My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights that airs every other Monday, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app). Amazing Songs & Other Delights #84 – The It Resonates edition can now be listened to on mixcloud.
You can read more about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #84 – The It Resonates edition here.
From Monday October 6 onwards Amazing Songs & Other Delights new editions are every 1st and 3rd Monday of each month, repeats every 2nd and 4th Monday of each month. The hour remains the same: 3-4pm (London time).
Tracklist: 01: Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson – Resilience 02: Liz Hogg – Curl 03: The Divine Comedy – Invisible Thread 04: Ned Swarbrick – When The Wind Blows (Live at City Varieties Music Hall) 05: Trademark Issues – Song for a Non-Touring Band 06: Massimo Silverio – Zoja 07: Tulpa – Let’s Make A Tulpa! 08: Miguel Feraso Cabral – Cenografia 09: Swimming Pools And Movie Stars – Never Let Go 10: The Cords – When You Said Goodbye 11: Noiserv – A casa das rodas quadradas feat. Milhanas 12: Glo-Worm – Change of Heart 13: Holly Golightly – Miss Fortune 14: Senhor Vulcão feat The Legendary Tiger Man – Rock N Roll 15: AVTT/MPTN – The Avett Brothers · Mike Patton – Eternal Love 16: Glyders – Shadow Stone 17: Anthony Moore – No Parlez 18: Hidrogenesse – A la Muerte 19: Umlaut – Grumpy Library
Hildegard von Bingen has been a source of wonder for me – and for countless others – across the centuries. Her life and work span theology, music, natural science, and creative practice, and her integrated approach to knowledge still resonates deeply today. For example on Hildegard von Blingin’ s cover of Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club.
On my second post on The Polymath I explore how her visionary thinking continues to inspire ways of living and working as a polymath, and how her example invites us to connect the threads of our own diverse interests. Read more about Hildegard von Bingen as a Source of Continuous Inspiration here:
This is our fourth and final photolog of Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2025 held in Leipzig. We will be back to Wave-Gotik-Treffen next. You will find links to this year’s previous photologs, and to other editions next year. It was a pleasure. We will see you in 2026.
Here is our third photolog of Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2025. You can see the previous and last photologs of this edition of the festival below the photos. As well as find your way to other years we attended.
We continue our 2025 Wave-Gotik-Treffen photologs. Here is the second one of four, through, as usual, Gustavo Hochman’s lens. We will be at Wave-Gotik-Treffen next year. Meanwhile you can take a look at the 2025 edition, and other years photologs. You can find them below the photos.
We’ll be bringing you the 2025 Wave-Gotik-Treffen photologs over the next few weeks. As usual, Gustavo Hochman captured the festival for us.Wave-Gotik-Treffen is the world’s largest gothic festival, celebrating gothic, Victoriana, steampunk, and related subcultures. The festival happens yearly in Leipzig, Germany.We will return to cover the festival next year.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights turned. The 4th anniversary edition airs Monday 14th, 3-4:10pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
This year, the anniversary programme is a little different than usual. Trials and tribulations didn’t allow for the several costumary purpose composed pieces, aside from mine and Francisco Silva’s Lucid One. The lyrics of Lucid One have my poem 80 as starting point, adapted to song by Francisco’s chatgpt, then, on a second round of singing the song, by him. It was a very interesting creative experience.
My Loss and December: Death, Sérgio Rocha’s Seclusões (excerpt), digei de bairro’s MG B GT (pre-master), Ned Swarbrick’s Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1), João Diogo Zagalo’ Lotar n.º 4 and Boxmonsters’ Holligans and Car Crash fall under that umbrella.
I picked two songs composed on purpose for previous anniversary editions. Mine and Francisco’s When Joe Came By, from the 1st anniversary edition, and Sweet Peace, by Bill Rivers and I, from last year’s anniversary show, here on Oh Bobby (Bill Rivers & Simon Wayward) version, from their album Swim The Universe.
There’s the usual assortment of songs, another round of surprises, picked for me by a few friends.
Because the songs represent me, because I may like them… Because…
Manuel Carvalho picked The Pixies’ Hey; António Cunha Suki Waterhouse’s Supersad, Paulo Navarro caroline’sTell Me I Never New That (feat. Caroline Polachek), Matt Hutchison Lyn Collins’ Think (About It) and Rui Pimenta Why Don’t You Stay by American Music Club.
As for both Francisco’s instrumental acoustic version of The Asphalt World and my soft instrumental electric stripped down version of The Asphalt World. Francisco thought it a odd choice for me to plays as far as Suede’s covers go, and sent me an impromptu short version of it.
At 0:55 it’s most likely the world’s shortest version of The Asphalt World. Mine runs past 10 minutes. It’s a one go, raw, unfiltered, no effects, aside from a little vibrato arm, and my micro jack amp distortion, no solos, also impromptu, played on a kitchen bench, purely for the joy of it version. Most of what seems effects, it’s my fretting fingers.
Lucid One lyrics Sleepless nights, stuck in motion Elevators fade, no clear emotion Crex crex crex — the artach calls Lucid tiles in echo halls
The megaphone speaks, louder than books Slogans win where no one looks Moral weight too hard to lift We float inside this aimless drift
The empire of futility Masqueraded as ability Symbols fail, the noise gets loud We vanish slowly in the crowd
Resperidone, the new tea brew
Quiet minds in static view Fork in the road, by the sea we stand Bathymetry traced in soul and sand
Invisible paths, the labyrinth sings We mistook noise for gravity’s rings You want the house still, free of harm But the woman bangs the pots — her charm
The empire of futility Attired in nobility Mirrors turn, the spiral grows Stagnant waters, no one knows (Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro)
Poem #80 poem 80 sleepless nights, stuck perpetual movement fading through the elevator crex crex crex crex makes the artach hearth and home lucid tiles echoing the megaphone is easier than read serious books slogans are easier than moral inventory. the empire of futility disguised as art, intellectualism the sound mirrors, a spiral a stagnant pool of nothingness resperidone, the new chamomile there’s a road with a fork for you and me by the sea bathymetry of the soul invisible pathways labyrinth, the song mistaken noise for gravity symbols for substance brought us here you want the house quiet but a woman bangs the pots monks don’t worry about money terror dreams, rage somatic overload the lucid one in a house of somnambulists fog can’t be fought, what it erases is watched don’t go back to sleep the messiness of desire recycle, renewal, redemption like a benediction all the plants are watered (Raquel Pinheiro)
Tracklist: 01: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – When Joe Came By 02: Raquel Pinheiro – Loss 03: Pixies – Hey (Manuel Carvalho) 04: Sérgio Rocha – Seclusões (excerpt) 05: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One 06: digei de bairro – MG B GT (pre-master) 07: Suki Waterhouse – Supersad (António Cunha) 08: Boxmonsters – Holligans 09: Francisco Silva – The Asphalt World (acoustic excerpt) 10: Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Raquel Pinheiro) 11: caroline – Tell Me I Never New That feat. Caroline Polachek (Paulo Navarro) 12: Raquel Pinheiro – The Asphalt World 13: Oh Bobby – Sweet Peace – (*) 14: Lyn Collins – Think (About It) (Matt Hutchison) 15: Ned Swarbrick – Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1) 16: João Diogo Zagalo – Lotar n.º 4 17: Boxmonsters – Car Crash 18: Raquel Pinheiro – December: Death 19: American Music Club – Why Don’t You Stay (Rui Pimenta)
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Strolling along the Seashore (1909)
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #82 – The It’s Summer edition airs Monday 30th, 3-4pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: till yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
As the name says, it’s summer. Therefore, let’s celebrate it. Nearly all the songs, from Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr to Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna have just been released or are recent.
There are two indie oldies, The Durutti Collumn’s Sketch For A Summer and The Go-Betweens’ Two Heads. As tends to be the case with my shows, indie and mainstream go hand in hand, although here there are several pop breezy indie alternative songs. But Harry Styles and Laufey pair with Jeanines or April March. There’s an acoustic guitar instrumental, AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia), and the customary Mamas & the Papas classic California Dreamin’, here in covered by The Rebels.
Tracklist: 01: Franz Ferdinand – Build It Up ft. Johnny Marr 02: Cass McCombs – Peace 03: Robert Robertson – Broken Arrow 04: Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar 05: Pressyes – The Sunlighttt 06: The Durutti Collumn – Sketch For A Summer 07: Jeanines – Coaxed A Storm 08: AL Guitar Duo – Reencontro (feat. Pedro Jóia) 09: Panda Bear – Virginia Tech 10: The Go-Betweens – Two Heads 11: Laufey – Lover Girl 12: The Rebels – California Dreamin’ 13: Weezer – Island In The Sun 14: Lightheaded – The Garden 15: James Yorkston – Love Luck (feat. Johanna Söderberg) 16 – Forth Wanderers – Bluff 17: Swansea Sound – Pacior’Fan 18: Sydney Minsky Sargeant – I Dont Wanna 19 – April March – Laisse Tomber Les Filles
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80 – The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition is now on available to listen to on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs every other Monday, 3-4pm (gmt+1), on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80 – The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition features 17 of my favourite songs, including my favourite song, Will Your Me Tomorrow sang by The Shirelles, and three songs I would have love to have written, Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake, A Lady of a Certain Age by The Divine Comedy, and Canção de Amigo by Um Zero Amarelo. Of course I would have loved to have written all the other songs. 🙂 You can read about the songs and my choices here.
Tracklist: 01: Julie Andrews – My Favourite Things 02: The Shirelles – Will Your Me Tomorrow 03: The The – Sometimes I Drink My Coffee by the Grave of William Blake 04: The Ramones – Baby I Love You 05: The Devine Comedy – A Lady of a Certain Age 06: Josh Rouse – James 07: The Rolling Stones – Under My Thumb 08: Um Zero Amarelo – Canção de Amigo 09 Elvis Presley – (Marie’s The Name) of His Latest test Flame 10: The Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) 11: Mick Harvey – October Boy 12: Mark Lanegan – Don’t Forget Me 13: Ben Watt – North Marine Drive 14: Tiwiza – At u Azeka 15: Erica Buettner – True Love and Water 16: Butler-Blake-Grant – Bring An End 17: Queens of the Stone Age – Mosquito Song
Malian band Tinariwen arrived to Porto after the release of the compilation album Idrache (Traces of the Past).
Tinariwen means desert people, or people of the desert, Tamasheq. The band born in the borders of Argel and Mali in 1979, brought their assuf (longing, or longing for home), that we know as desert blues, to Porto.And what a concert it was.
Starting slow with Azawad, soon there was dancing and clapping from the stage, incentivinzing the audience to follow.
However, even if people were rocking on their seats, it would took an hour and twenty minutes for the room to stand up and dance.
By the encore, during Afric Temdam, Sastanaqam and Chaghaybou the front of the stage was filled with dancing people.On the other hand, the clapping and diverse vocals sounds from the audience to the stage stayed a staple during the performance.
The way the band uses guitars, divided between acoustic and electric, at times for electric guitars, on stage, in conjunction with the electric bass and traditional percussion is extraordinary. No instrument submerges another.
Tinariwen music is sublime. Transcendent. The songs are sang in Tamasheq, their feelings, the emotions, the soul fulfillment, universal.
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