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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 10

Attawalpa

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition airs Monday 10, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

The title is self-explanatory. This programme is a mix of new songs, songs I chanced upon from different songs, some new, some not, and songs I remembered.

It’s also another case of one thing leads to another. As a whole the 19 songs from various decades, with emphasis on very recent ones, on Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition form a fresh, engaging, beautiful programme.

A friend posted about Robert Wyatt’s 80th birthday, Epic Soundtracks song Jellybabies with Wyatt singing flashed in mind.

Berkley’s Gram Theft Parsons is one of those songs that tell a story, a narrative style often absent in recent songs. Gram Theft Parsons is the story of the final months of Gram Parsons life, told with no sugar coating.

Crazy Horse are better know as Neil Young backing band. I Don’t Want to Talk About It is from their self titled debut album, released in 1971. I Don’t Want to Talk About It was written by Danny Whitten and would become a hit for Rod Stewart and Everything but the Girl. Ry Cooder plays pedal steel guitar and slide guitar on Crazy Horse’s original that is produced by Jack Nitzsche.

Marlon Williams’ Aua Atu Rā is the first single from Te Whare Tīwekaweka Williams first album in Māori language. OMIRI’s Pé com Pé mixes of Portuguese traditional music and dance music, resulting in an attractive, strange song.

Love No More comes from The Durutti Column 1989 album Vini Reilly, re-released last year on Record Store Day. Durutti Column Vini Reilly re-released is one of my records of 2024.

Rent Boy, a song by Jude Alderson is from the 1986 documentary Andy The Furniture Maker, about Andrew Marshall, part of the documentary series Six of Hearts, directed by Paul Oremland. I learned of the documentary by reading an article on The Guardian. I liked the documentary and loved the song.

Tracklist:
01 – Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt – Orchestra
02 – Alpine Subs – Rely On Me
03 – Attawalpa – Always The Girls
04 – Berkley – Gram Theft Parsons
05 – Born Folk – Seize the Day
06 – Crazy Horse – I Don’t Want to Talk About It
07 – Electric Man – New Wave
08 – Epic Soundtracks feat Robert Wyatt – Jellybabies
09 – Hamish Hawk – Juliet as Epithet
10 – Jude Alderson – Rent Boy
11 – Julian Shah-Tayler – Sufferation
12 – Julien Baker & Torres – Sylvia
13 – Little Barrie & Malcom Catto – Zero Sun
14 – Marlon Williams – Aua Atu Rā
15 – OMIRI – Pé com Pé
16 – The Durutti Column – Love No More
17 – The Gentle Spring – Looking Back At The World
18 – Tunng – Didn’t Know Why
19 – Vanarin – Memories

All previous shows on mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/playlists/amazing-songs-other-delights | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concert Reviews, Concerts

Calexico Trio,Casa da Música, Porto, 04.02.2025

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Spring Came Earlier

words: Paulo Carmona (edited by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Sara Oliveira

Spring came earlier. It was not announced. It arrived and that was it.

How good it was to be at Casa da Música, in the immense filled Suggia room to savour Calexico. If there is a band that can transmit the warmth, sun, and swing of a spring night, even from within a room, in the middle of winter, it’s Calexico. Joy and well-being was a constant throughout the concert. Joey Burns was at his best, and the result was a perfect interaction between band and audience. Believe it or not, there was dialogue and direct translation mode singing during My Love Don’t Leave Me Now. It was cute and very funny to watch.

The band created and conceived by Joey Burns and John Convertino, came with Martin Wenk – trumpet, guitar, vocals, occasionally harmonica, an excellent multi-instrumentalist musician, super competent and very relaxed. As for Joey & John, is it even worthy mentioning? Everything that comes from them is always magical and infinitely majestic. A symbiosis, a synergy of talents.

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Calexico opened with Don Quixote and Gypsi’s Curse, Epic and Glimpse and went around through alleys and melodic paths where styles ranging from folk to rock’n’roll intersect.Joey Burns continues to be an affable and friendly communicator. A born and very experienced entertainer. As always accompanied by his folk guitar called Amália Rodrigues.

Spring came earlier.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Amazing Sounds & Other Delights, Mixcloud, Radio Show, Raquel Pinheiro, YéYé Radio

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 75 – The A New Season Begins edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 75 – The A New Season Begins edition is now available for listen on mixcloud.

As the name says it’s the start of a new season of shows, as well as an edition filled with new music. You can read more about this show here.

Tracklist:
01 – Rialto – No One Leaves This Discotheque Alive
02 – Edwyn Collins – Knowledge
03 – Tom Gunn Nash – Grown
04 – Chioke – Life Could Be This Way
05 – Manic Street Preachers – People Ruin Paintings
06 – Sam Amidon – Golden Willow Tree
07 – Bob Mould – Here We Go Crazy
08 – Edith Frost – Hold On
09 – Andy Bell feat. Dot Allison and Michael Rother – I’m in Love…
10 – The Velveteers – Bound In Leather
11 – Hayden Thorpe – Doom Orchid
12 – The Twist Connection – Concentrate
13 – Um Corpo Estranho – Canção da Paciência
14 – The Jesus Lizard – Westside
15 – Ray – Man On Fire
16 – Sehore – Vals
17 – Leatherette – Itchy
18 – Butler, Blake & Grant – Bring An End

All previous shows on mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/playlists/amazing-songs-other-delights | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine