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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 74 – The Beatles edition by Bill Rivers & Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio Monday 16

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 74 – The Beatles edition by Bill Rivers & Raquel Pinheiro airs Monday 16, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio:  yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 74 – The Beatles edition is, once more a collaborative programme between me and Bill Rivers. We both love The Beatles. As a child, around Christmas tv would show The Beatles films and I would be taken to see Yellow Submarine on the big screen. Bill and I picked Beatles songs, assorted covers , songs from solo fab four. You can see who picked out on the tracklist below the text. I love to do shows with Bill. He always comes up with songs, covers, I either didn’t knew or had forgotten.

The first record my parents to me dance to was a German Beatles compilation. The Beatles were mum and her sisters band. Like me, mum is partial to George (Harrison), having a special place in her heart for the by all, myself included, beloved Ringo. Bill’s favourite Beatle is also George. Paul comes second for Bill. No wonder there’s so much George being played on the show. 🙂 Solo George, Beatles George. While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles opens the show, While My Guitar Gently Weeps covered by Lucinda Williams closes it. I’ve been fascinated by Lucinda’s version since I heard it a few weeks ago.

Interestingly, my favourite Beatles song is Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) that was written by Lennon. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) wasn’t always by favourite Beatles song. As a child it would be any from the mentioned German compilation. Or from the first album. Or a few from Yellow Submarine that, for years, for me was only an animated film. Rubber Soul ended up become by favourite Beatles album. Bill’s favourite Beatles current album is Magical Mystery Tour.Why is George pretty much everyone favourite Beatle? I don’t know. I always loved George and Ringo. I’m the person who plays bass and forgets Paul McCartney plays bass. I see Paul as a songwriter, which he, of course, is.

Back to George. George brought many Innovations to The Beatles. He was always on the look out for new things. It was George’s idea of having Eric Clapton play the guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. George has the best solo album of the four Beatles, All Things Must Pass. There’s a great documentary about George as well, George Harrison: Living In The Material World.

Tracklist:
01 – The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Raquel)
02 – Dillard and Clark – Don’t Let Me Down (Bill)
03 – George Harrison – My Sweet Lord (Raquel)
04 – Junior Parker – Tomorrow Never Knows (2024 remastered version) (Bill)
05 – Bryan Ferry – Jealous Guy (Raquel)
06 – George Harrison – Try Some Buy Some (2024 mix) (Bill)
07 – Suede – A Day In The Life (MTV intro (Raquel)
08 – The Beatles – You Can’t Do That (Bill)l
09 – John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth (Bill)
10 – Paul McCartney – Waterfalls (Bill)
11 – George Harrison – Wah-Wah (2014
Remaster) (Raquel)
12 – The Beatles – Octopus Garden (Raquel)p
13 – The Carpenters – Ticket To Ride (Bill)
14 – The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Raquel)
15 – The Beatles – Yellow Submarine (Raquel)
16 – Robert Wyatt – Love (Bill)
17 – Ringo Starr – It Don’t Come Easy (Bill)
18 – Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Raquel)

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Amazing Songs and Other Delights #5 – The Poetry edition by Raquel Pinheiro – repeat @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 2nd

There’s a repeat of my 5th Amazing Songs & Other Delights #5 – The Poetry edition tomorrow, Monday 2nd, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Tracklist:
01 – Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis – Ode to a Nightingale (Keats poem)
02 – Suede – Heroine (Byron She Walks in beauty 1st lines)
03 – The Cranberries – Yeats Grave
04 – Amália Rodrigues – Barco Negro (David Mourão-Ferreira poem)
05 – Secos Molhados – Não não digas nada (Fernando Pessoa poem)
06 – Annie Lennox – Live With Me And Be My Love (Christopher Marlowe poem)
07 – The Waterboys – Stolen Child (Yeats poem)
08 – Bob Dylan – On the Road Again (Bob Dylan poem)
09 – Radio Bukowski – The Genius of The Crowd (Charles Bukowski poem)
10 – Carla Bruni – If You Were Coming In The Fall (Emily Dickinson poem)
11 – Rufus Wainwright – When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29th)
12 – Fagner – Fanatismo (Florbela Espanca poem)
13 – Ralph Schuckett and Richard Butler – Alabama song (Bertolt Brecht poem, Kurt Weill music)
14 – Patti Smith – Changing of the Guards (Bob Dylan cover and poem)
15 – Phil Ochs – The Bell (Edgar Allan Poe poem)
16 – Quilapayun – Complainte de Pablo Neruda
17 – The Smiths – Cemetery Gates (Keats, Yeats, Wilde came to play)

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 73 – The New Things edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #73 – The New Things edition is now on mixcloud.

Tracklist:
01: Peter Perrett – Mixed Up Confucius
02: Naima Bock – Feed My Release
03: Ritta Tristany – Esquina do Chile
04: Gavin Friday – Stations of the Cross
05: Rossana – Inglaterra
06: Tess Parks – California’s Dreaming
07: Fabiana Palladino – Drunk
08: Velatine – Orange to Black
09: Paul Victor – Passport
10: Tunde Adebimpe – Magnetic
11: Rose City Band – Lights on the Way
12: David J Moriarty & Adam Baranello – Fade
13: Raoul Vignal – Icarus
14: Young Knives – Dissolution
15: Brick Briscoe & Kim Giani – Grands Boulevards
16: The Chefs – I’ll Go To
17: Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom – Pretty Paper

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 73 – The New Things edition por Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 18th

Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom © Samantha Tyson

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #73 – The New Things edition airs Monday 18th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio:  yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

This programme features an assortment of new songs.

Tracklist:
01: Peter Perrett – Mixed Up Confucius
02: Naima Bock – Feed My Release
03: Ritta Tristany – Esquina do Chile
04: Gavin Friday – Stations of the Cross
05: Rossana – Inglaterra
06: Tess Parks – California’s Dreaming
07: Fabiana Palladino – Drunk
08: Velatine – Orange to Black
09: Paul Victor – Passport
10: Tunde Adebimpe – Magnetic
11: Rose City Band – Lights on the Way
12: David J Moriarty & Adam Baranello – Fade
13: Raoul Vignal – Icarus
14: Young Knives – Dissolution
15: Brick Briscoe & Kim Giani – Grands Boulevards
16: The Chefs – I’ll Go To
17: Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom – Pretty Paper

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #32 – The Autumn Is Here edition by Raquel Pinheiro – repeat @ Yé Yé Radio – Monday 4th

This time I’ll go with a repeat. My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #32 – The Autumn Is Here edition airs Monday 4th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio:  yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

As the name says it’s an Autumn edition. You can read about it here here.

Tracklist:
01 – Arkadia Jazz All-Stars – Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (feat. Buster Williams & Carl Allen ) (Duke Ellighton original)
02 – António Vale da Conceição – Love Is The Storm
03 – Billy Childish & The Singing Loins – Pocahontas Was Her Name
04 – Blache – Garbage Picker
05 – Charlie Megira – Fear and Joy
06 – Cream – World of Pain
07 – David Bowie – Breaking Glass
08 – Francie Moon – Everything Goes
09 – Heavenly – I Fell in Love Last Night
10 – Japan – Canton (Live from Hammersmith Odeon, 1983)
11 – Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler – Footnotes On The Map (Live From The Green Note)
12 – Miguel Feraso Cabral – Indo Por Ali Longe
13 – Taylor Kingman – Heaven Ain’t Hiding
14 – The Shins – The Celibate Life
15 – Weyes Blood – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
16 – Wolf Manhattan – Five Years

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #72 – The Ecosystem edition @ mixcloud

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #72 – The Ecosystem edition is now on mixcloud.

Of late, I’ve been coming upon the word ecosystem from different sources. Or happen upon lyrics, or otherwise that mention the concept that we’re all one, we’re connected, that we depend on each other.

That concept is part of Body Count’s
Comfortably Numb version of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb the song that opens this edition. Ice-T writes and says:
“Listen… ’cause I’ve been on both sides of the gun
As you stand before me we’re all here as one
We gotta come together or our chances are none
Maybe I’m just a dreamer, too many obstacles” (full lyrics here)

An ecosystem implies environment and those in it interacting, forging connections, relationships, one thing leading to another. That is how both Mondo and Yé Yé came to be. The longer text about My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #72 – The Ecosystem edition can be read here.

Tracklist:
01: Body Count – Comfortably Numb (feat. David Gilmour)
02: Raveloe – Passing Place
03: 12 Roads – Waiting For JB
04: Rowland S. Howard – Shut Me Down
05: Ned Swarbrick – Somebody, Something, Somewhere Else (live York City FC)
06: Mick Harvey – October Boy
07: Johnny Marr – New Town Velocity
08: The Birthday Party – The Friend Catcher
09: Saint Sappho – Grass is Gold
10: Oh Bobby (Bill Rivers and Simon Hayward) – Are You Still There
11: Sorry Monks – One Rule For Them
12: Paradise Lost – The Last Time
13: Harry Howard And The NDE – Sensitive To The Cold
14: Mark Robin White & Adam Lato – Rabbit Hole (Tranquility mix)
15: The Courettes – Shake!
16: A Resistência – Maré Alta

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #72 – The Ecosystem edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 21st

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #72 The Ecosystem edition airs Monday 21st, 3-4:30pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio:  yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Of late, I’ve been coming upon the word ecosystem from different sources. Or happen upon lyrics, or otherwise that mention the concept that we’re all one, we’re connected, that we depend on each other.

That concept is part of Body Count’s Comfortably Numb version of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb the song that opens this edition. Ice-T writes and says: “Listen… ’cause I’ve been on both sides of the gun
As you stand before me we’re all here as one
We gotta come together or our chances are none
Maybe I’m just a dreamer, too many obstacles (full lyrics can be read here.).

An ecosystem implies environment and those in it interacting, forging connections, relationships, one thing leading to another. That is how both Mondo and Yé Yé came to be.

There are a few ecosystems on the programme. Birthday Party that lead to Rowland S. Howard and Mick Harvey. Mick Harvey song October Boy is about Pop Crimes – The Songs of Rowland S. Howard. Harry Howard is Rowland’s brother with whom Mick has played with. Interviewing Mick and Harry (and J.P. Shillo and Genevieve McGuckin) along a group of old friends – an ecosystem – lead to a number of Australian musician starting reaching out and sending their music.

When two weeks ago Bernard Butler was looking for opening acts for his current UK tour the Mild Ones, a Suede fan group, shared the request and so did I, adding I would be listening to Bernard’s choices and pick what I like from those. Raveloe (a Mild One Member herself), Ned Swarbrick,
Saint Sappho and Sorry Monks (other Mild One) songs are my choices from Bernard’s selection of opening acts. Meanwhile, Ned and, Tammy Dyson, of Saint Sapho, just joined The Mild Ones. Proof that ecosystems are a real thing and work.

Mark Robin White and 12 roads other Mild Ones. I found them on the group and liked their music. Johnny Marr’s New Town Velocity is from a post by Liza Hadiz, another Mild One. I was mentioning how Johnny Marr solo albums have songs I may select to play, but don’t stay with me long time. Liza asked what I thought of Velocity Girl, her favourite solo Johnny Marr song. I replied it was nice and would one day play it on the show. Johnny Marr influenced Bernard Butler, both have played together.

Oh Bobby are Bill Rivers and Simon Hayward. Bill has been part of my ecosystem for a few year. We did a few song together for my third anniversary show. Bill and Simon created together.

The Courettes are released by Damaged Good, a record label Mondo has been close to for twenty five years. Resistência are a Portuguese supergroup. Although I know some of the musicians, or other musicians from their other bands, I don’t have such a direct connection, but Resistência are an ecosystem themselves.

Resistência means Resistance. Maré Alta (High Tide) is a 1972 song by Fausto Bordalo Dias, José Mário Branco and Sérgio Godinho, three Portugue protest singers, released when Portugal was still a dictatorship. The lyrics mention getting ready because an high tide is arriving and freedom is about to come.

Tracklist:
01: Body Count – Comfortably Numb (feat. David Gilmour)
02: Raveloe – Passing Place
03: 12 Roads – Waiting For JB
04: Rowland S. Howard – Shut Me Down
05: Ned Swarbrick – Somebody, Something, Somewhere Else (live York City FC)
06: Mick Harvey – October Boy
07: Johnny Marr – New Town Velocity
08: The Birthday Party – The Friend Catcher
09: Saint Sappho – Grass is Gold
10: Oh Bobby (Bill Rivers and Simon Hayward) – Are You Still There
11: Sorry Monks – One Rule For Them
12: Paradise Lost – The Last Time
13: Harry Howard And The NDE – Sensitive To The Cold
14: Mark Robin White & Adam Lato – Rabbit Hole (Tranquility mix)
15: The Courettes – Shake!
16: A Resistência – Maré Alta

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #71 – The Desert Blues and Not Just edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #71 is the The Desert Blues and Not Just edition is now on mixcloud.

This edition opens with Imajighen by Mdou Moctar and closes with Tom Huddleston singing a live version on Hank Williams’ I Saw The Light. Once more, I’m travelling through connections, details, inspiration. I’ve wrote an essay for it that can be read here.

Imajighen means free men in Berber. Although the lyrics specifically, or more specifically, address the free men of the Desert, the song’s words can be transposed to encompass us all. The chorus goes:
“Imajighen, we can’t afford to be divided
Imajighen,
We can’t afford to be divided
Imajighen
We have no time for hate
Imajighen
Calling on you all wherever you are!
We are all Imajighen”
Full lyrics in English, Tamasheq and Tifinagh can be read here.  here.

What do Mdou Moctar and Hank Williams have in common? Everything, I venture. My essay about the programme further speaks about it.

Tracklist:
01 – Mdou Moctar – Imajighen
02 – ANOHNI & The Johnsons – Breaking
03 – Tiwiza – At u Azeka
04 – Bombino – Mahegagh (What Shall I Do)
05 – Rui Veloso – Sayago Blues
06 – R.L. Burnside – See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (live at home, 1978)
07 – Tarwa N-Tiniri – Taryet
08 – Tom Verlaine – 5 Hours From Calais
09 – Dead Combo – Lisboa Mulata
10 – Fatou Seidi Ghali (Les Filles de Illighadad) – Telilit (live from Story of Sahel Sounds)
11 – Manu Chao – Tu Te Vas Feat. Laeti
12 – Felt – The Stagnant Pool
13 – Boubacar Traoré & Ali Farka Touré – Duna Ma Yelema
14 – Buzz Ayaz – Buzzi Ayazi
15 – Soledad Brothers – This Guitar Says I’m Sorry
16 – The White Stripes – Suzy Lee
17 – Etran de L’Aïr – Imouha
18 – Ben Watt with Bernard Butler – New Year of Grace (Upstairs at the De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill 5th April 2016)
19 – The Legendary Tiger Man – Keep it Burning
20 – Majid Bekkas – Daymallah (feat. Rachid Zeroual, Khalid Kouhen, Paolo Radoni, Marc Lelangue)
21 – Tinariwen – Sastanàqqàm
22 – Tom Hiddleston – I Saw The Light (with Mark Kermode on double-bass, live in the Wittertainment studio)

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #71 – The Desert Blues and Not Just edition por Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 7

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #71 is the The Desert Blues and Not Just edition airs Monday 7th, 3-4:30pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio:  yeyeradio.com (or on the app). This a longer, special edition.

This programme opens with Imajighen by Mdou Moctar and closes with Tom Huddleston singing a live version on Hank Williams’ I Saw The Light. Once more, I’m travelling through connections, details, inspiration. And writing an essay.

Imajighen means free men in Berber. Although the lyrics specifically, or more specifically, address the free men of the Desert, the song’s words can be transposed to encompass us all. The chorus goes: “Imajighen, we can’t afford to be divided
Imajighen,
We can’t afford to be divided
Imajighen
We have no time for hate
Imajighen
Calling on you all wherever you are!
We are all Imajighen” Full lyrics in English, Tamasheq and Tifinagh can be read here. Tom Hiddleston plays Hank Williams in the film I Saw The Light.

What do Mdou Moctar and Hank Williams have in common? Everything, I venture. Amazing Songs & Other Delights #71 the The Desert Blues and Not Just edition could be said to be part of my “self taught” guitar schooling, mostly related to what Grupo Operário do Ruído, of which I’m part of, have been working on music wise.

Desert and African blues often have clapping. Clapping, including Arab clapping, a dry, hand palm against hand palm, clap, along with the fat clapping, is also something we have been exploring on Grupo Operário do Ruído. The same goes for rhythm, space, speed, rests, tone, intensity, ambient, emotions, silence, continuous, abrupt or smooth changes.

Since I elected the electric guitar as my main instrument in Grupo do Ruído, I have been paying a different kind of attention to the many faces, possibilities, approaches of the instrument.

This year, on Grupo Operário do Ruído we even created our own blues. A not so standard one, nonetheless, a blues.

Which take us to, what is the blues, what is a standard blues? The answers may require a many volumes encyclopedia. Or music theory explanations. I’ll leave both aside. As my choices for this Amazing Songs & Other Delights show, the blues is many things, everything, often not what a rigid blues school would call blues. Yet, it’s precisely the richness, the uniqueness, the emotions, feeling, sentiment that make the blues. Not being a never-miss-a-note-i-can-play-it-at-1000-miles-per-second master of the mimor blues pentatonic scale, proper chords progression, and on. If that’s all you got, you don’t have the blues, you have technique.

On these blues choices of mine we go on a journey with stops on Niger to Portugal, through the United States, Argelia-France, Marocco, United Kingdom, France-Spain, Mali, Cyprus, Algeria. Or, as sang Mdou Moctar’s Imajighen “We can’t afford to be divided”. Therefore, let’s have, sing and play the blues!

Tracklist:
01 – Mdou Moctar – Imajighen
02 – ANOHNI & The Johnsons – Breaking
03 – Tiwiza – At u Azeka
04 – Bombino – Mahegagh (What Shall I Do)
05 – Rui Veloso – Sayago Blues
06 – R.L. Burnside – See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (live at home, 1978)
07 – Tarwa N-Tiniri – Taryet
08 – Tom Verlaine – 5 Hours From Calais
09 – Dead Combo – Lisboa Mulata
10 – Fatou Seidi Ghali (Les Filles de Illighadad) – Telilit (live from Story of Sahel Sounds)
11 – Manu Chao – Tu Te Vas Feat. Laeti
12 – Felt – The Stagnant Pool
13 – Boubacar Traoré & Ali Farka Touré – Duna Ma Yelema
14 – Buzz Ayaz – Buzzi Ayazi
15 – Soledad Brothers – This Guitar Says I’m Sorry
16 – The White Stripes – Suzy Lee
17 – Etran de L’Aïr – Imouha
18 – Ben Watt with Bernard Butler – New Year of Grace (Upstairs at the De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill 5th April 2016)
19 – The Legendary Tiger Man – Keep it Burning
20 – Majid Bekkas – Daymallah (feat. Rachid Zeroual, Khalid Kouhen, Paolo Radoni, Marc Lelangue)
21 – Tinariwen – Sastanàqqàm
22 – Tom Hiddleston – I Saw The Light (with Mark Kermode on double-bass, live in the Wittertainment studio)

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #70 – The True Love edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #70 – The True Love edition can now be listened to at mixcloud.

The name of this editon comes from the opening and closing songs, True Love the new song by Jane’s Addiction, and True Love Will Find You In The End by Daniel Johnson. You can read more about Amazing Songs & Other Delights here.

Tracklist:
01: Jane’s Addiction – True Love
02: A 90s new man called Stan – Sushi feat. Adamski
03: Anthony Moore – Earthbound Misfit
04: Black Toska – Three Silver Nails
05: Cosmic Room 99 – E Corp
06: Fernando Triste – Escuro
07: Franz Ferdinand – Audacious
08: Good Sad Happy Bad – Shaded Tree
09: Jonas – Bato À Porta
10: Kingbird – There Were Things That Needed Forgiven
11: Laurie Anderson – Road to Mandalay
12: Primal Scream – Love Insurrection
13: Terry Gross – Sales Pitch
14: The Heavy Heavy – Feel
15: Tindersticks – Always a Stranger
16: Virgem Suta – Amor Ao Avesso
17: Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You In The End

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