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The Sonic Bloom

Mar 7, 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.

Movie madness (a teeny bit o') and more!

hi!!

12:02 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan V/A World Music Network 2005
12:04 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
12:07 PM		The Olivia Tremor Control California Demise (3) The Olivia Tremor Control Black Foliage: Animation Music (Remastered) Cloud Recordings 2004
12:10 PM		Death Freakin Out Death ...For the Whole World to See Drag City Records 2009
12:14 PM		PJ Harvey Prayer at the Gate PJ Harvey I Inside the Old Year Dying Partisan Records 2023
12:17 PM		Songs: Ohia Farewell Transmission Songs: Ohia The Magnolia Electric Co. Secretly Canadian 2003
12:24 PM		Elf Power Step Through the Portal Elf Power When the Red King Comes Orange Twin 1997
12:26 PM		Pavement Internal K-Dart Pavement Westing (By Musket and Sextant) Matador 1993
12:28 PM		Grey Factor No Emotion Needed Grey Factor N 1979 - 1980 A.D - Complete Studio Recordings V/A Damaged Disco 2023 Pioneers of the Los Angeles underground art damage electronic music scene, Grey Factor have been more myth than legend for over 40 years. The band recorded two experimental synth/post-punk EPs and gigged sparingly before disbanding. None of their recordings have been officially released in physical format until now. 1979-1980 A.D. - Complete Studio Recordings includes Grey Factor’s two studio EPs remastered from the original analogue tapes and pressed on limited edition vinyl with a 16-page color booklet including archival photos, documents and flyers chronicling the band’s brief existence. It marks the launch of Damaged Disco, the new label founded by producer and musician Dave Trumfio (Pulsars, The Mekons).
12:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:38 PM		Holt Bodish Near and Far Build Yourself a Space Petty Bunco 2022
12:42 PM		Mac McCaughan The Sound of Yourself (Acoustic) Mac McCaughan The Sound of Yourself (Acoustic Versions) - EP Merge Records 2022
12:46 PM		Small Thing & Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons Liberty Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons N 20 Jazz Punk Greats Flamingo Records 2023
12:49 PM		Blank Spell Echo Chamber Blank Spell Miasma World Gone Mad Records 2017
12:52 PM		Chris Brokaw Heaven Heaven Released October 2, 2020 Chris Brokaw: electric guitar. Fender Jaguar, Nolatone 22 Tango, Analogman King of Tone, Michael Duane 117 flanger, MXR Carbon Copy Recorded October 1, 2020, Cambridge MA. Cover of Heaven from the Stones's Tattoo You (1981). From Chris's description: "Tattoo You" was the last great Rolling Stones album...enough people have said it now so it must be true. It came out my senior year of high school and it felt like it was ours. I saw them twice on that tour and they were awesome. Side two always felt like a unique suite. "Heaven" seemed the most narcotic song in their catalog, even before I really understood what narcotic meant. Oddly, then, one of the few recordings of theirs that doesn't include Keith Richards. Bill Wyman played guitar, synthesizer and bass; Mick Jagger sang and added some guitar; Charlie Watts played drums. I know, weird. "Tattoo You" is this weird outtake rummage sale album, I really love it.
1:22 PM		Neil Hannon Song for Ten Neil Hannon Doctor Who (Original Television Soundtrack) Silva Screen Records Ltd 2006
1:25 PM		Renata Zeiguer Burning Castle Renata Zeiguer Picnic in the Dark Northern Spy Records 2022
1:30 PM		French Vanilla Evolution of a Friendship French Vanilla Typical Girls Volume Four V/A Emotional Response 2018 Made up of vocalist Sally Spitz, guitarist Ali Day, saxophonist and bassist Daniel Trautfield, and drummer Max Albeck, and formed while Day and Spitz were students at UCLA, French Vanilla have steadily built up a fanbase with their uncompromising and thoroughly infectious music, which is just as much informed by performance art as it is by the post-punk music they set out to emulate (Day learned to play guitar specifically for the band and still doesn’t know basic chords.)
1:34 PM		SCHANDE 501 Schande Typical Girls Volume Four V/A Emotional Response 2018 From London! https://allthingsschande.bandcamp.com/track/501
1:36 PM		Warm Drag Butch Things Warm Drag Butch Things - Single Six Tonnes De Chair Records 2021 From In the Red bio: The two people in Warm Drag do specific things. Vashti Windish sings, the way Siouxsie sang power, the way Nico sang allure, the way Patti sang sex. Paul Quattrone makes the noise with two Akai MPC 1000 samplers. Beats that pummel or seduce, usually simultaneously, synths that soar like Morricone or pump like DAF, and gloriously twangy guitars that clang and echo like Duane Eddy spiraling down a k-hole.
1:39 PM		Euroshima El Me Mira Y Se Va Euroshima Gala Euroshima were an mid 80's post-punk/goth band, formed in Buenos Aires.
1:44 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:49 PM		Simon & Garfunkel The Sounds of Silence Simon & Garfunkel Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Columbia 1964 From Mike Nichols' The Graduate.
1:52 PM		Randy Crawford Street Life Randy Crawford Jackie Brown (Music from the Miramax Motion Picture) Maverick 1997
1:56 PM		Skeeter Davis (Theme From) A Summer Place Skeeter Davis Singin' in the Summer Sun RCA/Legacy 1966
1:58 PM		Audrey Hepburn & Henry Mancini Moon River (From "Breakfast at Tiffany's") Henri Mancini Soundtrack Classics 1961
2:02 PM		Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra The Ecstacy of Gold Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra Music from "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" & "A Fistful of Dollars" & "For A Few Dollars More"
2:03 PM		Preening Big Big Brain Preening Discography 2016-2020 Peroquébien 2021
2:04 PM		Preening Associated Press Preening Discography 2016-2020 Peroquébien 2021
2:05 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:08 PM		The Grass Roots Midnight Confessions The Grass Roots The Grass Roots San Juan Music 1971 On Jackie Brown soundtrack (1997)
2:14 PM		The Seekers Georgy Girl The Seekers Georgy Girl Oldays Records 2018 Georgy Girl is a 1966 British romantic comedy film directed by Silvio Narizzano and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, and Rachel Kempson (Redgrave's mother).
2:16 PM		Dionne Warwick Alfie Dionne Warwick The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits Rhino 2005 Alfie is a 1966 British comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Michael Caine. The Paramount Pictures release was adapted from the 1963 play of the same name by Bill Naughton. Following its premiere at the Plaza Theatre in the West End of London on 24 March 1966, the film became a box office success, enjoying critical acclaim, and influencing British cinema. Going out to Kay! My mom!
2:19 PM		Robert Goulet If Ever I Would Leave You Robert Goulet Camelot (Original 1960 Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway 1960 Lerner and Loewe is the partnership between lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe.
2:22 PM		Pete Townshend Amazing Journey Tommy (Remastered) Polydor Records 2000 Tommy is a soundtrack album by The Who with contributions from numerous artists. The soundtrack was used in the 1975 Tommy film that was based on the original album that was released by The Who in 1969.
2:26 PM		Charles Gerhardt & National Philharmonic Orchestra A Place In The Sun - Suite Charles Gerhardt Conducts Classic Film Scores Sony Classical 1972 One of my fave films from 1951. Monty was so amazing.
2:34 PM		Barbra Streisand People Barbra Streisand Funny Girl (Original Soundtrack Recording) Columbia 1968
2:38 PM		Cleavon Little I Get a Kick Out of You Blazing Saddles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [40th Anniversary Edition] WaterTower Music 2014
2:40 PM		Chaim Topol, Paul Mann & "Fiddler on the Roof" Motion Picture Chorus To Life Fiddler on the Roof (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) EMI/EMI Records (USA) 1971
2:45 PM		Liza Minnelli Maybe This Time Liza Minnelli Cabaret (Original 1972 Movie Soundtrack) Geffen 1972
2:52 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:56 PM		Paul McCartney & Wings Live and Let Die Paul McCartney & Wings Red Rose Speedway (Special Edition) [2018 Remaster] Paul McCartney Catalog 2018 Live and Let Die is a 1973 spy film. It is the eighth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Guy Hamilton and produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, while Tom Mankiewicz wrote the script. Although the producers had approached Sean Connery to return after Diamonds Are Forever (1971), he declined and a search for a new actor led to Moore being signed.
2:58 PM		The London Theatre Orchestra The Guns of Navarone The London Theatre Orchestra Classic War Movie Themes Music Collection International 1997

Chat is archived.

heyyyy

Hey Girl Haaayyyy

Hey DJE

hayyyyyyy

hey stevie p!

hi, mr. m

Hi, DJ Esoterica!

Is this real life??

mr. m, did you start watching fellow travelers? i need to watch the latest truman & the swans.

hahaha mr. m

Hey DJE! Love me some Death! Hope the knee is better1`

yeah, what just happened???

aw thanks, travis!

i still have one steristrip (gross) but i just called and made an appt. for PT for the 19th so progress?

I have not started the recommendation. Boo. Want me to start asap?

wait til the show is over lol

I’m not current on Feud either. Darn it all to heck! 📕 🦢 🦢

Haha

Apples in Stereo as well in the Elephant 6 fam

yes yes bri, love them and i will play! thx for the reminder

didyou see the doc?

TheOscars™️ this weekend and only a few movie soundtracks today?!? The outrage!

When is the bionic knee getting installed?!? 🦿

ha! that s bc i am still healing so not too prepared! @mr. m

but you know i have watched all the awards ceremonies and i will be totally watching this sunday. you?

I seriously feel bad for ya, DJ Esoterica! Follow all instructions from medical professionals and keep up with physical therapy.

Yes, I’ll be tuned in. 🏆

will do, mr. m! thank you:)

what are your fave pix ofthe year?

i watched all of them except for MI i think. i loved past lives, the holdovers, and american fiction

I’ve not seen any of the nominated films 🤡👻🙀😹

Jason Molina!

SONGS: OHIA ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 JASON MOLINA 💔❤️

yes i love, mr. m:)

yup, bri. what a talent. r.i.p.

Hola from SoCal!

hola, kim!

only saw a few of noiminated films , but of those Killers of Flower Moon was excellent

true, tom, but so depressing

i hope lily gets the oscar

Me too! Even though I haven't seen the movie yet, I think I will get too heartbroken and mad

i read the book, too

I’ve been aggressively denying myself sleep this past week so I can catch all the Oscar nominated flicks in the theater while they’re still screening–Past Lives, The Zone of Interest, All of Us Strangers (actually a British Academy Film Award nominee). I missed Anatomy of a Fall though. There’s still time this weekend to see the nominated short movies in Red Bank.

There was discussion about Laura Cantrell on last week’s show. She’ll perform May 5 at the Old Franklin Schoolhouse in Metuchen!

PAVEMENT ❤️‍🔥

and PJ HARVEY 🩷

sweet, david!

i actually liked zone of interest and anatomy of a fall. sandra huller is great

insert umlaut

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

cheers thanks!! west coast!

WestSiiidddeee! 🆒

I gotta look into GREY FACTOR 🩶

woot woot!

can you believe it?

I forgot about "Oppenheimer". I watched the first half hour on a recent flight. Then I got airsick and had to turn it off.

no i can't kim. will be good to see ya!

oh noooo, david!

OOO i gotta buy my tix!

i think they jsut went up five bucks cine march 1

Popping in saying Hello!

inspector! hi

11 years ago, I called a radio station to win tickets for Death at Le Poisson Rouge. I gave one to somebody standing in front of me in the line outside the venue. It turned out to be the same radio staffer I spoke to on the phone.

lol david

Stones Heaven!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HuYUaSjNU

i love tattoo you!

great album

Yep bought that when it came out. Listening Booth. Oxford Valley Mall. The big round orange sticker. Probably $4.99 or $5.99

chris brokaw said the last great stones album

1 of those weird moments where it's just Mick and 1 or 2 other people on the recording. No Keef. Mick's rhythm gtr style. Chris has the gtr part almost exact

Mick Jagger that is. Not a slouch on rhy gtr. Mick Taylor is on that lp on some parts too. Leftover tracks. He had to pursue getting credit on the lp years later.

wow, deep dive, thanks bri

I think Moonlight Mile is another where it's no Keef. And Sway has Keef just doing backing vox no gtr.

(diff LP not Tattoo but ya)

god i love that song. Sticky Fingers is my fave album maybe next to Exile.

Moonlight Mile rules

oh god and SWay

Sway

Moonlight Mile big Sopranos soundtrack moment

oh yeah remind me of the scene

scenes

Both of those songs heavy on the Mick Taylor ya

those were used in in Sopranos

this is starting to feel like its on a loop

ha! but it is a chris brokaw loop so i don;t mind

Had to look it up... mid season finale of season 6 part 1. Next part was over a year later... they took their time they did

Chris's bandcamp: Released October 2, 2020 Chris Brokaw: electric guitar. Fender Jaguar, Nolatone 22 Tango, Analogman King of Tone, Michael Duane 117 flanger, MXR Carbon Copy Recorded October 1, 2020, Cambridge MA.

lol bandcamp has the time listed as 31:05 is it really that long ?

yup, hang tight we have 15 min to go lol

only at wprb

i feel it is sacrilege to transition before it is time (like orson welles's "no wine" ad)

I must tune out now. I trust I’ll see all of you at Jack’s Music Shoppe on Sunday when James Mastro of the Bongos performs. Tony Shanahan and Megan Reilly will join him.

sweet! love james mastro!

ybe david

bye

Trance inducing. Love it. Great bed music for DJ show up for grabs

sure! absolutely

the glitch music is on the automated playlist from earlier today. 🤑🤑🤑

this is what genius says about this track: Keith Richards didn’t play guitar on this track; Bill Wyman (the bassist) played guitar/synthesizer/bass; Mick played guitar on the track and the only other performer was Charlie on the drums.

they're talking about mick taylor, right?

oh no

was there glitch music?

you better be kidding;)

No it looks like the early am robot acutally played that track. I will always defend Calypso Kings ... "Ma Gee" and others. Great lp. Great funky Finnish players. I have heard some really annoying "on hold" phone music in my time. WPRBs hold music is great!

@mr.

mr. m!

deleted! i see you, mr. m

Not during your show. Before 7am.

It was full of typos.

no i know, but you said my show is a sad show??!!

i'm full of typos lol

Why would I say SAD SHOW?! I mistyped THIS as THISSSSS?!? WTF 🤬

And again.... it is not called "Funky Drummer"! That is the title of a great song by Mr James Brown !!! The most sampled drum beat ever from Mr Clyde Stubblefield!

The flanger makes it ha!

Good stuff! I'm still here

speaking of Keith Richard , his new cover of Waiting For My Man is great https://youtu.be/5NcJvi5TYEk?si=-H9uJ2Og1EgfxBeH

RS started the 1981 tour off at the late great JFK Stadium in Philly. The soundboard recordings are out there in the net. Cool to hear them at that start just trying to get the huge stadium show together. Then compared to the Let's Spend the Night.... official concert film release later culled from diff performances later in the tour. HAL ASHBY!

Ya love that Tom. Way to go Keef shouting out to Louuuoooouuuuuu

I heard that cover yesterday. Loved it!

Strange trivia from the 2 Philly 1981 tour opener shows, at 1 of them Ron Wood lost his ring (he was on another planet on that tour whew). And he mentions in on mic... then I think they found it later...??? Have to look that up again.

ilove hall ashby!

hi amy!

Sad Typos

ha okay

mr. m

Ashby Hall

hal ashby!!

Hall and Ashby... Oates was fired

true!

T H I S

Y E S

getting Siouxsie vibes on this one

Very enjoyable set of tunes you’ve got going on here! #EnjoyableShow! #NiceNoises! #BigThanks! #DJ•Esoterica!

thanks, mr. m!

Flockter Hue

huh??

No, no Doctor Who

here's your movie madness lol

SLIMON CARBUNCLE

no, no SIMON GARFUNKEL

okay haha

Is this an alternate take?

hi brian m, maybe?

I seem to remember drums on this

it sounds more produced in the film, no?

was thinking same thing Brian

Kind of poignant during election year.

It's a Catch-22

via wikipedia The song had earlier been released in an acoustic version on the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., and later on the soundtrack to the movie The Graduate. Without the knowledge of Paul Simon or Art Garfunkel, electric guitars, bass and drums were overdubbed under the direction of Columbia Records staff producer Tom Wilson on June 15, 1965.[3][4] This new version was released as a single in September 1965, and opens the album.

Yeah that had to be a stripped down alt take. I remember one came out at some point. All the Wrecking Crew layer caked extras were not there (And I liked it!)

NO POLITICS

I like this right here

I AGREE Mr M!

thx for the info tom

I remember Art G had some comments about disliking all the bells & whistles on that.

interesting, bri

A lot of songs are more powerful with less

Jackie Brown!

love that film!

agree, brian m

this is the year i was born

maybe i should do some of those 1966 songs next week

my bday is the 13th

I heard Rhapsody in Blue with just a Quartet had some extra rawness to it.

jerry did 1964, but has he done 1966?

1966!

letssssss goooooo

I'm a 13 too!

really?! inspector. what month?

June

I'm April 13th!

TRUMAN CAPOTE • so poisonous

Born under a bad sign

ha!

Breakfast at Tiffany's needs to be re-filmed with it's original intent.

Is this from the film?

Sounds like a spaghetti western

now this is NOT on a movie, but i will return to films

lol

Just keep telling yourself, it's only a movie

hahah

Kinda James Whitish

Your brain on

Jerry Gordon has a credit in the book "Space is the Place" the author says he could not have done the book with out his help.

that is great! we love jerry!

There's a new compilation of girl singers that Joe Meeks produced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IChKec9sEts

Georgy Girl by the Baja Marimba Band!

sweet!! bri

and brian!

I love Dionne. Had her 8 track tape. LOL

Dion - a Jersey girl - Essex county

sweet, kim

jersey girl! dionne

Awww, DJ EsotericaMom 💝

Sorry Dionne

Now this reminds me of that short lived HBO series "vinyl"

WOW! Goulet brings back memories...

How did he wind up in Beetlejuice?

true, kim. i got to see the revival of camelot last year

on broadway

Where? In NJ?

Yes. Hot dogs on Broadway. Thanks you for the musics.

Did have an amazing voice

sure thing!:)

Many hours listening to Tommy on HiFi when I was a kid.

Anyone see the B-way of this?

i didn't

I was busy that day

lol mr. m

The Who went to India met Maher Baba the guru and hung out with him and then wrote Tommy

I was busy that day too

Robert Goulet certainly had A Voice. And back in the days when Broadway performers weren't wearing individual mic packs but had to fill those big theaters, their own lungs and diaphrams being their only amplification.

SHELLEY WINTERS ❤️

true richard

oh yes, love shelley!

ELIZABETH TAYLOR 💖

I haven’t seen this movie either 🤠

i love the director geroge stevens, he did "giant", too.

with my other fave, james dean

Yes Richard they had to be real singers back then.

OK now I'm downstairs at my parents house.

i love all those fifties method actors, also marlon brando

ha, kim

Nick Adams was in Giant

what did he play? the other brother besdies dennis hopper?

besides? or was there another brother? ha

@inspector

I may be confusing him with Sal Mineo

i think my dad went to high school with sal in north hollywood

Bad what happened to him

al though my dad was born in 1934 and sal in 1939 so maybe just knew him form town

*although

i just recall stu talking about sal mineo

I haven’t seen any of these movies. No Spoilers!

The Apartment has a great score too.

what a great film! the apartment (big jack lemmon fan here)

okey dokey, mr. m

funny, gurl

haha

Stu...

awwww

your dad is regis, right?

💕

Grew up listening to movie scores, musicals and Broadway music.

Yes!

Who names their kid Regis right?

Regis as in Regis Philbin?

I’m lucky because I need WPRB… Great Show! Thank You!

Streisand's range is so

aw thx mike o!

BIG!

inspector, nick was in giant and rebel without a cause

Cole Porter - Is this from Blazing Saddles?

Zero!!

yes, cleavon from BS, brian m

this here is topol fomr the film, zero mostel on broadway, right?

from

Zero did it first on Broadway - and I think one night with a broken leg

wow

he was a great artist too

Remember listening to the cabaret soundtrack at my house? It was your record.

Good times...

Dropping off to eat. Have a great week! Happy Birthday E!

DJ Esoterica! Many thanks for another Grand Show! Big cheers! Kind regards to you, Lady! 🖤💀

Cheers Dears!

King of Hearts - Favorite movie - There was a theater in Cambridge MA that played just that movie

who was the french actress, brian m in that?

Happy Birthday, DJ Esoterica❣️ 🎂🎁💝🎉

thanks kindly, mr. m:) don't look a day older haha

You look MARVELOUS!

🖤💀

ha, thx!