The Sonic Bloom Thu Feb 9 with Esoterica on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

hi

Hi!

how's it going

I feel so blessed today, I did not expect Esoterica! I'm good!

howdy! hi roffle.

Oh, it’s goin! How you doin, DJ Esoterica?

i am here very thursday:)

going

that is all we can hope for, right?

Hey you! Hi folks!

Yes! Lower expectations!

WestSiiidddeee!

I was dozing and I lose track. I just don't expect things much to be the the same'ish.

Hello

hello bri

Lovely Mary Lattimore 💙 💚 🧜🏼‍♀️

Hi Eso!

It reminds me of college semesters.

Hi C!

agree, christine

MARY LATTIMORE, MARY LATTIMORE‼️

ha, roffle!

This song's title reminds me of a T.S. Eliot line (also the title of a favorite 80s movie) I've Heard The Mermaids Singing. 🧜🏼‍♀️ 🎶

song of the siren 🧜‍♀️

Hey, boo! 👻

oh yeah, christine:). i need to put that film on the list, haven't seen

Boo 👻 Hey!

I just re-watched it last week; it's a small gem.

Yeah, what is this film? Gotta look into this mystery.

So, I want to just tap on my guitar? Oh yea!

i'll def watch on your recommendation, christine

Music's a bit melancholy this morning. And that's alright. Good to reply to all my e-mails.

hi francis, things will pick up, not to worry:)

It's a quirky serious comedy Canadian indie film from 1987, MrM. You can see it on the Criterion channel. If you do see it, let me know your thoughts.

love criterion channel

Sounds fun. Kino Lorber put it on blu ray last year too.

cool! must check out

Very enjoyable start to the show! Cheers, DJ Esoterica!

Criterion is a boss for those old Japanese Kurosawa films. Priceless.

I ❤️ Criterion Channel too 📺

thanks, mr. m:)

MELVINS 🧡

i need to see all kurosawa, i have seen ran

I awoke to find Roger Daltry in Listzomania gracing my silver-flat screen, thought i died and went to Rock and Roll Heaven...WOW!!!

howdy inspector!

Melvin!

Howdy!!!

Good afternoon Readie!

howdy bo! is readie here?

love readie

Oops 😬

As in Helen Ready?

Readie?

Whoa THIS! 🎶

ha, but it is melissa manchester. but i need to play reddy next for sure!

I love Readie too, but..,

She probably is!😆

didn't she do some song about baking a cake/loaf of bread? I remember it was kinda super dramitic for the subject matter

hmm maybe? now i am curious

I honestly luv to eat cake

Hi Esoterica!😂

oh macarthur park!

FZ references Helen in "Baby Don't You Want a Msn

MacArthur Park

A wprb classic

Feels like the Grammys tribute of the late singers

But not done by Helen. Donna Summer. Richard Dumbledore Harris too

How dare they leave a cake with the sweet green frost out in the g d rain!

🎂 🌧 🍰

@Francis, "loaf of bread" is now my favoite thing to say

Rita

Jeff Bridges looking a lot like Kristofferson lately. And sounding too

aayyyooo

Melenas did a great cover of Eis Bär in Español as Osa Polar.

howdy matthew!

oh wow, bri

hello hello hello !

howdy tom!

@ Esoterica (host) Been lurkin' and listenin'. Love the latest(s). Mesh is definitely not "meh." Really catchy frantic up-the-scale riff, linking together "Missing Link."

sweet, richard!

yeah mesh is great

@ Esoterica (host) Bobby Darin AND Johnny Mercer ???!!! OMG, I had no idea ... :-))

MELVINS and then T H I S • 2 of a kind!

ha!

i know, richard! me, neither. but cool

OUTSTANDING

well anything with darin is COOL

Hi all

hi stevie p!

this guy

T.G. for short

😆

the T is silent

¡Silencio!

Behold these opening credits for the premiere episode of “The Mod Squad”. (Is that set supposed to resemble the Whisky a Go Go?)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LIbO7ijTjFA&t=2s

so much fun stuff out of Oz these days.

David, that's great!!

ISB!

howdy, david. i will check itout! opps, that reminds me I need to do my show theme theme show soon! let's say next week!

Robin Williamson 1 of a kind

Burt Bacharach has died aged 94

agree, bri

noooo, i love burt

he had a good run. great run.

https://www.honeypunchmag.com/interview-paul-cherry

doesn't paul cherry have a great 70s sound?

true, stevie

My accursed job prevented me from seeing Bacharach at the Basie several years ago.

paul cherry does have a smooth 70s sound

I thought it was from the (19)70’s

yeah

@ Esoterica (host) Ohhhhh !!! The Incredible String Band! "Witch's Hat"! I was just thinking of them, literally just yesterday, how absolutely wonderful they are, both as musicians and poets. The two simultaneously released LPs "Wee Tam" and "The Big Huge" (on which that track was first appeared) are true masterpieces. Anyone Sonic Bloom-ers out there who love British Isles traditional folk-flavoured pop music, especially from the Sixties, definitely check them out.

aw wee tam

94 is a good run. I have been to old homes and fuck that. I want to skydive into a volcano rather than that. That's the plan anyway.

Oh yeah Always Something There to Remind Me was a Bacharach / David song. (Sandie Shaw then Naked Eyes etc...). Great track record those 2 writers

Awww Hellz Yeeaahh!

ORVILLE PECK 💝

oh yeah love him

His new album is back in stock! Got my copy! Woooo!

Gold VINYL!

@ ѕтєνιє ρ Thanks for relaying the news on Bacharach's passing. What new chapters did he and composing partner Hal David write in the Great American Songbook.

His voice always reminds me of the guy from Wall Of Voodoo - Stan Ridgway.

woot! mr. m

OOPS! I satdn corrected: "Witches Hat" was on the ISB's earlier LP "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter," also a fab disc.

Pony is great album!

Man o' mystery, Orville Peck.

Bobby Darin had a promising acting career once. At a Sidney Poitier retrospective at the Film Forum years ago, I saw “Pressure Point” costarring Darin as a convicted neo-Nazi treated by prison shrink Poitier.

(Matthew joined the chat!)

(Don’t add Stevie P) 🥸

MrM, the P is silent, according to DTO

Rest in peace, Burt. 💔

Es, I 1st heard the news on wdas :(

Theme from Arthur (that Moon and NYC song etc)

Brian - I was blown away when he was responsible for Arthur theme song, aside from Whitney Houston's cousin, Dionne Warrick songs!

Last week, a famous singer and composer passed away too, Barrett Strong

Ossy, Whitney is DIonne's cousin?!

aw thx os

The Sonic Bloom’s Theme Song Special with DJ Esoterica!

yes next week!

let's do this! mr. m

Stevie - Oh yes!

I learn more on Thursday afternoons than I do on the other afternoons

sweet stevie

Ya big musical famly there. Cissy Houston, Leontyne Price etc

Badass Bobby Brown and Bobbi Kristina Brown

got any liner notes on this one, DJE? ;-)

@DJ Esoterica! I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, I want to know right now what will it be. I don't want to wait for our lives to be over, Will it be yes or will it be sorry? #NameThatShow!? Can’t wait for your Theme Song Special!

i know it, but spacing!!!

Mr. M....Is that Diffrent Strokes?

Or Monday Night Football?

Hahahaha

hey mike!

Hi Eso!

Now, the world don't move to the beat of just one drum, What might be right for you, may not be right for some.

does WPRB have a relyric'd version of WKRP theme song?

Been listening and enjoying your show for a long time, one of my faves. Thanks so much.

That would be Vegas?

aw thanks so much, mike. appreciate you stopping by! the chat will become your new habit

Yes DJ Pethie used it on her show

THE SMITHS ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

That's Incredible!

WPRB in Central Jerrrr-zeeee

Inconceivable.

UnPossible

thanks, Bri

I thought I heard it. Pethie!

Tried tapping and counting out that 6 Finger Satellite fun to try to keep up

See the notes you asked fer in the playlist, Stevie P?

I think that station id / show intro was custom made for Pethie. Singer mentions her by name and her show title in the parody lyrics

Joe Belock did an excellent memorial show for Barrett Strong last week: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/124331

mr.m, yes. thankyou so much

I love lo fi parodies like that where someone just sings over top of the real song in the background ! You can still hear them say WKRP and Cincinnati ha.. home made fun

Nobody knows the words to WKRP’s closing theme. It was intended to be gibberish.

WPRB’s DJ Readie Righteous did a TopNotch tribute to BARRETT STRONG. Included THE SLITS ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’! A tribute without it, is a FAIL

Goodnight Mr Walters! (Grumble grumble mmm hmmnn....)

love readie's tribute

ned to check out belock's if uploaded

need

Ned too

harshest boy 💀

love BH, mr. m

i know you do, too

🖤 thanks for sharing all these nice new (and everything in between) selections today! 🎶🎵

i have that firefall LP in a bin in my basement, right beside gerry rafferty and elvin bishop

Gir-ODD 🙂

did i mispronounce, c? lol

Gruff Rhys cool. Super Furry Welsh

yeah yeah

No, you are perfect, Eso. I was just hearing my Mom's West Philly pronounciation in my mind. She used to call the football team the IGGLES.

ha! got it

@christine

@Christine... it IS the iggles

i suppose you refer to beggles as bagels too

Many would agree, Stevie! Indeed bagels were "beggels"

Off to class, maybe I'll be able to put PRB on and let the students listen while they work. Have a Geat Day everyone!....I remember, as a small child, at night with a drive with my father, hearing Melanie's Brand New Key earworm.

thanks, mike!

have a great day!

love that, mike re: melanie

WestSiiidddeee! 🎵🎶

I wonder what Mike T teaches...

yes yes yes, mr. m

should asked, francis

should've

TV Theme Show Music 101

The Bald Iggle debuted in “Li’l Abner” in 1956. It didn’t catch on the way Capp’s Shmoo did. https://abebooks.com/Bald-Iggle-.the-life-ruins-own/11274261617/bd

Mike T got all jazzed up by the Dawson’s Creek lyrics I dropped in here! 😝🤓🤩🥳🥸😎

🤣🤣🤣 @David Shortell

ha! mr. m

thought of beggles at same time it was posted...

such good actors came from dawson's, michelle, katie, joshua

I agree and concur

Grams

MARY BETH PEIL 💗

L0LZ SRSLY

oh yeah

GEM

TOTAL

I saw Melanie at Monmouth University a few years back. It’s a familiar town to her; she played at the Ink Well before she became famous. That place closed down last year, followed shortly by the Brighton Bar’s demolition.

Album Title❗️

I know!

love it

Okay! The National (in addition to being an intriguing and talented ensemble) has succeeded: I'm not only interested in their album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, but I must take down my copy of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley novel and see exactly what ARE the first two pages!

me, too, richard!

I do well recall the latter pages are something of a philosophical slog with the Creature and Creator debating birth, life, God, free will, and especially why-was-I-born?

I never read Mary’s 2nd best known book, “The Last Man”, about a pandemic that wipes out most of humanity.

OMG - Saw these guys mid 80's. My old man's a fatso!! great show

outside my angry brainz

Where else but through our beloved WPRB-FM and most excellent programs like The Sonic Bloom would we be having these chats, eh? ;-))

love AS, Francis

SoCal

aw thanks, richard! usually chock full of info and i have to scope it all out when i am done with the show. too hard during...

Sadly - the old church in Redondo Beach, CA, where Black Flag and many other bands lived, is now a restaurant. They still kept the graffiti though...

@ David Shortell Hey, mega thanks for reminding me about "The Last Man." I'll check it out (either of my local public library or via a Labyrinth Books buy. As i was saying, Where else but through WPRB-FM would we ...?

Richard, these long-missing lines from the conclusion of “Frankenstein” should interest you : https://reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5pic3p/frankenstein/

nooooooo, francis

OMGosh, this is nice.

Digging this Agitation Free. What a mood 💯

yeah sweet, no?

i bet DTO plays this on his show

You may summon DTO with this fine track

DTO is what I wake up for fer sure.

true, c

I need to get the whole schedule into my head again. So it goes...

he is solid, roffle

True, Friday is a wrap.

For now. :)

I’ve seen both Gregg Turner and the Angry Samoans play at the Brighton Bar, albeit separately–there’s a lot of hate between the founders! The modern version’s only founders are Bill Vockeroth and a lethargic Mike Saunders. At both recent shows I saw, they covered Ming Tea’s “BBC” from the end credits of “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery“. I can’t find that song in the Angry Samoans’ discography though.

I have had some really, really good Samoan friends. Jolly as fuck, but never ever piss them off. They are as beautiful as giants come..

great football players, too.

cool notes, david, thanks

Thanks ESO

Final Ten Mins!? I’m cry. Goodbye, Caroline.

thank you, Roffle!

ha, mr. m

I’m coming Elizabeth! Cry til Die

👻

Thank you Eso...such a great show today!

aww, i missed all but the last 10 min

DJ Esoterica! Many thanks for another Grand Show! Big cheers and kind regards to you, Lady!

damn it andrew

Great show! I slipped in a wee late for this afternoon's session, Dr. DJE. However, here is today's true story: the sun emerged from behind the clouds just as the Sonic Bloom emerged from my speakers! Perfect! Now, sadly, the light is fading as is this week's Bloom! G'night & talk to you all next week!

hey IP! Thanks so much.

Tom!

G'Night!

aw tx c!

andrew! well, last ten aren't too bad:)

big cheers to you, mr. m!!

appreciate all of you more than you know!

🖤💀

didn"t get much chat time in, but great show today !

aw thx, tom!

THIS

agree:)

stay tuned for methuselah!

Thank you dear, and good night to those who pass.

Great show to day, DJE. Lots of fun surprises, as per usual.

@Mr.M💀👀

thx stevie!

no time to go back on-air. stay well and be good:)

Great show Eso! HarshMelvin cool

Great show Esoterica, thank you!

aw thanks, bri

thx, bo!!

Got the correct name! Cheers, Ambrose Hughes!

Cheers to only the Dears!

cheers dears!

bye for now

12:03 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
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12:07 PM		Mary Lattimore Til a Mermaid Drags You Under Mary Lattimore Silver Ladders Ghostly International 2020
12:16 PM		Melenas Despertar Melenas Días Raros Elsa Records 2020 Indie pop quartet from Pamplona, Spain.
12:20 PM		Melvins Queen (Acoustic) Melvins Five Legged Dog Ipecac Recordings / Liberator Music 2021 Also featured on Stoner Witch.
12:24 PM		Melissa Manchester Don't Cry Out Loud Melissa Manchester Don't Cry Out Loud Arista/BMG Heritage 2002 Melissa Manchester "Don't Cry Out Loud" is a song written in 1976 by Peter Allen with lyricist Carole Bayer Sager that is best known as a hit single for Melissa Manchester in the US and for Elkie Brooks in the UK.
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12:30 PM		Mesh Missing Link Mesh Mesh - EP Born Yesterday Records 2021
12:35 PM		Methyl Ethel Scream Whole Methyl Ethel Triage 4AD 2018 Methyl Ethel is an Australian art rock band from Perth, signed to Future Classic in 2021 and formerly to Dot Dash and 4AD. The band consists of Jake Webb, Thom Stewart, Chris Wright, Jacob Diamond, and Lyndon Blue. Webb previously fronted Sugarpuss.
12:37 PM		Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer Two of a Kind Two of a Kind Rhino Atlantic 2005 Released in 1961. Arranged and conducted by Billy May. Recorded over four dates in August 1961. At United studio in Hollywood.
12:42 PM		The Other Half No Doubt About It The Other Half (Remastered) TTW 1967 Psych garage out of SF. Groovy, man!
12:45 PM		Gee Tee Bad Habit Gee Tee Gee Tee Goodbye Boozy 2018 From Sydney, Australia.
12:46 PM		The Incredible String Band Witches Hat The Incredible String Band The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Rhino/Elektra 1968 Scottish psychedelic band formed by Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron in Edinburgh in 1966.
12:50 PM		Paul Cherry Between Me and Chicago Paul Cherry N Chicago - Single Sunset Music Productions Co., Ltd 2022 https://www.honeypunchmag.com/interview-paul-cherry
12:54 PM		Part Time I Can't Get You Out Part Time N I Can't Get You Out - Single 3561130 Records DK 2022 Part Time (stylized as PARTIME) was a North American pop band that was fronted by California-based musician David Loca (also credited as David Speck). Loca produced and wrote virtually all of the band's output, with most of their studio recordings created alone at his home.
12:56 PM		Orville Peck Turn to Hate Orville Peck Pony Sub Pop Records 2019
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1:10 PM		Purling Hiss Baby Purling Hiss N Drag on Girard Drag City 2023 PH playing wirth Chris Forsyth at Johnny Brenda's April 21st!
1:12 PM		The No Ones Phil Ochs Is Dead The No Ones N My Best Evil Friend Yep Roc Records 2023
1:16 PM		Spoon I Can't Give Everything Away Spoon N I Can't Give Everything Away - Single Matador 2022
1:16 PM		Ambrosia Holdin' On to Yesterday Ambrosia Ambrosia Warner Records 1975 Ambrosia is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1970. Ambrosia had five top 40 hit singles released between 1975 and 1980.
1:24 PM		Firefall You Are the Woman Firefall Firefall Rhino Atlantic 2005 "You Are the Woman" is a song by Firefall, released as the second single from their self-titled debut album. Written by Rick Roberts, then the group's frontman, the track is distinguished by the performance on flute of Firefall member David Muse and the lead vocals of Chuck Kirkpatrick.
1:27 PM		Men's Recovery Project In The Eunich's Wine Cellar Bolides Over Basra Load Records 2000 Men's Recovery Project was an American experimental noise rock band formed by Sam McPheeters and Neil Burke in Richmond, Virginia, active from 1993–2002. The group's post-modern absurdist musical attitude resulted in a diverse and consistently obtuse output, with varied material touching on electronic, avant garde, comedy and spoken word motifs that often alluded to their roots in hardcore punk.
1:29 PM		Six Finger Satellite Herpe Gimme Strength Six Finger Satellite Half Control Load Records 2008 Six Finger Satellite (a.k.a. 6FS) are an American synthesizer-based post-hardcore band, based in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
1:30 PM		The Smiths Cemetry Gates The Smiths The Queen Is Dead Rhino 1986
1:34 PM		Jockstrap 50/50 Jockstrap 50/50 - Single Rough Trade 2021 Jockstrap, 50/50. Jockstrap are an English musical duo consisting of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye, who met at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2016.
1:38 PM		Algiers I Can't Stand It! (feat. Samuel T. Herring & Jae Matthews) Algiers N Shook Matador 2023 Algiers is an American-English post-punk band from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, formed in 2012. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Franklin James Fisher, Ryan Mahan, Lee Tesche, and Matt Tong. New single “I Can’t Stand It” (Feat. Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring & Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthew)
1:41 PM		Lucinda Chua Echo Lucinda Chua N YIAN 2023 Lucinda Chua, from South London. Lucinda Chua shares the new song and accompanying short film, 'Echo' announcing her debut solo album YIAN, out March 24th via 4AD. Lucinda also announces her biggest headline show to date, at ICA, London on May 9th, tickets on sale Friday.
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1:52 PM		Gruff Rhys Layer Upon Layer Gruff Rhys N The Almond and the Seahorse 2023 Gruff Rhys, Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals, which obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with Boom Bip. Layer Upon Layer from The Almond and the Seahorse, starring Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
1:55 PM		Overmono Is U Overmono N Good Lies 2023 Overmono, Raised in Wales, siblings Tom and Ed Russell both had successful careers in electronic music before they began collaborating as Overmono -- with Tom known for his hard-edged techno as Truss, and Ed for his rave-instilled bass work as Tessela -- although there was a brief time the brothers performed together as the hardware-based techno duo TR//ER. Is U from the album Good Lies.
2:00 PM		Yaeji For Granted Yaeji N With a Hammer XL Recordings 2023 Kathy Yaeji Lee, known professionally as Yaeji, is an American singer, DJ, and producer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her style blends elements of house music and hip hop with mellow, quiet vocals sung in both English and Korean.
2:02 PM		Mondo Lava Jungle Top Mondo Lava N Mondo Perdutti Primordial Void 2023 Band started in Davis, CA, now in both Oakland and Pamplona.
2:05 PM		the GOLDEN DREGS Before We Fell from Grace N On Grace & Dignity 4AD 2023 The Golden Dregs have signed to 4AD. Cornwall-born songwriter and producer Benjamin Woods has been working under this alter ego for almost a decade, deploying a gruff baritone in that Leonard Cohen/Matt Berninger/Stuart Staples mode over lush and thoughtful arrangements.
2:10 PM		The National Tropic Morning News The National N First Two Pages of Frankenstein 2023 The National is an American rock band of Cincinnati, Ohio natives, formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1999. The band consists of Matt Berninger (vocals), twin brothers Aaron Dessner (guitar, piano, keyboards) and Bryce Dessner (guitar, piano, keyboards), as well as brothers Scott Devendorf (bass) and Bryan Devendorf (drums). CarinBesser, the wife of Matt Berninger, is not a band member but has written lyrics for the band alongside her husband since its 2007 album Boxer.
2:13 PM		Holt Bodish Was it the beginning N Build Yourself a Space Petty Bunco 2022 Home recorded on the floor of a living room in Eugene, OR. Holt Bodish is best known as one third of Montana's finest treble strummers, Mordecai.
2:17 PM		Ian Wayne Gimme Something Ian Wayne Risking Illness Whatever's Clever 2020
2:20 PM		Angry Samoans Inside My Brain Angry Samoans Inside My Brain - EP Nickel and Dime / Triple X Records 1980 The Angry Samoans is an American punk rock band from the first wave of American punk, formed in August 1978 in Los Angeles, California, by early 1970s rock writer "Metal" Mike Saunders, his sibling lead guitarist Bonze Blayk and Gregg Turner, along with original recruits Todd Homer and Bill Vockeroth.
2:22 PM		Gregg Turner Another Lost Heartache Plays the Hits White Noise 2013
2:26 PM		Agitation Free First Communication Agitation Free 2Nd M.i.G - music GmbH 1973 Founded in Berlin, Germany in 1967 - Disbanded in 1974 - Reunited briefly in 1998, 2007 and 2012 A classic of the German space genre. Their current music is a combination of Progressive Rock and New Instrumental Music, with touches of Jazz and passages dedicated to an experimentation near to Ambient. Their originality was due to the blend electronic and repetitive musics with a lot of ethnic elements from North Africa, India, etc. Very much like your early ASH RA TEMPEL, GURU GURU type bands except with a cultural influence.
2:35 PM		Game Theory If and When It Falls Apart Game Theory Real Nighttime Omnivore Recordings 1985
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2:44 PM		King Tuff How I Love King Tuff N Smalltown Stardust Sub Pop Records 2023
2:46 PM		Colin Blunstone Caroline Goodbye Colin Blunstone One Year Legacy Recordings 1971
2:50 PM		Television The Fire (Remastered) Television Adventure Rhino/Elektra 2005 2nd studio album by Television released April 1978.
2:54 PM		Harshmellow Debu Chan (feat. Dale Crover & Buzz Osborne) Harshmellow Harsh Realm 7" (feat. Buzz Osborne & Dale Crover) - Single Draplin Design Co. Records 2021
2:58 PM		Meg Baird Star Hill Song N Furling Drag City 2023

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