I Write the songs #129 Hozier

I Write the songs #129 Hozier

by | Sep 24, 2017 | I Write The Songs

I Write the songs #129 Hozier

I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good God, let me give you my life

Andrew Hozier-Byrne

I Write the songs #129 Hozier – part 1

  1. KD Lang, Wash me clean, 1992, Ingénue, 1994, Canada
  2. Hozier, Work Song, 3.47, 2015, Ireland
  3. Sandra Nkaké, La mauvaise réputation, Mansaadi, 5.38, 2008, Cameroon
  4. Ba Cissoko, Loumo, 2.49, Nimissa, 2012, Guinea, ba-cissoko.com
  5. Alicia Keys, A woman’s worth, 5.03, 2002, USA,debut album, Songs in A Minor released: 2001

I Write the songs #129 – part 2

  1. Hozier, From Eden, 3.40, 2014, Ireland
  2. Me For Queen, Leaves, 3.24, Fatea Showcase Session Summer 17 Burning www.meforqueen.com
  3. Steamchicken, Gypsy, 4.26 steamschicken.co.uk Fatea http://www.fatea-showcase-sessions.co.uk, UK, Fatea 36 thawing
  4. Cathryn Craig & Brian Willoughby, 01 Calling All Angels, 38 changing
  5. Hozier, Someone new, 3.41, 2015

I Write the songs #129 – part 3

  • Suzanne Vega, Tom’s Diner (feat DNA), 3.47, 1990, US, Solitude Standing, 1987
  • Ben Harper, Ashes, 3.51, US
  • Jo Bywater, Chopping wood, 4.13, 2013
  • Marvin Gaye, I heard it through the grapevine, 3.10, 1969
  • Maya Yianni, You and I, 3.43, One In Two In Four, 2017
  • Hozier, Take me to church, 4.00, 2014, Ireland
I Write The Songs #128 Jo Bywater / Sting

I Write The Songs #128 Jo Bywater / Sting

by | Sep 17, 2017 | I Write The Songs

I Write The Songs #128  Jo Bywater (website, review, interview) / Sting songwriters of the week

I’m not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one
But those who speak know nothing
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear are lost

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (Sting)

I Write The Songs #128 Jo Bywater / Sting – 1st part

  1. Carla Bruni, Lady weeping at the crossroads, 3.36, W.H. Auden/Carla Bruni, No Promises, 2007, France/Italy
  2. Dark Green Tree, Skin and Bone, 3.48, Secret Lives, 2014, produced by Boo Hewerdine
  3. Fiona Apple, Every single night, 3.20, The Idler Wheel…, 2008
  4. David Masson, Show Me Down (with Jo Bywater), 04:04, The Dark Corner
    what Jo says of it https://jobywater.com/2017/09/06/show-me-down-video-collaboration/
  5. Sting, Englishman in New-York, 4.25, 1988 dedicated to Trisha

I Write The Songs #128  Jo Bywater / Sting – part 2

  1. Maurane, Sur un prelude de Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach, 1992, Belgium
  2. Stromae, Formidable, 3:34, Racine Carrée, Stromae, 2013, Belgium
  3. Jo Bywater, Riches to rags, 5.12, 2012
  4. Sting, It’s probably me, 5.00, 1992
  5. Karine Polwart, Follow the heron, 3.04, 1998, Scotland

I Write The Songs #128 Jo Bywater / Sting – Part 3

  1. David Bowie, Changes, 3.33, Hunky Dory, 1971/1972
  2. Lily Gonzales, You Can’t Stop The River, 03:53, Opening old wounds
  3. Armik, Reflections, 4.37, Reflections, 2012, Armenia / Iran
  4. Jo Bywater, Woolen Hearts, 4.30, Chasing Tales EP, 2013
  5. Sting, Shape of my heart, Ten Summoner’s Tales, 1993
I Write The Songs #119 Stromae

I Write The Songs #119 Stromae

by | Jun 8, 2017 | I Write The Songs, Radio-TV

I  Write The Songs #119 Stromae and Joan Baez first aired on Canalside Radio 102.8FM on the 13th of June 2017.

“Mais oui on se connait bien
T’as même voulu t’faire ma mère hein
T’as commencé par ses seins
Et puis du poumon à mon père
Tu t’en souviens ?”

Stromae

I  Write The Songs #119part 1

  1. Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made For Walking, 2:42, 1966, Lee Hazlewood
  2. Stromae, Formidable, 3:34, Racine Carrée, Stromae, Belgium
    The drunken singing of this song pours out the pain of love lost in separation and showcases in this young Belgian the complete understanding of the character drama in French chanson appropriated by the chansonnier and chantauteur and brought to the 21st century by the infusion of his generation’s music style
  3. Joan Baez, 3:32, Diamonds [Disc 1], 1996
  4. Frank Yamma, A Blackman’s crying, 4.00, Songlines 2016, Australia (Pitjantjatjara, English)
  5. Emeli Sande, Clown, 3.38, 2012

I  Write The Songs #119 part 2

  1. Joan Baez, I Shall Be Released, 2:15, Diamonds [Live] [Disc 2], 1976, Bob Dylan
  2. Blick Bassy, Wap do Wap, 2:19, Akö, 2016, Cameroon, 01:28
  3. Punch Brothers, I Blew it Off, 3:12, Songlines Music Awards 2016, 2016
  4. Loretta Lynn, Crazy, 2.23, Willie Nelson
  5. Charm of Finches, Fossil in Stone, 4:31 , Fatea Showcase Session Summer 17 Burning, 2017
    charmoffinchesband.com
  6. Stromae, Moules Frites, 2:39, Racine Carrée, 2013, Stromae

I  Write The Songs #119 part 3

  1. Manic Street Preachers, Umbrella (acoustic), 3.28, Christopher Stewart, Terius Nash, Kuk Harrell, Shawn Carter, 2008
  2. Me For Queen, Leaves, 3.24, Fatea Showcase Session Summer 17 Burning www.meforqueen.com
  3.  Cherry Head, Cherry Heart, Brambles Farm 4:11 Fatea Showcase Session Summer 17 Burning 148 2017
  4. William Awihilima Kahaiali’i, known as Willie K, Hoe Taime Haumauru, 1:59, Kahaialiia serenade from the romcom You May Not Kiss The Bride (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), 2012
  5. Joan Baez, In the quiet morning, 2.56
  6. Stromae, Quand c’est?, 3:01, Stromae, Racine Carrée, 2013
I Write The Songs #118 Featured artists

I Write The Songs #118 Featured artists

by | Jun 1, 2017 | I Write The Songs, Radio-TV

I Write The Songs #118 Featured artists is the second part of finding out the origin of the show I Write The songs by Tiki Black aired on Canalside Community Radio for the first time around the 25th of May 2017 with podcast via Mixcloud.

I Write The Songs #118 Featured artists part 1

  • Joan Baez, Farewell Angelina, 3.12, 1965, Bob Dylan, I Write The Songs 58, and an upcoming IWTS
  • Father John Misty, Bored In The USA, 4:22, I Love You, Honeybear [Explicit] 2015 Josh Tillman: one of our most featured songs, appearing in I Write The songs #105, #94, #85, #76, #70, #66,
  • Lewis & Leigh, What is there to do, 3.27, 2015, coming from Fatea Showcase Sessions, IWTS 94, 92
  • Salwa Azar, Fighter, 3.02, Black Feather Wooden Chair, 2014, IWTS 74, 
  • Labi Siffre, Something inside so strong, 4.36, 1987

I Write The Songs #118 Featured artists part 2

  • Civil Wars, Billie Jean, 4.08, Michael Jackson. I Write The Songs #99, #97, #94, 87

  • Coco Mbassi, Bazor, Joa, 5.50, 2014, Dina Bell, Cameroon: IWTS #102,  #73, #61, #56, #49, #50, 2015 Playlist

  • Manu Dibango, Si tu vois ma mère, Sidney Bechet, 4.50
  • Tiki Black, Silence no more, 3.57, Out of the Black
  • John Legend, Ordinary People, 4.38

I Write The Songs #118 Featured artists part 3

  • Youn Sun Nah, Jockey Full of Bourbon, 3.42, Album: Voyage, 2008, Tom Waits, IWTS #108, #96, #86, #73, #68, #47, #46,
  • Ringo Ska, Hey Jude, 3.36, Lennon-McCartney
  • Dee Dee Bridgewater & Ray Charles, Till the next somewhere (aka Precious Thing), 5.04, 2011, (Ronnie Bird, Pierre Papadiamandis): IWTS 64, #95, #60, #49, #45, #35, #83, #72,
  • Dolly Parton, I will always love you, 3.03, 1982
I Write The Songs #116 Ultravox/Maya Yianni

I Write The Songs #116 Ultravox/Maya Yianni

by | May 10, 2017 | I Write The Songs, Radio-TV

UltravoxI Write The Songs #116 featuring Ultravox and Maya Yianni (aka elsewhere as Little Liar). First aired on Canalside Community Radio 102.8FM. Playlist is below and Mixcloud podcast of the recording.

What’s wrong, who’s right?
Sad machines won’t talk to me tonight
No questions looking for answers
No voices except inside my mind

Chris Cross, Billy Currie and Midge Ure.

part 1

  1. Whitney Houston, Saving all my love for you, 4:01, 1985, Whitney Houston, Michael Masser and Gerry Goffin
  2. Blood Sweat & Tears, Spinning Wheel, 4:08, Definitive Collection, 1969
  3. Worry Dolls, Endless Road, 3:22, Go Get Gone, 2017
  4. Steve Pledger, Friends and Fathers, 4:16, Striking Matches in the Wind, 2015, UK
  5. Maya Yianni (aka Little Liar), Incomplete, 4.24 https://soundcloud.com/maya-yianni
  6. Ultravox, Vienna, 4.34, Vienna, 1980 (remastered and reissued in 2008).

part 2

  1. Disturbed, The Sound Of Silence, 4:09, Immortalized (Deluxe Version), 2015, Paul Simon, USA
  2. Jenny Morgan, Shadow, 2.59, The Songs I’ve Sung, USA
  3. Chris Flegg, Taking My Time, 3:54, The Road To The Rainbow’s End, 2015, UK
  4. Maya YianniMaya Yianni, You + I, One In Two In Four EP https://www.maya-yianni.com/
  5. Ultravox, Lament, 4.15, Lament (seventh studio album), new wave, 1984
  6.  Patricia Kaas, Un Homme et une Femme, 3:21, Piano Bar, 2002, Francis Lai/Pierre Barouh, France

part 3

  1. Zucchero & Paul Young, Senza Una Donna, 4:31, Italy / UK
  2. Corrie Shelley – Mother’s Kiss, From the Fatea Showcase Sessions Summer 2017, www.corrieshelley.com,
  3. Stromae, Quand c’est, Racine Carrée, Belgium
  4. Justyna Bacz Saturne 4:29 Brassens, Echos Du Monde, 2011, Georges Brassens, Poland/France
  5. Charm of Finches – Fossil In Stone, from Fatea Showcase Sessions, www.charmoffinchesband.com
  6. Ultravox, Contact, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, and Midge Ure.