Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 85 – The Of Love & Loss edition by Raquel Pinheiro

Calcedonio Reina – Amore e morte, 1881

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 85 – The Of Love & Loss edition airs Monday October 6, and repeats Monday October 13, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Of Love & Loss is a self-explanatory title. Originally, that was not how this edition was going to be called. Maybe it would have been called The Mild Ones edition. The Mild Ones are a wonderful Suede fan group of which I am part of, and there are several Mild Ones on this edition – Mark Robin White (A 90s new man called Stan), Bettina Korn, James Mediocre (The Vinegar Tasters), Simon Gilbert (Suede).

Or maybe it was going to be called something else. Bettina’s cover of John Denver’s Annie’s Song was certain, regardless of the name thos edition of Amazing Songs & Other Delights would have. Monday, September 30, Ian Pye posted Suede’s Daddy’s Speeding to the group.

I was reminded of how great the song is, and listened to it a few times, because the song has a very interesting musical change, and selected as one of my International Music Day for The Polymath.

A couple of days latter I was listening to it on repeat for very different reasons. Curve balls. Life, love, loss. The other songs were already in though for this edition, or came as soundscape of feelings and emotions.

Most of the songs aren’t necessarily about love. Or loss. They aren’t all gloomy, far from it. Daddy’s Spending does sits at the center, with its music, vocal, words, highly charged emotional landscape, but the songs before and after offer a full picture of a week filled with changes.

To lighten things a bit, in the spirit of Wally, can you spot Bernard Butler, (other than in Suede)?…

Tracklist:
01: The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road
02: A 90s new man called Stan –
Disco Dystopian Blues
03: The Auteurs – Show Girl
04: Bettina Korn – Annie’s Song (John Denver cover)
05: Chimehours – Underneath The Earth
06: The Mercury Rev – Goodness on a Highway
07: Maitland – Einstein-Rosen Bridge 
08: Ricardo Reis Soares – Qualquer Coisa
09: Suede – Daddy’s Speeding
10: The Vinegar Tasters – Smokestack
11: The Radio Field – It’s Alright
12: Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Land of Plenty
13: Thee Headcoatees – You’re Gonna Lose That Boy
14: Lour – Outro Lado
15: Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum –
In lichem fol beloften(feat. Tsead Bruinja)
16: Mark Eitzel – The Last Ten Years

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My Amazing Songs & Other Delights new editions now 1st and 3rd Monday of the Month on Yé Yé Radio

© Helena Soares

Here I am, still looking like an internationally woman of mystery on cold, windy late afternoon by the salt marshes. My radio programme Amazing Songs & Other Delights now airs new editions the first and third Monday, 3-4pm (London time) of the month, respective repeats, second and fourth Monday of the month, on Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app)

Each edition of my show has a theme. The anniversary show is a special occasion with endless delights. All aired shows can be listened to on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #84 – The It Resonates edition by Raquel Pinheiro – now on mixcloud

Holly Golightly

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights that airs every other Monday, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app). Amazing Songs & Other Delights #84 – The It Resonates edition can now be listened to on mixcloud.

You can read more about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #84 – The It Resonates edition here.

From Monday October 6 onwards Amazing Songs & Other Delights new editions are every 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, repeats every 2nd and 4th Monday of each month. The hour remains the same: 3-4pm (London time).

Tracklist:
01: Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – Resilience
02: Liz Hogg – Curl
03: The Divine Comedy – Invisible Thread
04: Ned Swarbrick – When The Wind Blows (Live at City Varieties Music Hall)
05: Trademark Issues – Song for a Non-Touring Band
06: Massimo Silverio – Zoja
07: Tulpa – Let’s Make A Tulpa!
08: Miguel Feraso Cabral – Cenografia
09: Swimming Pools And Movie Stars – Never Let Go
10: The Cords – When You Said Goodbye
11: Noiserv – A casa das rodas quadradas feat. Milhanas
12: Glo-Worm – Change of Heart
13: Holly Golightly – Miss Fortune
14: Senhor Vulcão feat The Legendary Tiger Man – Rock N Roll
15: AVTT/MPTN – The Avett Brothers · Mike Patton – Eternal Love
16: Glyders – Shadow Stone
17: Anthony Moore – No Parlez
18: Hidrogenesse – A la Muerte
19: Umlaut – Grumpy Library

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #84 – The It Resonates edition on Yé Yé Radio, Monday 22nd

Holly Golightly

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is back with new edition from Monday 22nd September, every other Monday, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #84 –  The it Resonate edition is composed of 18 songs and 1 instrumental that resonate with me at once. It’s a gentle early Autumn programme, still with echoes of late Summer.

01: Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – Resilience
02: Liz Hogg – Curl
03: The Divine Comedy – Invisible Thread
04: Ned Swarbrick – When The Wind Blows (Live at City Varieties Music Hall)
05: Trademark Issues – Song for a Non-Touring Band
06: Massimo Silverio – Zoja
07: Tulpa – Let’s Make A Tulpa!
08: Miguel Feraso Cabral – Cenografia
09: Swimming Pools And Movie Stars – Never Let Go
10: The Cords – When You Said Goodbye
11: Noiserv – A casa das rodas quadradas feat. Milhanas
12: Glo-Worm – Change of Heart
13: Holly Golightly – Miss Fortune
14: Senhor Vulcão feat The Legendary Tiger Man – Rock N Roll
15: AVTT/MPTN – The Avett Brothers · Mike Patton – Eternal Love
16: Glyders – Shadow Stone
17: Anthony Moore – No Parlez
18: Hidrogenesse – A la Muerte
19: Umlaut – Grumpy Library

All previous shows on  mixcloud: Yé Yé mixcloud |  Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #83 – The 4th anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travellers @ mixcloud

My 4th anniversary radio show is now available on mixcloud.

This year, the anniversary programme is a little different than usual. Trials and tribulations didn’t allow for the several costumary purpose composed pieces, aside from mine and Francisco Silva’s Lucid One.

The lyrics of Lucid One have my poem 80 as starting point, adapted to song by Francisco’s chatgpt, then, on a second round of singing the song, by him. It was a very interesting creative experience. Francisco and I also both this very different impromptu versions of Suede’s The Asphalt World.

You can read more about the show, the Astro Travellers, my “band” contributions and it’s creative process here. The lyrics of Lucid One and poem 80 are below, along with the show tracklist.

Lucid One lyrics
Sleepless nights, stuck in motion
Elevators fade, no clear emotion
Crex crex crex — the artach calls
Lucid tiles in echo halls

The megaphone speaks, louder than books
Slogans win where no one looks
Moral weight too hard to lift
We float inside this aimless drift

The empire of futility
Masqueraded as ability
Symbols fail, the noise gets loud
We vanish slowly in the crowd

Resperidone, the new tea brew

Quiet minds in static view
Fork in the road, by the sea we stand
Bathymetry traced in soul and sand

Invisible paths, the labyrinth sings
We mistook noise for gravity’s rings
You want the house still, free of harm
But the woman bangs the pots — her charm

The empire of futility
Attired in nobility
Mirrors turn, the spiral grows
Stagnant waters, no one knows
(Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro)

poem 80
sleepless nights,
stuck
perpetual movement
fading through the elevator
crex crex crex crex makes the artach
hearth and home
lucid tiles echoing
the megaphone is easier than read serious books
slogans are easier than moral inventory.
the empire of futility
disguised as art, intellectualism
the sound mirrors, a spiral
a stagnant pool of nothingness
resperidone, the new chamomile
there’s a road with a fork
for you and me by the sea
bathymetry of the soul
invisible pathways
labyrinth, the song
mistaken noise for gravity
symbols for substance
brought us here
you want the house quiet
but a woman bangs the pots
monks don’t worry about money
terror dreams, rage
somatic overload
the lucid one in a house of somnambulists
fog can’t be fought, what it erases
is watched
don’t go back to sleep
the messiness of desire
recycle, renewal, redemption
like a benediction
all the plants are watered
(Raquel Pinheiro)

Tracklist:
01: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – When Joe Came By
02: Raquel Pinheiro – Loss
03: Pixies – Hey (Manuel Carvalho)
04: Sérgio Rocha – Seclusões (excerpt)
05: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
06: digei de bairro – MG B GT (pre-master)
07: Suki Waterhouse – Supersad (António Cunha)
08: Boxmonsters – Holligans
09: Francisco Silva – The Asphalt World (acoustic excerpt)
10: Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Raquel Pinheiro)
11: caroline – Tell Me I Never New That feat. Caroline Polachek (Paulo Navarro)
12: Raquel Pinheiro – The Asphalt World
13: Oh Bobby – Sweet Peace
14: Lyn Collins – Think (About It) (Matt Hutchison)
15: Ned Swarbrick – Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1)
16: João Diogo Zagalo – Lotar n.º 4
17: Boxmonsters – Car Crash
18: Raquel Pinheiro – December: Death
19: American Music Club – Why Don’t You Stay (Rui Pimenta)

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #83 – The 4th anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travellers @ Yé Yé radio , Monday 14th

Maren Devine – Flower Cake

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights turned. The 4th anniversary edition airs Monday 14th, 3-4:10pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

This year, the anniversary programme is a little different than usual. Trials and tribulations didn’t allow for the several costumary purpose composed pieces, aside from mine and Francisco Silva’s Lucid One. The lyrics of Lucid One have my poem 80 as starting point, adapted to song by Francisco’s chatgpt, then, on a second round of singing the song, by him. It was a very interesting creative experience.

My Loss and December: Death, Sérgio Rocha’s Seclusões (excerpt), digei de bairro’s MG B GT (pre-master), Ned Swarbrick’s Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1), João Diogo Zagalo’ Lotar n.º 4 and Boxmonsters’ Holligans and Car Crash fall under that umbrella.

I picked two songs composed on purpose for previous anniversary editions. Mine and Francisco’s When Joe Came By, from the 1st anniversary edition, and Sweet Peace, by Bill Rivers and I, from last year’s anniversary show, here on Oh Bobby (Bill Rivers & Simon Wayward) version, from their album Swim The Universe.

There’s the usual assortment of songs, another round of surprises, picked for me by a few friends.

Because the songs represent me, because I may like them… Because…

Manuel Carvalho picked The Pixies’ Hey; António Cunha Suki Waterhouse’s Supersad, Paulo Navarro caroline’sTell Me I Never New That (feat. Caroline Polachek), Matt Hutchison Lyn Collins’ Think (About It) and Rui Pimenta Why Don’t You Stay by American Music Club.

As for both Francisco’s instrumental acoustic version of The Asphalt World and my soft instrumental electric stripped down version of The Asphalt World. Francisco thought it a odd choice for me to plays as far as Suede’s covers go, and sent me an impromptu short version of it.

At 0:55 it’s most likely the world’s shortest version of The Asphalt World. Mine runs past 10 minutes. It’s a one go, raw, unfiltered, no effects, aside from a little vibrato arm, and my micro jack amp distortion, no solos, also impromptu, played on a kitchen bench, purely for the joy of it version. Most of what seems effects, it’s my fretting fingers.

Lucid One lyrics
Sleepless nights, stuck in motion
Elevators fade, no clear emotion
Crex crex crex — the artach calls
Lucid tiles in echo halls

The megaphone speaks, louder than books
Slogans win where no one looks
Moral weight too hard to lift
We float inside this aimless drift

The empire of futility
Masqueraded as ability
Symbols fail, the noise gets loud
We vanish slowly in the crowd

Resperidone, the new tea brew

Quiet minds in static view
Fork in the road, by the sea we stand
Bathymetry traced in soul and sand

Invisible paths, the labyrinth sings
We mistook noise for gravity’s rings
You want the house still, free of harm
But the woman bangs the pots — her charm

The empire of futility
Attired in nobility
Mirrors turn, the spiral grows
Stagnant waters, no one knows
(Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro)

Poem #80
poem 80
sleepless nights,
stuck
perpetual movement
fading through the elevator
crex crex crex crex makes the artach
hearth and home
lucid tiles echoing
the megaphone is easier than read serious books
slogans are easier than moral inventory.
the empire of futility
disguised as art, intellectualism
the sound mirrors, a spiral
a stagnant pool of nothingness
resperidone, the new chamomile
there’s a road with a fork
for you and me by the sea
bathymetry of the soul
invisible pathways
labyrinth, the song
mistaken noise for gravity
symbols for substance
brought us here
you want the house quiet
but a woman bangs the pots
monks don’t worry about money
terror dreams, rage
somatic overload
the lucid one in a house of somnambulists
fog can’t be fought, what it erases
is watched
don’t go back to sleep
the messiness of desire
recycle, renewal, redemption
like a benediction
all the plants are watered
(Raquel Pinheiro)

Tracklist:
01: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – When Joe Came By
02: Raquel Pinheiro – Loss
03: Pixies – Hey (Manuel Carvalho)
04: Sérgio Rocha – Seclusões (excerpt)
05: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
06: digei de bairro – MG B GT (pre-master)
07: Suki Waterhouse – Supersad (António Cunha)
08: Boxmonsters – Holligans
09: Francisco Silva – The Asphalt World (acoustic excerpt)
10: Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Raquel Pinheiro)
11: caroline – Tell Me I Never New That feat. Caroline Polachek (Paulo Navarro)
12: Raquel Pinheiro – The Asphalt World
13: Oh Bobby – Sweet Peace – (*)
14: Lyn Collins – Think (About It) (Matt Hutchison)
15: Ned Swarbrick – Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1)
16: João Diogo Zagalo – Lotar n.º 4
17: Boxmonsters – Car Crash
18: Raquel Pinheiro – December: Death
19: American Music Club – Why Don’t You Stay (Rui Pimenta)

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is now available on mixcloud.

It’s a beautiful, fresh, Summer radio programme. You can read about it here.

Tracklist:
01: Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr
02: Cass McCombs – Peace
03: Robert Robertson – Broken Arrow
04: Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
05: Pressyes – The Sunlighttt
06: The Durutti Collumn – Sketch For A Summer
07: Jeanines – Coaxed A Storm
08: AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia)
09: Panda Bear – Virginia Tech
10: The Go-Betweens – Two Heads
11: Laufey – Lover Girl
12: The Rebels – California Dreamin’
13: Weezer – Island In The Sun
14: Lightheaded – The Garden
15: James Yorkston – Love Luck (feat. Johanna Söderberg)
16 – Forth Wanderers – Bluff
17: Swansea Sound – Pacior’Fan
18: Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna
19 – April March – Laisse Tomber Les Filles

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 30th

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Strolling along the Seashore (1909)

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition airs Monday 30th, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: till yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

As the name says, it’s summer. Therefore, let’s celebrate it. Nearly all the songs, from Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr to Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna have just been released or are recent.

There are two indie oldies, The Durutti Collumn’s Sketch For A Summer and The Go-Betweens’ Two Heads. As tends to be the case with my shows, indie and mainstream go hand in hand, although here there are several pop breezy indie alternative songs. But Harry Styles and Laufey pair with Jeanines or April March. There’s an acoustic guitar instrumental, AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia), and the customary Mamas & the Papas classic California Dreamin’, here in covered by The Rebels.

Tracklist:
01: Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr
02: Cass McCombs – Peace
03: Robert Robertson – Broken Arrow
04: Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
05: Pressyes – The Sunlighttt
06: The Durutti Collumn – Sketch For A Summer
07: Jeanines – Coaxed A Storm
08: AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia)
09: Panda Bear – Virginia Tech
10: The Go-Betweens – Two Heads
11: Laufey – Lover Girl
12: The Rebels – California Dreamin’
13: Weezer – Island In The Sun
14: Lightheaded – The Garden
15: James Yorkston – Love Luck (feat. Johanna Söderberg)
16 – Forth Wanderers – Bluff
17: Swansea Sound – Pacior’Fan
18: Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna
19 – April March – Laisse Tomber Les Filles

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #81 – The Ambients edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #81 -The Ambients edition is now available on mixcloud. Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs every other Monday 3-4pm (London/LIsboa time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #81 -The Ambients edition travels throug very differenty ambients. From classic music with Thomas von Wachenfeldt interpretation and arrangement of Jon Erik Hall+s Suite no1 in G minor – I. Visa Air to The Makers Garage Rock. The post about the show has more details on the programme more details on the programme.

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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