VG184 Houses and homes

Welcome to a new season of VG radio from the Netherlands, now podcasting independently as: Strange Sounds Radio International, yes that's SSRI! Your weekly cure for online depression und Weltschmerz! Compiled, edited and presented at www.vreemdegeluiden.eu in the notorious quarter Holtenbroek (aka Holtenbronx) in Zwolle.

01. Traffic - House for everyone

02. Raymond Scott - New Year's Eve in a haunted house

03. Carmen - Lonely house

04. Johnny Dowd - Poverty house
05. Drs. P. - In het huis der schande

06. The Idle Race - Knocking nails into my house

07. The Synthetiser Sound Machine - House of the rising sun

 08. Vera van der Poel - The House

words and music Vera van der Poel (c)2017

This is the house where i live
Where we once were born
Safe from storms
Bricks build solid and proof
Supporting the roof
You would love it, do you?

In the house where i’ve lived
For so many years
The walls have ears
Bricks drenched in shedded tears
Sweet innocent years
Won’t you come back over here

A rocking chair on the porch
A playground full of toys
The stained glass window colours my part
An old car’s backseat used as a bench in the yard

If the walls could ever speak
The house would tumble down, way down

In the house where I live
A family’s dazed
Smacked in the face
One seat is unoccupied
Still set every night
Someone’s missing and died

Outside the house where i’ve lived
The walls couldn’t see
What was happening to me
Bricks cracked and slowly neglect
The soul of the wrecked
They just couldn’t protect me

An early evening breeze
The oaktree left some leaves
The kitchenfloor so shiny and waxed
The curtains flirting but the cat’s nails leaving her tracks

If the walls could ever speak
The house would tumble down, way down

Vera van der Poel is a singer-songwriter, music academy teacher with a beautifull voice and amazing both songwriting and arranging skills. She worked with The Nits, her sister Beatrice, Zapp4-stringkwartet, Junkie XL, New Cool Collective, Oene van Geel , Corrie van Binsbergen, she lent her typical clear voice to many commercials and music albums and she made musical journeys from Afghanistan via Switserkand to Honduras.

She will give two free concerts as start of the theatre season in Zwolle, this week.

09. Gluid  (Bram van den Oever, Kampen, near Zwolle, NL ) - My brother's room
10. Vera van der Poel - Common Ground
11. Jules de Corte - het Electrisch huis

12. Don Gibson - Lonesome old house

13. Consortium - The house upon the hill

14. Raymond Scott - At an Arabian house party
15. Alan Price - The house that Jack built
16. The Glass Family - House of glass

17. The Sandals - House of painted glass

18. Basil Kirchin - The abominable dr. Phibes' house
19. Rufus Thomas - Down ta my house

20. Ashra Tempel - Le diable dans la maison
21. Erika Eigen - I wanna marry a lighthouse keeper
22. Vera van der Poel - Pull the trigger