The first season of the year is the last to be covered on Amazing Songs & Other Delights since the show started in late May 2021. Obviosuly, it is called the Spring edition. The songs either are Sping song, in the sense Spring is part of the title or lyrics, or have a Spring feeling to it. Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 – The Spring edition include Blue Moon Rose by Everything But The Girl, Is This Love by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, April Come She Will Simon & Garfunkel and a less usual cover o Antônio Carlos Jobim’s Águas de Março – see tracklist. There are also a few instrumentals and genres range from jazz to indie rock.
Monday, March 28th, 2022, 3-4pm Running Time: 01:06:22
Tracklist: 01 – Air – All I Need 02 – Belle & Sebastian – Here Comes The Sun (Beatles cover, live at BBC sessions) 03 – Blur – Parklife 04 – Zeca Afonso – Cantigas de Maio 05 – Chet Baker – Look For the Silver Lining ( Jerome Kern & B.G. DeSylva song) 06 – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Is This Love 07 – Django Reinhardt – Swingtime in Springtime 08 – Einstürzende Neubauten – The Garden 09 – Everything But The Girl – Blue Moon Rose (2012 Remaster) 10 – The Jasmine Minks – Time For You 11 – Johnny Horton – When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below) 12 – Lord Furon – Fool For Love 13 – Noah And The Whale – Blue Skies 14 – Pete Yorn – June 15 – Rufus Wainwright – Rebel Prince 16 – Simon & Garfunkel – April Come She Will 17 – The Feelies – Original Love 18 – The Mike Flowers Pop – Wonderwall @ TOTP (Oasis’ cover) 19 – Tranglomango – Macelada (Beira Baixa traditional song) 20 – Tony Carreira – Les Eaux de Mars feat. Helene Segara (Antônio Carlos Jobim’s cover)
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 – The Spring edition airs today circa 3-4pm on Yé Yé Radio https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app. Songs include Original Love by The Feelies, Blue Moon Rose by Everything But The Girl, Is This Love by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, April Come She Will Simon & Garfunkel and a less usual cover of Antônio Carlos Jobim’s’s Águas de Março.
The first season of the year is the last to be covered on Amazing Songs & Other Delights since the show started in late May 2021. Obviosuly, it is called the Spring edition. The songs either are Sping song, in the sense Spring is part of the title or lyrics, or have a Spring feeling to it. Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 – The Spring edition airs tomorrow circa 3-4pm on @Yé Yé Radio https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app. Songs include Blue Moon Rose by Everything But The Girl, Is This Love by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, April Come She Will Simon & Garfunkel and a less usual cover o Antônio Carlos Jobim’s’s Águas de Março.
It took a while, but here is the records of the year list. I wanted to carefully listen to several records that were released late last years, several of which only reach me this year. There are 30 records in the list, ordered alphabetically.
Bill Rivers – my autumn is on its way (Self Release)
Bill Rivers – Sings the Words of Simon Hayward (Self Release)
Bill Stone – Stone (Drag City)
Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth – Utopian Ashes (Third Man Records)
Castle Theater – Characters (Self Release)
Dean Wareham I Have Nothing To Say to The Mayor of L.A. (Double Feature Records)
Ed Clayton-Jones – Jackdaw (Self-Release)
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Swing From The Sean DeLear (In The Red Records)
J.P. Shilo – Jubjoté (Heavy Machinery Records)
James Johnston | Steve Gullick – We Travel Time (God Unknown Records)
Johanna Samuels – Excelsior! (Mama Bird Recording)
José Valente e Orquestra Filarmónica Gafanhense – Trégua (9 MUSAS)
Jonathan Richman – Want To Visit My Inner House? ((Reprise)
Marco Franco – Arcos (Revolve)
Marianne Faithfull w/ Warren Ellis – She Walks in Beauty (BMG)
Nick Walters & The Paradox Ensemble – Implicate Order (D.O.T. Records)
Old Jerusalem – Certain Rivers (Self Release/Sony)
New Bums – Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City)
Raoul Vignal – Years in Marble (Talitres)
Robert Levon Been – The Card Counter OST (BMG)
Rui Gaio – 365 everydays (X.P.)
Sam Anning – Oaatchapai (Earshift Music)
Simon Linsteadt – Gualala (Stormy Deep Records)
Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade (Merge/PeMa)
Thalia Zedek Band – Perfect Vision (Thrill Jockey)
words and photo: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro)
What is important to the audience? The age of the musician, the age of the music? It does not seem to be! Lloyd Cole, who performed last Saturday before a quite filled Rosa Mota pavilion, did not tire of reminding his audience about it during almost the entire concert. Ultimately, not that I want to stop here, if it weren’t for his insistence, no one would have noticed Lloyd Cole is already in his sixties, a father of children and a family man. It’s just that the man’s voice hasn’t aged a single day since the Commotions. Quite the opposite. He went there to look for it all, in terms of notes pitch and vocal range. A luxury. He sings like there is no tomorrow and plays likewise.
Splitting the concert into two and a quarter because, effectively, that’s what happened since he initially performed, alone on stage, he and the 3 guitars, doing it with the safety and mastery of someone who, in more than 30 years of career, has stepped on many stages. Always friendly, with humor and communicative, wandering between old and newer songs, he returned after a 15-minute break accompanied by Neil Clark (guitar) and, let’s be honest, very well accompanied because if the magic of Lloyd Cole’s voice and guitar had managed to caress and warm our souls with Neil Clark things gained even more colour and blue velvet. Someone next to me said it, and very well: “look, now the guitars are talking to each other”. I couldn’t have said it better. It was really good. He drew strong applause and ended up confessing that the audience had managed to make a mature man happy. Mine “and a fourth” is for the much demanded encore requested by tireless fans very well ornamented by the master.
When I stepped out all I had left was a very small, very imperceptible, but felt sourness. From The Hip was not part of the set-list. What a pity!
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texto e foto: Paulo Carmona
Mas afinal o que é importante para a audiência? A idade do músico, a idade da música? Parece que não! O Lloyd Cole que se apresentou no sábado passado perante um pavilhão Rosa Mota muito bem composto, não se cansou de o lembrar ao seu público, durante quase todo o evento. Em última análise, e não que eu queira ficar já por aqui, não fosse esta sua insistência e ninguém teria dado pelo Lloyd Cole já sexagenário, pai de filhos e homem de família. É que a voz do homem não envelheceu um só dia desde os Commotions. Muito pelo contrário. Foi lá busca-las todas, em termos de afinação de notas e amplitude vocal. Um luxo. Canta que se farta e toca o mesmo.
Dividindo o concerto em dois e um quarto, porque, efetivamente, foi o que aconteceu, uma vez que se apresenta inicialmente, sozinho em palco, ele e as 3 guitarras, fá-lo com a segurança e a mestria de quem já pisou muitos palcos em mais de 30 anos de carreira. Sempre simpático, com humor e comunicativo, deambulando entre temas antigos e mais recentes, após um intervalo de 15 minutos volta acompanhado por Neil Clark e, diga-se em abono da verdade, muito bem acompanhado porque se a magia da voz e guitarra de Lloyd Cole nos tinham conseguido afagar e aquecer a alma, com Neil Clark a coisa ganhou ainda mais cor e veludo azul. Alguém ao meu lado disse, e muito bem: “olha, agora as guitarras estão a conversar uma com a outra”. Eu não teria dito melhor. Foi mesmo bom. Arrancou fortes aplausos e acabou por confessar que o público ali presente conseguiu fazer um homem maduro, feliz. O meu “e um quarto” fica paro o encore muito solicitado pelos fans incansáveis e muito bem ornamento pelo mestre.
Quando sai dali só me restou um pequeníssimo azedume, muito impercetível, mas sentido. From The Hip não fez parte do set-line. Que pena!
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