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The Sonic Bloom

Jan 5, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

folky, punky, poppy, jangly, post-punky, and psychedelic goodness of the musical variety coming out of your speakers courtesy of moi. oh yeah, and occasional show tunes.

The Sonic Bloom, best of 2022 part one.

hey helloooo. best of according to me. like a musical warm caress or a jarring wake-up call. either way, i paid attention.

12:04 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:08 PM		The Mary Veils Esoteric Hex The Mary Veils N Esoteric Hex PNKSLM Recordings 2022
12:08 PM		METZ Demolition Row METZ N Split - Single What's Your Rupture? 2022
12:10 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:15 PM		Ogi Envy Ogi N Monologues - EP Atlantic/Atrium 2022
12:19 PM		Kristine Leschper This Animation Kristine Leschper N The Opening, or Closing of a Door Anti/Epitaph 2022 Released March 4. This Animation, from The Opening, or Closing of a Door. Out of Philly. Kristine Leschper is an interdisciplinary artist working in sound, text, image, and performance. Her work positions itself around the spectacle of the human condition, deeply interested in questions of meaning-making, womanhood, socio-ecological systems, and the wielding of power. Brooklyn, union pool Friday January 20th.
12:23 PM		The Mommyheads Undress Me with Your Golfball The Mommyheads N Swiss Army Knife Mommyhead Music 2022
12:27 PM		Otoboke Beaver I Am Not Maternal Otoboke Beaver N Super Champon Damnably 2022 CHAMPON is a Japanese noun meaning a mixture or jumble of things of different type. Otoboke beaver describe themselves as: “Japanese girls 'knock out or pound cake' band”. Formed in 2009 in Kyoto, Japan.
12:28 PM		Jackie Lynn Dream St. (Acoustic) Jackie Lynn N Traveler's Code of Conduct (Acoustic) B / W Dream St (Acoustic) - Single Drag City 2022 Jackie Lynn, Travelers Code of Conduct. Dream Street (Acoustic). Jackie Lynn is electric in her natural state – electrique, even! These two Jacqueline numbers break it up with acoustic versions (the audio of a Vanity Fair France session!). Shed of synth-skin, their organic depths are as bold and nuanced as their former facade, while Haley Fohr’s vocals bloom and flourish, realizing Jackie’s transcendent desire. credits released April 10, 2022 2022, Drag City Inc.
12:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:38 PM		Perel & Marie Davidson Jesus Was an Alien (Club Edit) N Jesus Was an Alien - Single Kompakt WW 2022 The dance floor as devotional is a trope as old as the club itself. But, with her new single, Jesus Was An Alien, Perel subverts the stakes of our collective communion: Who are our arms raised to? Who are we seeking salvation from? (From bandcamp). Released March 30, 2022. Perel is based in Brooklyn NY.
12:47 PM		Double Cheese Bite It Double Cheese N Thee Black Album Dirty Water Records 2022 Double Cheese, Bite It, out of La Rochelle France. Released May 2022. From Thee Black Album. On bandcamp. Punk, garage. Irreverence.
12:49 PM		David Nance Ham Sandwich David Nance N Pulverized and Slightly Peaced Petty Bunco 2022 A collection of raw, ragged, home-recorded originals from the down-home prolific mind of Omaha’s top talent David Nance.
12:53 PM		Superchunk Endless Summer Superchunk N Wild Loneliness Merge Records 2022
12:56 PM		METZ (with Mission of Burma) Good, Not Great Good, Not Great/Get Off 2022 METZ, out of Toronto. Good NOT Great, with Mission of Burma. The sonic trajectory of METZ; Alex Edkins (guitar & vocals), Hayden Menzies (drums), & Chris Slorach (bass), captures the journey of a band shedding influences & digging deeper into their core—steady propulsive drums, chest-thumping bass lines, bloody-fingered riffs, & the howling angst of fading innocence. (From Bandcamp) In 2016 Toronto noise-rock behemoths METZ teamed up with Boston post-punk legends Mission of Burma on a split single for Record Store Day. METZ contributed a cover of “Good, Not Great,” a track from Mission of Burma’s 2006 album The Obliterati, while Mission of Burma covered METZ’s 2012 anthem, “Get Off,” from their self-titled debut. The split 7” was limited to 4,000 copies worldwide. Now for the first time ever these songs are available digitally.
12:59 PM		Renata Zeiguer Sunset Boulevard Renata Zeiguer N Picnic in the Dark Northern Spy 2022 Released April 2022, 'Picnic in the Dark' is the enchanting new album from Renata Zeiguer, her second full length release for Northern Spy. The album follows Zeiguer through a dreamworld of magical realism as she navigates her memories and seeks to confront inherited dysfunctional patterns head-on.
1:00 PM		Tempers It Falls Into You Tempers N New Meaning Dais Records 2022 Tempers, It Falls Into You. The New York City duo of Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper aka Tempers specialize in a sleek strain of low-lit poetic synth-pop, the latest statement of which feels like the peak fruition of their elusive alchemy. With their self-produced New Meaning, Tempers present an album about navigating the unknown, coping mechanisms and exploring the nature of choice. Its ten songs reflect on the creation of meaning as an access to liberation in times of transition and loss. Speculating on the transformative potential that exists alongside the grief of living in a world that is in an ongoing state of crisis.
1:03 PM		Samuel Aguilar & Brian Eno Lago Escondido N Lago Escondido - Single GEO Ediciones 2022 Samuel Aguilar and Brian Eno, Lago Escondido. Special collaboration of ambient pioneer Brian Eno with Samuel Aguilar to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Música para los Jameos del Agua. Las Palmas, Spain. Released January 8, 2022
1:14 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:16 PM		Mike Baggetta, Jim Keltner & Mike Watt Everywhen We Go Mike Baggetta N Everywhen We Go Big Ego 2022
1:23 PM		Robyn Hitchcock The Inner Life of Scorpio Robyn Hitchcock N Shufflemania Tiny Ghost Records 2022 Recorded in locations around the world over the pandemic era, SHUFFLEMANIA! offers up 10 gloriously ingenious new Robyn Hitchcock songs in just under 40 minutes - a “proper pop album” as nature intended. Songs like “Midnight Tram To Nowhere” and the optimistic, album-closing “One Day (It’s Being Scheduled)” are state-of-the-art Hitchcock, manifesting his signature wit, miraculous gift for melodic craftsmanship, and striking humanity in a world gone mad. Released Oct 2022.
1:27 PM		Heavenly Bodies Universal Resurrection Heavenly Bodies N Universal Resurrection - EP Petty Bunco 2022 For fans of grounding issues, psychedelic discomfort, and patient anxiety. Recorded 2020 at Jerry’s on Front by Heavenly Bodies, mastered by John Dawson. Heavenly Bodies is Ashley and Dustin Burrows and Shaun Bailey. Petty Bunco. Released April 1, 2022
1:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:56 PM		Say Sue Me Smothered in Hugs Say Sue Me N 10 Damnably 2022 Say Sue Me, Smothered in Hugs, Busan South Korea.Say Sue Me celebrate their 10th anniversary with a special EP of covers and rearrangements. Featuring their take on songs by Yo La Tengo, Pavement, Daniel Johnston, Silver Jews, Grandaddy and Guided By Voices, as well as a fresh look at two of their own. Released October 10, 2022. Vocals, Guitar - Sumi Choi 최수미 Guitar - Byungkyu Kim 김병규 Bass - Jaeyoung Kim 김재영 Drums - Sungwan Lim 임성완
1:58 PM		Lore City Animate Lore City N Under Way - Single Lore City Music 2022 The band’s sound is, “a combination of dark-wave, mystical rock, and dream-pop; where ceremonial rhythms, epic and nostalgic converge”, writes Loop. Lore City is a duo formed in 2011 and currently based in Portland, Oregon. Band members include married couple Laura Mariposa Williams (vocals, keyboard, guitar) and Eric Angelo Bessel (percussion, keyboard, guitar), who met as peers at Syracuse University.
2:03 PM		Tanya Tucker Ready As I'll Never Be N Ready As I'll Never Be - Single 2022 I just caught Tucker on TV performing this song at the Rose Parade! Written with Brandi Carlisle.
2:09 PM		Say She She Prism Say She She N Prism Karma Chief Records 2022 Say She She, Prism.The female-led discodelic soul band Say She She release their debut album ‘Prism’ on Karma Chief Records, a division of Colemine Records, on October 7, 2022. Named as a silent nod to Nile Rodgers, Say She She (C’est chi-chi!: It's Chic!”) will transport you with their dreamy harmonies, catchy hooks and up-tempo grooves.
2:12 PM		Bill Orcutt At a Distance Bill Orcutt N Music for Four Guitars Palilalia 2022
2:17 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:22 PM		Mdou Moctar Nakanegh Dich Mdou Moctar N Afrique Victime (Deluxe Edition) Matador 2022
2:32 PM		Eyelids Everything That I See You See Better (Single Version) Eyelids N Everything That I See You See Better - Single Jealous Butcher Records 2022 With Chris Slusarenko and John Moen out of Portland, Oregon. Great stuff.
2:36 PM		Lewsberg Six Hills Lewsberg N Six Hills - Single Speedy Wunderground 2022 Hail from Rotterdam!
2:42 PM		Sharon Van Etten Mistakes Sharon Van Etten N We've Been Going About This All Wrong Jagjaguwar 2022
2:46 PM		Dehd Bop Dehd N Blue Skies Fat Possum 2022
2:47 PM		Perfume Genius Pop Song Perfume Genius N Ugly Season Matador 2022
2:55 PM		Fever Ray What They Call Us Fever Ray N What They Call Us - Single Mute 2022
2:58 PM		Alex G After All Alex G N God Save the Animals Domino Recording Co 2022

Chat is archived.

HI!

DJ Esoterica❣️

hi!

We rock we ready. Cool lunch time!

howdy! I was in the wrong place for a few minutes.

you have 2 playlist links for today

what?

Only this one has song info and chat

weird, hi stevie p.

i am having tech issues. i may have to close play list for a sec.

This one is showing as Current Playlist

I say close Stevie P for two mins

Play that one again

i'm closed that day

I wish

hi fr1day!

hi bri!

EsotericHex!

i am having mic issues again. i will try to rectify. hold on. btw these are all my faves.

wprb.com/chat url lands into the good chat here

Love the best o year shows . Good reminders for bandcamp Fridays

( We hear you! )

hear hear

yay

yes bandcamp friday tomorrow!

Let's get into it! Let's start a beat! Let's go! It's beat time! It's hop time!

this Pure MOOD Rn aF!!

Pair this lp art with the NNAMDI lp cover art.

oh yeah!!

https://nnamdi.bandcamp.com/album/please-have-a-seat

They go to same photo studio eh

ohhhh

Joking he was

yes yes ha

Hi, DJE!

hi gboss!!

DJ Esoterica, glad you are back! Hope you had nice timez during the hiatus!

was so lovely! thanks mr. m. didnn;t get to el tepeyac, but had some rad bean burritos in north county SD

I only know Champon as Nagasaki-style ramen.

went to K town at this amazing BBQ called soowon galbi. yum!

cool gboss!

mr. m, et al, hope you had a nice holiday

I was busy that day. And that day! WestSiiidddeee! Cheers to you, Lady!

Yes, thanks! Stayed healthy and happy!

that is something to be happy about

If MrM ain't happy, nobody's happy

You already know 😑

Cheers to all the dears

Especially those with Big Ears

WestSiiidddeee!

yeahhhhh

totally!

just don't say "cali" haha

SoCal is fine, California is fine.

cali... home of frisco

frisco, cali

haha right frisco, too

not acceptable

I hear Pennsylvanians don't like "Pennsy"

Life is a mystery Everyone must stand alone I hear you call my name And it feels like home

like a prayer baby

i'm fine with pennsy. just don't spell it pennsie and dot the i with a heart or flower

lol

roast fish, corn bread and Cali weed.. Ann's lamb's breath

cali colombia?

💲☦️3️⃣♈️❣️3️⃣ 🅿️

Ha that too

lamb's breath. wow. i haven't hear/had since the early 80s

heard

Buongiorno DJE!! Bentornato!!

hi IP!!

Collie, Kali, Cali...

breath of fire

as maude says, greet each morning with a breath of fire! ha!

Sweet Dreams are made of Double Cheese! 🧀🧀 Who am I to Dis-A-Brie!?!

hahah

yum brie

with toasted almonds

BITE IT!

the only thing i like more than cheese... is more cheese

me too stevie!

ha, mr. m!

💲☦️3️⃣♈️❣️3️⃣ 🅿️, don’t you recognize your name in emoji?!?

Ginger pie. Oat straw tea.

kinda mr. m, prince plus madonna what??

It’s STEVIE P!

🤗

oh snap

i see it now

ᎷяM, i love you more than cheese!

Mac just gets better

oh hahaha, mr. m

totally, love him, bri

😳🤪🥸🤣😇

Just trying to dot the i with a heart 🤪😎

@ Esoterica (host) Thanks for today's awesome retrospective on '22. And for playing Otoboke Beaver! I believe they're on tour in the USA in February, playing NYC on Wednesday the 22nd and Philly on Friday the 24th.

hi richard! i think jon s. saw them and said they were great.:)

Richard from Rocky Hill got all of us tickets! Look under your chairs!!

SUPERCHUNK❣️

METZ❗️ with MISSION OF BURMA‼️

dust bunnies akimbo. no tix

Same. I typed the joke and still looked for the tix. I’m double cry.

like-minded, we are, mr. m

@ -ᎷяMΔᏞᏨØИᎢΞNᎢ-💀 DAMN! I thought that envelope contained just another of the listening devices that The Deep State plants in my home while I'm away to read my thoughts. I stomped on it and then burned it! (Heh heh, jus' kiddin' ... Many thanks! ;-)) )

L0LZ

confront inherited dysfunctional patterns GO!

too many to count lol

I got whiplash and concussion

and vertigo and brainz spontaneously combusted

TopNotch First Hour! Cheers, DJ Esoterica!

thanks!!

elusive alchemy GO!

Rather, I appreciate your playlist notes!

aw thx, mr.m

Oh! & BRIAN ENO 💙

love BE

i love eno more than cheeseburgers!

me too stevie

cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger

MIKE WATT❣️

yes yes yes, love mike

This one ya. Watt n co

oh yeah so cool, i thinks

mclovin this show, DJE

Loving the Robyn Hitchcock LP !

thanks stevie p!

hey adam elk!!

you are on this "best of" show, but maybe you knew that?!;)

yes me, too (loving the RH)

Hey chatters, Adam Elk of The Mommyheads is here:)

Hey there Adam Elk!

Mommyheads is a great name, btw

Great set going on here

We just booked a Phily show . Thursday Feb 16th at the ROYAL in Glenside... stoked !

Cheers to ADAM ELK and THE MOMMYHEADS!! Place of honour in the First Thirty Mins of Show! Way to go!

ooohhh cool! never been there! @adam

agreed, stevie p

thx, bri. love heavenly bodies.

Place of honour during any Mins of The Sonic Bloom with DJ Esoterica! 💎🎵🎶

Heavenly Bodies is playing Johnny Brenda's in Philly Jan. 14th with Mesh and Soft Torture. Should be great.

aw thx, mr. m:)

number #2 fan after stevie p (just kidding!) lol

haha i knew that would start something.

i deleted my comments because i had no idea what i was saying

i said you were number one, stevie p. i am just toying

color me: toyed

i was lighting up the friendly rivalry that is your shtick with Mr. m haha

a bridge too far?! haha

I'm liking this drony Heavenly Bodies track. Unfortunately, I won't be around on the 14th to see them :(

hey bud! yeah they are amazing. saw them last summer at the phila. brewing company with a incredible petty bunco lineup.

*an

Haha Stevie P is first and second and turd Fan! What rivalry?!

lol

I missed the deleted comments tho. 🤔

he was offended that i said he was number one lol

indirectly and facetiously

Ha!

Silliness.

true true

this Drone Zone 🤎

yeah

They get a big ol sound ya. Fit right in on Jon S Wed night dinner break music

Apparently the Heavenly Bodies don't know how to spell "Burroughs" properly, though.

Eso: Robyn, do you believe in ghosts? Robyn: Well... do they believe in me?

Quite the electra-thereal sounds you're playing Eso

DJE... not offended. just too dumb to figure out whether i was numero uno or numero dos

And into the Beyond!!

Ya Tobias just played their Tengo cover. Good stuff. Love Bee Thousand. But love Propeller a bit more

howdy fusionhead! thx!

howdy buck!

i know you are a GBV fan too, bri, yeah

One o Bob's great melodies here. Interesting to hear it all stripped

his melodies and lyrics just get me

i often want the songs to go on longer than they do

Great memories of hundreds of fans shouting all his lyrics at once hands up high. Gtr players with their gtrs held up to sky pose too. have not seen him / them in a long while.

oh yeah! bri, and who can forget mitch Mitchell!

Awww Hellz Yeeaahh!

TANYA TUCKER 💝

love her

My request for additional parts of the Best of Shows series: a different TANYA TUCKER song on each show!

nice, starting with Delta?

You’re in charge! I’ll take anything I can git!

also BRANDI CARLISLE is a total Gem 💎

Ha! I played some Tanya Tucker this morning.

ha ok:) yes i love brandi carlisle. so talented, what a voice.

DJ Krista! I caught the first hour! So guud!

love that, krista!

she still has a great voice.

krista do you upload your show? i missed it, dang

Happy New Year ! missed most of today due to work, ugh

Say She She. So Sue Me. Sault Ste Marie.

You got cut off. They now reside *where*?

Glitch Music interrupted

oops!

back??

are we back or still glitch

It was only a bit 5mins back or so. Just seconds

Barely a blip

ok thx bri

To the desert we go.. .

Sorry. Dealing with mess here from bomb cyclone that didn’t happen. L0LZ

Honored to be apart of this wonderful show !

aw thanks, adam! honored you stopped by

Nice sounds, Es!

thanks, os!

Grabbed that Motrik as soon as I heard it on wprb

hi Ossy

John Cameron Mitchell did a pretty good job as Joe Exotic Tiger King.

oh i need to see that!!

I have to leave for a mtg. I'll be listening in the car. Great show, DJE!

aw thx, stevie p!

Cheers, Stevie P!

Forgot about Lewsberg. This one is fun

Hello Steve!

agreed, bri

Concur with all of us

I’m DEHD ☠️

haha

Bop Pop

DJ Esoterica! What a GRAND return! Big CHEERS to You! Many thanks for curating such nice selections! Looking forward to the next show! Kind regards to you, Lady!

Great show, Eso--looking forward to the next! thanks and HNY!

Thanks, DJE!

Happy New Year, Li Maria!

Fun show, Esoterica! HNY!

Cheers, gboss!

thanks, richard!

Thanks, gboss!

HNY!

Grazie e Ciao!!

hi, Li Maria!

thanks! HNY!

Ciao! IP!

thanks everyone really appreciate you coming by!

Happy New Year, MrM!

Great show Eso!

Thx! Bri!

bye all...:)