The Week When The Field Changes – The Dark Moon of Transformation is a threshold-week reflection on descent, transformation, and the Scorpio New Moon on The Polymath. A personal field-shift, felt in the body, the heart, and the unseen.
The Week When The Field Changes – A Dark Moon Moment for Men in Transition a clear guide for men navigating inner change during the Scorpio New Moon. Grounding, insight, and the week when your field shifts without breaking at The Listening Room HQ.
Claude Monet, Les Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, 1891
The Sieve Year – Quiet Alchemy the new post at The Listening Room HQ pairs with The Sieve Year â 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 â 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 YÊ YÊ 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 MÃĄscara 14: Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
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 – NÃŖo 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
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.