Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, The Polymath

The End of an Epoch and The Begining of The Year of The Fire Horse at The Polymath

Robert Zietara – 2020

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.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Amazing Sounds & Other Delights, Radio Show, Raquel Pinheiro, YÊYÊ Radio

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition on YÊ YÊ Radio Monday 16 & 23

Elvis Presley

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 Browning’s 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

All previous shows on mixcloud: l
YÊ YÊ Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Amazing Sounds & Other Delights, Mixcloud, Radio Show, Raquel Pinheiro, YÊYÊ Radio

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #92 – The Planets, The Stars and The Universe edition @ mixcloud

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).

All previous shows on mixcloud:
YÊ YÊ Radio mixcloud / | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Listening Room HQ, The Polymath

The Sieve Year: What Remained at The Polymath & The Listening Room HQ

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.

It closes The Sieve Year posts, pairing with The Sieve Year – Field Notes at The Polymath and The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy at The Listening Room HQ.