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The Sonic Bloom

Jan 27, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

I play the punk, postpunk, folk, jazz, and synth that make the world go 'round.

Hey there, it's Tuesday!

hi...

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
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5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:09 PM		George Daniel & Oscar Farrell volc4 N volc4 - Single dh2 2025
5:11 PM		Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto Electric War Little Barrie & Malcom Catto N Electric War Easy Eye Sound 2025 https://bigtakeover.com/interviews/interview-barrie-cadogan-little-barrie-malcom-catto
5:18 PM		The Actor Covergirl The Actor Exploded View Trumpett 1982 It all started in 1980 with five musicians having a jam session playing only one chord (D minor). Singer and songwriter Marcel Reimer thought up the lyrics as he was singing. Thus unintentionally giving birth to “The Actor”, which was the main character in the song “Unreal Personality” that resulted from this jam session. Later, Marcel teamed up with Sander Horsthuis, whom he knew very well from Art School. The Actor had become a duo. https://minimalwave.com/artists/artist/the-actor/
5:22 PM		Alice Coltrane Something About John Coltrane (feat. Pharoah Sanders) Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda GRP 1971
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5:40 PM		Silver Jews Secret Knowledge of Back Roads Silver Jews Early Times Drag City Records 2012
5:41 PM		Mission of Burma This Is Not a Photograph Signals, Calls and Marches Matador 1981
5:42 PM		Mississippi John Hurt I Shall Not Be Moved Mississippi John Hurt The Best of Mississippi John Hurt Vanguard Records 1998
5:46 PM		Nick Drake Things Behind the Sun Nick Drake Pink Moon UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1972
5:51 PM		Benjamin Clementine Ode From Joyce Benjamin Clementine I Tell a Fly Universal Music Division Barclay 2017
5:51 PM		APB Rainy Day APB Something to Believe In Liberation Hall 1984
5:55 PM		X The New World More Fun In the New World Fat Possum 1983
5:59 PM		bar italia Fundraiser bar italia N Some Like It Hot Matador 2025 Bar Italia are a British indie rock band formed in London in 2020. The band consists of members Nina Cristante, Sam Fenton, and Jezmi Tarik Fehmi. Their name is derived from the Soho café Bar Italia.
6:03 PM		Aboriginal Voices Le Jour L’ennui Aboriginal Voices Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980 - 1990 Strut 2023
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6:12 PM		Hapax Truth or Lie Hapax Monade Swissdarknights 2019 From Naples, Italy! https://hapax.bandcamp.com/music
6:15 PM		Witch Changing Witch Witch Asylum Tower 2006 From Brattleboro, Vermont.
6:22 PM		Fu Manchu Intelligent Worship Fu Manchu Clone of the Universe At The Dojo Records 2018 Fu Manchu is an American stoner rock band formed in Orange County, California in 1985. The band underwent multiple lineup changes throughout the 80s and 90s, but has remained consistent since 2001.
6:25 PM		Sparks Nicotina Sparks Angst In My Pants Lil' Beethoven 1982
6:29 PM		The Groundhogs Split, Pt. 1 (2003 Remastered Version) The Groundhogs Split Fire Records 1971 Groundhogs were an English blues and progressive rock band founded in late 1963. They toured extensively in the 1960s, achieved prominence in the early 1970s, and continued sporadically into the 21st century. Tony McPhee (guitar and vocals) was the sole constant member of the group, which had gone through many personnel changes, but usually recorded and performed as a power trio. The band was active from 1963 until retiring in 2014.
6:33 PM		The Pink Fairies Never Never Land The Pink Fairies Neverneverland UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1970 From Ladbroke Grove, England.
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6:47 PM		Nancy Wilson It Never Entered My Mind Nancy Wilson The Great American Songbook Blue Note Records 2005 From 1967. Composed by Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart (lyrics) for the 1940 musical Higher and Higher.
6:50 PM		Chet Baker My Buddy (2025 Remastered) Chet Baker N Vinyl Story Presents Chet Baker (2025 Remastered) BDMUSIC 2025 Chet Baker's rendition of "My Buddy" was originally recorded in 1956. Music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn.
6:54 PM		Corrosion of Conformity Minds Are Controlled Corrosion of Conformity Eye For an Eye Candlelight 1982
6:55 PM		Delirios Krónicos Danza Ondulante Delirios Krónicos ¡Delirios Krónicos! Delirios Krónicos 1986 From Lima, Peru (1985-1986). Reunion in 2014.
6:59 PM		The Flesh Eaters Because of You (Every Legend Dies a Quick Death) The Flesh Eaters Forever Came Today Rhino/Slash 1981
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7:06 PM		Selofan I'm Addicted Selofan Vitrioli Fabrika Records 2018 Selofan is a Greek darkwave/coldwave duo from Athens, formed in 2012 by Dimitris and Joanna Pavlidou, known for their atmospheric, synth-driven music blending post-punk, EBM, and experimental electronic sounds with vocals in Greek, English, and German.
7:08 PM		Factory Floor Lying Factory Floor Lying / A Wooden Box (Audio Version) Blast First Petite 2010 Factory Floor are a London-based band formed in 2005.
7:14 PM		Tony Molina Faded Holiday Tony Molina N On This Day Slumberland Records, Speakeasy Studios SF, Olde Fade 2025
7:15 PM		Sad Lovers And Giants Things We Never Did Sad Lovers And Giants Les Annees Vertes Cherry Red Records 1984
7:18 PM		Gerry & The Pacemakers Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying Gerry & The Pacemakers You'll Never Walk Alone: All the Best Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 1987
7:21 PM		The Cure Primary The Cure Faith (Deluxe Edition) Rhino/Elektra 1981
7:24 PM		Atacama Spooky Disco Atacama Counting Stars - Single Solar Tech Records 2014
7:32 PM		Eric B. & Rakim Microphone Fiend Eric B. & Rakim Follow the Leader Geffen 1988
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7:41 PM		Hélène Barbier Milquetoast Hélène Barbier N Panorama Bonsound 2025
7:43 PM		Redd Kross The Shaman's Disappearing Robe Redd Kross Redd Kross In The Red 2024
7:47 PM		Lupo Citta Shawano Pickup Lupo Citta Lupo Cittá 12XU 2024
7:50 PM		Erase Errata Tongue Tied Erase Errata Other Animals Inconvenient Press And Recordings 2001 Erase Errata formed in Oakland, California, in 1999, and quickly earned national attention after the release of their first eponymous 7-inch single.
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7:54 PM		Bonnie "Prince" Billy I See a Darkness I See a Darkness Drag City Records 1999
7:58 PM		The Cult Edie (Ciao Baby) The Cult Sonic Temple Beggars Banquet 1989

Chat is archived.

hey

What had happened was I needed to shovel the driveway. I backed up, I backed up the truck- ran over the innocent snows of yesteryear? And finally I found myself on the street. My street. Suddenly- out of nowhere comes Lalo Schifrin

HEY!

HEY! Stevie P!

Hi, Lester!

Cold greetings from Montco Pa

Hey Carlos!

Montco Pa is actually pretty cool. Cold. Imagine, if you will- a place where we travel to Mars. Although I did think Earth was kinda cool.

Afternoon everyone!

Yesh but there's all the earthling traffic

Afternoon, Rob!

hey there Amy!

-private to Esoterica- I found a vinyl pressing of Nillson Oscilloscope. Harry was so cold he was ICE.

@lester..cold outside but a bit warmer indoors.. room temperature stout is helping out

stout is a good strategy to keep warm, carlos

Spelling likely wrong. Could you play some Johnny cash? Dont bring you gunds to town.

I know that player. Is there one musician who can even come close to the greatest Alto player ever? No. I do not think so.

srry.

Soprano.

jimmy garrison, perhaps?

cecil mcbee on bass

Zappa was a Vamp.

Garrison's style featured strong rhythmic foundation, ability to sustain long vamps, and thoughtful solos (often unaccompanied in live performances). He appeared on many key Coltrane recordings, including Chasin' the Trane (one of his early features with the group) and later avant-garde works.

Not sure why my old friends have abandoned me.. I only wished the best for them.. Perhaps I should have used the active tense.

go, Coltrane!

Soft fingers on the fret board.

right

I love the way he speaks to the miner and the Major.

I've been clicked in all day. Happy to have you in my cafeteria. I hope you are having a great meal.

Hey G Jax

you are one oily snake. G Jax.

hey 'terica..

I used to work overnights at a grocery store for many years..I hated when the bars weren’t open this morning

don't forget the motor city

I bet!

@carlos

Love X. Billy.Zoom is the coolest rockstar they ever walk the face of the Earth

oh yeah, rob

dina- dean- dina-

it was so much better!!

G Jax love the way he doesn't crack a smile really just so damn cool playing guitar

Hi Eso! haven't heard this song in sooo looong!

hi, Li Maria!

it's a crowd pleaser haha

deena de dena deen deena dee dina dina.

this is supposed to be the new world

Song still sounds true 40+ years later!!

🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶

Yes--X is always a crowd pleaser!

Carlos, you are so right

whirled peas

agree Rob and Carlos

@ Esoterica (host) I was looking ever so long for The New World ... I thought this _might_ be it ... so happy to have that confirmed! ;-D

howdy, Richard!

I vacillate.

6:01 PM

I remember seeing X a few years ago in Philly at UA. Due to health reasons Billy Z p,aged the whole show sitting on a bar stool…still kicked ass!!

Played

awesome, love him. hope he's doing well, carlos

haven't seen them in 11 years?

this is not music. excrement. Ha x intersting. Its the Bare necessites.

I had there first album on vinyl. The substituete guitarist was from the love child Anyway. what ever. The Bare necesiities.

@Lester..I see bare necessities and I think of the Jungle book movie..had the soundtrack on album at home

Now when you pick a pawpaw Or a prickly pear And you prick a raw paw Next time beware Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw When you pick a pear Try to use the claw But you don't need to use the claw When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw Have I given you a clue?

What the lyric suggests is keep your friends close, then get stabby with them before they get stabby with you.

aw!

now I get it

That is why I don’t have friends..only acquaintances

The lyricist I do love a lyric. And rhymes.

then you should see the new film about Lorenz Hart, Blue Moon, really good.

You R on of the smart ones. @Carlos How do you catch rats?

If it is a movie reference..I am forgetting

me, too

In the future war, there are no winners only survivors. Get down. Get up. Rock out. Baaasssssss

funkadelic?

@private to esoterically. I had front row seats at the Spectrum. !978 or so. It was kind of scary True story.

Front Row

The Brides of Funkenstein.

cool!

so I was right!? yay for me

@Lester..being on the floor at spectrum back then was risking an injury to a frisbee from the 2 or 3 level

oh no lol

No. I was in the front row at the spectrum. /

The Brides of Funkenstein

they packed the spectrum?

Packer Avenue. Correct.

ha!

the spectrum subway stop

i always love finding new music and inspiration from both the music and the amazing DJs that find and share them.

six seven?

Thanks, Pengy!

Appreciate you listeners as well so much

And don't spend your time lookin' around For something you want that can't be found When you find out you can live without it And go along not thinkin' about it I'll tell you something true The bare necessities of life will come to you They'll come to you

The quality of my stereo equipment suddenly increased - Now I see why - a 2025 remaster -Dang it sounds good - like they are playing rignt here in the room - My Buddy indeed

hey there, agreed

hey DJ, that sesueway from Chet Baker to COC was amazing. I actually laughed out loud.

segue... :}

haha

hi jen! thanks

this is how my mind works

Are you guys speakin en francais

common dit'on/

i do not know what.

There is a thing

We do not know what it is.

But it rocks. Till we find the auto finder.

just lauding the genius of our host!

aww thx

ok the suicidal 70's was cool.

Did they all move to canada?

Annie Get Your Gund. I love a plush.

Don't let your water supply freeze.

Re: "My Buddy" ... It's from 1922, but definitely connected to the then-recent "Great War" (World War One, ended 1918). It has set-up verses, alas rarely sung today, e.g. "Life is a book that we study/Some of its leaves bring a sigh/There it was written, my Buddy/That we must part, you and I…" They served together and the buddy was killed in combat. The lyrics' tender affection ("Miss your voice/The touch of your hand") signal they were also lovers, adding extra poignancy to this classic song.

oh wow Richard! thanks for the insight into that great song

Rocky- This is the final campanologist word writ light.

The song was in the musical soundtrack of the WW I-themed silent movie "Wings" (the first winner of the Best Picture Oscar).

You could sing the lyrics of U2's I will follow over most of this and it would work.

My pleasure. it's a tremendous entry in the Great American Songbook.

The Cure tune I meant..

sweet

@richard

you are right, G Jax! haha

Oh now you tell me.

So here all the abolitionist's show up. they have opinions.

been here since like 6 great set esoterica!

sweet, Michael!

@ David Shortell Really?!! I didn't know that. I don'[t think I've seen "Wings" all the way through, only clips but it's still compelling today. That info makes it even more so! Thanks!

hey David, thanks for the info

i remember corrosion of conformity was a band my dad liked cause of a song called albatros if my mem serves me right, and i may have had this convo with you or maybe another dj before or its de ja vuu

C oC I asked my Dad about that on

oh yeah, Michael, true

Christmas Morning.

i was a youngin but them and butthole surfers stick out in my mind around the era

love butthole surfers

bye, y'all!:)

thx for stopping by

c ya next week!

@ Esoterica (host) Thanks for another super show and great WPRB listening community experience :-D

appreciate you listening, thx richard