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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #67 – The 3rd Anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travellers, Monday 3rd @ Yé Yé Radio

Yellow Cake Recipe Painting by Jen Norton

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #67 is The 3rd Anniversary edition and airs Monday 3rd, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio:  yeyeradio.com (or on the app). As usual on the program anniversary my “band” The Astro Travellers and I put as radio show together from a mix of purpose created songs or instrumentals, morsels from the vaults, songs that represent me, still to be released songs and instrumentals.

Here the Astro Travellers are António (Tó) Cunha, Bill Rivers, Carlos Fortes, Dana Detrick, Ed Clayton-Jones, Francisca Fortes, Francisco Silva, João Diogo Zagalo, Laura Mesquita, Matt Hutchison, Paulo Miranda, Pedro Mesquita, Pedro Tenreiro, Rui Guerra, and Rui Pimenta.

Tó, Dana, Matt, Pedro Mesquita and Rui Pimenta selected songs they feel represent me. Interestingly, Dana choice is Tó’s choice for my 1st anniversary show She’s a Rainbow by The Rolling Stones. This year I also picked a song that reportes me Cake’s version of I Will Survive.

I threw three chords to Bill and Francisco. Two of which I didn’t even knew the name of. I strummed them on the guitar, like it, drew a diagram. Bill didn’t knew the name of one of the chords either and called it chord H. Turns out, according to Francisco, chord H, if strummed a certain way is a pompous thing, a Fmaj7#11/ whatever that may be.

What happened to those three chords – with some adds/modifications by Bill and Francisco? They become three songs, Da Da Da bom, Someone Kissing You Away and Sweet Peace. Da Da Da bom are exactly the same instrumental basis, the first on keyboards, the second on acoustic guitar. Da Da Da bom has no lyrics per se, it is Bill humming a vocal melody. The lyrics in Sweet Peace were written by Bill to his latest record with Simon Hayward. Someone Kissing You Away are a few words Francisco used instead of a vocal melody to show me how the song could turn out.

Like the cover of Um Zero Amarelo Como Um Cavalo Louco by Francisca and Carlos Fortes, the aforementioned three songs are home, living room, recordings. João Diogo Zagalo and Paulo Navarro also contributed with home done music. Paulo did a beautiful piano solo piece, Atravessando as Águas, João sent what turned into Dead Redemption that was just voices. I liked it and kept it along Red Uszatek. Pedro Tenreiro, with his digei de bairro moniker, and Ed Clayton-Jones graciously allowed me to play still to be released material. Paulo Miranda took my Big Bang with saxophone (courtesy of Rui Guerra) and with spectral audio modulation created a new ambient for my music.

The Anniversary edition is my wide family affair, a group of fabulous musician, composers, songwriters, producers. It is always a guess, a what will come of it, until the show is fully assembled. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed doing it.

01: Raquel Pinheiro – Big Bang with sax – Paulo Miranda’s Spectral Sound Modulation version
02: Bill Rivers & Raquel Pinheiro – Da Da Da bom
03: João Diogo Zagalo – Dead Redemption
04: Lola Flowers – This Is Not A Love Song (Pedro Mesquita)
05: digei de bairro – never been in Ibiza
06: Ed Clayton-Jones – Country Girl
07: Pernice Brothers – Working Girls (Rui Pimenta)
08: The Rolling Stones – She’s a Rainbow (Dana Detrick)
09: Francisca Fortes & Carlos Fortes – Como Um Cavalo Louco (Um Zero Amarelo cover)
11: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Someone Kissing You Away
12: Cake – I Will Survive (Raquel)
13: John Cale – How We See The Light (António Cunha)
14: Paulo Navarro – Atravessando as Águas
15: Bill Rivers & Raquel Pinheiro- Sweet Peace
16: Ed Clayton-Jones – Interloper
17: João Diogo Zagalo – Red Uszatek
18: Iggy Pop – The Passenger (Matt Hutchison)

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My Amazing Songs & Other Delights is every other Monday @ Yé Yé Radio

photo © Helena Soares

Here I am, looking like an international woman of mystery on a cold, windy late afternoon by the salt marshes. My radio programme Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs every other Monday, 3-4pm (gmt +1) on Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app) Each edition of my show has a theme. The anniversary show, in late May is a special occasion with endless delights. All aired shows can be listened to on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #64 – The Grandeur of Ghosts edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Rádio Yé Yé @ mixcloud

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #64 – The Grandeur of Ghosts edition can now be listened to on mixcloud. It is a good soundtrack for today, 25 de Abril (April 25), is the day my country stopped being a dictatorship 50 years ago. April 25 is also Anzac (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day. The programme includes Portuguese songs connected to 25 de Abril, an instrumental track from Mick Harvey’s Waves of Anzac and other anti war songs, instrumentals and poems from Siegfried Sassoon and Federico Garcia Lorca. You can read more about the programme here: https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2024/04/21/amazing-songs-other-delights-64-the-grandeur-of-ghosts-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-radio-ye-ye-monday-22nd/

Tracklist:
01 – Johnny Mandel – Suicide is Painless (from M.A.S.H.)
02 – Credence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
03 – The Cranberries – Zombie
04 – Golpe de Estado – Rev 25
05 – JP Simões – Mudam-se os Tempos Mudaram-se as Vontades feat. Ruca Rebordão, Nuno Ferreira, Márcio Pinto, Pedro Pinto
(José Mario Branco song)
06 – Mick Harvey – Vietnam
07 – José Afonso – Grândola Vila Morena
08 – Vivian Kubrick – Ruins (Full Metal Jacket soundtrack)
09 – New Order – Love Vigilantes
10 – Jimi Hendrix – Machine Gun (live at the Filmore East,1st night, 31.12.1969)
11 – Jacques Brel – La colombe
12 – Siegfried Sassoon – Suicide in the Trenches read by Stephen Graham
13 – Paulo de Carvalho – E Depois do Adeus
14 – The Libertines – Shiver
15 – Federico Garcia Lorca – Balada de la gran guerra by Joan Mora
16 – Amália Rodrigues – Zé Soldado, Soldadinho
17 – R.E.M. – Orange Crush
18- Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding
19 – Tom Waits – Day After Tomorrow
20 – Manic Street Preachers – Suicide is Painless, Theme for M.A.S.H.

The Grandeur of Ghosts by Siegfried Sassoon

When I have heard small talk about great men
I light my two candles; climb to bed; then
Consider what was said; and put aside
What Such-a-one remarked, and Someone-else replied.

They have spoken lightly of my deathless friends,
(Lamps for my gloom, hands guiding where I stumble,)
Quoting, for shallow conversational ends,
What Shelley shrilled, what Blake once wildly muttered…

How can they use such names and be not humble ?
I have sat silent; angry at what they uttered.
The dead bequeathed them life; the dead have said
What these can only memorise and mumble.

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The Reading List – Raquel Pinheiro – World Book Day 2024

© Raquel Pinheiro

Today is World Book Day 2004. Here is a list of a few of my favourite books:

Eça de Queirós – A Cidade e as Serras
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Herodotus – Histories
James Gavin – Deep In A Dream – The Long Night Of Chet Baker
Jean Cocteau – Les enfants terrible
Sam Shepard – Crónicas Americanas (Motel Chronicles)
Simon Garfield – Mauve
T.E. Lawrence – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.S. Elliot – Complete Poems
Oscar Wilde – Dorian Gray

recent favourites:
Charles Spencer – A Very Private School
Mat Osman – The Ghost Theatre

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #61 – The It Is All New edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio @ mixcloud

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #61 – The It Is All New edition a programme filled with novelties can now be listened to on mixcloud.

Monday, March 11th, 2024, 3-4pm (gmt) Running time: 60:01:12

Tracklist:
01 – The Black Keys – I Forgot To Be Your Lover
02 – Been Stellar – Passing Judgment
03 – Bodega – Tarkovski
04 – Crumbs – DIY SOS
05 – Blind Zero – Running Back To You
06 – P. S. Lucas – Black Sand
07 – James – Our World
08 – Pete Astor – Chinese Cadillac
09 – The Sex Organs – Sex Shop
10 – La Luz – Strange World
11 – Wolf Manhattan – You Can’t Always Win
12 – Nourished By Time – Hand On Me
13 – Girl and Girl – Hello
14 – Six Organs of Admittance – The Mission
15 – Liam Gallagher & John Squire – Make It Up As You Go Along
16 – JP Simões – Mariazinha
17 – The Libertines – Night Of The Hunter
18 – Corridor – Mon Angent

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #61 – The It Is All New edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 11th.

JP Simões © Tiago Fezas Vital

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #61 – The It Is All New edition airs Monday, 11h, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com

This edition is a programme filled with 18 new, newish songs like You Can’t Always Win Wolf Manhattan single from the second upcoming album, and a cover of a decades long Portuguese song, Mariazinha by José Mário Branco here interpreted by JP Simões.

As is often the case with my radio shows, the selection is eclectic, from established to new names, from Portuguese to American songs.

Tracklist:
01 – The Black Keys – I Forgot To Be Your Lover
02 – Been Stellar – Passing Judgment
03 – Bodega – Tarkovski
04 – Crumbs – DIY SOS
05 – Blind Zero – Running Back To You
06 – P. S. Lucas – Black Sand
07 – James – Our World
08 – Pete Astor – Chinese Cadillac
09 – The Sex Organs – Sex Shop
10 – La Luz – Strange World
11 – Wolf Manhattan – You Can’t Always Win
12 – Nourished By Time – Hand On Me
13 – Girl and Girl – Hello
14 – Six Organs of Admittance – The Mission
15 – Liam Gallagher & John Squire – Make It Up As You Go Along
16 – JP Simões – Mariazinha
17 – The Libertines – Night Of The Hunter
18 – Corridor – Mon Argent

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #59 The Through Mountains & Valleys aka The Epilepsy edition by Raquel Pinheiro, Monday 12th Rádio Yé Yé.

Neil Young © Far Out/Tidal

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #59 The Through Mountains & Valleys aka The Epilepsy edition airs Monday, 12th , 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).Monday February 12th is International Epilepsy Day. I have two types of epilepsy, photosensitive – in my case affected both by light, and certain types of sounds – and atonic (my muscles suddenly lose contraction and I fall or things slip from my hands). For many people with epilepsy the condition is like traversing mountains and Valleys. In my case that happens mostly with photosensitive epilepsy. Through mountains and valleys is also, literally, what me and my friend Matt do. Me when walking up and down the more, or less, urbanized areas of Porto – Porto is at the end of a mountain range. Matt in Los Angeles and its sorrpunding areas. Like Laurel Canyon where many musicians lived in the 60s and 70s. Among them, Neil Young who has epilepsy. The songs selected for the programme comprise those from musicians with epilepsy as well as those from bands and artists that lived at Laurel Canyon. To me, Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box gives the idea of the sudden, stop, motion, electrical discharges of photosensitive epilepsy which is why it is on the tracklist. The colour of epilepsy is purple-lavender, hence Prince’s Purple Rain. Prince had epilepsy until he was seven years old, a fwct he mentions in The Sacrifice of Victor.

Trackist:
01 –  Antony & The Johnsons – Epilepsy is Dancing
02 – Joni Mitchell – Michael From Mountains
03 – Chris Knox – Grand Mal
04 – The Byrds – Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is A Season)
05 – Spandau Ballet – Gold (HD remastered)
06 – The Mothers of Invention – Anywhere The Wind Blows
07 – The Streets – Dry Your Eyes
08 – Nirvana – Heart Shaped Box
09 – Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
10 – Joy Division – Transmission
11 – Prince – Purple Rain
12 –  Elton John – Bennie And The Jets
13 – The Olympic Symphonium – Thanks a Lot
14 – Jimmy Reed – Too Much
15 – Black Light White Light – Epilepsy 

Prince © Warner Bros
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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #58 – Your Surprise, is My Surprise edition by Raquel Pinheiro, Monday 29th @ Yé Yé Radio.

Joan Baez, Montreux, 1975

My next Amazing Songs & Other Delights is #58 – Your Surprise, is My Surprise and airs Monday, 29th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

This edition is wide choices range from a a excerpt of Waṯu, a song that is, at least, 60 thousand years old voiced by brothers David  and Daniel Wilfred, singing in  Wagiläk language (an Australian Indigenous language. David and Daniel are  keepers from Arnhem Land) to just released songs thorough some that would horrify my teenage and younger self.

The programme title comes from four things. My surrprise finding a fabulous Joan Baez song – just marvel at the lyrics, the voice, the, guitar -, dad rock aka The Dire Straights mega hit Sultans of Swing being able to pass for a groovy indie song (it all depends, of context),Mantra, the gentle instrumental by Dave Ghrol Josh Homme and Trent Reznor, and the absolute beauty of a song that is Blunt Knives, by Basalto.

Elaborating a little. I’ve could never could stand Joan Baez. She was always a pet peeve for me. When, by chance, I recently happened upon Diamonds and Rust I was, amazed. The song may ecen gain a place among my all time favourite songs.

The Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing? It played all the time, everywhere. Dad and his, friends, loved the Dire Straits. Indie kids would get anywhere, near Mark Knopfler’s band. Yet, the song, and probably always was, upbeat and danceable. Besides, Mark Knopfler plays mostly with his fingers rather than with a plectrum and for many years his guitar of choice was a, Strat the guitar he plays on Sultans of Swing. Since I start replaying guitar I have a Strat model and I have always mostly play guitar plectrum less.

Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Trent Reznor’s Mantra came from my brother Renato. I wasn’t convinced it would be that interesting, he insisted it was, but I didn’t listen to it for a, while. Turned out to be a great instrumental.

Basalto was a fabulous surprise too. I don’t know how I hadn’t noticed Basalto before, but I’m very happy to have it sent to me. Portuguese singer-songwriter Guilherme de Sousa newest single is a delicate, intense, marvelous song.

Trackist: 01 – Basalto – Blunt Knives; 02 – Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing; 03 – Corridor – Mourir Demain; 04 – Aziza Brahim – Bubisher; 05 – Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Trent Reznor – Mantra; 06 – Dragged Up – Missing Person; 07 – Hand to Earth – Waṯu (excerpt); 08 – Joan Baez – Diamonds & Rust; 09 – Michael Platter – The Alchemist; 10 – Mitski – I’m Your Man (live @ blogotheque); 11 – Paul Weller – You Do Something To Me; 12 – Pete Astor – Model Village; 13 – Vitória & The Kalashnicoles – New World; 14 – Zenxith – She is Lying

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #55 -The Such Lovely Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 4th

The Stone Roses by Kevin Cummings

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #55 -The Such Lovely Songs edition airs tomorrow, Monday 4th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).

The Such Lovely Songs edition os a collection of bestiful songs I’ve happen upon in different ways, or have been listening to more attentively. In a way, it goes back to the joy of listening to songs on the radio. Be it on John Peel’s show (o de here listened to is am) or António Sérgio’s shows.

Some songs,Iike the Stone Roses one I had totally forgot about. Although the spirit of this edition arrises from those radio shows of the past, and the songs cross several decades, the feel is very now. A if all songs as just been released.

Tracklist: 01 De Jolie Laide (Nina Nastasia & Jeff MacLeod) – Blue as Blue; 02 – Teenage Waitress – Grey Sky; 03 – Sam Lee – Bushes and Briars; 04 – Jackson Harden – Doris Day; 05 – Genghis Cohn – She Who Calls; 06 – Wurld Series – Illustrious Plates; 07 – Jonathan Richman – I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar; 08 – Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes; 09 – PJ Harvey – Seem An I; 10 Television – Venus; 11 Lloyd Cole And The Commotion – Rattlesnakes; 12 – The Stone Roses – Love Spreads;13 – Hot Apple Band – The Hill; 14 – Laura Veirs – July Flame; 15 – Frost Children – Bernardette;16 – MGMT- Bubblegum Dog

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 54 The Ascend-Descend edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #54 – The Ascend-Descend edition is now on mixcloud. You can read about the show here.

Tracklist:
01: Rafael Toral – Intro + Changes (except)
02: Cabrita – Todo Torto
03: Helado Negro – I Just Want To Wake Up With You
04: J. Masis – Can’t Believe We’re Here
05: King John – The Water
06: Mary Timony – Dominoes
07: MOORIS -04
08: O Gajo – Corrosão
09 – Swansea Sound – Paradise
10: The Lemonheads – Fear of Living 11: The Smile – Wall Of Eyes
12: Ty Segall -My Room
13: Vince Clarke – The Lamentations of Jeremiah
14: youbet – Carsick
15: Francisco Sassetti – Sara Is Happy

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(image: M. C. Escher, Relativity)