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The Sonic Bloom

Jan 4, 2024 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.

Best of 2023 part one!

hey.... there is still time to let me know about your fave music releases of 2023 at esotericawprb@gmail.com. Today we will explore my part one of my list!

12:03 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:10 PM		Emily Robb Hermit's Cave Emily Robb N If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection Petty Bunco 2023
12:16 PM		Emily Robb First Grow a Gold Plant Emily Robb N If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection Petty Bunco 2023
12:23 PM		Heavenly Bodies My Hand Threw a Kiss From My Mouth Heavenly Bodies N Medium 4895626 Records DK 2023
12:33 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:35 PM		Golden Apples Waiting For a Cloud Golden Apples N Bananasugarfire Lame-O Records 2023
12:40 PM		Wild Carnation Susquehanna 142 Wild Carnation N Tricycle (remastered / expanded edition) Delmore Recording Society 2023
12:42 PM		Escape Artist Lovers Punctuation Escape Artist Lovers N Punctuation - Single LaunchLeft 2023
12:47 PM		Swans Why Can't I Have What I Want Any Time That I Want? Swans N The Beggar Mute 2023
1:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:06 PM		mssv Baby Ghost (from the 1900s) [feat. Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt] mssv N Human Reaction (feat. Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt) Joyful Noise Recordings & BIG EGO Records 2023
1:08 PM		mssv Pillow Talk (feat. Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt) mssv N Human Reaction (feat. Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges & Mike Watt) Joyful Noise Recordings & BIG EGO Records 2023
1:17 PM		The Feelies Who Loves the Sun The Feelies N Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground Bar/None Records 2023
1:20 PM		Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band Free From the Guillotine Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band N Dancing on the Edge SOPHOMORE LOUNGE 2023
1:28 PM		Meg Baird Ashes, Ashes Meg Baird N Furling Drag City 2023
1:35 PM		Sarah Mary Chadwick If I Have It In Me At All Sarah Mary Chadwick N If I Have It In Me At All - Single Kill Rock Stars 2023 From SMC: 'I write so many songs that there's always some casualties, some songs that I love that don't end up making it onto a record for reasons other than my affection for them. This is one of those songs. It's a love song written when I felt worried that I didn't have enough to give. And I guess that still remains to be seen.'
1:43 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:46 PM		OFF! Keep Your Mouth Shut OFF! N Keep Your Mouth Shut - Single Fat Possum 2023
1:48 PM		Lifeguard 17-18 Lovesong Lifeguard N Dressed in Trenches - EP Matador 2023
1:52 PM		I Think Like Midnight Spring Looks Mint I Think Like Midnight N Microtonal Honkytonk Quadrapuss Records 2023
1:55 PM		Ethan P. Flynn Abandon All Hope Ethan P. Flynn N Abandon All Hope Young 2023
1:58 PM		PJ Harvey Autumn Term PJ Harvey N I Inside the Old Year Dying Partisan Records / Liberator Music 2023
2:02 PM		Purling Hiss Something in My Basement Purling Hiss N Drag on Girard Drag City 2023
2:06 PM		Focazm Unicorn Focazm N Focazm 3: Fantasy Frequencies Flower Cat Records 2023 From PA!
2:11 PM		Fog Lamp Anxious Stargazing Fog Lamp N Anxious Stargazing The Bucket Records 2023
2:13 PM		Dippers Tightening the Tangles Dippers N Clastic Rock Goner 2023 Off-kilter DIY Pop. Formerly known as Thigh Master. Based in Naarm "Australia."
2:20 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:26 PM		Ibex Clone Sound of the Skyline Ibex Clone N All Channels Clear Goner 2023
2:29 PM		Melenas Dos Pasajeros Melenas N Ahora Mushroom Pillow 2023 From Pamplona, Spain.
2:35 PM		Skull Practitioners Leap Skull Practitioners N Negative Stars In The Red 2023 From New York! Three piece featuring Jason Victor (current lead guitarist in the Dream Syndicate), Kenneth Levine and Alex Baker. This band's brand of heavy psych post punk skronk is some of the coolest sounds we've heard in eons and we are excited to be working with them! (From In The Red Records)
2:39 PM		Ivan Julian Can't Help Myself Ivan Julian N Swing Your Lanterns Pravda Records 2023
2:42 PM		En Attendant Ana Black Morning En Attendant Ana N Principia Trouble In Mind Records 2023 (From Paris!) En Attendant Ana is: Margaux Bouchaudon Camille Fréchou Maxence Tomasso Adrien Pollin Vincent Hivert
2:45 PM		Lewsberg An Ear To The Chest Lewsberg N Out And About Lewsberg Records 2023 A WPRB fave last year, for sure. From Rotterdam. Recorded by Yulya Divakova at Schenk Studio in 2023. Mixed by Yulya Divakova and Michiel Klein. Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk. Lewsberg are Shalita Dietrich (bass guitar, vocals), Michiel Klein (guitar, keys), Marrit Meinema (drums, vocals) and Arie van Vliet (guitar, violin, vocals).
2:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:53 PM		Sweeping Promises Shadow Me Sweeping Promises N Good Living Is Coming for You Feel It Records 2023
2:55 PM		Equipment Pointed Ankh Trucks to Gettysburg Equipment Pointed Ankh N Downtown Torn Light 2023

Chat is archived.

DJ ESOTERICA! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

hay

happy new year MrM & DJE!

Happy new year, stevie p and mr. m!

Happy Days to you, Stevie P!

Happy New Year! 🎉✨

Happy new year! Kim!

Happy new year everyone!

Happy new year, Rob from Maryland!

No more Merryland, alas!

WestSiiidddeeeKIM, Happy 2024! Also, RobFromMaryland! 🎉

Nice noises to start the show!

Thanks, Mr. M!

hallo peoples. hooray for 2024 (we made it!) and hooray for Emily Robb <3

By popular demand, I have restored Merryland

Hello all and 2024!

Howdy Esoterica and MrM

And Travis, jwh, West Side Kim, stevie p

Merry New Year Rob!

New Yearz Cheerz to Everyone! 🌀🌀📢

Hello ALL

happy new year, travis!

happy new year, brian!

happy new year, jwh!

It’s The Most Wonderful Time… For A BEER!🍺

you got it, but i am doing a cleanse wahhh

Oh. It’s only 9:30am here 🥺

well at least until the eagles game sunday!

haha never stopped me

Hahahaha

i get nervous on planes so i had a hot dog and beer at the colo. springs airport once. it seemed to calm me down

oh yeah at 6 AM

LOL - California crew is all here

best breakfast 🏆

10:30 here and ready for beer!

Breakfast burrito, w/ bacon for the win

Smothered in green chili!

vegan steak quesadilla for the slim win 🥇

oh yeah! mr. m

Come for the jams, stay for the burrito talk

i'll take mine with hatch chiles in red and green in new mexico, travis!

hi, kelly! yummm...

yup, i get it!

Hi from east county san diego!

whattttttt!/ yes! what is your favorite tacquieria?

Def Feelies thing going on ya

El Rancho on Mission Gorge in Santee is regular go to

oh need to try it! i used to go to the sombrero in lakeside (but then i recently checked on yelp). don't look at yelp! they used tp have a mean mixed bean and beef burrito.

i used to go some place for fish tacos in OB. and of course lobster in puerto nuevo. in october i went to a classic menudo place in berrio logan. i just got tacos, no menudo.

barrio

I usually go to Roberto's across the street from Sombrero

i am hungry!!

CLEANSE IT 🧘‍♀️

Las cuatro milpas is my favorite place in Barrio Logan

yup! started with apple cider vinegar and blackstrap molasses this am, haha

las cuatro milpas is where i went! amazing. love the vibe, the history! plaza de la raza!

Excellent!

Old cleanse remedy is all Grapefruit diet

love grapefruit

SWANS 🤍 🦢🦢

Do you use Baargs Apple Cider Vinegar?

yes! brian

agree and concur, mr. m

🖤💀

good Book for old remedies: Jethro Kloss "Back to Eden"

Las Quatro Milpas! YAAAAAS!

Made a few dozen homemade corn tortillas last week. Shredded chicken thighs first batch of tacos. Then next day pulled pork carnitas in the slow cooker. Mmmm

And Kelly, I live across the street from El Rancho! Love that place. and now they serve cocktails!

Brian, pulled pork carnitas! Me want now.

Peedro schpiel. Watt style.

loved 'lincoln in the bardo' <3

crazy book but i loved it

so moving about abe lincoln's son willy

Sounds like some recent work by John Zorn and Bill Frizzel

oh yeah cool, brian m

MAIN STEAM STOP VALVE 🩶

yessssss

You have a window in the studio. Look to the south. Some major clouds.

uh oh in central joisey?

i know we're getting snow saturday

Lawrence Welk's orchestra did a version of Who love's the sun - It's on youTube

it actually works well in the welk vein, i can see it

all those bapapapas

Yumpin Yimmeny!

ha!

Not sure there's a song I've listened to more recently than this Ryan Davis tune.

amazing, right!?

i am sorry i didn't get to see them at jerry's but happy you got to!

DJ Esoterica, such a finely curated First Half of your Look Back at 2023 Favourites! Cheers!

awesome, so glad you like!

hey it's a Jon Solomon *waves from indiana*

i've been away from the keyboard, but really enjoying this set DJ Esoterica

Hey hey!

thank you, jwh:)

Hey jwh, where in Indianer?

This latest lineup in OFF! is pretty spectacular

amazing, francis! caught them at the casbah in october in SD

I did find this much: https://www.openculture.com/2017/09/the-velvet-underground-meets-lawrence-welk.html

Dang it - I was too chicken about Covid to see them in the fall up here in SF

i get it!

thx, brian!

Guys in that MSSV picture look my age

they are great dudes!

baggetta is a little younger

which is which is which

L to R Stephen Hodges, Mike Baggetta, and Mike Watt

Watt calls Hodges "Hodge"

Kept his old bass and love their clock

i wonder if that was taken in the studio or a club?

Looks like a club judging by the bench seat

PJ HARVEY ❤️‍🔥

Thanks for playing OFF! Keith Morris always a blast of truthiness

yes! matt! he is great on stage too. loved his autobiography my damage.

i love pj! i listened to dry over and over in 1993!! @mr. m

Me too, very candid.

HURLING wait

no hurling

PURLING HISS❣️

love!

wooo!

woo yourself, andrew!

happy new year!

or wooo!

happy new yar!

year

i saw purling hiss last summer in flemington of all places

wow i missed it, how was DIY?

flemington diy right?

yes, it's a nice little place.

it feels like it could be an office if they put some desks in there

it's weird seeing punk or hardcore bands there because, unlike most diy venues, it doesn't look like a dump

Pffffftttthahaha

gotta dip out, cheers all and thanks for the great show DJ Esoterica.

catch ya next time, jwh!

cheers, jwh! thx for stopping by!

Dumps were great places to play in. Like the Court Tavern

oh yeah i bet!

lol or City Gardens

don’t say Dump on air 🙊

city gardens and cbgb were definitely unwholesome

DIY does Jazz

I can smell the Bathroom at CBGB's right now Ode D Vomit

Wonder which artists/bands are next?

Did LEWSBERG make the list??

yes!:)

aces!

you're aces!

yooouuuu aaarrrhhhhh!

;)

🖤💀

i don't know if i will get to it this week, but def next week!

I’m cry

J/K! I’ll be here!

About 56 or 57 minutes into Amos Poe’s “The Foreigner”, the Cramps descend the stairs to the CBGB men’s room and assault Amos. It still had stalls in 1977.

https://archive.org/details/The.Foreigner.1978.Amos.Poe.DVDRip.Xvid.ShareHair

We successfully moved the bathroom comments down the chat! 😡 this guy right now 🤬🤣

this one… ¡me encanta!

me, too!

I barely remember the photo shoot for this album cover ☠️

haha

SKR0NKin’ it up today!

ivan's voice still rocks!

EN ATTENDANT ANA❗️

Ivan Julien will play at 503 Third Street in Hoboken on Sunday.

oh sweet! thx david

yes and yes! mr. m

Jingle Hellz Yeeaahh!

LEWSBERG❣️❣️❣️

Another too quick 3 hours! Tanks for the tunes!

Big cheers to you DJ Esoterica! I think LEWSBERG are worthy of making next week’s show too! Wink! 😉

Big cheers to all of you!

And beers to all!

Frosty Mugs!

🥶

Cheers to the Music of 2023!

DJ Esoterica, appreciate all your attention to detail for making another TopNotch Show! Many thanks and kind regards to you, Lady! 🖤💀

love a frosty mug!

whoa, almost 3 already! cheers to all

thanks so much mr. m! i love the reserach too, as a former history major lol.

cheers to all!

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Ears and Cold Beers!!

Also, impressed with sticking to your cleanse! Fighting!

yes ! no drinks for me for a little bit

unless it is kombucha ha

cheers dears!