Good morning with Romeo + Juliet I by Cassie Oso. Have a nice weekend.
Get Wrong – Too Late to Hide
Good Morning with our Middle of the Week Song – Too Late Too Hide by Get Wrong. Have a nice day.
Marty & Olivia Willson-Piper, Hard Rock Cafe, Porto, 30/11/2023.
words: Paulo Carmona (edited and freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: João Castro & Marcos Leal
Nothing more, nothingless than a colloquial conversation with music. . I’ve seen concerts with audience participation, but I have never witnessed to such close and afable dialogues between musicians and audience. It was really cute to watch.
From the start Marty didn’t stop telling jokes, stories, situations and events, and interjecting, in perfect symbiosis with the tone of one song after the other. Irish pub talk. Paraphrasing Marty: “The first song is called blah, blah, blah, is from blah, blah, blah album and was recorded at blah, blah, blah. Verbatim what I write you dear readers. Of course laughing and laughter echoed in unison through the room.
The duo presented itself with electro-acoustic folk guitar, violins, all its musical talent that was enough to the great celebration of their songs Tristesse, She’ll Come Back and Feed Your Mind in growing succession. Helpless You, I Don’t Think So, Almost With You where also sung, always growing to Into My Hands, You Whisper, Water Milkyway and Hopes and Fears.
The Celtic tone impregnated by the violin on the songs is contagious and Marty’s firgerstyle that goes along with is intense, memorable and extremely well performed. The songs breath among silence, rhythm and rather balanced vocals, between close or further from the microphone, depending of the flow and intensity. Brilliant in all its spendour.
Of note, the classical component brought by Olivia’s violin to the cheerful duo’s Celt folk inspired songs. There wasn’t an encore per se. Among clapping and request for more songs they didn’t left the stage. They prompty accept a presented with Melody of the Rain, Grind and Spark.Hard Rock Cafe room was already lively and kept being. Everyone was entitled to selfies, conversation and hugs with Marty and Olivia.
It is always good to feel such warmness from artists that know how to be upon a stage and set all star ways aside. The evening was cold and wet contrasting with what happened at the heart of the city. Pump pump heart.
Cyanide Pills – Hope You’re Having Fun
Hi with Hope You’re Having Fun by Cyanide Pills. Have a good afternoon.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #55 -The Such Lovely Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 4th
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #55 -The Such Lovely Songs edition airs tomorrow, Monday 4th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).
The Such Lovely Songs edition os a collection of bestiful songs I’ve happen upon in different ways, or have been listening to more attentively. In a way, it goes back to the joy of listening to songs on the radio. Be it on John Peel’s show (o de here listened to is am) or António Sérgio’s shows.
Some songs,Iike the Stone Roses one I had totally forgot about. Although the spirit of this edition arrises from those radio shows of the past, and the songs cross several decades, the feel is very now. A if all songs as just been released.
Tracklist: 01 De Jolie Laide (Nina Nastasia & Jeff MacLeod) – Blue as Blue; 02 – Teenage Waitress – Grey Sky; 03 – Sam Lee – Bushes and Briars; 04 – Jackson Harden – Doris Day; 05 – Genghis Cohn – She Who Calls; 06 – Wurld Series – Illustrious Plates; 07 – Jonathan Richman – I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar; 08 – Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes; 09 – PJ Harvey – Seem An I; 10 Television – Venus; 11 Lloyd Cole And The Commotion – Rattlesnakes; 12 – The Stone Roses – Love Spreads;13 – Hot Apple Band – The Hill; 14 – Laura Veirs – July Flame; 15 – Frost Children – Bernardette;16 – MGMT- Bubblegum Dog
Circus Devils – The Owl Presents
Hi and Happy Sunday The Owl Presents by Circus Devils.
Sleaford Mods – West End Girls
Good morning with Sleaford Mods cover of Pet Shop Boys’ West End Girls. Have a nice weekend.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 54 The Ascend-Descend edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #54 – The Ascend-Descend edition is now on mixcloud. You can read about the show here.
Tracklist:
01: Rafael Toral – Intro + Changes (except)
02: Cabrita – Todo Torto
03: Helado Negro – I Just Want To Wake Up With You
04: J. Masis – Can’t Believe We’re Here
05: King John – The Water
06: Mary Timony – Dominoes
07: MOORIS -04
08: O Gajo – Corrosão
09 – Swansea Sound – Paradise
10: The Lemonheads – Fear of Living 11: The Smile – Wall Of Eyes
12: Ty Segall -My Room
13: Vince Clarke – The Lamentations of Jeremiah
14: youbet – Carsick
15: Francisco Sassetti – Sara Is Happy
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
(image: M. C. Escher, Relativity)
Genghis Cohn – She Who Calls
Good mmorning with our Middle of the Week Song – She Who Calls by Genghis Cohn.
Charlemagne Palestine, Igreja Paroquial de Cedofeita, Porto. 21.11.2023.
words: Raquel Pinheiro ; photos André Delhaye
American composer Charlemagne Palestine’s performarnce, , as part of Across Ø Around: Mika Vainio A Tribute was a mesmerizing experience of about 50 minutes.
Imersive is a beaten, too worn word, yet, here, for someone like me, who kept closed eyes, pretty much all the time, it is fitting. And quite descriptive.
Palestine start playing before the audience took its place in the pews. At first, a low, tremble leaning continuous hum. Given Igreja de Cedofeita seating seating, most people had their back turned to the pipe organ balcony, facing the empty altar. Having entering the empty room a little earlier, on the side pew, by the altar, that allows to turn and face the pipe organ and player, I had a prime location for allowing the sound, the music to lead and do its magic.
And its magic was a wonder world of tonal variations complementing, overlapping, at times almost making disappear, at others leaving it fully raw, a continuous hum. A hum, in itself, the same and diverse. The inflections, the detours, the shades, the sounds, the whispers, the tumoultous, all had its place in a linear-nonlinearsublime performance that included words of prayer in a language only known to Charlemagne Palestine’s and a short percutive moment with a couple of filled whisky glasses clacking against it other. A night to remember.
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