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The Week When the Arrow LandsNew Moon in Sagittarius | Capricorn Solstice, December 19-22, 2025 the new post at The Polymath speaks of the Sagittarius New Moon meeting the Capricorn Solstice. A week of consolidation, settlement, deciding what can truly endure as a long cycle nears completion and can be read here.
Good morning with our Middle of The Week Song – Kingdom Undersea by Ladytron. Have a nice day.
I read a metaphysics/philosophy text in French — an excerpt from Jacques Derrida’s Spectres de Marx — for Peter Wullen’s A Séance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French), with sustained notes by Greg Chapman.
You can listen to it and get an MP3 on SoundCloud, or if you prefer a WAV or FLAC file, you can find it on Peter’s Audius page: Audius link.
A Séance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French)
Sustained notes by Greg Chapman (Silver Apples, To Live And Shave In L.A., …)
Voice by Raquel Pinheiro (Mondo Bizarre Magazine)
Concept, idea & conoction by Peter Wullen
“Elle devient quelqu’un, elle prend figure. Cette densité ligneuse et têtue se métamorphose en chose surnaturelle, en chose sensible insensible, sensible mais insensible, sensiblement suprasensible.”
“Mais cette transcendance n’est pas toute spirituelle, elle garde ce corps sans corps dont nous avons reconnu qu’il faisait la différence du spectre à l’esprit. Ce qui passe les sens passe encore devant nous dans la silhouette du corps sensible qui pourtant lui manque ou nous reste inaccessible. Marx ne dit pas sensible et insensible, sensible mais insensible, il dit : sensible insensible, sensiblement suprasensible. La transcendance, le mouvement en supra, le pas au-delà.”
Extrait de Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx, Editions du Seuil, 2024.
Hi with Tetragram (excerpt) by PureH. Have a nice afternoon.
Hi and Happy Sunday with White Angels (acoustic) by Kwoon.
Good morning with Let Me Grow And You’ll See The Fruit by Dry Cleaning. Have a nice weekend.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition is broadcasted Monday 15 December, 3-4pm (London time), repeating Monday December 22 – my birthday – same hour on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
In the Northern Hemisphere we’re on the pathway to Winter Solstice, the beginning of the return of the light. We’re also in Hanukkah – the festival of lights – season (sundown of Sunday December 14 to nightfall of Monday December 22). And, of course Yule that coincides with Winter Solstice and Christmas.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition begins with the year’s promise, renewal with The Zombies’ This Will Be Our Year, and concludes with The Stone Roses danceable I Am The Resurrection, a welcoming to the turn, the return of the night, as well as an homage to the recently departed Mani.
There’s sunlit songs, there’s Popol Vuh’ Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei) with its somber tone, Aztec Camera’s Wall Out To Winter (extended version) is deliberated. It honors the walk, that Winter is a time of going inwards, not to cut short. The two I See The Light – Todd Rundgren’s and Tom Hiddleston singing Hank Williams’ one – add to the sense of clarity, hope.
Tracklist:
01: The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
02: The Altons – Your Light
03: Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light (2015 remaster)
04: The Offline – La belle en lumière
05: Damh the Bard – On Midwinter’s Day
06: Popol Vuh – Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei)
07: The Sound – Winning
08: Tom Hiddleston – I Saw The Light live in the Wittertainment studio (Hank Williams cover)
09: Nick Drake – River Man
10: The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (2011 Remaster)
11: Aztec Camera – Wall Out To Winter (extended version)
12: Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
13: Love & Money – Winter
14: Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
words: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Nuno Lopes
Noiserv is a brilliant project, conceived by a brilliant artist gifted with an unusual, multifaceted creative capacity.
David Santos, the driving force and sole member of the project, is a talented multi-instrumentalist who manages to capture an audience’s full attention, despite barely being able to move, far too occupied playing instruments, recording, sequencing, and performing all at once, offering his audience live music that almost always grows in dynamic range until it reaches its melodic peak.
Sala Suggia of Casa da Música, though not sold out, was very respectably filled to welcome Noiserv, and David delivered exactly what was expected, or even more.
The concert revolved around his new album, 7305, the artist’s fifth full-length record. Another remarkable work whose spacious, contemplative sound carries us into landscapes with the atmosphere of a northern lights sky.
All one had to do was close one’s eyes and let the sound take us anywhere. Long Journey and Resumidamente opened the way for older pieces such as The Sad Story Of a Little Town and Don’t Say Hi, If You Don’t Have Time For A Nice Goodbye. The set list moved fluidly between tracks from the new album and selections from earlier periods.
Special note must go to A Self-Conversation Is To Loud For An Empty Room, singular and unsettling in its beauty, performed entirely on acoustic guitar.
Noiserv also presented tracks featuring collaborations with A Garota Não (Cátia Oliveira) and Milhanas, the latter appearing onstage to perform A Casa das Rodas Quadradas, where their two voices intertwined in perfect synergy. The staging and lighting were superb, fully worthy of that iconic Porto hall.
It was a warm, celebratory evening, not least because David is an excellent storyteller with a wonderful sense of humour. We all left happy.
There’s a new post at The Listening Room HQ When Men “Clear Out” Their Lives: What Decluttering Really Reveals regarding understanding when men clear out their lives: navigating inner collapse, boundaries, and maintaining your own stability. It can be read here.
How to Keep Creating While Your House Is Under Repair the new post at The Polymath is about Creating through household repairs: how to stay connected to your work when your home is in repairs and life feels unsettled. You can read it here.
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