Amazing Songs & Other Delights #101 – Oceanic edition by Raquel Pinheiro Monday 19&26 on Yé Yé Radio

Penelope and the Ducks – Underwater Woman: Swimming In The Sea

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #101 – Oceanic edition is broadcasted Monday 19 & 26 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).

I return to ocean swimming late May and have kept it, including going to the ocean at night. At night, usually, given the conditions to walk along the shoreline, but, sometimes the water is good enough for a nightswim.

As R.E.M.’s song say that appears in the programme says “Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night”.

Preceding R.E.M. are Queens of The Stone Age with I Sat By The Ocean.
Underwater Songs are Luís Figueiredo & Manuel Rocha, a voice and piano duo that is releasing their second album Underwater Songs Vol. 2 in November.

There’s Sétimo Legião with Sete Mares, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ The Ship Song, Charles Trenet with La mer.

The Who bring Sea And Sand from Quadrophenia, The Velvet Underground, arrive with Ocean,
The Shins walk with Sea Legs,
Van Morrison’s Into The Mystic brings an otherworldly dimension.

Amalia Rodrigues singing Canção do Mar, and Chico Buarque with Mar e Lua bring deep emotion and longing.

Bernard Butler appears twice. The Sea (Edit), a b-side from Stay, a single from his debut album People Moved On, and Camber Sands from his third album Good Grief.

The closing is for the Beatles with the joyous Octopus’ Garden.

You can read about my return to ocean swimming in The Atlantic – Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic – at The Polymath site: https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/06/returning-to-swimming-in-atlantic.html

Tracklist:.
01: Queens of the Stone Age – I Sat By The Ocean
02: R.E.M. – Nightswimming
03: Underwater Songs (Luís Figueiredo & Manuel Rocha) – Graça
04: Sétima Legião – Sete Mares
05: Charles Trenet – La mer
06: Bernard Butler – The Sea (Edit)
07: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Ship Song
08: The Who – Sea And Sand
09: The Velvet Underground – Ocean
10: Amália Rodrigues – Canção do Mar
11: Bernard Butler – Camber Sands
12: Van Morrison – Into The Mystic 
13: The Shins – Sea Legs
14: Chico Buarque – Mar e Lua
15: The Beatles – Octopus’ Garden

All previous shows on mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II by Raquel Pinheiro

Marianne Faithfully & Warren Ellis © Rosie Matheson

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II is broadcasted Monday 05 & 12 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

I love poetry. Two recent birthday projects/presents by The Mild Ones. one for Brett Anderson’s birthday, the other for Richard Oakes’ birthday have me reading poetry. On the second instance The House Martin purpose written haiku by me for Richard.

There have been poems of mine put to music by among others, Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem/The June Carriers/Velho Homem) and João Diogo Zagalo (Silver & Scout, Vox Mambo, Dead Violets, The Lone Ranger) and my Poem #80 turned into the song Lucid One by Francisco Silva.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II has my own poetry sang by others, said/read my me, changed into a song

The Latin word for poem is carmen, hence Bizet’s Carmen in the voice of Maria Callas.

William Blake serves the lyrics of The Doors’ End of the Night, is named in The The’s Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake, and the inspiration subject of Patti Smith’s My Blakean Year.

Lorca comes in Leonard Cohen’s adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés, Take This Waltz. One of my favourite poems T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is on
Sibylle Baier’s Says Elliott.

Eminem’s Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido, and Rowland S Howard’s Autoluminescent gives another dimension of poetry and sounds.

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree) from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Winter Journey) a dark folk song by Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche, takes us back to the classical world.

Johnny Marr’s All in a Life from his new album The Age of Everything mixes dark, sharp, mystical, upbeat, with soaring haunting backing vocals by Meredith Sheldon. Both Johnny and Meredith have a song each on Amazing Songs Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition.https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2026/09/19/amazing-songs-other-delights-99-the-luminous-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-on-ye-ye-radio-monday-21-28-september/

The House Martin, and haiku for Richard Oakes by Raquel Pinheiro

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

Tracklist:
01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa)
02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen)
03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem)
04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence)
05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines)
06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido
08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43
09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake
10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year
11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés)
12: Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent
13: João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51
14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock)
15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche)
16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life
17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an haiku for Richard Oakes

You can read about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #05 The Poetry edition
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/23/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition/ and listen to it here:
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/28/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-ye-ye-radios-mixcloud/

All previous shows on mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

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.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II by Raquel Pinheiro

Marianne Faithfully & Warren Ellis © Rosie Matheson

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II is broadcasted Monday 05 & 12 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

I love poetry. Two recent birthday projects/presents by The Mild Ones. one for Brett Anderson’s birthday, the other for Richard Oakes’ birthday have me reading poetry. On the second instance The House Martin purpose written haiku by me for Richard.

There have been poems of mine put to music by among others, Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem/The June Carriers/Velho Homem) and João Diogo Zagalo (Silver & Scout, Vox Mambo, Dead Violets, The Lone Ranger) and my Poem #80 turned into the song Lucid One by Francisco Silva.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II has my own poetry sang by others, said/read my me, changed into a song

The Latin word for poem is carmen, hence Bizet’s Carmen in the voice of Maria Callas.

William Blake serves the lyrics of The Doors’ End of the Night, is named in The The’s Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake, and the inspiration subject of Patti Smith’s My Blakean Year.

Lorca comes in Leonard Cohen’s adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés, Take This Waltz. One of my favourite poems T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is on
Sibylle Baier’s Says Elliott.

Eminem’s Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido, and Rowland S Howard’s Autoluminescent gives another dimension of poetry and sounds.

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree) from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Winter Journey) a dark folk song by Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche, takes us back to the classical world.

Johnny Marr’s All in a Life from his new album The Age of Everything mixes dark, sharp, mystical, upbeat, with soaring haunting backing vocals by Meredith Sheldon. Both Johnny and Meredith have a song each on Amazing Songs Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition.https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2026/09/19/amazing-songs-other-delights-99-the-luminous-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-on-ye-ye-radio-monday-21-28-september/

The House Martin, and haiku for Richard Oakes by Raquel Pinheiro

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

Tracklist:
01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa)
02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen)
03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem)
04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence)
05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines)
06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido
08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43
09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake
10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year
11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés)
12: Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent
13: João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51
14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock)
15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche)
16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life
17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an haiku for Richard Oakes

You can read about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #05 The Poetry edition
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/23/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition/ and listen to it here:
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/28/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-ye-ye-radios-mixcloud/

All previous shows on mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

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 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

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition by Raquel Pinheiro on Yé Yé Radio Monday 21 & 28 September

Johnny Marr photo © Andrew Cotterill

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition edition is broadcasted Monday 21 and 28 September, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

After a pause and repeat shows I’m back to new editions.

As soon as I became aware Johnny Marr was having an auction of his guitars, amps, and memorabilia at Christie’s 17 September I knew how the snow begun. Spin is taken from Johnny’s upcoming album The Age of Everything.

The last song, Bernard Butler singing The Irish Goodbye – one of his new songs live from the Irish Embassy in London for RTE (the Iris national broadcaster) 100th anniversary – was also decided.

The other songs, aside from Lucinda Williams version of The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps that I have played before – appeared from different sources and fitted the programme flow and imaginary.

There’s a second Johnny Marr presence. He plays the guitars on Meredith Sheldon’s Once We Were Dust album which I found through his Instagram.

The guitars, or most of them, Johnny plays on Spin and Diamonds Like are no longer his, have changed hands at the auction.

The songs vary in gente, in age, in being from lost albums, or just released. Together they form a diverse tapestry I like.

Tracklist:
01: Johnny Marr – Spin
02: Velcro Dog – The Gonzo Futurist Manifesto
03: The Pineapple Thief – God Knows
04: Susanna Hoffs – Casablanca
05: Bikini Body – Leipzig (ft. Ben Katzman)
06: Meredith Sheldon – Diamonds Like
07: Soft Science – Spinning
08: Cesária Evora – Sonsente
09: Filipe Karlsson – Rota
10: The Go – Secular Century Man
11: Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
12: Garcia – Quando Não Estás
13: Railcard – Flannelette
14: Yoko Ono – Never Say Goodbye (2026 Remaster)
15: Ex_Re – Radio Station
16: Prince – I Am You
17: Bernard Butler – The Irish Goodbye (live at RTE 100)

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

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.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #97 – The Of Sea & Cake edition now on Mixcloud

Three men standing and sitting in a minimalist gallery space, with one man seated on a stool and two men standing nearby. The room features a plain white background and concrete flooring.
The Sea and Cake

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #97 – The Of Sea & Cake edition is now available on mixcloud.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs on Yé Yé Radio 1st and 3rd Monday of the Month, 3-4pm (London time) repeating 3rd and 4th Monday of the Month.

For some reason I had the programme title for a while. Probably, because of Sea and Cake, the band that opens and closes the show. Since I recently went ocean swim again and I like cake, it was a perfect match. Ideas and life catching and matching up.

You can read more about the programme here.

Tracklist:
01: The Sea and Cake – Four Corners
02: Dhani Harrison (Live at George Fest) – Savoy Truffle
03: Air – La Femme d’Argent
04: Queens Of The Stone Age – Monsters In The Parasol
05: The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave (Stereo/Remastered 2001)
06: Deerhoof – Milk Man
07: Cake – Distance
08: Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator
09: Brian Eno – By This River (2004 Digital Remaster)
10: Lupe Fiasco – Cake
11: Can – Vitamin C
12: Everything But The Girl – Temperamental
13: The Sea and Cake – Parasol

All previous shows on mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

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.

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.