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

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #59 The Through Mountains & Valleys aka The Epilepsy edition by Raquel Pinheiro, Monday 12th Rádio Yé Yé.

Neil Young © Far Out/Tidal

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #59 The Through Mountains & Valleys aka The Epilepsy edition airs Monday, 12th , 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).Monday February 12th is International Epilepsy Day. I have two types of epilepsy, photosensitive – in my case affected both by light, and certain types of sounds – and atonic (my muscles suddenly lose contraction and I fall or things slip from my hands). For many people with epilepsy the condition is like traversing mountains and Valleys. In my case that happens mostly with photosensitive epilepsy. Through mountains and valleys is also, literally, what me and my friend Matt do. Me when walking up and down the more, or less, urbanized areas of Porto – Porto is at the end of a mountain range. Matt in Los Angeles and its sorrpunding areas. Like Laurel Canyon where many musicians lived in the 60s and 70s. Among them, Neil Young who has epilepsy. The songs selected for the programme comprise those from musicians with epilepsy as well as those from bands and artists that lived at Laurel Canyon. To me, Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box gives the idea of the sudden, stop, motion, electrical discharges of photosensitive epilepsy which is why it is on the tracklist. The colour of epilepsy is purple-lavender, hence Prince’s Purple Rain. Prince had epilepsy until he was seven years old, a fwct he mentions in The Sacrifice of Victor.

Trackist:
01 –  Antony & The Johnsons – Epilepsy is Dancing
02 – Joni Mitchell – Michael From Mountains
03 – Chris Knox – Grand Mal
04 – The Byrds – Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There Is A Season)
05 – Spandau Ballet – Gold (HD remastered)
06 – The Mothers of Invention – Anywhere The Wind Blows
07 – The Streets – Dry Your Eyes
08 – Nirvana – Heart Shaped Box
09 – Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
10 – Joy Division – Transmission
11 – Prince – Purple Rain
12 –  Elton John – Bennie And The Jets
13 – The Olympic Symphonium – Thanks a Lot
14 – Jimmy Reed – Too Much
15 – Black Light White Light – Epilepsy 

Prince © Warner Bros
Mondo Bizarre Magazine Sunday Songs

The Clash – Jail Guitar Doors

Hi. Today’s Sunday Song is by my favourite band, The Clash, about the late Wayne Kramer, one of my favourite musicians from another of my favourite bands, MC5.

The second is Borderline from MC5’s debut album Kick Out The Jams (1969).

Jail Guitar Doors is about Wayne Kramer time in prison. Years later, in 2007, as a tribute to Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg would create Jail Guitar Doors, a programme to provide prisoners with instruments for music as part of rehabilitation.. In 2009 Billy Bragg and Wayne Kramer founded American Jail Guitar Doors in the United States of America.

In 2022 friends of mine released the compilation album Louiville that includes the track Amerika, an Oscar Pinho instrumental to a speech by Wayne Kramer. The money gathered from Louville sales goes to Jail Guitar Doors Los Angeles.

If you want to know more about Jail Guitar Doors https://www.jailguitardoors.org.uk/ – Jail Guitar Doors UK | https://jail-guitar-doors.myshopify.com/ – Jail Guitar Doors US. For more about Louiville, the album: https://gremioprt.com/

Wayne Kramer wrote about his life, including Jail Guitar Doors in his memoir The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Concerts, Reviews

Lanterns On The Lake, Mouco, Porto, 27.01.2024.

© Mondo Bizarre Magazine/Paulo Carmona

words: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Paulo Carmona

Many went to Mouco to New Castle band Lanterns On The Lake first concert in Porto.

The band started with The Likes Of Us, Real Life and Every Atom. Right there it shows the band is instrumentaly very competent. Be it 9n the rhythm or the melodic section. The harmonic sequences are irreproachable.

Hazel Wilde’s lead vocals are impregnated with loud, vibrating sounds that perfectly dress the songs, fully tailored for her vocal range. As it is said, it fit like a glove. Indie rock set Mouco’s the room on fire with Blue Screen Beams, When It All Comes True and Rich Girls. Paul Gregory’s guitar is so intense that it is impossible for bodies not to vibrate with its riffs.

Before the encore, Hazel jokes a little with the cliché saying they will no behind that door and be right back with a few more song, which generates laughter. After the show, I wandered around and was left with the impression of a friend’s gathering in which between people who did not knew each other well. Music does such things.