The Sieve Year – Field Notes is a reflection on The Polymath on 2025 as a sieve year, a time of refinement, release, and recalibration. Observing what passes through the hand of time, what remains, and how to move with clarity amid the sifting currents of life. You can read it here The Sieve Year – Field Notes.
Sometimes a new voice rises from the quiet. Like Luminous Robin, here on its The Listening Room HQ version as a presence in men’s practice.
Luminous Robin pairs with its essence on Luminous Robin, The Moon and Mercury on The Polymath.
Luminous Robin, The Moon and Mercury the new post at The Polymath site is a poetic invocation for Luminous Robin.
A vow of clear seeing and sacred listening between the Taurus Moon and Mercury’s retrograde turning.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 87 – The To Remember Who I Am edition airs Monday 3 November 2025, 3-4pm (London time) and repeats Monday November 10 on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
This edition title is both a reminder to myself and a words play with Tracy Vandal & John Mercy’s song.
Lammergeiers’ ITB is the band’s – a little hard to spot – version of Suede’s Introducing The Band.
Alicia Edelweiss is a suggestion by Bettina Korn and Ruth Lyon a suggestion by Martin Swarbrick. Their respective songs, Leonie and November were picked by me.
My beloved Sugar are back with a new single, House of Dead Memories, their first in thirty years. There’s also
Tracy Vandal & John Mercy with Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand and much more.
Tracklist:
01: Lammergeiers – ITB
02: Alicia Edelweiss – Leonie
03: Ruth Lyon – November
04: Sugar – House of Dead Memories
05: Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Dead End Pools
06: Guided By Voices – (You Can’t Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda
07: Miranda – I Wish
09: Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Might Have, Might Not Have
10: Oliver Sim – Telephone Games
11: Bela Noia – Não quero mais
12: AUA Drop – Painkiller No. 2
13: Leatherette – Hey There (x)
14: Tracy Vandal & John Mercy – To Remember Who You Were feat Alex Kapranos
15: Cass McCombs – Missionary Bell
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My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 86 – The Time Travel edition by Manuel Carvalho & Raquel Pinheiro os now on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs the first and third Monday of the month with respective repeats the second and fourth Monday of the month 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
You can read more about Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 86 – The Time Travel edition by Manuel Carvalho & Raquel Pinheiro here.
Tracklist:
01: Blur – Stereotypes (Raquel)
02: Charlie Hunter Trio – Come As You Are (Nirvana cover) (Manuel)
03: Emperors New Clothes – East On The West Road (Manuel)
04: Faith No More – Evidence (Raquel)
05: HIM – Painted Egg (Manuel)
06: Kuyss – Hurricane (Raquel)
07: Mcalmont & Butler – Don’t Call It Soul (Raquel)
08: Monster Magnet – King of Mars (Raquel)
09: Nightmares On Wax – Nights Introlude (Manuel)
10: Oasis – She’s Electric (Raquel)
11: Peter Scherer – Nerve Type No (Adrian Sherwood Remix) (Manuel)
12: Ron Sexsmith – Summer Blowin’ Town (Raquel)
13: The Ballistic Brothers – Portobello Café (Manuel)
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My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 86 – The Time Travel edition airs Monday October 20, and repeats Monday October 27, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
My friend Manuel Carvalho and I put together 13 songs and instrumentals from thirty years ago. I had never heard some of Manuel’s choices before. Which pleases me, since I love to find out new music, even if it may not be exactly my genre.
Our choices aren’t necessarily the only type of music we were listening to in 1995, but they reflect our different tastes and contrasts.
For the most part, Manuel brought long, instrumental tracks, including a jazz cover of Nirvana’s Come As You Are by Charlie Hunter Trio. I brought songs, and loud guitars.
1995 was the biblical year of Britpop battle of the bands. Blur vs Oasis. I have always like both bands. Instead of the greatest hits from Blur’s The Great Escape and Oasis’ (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, I chose, respectively, Stereotypes, She’s Electric.
I did the same with Mcalmont & Butler’s The Sound Of… Instead of Yes or You Do, I picked Don’t Call It Soul
There’s also HIM, Kyuss, Nightmares On Wax, Faith no More, Emperors New Clothes, Ron Sexsmith and more.
The apparent “this things don’t make sense together”, is misleading. Together, our choices form a beautiful musical hour.
Tracklist:
01: Blur – Stereotypes (Raquel)
02: Charlie Hunter Trio – Come As You Are (Nirvana cover) (Manuel)
03: Emperors New Clothes – East On The West Road (Manuel)
04: Faith No More – Evidence (Raquel)
05: HIM – Painted Egg (Manuel)
06: Kuyss – Hurricane (Raquel)
07: Mcalmont & Butler – Don’t Call It Soul (Raquel)
08: Monster Magnet – King of Mars (Raquel)
09: Nightmares On Wax – Nights Introlude (Manuel)
10: Oasis – She’s Electric (Raquel)
11: Peter Scherer – Nerve Type No (Adrian Sherwood Remix) (Manuel)
12: Ron Sexsmith – Summer Blowin’ Town (Raquel)
13: The Ballistic Brothers – Portobello Café (Manuel)
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 85 – The Of Love & Loss edition can now be listened to on mixcloud. Of Love & Loss is a self-explanatory title. Originally, that was not how this edition was going to be called. You can read about the programme here.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs 3-4pm (London time) and has new editions every first and third Monday of each month, respective repeats on second and fourth Monday of each month on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
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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Roots & Horizons – Field Notes II a new post on The Polymath.
There’s a new post at The Listening Room HQ: Synthesis Framework: Men’s Midlife Cycles – Patterns, Physiology, and Integration.
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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