oh primavera

It's been grey, rainy and cold around here, but well, the equinox happened, so it's Spring! :º)

Fists and shovels open paths ; you are the rosemary's spike tip ; anger, angst, whirl ; and powerful and puerile. Oh Spring!
Pure impact and vernal will ; you're the power of fire, the imperial impulse ; laugh, pleasantry, grab ; and adamantine and puerile. Oh Spring!
One day the Whinter will reveal your bones ; but for now, you are masterly ; and triumphant and puerile. Oh Spring!

AS 5 years later plus 1

António Sérgio was one of the worlwide greatest researchers, promoters and experts of counterculture music. Working mostly as radio director, he was also journalist, reporter, columnist and music publisher. It's the 6th anniversary of his departure and we still miss him so much. No one was able yet to surprise us every day with something different, no matter the style. One year ago, it happened the presentation of documentary "Uivo" (Howl) together with the book "O Uivo da Matilha" (Howl of the Pack) where I was privileged to find some words of mine printed there. "Charles Sangnoir" is one of the artists somehow supported by António Sérgio. Sangnoir usually do not compose or sing in Portuguese. But at the very end of his amazing performance, he closed the cerymony with this song thanking AS

Dictatorship of the market _ leaves you blind and gagged _ it takes a disenchanted prince _ to get the job done

When the price to pay is huge _ and we don't want hungry poets _ the fight is very hard, but noble _ made by unnamed warriors

There's a howl, there's a scream _ a soundless steel will _ to fight and resist lively _ 'cause is not the artists fault

Fashion without neurons _ must have new demons _ pop is so damn plastic _ we need something fantastic

There's a howl, there's a scream _ a soundless steel will _ of wanting no more, we are not equal _ and this howling is within you

Sorry about the image. It was the possible with a pocket camera in such an emotional and intimate environment :)

question for Ana

On last " SOS Radar" Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was remembered. "The Face of Love" sung with Eddie Vedder, always reminded me another song that António Sérgio played in January 1989, on a radio show dedicated to some ethereal and unknown music. Just to put you in that ambience, I kept a little of the sounds before and after this amazing Hindi song that starts @ 1:05. I'm not sure about anything of this, and since I recorded it, I never found what it is. The sound before is something from Harold Budd's "the White Arcades". And after, there's something called or related with "Das Wunder"... After that, there would be a complete revolution with "Land of Rape and Honey" :D

What a pity, I didn't keep the original recording of this, as I reused that cassette for something else, and so we cannot hear AS talking about it...

I'm not sure if the song was played at "Santuário" topic, but I remember it was played when Sheila Chandra was most appreciated on Som da Frente.

So, Ana, my 26 yeared question is: what is this? Thank you :)

AS 5 years after

"Agora não, que estou a ouvir a missa", disse eu muitas vezes quando tentavam interromper-me durante o "Som da Frente" ou outros programas de António Sérgio.

Curiosamente, AS despedia-se amiúde das suas cerimónias desejando "que o Som esteja convosco".

Nem de propósito, têm ecoado na minha memória os sons de Adrian Borland do início dos anos 80 e do post-punk.

Provavelmente, estão os dois algures como num "reencontro de velhos amigos" "pelo direito à diferença".

"Take care".

"Not now, I'm hearing the Mass," I often said when someone tried to interrupt my listening to "Som da Frente" or other António Sérgio's radio programs.

By the way, sometimes AS left his ceremonies, wishing "May the Sound be with you".

Not on purpose, are echoing in my memory the post-punk sounds of Adrian Borland from the early 80s.

Probably they're both somewhere as in a "reunion of old friends" "for the right to difference". 

"Take care". 

every morning comes the sun

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Thank you SOS Radar

Have a nice week :)

more than music

thanks SOS Radar

today's Save Our Souls

Have a funky weekend :D

oh no

Last week "SOS - Save Our Souls" brought me something I had completly forgotten.

yes, I felt my soul a bit saved :)

facing the sun

"SOS Radar: uma só música que faça aquecer corações, abrir sorrisos, ou simplesmente dar um salto no tempo. ..."
"SOS Radar: only one music to warm hearts or to open smiles or simply to make a jump in time.
...SOS - Save Our Souls"
This is a topic from António Sérgio and Ana Cristina Ferrão.
Last April 8, Ana told us the story of a musician who had never been to Lisbon. He asked them to see something about our musical roots.
When we are lost looking for new pearls, thank you so much Ana, for remind us Janita and how beautiful he is.

Cantar ao Sol / Singing to the Sun love is not easy it would be better to tear an arm and make it fly and go around the world embracing all the world making the joy our daily bread and not to copy the ills of love and kill the melancholy of love and want the cool will of being blind and deaf and mute and not subdue love the fate of each one is having no destination and be the very image of love

putting off the heart, not suffering the ills of love not waver and have the courage to face the reason for the pain itself because love is sad love is not easy