Balearic Breakfast | Episode 34 | Unfaithful Losses...

Worldwide FM broadcast the 34th episode of Balearic Breakfast on April 20th 2021.

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About this episode. – The world was still turning but people's lives stopped. With new variants rinsing, COVID was still a major threat and while vaccination campaigns started, there was nothing we could consider certain back then. France, like a few other countries, was under Lockdown. I remember the exhaustion, and an ugly lingering feeling: precious time was being lost. But that lost time, like anything else we all did lose in these troubled times, wasn't anything we could benefit from. In a nutshell, life has a way of teaching, and losing people, and things, making mistakes is a part of the experience and you can learn from it. But back then, there was nothing to learn from all of that, we didn't know what would happen, and we were caught in the undertow with no way out, hence the title of that post: unfaithful losses...

Fortunately enough, we had our beloved show with our Captain and, amid troubled times, Colleen did her best to keep up hope (she launched d the request line on October, 17th) although, strangely as ever, this episode showed us how much concern there was in the Balearic Breakfast Family: this 34th episode is not the most joyous one we ever had. But we're going to dig deeper in the listening session of this post...

"This morning's Balearic Breakfast is now available on Worldwide FM and my Mixcloud (link in linktree in biog) with a lot of new music and also Balearic classics as per your requests.

I love doing these radio shows which is a great thing as I'm hosting 6 a month with weekly Balearic Breakfasts and my monthly Cosmodelica and Classic Album Sundays Worldwide shows. If you would like to support the radio station and its presenters, please consider joining the Worldwide Family (link in linktree in biog).

You can subscribe as a member for free or for £6/ month which will support hosts like myself. And for those of you that want to join in with the Balearic Breakfast family, | stream the show live on my Mixcloud Live and Twitch TV channels where you can see some pretty psychedelic visuals and have a chinwag with the other attendees. It's a lot of fun.

Thanks for listening!"

Listen back to the 34th episode of Balearic Breakfast:

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PLAYLIST

(2021) Nashville Ambient Ensemble – Inga

(2021) Fish go Deep – Suburban Key

(1988) Talk Talk – Eden

(2021) Winston Neale – Sinnerman

(1976) The Upsetters – Zion's Blood

(1972) The Sylvers – I'll Never Be Ashamed

(2015) Museum of Love – Monotronic (Baldelli & Dionigi Remix)

(1985) Prince – Pop Life

(2021) Roisin Murphy – Assimilation (Crooked Man remix)

(2002) Joseph Malik – Take it All In and Check It All Out

(2002) Tulio De Piscopo's – Stop Bajon

(2021) SAM – American Cars (Africanz on Marz West Coast Drive Rework)

(2021) Sauco – Sun Goddess

(1995) Round Two & Andy Caine – New Day (Club Vocal Mix)

(1998) Joe Claussell Presents Cosmic Ritual – Come Inside (The Loft)

(1983) Robert Plant  – In the Mood

(1997) Primal Scream's – Star

(1982) The Who – Eminence Front

(1980) Peter Gabriel – Games Without Frontiers

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THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE

From the start (with Inga / Suburban Key), you'll feel the uneasiness, everything seems to follow the flow, but nothing in the sounds and in the songs we listen to is totally free and happy. There are restrictions and tensions in there, and even more so when Talk Talk's Eden (from their 1988 LP) comes onto our musical scene... Everybody needs someone to live by... As I was searching for information about that song, I stumbled on this great analysis... This song describes the inhumanity one must endure to earn god's love. The lyric 'Another destiny lies leeched Upon the ground' tells of a person's destiny being leeched, having the blood sucked out of it, that being the life. He sings 'Rage on omnipotent', we are to be terrorized by god as he rages in anger if we want to gain his love and salvation. This is a horrible thing to subject anyone to. He refers to people who can't find love or moral guidance without having to follow someone who victimizes them for their love and acceptance. That is not someone I want to follow. Quite a few interesting things here, don't you think? Colleen keeps the strange spirit alive by playing Winston Neale's Sinnerman (written by Winston and his wife) followed by The Upsetters' Zion's Blood (very apt requests and musical choices in these lost times)!

A sudden burst of light steps into the show with The Sylver's I'll never be ashamed again, but, as unexpectedly as it came, it will be one of the rare pure joyous musical moments of today's episode, so take all the positivity you can from that song while it plays!

Strangeness comes back quickly as I said with a spacy nugget, Monotronic took us into a flying meditative state for sure, beautifully followed by Prince's Pop Life (which incorporates a snippet of a French Nursery Rhyme – Frère Jacques) and Roisin Murphy's estranged Assimilation. Did I say we were facing Strange Times?...

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Colleen starts the second hour with an outstanding mix, including Joseph Malik's Take it All In and Check It All Out / Tulio De Piscopo's Stop Bajon – written by Pino Daniele and having quite a complex rhythmic structure! (I love how she managed to insert her jingle live while keeping the musical flow steady, lovely stuff only a pro can realise...) – and then unexpectedly stretching out to Sam's American Cars.

The next mini mix sees another blissful musical moment, slightly more relaxed but still retaining quite an unexpected vibe (also thanks to Colleen's DJ Skills and musical freedom 😍) with Sauco's Sun Goddess / Round Two & Andy Caine's New Day.

Starting the last part of the show with Joe Claussell's Come Inside (The Loft), surprisingly and beautifully followed by Robert Plant's In the Mood, and Primal Scream's Star (which – although containing a sadly funny mistake – openly speaks about standing for your own beliefs, which some of us did openly follow, refusing to be vaccinated and thus staying at home without a social life until the end of the pandemic...), this third mini mix ending with the incredible Eminence Front by the Who (a song from the Who's 10th studio album "It's hard", and the last one recorded with fellow musicians, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Kenney Jones) criticising the Financial elite's behaviour playing with other people's money – think about what was happening during Covid... – and showing off, never being true and always lying in every aspect of their life – more directly, and to me, the song of a young soul urging people to stop behaving childishly...). Such a crazy Classic Rock Kaleidoscope we got all lost in! The WOW Moment of the show without a shadow of a doubt!

Ending the show with the quite Balearic, yet very intriguing Games Without Frontiers (a song from Peter Gabriel's 3rd studio album issued in 1980, fitting today's show perfectly as it allowed him to present some social commentary about the childish behaviour of the world leaders making life-or-death decisions on behalf of their countries...), Colleen just reminded us that, very often, you can learn something from letting the music go and losing it... At least, we had that back then...