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The Sonic Bloom

Feb 29, 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.

Morwan plus much more!

hiiii i am back!

12:02 PM		Morwan zhurba Morwan N svitaye palaye Feel-It 2023
12:04 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:15 PM		Morwan Syayesh Morwan N Svitaye Palaye Feel-It 2023
12:19 PM		Tyler Childers Coal Tyler Childers Bottles and Bibles Hickman Holler Records 2011
12:22 PM		Steve Earle Hard-Core Troubadour Steve Earle I Feel Alright Warner Records 1996
12:24 PM		Colin Blunstone Misty Roses Colin Blunstone One Year Legacy Recordings 1971
12:29 PM		Tim Buckley Once I Was Tim Buckley Goodbye and Hello Rhino/Elektra 1967
12:33 PM		Laura Cantrell Push the Swing Laura Cantrell N Just Like a Rose: The Anniversary Sessions Propeller Sound Recordings 2023 At the Back Porch fest in March in MA. https://lauracantrell.com/
12:36 PM		Mary Timony Summer Mary Timony N Untame the Tiger Merge Records 2024
12:38 PM		Wye Oak Logic of Color Wye Oak N Shriek: Variations Merge Records 2024
12:40 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:52 PM		Fucked Up & No Age No Epiphany Fucked Up & No Age N 44th & Vanderbilt - EP 2024
12:55 PM		Lupo Citta White Braclet Lupo Citta N Lupo Cittá 12XU 2024
12:58 PM		Abigail Lapell Anniversary Song Abigail Lapell N Anniversary Outside Music 2024
1:01 PM		Adrianne Lenker Fool Adrianne Lenker N Bright Future 4AD 2024
1:04 PM		A. Savage Black Holes, the Stars and You A. Savage N Black Holes, the Stars and You - Single Rough Trade 2023
1:10 PM		John Cale You Know More Than I Know John Cale Fear Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1974
1:13 PM		The Sleeveens Give My Regards to the Dancing Girls The Sleeveens N The Sleeveens Dirtnap Records 2024
1:17 PM		Weyes Blood Grapevine Weyes Blood And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow Sub Pop Records 2022
1:28 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:31 PM		The Stooges Loose The Stooges Funhouse Rhino/Elektra 1970
1:34 PM		Can Future Days Can Future Days (Remastered) Mute 2011 Future Days is the fourth studio album by the German experimental rock group Can, released on 1 August 1973 by United Artists.
1:43 PM		Amon Düül II She Came Through the Chimney Amon Düül II Yeti SPV 2006 eti is the second studio album by German rock band Amon Düül II, first released in April 1970 on Liberty as a double LP. The album was produced by Olaf Kübler and Amon Düül II, and engineered by Willy Schmidt, "with a little help of Siegfried E. Loch".
1:47 PM		La Düsseldorf White Overalls La Düsseldorf Viva WM Germany 1978
1:49 PM		Klaus Dinger & Japandorf Udon Klaus Dinger & Japandorf Japandorf Groenland Records 2013
1:54 PM		Faust Flashback Caruso Faust The Faust Tapes Bureau B 2021
1:58 PM		Meg Baird Mosquito Hawks Meg Baird Don't Weigh Down the Light Wichita Recordings 2015
2:01 PM		Alela Diane Take Us Back Alela Diane To Be Still Rough Trade 2008
2:06 PM		Mariee Sioux Buried In Teeth Mariee Sioux A Bundled Bundle of Bundles Mariee Sioux 2006
2:08 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:17 PM		DAF Alles ist gut DAF R Alles Ist Gut Grönland 2018 Going out to Diane! Thanks for the request. Originally from 1981.
2:20 PM		The Pretty Things The Devil Had a Hold of Me The Pretty Things Bare as Bone, Bright as Blood Madfish 2020 Written by David Rawlings, Gillian Welch.
2:24 PM		Conrad Schnitzler Ballet Statique Conrad Schnitzler R Con Bureau B 2020 Going out to Brian M! Thx for the request.:) From Forced Exposure: "Ballet Statique is not only a musical milestone but also a highlight of music production. It was recorded in 1978 at the legendary Paragon Studio, Berlin by Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann in the same period when other masterworks like Cluster's Großes Wasser and solo recordings by Roedelius and Asmus Tietchens were recorded."
2:28 PM		The Stranglers (Get a) Grip [On Yourself] [1996 Remastered Version] The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus Parlophone UK 2001 Rattus Norvegicus (also known as The Stranglers IV) is the debut studio album by English punk rock band the Stranglers, released on 15 April 1977.
2:33 PM		David Bowie Sons of the Silent Age David Bowie "Heroes" (2017 Remaster) Parlophone UK 1977
2:36 PM		Cheap Trick California Man Cheap Trick Heaven Tonight Epic/Legacy 1978
2:40 PM		Sweet Lost Angels Sweet The Best of Sweet Ariola Express 2002 Released in 1977!
2:44 PM		MJ Lenderman Suv MJ Lenderman Boat Songs Dear Life Records 2022
2:45 PM		Roxy Music Triptych Roxy Music Country Life EG Records 1999 Country Life is the fourth studio album by English art rock band Roxy Music, released on 15 November 1974 by Island Records.
2:49 PM		Gary Numan Engineers Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle (30th Anniversary Edition) Beggars Banquet 2009
2:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:56 PM		Translator Necessary Spinning Translator Heartbeats and Triggers Legacy Recordings 1982

Chat is archived.

hiii

HELLO!

DJ Esoterica!

howdy!

Hi Hi Hi all!

hihihi!

thx for coming by you two!

Hello !

Greetings & Salutations, Everyone!

That reminded me a little of One of Our Submarines

hi tom!

what kevin?, the post punk?

The last song

I liked it

@Esoterica (host) Dropping into the Sonic Bloom joint to say, I'm happy about your (knee) joint. I've had both ACL and meniscus surgeries. Yes, ACL is like a building (re)construction process, by comparison the meniscus is like just trimming your plants. Congrats and do whatever P.T. they've given you!

Sry Thomas Dolby

Hello DjE and all

I may need some knee work myself someday. Glad your work went well.

hi travis!

I want bionic knees so bad right now!

Glad to know you are doing well, DJ Esoterica! Big cheers to you!

thanks so much, mr. m

do you ski? travis?

lol mr. m bionic man

I just went snowboarding yesterday, and my knee was now well at the end of the day. Mostly injured from a biking incident a couple years ago.

I need to look into a bionic support apparatus

I took a couple of weeks off in December when I tore a knee ligament. I've been wearing a knee brace to work ever since to be on the safe side. It still hurts when I crouch. I wonder if it will ever get better.

welcome back, Esoterica. was thinking of u last week & glad to hear yr doing ok!

loving this song

yeah tyler is amazing

Sounds like my scenario David. It hasn't really gotten any better in 3 years.

hi jwh! thx!

hi david, sorry to hear that!

you sound like you know what you're talking about, richard for RH! are you a doc?

Welcome back!

thx, brian m!

Him and his son just one sad story

so true

M.Timony lfg!

oh yeah

pretty good stuff no?

yeah, the new MT album rules. she did a great interview on the Kreative Kontrol podcast w Vish Khanna recently

Good Morning from SoCal!

Cloudy

Hey DJ Esoterica!!

Remember Laura Cantrell"s Radio Thrift Shop years ago?

no i don't, david. is it good?

BETTE DAVIS ♥️

yes, love her. did you ever watch that feud show on FX about bette and joan and their feud?

it was a ryan murphy joint

Howdy!

Definitely! So guud! Watching season 2?? Capote vs TheSwans?!?

hi! inspector

Bette shakes the hell out of one actress in a scene and goes a little overboard.

yes of course, mr. m! tom holland embodies truman

so good!

Watch the director’s cut of the pilot and the extras on theHulus!

Imma shake Brian McC and throw him overboard if he doesn’t explain what he’s on about here today!?!

haha

i think maybe in a scene or in real life - which os it?

Capote kinda reminds me of Paul Williams

will do watch! you mean of feud? i am sad to report that for ever it wasn't available ti buy on dvd and i wanted to buy my mom it. but then she passed away, so i could not get it to her.

In the Watcher In The Woods!?! The overboard shaking?? 🫨

i can see that - love paul williams, he seems nicer than truman could be apparently

Yes, Feud! 🦢 🦢

@inspector

no i haven't! is tha old or new? mr. m

that

If you love country, yes. You can look up audio archives from the past 24 years.

Death by Murder has Capote pretty hilarious

i think it is actually murder by death, dear inspector. it was supposed to be a night mare filimng with truman

he was drunk all the time, pills, you name it

Studio 54 days

What? Watcher/Woods? That’s maybe Bette’s final movie. @DJ Esoterica Hulu has good extras for the new season of Feud. I’ll use more words in responses. Sorry. I’m busy this day! L0LZ. I’m not drunk or pill popping rn

💥 🥊

It’s never “Mr Mal”. MrM or MrMalcontent, if you’re nasty 🖤💀

i will watch watcher, for sure, mr. m!

you got it, inspcetor!

sorry for typo!

inspector

Brian McC, seriously… to what are you referring regarding Bette?! This guy right now… 🤣🤔

we wil never know

DJ Esoterica, great first hour! Nice start to the second hour!

will

thx! going through some new music. no mitski lol

Butttt he came back ready to fight 🤣

Phew, never Mutski

I saw “Capote” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2005, but not “Infamous” starring Toby Jones the following year.

don't think i saw infamous

hey mr. m have you watched fellow travelers with matt bomer and jonathan bailey? good!

See what I typed about Mutski in the StitchingPink chat?! DJ Esoterica?

nope

No. It looks good

i didn't, mr. m

Oh. I’m funny. 😆

i will check itout

did you see my question?

You missed my answer. I didn’t add enough words again. Oh bother.

oh i see it now, bailey won the critics choice award

There’s hilarious footage of Paul Williams on Johnny Carson in 1973. He came straight from the set of “Battle for the Planet of the Apes” in full orangutan costume.

Very good! I’ll try it out! Thanks, DJ Esoterica!

That’s BANANAS! @David Shortell!

just don't be weak-kneed by love scenes

i will watch that carson, avid! thx

@david

I didn't see that Johnny Carson David.

or you can be weak-kneed just don't be judge-y haha, mr. m

Bette likes to fight almost as much as Brian McC. Thanks for clarifying!

in fellow travelers, that is

DJ Esoterica, I luv love ❤️

yeah me, too :) mr. m

I did all my fighting in 7th grade

lol brian

a wee bit too mush Irish in me blood

Paul Williams himself says if you look closely you can see dry white crust around his nose on some of those old TV interviews.

I recently saw “The Whales of August”, directed by Lindsay Anderson of Mick Travis Trilogy fame (“If….”, “O Lucky Man”, “Britannia Hospital”). That would’ve been a nice swan song for Bette Davis, but she unfortunately acted next in the dumb flop comedy “Wicked Stepmother“.

I forgot about those films. Whales/August has Vincent Price too! Guud Stuffs.

Figuring it was my last chance, I spent much of Sunday in Red Bank attending a triple feature of this year’s Oscar-nominated short films. You Princeton folk will have a little more time to do so.

David, O Lucky Man is part of a trilogy with the move IF. The keyboard player from the Animals does the music. Alan Price.

ewww stop, inspector!

so many good suggestions!

Saw Crack the Sky at the Ardmore last month. Was great!

cool! never saw them

DJ Esoterica, I hope you like my new picture on the MELVINS new album Tarantula Heart 🕷️🖤 due 19 April

Last time i saw them was in 75!

hey announcement! saturday listen to wfmu for toddophonic's interview with IAN HUNTER!! 3-6 pm

They have an archive. Listen when WPRB does not have a live show!

Wow Holger studied with Stockhausen!

yes, good advice,mr. m

cool, brian!

wow, inspector!

How about some DAF now??!

hey diane, i will see what i can do, any particular songs?

Udon noodle!

https://youtu.be/FWgH0hXZKrE

In case y'all needed a dominoes toppling rabbit hole today

thanks, bri!

i am hungry for udon

Yeah a song about Noodles!

Good in a hot pot

Japanese Krautrock!

Loving this set, by the way

hey bud! thanks!

Dope Faust song, my fave of thiers

hey matt, and i love it, too! a little play on irish spring commercial

Haaaaaaaaa!!

but that would be "and i like it, too!" but i am dating myself.

Marahmallows jump & run, Irish Spring gets the pits clean.

*marshmallows

ha!

I can hear the Irish Spring voice clearly in my head

You're to young to say that you're "dating yourself"

lol bud! time is but a journey:)

If I'm remembering correctly, Esoterica and I are almost exactly the same age

i will be 58 3/13

pisces

6/4 for me!

awesome! same age, right?

Just turned 71 Jan 22

Yep, 1966

cool!

I'm always shocked at how youthful you sound on air!

happy bday,, brian m!

belated

Tanks. Yes sounds like in her 20's

for sure

I don’t know if Mariee Siou is Sioux, but I’m sure Siouxsie Sioux is not.

Does sound like Newsom

58 is GREAT! Erica, how about a trip to Marshall Scotty's?

ha! love it! may have to settle on olde bbq in flinn springs. i hear the people working there are rude but pretty good bbq

at kymm

oops kim!

i have another pal who spells kymm

and happy belated, kim!

Olde BBQ is pretty good! They do get super busy and run out of meat at times.

Nope, I'm in April. exactly one month after yours!

Since you're doing German How about some Konrad Schnitzler?

oh yeah!! paul's was in jan.

paula, i am getting confused, kim

ok brian! any song in particular?

hopefully this will do:) @ brian m

Yep

Thanks

sure thing!

nice to be reminded of him

gotta hop off for a mtg, thx for the great show

aw thanks, jwh!

Great stuffs in hour two and half of hour three! Slow down the clock! ⏰🔨

Ha! Be back next week!

Stoking anticipation

More BIONIC!

yup!

★🖤 DAVID BOWIE 🖤★

Yessssss....

love this album

great song

hell yeah !

tom! you know it! let's rock. do you guys do this one?

I probably think this song is about me, don’t I? *I should check the lyrics 🙃

for sure, mr. m;)

cheap trick!!!

gettin' me dancing! @ andrew g:)

hi!

hi! this set in perfect

thanks

sahweeet! it’s SWEET 💛

hi! Dá Bəng Gôu

we do Surrender but I been pushing for that one

cool, tom!

DJ Esoterica! Many thanks for another TopNotch Show! Take good care! Big cheers and kind regards to you, Lady! 🖤💀

Cheers to all the Dears!

cheers dears!

you're welcome!

thx for coming by!

see ya next week!

Sorry I couldn't be more chatty, but thanks for the great show and happy knee recovery!