Mondo Bizarre Magazine Amazing Sounds & Other Delights, Radio Show, Raquel Pinheiro, YéYé Radio

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #83 – The 4th anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travellers @ Yé Yé radio , Monday 14th

Maren Devine – Flower Cake

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)

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Mondo Bizarre Magazine Amazing Sounds & Other Delights, Radio Show, Raquel Pinheiro, YéYé Radio

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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