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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # The 2nd Anniversary edition by and my “band The Astro Travelers
airs tomorrow on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/(or on the app), 3-4pm (Lisboa/London time).

As 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.

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) – (Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela, Gustavo Costa, Rodrigo Carvalho – Crónica)
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13 – Tom Gunn Nash – Cycle (unpublished)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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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #45 is The New and New and Old edition. It airs tomorrow, Monday 8th on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/(or on the app), 3-4pm (London/Lisboa time). Nearly all songs are new as is @c + Drumming GP that opens the programme. The old refers to Janis Ian’s Sweet Misery, which happens to be new for me since I only heard it for the first time a little while ago and Depeche Mode’s cover of the late Gordon Lightfoot’ Sundown.

Tracklist:
01: @c + Drumming GP – 63, for percussion, synthetic percussion, electronics (excerpt)
02: Janis Ian – Sweet Misery
03: Erik & The Worldly Savages – Thunder in Our Hearts
04: Beach Fossils – Don’t Fade Away
05: Special Friend – Bête
06: Los Luchos – Rollercoaster Love (single version)
07: Mother Juniper – These Little Animals
08: Rose City Band – Slow Burn
09: Depeche Mode – Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot cover as performed by Scott Walker live @ Radio 2’s Piano Room, 2023)
10: The Zoo & Joao Cabeleira – Neste Nosso Amor
11: Dan Lynch – Australia
12: Traço – Gota
13: Fibril – The Bats are Back
14: Las Robertas – Awakening
15: Isa Leen – I Have In Me All the Dreams In the World
16: John Mercy – Who Took Harry Down?

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights is back with a new programme the #44 – The Dulce et Decorum Est edition that airs tomorrow on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/(or on the app)

Dulce et Decorum Est is a line from Horace’s Odes of which the full sentence is “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” (it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country) used as the antithesis, “The old Lie”, as an expression of senseless loss of life of the glorious meaning in Horace by Wilfred Owen in his poem of the same name.

April 24th is the eve of 25 de Abril (April 25th) that came to be know as A Revolução dos Cravos (The Carnation Revolution) a military coup d’etat that deposed the 48 year Military than right wing running dictartorship (28.05.1926-15.04.1974) in Portugal leadimg to the demise of Portugal’s Colonial War (1961-1975)
Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est while a soldier in the trenches of WWI. Wilfred died seven days before the 1918 Artistice Owne’s poems were mosty written between August 1917 and September 1918 and live on.
The programme opens with Christopher Eccleston reading Owen’s poem and ends with the choir of prisoner soldiers in Merry Christmas Merry, Mr. Lawrence singing the 23rd Psalm.

Not all songs relate to war. At least not in the strict sense of war. Some approach daily struggles, the hardships of working people or racism or injustice. The Portuguese songs are from before the end of the dictartoship. From a time when every word had to carefully measured, inuendos or love, romantic and longing song spoke what could not be said. Although Reinaldo Ferreira poem sang by José Afonso is rather to the point, the soldier will only return home in a pine box. Chico Buarque’s Construção is a critique of the Brazilian social situation under the Brazilian military dictatorship (01.04.1964-15-03-1985).

Both Dulce et Decorum Est and 23rd Psalm can be read bellow the tracklist.

Tracklist:
01 – Christopher Eccleston – reads Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
02 – Comunicado do MFA – Aqui Posto de Comando
03 – The Doors – The End (from the Soundtrack of Apocalypse Now)
04 – Billy Bragg – Waiting For The Great Leap Foward
05 – Bob Dylan – Blind Willie McTell
06 – Bruce Springsteen – The River
07 – Chico Buarque – Construção
09 – Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
10 – Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Oliver’s Army
11 – Fernando Tordo – O Café (José Carlos Ary dos Santos’ poem)
12 – José Afonso – Menina dos Olhos Tristes (Reinaldo Ferreira’s poem)
13 – Manic Street Preachers – Let Robeson Sing
14 – Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
15 – Monophonics – There’s A Riot Going On
16 – Public Enemy – By The Time I Get to Arizona
17 – Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries excerpt (from the Soundtrack of Apocalypse Now)
18 – Ryuichi Sakamoto – 23rd Psalm (From the Soundtrack of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

23rd Psalm as in Ryuichi Sakamoto’s version for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

The Lord’s my Shepherd, I’ll not want;
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green; He leadeth me
The quiet waters by

My soul He doth restore again
And me to walk doth make
Within the paths of righteousness
E’en for His own name’s sake

Yea, though I walk in death’s dark vale
Yet will I fear no ill;
For Thou art with me, and Thy rod
And staff me comfort still
My table Thou hast furnished
In presence of my foes

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Amazing Songs & Other Delighs # 43 – Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 43 – The It’s Spring Again edition as the titles says brings us back to Spring. It airs tomorrow Monday 27th, 3-4pm on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).

From two excerpts of Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring to Miguel Feraso Cabral’s upcoming singe, Alegado Suspeito, through Bill Prichard singing a poem by Patrick Woodcock, The Sundays, Éme e Moxila, Donovan and more, Spring is celebrated in spirit, tone and, of course, in the work itself.

The Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun appears once more, it matches several seasons, here by the Glee Cast.

Tracklist:
01: Igor Stravinsky – A Sagração da Primavera (excerpt) by Vortice Dance Company)
02: Bill Pritchard – Lance (Patrick Woodcock poem)
03: Blanche – Bottles
04: David Van Auken – Blossom
05: Cory Hanson – Twins
06: Éme e Moxila – Estocolmo 1984
07: Douglas Dare – Doublethings
08: Donovan – The Lullaby of Spring
09: Glee Cast – Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles cover)
10: Gordon Grdina | Mat Maneri | Christian Lillinger – Stand By
11: Lael Neale – Faster Than The Medicine
12: Lola Flowers – Saudades
13: Miguel Feraso Cabral – Alegado Suspeito
14: Rodrigo Amarante – Hourglass
15: Suarasama – Sea Fish
16: The Gift – Primavera
17: The Sundays – Skin & Bones
18: Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring (excerpt) by The London London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #42 is The Everything and the Kitchen Sink edition, a rather ecletic programme airs tomorrow Monday 13th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).

New or nearly new song. New renditions of traditional songs. From Portugal to Australia through the UK and the US. As well as a preview of Rapariga de Truffautfrom Fire in the Lab upcoming debut album.

Tracklist:
01 – 1st Base Runner – Night Stalker
02 – Alasdair Roberts – Eppie Morrie (Traditional song)
03 – Angel Olsen – Nothing’s Free
04 – Balla – Segredos
05 – Banana Leaf Boy – I Want 2
06 – Bill Rivers – Captured
07 – Fire In The Lab – Rapariga de Truffaut
08 – Fontaines D.C. – Cello Song (Nick Drake’s cover)
09 – Michael J Sheehy feat. Suzanne Rhatigan – Phoenix Island (Traditional song)
10 – Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo – Milk & Honey
11 – Miraculous Mule – Sinnerman
12 – Mudhoney – Move Under
13 – Panic Pocket – Mad Half Hour
14 – Quadra (feat. Miguel Santos) – Tropicália
15 – Sleaford Mods ft. Florence Shaw – Force 10 From Navarone
16 – Zebra Libra – Summer Day

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