Field Notes – Solstice Roads my new post on The Polymath site is Field Notes from a Solstice journey between Porto and Lisboa. A day of buses, trains, sea water, unexpected encounters, a lost scarf, and the quiet arrival of summer. It can be read here.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 90 – The Turning Light: To The Solstice edition is now available on mixcloud.
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. You can read more about the programme here.
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 – La belle en lumière
05: Damh the Bard – On Midwinter’s Day
06: Popol Vuh – 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: The Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection
All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud
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 wrote a note about the Autumn Equinox on The Polymath.
Good morning! It’s the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere. Venamoris’ Winter Whispers is the perfect song to celebrate it. Happy Winter Solstice and for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere a Happy Summer Solstice.
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