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The Sonic Bloom

Oct 17, 2022 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM

Music

With Esoterica

The Sonic Bloom, your way.

Robyn Hitchcock stops by for a chat about many compelling matters, including ghosts, A. I. and his stellar new album!

The Sonic Bloom
3:01 AM
Lalo Schifrin - Main Title
Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin
1972 Parlophone UK 2001
3:04 AM
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3:06 AM
Robyn Hitchcock - The Feathery Serpent God
Robyn Hitchcock The Feathery Serpent God Robyn Hitchcock N
Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022
Will be released Oct. 21! Get yourself a copy at tinyghostrecords.com
3:14 AM
Robyn Hitchcock Interview - Robyn Hitchcock Interview
Robyn Hitchcock Interview Robyn Hitchcock Interview
2022
3:26 AM
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3:47 AM
Robyn Hitchcock - The Inner Life of Scorpio
Robyn Hitchcock The Inner Life of Scorpio Robyn Hitchcock N
Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022
With Johnny Marr on this song.
3:54 AM
Robyn Hitchcock - Socrates in Thin Air
Robyn Hitchcock Socrates in Thin Air Robyn Hitchcock N
Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022
4:00 AM
Robyn Hitchcock - The Raging Muse
Robyn Hitchcock The Raging Muse Robyn Hitchcock N
Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022
4:05 AM
Armando Trovajoli - L'amore dice ciao (Slow Take) [From "La matriarca - The Libertine"]
Armando Trovajoli L'amore dice ciao (Slow Take) [From "La matriarca - The Libertine"] Armando Trovajoli
The Best of Armando Trovajoli - Soundtracks & Blues, Vol. 2 (Original Film Scores) Bacci Bros Records 2015
4:09 AM
Arthur Brown - (A) Excitation Wavelength (Rustic Hinge "Replicas" - "T on the Lawn for 3")
Arthur Brown (A) Excitation Wavelength (Rustic Hinge "Replicas" - "T on the Lawn for 3") Arthur Brown
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Strangelands" Cherry Red Records 2011
Recorded in the 60s not released until the late 80s.
4:10 AM
Fever Tree - Come With Me (Rain Song)
Fever Tree Come With Me (Rain Song) Fever Tree
Fever Tree Geffen 2010
4:15 AM
Karen Dalton - I Love You More Than Words Can Say
Karen Dalton I Love You More Than Words Can Say Karen Dalton
It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best EMI Catalogue 1969
A Booker T. Jones and Eddie Floyd tune.
4:18 AM
Karen Dalton - Shiloh Town (feat. Richard Tucker)
Karen Dalton Shiloh Town (feat. Richard Tucker) Karen Dalton N
Shuckin' Sugar Delmore Recording Society 2022
Civil war song. "It is so cold in Shiloh town Birds can hardly sing Pretty girls gonna leave the town They won't be back 'till spring." Karen J. Dalton was an American country blues singer, guitarist, and banjo player. She was associated with the early 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, particularly with Fred Neil, the Holy Modal Rounders, and Bob Dylan.
4:29 AM
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4:30 AM
The Mystery Lights - Melt
The Mystery Lights Melt The Mystery Lights
The Mystery Lights Wick Records
4:32 AM
Perfume Genius - Queen
Perfume Genius Queen Perfume Genius
Too Bright Matador 2014
Love the line: "No family is safe when I sashay."
4:36 AM
Cat Power - Nude As the News
Cat Power Nude As the News Cat Power
What Would the Community Think Matador 1996
4:40 AM
Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billie Joe Bobbie Gentry
Ode to Billie Joe EMI Catalogue 1967
4:45 AM
Can - Sing Swan Song (2004 Remaster)
Can Sing Swan Song (2004 Remaster) Can
Ege Bamyasi (Remastered) Mute 2011
Ege Bamyası is the third studio album by German krautrock band Can, originally released as an LP in 1972 by United Artists. The album contains the single "Spoon", which charted in the Top 10 in Germany, largely because of its use as the theme of a German TV thriller mini-series called Das Messer.
4:51 AM
Faust - Krautrock
Faust Krautrock Faust
Faust IV (Deluxe Edition) Virgin Catalogue 2006
Released September 21, 1973. Recorded at The Manor, Oxfordshire, England in June of '73.
5:00 AM
Jaguar Sun & Husbands - First Time Caller
Jaguar Sun & Husbands First Time Caller N
First Time Caller - Single 2022
Jaguar Sun out of Ontario, Canada. Husbands is from Marseille, France.
5:10 AM
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5:12 AM
Blues Ambush - Horse Noises
Blues Ambush Horse Noises Blues Ambush N
Petty Bunco 2022
Yo! Great stuff here. https://bluesambush.bandcamp.com/album/blues-ambush-2
5:20 AM
Belaboris - Yö Vanhassa Talossa
Belaboris Yö Vanhassa Talossa Belaboris
Once Upon a Time Dark Entries Records 2013
From Finland! Between 1982 and 1984 Belaboris crafted catchy, melodic synthpop with the occasional guitar. Their lyrics were stylistically “kitchen sink melodramas” with occasional Gothic elements inspired by movies. The name Belaboris, is a combination of the horror actors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.
5:25 AM
Melvins - I Want to Hold Your Hand
Melvins I Want to Hold Your Hand Melvins
Pinkus Abortion Technician Ipecac Recordings / Liberator Music 2018
5:26 AM
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5:35 AM
Robyn Hitchcock - The Ghost in You
Robyn Hitchcock The Ghost in You Robyn Hitchcock
The Man Upstairs Yep Roc Records 2014
5:39 AM
Emma Swift - Queen Jane Approximately
Emma Swift Queen Jane Approximately Emma Swift
Blonde on the Tracks (Deluxe Edition) Double Drummer 2020
5:43 AM
Buzzcocks - Breakdown
Buzzcocks Breakdown Buzzcocks
Spiral Scratch - EP Domino Recording Co 1977
5:45 AM
Eric Burdon & The Animals - San Franciscan Nights
Eric Burdon & The Animals San Franciscan Nights Eric Burdon & The Animals
Winds Of Change Polydor 1967
5:48 AM
Adam Strangler - Coney Island Blues
Adam Strangler Coney Island Blues Adam Strangler
Ideas of Order Duprince 2015
Out of Montreal.
5:58 AM
Say Sue Me - Season of the Shark
Say Sue Me Season of the Shark N
10 Damnably 2022