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

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #81- The Ambients edition by Raquel Pinheiro, Monday 16th @ Yé Yé Radio

Thomas von Wachenfeldt

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #81 – The Ambients edition airs Monday 16th, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Since I received Thomas von Wachenfeldt’s Estradörerna I’ve been listening to it non stop. I knew I one of its pieces was going to open this programme. The choice was Suite no1 in G minor (Jon Erik Hall) I. Visa Air.

Estradörerna has music by three Swedish folk musician – Jon-Erik Öst, Wiktor Öst, and Jon-Erik Hall – arranged for string trio chamber instrumentation by Thomas von Wachenfeldt. It was not chamber, but baroque music, that less to the two final selections.

The show was mostly complete. There were a few possibilities. None seem right, to fit. Returning home by metro an walking, from a concert by Orquesta Barroca Casa da Música playing seven baroque pieces with oboe, some for oboe, there was one of those moments with only the Universal can explain.

Ventos Animais, by Mão Morta and Forças Ocultas by Duplex Longo were the missing links. Each enriched the tapestry of diverse ambients present, allowing for the programme to have a deeper feeling.

Tracklist:
01: Thomas von Wachenfeldt – Suite no1 in G minor (Jon Erik Hall) I. Visa Air
02: Thee Headcoats Sect – Man Trap
03: Afonso Rodrigues e Catarina Salinas – Um Amor Qualquer
04: Duplex Longa – Forças Ocultas
05: Esteves – Os Fortes Não Choram
06: Gonçalo F. Cardoso – Cozido na Caldeira Velha (São Miguel, Açores)
07: Lifeguard – Like You’ll Lost
08: Mão Morta – Ventos Animais
09: Luto – não fui ao Alive (ft. Catarina Branco)
10: Paul Pèrrin – Olekta
11: Monkeywrench – Love Is A Spider
12: Pomadinha – Time
13: Ricardo Ribeiro – Má Sorte
14: Sally Anne Morgan – Flowers of Shandihar
15: Versus O.K.S – God Bless
16: The Good Ones – Agnes Dreams of Being an Artist
17: The Makers – Are You On The Inside Or The Outside Of Your Pants?

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80- The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

The Shirelles

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80 – The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition is now on available to listen to on mixcloud.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs every other Monday, 3-4pm (gmt+1), on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80 – The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition features 17 of my favourite songs, including my favourite song, Will Your Me Tomorrow sang by The Shirelles, and three songs I would have love to have written, Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake, A Lady of a Certain Age by The Divine Comedy, and Canção de Amigo by Um Zero Amarelo. Of course I would have loved to have written all the other songs. 🙂 You can read about the songs and my choices here.

Tracklist:
01: Julie Andrews – My Favourite Things
02: The Shirelles – Will Your Me Tomorrow
03: The The – Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake
04: The Ramones – Baby I Love You
05: The Devine Comedy – A Lady of a Certain Age
06: Josh Rouse – James
07: The Rolling Stones – Under My Thumb
08: Um Zero Amarelo – Canção de Amigo
09 Elvis Presley – (Marie’s The Name) of His Latest test Flame
10: The Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
11: Mick Harvey – October Boy
12: Mark Lanegan – Don’t Forget Me
13: Ben Watt – North Marine Drive
14: Tiwiza – At u Azeka
15: Erica Buettner – True Love and Water
16: Butler-Blake-Grant – Bring An End
17: Queens of the Stone Age – Mosquito Song

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Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

Tinariwen, Casa da Música, Porto, 25.05.2025.

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words: Raquel Pinheiro; photos: Marcos Leal

Malian band Tinariwen arrived to Porto after the release of the compilation album Idrache (Traces of the Past).

Tinariwen means desert people, or people of the desert, Tamasheq. The band born in the borders of Argel and Mali in 1979, brought their assuf (longing, or longing for home), that we know as desert blues, to Porto.And what a concert it was.

Starting slow with Azawad, soon there was dancing and clapping from the stage, incentivinzing the audience to follow.

However, even if people were rocking on their seats, it would took an hour and twenty minutes for the room to stand up and dance.

By the encore, during Afric Temdam, Sastanaqam and Chaghaybou the front of the stage was filled with dancing people.On the other hand, the clapping and diverse vocals sounds from the audience to the stage stayed a staple during the performance.

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The way the band uses guitars, divided between acoustic and electric, at times for electric guitars, on stage, in conjunction with the electric bass and traditional percussion is extraordinary. No instrument submerges another.

Tinariwen music is sublime. Transcendent. The songs are sang in Tamasheq, their feelings, the emotions, the soul fulfillment, universal.