This week's podcastin'

[petronia]

102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: name TBD (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 7: March 9 - poetry set to music, in memoriam
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Tracklisting:

Patrick Wolf, “The Hazelwood” [4:03]
邓丽君，“但愿人长久” (Teresa Teng, "May We Live Long")[4:03]
Mariza, “Cavaleiro Monge” [3:40]
Leonard Cohen, “Alexandra Leaving” [5:26]

In order (funny how the adaptation always changes the title):

W.B. Yeats, "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
苏轼, 《水调歌头》(the late, the great Teresa Teng, the only 20th-century singer to cover both Su Dongpo and the Fugees - although I wouldn't be surprised if Nana Mouskouri has done something similar)
Fernando Pessoa, "Do vale à montanha"
Constantine P. Cavafy, "The God Abandons Antony"

Would have had to plunk down $$$ for Leo Ferré, so... didn't. XD; I could do a whole episode on Ferré (-Aragon, -Rimbaud, -Apollinaire), though.

Then Doris had a pre-recorded bit for the anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, and Simon had a piece about a Chinese indie rocker who died abroad iirc. So he played some fuzzy scream-y guitar stuff, and I played some slow strings-filled ballads! Opposite Week evidently. While Simon was on I went through the massive stash of 80s Cantopop vinyl in the Chinese radio team's cabinet and found the first Paradox album, though I haven't had time to listen to it yet.

Comments

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

Is that the vinyls stash in a cut-out box (of liquid detergent)? I left a box of vinyls from my aunt, but did not really pay attention... I thought she only had solo Cantopop artists' vinyls, but I could be wrong. Or it could be from the initial pile.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's that, actually... unless the box has disappeared off somewhere (and your aunt also owned 80s stuff like Samantha Fox).