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The Sonic Bloom

Feb 24, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Tuesday!

hey there...

5:02 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:06 PM		Karen Dalton It Hurts Me Too Karen Dalton It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best EMI Catalogue 1969 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1022604665305...
5:10 PM		Arthur Russell That's Us/Wild Combination Arthur Russell Calling Out of Context Audika Records 2000 Attaching a New Yorker article about Russell here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the... Charles Arthur Russell Jr. was an American cellist, composer, producer, singer, and musician from Iowa, He passed away in 1992. Apparently, the song was inspired by childhood summer vacations to Minnesota, when Arthur’s father would pack the car early and leave before sunrise, to avoid the mid-day heat. He would sometimes take a photograph of the family before they set out.
5:16 PM		Equipment Pointed Ankh A Spectral Math Equipment Pointed Ankh N Eggs A Little Late Petty Bunco 2025
5:21 PM		Arthur Russell That's the Very Reason (Live 12/20/85) Arthur Russell N Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come In and Out (Live 12/20/85) Audika Records 2025
5:24 PM		Don Cherry's New Researches Butterfly Friend Don Cherry's New Researches Organic Music Theatre: Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972 Blank Forms Editions 2021 https://www.blankforms.org/publications/don-cherrys-new-researches-featuring-nana-vasconcelos-organic-music-theatre-festival
5:27 PM		"Blue" Gene Tyranny Spirit, For Piano, Natural and Artificial Harmonics (Live at Roulette, New York, December 1, 2004) "Blue" Gene Tyranny Degrees of Freedom Found Unseen Worlds 2021 https://www.artforum.com/news/blue-gene-tyranny-19...
5:35 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:41 PM		Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington A Cowboy Without Cows Jake Xerxes Fussell Rebuilding (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Fat Possum Records / Crowded Table 2025
5:42 PM		Snail Mail My Maker Snail Mail N Ricochet 2026
5:47 PM		Perfume Genius Undercurrent (Clean Heart) N Glory (Extended) 2026
5:49 PM		23 Skidoo The Gospel Comes to New Guinea 23 Skidoo Seven Songs LTM Recordings 1981 From North London. Formed in 1979 by Fritz Catlin, Johnny Turnbull and Sam Mills, and later augmented by Alex Turnbull and Tom Heslop. Check out this bio: https://www.ltmrecordings.com/23_skidoo.html
5:58 PM		Writhing Squares The Abyss Is Never Brighter Writhing Squares Chart For the Solution Trouble In Mind Records 2021 https://thewrithingsquares.bandcamp.com/album/chart-for-the-solution
6:02 PM		WWW Placer Artificial WWW Vivo en Del Valle EstAdio - EP Sweet time records / Fichinesruidozafarla 2023 From Buenos Aires. https://wvvw.bandcamp.com/album/mundo-virtual
6:04 PM		Ten Years After I'd Love to Change the World (1971) A Space in Time [50th Anniversary Edition] Chrysalis Records 2023
6:08 PM		Wau Wau Collectif Salamaleikoum Wau Wau Collectif Yaral Sa Doom Sahel Sounds 2021
6:12 PM		The Undertones Get Over You The Undertones The Undertones BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 1979
6:14 PM		Takuro Okada Following Morning Takuro Okada N The Near End, The Dark Night, The County Line Temporal Drift 2025 https://15questions.net/interview/takuro-okada-about-magic-sounds/page-1/
6:18 PM		Tall Tall Trees Lost in Time Tall Tall Trees Freedays Joyful Noise Recordings 2017
6:22 PM		X Sugarlight X Los Angeles Fat Possum 1980 Going out to Rebecca!
6:27 PM		Talk Talk Talk Talk (1997 - Remaster) Talk Talk The Party's Over Parlophone UK 1981 Released July 12 1982!
6:28 PM		The Yardbirds For Your Love The Yardbirds The Yardbirds Story Charly 1995 "For Your Love" is a rock song written by Graham Gouldman and recorded by the English group the Yardbirds. Released in March 1965, it was their first top ten hit in the UK, Canada, and the US.
6:29 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:38 PM		Gustaf I Trusted You Gustaf I Trusted You - Single Royal Mountain Records 2024 From New York.
6:43 PM		Electric Light Orchestra Livin' Thing Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record Epic/Legacy 1976
6:46 PM		Eliane Radigue Stress Osaka Eliane Radigue Feedback Works 1969 - 1970 INA GRM 1969 https://www.forcedexposure.com/Artists/RADIGUE.ELIANE.html r.i.p.
6:57 PM		The Gun Club My Man's Gone Now (Remastered) The Gun Club The Las Vegas Story (Remastered 2022) Blixa Sounds 1983
7:01 PM		Cassie Watson Francillon & Val Jeanty From the Earth (Soti Nan Te A) Kafou N Kāfou (Debut Remaster) UNSELF / ZAKA MIZIK 2025
7:07 PM		400 Blows Declaration of Intent (Re-Mixed) 400 Blows If I Kissed Her I'd Have To Kill Her First Illuminated Records 1984 400 Blows was formed in Croydon, South London by Edward Beer in 1981 along with two friends, Alexander Fraser and Rob. Their debut single was released on their own Concrete Productions record label in 1982.
7:13 PM		Brandy Dalton Feel Fall Brandy Dalton N Fallen Angel Dark Entries Records 2026 https://brandydalton.bandcamp.com/album/fallen-angel
7:19 PM		Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks Main Theme (Edit) Angelo Badalamenti Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) Rhino 2017 Happy Twin Peaks Day!
7:21 PM		Angelo Badalamenti, Dirk Brossé & Brussels Philharmonic Laura Palmer's Theme / Main Title Theme (Falling) [From "Twin Peaks"] Angelo Badalamenti: Music for Film and Television Varese 2010
7:25 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:34 PM		Love Always See Your Face Love Four Sail Rhino/Elektra 1969
7:36 PM		The Kinks Nothin' In the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl The Kinks Kinda Kinks Sanctuary Records 1965
7:38 PM		The Pretty Things Get the Picture? The Pretty Things Get the Picture? Snapper Music 1965
7:40 PM		Tomorrow Revolution (2023 Remaster) Tomorrow Permanent Dream (2023 Remaster) Parlophone International 1968
7:44 PM		The Other Half Wonderful Day (Remastered) The Other Half The Other Half (Remastered) TTW 1967 The Other Half was an American psychedelic garage rock band, based in San Francisco, and active in the mid-to-late 1960s.
7:46 PM		The Chocolate Watchband Dark Side of the Mushroom The Chocolate Watchband No Way Out Geffen 1966 Formed in 1965 in Los Altos, CA.
7:49 PM		The Litter Codine The Litter Distortions Sundazed Music 1967 From Minneapolis.
7:57 PM		The Moonglows Sincerely The Moonglows 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Moonglows Geffen* 2002

Chat is archived.

hey there!

@ Esoterica (host) and to you and everyone!

hi Richard!

Wow. What an opener! Too cool!!

hey roy, thanks, I love a good singer and a good songwriter. what a voice Karen Dalton had.

You might know, but if not ... There's a killer photo taken at the legendary Greenwich Village coffee house Cafe Wha? Karen Dalton and Fred Neil are just beltin' it out, accompanied on harmonica by ... (prepare yourself) ... a very, very young (probably only a couple weeks in town) ... Bob Dylan! Oh my ...

wow! I just read that bob accompanied her on harmonica. cool!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebobdylanfanclub/posts/10160777634332978/

Sweet, Richard! I will check it out:)

great pic

great vibe 🎵

Thanks, Riley!

Appreciate you listening and I agree

got the headphones on and turned way up!

The Schifrin was so cool!

@ Esoterica (host) Taken by _the_ great photo chronicler of the 1950s & 60s Greenwich Village beatnik and folk scenes, Fred W. McDarrah

Lalo is great

good to know, Richard. I will check out more of his work

And -- WOW!! -- I only just noticed because I expanded the image of my PC screen -- Karen and Fred are seated on stools on stage, and Karen is balancing a banjo against her leg (you can see the tuning peghead in her right hand). So Dalton and Neil seemed to have been appearing together that night in Cafe Wha? and they called the young Bob Dylan to come up on stage to accompany them. Very hip!

A nice post storm sound track indeed. Shoveling was much easier this go ‘round. Btw. Speaking of blooming… I saw some daffodils coming up before the blizzard here in South Jersey.

I have absolutely no doubt that Bob ~ who was there in New York and the Village to learn everything he could about folk music -- was thrilled beyond measure to play on stage with Dalton and Neil. Quite a memory for him still, I'm sure!

oh for sure, Richard!

daffodils!? Roy. Really?

These vocals are so chill

BAM cool cowboy song! It reminded me of the soundtrack to the newest Oregon Trail game. Great game and great soundtrack

Wow, riley martin is here, great to see another celeb in the chat

sweet, chef! glad to see you here:)

Snail Mail is coming to the Fillmore 4/16

nice to be seen Emiril!

cool, I will have to check out that game!

BAM you too Esoterica!

Back at ya! BAM

killer drum vibe !

oh yeah:)

hey eso!!

hey the other Andrew:)

thx for checking in

wow old hippie tune!

the great randy california!

oh yeah riley

on vinyl no less

this guy tore up Woodstock

with blood, sweat and tears?

they did just one smile?

I love the Sonic Bloom... But this song was always a jab for me - "Dykes and fairies, tell me where's the sanity" says yea, He'd like to change the world alright, but maybe it's is not the world that you might want to be living in.

with al kooper still in the band

those lyrics got that song banned on the radio when it came out

yeah fran, i forgot about that lyric. sorry about that. I def want to live in at world!

that world

Banned not because it wasn't a popular idea, it's just that you couldn't say Dyke on the radio.

correct

yeah was a different word in the 70s

world *

right

But to reiterate, I love your show Esoterica.

aw thanks, I won't be playing it again

yes great vibe going 🎵

thanks rilwy

oops typo riley

X is awesome old school punk

song album and band all named Talk Talk

yup love x

Love X despite Exene going off the deep end

right agree, francis

Hello, Eso

and hi!:)

john doe was an awesome guitarist

breaking out the old hippe stuff wow

oh yeah! more trippy on the way tonight

This song has oneof the best breakdowns ever

trippy stuff

love it

the great jeff beck on guitar

@francis yeah

fleetwood mac does a trippy version of for your love too

I thought Clapton played on this song

beck played lead clapton rythym

beck played lead clapton rhythym

my bad double

Internet says Beck did not play on this song on the album, just Clapton. Beck played on rest of album

Clapton quit after recording, so Beck may have played it live

weird ty for the info

yaydbirds were a funny bunch

yardbirds*

Too many epic guitarists in one group

yeah throw in Page and it was epic

chocolate watchband nice!

Did someone say something about dancing?

I did!

hey ears!

On iittt

lets boogie!!

I'm calmly loosing my ** over this track. I'll dance to it another time

its an eargasm for sure

slow dancing?

this piece is great. may Eliane Radigue rest in peace

more uptempo stuff coming

Yep. Sure. Daffodils.

Now I gotta Google Elaine Radigue. And that's a good thing. Similar to music in Eraserhead.

This is like an endless loop of a Seagull.

hey John, yes, some of your fave dis were chiming I about her ifukence.

inflluence

the late great jeff pierce

@Roy it was a crow in my head ; l yes

Love the set tonight!

thanks, Peter!

yes Riley love Jeffrey lee pierce and the gun club

wow I don't know if I've ever heard all of Laura Palmer's Theme, that was dark and majestic

thanks, tomi :)

Just want to stop by and thank you for another great show Eso!

I would have sworn this was Courtney Love.

ha roffle, I could see that

aw thanks Amy!

thanks for the good vibes 🎵

Gustaf was also excellent, good show, thanks.

thanks, everyone! yes, love Gustaf. they rock!

appreciate you all:)

see ya next week :)

absolutely:)!