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Of Playfulness and Curiosity is my lived reflection on curiosity and playfulness and rediscovering wonder in everyday life. Swinging on playground swings, hugging trees, winding paths, and rediscovering wonder through small acts of attention that awaken perception. It can be read on The Polymath site.
Returning to the Practice of Listening, the new post on The Listening Room HQ speaks of listening, of strength for men coming through disciplined listening, noticing what is said and unsaid, before acting or reacting can be reax on The Listening Room HQ site.
Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song – Roses by Iron & Wine. Have a nice day.
words: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: Telma Mota
It was an intense, youthful, irreverent, dynamic and joyous concert from start to finish.
Almost without interruption, with very little chatter, and no hidden agendas.
This Californian quartet knew exactly what they had come for and did not hold back. They delivered everything they had to give in just under an hour, treating their audience to energetic surf rock infused with plenty of that neo-punk edge characteristic of many North American West Coast bands.
Heavily distorted, striking guitars, a strong and present bass, and an immensely energetic, tightly played and incredibly powerful drum kit. It’s a recipe that never fails.
The first assault came with Way Too Much, Idiot, King Of a Beach and Tarantula. Nathan Williams, the project’s founding member, is effusive and provocative. He urged the crowd to split down the middle, only to then charge at one another. It worked perfectly. The mosh and the slam took over Mouco, and the rest is well known. For a few moments, we are all teenagers again.
A special mention for Nine Is God, a very well-structured and captivating song. They closed their set with Green Eyes and took their leave beneath enthusiastic applause, though without an encore. It is what it is, and that’s perfectly fine.
Hi with Atoll by Zahn. Have a nice afternoon.
Hi and Happy Sunday with Sunshine Special by Milk For The Angry.
Good morning with You Got To Lose by The Black Keys. Have a nice weekend.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #94 – Of Art & Image edition is broadcasted Monday, 2nd and 9th, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Of Art & Image edition has 15 songs that refer to art, artists, mostly painters, and image, both still and motion. The Manic Street Preachers have two songs, from Everything Must Go, their fourth album. One for painting, Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning), and one for photography, Kevin Carter.
Don McLean’s Vincent is based on Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, while Dire Straits’ In the Gallery is a tribute to sculptor Harry Braun.
Bauhaus and their Bela Lugosi’s Dead are a double reference. The band’s name to the German arts, design, architecture, crafts school, and to Hungarian-American actor Bela Lugosi.
Tracklist
01: Don McLean – Vincent
02: Manic Street Preachers – Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
03: Death Cab for Cutie – Photobooth
04: The Passions – I’m in Love With a German Film Star
05: John Cale – Magritte
06: Modern Lovers – Pablo Picasso
07: David Bowie – Andy Warhol
08: Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
09: Duran Duran – Girls On Film
10: The Kinks – Picture Book
11: Spoon – I Turn My Camera On
12: Paul Simon – Kodachrome
13: Dire Straits – In the Gallery
14: John Mayer – 3×5
15: Manic Street Preachers – Kevin Carter
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Looking at Storms, Icebergs, and The Night Sky sees me go through Camille Seaman’s photography, the Milky Way, and six planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus – alined on the night sky. You can read it on The Polymath site.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition is now available on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 93 – And The Circus Came & Left Town edition combines carnival, fair, fetes, rodeo songs, or songs that mention those things with the circus, the carny, arriving and leaving. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist:
01: Bert Jansch – When the Circus Comes to Town
02: Jackson C. Frank – (My Name is) Carnival (2021 remaster)
03: David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes
04: Chic – Le Freak
05: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Carny
06: Chico Buarque – Quando o Carnaval Chegar
07: Feira Popular – Carrossel feat. Femme Falafel
08: Elvis Presley – It’s Carnival Time
09: Rufus Wainwright – Going To A Town
10: Gary Lucas – Live Score Tod Browning’s Freaks 1932 The Chase Scene
11: Elvis Presley – Take Me to the Fair
12: The Magnetic Fields – Papa Was a Rodeo
13: The Smiths – Rusholme Ruffians (2011 Remaster)
14: Bert Jansch – (My Name is) Carnival
15: Chico Buarque – Sonho de um Carnaval
16: Kyuss – El Rodeo
17: Elvis Presley – The Fair’s Moving On
Amazing Songs & Other Delights has new editions every first and third Monday of the month, respective repeats second and third Monday of the Month on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
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