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The Sonic Bloom

Jun 16, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Esoterica

The Sonic Bloom, your way.

Playing Tha Retail Simps, Sonic Youth, and talking with local Philly band, the RICOS.

12:01 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:10 PM		Interview with The RICOS Interview with The RICOS 2022
12:25 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:29 PM		The Ricos Local Tourist N Dream Machine - EP Utica Records 2022
12:31 PM		Russian Circles Vorel Russian Circles Guidance Sargent House 2016 Kurt-Ballou produced onthis sixth album by RC. Russian Circles is an American instrumental band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was originally formed by childhood friends Mike Sullivan and Dave Turncrantz.
12:37 PM		Arthur Russell, The Flying Hearts & Allen Ginsberg Ballad of the Lights Arthur Russell 2016 1977 His leisure hours are spent in a way That mystifies his younger years Thinking hard, he has no say what's in his eyes And meets his ears
12:42 PM		Chris Forsyth Mystic Mountain Chris Forsyth All Time Present No Quarter 2019
12:51 PM		William Onyeabor Good Name William Onyeabor Good Name - EP Luaka Bop 2015
1:03 PM		Emily Robb I Really Wanna Know How to Moonwalk Emily Robb How to Moonwalk Petty Bunco 2021
1:04 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:13 PM		Kanako Papermoon (from "Soul Eater") Japan Animesong Collection Vol.33 [Anison Japan] fyto inc. 2009
1:16 PM		Protomartyr Processed by the Boys Protomartyr Ultimate Success Today Domino Recording Co 2020
1:21 PM		Cherry Glazerr My Friend of Misery Cherry Glazerr My Friend of Misery - Single Blackened Recordings 2021 CG doing Metallica.
1:25 PM		The Kills The Good Ones The Kills N No Wow (The Tchad Blake Mix 2022) Domino Recording Co 2022
1:28 PM		Sonic Youth In & Out Sonic Youth N In & Out - Single Three Lobed Recordings 2022 A new album of Sonic Youth rarities has been announced. In/Out/In compiles unreleased material recorded between 2000 and 2010. The five-song collection will be released on LP, CD, and cassette on March 18. Today, the record’s “In & Out” has been released. Hear it below and scroll down for the tracklist. Plus, find the album artwork, made by D. Norsen.
1:36 PM		Sonic Youth Bull In the Heather Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star Geffen 2016
1:39 PM		Turner Sprout & Martha Sprout Goodbye N Goodbye - Single Coonskin Records 2022
1:41 PM		Tha Retail Simps Hit and Run Tha Retail Simps N Reverberant Scratch: 9 Shots in tha Dark Total Punk 2022
1:44 PM		Teini-Pää Heartbreaker Teini-Pää N Maailma kyllä odottaa Soit Se Silti 2022 From Helsinki, dreamy pop!
1:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:52 PM		PJ Harvey Catherine PJ Harvey Is This Desire? Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1998
1:56 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Two-Headed Boy Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Domino Records 2005
2:00 PM		The Who Quadrophenia The Who Quadrophenia (Remastered) Polydor Records 1996
2:06 PM		Black Country, New Road Good Will Hunting Black Country, New Road N Ants From Up There Ninja Tune 2022
2:11 PM		Yard Act Tall Poppies Yard Act The Overload Universal-Island Records Ltd. 2021
2:18 PM		Pavement Stub Your Toe (2022 Remaster) Pavement N Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal Matador 2022
2:20 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:25 PM		Julee Cruise The Nightingale Julee Cruise Floating Into the Night 143/Warner Records 2006
2:30 PM		Radiohead Nude Radiohead In Rainbows XL Recordings 2007
2:34 PM		Little Joy The Next Time Around Little Joy Little Joy Rough Trade 2008
2:36 PM		Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley Trio Summer Samba (So Nice) Astrud Gilberto Astrud Gilberto's Finest Hour Verve Reissues 2001
2:38 PM		Charlotte Gainsbourg Deadly Valentine Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest Because Music 2017
2:45 PM		New Order Chosen Time (2019 Remaster) New Order Movement (Definitive) [2019 Remaster] Rhino 1981
2:51 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:53 PM		Kraftwerk Computer Love Kraftwerk Computer World (Remastered) Parlophone UK 2009

Chat is archived.

hey

HEY

howdy!

Hi, DJ Esoterica!

hi, mr. m!

just us chickens, mr. m

Haha! PERF! Cluck the rest of ’em! 😝

lol

Audio is good for interview! Cheers!

awesome

Did you ask about their favourite movie soundtracks?

aww i should have!

what are YOUR fave soundtracks?

wait, i know one!

I have a surprisingly large amount of soundtracks

I’ll try to obtain anything David Lynch related

me too

With or without Angelo Badalamenti, who is a favourite even if it isn’t a David Lynch work

cool! love angelo

These seem like nice people!

they are sweet

“Delivering pizza listening to WPRB!”

Well now it’s weird no one else is in here?? Hope everyone is okay!

i know i agree. eevrything seems to be working okay with the stream, right?

Yes!

THE RICOS have a great sound too!

good

yeah i think so

I LOVE the interviews you do on air Esoterica! Very informative and inspiring. Hopefully I can one day come full circle ;). Thanks. The Ricos sounding good aswell. Excited to check out flemington diy…

Guelo is ALIVE!!

hey guelo! thx so much, I am trying to truncate them so, as I said, interviews are like snapshots. giving the listener a note-to-self kind of vibe to check out something new. thanks!

hello !

hey tom! everyone is sleeping in

haha

guelo, i need to check out flemington diy, too

seems that way

TomS survived the apocalypse!

Not meeeee… I unfortunately get up early enough to hear the automation robot :[

haha

MrM it was CRAZY storming here all morning

at one point lightning was so close I thought it hit my neighbors house

oh yeah my little dog, dolly was scared!

Oh no. Sending positive vibes to everyone dealing with storms and annoying weather!!

I love the storms. Possibly loudest thunder I’ve ever heard in my life this morning

… I’ve always been a storm…

i was dozing and it entered my dreams, crazy loud

that thunder

You know it’s close when you can hear the crack, the rip, and the boom

Set off the fire alarm in my building! (not for the first time)

Hi guys!

oh no! roffle!

hi! you good?

All good here, getting ready to head over to Clark Park for a strange day in the U. Cool interview btw.

oh thx, roffle, glad you liked the interview. strange day in the u? you mean university as in penn?

U district I should have said.

aw yes

The Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll is on the list today. :)

nice

WILLIAM ONYEABOR 💟💟💟

this william onyeabor track hits just right!

nice, mr. m and colin!:) happy you enjoy

I agree, I am liking this set in general too. That Arthur Russell was insane. I never heard that or at least don't remember.

Maybe next week can you play his ‘Fantastic Man’?

Please, DJ Esoterica!??!

By WILLIAM ONYEABOR, of course!

yes, mr. m!!

i agree, roffle, love allen ginsberg, too

Thanks, DJ Esoterica!

sure thing! we aim to please

I do love the philosophical mystic radicals of the sixties! lol Ginsburg was cool.

me, too, i love AG's America poem, wow, ahead of its time

OMG, your gonna have me digging the Alan Watts and Ram Das books out of storage. :)

ha! i do have wisdom of insecurity on the shelf

A good one for these times. Watts and those guys cemented in being Taoist for me.

THE KILLS❣️ Still don’t have anything by them yet Boo.

haha that is what i am here for!

Brilliant! 💃

New?!

yes a new mix of the kills

Woo! Tis a GOOOD ONE!

and this is new sonic youth

and it sounds good!

yes tis, mr. m:)

hey there, rob!

SONIC YOUTH ❤️‍🔥 yes! new release of old tunes!

yes yes

Hi Esoterica! I'll be in for a few minutes, then out.

Hi Rob, did you get the boom, boom show over there?

ok we are heppy you stoped in, rob

hepp hapy peppy

so heppy

i can't type ha

bc rob is a hep cat

There ya go!

Meow

yup!

Sonic Youth is now collecting Social Security! Let'er rip!

ha good on 'em

True! I hope we all live to spend it.

THIS FAVOURITE SONG❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

oh yeah!:)

This is a song from my personal soundtrack

lovely, mr. m

Never heard this one. This is lovely.

tobin sprout's (GBV) son

i agree, i love it

this show is greater than the select committee hearing

oh thanks for that

haha

high bar

Ooofffff

From Helsinki!!

@Roffle, hi, when you said "did you get the boom, boom show over there?", are you referring to a thunderstorm?

PJ HARVEY 💟

agree

love polly jean

concur

@Rob - Yes sir.

PJ Harvey can devastate. Love her.

@Roffle, we had 60 seconds of rain this morning. Oh, right, we had some thunder too, but for my neighborhood it obviously wasn't memorable. Did you have a lot of thunder & rain?

Oh, this song! What a surprise!

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL 💟 Great Tune❣️

one of my faves, taht bridge kills me

that

@Rob - \Not much rain, but a whole lot of crazy loud waking events. :)

@Roffle, roused from a pleasant dream ... 😓

Very much so... lol

me, too, roffle and rob, crazy thunder entering my dreams

like when you fall asleep on a plane and then there are turbulence, and you forget where you are. unsettling

Sleeping on an airplane is tough for me in the first place. When the turbulence starts, I have one eye on the engines at all times and a secure grip on the arm rests. :)

oh god, me too

or i order a drink, when that won't really save me.

haha

Ha! Cheers! 🥃

Greetings, Esoterica! Just discovered Black Country, New Road recently and I'm really liking them.

That is pure medicine at that point!

And just to stay on topic, I can rarely manage to fall asleep on a plane!

hi, bud! yeah. this is pretty interesting, no?

Hi Bud, welcome to the mile high insomniac's club. ")

haha bud i get ya

The music is always On Topic!

I'm flying to Madrid next week. My goal is to get like three hours of sleep if I can manage it.

YARD ACT❣️

oh yeah!! mr. m

bud i libed in madrid in 1987 for six months. loooovvvveeed it

LIVED i mean

Oh nice! I'll be spending a couple days in Madrid, then probably San Sebastian for a bit.

@Bud - Sixish hours over any ocean is too many hours without a runway around, but that sounds like a worthy trip.

oh i love san sebastian

Bud Burroughs, have a great trip! Safe travels! I know of people from the U.S.A. that moved to San Sebastian! Probably be prepared to LUV it!

Oh, see! DJ Esoterica KNOWS!

My wife and our neighbor are currently spending a week on the Camino de Santiago. I head over next week with the neighbor's 12-year-old daughter who's a delightful, but chatty child. I'm going to ask her parents for permission to slip some sleeping pills into her drink :)

That’s a terrible joke. L0LZ

You might be best advised to edit it

Well actually, her parents already jokingly suggested it!

OMG NO

It's that or you get a six hour breakdown of K-pop. TOugh call.

Certain stuffs should not be put in written form in a chat.

L0LZ UGH

Imma delete all my commentary

Her current obsession is Stranger Things. I can probably talk about that for an hour or so...

Ooh, STRANGER THINGS 🧡

PAVEMENT 🤎

Who’s on vacation?

@DJ Esoterica?

LizBot is on vacation

Yes

Won’t DJ Pethie be on for 6 hours?

Pethie is filling in for LizBot. I have a note that Captain Ahab is not going to be on today, but I don't know who would be filling in

@MrM, yes, 6 hours of Powerclashing

I cannot remember anything about Captain Ahab being off today

oops i am screwing everything up lol

i am a bottomless well of misinfo lol

Afternoon Es, and all!

Hi, Os! HOw are ya?

I could be wrong about Capt. A not being on this afternoon. But I did put a note in my calendar to that effect. Maybe she's off on a different day.

Good afternoon

Howdy, Ossy

JULEE CRUISE 💔♥️ ‘The Nightingale’ 💖

I think I remember the Captain announcing that she'd be off for two weeks.

Hello Rob!

Great Es, all is well!

I’m not disputing your notes at all, RobFromMaryland. Trying diligently to help the information investigation. Ha.

Heya Ossy

good tohear, Os!

I'm not disputing that you're not disputing my notes, MrM. I could very well be wrong

Giggles.

PHD candidates can be a busy lot...

RADIOHEAD 💜

@Bud, I have a note in my calendar that next week Capt. Ahab will have an all Anatolian rock show

oh sweet, love the anatolian

and i love that you all take notes:)

Someone email Captain Ahab!

true, roffle, yes they are busy

@Rob, I think you need to publish this notebook of yours online for everyone's benefit!

Ooh hell yeah Radiohead

Note to MrM: Gotta try to support DJ Pethie today as much as possible!

me, too, mr. m.

yeah i love this one, rob!

@Bud, ha! I'd have to [redact] portions though 😊

Did you all know that there's a Radiohead heardle? I don't know anywhere near enough to play, but the other day I got the song though my wife didn't

https://radioheardle.glitch.me/

hey mr. m the love interest in whip it, this is his band

i thought he was cute

Hi DJE and bloomerians. I've been on the road listening. Great show. As per usual.

@Esoterica, I took notes because I wanted to know how she was handling Anatolian Hour now that her show is two hours instead of three

Hey FUN!

I think I'll just stick around to 3 pm and see what's up

Somewhat like Bob Marley and old country auras

ooh interesting, ossy:). i need to relisten

Hi, Stevie P! Stay safe! Cheers!

This is one of my favorite songs! I did not know it had lyrics!!!

aw sweet, stevie p!

There used to be a dj on WMUC (College Park MD/university radio station) who LOVED Astrud Gilberto. She'd drop in a song in between Ride and whatever else she was playing

ha ride!

Final Twenty Mins?! I’m cry.

Gainsbourg, cool. I like this album.

me, too, CG is damn cool

any gainsbourg, really

Just the right quirky, in my book for sure.

and i like lou doillon her half-sister

good actor

too, CG

although i have not seen antichrist, the lars von trier she is in, is that the one? i think it will traumatize me

They both act then, cool. I am not familiar with her. Gonna check that out.

actually i think i confused you, i don;t know if lou acts, maybe? i was discussing carlotte

charlotte

Ah. Yes I've seen a couple of the movies Charlotte has been in. Shes not bad as an actress at all.

agreed!:)

I saw the full edition of "Antichrist" at Rutgers, complete with clitorectomy and blood ejaculation. I think it gets toned down for television though.

The Science of Sleep, a Michel Gondry film features CG at her best.

the last part of song sounded like Steve Tibbets "how do you like my Buddah?"

CG is quite cool, but she's no DJE

Bangin' show today Eso! Thanks!

Nice awesome sounds, Es!

DJ Esoterica, another great show! Many thanks! Big cheers! Kind regards!

The ants around my sink start to evolve to escape me. they get smaller and faster

thanks for stopping by, guelo!! tom!!

Ant Europe Express, the forgotten Kraftwerk song

KRAFTWERK 💙

Ants Europe Express, the forgotten Kraftwerk song

aw rob, i will put on my list for next week, ant song!

ant song or any song?

ant europe express

or whatever you want

I am not sure if I can make it to your show next week though. Thanks!

aw no prb. thx for the idea nonetheless

I wonder if Cold Play ever heard this little ditty?

ha!

You people are all OK. Thanks for show, Great, Esoterica

I remember my sister and I hearing Kraftwerk's Hall of Mirrors on the radio at midnight or later and she was freaking out. She had pretty mainstream tastes

Yr welcome Eso!

haha rob, that is quite a tale.

Yep! I didn't want to turn it off b/c back 40 years ago, who knew when I'd ever hear it again, and if the album was in print domestically and $$$

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Computer Ears!

cheers to you all! thanks for stopping by

NEW ORDER ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

An hour after this show ends, WBAI (99.5) will broadcast its annual Bloomsday celebration.

https://wbai.org/upcoming-program/?id=5813

aw yes bloomsday! mike watt is a big joyce fan!

i forgot

David Shortell is funny

goodbye all, i appreciate your support!:) enjoy your night.

Big cheers to you, DJ Esoterica!

big cheers to you!