Amazing Songs & Other Delights #41 – The Burt, the Tom and the So edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio’s mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #41 – The Burt, the Tom and So edition is now available om
Yé Yé Radio’s mixcloud.

It features three Burt Bacharach songs and two Tom Verlaine ones, two solo one with Television and one instrumental from Warm and Cold. There also ten onther assorted songs from Mick Harvey with A Suitcase in Berlin an Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel’s cover to Ghosts Again Depeche Mode’s latest song.

Monday, February 27th 2023, 3-4pm

Running Time: 60:23

Tracklist:
01 – Mick Harvey – A Suitcase in Berlin (Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel’s cover)
02 – Television – Days
03 – Dry Cleaning – Swampy
04 – Beabadoobee – Glue Song
05 – Black Toska – Love of Mine
06 – Hannah Jadagu – What You Did
07 – Cory Hanson – Housefly
08 – The Golden Dregs – Vista
09 – Tom Verlaine – Depot
10 – Burt Bacharach with Noel Gallagher – This Guys In Love With You (live at Royal Albert Hall 1994)
11 – JW Francis – Going Home To a Party
12 – Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello – Such Unlikely Lovers
13 – Tom Verlaine – There’s a Reason
14 – The National – Tropic Morning
15 – Manic Steet Preachers – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s cover)
16 – Depeche Mode – Ghosts Again

All previous shows: http://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | http://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/stream

And Also The Trees, Hard Club, Porto, 03.03.2023.

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words Neno Costa (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota

And Also The Trees performance began with the first chords of In A Bed In Yugoslavia jumping in the air an hypnotic invitation to a journey with several stops ialong the vast discography the band’s return to the stage on the Hard Club, in Porto, to the satisfaction of the audience that filled the room.

Captivated the audience with the recurrent opening on this tour, from their last album The Bone Craver (2022), the British quintet crossed over to Beyond Action and Reaction, with Grant Gordon’s bass, slow, with a doom tune to merge with Justin Jones’ guitar trill, lending to an exotic spice upon which Simon Jones’ languid voice evolved. Your Guess (Born Into the Waves, 2016) extended a certain atmospheric singularity from the initial lineup, from the last work, to other well-interpreted revisitations, flowing between temperance and rhythmic explosion.

Maps In Her Wrists And Arms and The Suffering Of The Stream followed with the undisguised neo-romantic black and melancholic aroma conveyed by Simon Jones’s impenetrable performance, in poetic prayer. The Book Burners, from their latest album, refreshed the landscape with a certain Balkan cabaret tone in a folk jazz link between Colin Ozanne’s clarinet and Justin Jones’ guitar. The themes flowed generously in a cohesive and intense interpretation, without blemish. A stage performance that was a certificate of vitality perfected by time.

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texto: Neno Costa; fotos: Telma Mota

A atuação iniciou com os primeiros acordes de In A Bed In Yugoslavia saltitando no ar, num convite hipnótico para uma viagem com várias paragens na muito vasta discografia dos And Also The Trees, regressados ao palco do Hard Club, no Porto, para satisfação do público que encheu a sala.

Cativada a audiência com a abertura recorrente nesta digressão, do seu último álbumThe Bone Craver (2022), o quinteto britânico fez a passagem para Beyond Action and Reaction, com o baixo de Grant Gordon, lento, com uma toada doom a fundir-se no trinado da guitarra de Justin Jones, emprestando um tempero exótico sobre o qual evoluiu a voz lânguida de Simon Jones. Your Guess (Born Into the Waves, 2016) prolongou uma certa singularidade atmosférica do alinhamento inicial, do último trabalho, para outras revisitações bem interpretadas, fluindo entre a temperança e a explosão rítmica.

Sucederam-se Maps In Her Wrists And Arms, The Suffering Of The Stream, com o indisfarçável aroma neo-romântico, negro e melancólico transportado pela atuação compenetrada, em oração poética, de Simon Jones. The Book Burners, do seu último trabalho, refrescou a paisagem com um certo tom de cabaret balcânico, num enlace folk jazz entre o clarinete de Colin Ozanne e a guitarra  de Justin Jones. Os temas fluíram, generosos, numa interpretação coesa e intensa, sem mácula, num desempenho em palco que foi um certificado de vitalidade, que o tempo tem apurado.

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Robin Thomson | Michelle Gurevich, Hard Club, Porto, 24.02.2023.

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words: Neno Costa (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota

With a sold out box office the opening act was served by Robin Thomson, founder of the Twin Sons project. The glamorous lo-fi sound of the Berlin based Scottish musician revealed a multifaceted composer and performer, with an engaging voice and captivating soundscapes, evolving with well-seasoned guitar chords where the best references echo. Note for Can You Feel It as an introduction to closer listening by this musician who accompanies Michelle Gurevich on guitar.

Michelle Gurevich had an auspicious debut in Portugal in a room filled with an audience for whom this Canadian of Russian origin was not at all unknown. “Why did it took me so long to come here?” asks Michelle after starting with First Six Months Of Lov , a song with a Cohenian flavour, from the album New Decadence (2016). On a pre-recorded background sewn with Robin Thomson’s creative guitar, Michelle Gurevich captivated the audience with her ballads wrapped in the discreet theatricality of a non-diva diva, covering several titles from her six albums produced since 2006, such as: Vacation From Love, Party Girl, Aviva, Drugs Saved My Life, Mrs Robinson or her latest single Goodbye My Ditactor, whose sender seems to be a certain Vladimir.

Michelle Gurevich carries a well-resolved set of references, offering her own sound in lo-fi pop territory, which is not alien to her warm and engaging voice, supported by a solid and honest poetic construction, tempered by a certain tragicomedy of reality.

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texto: Neno Costa (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); fotos: Telma Mota

Com a bilheteira esgotada, a primeira parte deste concerto foi servida pelo fundador do projeto Twin Sons, Robin Thomson. A sonoridade glamorosa lo-fi do músico escocês radicado em Berlim revelou um compositor e intérprete multifacetado, com uma voz envolvente e paisagens sonoras cativantes, evoluindo com acordes bem temperados de guitarra onde ecoam as melhores referências. Nota para “Can You Feel It” como introdução a audições mais atentas deste músico que acompanha na guitarra Michelle Gurevich.

Michelle Gurevich teve uma estreia auspiciosa em Portugal numa sala cheia de público para quem esta canadiana de origem russa não é, de todo, desconhecida. “Por que demorei tanto tempo a vir cá?”, pergunta depois da abertura com “First Six Months Of Love”, canção de sabor coheniano, do álbum New Decadence (2016). Sobre fundo pré-gravado costurado com a guitarra criativa de Robin Thomson, Michelle Gurevich cativou a assistência com as suas baladas envoltas em discreta teatralidade de diva não diva, percorrendo vários títulos dos seus seis álbuns produzidos desde 2006, tais como: Vacation From Love, Party Girl, Aviva, Drugs Saved My Life, Mrs Robinson ou o seu mais recente single Goodbye My Ditactor, cujo remetente parece ser um certo Vladimir.

Michelle Gurevich transporta um conjunto de referências bem resolvidas, oferecendo uma sonoridade própria em território pop lo-fi, à qual não é alheia a sua voz quente e envolvente, sustentada por uma construção poética sólida e honesta, temperada por uma certa tragicomédia da realidade.

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #41 – The Burt, the Tom and So edition by Raquel Pinheiro

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #41 – The Burt, the Tom and So edition airs tomorrow Monday 27th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).

There are three Burt Bacharach songs and two Tom Verlaine ones, two solo one with Television and one instrumental from Warm and Cold. There also ten onther assorted songs from Mick Harvey with A Suitcase in Berlin an Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel’s cover to Ghosts Again Depeche Mode’s latest song.

Tracklist:

01 – Mick Harvey – A Suitcase in Berlin (Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel’s cover)

02 – Television – Days

03 – Dry Cleaning – Swampy

04 – Beabadoobee – Glue Song

05 – Black Toska – Love of Mine

06 – Hannah Jadagu – What You Did

07 – Cory Hanson – Housefly

08 – The Golden Dregs – Vista

09 – Tom Verlaine – Depot

10 – Burt Bacharach with Noel Gallagher – This Guys In Love With You (live at Royal Albert Hall 1994)

11 – JW Francis – Going Home To a Party

12 – Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello – Such Unlikely Lovers

13 – Tom Verlaine – There’s a Reason

14 – The National – Tropic Morning

15 – Manic Steet Preachers – Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s cover)

16 – Depeche Mode – Ghosts Again

all previous shows: http://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | http://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/stream