When the Arrow Becomes a Body – The Art of Listening the new post at The Listening Room is about embodied listening in men’s and as presence: when the body holds truth, attention, and awareness, reorganising what matters without narrative or fix and can be read here.
The Week When the Arrow LandsNew Moon in Sagittarius | Capricorn Solstice, December 19-22, 2025 the new post at The Polymath speaks of the Sagittarius New Moon meeting the Capricorn Solstice. A week of consolidation, settlement, deciding what can truly endure as a long cycle nears completion and can be read here.
I read a metaphysics/philosophy text in French â an excerpt from Jacques Derrida’s Spectres de Marx â for Peter Wullen’s A SÊance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French), with sustained notes by Greg Chapman.
You can listen to it and get an MP3 on SoundCloud, or if you prefer a WAV or FLAC file, you can find it on Peter’s Audius page: Audius link.
A SÊance Of The Table – The Phenomenological Wasteland (French)
Sustained notes by Greg Chapman (Silver Apples, To Live And Shave In L.A., …)
Voice by Raquel Pinheiro (Mondo Bizarre Magazine)
Concept, idea & conoction by Peter Wullen
“Elle devient quelqu’un, elle prend figure. Cette densitÊ ligneuse et tÃĒtue se mÊtamorphose en chose surnaturelle, en chose sensible insensible, sensible mais insensible, sensiblement suprasensible.”
“Mais cette transcendance n’est pas toute spirituelle, elle garde ce corps sans corps dont nous avons reconnu qu’il faisait la diffÊrence du spectre à l’esprit. Ce qui passe les sens passe encore devant nous dans la silhouette du corps sensible qui pourtant lui manque ou nous reste inaccessible. Marx ne dit pas sensible et insensible, sensible mais insensible, il dit : sensible insensible, sensiblement suprasensible. La transcendance, le mouvement en supra, le pas au-delà .”
Extrait de Jacques Derrida, Spectres de Marx, Editions du Seuil, 2024.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition is broadcasted Monday 15 December, 3-4pm (London time), repeating Monday December 22 – my birthday – same hour on YÊ YÊ Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
In the Northern Hemisphere we’re on the pathway to Winter Solstice, the beginning of the return of the light. We’re also in Hanukkah – the festival of lights – season (sundown of Sunday December 14 to nightfall of Monday December 22). And, of course Yule that coincides with Winter Solstice and Christmas.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition begins with the year’s promise, renewal with The Zombies’ This Will Be Our Year, and concludes with The Stone Roses danceable I Am The Resurrection, a welcoming to the turn, the return of the night, as well as an homage to the recently departed Mani.
There’s sunlit songs, there’s Popol Vuh’ Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei) with its somber tone, Aztec Camera’s Wall Out To Winter (extended version) is deliberated. It honors the walk, that Winter is a time of going inwards, not to cut short. The two I See The Light – Todd Rundgren’s and Tom Hiddleston singing Hank Williams’ one – add to the sense of clarity, hope.
Tracklist:
01: The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
02: The Altons – Your Light
03: Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light (2015 remaster)
04: The Offline РLa belle en lumi̬re
05: Damh the Bard – On Midwinter’s Day
06: Popol Vuh â Aguirre I (L’Acrime di Rei)
07: The Sound – Winning
08: Tom Hiddleston – I Saw The Light live in the Wittertainment studio (Hank Williams cover)
09: Nick Drake – River Man
10: The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out (2011 Remaster)
11: Aztec Camera – Wall Out To Winter (extended version)
12: Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
13: Love & Money – Winter
14: Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
All previous shows on mixcloud: YÊ YÊ Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
There’s a new post at The Listening Room HQ When Men âClear Outâ Their Lives: What Decluttering Really Reveals regarding understanding when men clear out their lives: navigating inner collapse, boundaries, and maintaining your own stability. It can be read here.
How to Keep Creating While Your House Is Under Repair the new post at The Polymath is about Creating through household repairs: how to stay connected to your work when your home is in repairs and life feels unsettled. You can read it here.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 89 – Of Mist & Metaphysics is now available on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights new editions are broadcasted on YÊ YÊ Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app) first and third Monday of the Month 3-4pm (London time), respective repeats second and fourth Monday of the month.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 89 – Of Mist & Metaphysics edition title comes from a series of coincidences, synchronicities. As well as of waking up to thick, misty days. The kind you would think yourself in the Scottish Highlands, or, according to the legend, the foggy day Arthur and D. SebastiÃŖo will return. You can read more about the programme here.
Tracklist:
01: Richard Wagner – Parsifal, Act II: Prelude – Die Zeit ist da (excerpt)
02: Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven
03: Paus – Ficamos Por Aqui
04: Roxy Music – Avalon
05: Loreena McKennitt – The Lady of Shalott (Live)
06: Queens Of The Stone Age – In the Fade
07: JosÊ Cid – A Lenda D’el Rei D. SebastiÃŖo
08: Opeth – In The Mist She Was Standing (excerpt)
09: Paraorchestra – The Killing Moon (with Brett Anderson and Charles Nodier)
10: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
11: Mcalmont & Butler – Although
12: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – Kingdoms of Rain (live Mark Lanegan 60th celebration)
13: Crown Lands – Lady Of The Lake
14: EinstÃŧrzende Neubauten – Stella Maris
15: Die Among Strangers – Lancelot & Elaine
16: Rowland S. Howard – Autoluminescent
All previous shows on mixcloud: YÊ YÊ Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
When Strength Isnât Obvious the new post at The Listening Room HQ a reflection on the quiet forms of strength men carry and how real change often begins in the smallest, unseen inner shifts can be read here.
The Week When The Field Opens – The Super Full Moon in Gemini the new post at The Polymath is a clear, atmospheric look at the Gemini Super Full Moon of December 4/5, 2025 , a night of double-sight, thresholds, field shifts, and the quiet rearrangements before Sagittarius and the Solstice.
You can read The Week When The Field Opens – The Super Full Moon in Gemini here.
My Europa w/ saxophone was played on Toneshift/TJ Norris’ November show on radio Camp Free.Toneshift’s November 2025 show is available at: mixcloud.com/camp_fr/toneshift-24th-november-2025 and https://www.tjnorrisart.com/toneshift
Europa is one of the largest moons of Jupiter. It’s part a large electro-acoustic piece I’m working on. It exists with, and without saxophone.
When Francisco Silva heard his bluesy guitar in it, he was surprised at the contrast between it and the colder background – the saxophone version came later. The bluesy guitar represents the cooperish “veins” that can be seen in the image.
Personnel:
Raquel Pinheiro: composition, concept, effects, ambients, sounds, mixing, production
Francisco Silva: guitar
Rui Guerra: saxofone
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