Wednesday 30 March 2022

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 - The Spring edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé's mixcloud

The first season of the year is the last to be covered on Amazing Songs & Other Delights since the show started in late May 2021. Obviosuly, it is called the Spring edition. The songs either are Sping song, in the sense Spring is part of the title or lyrics, or have a Spring feeling to it. Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 - The Spring edition include Blue Moon Rose by Everything But The Girl, Is This Love by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, April Come She Will Simon & Garfunkel and a less usual cover o Antônio Carlos Jobim's Águas de Março - see tracklist. There are also a few instrumentals and genres range from jazz to indie rock.

Monday, March 28th, 2022, 3-4pm
Running Time: 01:06:22


Tracklist:
01 - Air - All I Need
02 - Belle & Sebastian - Here Comes The Sun (Beatles cover, live at BBC sessions)
03 - Blur - Parklife
04 - Zeca Afonso - Cantigas de Maio
05 - Chet Baker - Look For the Silver Lining ( Jerome Kern & B.G. DeSylva song)
06 - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love
07 - Django Reinhardt - Swingtime in Springtime
08 - Einstürzende Neubauten - The Garden
09 - Everything But The Girl - Blue Moon Rose (2012 Remaster)
10 - The Jasmine Minks - Time For You
11 - Johnny Horton - When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)
12 - Lord Furon - Fool For Love
13 - Noah And The Whale - Blue Skies
14 - Pete Yorn - June
15 - Rufus Wainwright - Rebel Prince
16 - Simon & Garfunkel - April Come She Will
17 - The Feelies - Original Love
18 - The Mike Flowers Pop - Wonderwall @ TOTP (Oasis' cover)
19 - Tranglomango - Macelada (Beira Baixa traditional song)
20 - Tony Carreira - Les Eaux de Mars feat. Helene Segara (Antônio Carlos Jobim's cover)

All previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/

Monday 28 March 2022


 Hi and good afternoon with Shun by Will Samson.


Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 - The Spring edition airs today circa 3-4pm on Yé Yé Radio https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app. Songs include Original Love by The Feelies, Blue Moon Rose by Everything But The Girl, Is This Love by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, April Come She Will Simon & Garfunkel and a less usual cover of Antônio Carlos Jobim's's Águas de Março.

All previous shows on mixcloud.

Sunday 27 March 2022

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 - The Spring edition by Raquel Pinheiro on Yé Yé Radio


 The first season of the year is the last to be covered on Amazing Songs & Other Delights since the show started in late May 2021. Obviosuly, it is called the Spring edition. The songs either are Sping song, in the sense Spring is part of the title or lyrics, or have a Spring feeling to it.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #23 - The Spring edition airs tomorrow circa 3-4pm on @Yé Yé Radio https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app. Songs include Blue Moon Rose by Everything But The Girl, Is This Love by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, April Come She Will Simon & Garfunkel and a less usual cover o Antônio Carlos Jobim's's Águas de Março. 

All previous shows: 

https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/



Hi and Happy Sunday with You & Me and All the Salt in the Sea by The S-ft F-cus.

Saturday 26 March 2022


 Good morning with Narcissus in Exile by Minmo Music. Have a nice weekend.

Friday 25 March 2022

Records of 2021


It took a while, but here is the records of the year list. I wanted to carefully listen to several records that were released late last years, several of which only reach me this year. There are 30 records in the list, ordered alphabetically. 

Bill Rivers - my autumn is on its way (Self Release)
Bill Rivers - Sings the Words of Simon Hayward (Self Release)
Bill Stone - Stone (Drag City)
Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes (Third Man Records)
Castle Theater - Characters (Self Release)
Dean Wareham I Have Nothing To Say to The Mayor of L.A. (Double Feature Records)
Ed Clayton-Jones - Jackdaw (Self-Release)
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds - Swing From The Sean DeLear (In The Red Records)
J.P. Shilo - Jubjoté (Heavy Machinery Records)
James Johnston | Steve Gullick - We Travel Time (God Unknown Records)
Johanna Samuels - Excelsior! (Mama Bird Recording)
José Valente e Orquestra Filarmónica Gafanhense - Trégua (9 MUSAS)
Jonathan Richman - Want To Visit My Inner House? ((Reprise)
Marco Franco - Arcos (Revolve)
Marianne Faithfull w/ Warren Ellis - She Walks in Beauty (BMG)
Nick Walters & The Paradox Ensemble - Implicate Order (D.O.T. Records)
Old Jerusalem - Certain Rivers (Self Release/Sony)
New Bums -  Last Time I Saw Grace (Drag City)
Raoul Vignal - Years in Marble (Talitres)
Robert Levon Been - The Card Counter OST (BMG)
Rui Gaio - 365 everydays (X​.​P​.​) 
Sam Anning - Oaatchapai (Earshift Music)
Simon Linsteadt -  Gualala (Stormy Deep Records)
Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade (Merge/PeMa)
Thalia Zedek Band - Perfect Vision (Thrill Jockey)
The Natvral - Tethers (Kanine Records)
Terry Gross - Soft Opening (Thrill Jockey)
Tomahawk - Tonic Immobility (Ipecac)
Ty Segall  - Harmonizer (Drag City)
Various - Sabor Surf (El Palmas Music)

Thursday 24 March 2022


 Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song - Wild Child by The Black Keys.

Wednesday 23 March 2022


 Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song - After the Second No - by Silver&Scout. Have a nice day.

Monday 21 March 2022

Lloyd Cole - Super Bock Arena, Porto, 19.03.2022.

© Paulo Carmona

 words and photo: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro)

What is important to the audience? The age of the musician, the age of the music? It does not seem to be! Lloyd Cole, who performed last Saturday before a quite filled Rosa Mota pavilion, did not tire of reminding his audience about it during almost the entire concert. Ultimately, not that I want to stop here, if it weren't for his insistence, no one would have noticed Lloyd Cole is already in his sixties, a father of children and a family man. It's just that the man's voice hasn't aged a single day since the Commotions. Quite the opposite. He went there to look for it all, in terms of notes pitch and vocal range. A luxury. He sings like there is no tomorrow and plays likewise.

Splitting the concert into two and a quarter because, effectively, that's what happened since he initially performed, alone on stage, he and the 3 guitars, doing it with the safety and mastery of someone who, in more than 30 years of career, has stepped on many stages. Always friendly, with humor and communicative, wandering between old and newer songs, he returned after a 15-minute break accompanied by Neil Clark (guitar) and, let's be honest, very well accompanied because if the magic of Lloyd Cole's voice and guitar had managed to caress and warm our souls with Neil Clark things gained even more colour and blue velvet. Someone next to me said it, and very well: “look, now the guitars are talking to each other”. I couldn't have said it better. It was really good. He drew strong applause and ended up confessing that the audience had managed to make a mature man happy. Mine “and a fourth” is for the much demanded encore requested by tireless fans very well ornamented by the master.

When I stepped out all I had left was a very small, very imperceptible, but felt sourness. From The Hip was not part of the set-list. What a pity!

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texto e foto: Paulo Carmona

Mas afinal o que é importante para a audiência? A idade do músico, a idade da música? Parece que não! O Lloyd Cole que se apresentou no sábado passado perante um pavilhão Rosa Mota muito bem composto, não se cansou de o lembrar ao seu público, durante quase todo o evento. Em última análise, e não que eu queira ficar já por aqui, não fosse esta sua insistência e ninguém teria dado pelo Lloyd Cole já sexagenário, pai de filhos e homem de família. É que a voz do homem não envelheceu um só dia desde os Commotions. Muito pelo contrário. Foi lá busca-las todas, em termos de afinação de notas e amplitude vocal. Um luxo. Canta que se farta e toca o mesmo.

Dividindo o concerto em dois e um quarto, porque, efetivamente, foi o que aconteceu, uma vez que se apresenta inicialmente, sozinho em palco, ele e as 3 guitarras, fá-lo com a segurança e a mestria de quem já pisou muitos palcos em mais de 30 anos de carreira. Sempre simpático, com humor e comunicativo, deambulando entre temas antigos e mais recentes, após um intervalo de 15 minutos volta acompanhado por Neil Clark e, diga-se em abono da verdade, muito bem acompanhado porque se a magia da voz e guitarra de Lloyd Cole nos tinham conseguido afagar e aquecer a alma, com Neil Clark a coisa ganhou ainda mais cor e veludo azul. Alguém ao meu lado disse, e muito bem: “olha, agora as guitarras estão a conversar uma com a outra”. Eu não teria dito melhor. Foi mesmo bom. Arrancou fortes aplausos e acabou por confessar que o público ali presente conseguiu fazer um homem maduro, feliz. O meu “e um quarto” fica paro o encore muito solicitado pelos fans incansáveis e muito bem ornamento pelo mestre.

Quando sai dali só me restou um pequeníssimo azedume, muito impercetível, mas sentido. From The Hip não fez parte do set-line. Que pena!




 Hi with Whirlybird by Ty Segall. Have a nice afternoon.

Sunday 20 March 2022

Saturday 19 March 2022


 Good morning with Vira-Lata by Pedro Branco. Have a nice wekend.

Wednesday 16 March 2022

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #22 - The a Bag of New Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro

I went shopping and arrived home with a bag of new songs and a couple of instrumentals. Therefore, Amazing Songs and Other Delights #22 - The a Bag of New Songs edition. It is now available on Yé Yé Radio's mixcloud with 19 new delights to be listened to. This show is also the debut of Amazing Songs & Other Delights intro and outro which are quite distinctive, morse code upon an instrumental track.


Monday, 14th March 2022, 3-4pm.
Running Time: 58:64


Tracklist:
01 - Bart Davenport - It's You
02 - Cameron Undy - Magnolia
03 - Corte - Monte
04 - Saint Jordy - Change
05 - The Monochrome Set - Really In The Wrong Town
06 - The Senior Service feat. Rachel Lowrie - Seasons of My Mind
07 - Zebra Libra - Collide
08 - Orange Dots - I Thought I'd Become This Mask
09 - King Garbage - Piper (Single Version)
10 - No Monster Club - Save The Circus
11 - Eve Adams - A Walk In The Park
12 - Lomma - T. Hanks
13 - Los Dangers - González
14 - Simon Love - I Love Everybody In The Whole Wide World (Except You)
15 - Jonathan Richman - This Is One Sad World
16 - Junk Drawer - Tears In Costa
17 - Kamikaze Palm Tree - Flamingo
18 - Metronomy - Things Will Be Fine
19 - Stridulum - Chasm

All previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/

Tuesday 15 March 2022


 Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song - Q4 by Father John Misty. Have a nice day.

Monday 14 March 2022


  Hi with Both Sides of the Blade by Tindersticks. Have a nice afternoon.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #22 - The a Bag of New Songs by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio


 Flamingo by Kamikaze Palm Tree is one of the songs I picked forAmazing Songs & and Other Delights #22 - The a Bag of New Songs editiont hat airs today, Monday 14th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app. Tune in.


All previous shows on mixcloud.

Sunday 13 March 2022

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #22 - The a Bag of New Songs by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio


 


Amazing Songs & Other Delights #22 - The a Bag of New Songs edition airs tomorrow, Monday 14th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app As the name says, this show if filled with 19 new songs, and some new instrumentals or, at least in one case, a old one, recently re-released. Bart Davenport, King Garbage, Corte, Kamikaze Palm Tree or Cameron Undy are among those to be listened to.

All previous shows: 

https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/


Saturday 12 March 2022

Wednesday 9 March 2022


Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song - I Love Everybody In The Whole Wide World (Except You) by Simon Love. Have a nice day.

Monday 7 March 2022


 Hi with The Silver Threshold by Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto. Have a good afternoon.

Sunday 6 March 2022


Hi and Happy Saunday with with Misfits & Freaks by The Courettes.

Saturday 5 March 2022


 Good morning with Flamingo by Kamikaze Palm Tree. Have a nice weekend.

Thursday 3 March 2022

Metronomy - Hard Club, Porto, 01.03.2021.

© Telma Mota

 words: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota


Reducing Metronomy to labels like indie electronic or electronic pop rock is too reductive. They are much more than that.

At 10 pm sharp, the band took the stage in front of a crowd that almost completely filled room 1 of Hard Club. With a very well-structured and well-defined setlist in terms of melodic crescendos that intertwine, song after song, in a logic of parallel harmonies, we are all taken in a soft summer swell, in a comforting rise and fall. It all started with Love Factory and soon after, The Bay, which gave rise to the first applause with deafening screams that ran throughout the space. Among others, the menu included Salted Caramel Icecream, Love Letters, Reservoir, Old Skool.

Joy on stage, although, said like that, it sounds corny it's what really happens when you attend a Metronomy concert. And the energy goes straight to the audience. It's inevitable. Even in the hangover of a carnival night, the room’s response was on fire. Around me, everything was dancing and jumping in a rarely seen enthusiastic and festive frenzy.

Joseph Mount is very cheerful and charming excellent communicator and performer. He did not get tired of thanking and praising the way the audience responded to the call to the party and by praising the beauty of the undefeated city (Porto), he completely grabbed the hordes. It was all theirs. He was very well accompanied by a remarkable rhythm section - Anna Prior who manages to make the drums sound powerful and striking with just wrists game and dexterity, and the friendly Olugbenga Adelekan on the bass guitar, making a perfect duo. Interestingly, the toms of the drums sported the colors yellow and blue. Coincidence or not, they carried me to the colors of Ukraine, which deserves to be remembered, cherished and supported. The melodic section with keyboard duo Oscar Cash and Michael Lovett who also plays guitar on many songs, makes what seems like a constant and very present, or very forward, if you prefer, orchestration. It is the hallmark of Metronomy.

When you leave a concert as you leave a good dinner, filled with conversation and happy with life, it's because everything went well. What else?


© Telma Mota

texto: Paulo Carmona; fotos: Telma Mota

Reduzir Metronomy a rótulos tipo indie electronic ou elecrtronic pop rock, é demasiado redutor. São muito mais do que isso.

Às 22 horas em ponto, a banda subiu ao palco perante uma moldura humana que enchia quase por completo a sala 01 do hard Club no Porto. Com um set-line muito bem estruturado e sobejamente definido em termos de crescendos melódicos que se interligam, musica após musica, numa lógica de harmonias paralelas, somos todos levados numa suave ondulação de verão, num sobe e desce reconfortante. Tudo começou com Love Factory e logo após, The Bay, que deu origem aos primeiros aplausos com gritos ensurdecedores que percorreram todo o espaço. Não faltaram na ementa Salted Caramel Icecream, Love Letters, Reservoir, Old Skool, entre outros.

Alegria em palco, embora pareça piroso, dito assim, é na realidade, o que acontece quando se assiste a um concerto de Metronomy. E a energia passa de imediato para a audiência. É inevitável. Mesmo na ressaca de uma noite de carnaval, a sala respondeu ao rubro. À minha volta tudo era dança e saltos, num frenesim entusiasmado e festivo como poucas vezes se vê.

Joseph Mount é um excelente comunicador e performer, muito bem-disposto e catita. Não se cansou de agradecer e de elogiar a forma como o público respondeu ao chamamento para a festa e ao enaltecer a beleza da invicta cidade, agarrou por completo as hostes. Era tudo deles. Muito bem acompanhado por uma secção rítmica notável, com Anna Prior que consegue por a bateria a soar possante e marcante apenas com jogo e destreza de pulsos, e o simpático Olugbenga Adelekan na viola baixo, fazem uma dupla perfeita. Curiosamente, os timbalões da bateria ostentavam as cores amarela e azul. Coincidência ou não, lá me transportou para as cores da Ucrânia, que merece ser lembrada, acarinhada e apoiada. A secção melódica na dupla de teclados com Oscar Cash e Michael Lovett que também toca guitarra em muitos temas, fazem aquilo que parece uma orquestração constante e muito presente, ou muito á frente, se preferirem. É a imagem de marca dos Metronomy.

Quando se sai de um concerto como se sai de uma boa jantarada, de papo cheio e de bem com a vida, é porque tudo esteve bem. What else?


© Telma Mota


Wednesday 2 March 2022

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #21 The They Play a Strat, So Does Carlos edition by Carlos Fortes & Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #21 The They Play a Strat, So Does Carlos edition can now be listening to on Yé Yé's mixcloud. Carlos Fortes (Mão Morta/Um Zero Amarelo) and I selected 18 songs played/written with a Stratocaster or predominantly played/written with one, including two of his – Ventos Animais and Anjos Marotos by Mão Morta - Carlos picked the first, I the second. The They Play a Strat, So Does Carlos edition is a twin show with Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 20 - The They Play a Telecaster, So Does Carlos edition (also on mixcloud). The Stratocaster was given its name in 1953 and was introduced in 1954. It differs from his elder sister, the Telecaster in a number of ways, like its three pickups. Songs wise there is a joint choice, The Shadows’ Apache with Hank Marvin on the Strat. Songs in which the guitarist isn’t usually associated with a Strat – Bernard Butler, Noel Gallagher and a number of songs with more or less proper Strat men and women. The trackist below offers more details on players and guitars and who picked which songs.


Monday, February 28th 2022
Running Time: 60:17:07

Tracklist:
01 - Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly) (Raquel)
02 - Artic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor (Alex Turner) (Raquel)
03 - Trans - Thinking About A Friend (Bernard Butler) (Raquel)
04 - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (Dave Gilmour) (Carlos)
05 - Mão Morta - Ventos Animais (Carlos Fortes) (Raquel)
06 - Bob Dylan - Key West (Philosopher Pirate) (Bob Dylan) (Carlos)
07 - The Shadows - Apache (Hank Marvin) (Carlos & Raquel)
08 - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - The Man Who Built The Moon (Noel Gallager - Nash Strat) (Raquel)
09 - Bonnie Raitt - Burning Down The House (live - Talking Heads' cover) (Carlos)
10 - Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (Ritchie Blackmore) (Raquel)
11 - Dexys Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like (Kevin Rowland) (Raquel)
12 - Bob Dylan - I Believe In You (Mark Knopfler) (Carlos)
13 - The Gun Club - Yellow Eyes (Jeffrey Lee Pierce) (Carlos)
14 - The Joy Formidable - Whirring (Ritzy Bryan) (Raquel)
15 - Mão Morta - Anjos Marotos (Carlos Fortes) (Carlos)
16 - The Beatles - Nowhere Man (George Harrison & John Lennon - "twin" 1961 Sonic Blue Stratocasters, George's is Rocky) (Raquel)
17 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix) (Carlos)
18 - The Strokes - New York City Cops (Albert Hammond Jr) (Raquel)

All previous shows on mixcloud.

[photo: Fender American Stratocaster Grey with 10-position switch (Bula installation) © Carlos Fortes]


 Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song - Monte by Corte. Have a nice day.