Caspar David Friedrich – Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog), c. 1818
At the Threshold: The Dreamer, an Autumn Song and the Scorpio New Moon, the new post at The Polymath , explores the threshold between Autumn and Winter, where music, the Mayan calendar and the Scorpio New Moon meet in a meditation on dreams, hidden connections, Monadic Twins and what is beginning to emerge. You can read At the Threshold: The Dreamer, an Autumn Song and the Scorpio New Moon on The Polymath site.
At the Threshold: The Dreamer, an Autumn Song and the Scorpio New Moon connects with my radio programme Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition An Autumn Feeling edition.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition is broadcasted Monday 02 & 09 November, 3-4pm London time, on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition is a simple, cozy, gentle, seasonal programme with songs and instrumentals that mention Autumn or feel autumnal. Along with a few more upbeat ones.
As it tends to be common on my Amazing Songs & Other Delights the songs arrive from different decades and have different genres, although one could say Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition leans towards indie, indie folk, with a few dance and rock vibes. Of course a couple of orchestral presences appear too.
The Bluestones were an extremely recent re-find. My friend Wayne and his son were going to their concert in London. I was surprised, not having following the band in years. Wayne told me they had a new album, I said I will check it. And here it is Lux Interior.
A song written in homage to Lux Interior of the Cramps, that is also perfect for a time between Halloween & Samhain – the beginning of the Celt Winter – All Saints Day, All Souls Day and the New Moon in Scorpio November 9, the day Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition has its second broadcast.
A perfect season to be with our inner light.
Tracklist: 01: Laura Veirs – Little Deschutes 02: The Kinks – Autumn Almanac 03′ The White Stripes – Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground 04: A Certain Ratio – Who’s To Say (3rd Peel Session) 05: Eve Cassidy – Autumn Leaves with The London Symphony Orchestra 06: Queens of the Stone Age – Sunday 07: The Bluetones – Lux Interior 08: Vince Guaraldi – The Great Pumpkin Waltz 09: Everclear – Fire Maple Song 10: Led Zeppelin – Ramble On 11: Erica Buettner – When It Goes 12: The Adventure Babies – Camper Van 13: Prickly Pear – At The End 14: Oh Bobby – Water
The Bluetones
The Bluestones – Lux Interior lyrics
Time ran out On all that flailing about And the need to live Well something had to give It was some punchline Had the stars and planets aligned? So I played along Let the cosmos sing its song
And I knew nothing was true
And here you are In the shotgun seat of the car And it’s me at the wheel Don’t mean that seals the deal If I hold my nerve And I surf just ahead of the curve Might I hear you say You miss me when I’m away
And it proves nothing was true Until you
And your name Cuts through the din Like a guillotine Like a tambourine And your taste Cuts through the space Like a guillotine Like a tambourine
And it proves nothing was true Until you
And your name Cuts through the din Like a guillotine Like a tambourine And your taste Cuts through the space Like a guillotine Like a tambourine
And your name Cuts through the din Like a guillotine Like a tambourine
Penelope and the Ducks – Underwater Woman: Swimming In The Sea
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #101 – Oceanic edition is broadcasted Monday 19 & 26 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
I return to ocean swimming late May and have kept it, including going to the ocean at night. At night, usually, given the conditions to walk along the shoreline, but, sometimes the water is good enough for a nightswim.
As R.E.M.’s song say that appears in the programme says “Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night”.
Preceding R.E.M. are Queens of The Stone Age with I Sat By The Ocean. Underwater Songs are Luís Figueiredo & Manuel Rocha, a voice and piano duo that is releasing their second album Underwater Songs Vol. 2 in November.
There’s Sétimo Legião with Sete Mares, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ The Ship Song, Charles Trenet with La mer.
The Who bring Sea And Sand from Quadrophenia, The Velvet Underground, arrive with Ocean, The Shins walk with Sea Legs, Van Morrison’s Into The Mystic brings an otherworldly dimension.
Amalia Rodrigues singing Canção do Mar, and Chico Buarque with Mar e Lua bring deep emotion and longing.
Bernard Butler appears twice. The Sea (Edit), a b-side from Stay, a single from his debut album People Moved On, and Camber Sands from his third album Good Grief.
The closing is for the Beatles with the joyous Octopus’ Garden.
Tracklist:. 01: Queens of the Stone Age – I Sat By The Ocean 02: R.E.M. – Nightswimming 03: Underwater Songs (Luís Figueiredo & Manuel Rocha) – Graça 04: Sétima Legião – Sete Mares 05: Charles Trenet – La mer 06: Bernard Butler – The Sea (Edit) 07: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Ship Song 08: The Who – Sea And Sand 09: The Velvet Underground – Ocean 10: Amália Rodrigues – Canção do Mar 11: Bernard Butler – Camber Sands 12: Van Morrison – Into The Mystic 13: The Shins – Sea Legs 14: Chico Buarque – Mar e Lua 15: The Beatles – Octopus’ Garden
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.
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
Melissa Waterfield, one of The Mild Ones moderators arranged another birthday/project/present for The Mild Ones. This time for Suede wonderful bassist Mat Osman.
We both picked Europe Is Our Playground for the project. Both in it’s full instrumental version – Melissa – and just the baseline – me.
From Ohio to Portugal the World is Our Playground. 🙂
Here’s what Melissa wrote on the Mild Ones Facebook :
“🎶Happy Birthday Mat🥳🎂🎶
Europe Is Our Playground…….
“One of the most beautiful Suede songs written by our favorite birthday bassist inspired Raquel Pinheiro and I to collaborate on this celebration video for his special day. Raquel combined her amazing photos of Porto with Mat’s bass line while I used photos from my European adventures to see Suede💙 So grateful to Mat and Suede for motivating me to travel more and to go from 🎶Heathrow to Hounslow🎶😉 Wishing Mat a birthday as wonderful as he is!!!!”
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.
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
Carlos Paredes – Verdes Anos. From Paulo Rocha’s 1963 film. Verdes Anos. An instrumental piece in which the Mestre and his Portuguese guitar carry the atmosphere without needing words.
Paradise Lost – The Last Time From by beloved album of theirs Draconian Times. Heavy, dark and beautifully atmospheric, with that particular sense of weight and beat that Paradise Lost can create.
Ethel Ennis – Dreamer Dreamer From the album Lullabies for Losers. A voice carrying longing and vulnerability with extraordinary warmth upon an arrowing musical background.
Hildegard von Bingen – Ave GenerosaMusic from the twelfth century, luminous and otherworldly. Hildegard is also one of my main inspirations and central to The Polymath
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition edition is broadcasted Monday 21 and 28 September, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
After a pause and repeat shows I’m back to new editions.
As soon as I became aware Johnny Marr was having an auction of his guitars, amps, and memorabilia at Christie’s 17 September I knew how the snow begun. Spin is taken from Johnny’s upcoming album The Age of Everything.
The last song, Bernard Butler singing The Irish Goodbye – one of his new songs live from the Irish Embassy in London for RTE (the Iris national broadcaster) 100th anniversary – was also decided.
The other songs, aside from Lucinda Williams version of The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps that I have played before – appeared from different sources and fitted the programme flow and imaginary.
There’s a second Johnny Marr presence. He plays the guitars on Meredith Sheldon’s Once We Were Dust album which I found through his Instagram.
The guitars, or most of them, Johnny plays on Spin and Diamonds Like are no longer his, have changed hands at the auction.
The songs vary in gente, in age, in being from lost albums, or just released. Together they form a diverse tapestry I like.
Tracklist: 01: Johnny Marr – Spin 02: Velcro Dog – The Gonzo Futurist Manifesto 03: The Pineapple Thief – God Knows 04: Susanna Hoffs – Casablanca 05: Bikini Body – Leipzig (ft. Ben Katzman) 06: Meredith Sheldon – Diamonds Like 07: Soft Science – Spinning 08: Cesária Evora – Sonsente 09: Filipe Karlsson – Rota 10: The Go – Secular Century Man 11: Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps 12: Garcia – Quando Não Estás 13: Railcard – Flannelette 14: Yoko Ono – Never Say Goodbye (2026 Remaster) 15: Ex_Re – Radio Station 16: Prince – I Am You 17: Bernard Butler – The Irish Goodbye (live at RTE 100)
When The Room Changes – Changing the Conditions is the after the Pause return post on The Litening Room HQ , my men’s practice.
When The Room Changes – Changing the Conditions is a practical note on changing our surroundings, creating space, and how a different environment can change what becomes possible. It can be read at The Listening Room HQ site.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #97 – The Of Sea & Cake edition is now available on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs on Yé Yé Radio 1st and 3rd Monday of the Month, 3-4pm (London time) repeating 3rd and 4th Monday of the Month.
For some reason I had the programme title for a while. Probably, because of Sea and Cake, the band that opens and closes the show. Since I recently went ocean swim again and I like cake, it was a perfect match. Ideas and life catching and matching up.
Tracklist: 01: The Sea and Cake – Four Corners 02: Dhani Harrison (Live at George Fest) – Savoy Truffle 03: Air – La Femme d’Argent 04: Queens Of The Stone Age – Monsters In The Parasol 05: The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave (Stereo/Remastered 2001) 06: Deerhoof – Milk Man 07: Cake – Distance 08: Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator 09: Brian Eno – By This River (2004 Digital Remaster) 10: Lupe Fiasco – Cake 11: Can – Vitamin C 12: Everything But The Girl – Temperamental 13: The Sea and Cake – Parasol
