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The Sonic Bloom

Nov 18, 2025 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Hey, Tuesday!

Let's gooo...

5:00 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Scorpio's View Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:06 PM		Helios Creed The Descent Helios Creed X-Rated Fairy Tales Cleopatra Records 1985 Helios Creed is an American guitarist, singer and bandleader. He first came to prominence in the mid-1970s with the San Francisco band Chrome.
5:09 PM		ASMODI BIZARR The Bride (Remastered) ASMODI BIZARR Sunsierra (Remastered) - EP BÜRO Records 1985 German band from Düsseldorf, established 1980 under the name "Aspirin".
5:16 PM		The Sound I Can't Escape Myself The Sound Jeopardy Rhino 1979 The Sound were an English post-punk band, formed in South London in 1979 and dissolved in 1988. They were fronted by Adrian Borland, and evolved from his previous band, the Outsiders.
5:22 PM		The Sound Skeletons The Sound From the Lion's Mouth Rhino 1981
5:24 PM		Tuxedomoon No Tears Tuxedomoon Desire / No Tears Crammed Discs 1980 Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement.
5:28 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:32 PM		Scars Author! Author! (Demo) Scars Demos Cherry Red Records 2020 Author! Author! is the only studio album by the Scottish post-punk band Scars. It was released in 1981. Robert King - vocals Paul Research - electric guitar, piano, backing vocals John Mackie - bass guitar, backing vocals Stephen McLaughlin - drums, percussion
5:35 PM		Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Talk About the Weather Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Talk About the Weather (Bonus Tracks) Anagram Records 1984 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, also known very briefly as the Lorries, are an English rock band formed in Leeds in early 1981 by guitarist and songwriter Chris Reed, vocalist Mark Sweeney, bassist Steve Smith and drummer Mick Brown.
5:39 PM		Sad Lovers & Giants Things We Never Did Sad Lovers & Giants Epic Garden Music Midnight Music Records 1981 Sad Lovers & Giants are an English rock band from Watford, Hertfordshire, England, which formed in 1980.
5:43 PM		The Snake Corps Crimson and Clover The Snake Corps More Than the Ocean Midnight Music Records 1990 The Snake Corps were formed form former members of Sad Lovers & Giants in 1984.
5:47 PM		The Monochrome Set Inside Your Heart Eligible Bachelors (Deluxe Edition) Cherry Red Records 1981 The Monochrome Set formed in London in 1978, after guitarist/vocalist Bid and guitarist Lester Square chose to leave The B-Sides (now Adam & The Ants) and start their own band. After being joined by bassist Jeremy Harrington and drummer J.D. Crowe, The Monochrome Set signed onto Rough Trade Label and issued three singles in 1979.
5:51 PM		Kinski Do You Like Long Hair? Kinski N Stumbledown Terrace V/A Comedy Minus One 2025 A quarter century later, Seattle noise-rock stalwarts Kinski are still grinding it out with a vengeance. For their first release in seven years, guitarist Chris Martin, bassist Lucy Atkinson and drummer Barrett Wilke have scaled back to their power-trio essence. Produced by Tim Green (Nation Of Ulysses) at his Louder Studios in Grass Valley, Calif. https://magnetmagazine.com/2025/03/20/magnet-exclusive-kinski-goes-track-by-track-on-stumbledown-terrace/
5:57 PM		Public Body Dimension Public Body N Finger Food Public Body Recordings 2025 From Bristol, UK.
6:00 PM		Tre Orsi Faulkner's Blues Tre Orsi Devices + Emblems Comedy Minus One 2010 Tre Orsi is a trio from Denton, Texas that plays tense, dynamic rock music. https://treorsi.bandcamp.com/album/devices-emblems
6:03 PM		Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington Mountain Time Jake Xerxes Fussell N Rebuilding Fat Possum Records / Crowded Table 2025 Score for a new film! https://www.jakexerxesfussell.com/home/rebuildingsoundtrack
6:05 PM		The Chatham Singers Evil Thing The Chatham Singers Juju Claudius Damaged Goods 2009
6:07 PM		The Make-Up They Live By Night The Make-Up Destination: Love – Live! at Cold Rice Dischord 1996 The Make-Up is an American post-punk band from Washington, D.C. formed in 1995, consisting of ex-Nation of Ulysses frontman Ian Svenonius on vocals, James Canty on guitar and organ, Steve Gamboa on drums, and Michelle Mae on bass guitar.
6:14 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:20 PM		Todd Snider Like a Force of Nature (feat. Jason Isbell) Todd Snider Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 Aimless Records 2019 RIP Todd Snider. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/todd-snider-email-tribute-1235466430/
6:24 PM		Gene Autry Down Mexico Way (feat. Fay McKenzie & The Herrera Sisters) Gene Autry South of the Border: Gene Autry Sings Songs of Old Mexico Varese Sarabande 2010
6:24 PM		Nina Simone Little Girl Blue Nina Simone Little Girl Blue (Remastered) Bethlehem Jazz 1958
6:28 PM		Nina Simone Ne Me Quitte Pas Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You Verve 1965 Written by Jacques Brel.
6:32 PM		Terry Jacks If You Go Away Terry Jacks Seasons In The Sun (Expanded Edition) Arista/Legacy 1974
6:36 PM		Carleen Anderson Maybe I'm Amazed Up To Now: The Best of Carleen Anderson Parlophone Catalogue 2004 Paul Weller is on guitar here! From Anderson's 1998 release Blessed Burden.
6:40 PM		The Chameleons Up the Down Escalator The Chameleons Script of the Bridge (Remastered) Blue Apple Music 1982
6:43 PM		Second Layer Save Our Souls Second Layer World Of Rubber Cherry Red Records 1980 Spin-off of The Sound. The duo's first release was the Flesh as Property EP, released in 1979 by Tortch-R Records. This was followed by another EP the following year, State of Emergency. The band's only studio album, World of Rubber, was released in 1981.
6:47 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:54 PM		Claramae Turner You'll Never Walk Alone Claramae Turner Lebendige Vergangenheit - Claramae Turner Preiser Records 2007
6:55 PM		Maraudeur EC Blah.Blah Maraudeur N Flaschenträger Feel It Records 2025
6:57 PM		Super Furry Animals Ice Hockey Hair (2017 Remaster) Super Furry Animals Radiator (20th Anniversary Edition) BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 1996
7:04 PM		The Pale Fountains Something On My Mind Pacific Street Virgin Records 1984 The Pale Fountains were an English band formed in Liverpool in 1980, and composed of Mick Head, Chris McCaffery, Thomas Whelan, trumpet player Andy Diagram and Ken Moss. https://indiethroughthelookingglass.com/2018/09/09/the-pale-fountains-recently-found-live-recordings-from-the-buzz-club/
7:08 PM		Felt Primitive Painters Felt The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories Cherry Red Records 1984
7:14 PM		Sprints Abandon SPRINTS N All That Is Over Sub Pop Records 2025 Formed in Dublin in 2019.
7:16 PM		Le Concorde Time Ticking Away Le Concorde N Second Mansions Kecharitomene 2025
7:21 PM		Kinski Punching Goodbye Out Front Kinski Down Below It's Chaos Sub Pop Records 2007
7:23 PM		Joni Void Event Flow - A Sequence Joni Void N Every Life Is A Light Constellation 2025
7:27 PM		The Pointer Sisters That's How I Feel The Pointer Sisters The Pointer Sisters Geffen 1973
7:36 PM		RL Huber Orison RL Huber N Hafgufa RL Huber 2025
7:38 PM		Liam Grant/Grayson McGuire/Trevor McKenzie Let Me Fall Liam Grant/Grayson McGuire/Trevor McKenzie N The Sun is not True V/A Carbon 2025
7:40 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:46 PM		SANAM Harik Sametou Sawtan N Sametou Sawtan Constellation 2025
7:53 PM		Scott Wollschläger Lost Anthems Scott Wollschläger N Lost Anthems Scott Wollschlager 2025

Chat is archived.

hey!

Hey Esoterica!

Just clicked in. You are always welcome to my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.

Hey Tandy! trying this other Dirty Harry today - a little weirder than the main title.

hey Richard! Thanks!

Ermmmm 🤓☝️ there IS an agenda today!

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yes, please!

Scorpio was simply called "Killer" in the end credits.

ha! David hellooooo

Good afternoon

howdy, Carlos!

good afternoon, evening here!:)

Late afternoon but looks like evening here

This The Bride song has an eerie similarity to Spellbound from Siouxsie and the Banshees. Help me out here with any connections!

hey John! agree, the vocals, too/

I think I'm in. I wrote down my information on a piece of wood. Combustible.

Sweet, Lester!

Schifrin also wrote the Mannix theme. Its trite to bring it up, but in my universe of TV themes and other composers, I would include the great Bernard Herrmann.

oh for sure, Lester. Love Herrmann - Psycho is amazing though a film score

Howdy Esoterica and everyone!

Howdy, Rob!

I should re-watch that fine film about the firemen. Fahrenheit 451. Another fine Herrmann score.

Still love No Tears all these years! Old time memories of getting spastic and stupid dancing to this.

oh yeah John:)

for sure, Lester

Ralph Records fans in the house?

@Lester Ralph fan here! The Residents and early Yello.

I trust you don't mean the 2018 HBO film "Fahrenheit 451". I'm tempted to watch that just to give myself something to kvetch about.

Schifrin's best known TV theme has to be "Mission: Impossible".

@David Ouch! I didn't know Fahrenheit 451 was redone. The original had a big terror effect on me as a kid.

@David- no the original British production. Classic Brit film making. Its from likely Pinewood studio's On the next sound-stage over they were making the Prisoner.

I do not think I have watched Fahrenheit 451, I need to!

The TV show "The Prisoner"? That was filmed on the Welsh peninsula Portmeiron.

I was frightened by Rover. Terrified actually.

@David S The Village is there?

yooooo

howdy Andrew:)

andrew

lowercase :)

F 451 spoiler that creeped me the most, when the book police had the burn the house down and the owner stayed with the books.

either way is good!

jeez, that is creepy, john

Yes, Portmeirion is a resort town that Patrick McGoohan had visited while filming an episode of his previous TV series "Danger Man" (called "Secret Agent" in the USA).

i switched it to fIREHOSE case

@John. But they had committed the books to memory. As I have. So in the final denouement, we find ourselves in dark wood. Nel mezzo del cammin de nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smaritta.

oh yeah tat I can dig! @aNDREW

!960's cinema was unable to rig up the mechanical police dogs from the Bradbury novel.

Pittsburgh is a steel town.

I had never heard that Crimson and Clover cover before. But I was sitting here driving and I was thinking wow that sounds exactly like 1990. Like there was no doubt in my mind then I look and it's 1990.

howdy, G Jax, me neither - just discovered it myself. and hi...

I didn't know who the Monochrome Set were when I saw them at Asbury Park's Saint in 2013.

and haha, G Jax! Good instinct there

Yeah, to me, it sounds like the last vestiges of the hair metal bands. Like that's the way covers sounded at that point in time.

Like I bet every one of those dudes had their hair all grown out, silk shirts, tight pants, and cowboy boots. Actually come to think of it. That's exactly how I look then.

right, I can see that

haha nice visual

Damn, I miss hair.ha ha ha

hahaha this goes along with the title of the current song, too. do you like long hair?

I almost cut my hair. Deer tick.

Wow, had no idea that was the title. Good timing.

yup lol

Last Halloween, I was Ian Astbury. And I have to say I nailed it. Actually want an Actually won a prize in the contest and I didn't even enter. Anyway, some girl at the Halloween party I was at said is that real hair? I said no unfortunately 20 years ago it would've.

ha! love Ian Asbury - did you belt out some tunes?

Nah I'm a terrible singer.

But gimme a guitar!!!

alright!

It was a very obscure bar. No one have ever seen Glen Campbell, he was here that night.

huh wow

I love Glen Campbell

For country singers specifically, the common joke is that it takes three to change a light bulb: one to change it and two to sing about the old one. A variation states it takes four: one to change the bulb, one to express heartbreak over losing the old one, one to sing about loving the new one, and one to shout "Yee-hah!" and throw their hat in the air.

So happy I get to hear this show on my drive home!

Haha @lester wiggs!

It's interesting that you followed that Billy Childish song with the Make-Up, because I saw them open for Thee Headcoats at Tramps in 1998. Or was it the Makers? I can't remember for sure.

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(Not driving yet)

hey Bike R.!

Hey!

What a voice.

oh amazing, no?

hey gary

Was going to start driving—this Nina Simone song stopped me in my tracks.

Hey Eso

yo Gary:)

Dang it - missed most of the show, and all the cool tunes. Got a few to look up which is always cool

hey Francis!

Got another mitchum noir for u, The Locket. He plays a supporting role,he's young he's good

oh yes ! I will watch it for sure, thanks, Gary:)

How we doin tonight!

howdy, Inspector! Pretty pretty good. You?

Not bad Thanks!

good

The Chameleons UK!!!

When the MOVIES! network showed "The Locket", they censored the line where the girl says "Indian giver".

One of the first records I bought in a shop in LA

hey Kelly!

Lol

wow david

I guess the 1910 Fruitgum Company song doesn't get played on oldies radio anymore.

Did you see Paul Weller in last year's "The Blitz"? He played the boy's grandfather.

no I didn't David, is it good? love Paul Weller.

Hopefully getting to hear the Sweet Potato Pie station ID in the next week.

ha! carlos

yes looking forward to eating some sweet potato pie

too

ayyy esoterica been lurkin for a couple hours great set!

awesome, Michael! thx!

hope you're well.

@michael g, right on! @esoterica, that Carleen anderson cover was amazing.

awesome, Bike R. I agree. just discovered her

I guess it’s really a Paul McCartney cover. But carleen’s version kinda better

Yes, it was "Let Me Fall." The now-legendary New York-based "citybilly" bluegrass band the Greenbriar Boys recorded a killer 2-banjo version in 1964 on their classic album "Ragged But Right." Question: Did you say the Grant/McGuire/McKenzie version was recorded in 2022? It sounds like a much older field recording, which the Greenbriar Boys learned from. Inquiring minds want to know!

I think it was recorded I 2022 the album came out in 2025. hi Richard!

thanks for the jams eso! I've been digging the show while making dinner

Okay, thanks.

howdy aNDREW, thanks for listening!

you're very welcome.

Richard, thanks also for the Halloween greeting!

And you're very welcome!

Thanks for the soundtrack for the drive home this evening! It was a blast like always 😁

Absolutely, TAndy!

thank you!

thanks, everyone. Stay tuned!

Thank you!

Just clicked in. You are always welcome to my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.