Amazing Songs & Other Delights #46 – The 2nd Anniversary edition by me and my “band” The Astro Travelers can now be listened to at Yé Yé Radio’s mixcloud.
Like last year, the programmes comprises purposely done, never heard before, never published, from the vault songs or instrumentals as well as songs that either I may like or somehow describe me picked by friends. There is also a brand new, it just came out, song Italian Shoes by ÓDubhTV.
When Ed (Clayton-Jones) sent me 1975 a song from his upcoming solo album I knew João (Diogo Zagalo) idea of putting music and voice to my poems was on. Two of my poems have the line “Lower East Side 1975”. As Ed says there are no coincidences.
Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem sings and cretead a song with my poem 43, João Diogo Zagalo sings and created a song with my poem 51 mixed and mastered by his brother, Gonçalo Zagalo Pereira. digei de bairro is one of Pedro Tenreiro’s projects. Paulo Navarro created a piano piece, Vini Reilly, Tom Gunn Nash contributed with another instrumental, Cycle. Máquina Magnética (Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela, Gustavo Costa, Rodrigo Carvalho) allowed to select an excerpt from their upcoming E+Criatech+mix+2021.
Rui Pimenta, Tó Cunha, Carlos Fortes, Pedro Mesquita and Ricardo Lopes selected songs. Respectively, Fog Over Frisco (Yo La Tengo), Cities in Dust (Garbage), Flyin’ Shoes (Townes van Zandt), We Are All Prostitutes (Crookers Rmx) (Adam Sky Vs Mark Stewart) and Fade into You (Mazzy Star).
As for the red fish. It is my favourire red fish. It is part of a mural by VIC (Vasco Branco) and can be found on the library of Aveiro. Amazing Songs & Other Delights #46 – The 2nd Anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travelers
Monday, May 22nd 2023, 3.4pm
Running time: 50:37:07
Tracklist:
01 – Edward Clayton-Jones – 1975 (from upcoming solo album)
02 – Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43
03 – João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51
04 – digei de bairro – ferramenta nº7 (pre-master)
05 – Yo La Tengo – Fog Over Frisco (Rui Pimenta)
06 – Garbage – Cities in Dust (Tó Cunha)
07- Máquina Magnética – E+Criatech+mix+2021 (excerpt from upcoming album)
08 – Townes van Zandt – Flyin’ Shoes (Carlos Fortes)
09 – Adam Sky Vs Mark Stewart – We Are All Prostitutes (Crookers Rmx) – (Pedro Mesquita)
10 – Paulo Navarro – Vini Reilly
11 – ÓDubhTV – Italian Shoes
12 – Mazzy Star – Fade into You (Ricardo Lopes)
13 – Tom Gunn Nash – Cycle (unpublished)
Poem 43
in the Lower East side 1975 oh, Andy those days
of yellow apocalypse yesterday the Oscar Wilde
of the Sloane Rangers come by when Noel who writes songs
was eating chocolate in a pink bubble and
we were going to escape the heat wave until Bill took ill
life after death in purple and blue stars forever
in Enceladus they faded
79, they say, is the year of the change print, piano, case, frame
wrap it, place it under the stairs
the steel magnolias and the cotton candy that Tommy brought from a faraway land forgotten
at the bottom of the garden
an infinite eight suspended like an angel Caravaggio gambled his brushes
in the time travel Sandro won them painting the one who arises
naked
so magical, so sheltered
oh, those days, in the Lower East Side, 1975
Poem 51
oh Andy, do you remember those days,
in the Lower East Side, 1975
how every morning
in a flowered patterned skirt and rainbow strappy sandals i would arrive
at the letterbox
avoiding a pool of piss, spunk, blood escaping used condoms and discarded syringes for a day’s work at the vinyl shop?
upstairs, asleep, creatures of the night pale and thin dreaming of the next fix whilst across the road
vendors of flesh took their coffee or was it firewater?
preparing to withdraw until the shadows returned for one more night shift
as we danced on the trendy bars drinking expensive red wine laughing and eating cake
like marie antoinette ignoring the real issues ours and theirs
but it was bloody good fun, wasn’t it, Andy?
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