The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy the new post at The Listening Room HQ pairs with The Sieve Year – Field Notes a reflection The Polymath on 2025 as a sieve year. However The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy is addressed as guidance for men in the sieve year, a season of filtering, listening, and quiet recalibration, while The Sieve Year – Field Notes is a broader reflection. You can read The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy here.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 88 – We’re in Autumn edition and Monday 17 November 2025, 3-4pm (London time), repeat November 24, same hour on Yé Yé Radio: http://yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
We’re in Autumn in a simple, mostly gentle an autumnal programme, mixing genres, but essentially staying with songs of the indie-alternative and folk universe. Including the, for me, new Duncan Browne.
Although it’s November, and it’s raining, therefore Guns N’ Roses’ ballad November Rain makes an appearance. And a nudge to the mighty Hank Williams with Moe Bandy’ Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life.
Tracklist:
01: Bill Callahan – The Man I’m Supposed to Be
02: Citizen – Yellow Love
03: Duncan Browne – A Dwarf In A Tree (A Cautionary Tale)
04: Guns N’ Roses – November Rain
05: Iron & Wine – Autumn Town Leaves
06: Karen Dalton – How Sweet It Is
07: Moe Bandy – Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life
08: New Order – Blue Moon
09: The Greenhorns – There Is An End
10: R.E.M. – So. Central Rain
11: The Kinks – Autumn Almanac
12: The Tears – Two Creatures
13: Xico Gaiato ft. Rossana | Roda da Máscara
14: Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio/ | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 87 – The To Remember Who I Am is now available on mixcloud.
This edition title is both a reminder to myself and a words play with Tracy Vandal & John Mercy’s song. You can read more about this programme here.
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
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
When Emotion Becomes Theatre: Facing Dramatized Dysregulation the new post at The Listening Room HQ is a clear look at when emotion turns theatrical dramatized dysregulation and how to stay steady without feeding chaos. You can read the whole post here.
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
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
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)
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
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
