selected & mixed by Black Sifichi

Chaque dimanche à 21h et le jeudi à midi sur Reillann’Air la radio low cost

*In some curious way I should dedicate the SAD series to my dead mother Marie Grace, and to her Grundig, a very large stereo tube radio in our 1960’s living room playing melancholic music by Mancini, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdink, Robert Goulet, and more ‘easy listening’ after midnight with the glowing green eye for perfect tuning. She would sew and make clothes of her design until 4am as I listened from my bed. Today I propose ‘boygenius’ , ‘DrØm’, ‘Damon Albarn’, ‘Katie Melua’, ‘Martin Del Carpio’ … to show that sadness can be the centre of a song in modern music.
Happy Xmas & Holiday Season . The blues can be a good inner translator.

He told her that he was really fucked off, tired of the ruling politicians. She told him that the war would recede like the clouds on TV .…
He told her — ‘Merry Christmas’ — turned and walked back into the masses.

— Black Sifichi

Audiometric broadcast weekly on 5 Independent French FM stations + 1 webradio

Jet FM 91.2 Nantes [Samedi 21:00]   
Aligre FM 93.1 Paris [Samedi Soir 22:30]   
Radio Active 100 FM Toulon [Samedi 21:00]     
Eko des Garrigues 88.5 Montpellier [Dimanche 20:00]       
Radio Grenouille 88.8 FM Marseille [Dimanche Minuit]   
Reillann’Air – [Dimanche 21:00]    www.reillannair.com

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The Playlist :—

• DrØm – Abhaya
• Portishead – Sour Times
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Lady of the Island
• Scott Walker And The Walker Brothers – Angels Of Ashes
• Kraftwerk – Geiger Counter
• Johnny Cash – I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow
• Elvis Presley – If Every Day Was Like Christmas
• Kronos Quartet – Tallis, Thomas – Spem In Alium (Sing and Glorify)
• Lou Reed – Sad Song (Live Berlin: at St. Ann’s Warehouse)
• Marc Almond & Foetus – Healthy As Hate
• Bob Dylan – Standing In The Doorway
• The Pogues – The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
• Damon Albarn – Hollow Ponds (LP ‘Everyday Robots’ from Letgo)
• Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime
• Eartha Kitt – Thursday’s Child
• Gato Barbieri – It`s Over (Last Tango In Paris)
• Don McLean – Vincent
• DrØm – Omidvâri
• Katie Melua – Wonderful Life
• The Beatles – Sea Of Time
• John Lennon – Imagine (Take 1)
• Soft Cell – Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go (12 ‘’)
• Martin Del Carpio – November (Black Rose)
• Sufjan Stevens – Amazing Grace
• boygenius – Emily I’m Sorry (official video)
• Harry Nilsson – Remember (Christmas)
• Robert Goulet – God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

FIN de Sad – A new series is coming!

« …And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so. »
William Shakespeare* — Julius Caesar

Note: « I only came to Paris for a month, since then, I’ve decided to stay on for two or three. » 
— Audiometric of course….
B. Sifichi

Sadness is a relative emotion.