bert, Chico, Jackson C. in a lively, but with sorrow here and there under an upbeat tune, programme.
Also featured is Gary Lucas’ – Live Score for The Chase Scene of Tod Browning’s 1932 film Freaks. And David Bowie’s Ashes To Ashes, for Ash Wednesday.
Tracklist: 01: Bert Jansch – When the Circus Comes to Town 02: Jackson C. Frank – (My Name is) Carnival (2021 remaster) 03: David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes 04: Chic – Le Freak 05: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Carny 06: Chico Buarque – Quando o Carnaval Chega 07: Feira Popular – Carrossel feat. Femme Falafel 08: Elvis Presley – It’s Carnival Time 09: Rufus Wainwright – Going To A Town 10: Gary Lucas – Live Score Tod Browningâs Freaks 1932 The Chase Scene 11: Elvis Presley – Take Me to the Fair 12: The Magnetic Fields – Papa Was a Rodeo 13: The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians (2011 Remaster) 14: Bert Jansch – (My Name is) Carnival 15: Chico Buarque – Sonho de um Carnaval 16: Kyuss – El Rodeo 17: Elvis Presley – The Fair’s Moving On
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition is now available on mixcloud.
Tracklist: 01: Teenage Fanclub – Planets 02: Sturgill Simpson – Mercury in Retrograde 03: Kate Fenner – Transit of Venus 04: The Parlor – Underneath the Universe 05: The Vampires – Sun Gazers (ft. Chris Abrahams) 06: Frank Sinatra – Fly Me To The Moon (ft. Count Basie And His Orchestra) 07: Damien Jurado – Metallic Cloud 08: Dehd – Stars 09: David Bowie – Starman 10: Coldplay – Jupiter 11: Roisin Murphy & DJ Koze – The Universe 12: Raveloe – Clouds Are Release 13: R.E.M. – Saturn Return 14: Hands On Approach – My Wonder Moon
Amazing Songs & Other Delights is broadcasted the first and third Monday of the month 3-4pm (London time) , respective repeats second and fourth Monday of the month on YÊ YÊ Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Claude Monet, Les Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, 1891
The Sieve Year: What Remained is the closing reflection on my Sieve Year, speaks of what remains after the filtering, and how the next cycle begins in quiet clarity. It can be read both at The Polymath and The Listening Room HQ.