Monday, 8th April 2024, 3-4pm (gmt+1)Running Tracklist: 01 – Raquel Pinheiro – Big Bang (radio edit) 02 – Old Jerusalem – Red sun over the interstate 03 – Franz Schubert – Erlkönig, (Op. 1, D. 328 – Wer reitet so spät sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) 04 – The Modern Lovers – Dodge Veg o-matic 05 – Bernard Butler – Camber Sands 06 – The Fugs – Bartleby The Scrivener 07 – Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 08 – David Gray – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell cover) 09 – The Beatles – Drive My Car 10 – The Clash – Lost In The Supermarket 11 – Kings of Leon – Going Nowhere (live in Nashville) 12 – Siouxie & The Banshees – The Passenger (Iggy Pop cover) 13 – The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (2011 remaster) 14 – Aaron Copland – Going to Heaven! (Emily Dickinson poem, sung by Sanford Sylvan) 15 – Little Eve – The Loco-Motion (remaster) 16 – The June Carriers – Pastoral Epigraph
Old Jerusalem – Breeding angels – drawing by Francisco Silva
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #63 – The Say Hello, Wave Goodbye edition is tomorrow Monday, 8th, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
The title comes from the Soft Cell song of the same name, here on a cover by David Gray. The meaning refers to saying hello to something new, goodbye to an old, beloved one. In this case, the old beloved one is Old Jerusalem that Francisco Silva is retiring with a last concert on the 20th, at Socorro here in Porto. Old Jerusalem’s farewell includes Breeding angels, a demos album that contains Red sun over the interstate – that is also on this week’s programme – a song I have the previledge of known, and often sing on my own home, for a couple of years.
If Francisco is retiring Old Jerusalem, he is bringing, given birth, to The June Carriers that release their debut album Equanimity on the 10th. And now, beginnings and endings, and metting, and journeys, and the same thing, that yet is, but isn’t, become even more interesting.
My track Big Bang, that opens the show, has the exact same guitar line as The June Carriers’s Pastoral Epigraph, that closes the show. It is a travel from the The Big Bang, from the ends, or beginnings, of The Universe to Earth. The guitar, of course, is played be Francisco on both instrumentals. As for the why and how Francisco’s guitar line ended up on my track, on both tracks, that is for another day.
What my Big Bang and Then June Carriers’ Pastoral Epigraph shows is how the exact same guitar line, although easily recognisable, can feel so different depending of its surrounding, of the musical ambience and creation. Of how two people compose differently with the same guitar line (or any other same musical bit). Other than knowing I was going to use his guitar line, Francisco had no say, nor knew, what I was going to do with it. I didn’t have a clue how he was going to use it on what become The June Carriers’ first album.
My 16 choices for this The Say Hello, Wave Goodbye edition are all about travel, journeys, inner and outer, out in space, on our planet, far from home, standing still. The Modern Lovers’ Dodge Veg o-matic is probably the best going nowhere song ever. Bartleby, the immovable, “I prefer not to” scrivener of Henry Melville’s tale as his very fixed ideais regarding is life, his views, doing, moving, changing in ways others find normal is not for him.
Some journeys don’t end well. Like in the Erlkönig a Schubert lieder, with lyrics by Goethe, in which a father rides madly through the night, on horseback, with his son, whistle the Erlking is enticing the child, that tries to draw dad’s attention. The lieder ends with the blunt “In seinen Armen das Kind war tod” (roughly “in your arms the child is dead”.
Others have twist and turns. Diferentes in perspective, depending where we find ourselves. My photos of the maze from my favourite local park are taken from inside it and I know my way around it because I know from where the whole maze can be seen. However, on a foggy day, I may, and still get lost in it. The colour and black and photo illustrate the same thing seen in two different ways.
Tracklist: 01 – Raquel Pinheiro – Big Bang (radio edit) 02 – Old Jerusalem – Red sun over the interstate 03 – Franz Schubert – Erlkönig (Op. 1, D. 328 – Wer reitet so spät sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) 04 – The Modern Lovers – Dodge Veg o-matic 05 – Bernard Butler – Camber Sands 06 – The Fugs – Bartleby The Scrivener 07 – Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 08 – David Gray – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Soft Cell cover) 09 – The Beatles – Drive My Car 10 – The Clash – Lost In The Supermarket 11 – Kings of Leon – Going Nowhere (live in Nashville) 12 – Siouxie & The Banshees – The Passenger (Iggy Pop cover) 13 – The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) (2011 remaster) 14 – Aaron Copland – Going to Heaven! (Emily Dickinson poem, sung by Sanford Sylvan) 15 – Little Eve – The Loco-Motion (remaster) 16 – The June Carriers – Pastoral Epigraph
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #61 – The It Is All New edition a programme filled with novelties can now be listened to on mixcloud.
Monday, March 11th, 2024, 3-4pm (gmt) Running time: 60:01:12
Tracklist: 01 – The Black Keys – I Forgot To Be Your Lover 02 – Been Stellar – Passing Judgment 03 – Bodega – Tarkovski 04 – Crumbs – DIY SOS 05 – Blind Zero – Running Back To You 06 – P. S. Lucas – Black Sand 07 – James – Our World 08 – Pete Astor – Chinese Cadillac 09 – The Sex Organs – Sex Shop 10 – La Luz – Strange World 11 – Wolf Manhattan – You Can’t Always Win 12 – Nourished By Time – Hand On Me 13 – Girl and Girl – Hello 14 – Six Organs of Admittance – The Mission 15 – Liam Gallagher & John Squire – Make It Up As You Go Along 16 – JP Simões – Mariazinha 17 – The Libertines – Night Of The Hunter 18 – Corridor – Mon Angent
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #61 – The It Is All New edition airs Monday, 11h, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com
This edition is a programme filled with 18 new, newish songs like You Can’t Always Win Wolf Manhattan single from the second upcoming album, and a cover of a decades long Portuguese song, Mariazinha by José Mário Branco here interpreted by JP Simões.
As is often the case with my radio shows, the selection is eclectic, from established to new names, from Portuguese to American songs.
Tracklist: 01 – The Black Keys – I Forgot To Be Your Lover 02 – Been Stellar – Passing Judgment 03 – Bodega – Tarkovski 04 – Crumbs – DIY SOS 05 – Blind Zero – Running Back To You 06 – P. S. Lucas – Black Sand 07 – James – Our World 08 – Pete Astor – Chinese Cadillac 09 – The Sex Organs – Sex Shop 10 – La Luz – Strange World 11 – Wolf Manhattan – You Can’t Always Win 12 – Nourished By Time – Hand On Me 13 – Girl and Girl – Hello 14 – Six Organs of Admittance – The Mission 15 – Liam Gallagher & John Squire – Make It Up As You Go Along 16 – JP Simões – Mariazinha 17 – The Libertines – Night Of The Hunter 18 – Corridor – Mon Argent
Here is the Family Affair programme. The songs my brother Renato and I sing along through technology – we’re over one thousand kilometers apart – including Canção de Embalar by José Afonso my niece’s favourite song.
Trackist: 01 – José Afonso – Canção de Embalar (Gaia) 02 – Manu Chao – Mi Vida (Renato) 03 – La Rue Ketanou – Sur Les Chemins De La Bohême (Gaia & Renato) 04 – Gojira – Born in Winter (Gaia) 05 – Faith No More – I Started a Joke (Raquel) 06 – Blur feat Noel Gallagher & Paul Weller – Tender live at Tennage Cancer Trust (R&R) 07 – McAlmont & Butler – Yes – 20 years live on Andrew Marr (Raquel) 08 – Muse – Darkshines (Renato) 09 – Blur – Coffee & TV (Gaia) 10 – Radiohead – Man Of War (Renato) 11 – Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger (R&R) 12 – Queens Of The Stone Age – Mosquito Song (Raquel) 13 – The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby (R&R) 14 – The Stranglers – Golden Brown (R&R) 15 – The Beatles – A Day In The Life (Renato)
Monday February 12th was 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 lives in Los Angeles and if often at places like Laurel Canyon where, in the 60s and 70s, many musicians lived at, including 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
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
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
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #54 – The Ascend-Descend edition is tomorrow, Monday 20th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio:https://yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).
The title refers to the flow of the very eclectic musical selection, comprasse of recent or just out instrumentals and songs, of this edition of the programme.
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
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #50 – The Start of the Season edition can now be listened to on mixcloud.
This show is packed with beautiful novelties and a couple of recent discoveries.
Tracklist: 01 Rita Braga – Illegal Planet 02 Big Thief – Born From Loving You 03 – Bill Rivers & Simon Hayward – The Busy Body Brigade 04 Animal Collective – Gem & I 05 Helen Svoboda – Honeybee Warfare 06 Ty Segall – Void 07 Devendra Banhart – Nun 08 A. Savage – Elvis In The Army 09 Tiwiza – At u Azeka 10 Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter – I Will Be With You Always 11 Hidden Horse -Efeitos da Ampola Flutuante 12 The Wreckery – Smack Me Down 13 Pierre Omer’s Swing Review – Tropical Breakdown 14 Al Jardine – Waves of Love 3.0 Ocean Mix 15 Swansea Sound – Twientieth Century 16 Wilco – Cousin 17 David Holmes – Necessary Genius) featuring Raven Violet
As the name says, this was the my last show of the season (Amazing Songs & Other Delights will be on repeats until mid September, returning with a new edition September 18th). An ecletic selection in genres, sounds and time periods, somehow giving the effect of a ride on a giant wheel, on a rollercoaster on in another amusement at a funfair.
Monday, July 3rd, 3-4pm (gmt +1)
Running time: 59:29
Tracklist: 01 – Albert Hammond Jr – Old Man 02 – Damien Jurado – Magic Number 03 – David Christian And The Pinecone Orchestra – The Ballad for the Button-Downs 04 – Anjimile – Father 05 – Death in Vegas feat. Liam Gallagher – Scorpio Rising 06 – Ethan P. Flynn – Abandon All Hope 07 – Faith No More – Evidence 08 – Las Robertas – Steet Feelings 09 – Lael Neale – White T-Shirt 10 – Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – It’s Not Enough (remastered) 11 – P.J. Harvey – I Inside the Old I Dying 12 – Sweeping Promises – Good Living Is Coming for You 13 – Lucinda Williams – Stolen Moments 14 – HotWax – A Thousand Times 15 – Me Lost Me – Heat! 16 – Sonic Youth – The Burning Spear 17 – The Good, The Bad & The Queen – History Song
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