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Europe Is Our Playground – a Birthday project/present for Mat Osman of Suede

Melissa Waterfield, one of The Mild Ones moderators arranged another birthday/project/present for The Mild Ones. This time for Suede wonderful bassist Mat Osman.

We both picked Europe Is Our Playground for the project. Both in it’s full instrumental version – Melissa – and just the baseline – me.

From Ohio to Portugal the World is Our Playground. 🙂

Here’s what Melissa wrote on the Mild Ones Facebook :

“🎶Happy Birthday Mat🥳🎂🎶

Europe Is Our Playground…….

“One of the most beautiful Suede songs written by our favorite birthday bassist inspired Raquel Pinheiro and I to collaborate on this celebration video for his special day.
Raquel combined her amazing photos of Porto with Mat’s bass line while I used photos from my European adventures to see Suede💙
So grateful to Mat and Suede for motivating me to travel more and to go from 🎶Heathrow to Hounslow🎶😉 Wishing Mat a birthday as wonderful as he is!!!!”

Europe Is Our Playground project/birthday project team:
video front and end photo: Mat Osman © Devin Baty
photos of Europe as a playground to see Suede, full video assemblage: Melissa Waterfield
photos of Porto, Mat’s favourite city, stems and instrumental isolation: Raquel Pinheiro

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

Coming Back To The Foundations of The Listening Room HQ

Harold Knight – The Reader c1910

Coming Back To The Foundations of The Listening Room HQ my new post on The Listening Room HQ, my men’s practice – and The Polymath sister site – is a return to its fundamentals. Stabilize and Deepen, in a somatic practice of attention rooted in neuroscience, intuition and lived experience that offers with Sessions for Men, and Maps & Readings for everyone. Coming Back To The Foundationnnn

ns of The Listening Room HQ can be read on the Listening Room HQ site.

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Birds a Birthday Project/Present for Richard Oakes (of Suede) 50th Birthday

Melissa Waterfield, one of The Mild Ones moderators had a challenge. A birthday project/present for Richard Oakes, Suede’s guitarist.

Part of what Melissa wrote on the Mild Ones Facebook: “Raquel Pinheiro and I were inspired by hearing of Richard’s appreciation for birds, an appreciation that we share, and decided upon this collaboration of field recordings, a Haiku, and her original piece to commemorate his 50th year🎂”

My original piece is called Richard’s Theme, and the Haiku, written on purpose for Richard, The House Martin.

The House Martin

In the cliff and the cave
The House Martin nested
Then, to the city it moved to

Birds project/birthday project team:
video front photo: Richard with Lake Placid Blue Fender Jaguar © Devin Baty
poem, reading, compositon, guitar, field recordings: Raquel Pinheiro
birds footage and field recordings at Beaver Marsh, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, United States: Melissa Waterfield
project/present assemblage: Melissa Waterfield

The Mild Ones are a wonderful, open, caring Suede fan group and community I’m part of that goes well beyond Suede. You can read our interview with its administrators Jose Duarte and Sara Bona here: https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2026/02/05/in-conversation-with-jose-sara-of-the-mild-ones/

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro

International Music Day 2026 – For Choices For … and International Music Day 2026 at The Polymath

A page of medieval manuscript featuring ornate calligraphy and red ink embellishments, containing Latin text with musical notations.
Hildegard von Bingen – Riesencodex c. 1180–1190

Carlos Paredes – Verdes Anos. From Paulo Rocha’s 1963 film. Verdes Anos. An instrumental piece in which the Mestre and his Portuguese guitar carry the atmosphere without needing words.

Paradise Lost – The Last Time
From by beloved album of theirs Draconian Times. Heavy, dark and beautifully atmospheric, with that particular sense of weight and beat that Paradise Lost can create.

Ethel Ennis – Dreamer Dreamer
From the album Lullabies for Losers. A voice carrying longing and vulnerability with extraordinary warmth upon an arrowing musical background.

Hildegard von Bingen – Ave GenerosaMusic from the twelfth century, luminous and otherworldly. Hildegard is also one of my main inspirations and central to The Polymath

Happy International Music Day. ✨

You can read more about Hildegard  and Ave Generosa, and the thread connecting music, curiosity and The Polymath, over at The Polymath: Hildegard von Bingen as a Source of Continuous Inspiration

International Music Day at Mondo Bizarre Magazine:

International Music Day 2025 – My Song Choices

International Music Day 2025 – My Song Choices

International Music Day at The Polymath:

2025

2026 – Four Songs, One Thread

Hildegard von Bingen receiving a vision and dictating to Volmar — illumination from the Scivias, c. 1151–1152

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

When The Room Changes – Changing the Conditions

Mark Francis – Audio Division II, 2026

When The Room Changes – Changing the Conditions is the after the Pause return post on The Litening Room HQ , my men’s practice.

When The Room Changes – Changing the Conditions is a practical note on changing our surroundings, creating space, and how a different environment can change what becomes possible. It can be read at The Listening Room HQ site.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

One Year of The Polymath – Returning to the Vessel and the New Moon in Virgo at The Polymath

Marc Francis – Signals, 2026

The Polymath turns one year old. After the Pause I’m back writing to that beloved vessel.

One Year of The Polymath – Returning to the Vessel and the New Moon in Virgo is a look back at its first year, the ideas it holds, what stays, what disappears, and what comes next. The post can be read on The Polymath site.

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

The Intelligence Of The Pause at The Polymath & The Listening Room HQ

Eli Gross – Pause, 2024

The Intelligence Of The Pause are two slightly different notes on pausing. The Intelligence of the Pause – After The Leo New Moon & The Solar Eclipse at The Polymath, and The Intelligence Of The Pause at The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice.

Posting on The Polymath and The Listening Room HQ will resume in a couple of weeks.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Entries, Raquel Pinheiro, The Polymath

Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane II at The Polymath

Claude Monet – The Weeping Willow, 1918 – 1919

Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane II, my new post at The Polymath
is a continuation of Field Notes – The Architecture Of The Lane.

Other walks through old rural lanes and modern pavements. Shades of green. Picking wild blackberries. An impromptu conversation. Being under a wonderful weeping willow. Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane can be read on The Polymath site:
https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/08/field-notes-architecture-of-lane-ii.html

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

Three Simple Practical Steps to Relieve Stress at The Listening Room HQ

Sophie Sweeter – Chamomile Tea

Three Simple Practical Steps to Relieve Stress my new post at The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – speaks of three simple practical steps to relieve stress: recognising your state, giving your body signals of safety, and releasing physical tension through simple techniques. The post approaches three points: 1. Notice what state you are actually in; Give your body a signal of safety; Release some of the physical tension and can be read at The Listening Room HQ site.

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

The Aquarius Full Moon: Maps, Readings, and the Architecture of the Next Thirty Years

Aquarius Full Moon

The Aquarius Full Moon: Maps, Readings, and the Architecture of the Next Thirty Years is my latest post at The Polymath .

On 29 July, the Full Moon arrives at 6° Aquarius in precise conjunction with Pluto retrograde, marking a rare structural alignment that invites us to examine the foundations on which we are building our lives.

The essay explores this collective moment through astrology, Human Design and personal reflection, while also introducing the Maps & Readings and individual Sessions available through both The Polymath and its sister site, The Listening Room HQ, my men’s practice.

You can read The Aquarius Full Moon: Maps, Readings, and the Architecture of the Next Thirty Years now at The Polymath.