It is World Radio Day and my Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition can now be listened to on mixcloud.
The title is self-explanatory. This programme is a mix of new songs, songs I chanced upon from different songs, some new, some not, and songs I remembered. It’s also another case of one thing leads to another. As a whole the 19 songs from various decades, with emphasis on very recent ones. More about the show here.
Tracklist: 01 – Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt – Orchestra 02 – Alpine Subs – Rely On Me 03 – Attawalpa – Always The Girls 04 – Berkley – Gram Theft Parsons 05 – Born Folk – Seize the Day 06 – Crazy Horse – I Don’t Want to Talk About It 07 – Electric Man – New Wave 08 – Epic Soundtracks feat Robert Wyatt – Jellybabies 09 – Hamish Hawk – Juliet as Epithet 10 – Jude Alderson – Rent Boy 11 – Julian Shah-Tayler – Sufferation 12 – Julien Baker & Torres – Sylvia 13 – Little Barrie & Malcom Catto – Zero Sun 14 – Marlon Williams – Aua Atu Rā 15 – OMIRI – Pé com Pé 16 – The Durutti Column – Love No More 17 – The Gentle Spring – Looking Back At The World 18 – Tunng – Didn’t Know Why 19 – Vanarin – Memories
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition airs Monday 10, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
The title is self-explanatory. This programme is a mix of new songs, songs I chanced upon from different songs, some new, some not, and songs I remembered.
It’s also another case of one thing leads to another. As a whole the 19 songs from various decades, with emphasis on very recent ones, on Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 76 – The New, Found, Remembered edition form a fresh, engaging, beautiful programme.
A friend posted about Robert Wyatt’s 80th birthday, Epic Soundtracks song Jellybabies with Wyatt singing flashed in mind.
Berkley’s Gram Theft Parsons is one of those songs that tell a story, a narrative style often absent in recent songs. Gram Theft Parsons is the story of the final months of Gram Parsons life, told with no sugar coating.
Crazy Horse are better know as Neil Young backing band. I Don’t Want to Talk About It is from their self titled debut album, released in 1971. I Don’t Want to Talk About It was written by Danny Whitten and would become a hit for Rod Stewart and Everything but the Girl. Ry Cooder plays pedal steel guitar and slide guitar on Crazy Horse’s original that is produced by Jack Nitzsche.
Marlon Williams’ Aua Atu Rā is the first single from Te Whare Tīwekaweka Williams first album in Māori language. OMIRI’s Pé com Pé mixes of Portuguese traditional music and dance music, resulting in an attractive, strange song.
Love No More comes from The Durutti Column 1989 album Vini Reilly, re-released last year on Record Store Day. Durutti Column Vini Reilly re-released is one of my records of 2024.
Rent Boy, a song by Jude Alderson is from the 1986 documentary Andy The Furniture Maker, about Andrew Marshall, part of the documentary series Six of Hearts, directed by Paul Oremland. I learned of the documentary by reading an article on The Guardian. I liked the documentary and loved the song.
Tracklist: 01 – Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt – Orchestra 02 – Alpine Subs – Rely On Me 03 – Attawalpa – Always The Girls 04 – Berkley – Gram Theft Parsons 05 – Born Folk – Seize the Day 06 – Crazy Horse – I Don’t Want to Talk About It 07 – Electric Man – New Wave 08 – Epic Soundtracks feat Robert Wyatt – Jellybabies 09 – Hamish Hawk – Juliet as Epithet 10 – Jude Alderson – Rent Boy 11 – Julian Shah-Tayler – Sufferation 12 – Julien Baker & Torres – Sylvia 13 – Little Barrie & Malcom Catto – Zero Sun 14 – Marlon Williams – Aua Atu Rā 15 – OMIRI – Pé com Pé 16 – The Durutti Column – Love No More 17 – The Gentle Spring – Looking Back At The World 18 – Tunng – Didn’t Know Why 19 – Vanarin – Memories
My best of 2024 are records, concerts, a book and an exhibition that filled my soul, touched me, or left a strong impression. Art forms that early this year still resonate, and remain close to my heart.
In late April 2024 I wrote an essay with Deep Emotions, a single from Good Grief, Bernard Butler third solo album and his first in 25 years as starting point. It was my second essay for Mondo. Along with, earlier in 2024, the listening parties of Rafael Toral’s Spectral Evolution it was the beginning of marvels, emotional perils and tribulations, and new paths.
The albums by Rafael and Bernard are healing records. Basalto merges melancholia, drama, romanticism. Vini Reilly is a Record Store Day re-issue of the 1989 album by Durutti Column. If there is a musician, composer, guitarist that has been with me since I’m a kid and has an influence how I see, approach, the electric guitar, Vini Reilly is him. I become aware of Ned Swarbrick when Bernard made a shout-out for support acts, and I liked Ned’s music. His ep has been a constant since.
As the Universe would have it, in 2024 Bernard played in Portugal for the first time, solo or otherwise. It was an amazing concert. 2024 was also the year of Old Jerusalem’s last concert. Old Jerusalem and Francisco Silva, the man behind it, have been part of Mondo’s favourites for decades. Francisco also begun being part of mine, in a different capacity, in 2022 when we wrote our first song together. Old Jerusalem last concert was intimate, poignant, a gathering of friends.
Records: Bernard Butler – Good Grief (355 Recordings) Rafael Toral – Spectral Evolution (Moikai/Drag City Records) Basalto – Blunt Knives (self-release) The Durutti Column – Vini Reilly (rsd2024) Ned Swarbrick – Michelangelo EP (self-release)
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