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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II by Raquel Pinheiro

Marianne Faithfully & Warren Ellis © Rosie Matheson

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II is broadcasted Monday 05 & 12 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

I love poetry. Two recent birthday projects/presents by The Mild Ones. one for Brett Anderson’s birthday, the other for Richard Oakes’ birthday have me reading poetry. On the second instance The House Martin purpose written haiku by me for Richard.

There have been poems of mine put to music by among others, Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem/The June Carriers/Velho Homem) and João Diogo Zagalo (Silver & Scout, Vox Mambo, Dead Violets, The Lone Ranger) and my Poem #80 turned into the song Lucid One by Francisco Silva.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II has my own poetry sang by others, said/read my me, changed into a song

The Latin word for poem is carmen, hence Bizet’s Carmen in the voice of Maria Callas.

William Blake serves the lyrics of The Doors’ End of the Night, is named in The The’s Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake, and the inspiration subject of Patti Smith’s My Blakean Year.

Lorca comes in Leonard Cohen’s adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés, Take This Waltz. One of my favourite poems T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is on
Sibylle Baier’s Says Elliott.

Eminem’s Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido, and Rowland S Howard’s Autoluminescent gives another dimension of poetry and sounds.

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree) from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Winter Journey) a dark folk song by Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche, takes us back to the classical world.

Johnny Marr’s All in a Life from his new album The Age of Everything mixes dark, sharp, mystical, upbeat, with soaring haunting backing vocals by Meredith Sheldon. Both Johnny and Meredith have a song each on Amazing Songs Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition.https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2026/09/19/amazing-songs-other-delights-99-the-luminous-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-on-ye-ye-radio-monday-21-28-september/

The House Martin, and haiku for Richard Oakes by Raquel Pinheiro

In the cliff and the cave
The House Martin nested
Then, to the city it moved to

Tracklist:
01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa)
02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen)
03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem)
04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence)
05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines)
06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido
08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43
09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake
10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year
11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés)
12: Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent
13: João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51
14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock)
15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche)
16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life
17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an haiku for Richard Oakes

You can read about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #05 The Poetry edition
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/23/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition/ and listen to it here:
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/28/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-ye-ye-radios-mixcloud/

All previous shows on mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II by Raquel Pinheiro

Marianne Faithfully & Warren Ellis © Rosie Matheson

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II is broadcasted Monday 05 & 12 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

I love poetry. Two recent birthday projects/presents by The Mild Ones. one for Brett Anderson’s birthday, the other for Richard Oakes’ birthday have me reading poetry. On the second instance The House Martin purpose written haiku by me for Richard.

There have been poems of mine put to music by among others, Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem/The June Carriers/Velho Homem) and João Diogo Zagalo (Silver & Scout, Vox Mambo, Dead Violets, The Lone Ranger) and my Poem #80 turned into the song Lucid One by Francisco Silva.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II has my own poetry sang by others, said/read my me, changed into a song

The Latin word for poem is carmen, hence Bizet’s Carmen in the voice of Maria Callas.

William Blake serves the lyrics of The Doors’ End of the Night, is named in The The’s Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake, and the inspiration subject of Patti Smith’s My Blakean Year.

Lorca comes in Leonard Cohen’s adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés, Take This Waltz. One of my favourite poems T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is on
Sibylle Baier’s Says Elliott.

Eminem’s Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido, and Rowland S Howard’s Autoluminescent gives another dimension of poetry and sounds.

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree) from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Winter Journey) a dark folk song by Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche, takes us back to the classical world.

Johnny Marr’s All in a Life from his new album The Age of Everything mixes dark, sharp, mystical, upbeat, with soaring haunting backing vocals by Meredith Sheldon. Both Johnny and Meredith have a song each on Amazing Songs Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition.https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2026/09/19/amazing-songs-other-delights-99-the-luminous-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-on-ye-ye-radio-monday-21-28-september/

The House Martin, and haiku for Richard Oakes by Raquel Pinheiro

In the cliff and the cave
The House Martin nested
Then, to the city it moved to

Tracklist:
01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa)
02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen)
03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem)
04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence)
05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines)
06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido
08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43
09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake
10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year
11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés)
12: Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent
13: João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51
14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock)
15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche)
16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life
17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an haiku for Richard Oakes

You can read about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #05 The Poetry edition
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/23/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition/ and listen to it here:
https://mondobizarremagazine.com/2021/07/28/amazing-songs-other-delights-5-the-poetry-edition-by-raquel-pinheiro-ye-ye-radios-mixcloud/

All previous shows on mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ | www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

Mondo Bizarre Magazine The Reading List

The Reading List – Francisco Silva

© Francisco Silva

The second Reading List comprises reading choices by my friend, at times co-songwriter, and fellow avid reader Francisco Silva. Francisco laid to rest his old (pun intended) music composition Old Jerusalem and has been taking off in new directions with The June Carriers and Velho Homem. In Francisco’s own words.

Some of my musical reading material.

Warren Ellis – Nina Simone’s Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found is a picaresque story of the amulet engendered by Warren Ellis as an excuse to digress about music, creativity, humanity, etc.

Whyndam Wallace – Lee, Myself & I: Inside The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood is Lee Hazlewood’s life story as retold by his former manager, journalist Wyndham Wallace.

Bruce Adams – You’re With Stupid, the Chicago scene and the Kranky label by the quill of one of its founders, Bruce Adams.

Various – Rock Rendez Vous the photos of the iconic Lisbon club (and the portrait of an era).Rob Young – Electric Eden a detailed and multifaceted story of British folk music and its context.

Harold F. Eggers – My years with Townes van Zandt: Music, Genius and Rage” – the uncanny account of Harold F. Eggers’ time as road manager to Townes van Zandt in his prime and beyond it – an assignment that only a Vietnam veteran could tackle.

Ian Preece – Listening to the Wind: Encounters with 21st Century Independent Record Labels. Interviews and profiling of some of the most interesting (obscure?) independent record labels of our time: Light In The Attic, Thrill Jockey, International Anthem, Touch, Sublime Frequencies, Temporary Residence, Important, Paradise of Bachelors, Scissor Tail, among others.

… and two extraordinary graphic novels: the hitherto rare Storyville by Frank Santoro and the amazing Rusty Brown (but it could also be the just as beautiful – if not more so – Jimmy Corrigan) by Chris Ware.

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The Reading List – Raquel Pinheiro – World Book Day 2024

© Raquel Pinheiro

Today is World Book Day 2004. Here is a list of a few of my favourite books:

Eça de Queirós – A Cidade e as Serras
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Herodotus – Histories
James Gavin – Deep In A Dream – The Long Night Of Chet Baker
Jean Cocteau – Les enfants terrible
Sam Shepard – Crónicas Americanas (Motel Chronicles)
Simon Garfield – Mauve
T.E. Lawrence – Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.S. Elliot – Complete Poems
Oscar Wilde – Dorian Gray

recent favourites:
Charles Spencer – A Very Private School
Mat Osman – The Ghost Theatre

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #63 – The Say Hello, Wave Goodbye edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 8th.

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.

The Maze at my favourite local park in colour © Raquel Pinheiro

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”.

The Maze at my favourite local park in black and white © Raquel Pinheiro

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

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The June Carriers – Equanimity – painting by Susan Lindsey