Monday 27 February 2023

Robin Thomson | Michelle Gurevich, Hard Club, Porto, 24.02.2023.

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  words: Neno Costa (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota

With a sold out box office the opening act was served by Robin Thomson, founder of the Twin Sons project. The glamorous lo-fi sound of the Berlin based Scottish musician revealed a multifaceted composer and performer, with an engaging voice and captivating soundscapes, evolving with well-seasoned guitar chords where the best references echo. Note for Can You Feel It as an introduction to closer listening by this musician who accompanies Michelle Gurevich on guitar.

Michelle Gurevich had an auspicious debut in Portugal in a room filled with an audience for whom this Canadian of Russian origin was not at all unknown. “Why did it took me so long to come here?” asks Michelle after starting with First Six Months Of Lov , a song with a Cohenian flavour, from the album New Decadence (2016). On a pre-recorded background sewn with Robin Thomson's creative guitar, Michelle Gurevich captivated the audience with her ballads wrapped in the discreet theatricality of a non-diva diva, covering several titles from her six albums produced since 2006, such as: Vacation From Love, Party Girl, Aviva, Drugs Saved My Life, Mrs Robinson or her latest single Goodbye My Ditactor, whose sender seems to be a certain Vladimir.

Michelle Gurevich carries a well-resolved set of references, offering her own sound in lo-fi pop territory, which is not alien to her warm and engaging voice, supported by a solid and honest poetic construction, tempered by a certain tragicomedy of reality.


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texto: Neno Costa (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); fotos: Telma Mota

Com a bilheteira esgotada, a primeira parte deste concerto foi servida pelo fundador do projeto Twin Sons, Robin Thomson. A sonoridade glamorosa lo-fi do músico escocês radicado em Berlim revelou um compositor e intérprete multifacetado, com uma voz envolvente e paisagens sonoras cativantes, evoluindo com acordes bem temperados de guitarra onde ecoam as melhores referências. Nota para “Can You Feel It” como introdução a audições mais atentas deste músico que acompanha na guitarra Michelle Gurevich.

Michelle Gurevich teve uma estreia auspiciosa em Portugal numa sala cheia de público para quem esta canadiana de origem russa não é, de todo, desconhecida. “Por que demorei tanto tempo a vir cá?”, pergunta depois da abertura com “First Six Months Of Love”, canção de sabor coheniano, do álbum New Decadence (2016). Sobre fundo pré-gravado costurado com a guitarra criativa de Robin Thomson, Michelle Gurevich cativou a assistência com as suas baladas envoltas em discreta teatralidade de diva não diva, percorrendo vários títulos dos seus seis álbuns produzidos desde 2006, tais como: Vacation From Love, Party Girl, Aviva, Drugs Saved My Life, Mrs Robinson ou o seu mais recente single Goodbye My Ditactor, cujo remetente parece ser um certo Vladimir.

Michelle Gurevich transporta um conjunto de referências bem resolvidas, oferecendo uma sonoridade própria em território pop lo-fi, à qual não é alheia a sua voz quente e envolvente, sustentada por uma construção poética sólida e honesta, temperada por uma certa tragicomédia da realidade.


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Hi with Lotus Light by
Tim Hecker. Have a nice afternoon.

Sunday 26 February 2023

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #41 - The Burt, the Tom and So edition by Raquel Pinheiro


Amazing Songs & Other Delights #41 - The Burt, the Tom and So edition airs tomorrow Monday 27th, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app).

There are three Burt Bacharach songs and two Tom Verlaine ones, two solo one with Television and one instrumental from Warm and Cold. There also ten onther assorted songs from Mick Harvey with A Suitcase in Berlin an Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel's cover to Ghosts Again Depeche Mode's latest song.
Tracklist:
01 - Mick Harvey - A Suitcase in Berlin (Aldo von Pinelli and Ralph Maria Siegel's cover)
02 - Television - Days
03 - Dry Cleaning - Swampy
04 - Beabadoobee - Glue Song
05 - Black Toska - Love of Mine
06 - Hannah Jadagu - What You Did
07 - Cory Hanson - Housefly
08 - The Golden Dregs - Vista
09 - Tom Verlaine - Depot
10 - Burt Bacharach with Noel Gallagher - This Guys In Love With You (live at Royal Albert Hall 1994)
11 - JW Francis - Going Home To a Party
12 - Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello - Such Unlikely Lovers
13 - Tom Verlaine - There's a Reason
14 - The National - Tropic Morning
15 - Manic Steet Preachers - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach and Hal David's cover)
16 - Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again

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


Hi and Happy Sunday with Arch Nemesis by Dancer.

Saturday 25 February 2023


Good morning with the remixed, new arrangements, new vocals version of Contruí Ruínas by BALLA. Have a nice weekend.

Wednesday 22 February 2023


Good morning with Our Middle of the Weekn Song - Young again by Laszlo and the Hidden Strength. Have a nice day.

Monday 20 February 2023

Sunday 19 February 2023

Saturday 18 February 2023


Good morning with Ghosts Again by Depeche Mode. Have a nice weekend.

Wednesday 15 February 2023


Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song Swampy by Dry Cleaning, Have a nice day.

Monday 13 February 2023


Hi with Any Wishing Star by
Kim Edgar & Ron Sexsmith. Have a nice afternoon.

Sunday 12 February 2023

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #5 - The Poetry edition by Raquel Pinheiro - repeat @ Yé Yé Radio


 For tomorrow, Monday, 13th, Amazing Songs & Other Delighs is a repeat, issue #5 The Poetry edition. You can hear it on Yé Yé Radio: /yeyeradio.com/ (or on the app), 3-4pm (gmt).


The poetry edition starts with Marianne Faithfull reading Ode to a Nightingale by Keats with music by Warren Ellis and ends with The Smiths' Cemetry Gates. Between those there are other 15 songs ranging from Suede's Heroine to Amália Rodrigues singing Barco Negro, a fado with a David Mourão Ferreira poem, through The Cranberries, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Carla Bruni or Rufus Wainwright. 


Tracklist

01 - Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis - Ode to a Nightingale (Keats poem) 

02 - Suede  -  Heroine (Byron She Walks in beauty 1st lines) 

03 - The Cranberries - Yeats Grave 

04 - Amália Rodrigues - Barco Negro (David Mourão-Ferreira poem) 

05 - Secos &  Molhados - Não não digas nada (Fernando Pessoa poem) 

06 - Annie Lennox - Live With Me And Be My Love (Christopher Marlowe poem) 

07 - The Waterboys - Stolen Child (Yeats poem) 

08 - Bob Dylan -  On the Road Again (Bob Dylan poem) 

09 - Radio Bukowski - The Genius of The Crowd (Charles Bukowski poem) 

10 - Carla Bruni - If You Were Coming In The Fall  (Emily Dickinson poem) 

11 - Rufus Wainwright  - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29th) 

12 - Fagner  - Fanatismo (Florbela Espanca poem) 

13 - Ralph Schuckett and Richard Butler  - Alabama song (Bertolt Brecht poem, Kurt Weill music) 

14 - Patti Smith - Changing of the Guards (Bob Dylan cover and poem) 

15 - Phil Ochs - The Bell (Edgar Allan Poe poem) 

16 - Quilapayun - Complainte de Pablo Neruda 

17 - The Smiths  - Cemetry Gates (Keats, Yeats, Wilde came to play)


Hi and Happy Saundy with Paris Kiss by The Shapiros.

Saturday 11 February 2023


Good morning with The Musical by Avey Tare of Animal Collective. Have a nice weekend.

Wednesday 8 February 2023


Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song - When Our Love Was Young by Ron Sexsmith. Have a nice day.

Tuesday 7 February 2023

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #40 - The Song is Mightier Than the Shredding edition por Raquel Pinheiro

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #40 - The Song is Mightier Than the Shredding edition is now listenable to on Yé Yé Radio's mixcloud.

Monday, 30 de Janeiro de 2023, 15-16

Running Time: 60:23


Tracklist:
01 - Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs Tears (Billy Bragg)
02 - The The - The Beat(en) Generation (Matt Jonhson & Johnny Marr)
03 - Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart (Roddy Frame)
04 - Um Zero Amarelo - Sem Perdão (Carlos Fortes)
05 - Teenage Fanclub - The Concept (Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley)
06 - Edwyn Collins - North of Heaven (Edwyn Collins)
07 - Sleater-Kinney - Modern Girl (Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker)
08 - R.E.M. - Eletrolite (Peter Buck)
09 - Entes Queridos - O Anjo (Hermínio Tavares)
10 - Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer (Jeff Tweedy)
11 - Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours (Richard Hawley)
12 - Blur - Theme From an Imaginary Film (2012 Remaster) (Graham Coxon)
13 - Las Robertas - History Is Done (Mercedes Oller)
14 - The Monochrome Set - The Jet Set Junta (Lester Square & Bid)
15 - Bill Preacher - We Were Lovers (Bill Preacher)
16 - Manic Street Preachers - Australia (James Dean Bradfield)
17 - Cícero - João e o Pé de Feijão (Cícero)
18 - Rowland S. Howard - Nothin' (Rowland S. Howard)

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

Monday 6 February 2023


Hi with A Current Peace of Mind by Eyolf Dale. Have a nice afternoon.

Sunday 5 February 2023

Saturday 4 February 2023


Good morning with Going To a Party by JW Francis. Have a nice weekend.

Wednesday 1 February 2023


Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song - Alasdair Roberts's rendition of the traditional Scottish ballad Eppie Morrie. Have a nice day.