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The Sonic Bloom

Jun 23, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

Rainy Day!

hi...

5:00 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
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5:03 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:07 PM		Meridian Brothers Mi pregunta Meridian Brothers Mi Latinoamérica Sufre Ansonia Records 2024
5:13 PM		Cass McCombs Teachers The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered Mojo 2012
5:17 PM		NoMeansNo Mr. In Between NoMeansNo All Roads Lead To Ausfahrt Alternative Tentacles 2006
5:21 PM		Brnda Peach Pit Brnda N Total Pain Crafted Sounds 2025 https://brendadc.bandcamp.com/track/peach-pit
5:23 PM		New York Dolls Personality Crisis The New York Dolls New York Dolls Mercury Records 1973
5:27 PM		Pissed Jeans False Jesii, Pt. 2 Pissed Jeans King of Jeans Sub Pop Records 2009
5:29 PM		I Speak Machine Eat You Alive I Speak Machine N Eat You Alive - Single I Speak Machine Records 2025 https://ispeakmachine.bandcamp.com/track/eat-you-alive
5:32 PM		Count Basie Discommotion Count Basie Basie At Birdland Parlophone UK 1961
5:35 PM		Ian Hunter Irene Wilde Ian Hunter All-American Boy Columbia 1975
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5:44 PM		Richard Swift Hzlwd Richard Swift The Hex Secretly Canadian 2018
5:49 PM		Beverly Glenn-Copeland Cumberland Passing Beverly Glenn-Copeland Beverly Glenn-Copeland Transgressive 1970
5:54 PM		Robert Lester Folsom See You Later, I'm Gone Robert Lester Folsom Ode to a Rainy Day: Archives 1972-1975 Anthology Recordings 2014 The song "See You Later, I'm Gone" by Robert Lester Folsom was originally written and recorded on reel-to-reel in 1974. However, its official release came decades later on the archival compilation album Ode to a Rainy Day: Archives 1972-1975, released on November 11, 2014.
5:59 PM		Georgia Gibbs Kiss of Fire (Single Version) The Best of Georgia Gibbs: The Mercury Years Mercury Records 1996 Georgia Gibbs' hit single "Kiss of Fire" was originally released in April 1952 on Mercury Records (catalog no. 5823).The song—set to the melody of the 1913 Argentinian tango "El Choclo"—became her first number-one hit on the US Billboard charts.
6:01 PM		Rufus Wainwright Medley: Almost Like Being In Love/This Can't Be Love (Live At Carnegie Hall) Rufus Wainwright Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall Geffen 2007
6:05 PM		The Woodentops Love Train The Woodentops Hypno Beat (Live) One Little Independent Records 1987
6:07 PM		Billie Holiday Glad to Be Unhappy Billie Holiday Lady in Satin SINETONE AMR 1958
6:12 PM		Ian Dury & The Blockheads Pardon Ian Dury & The Blockheads Laughter (Deluxe Edition) Edsel 1980
6:14 PM		Woody Guthrie Blowin' Down This Road (I Ain't Going to Be Treated This Way) Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Ballads Buddha Records 1940
6:17 PM		The Danish Radio Big Band & Charlie Watts Molasses (feat. David Green, Nicolai Schultz & Vincent Nilsson) [Live at Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen / 2010] Charlie Watts Meets the Danish Radio Big Band (Live at Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen / 2010) Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2017
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6:32 PM		The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue (2009 Remaster) Polydor Records 1980
6:38 PM		Dale Crover Harvest Moon/The Bit Dale Crover N Get Yer Ba-Ba's Out - EP 2026 https://custommademusicmag.com/2026/06/dale-crover-set-to-release-solo-acoustic-e-p-get-yer-ba-bas-out-september-4th/
6:46 PM		Eels Are We Alright Again Eels Earth to Dora E Works Records 2020
6:50 PM		Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Pink Lady Lemonade (Astral Disco Queen - Coda) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Hallelujah Mystic Garden Part Two Important Records 2019 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., commonly shortened to Acid Mothers Temple or AMT, is a Japanese rock band, the core of which formed in 1995.
7:08 PM		Amon Düül II She Came Through the Chimney Amon Düül II Yeti SPV 1970 Amon Düül was a West German political art commune formed out of the student movement of the 1960s that became well known for its free-form musical improvisations. This spawned two rock groups: Amon Düül and the more famous Amon Düül II. (Wiki)
7:11 PM		Talk Show Stress Talk Show These People - EP Council Records 2020
7:14 PM		Tages I Read You Like an Open Book Tages Tages, 1964-68! Parlophone Sweden 1982 Tages were a Swedish rock band formed in Gothenburg in 1963. The group, whose original line-up consisted of Tommy Blom, Göran Lagerberg, Danne Larsson, Anders Töpel and Freddie Skantze, were one of the most successful Swedish bands of the 1960s.
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7:24 PM		Weird Nightmare Never in Style Weird Nightmare N Hoopla Sub Pop Records 2026
7:28 PM		The Kinks Wait Till the Summer Comes Along The Kinks Kinda Kinks (Deluxe Edition) Castle Communications 1965
7:31 PM		The Band Whispering Pines The Band The Band (Remastered) CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1969
7:34 PM		Robert Sesma Please (Live) Robert Sesma N Live Magik - EP Forever 27 Recordings 2025 https://www.obscuresound.com/2025/01/robert-sesma-love/
7:38 PM		Los Fauna Campo de Vampiros Los Fauna Mermelada Cósmica 1 Los Fauna 2020 https://losfauna68.bandcamp.com
7:41 PM		Roxy Music In Every Dream Home a Heartache (Live) Roxy Music Viva! Roxy Music (Live) EG Records 1976
7:49 PM		Marc Ribot & My Brightest Diamond Bird on a Wire Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Covered V/A Mojo 2012
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7:56 PM		The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Transparent Day The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Part One Rhino/Warner Records 1966
7:58 PM		XETAS The Witness XETAS The Cypher 12XU 2020

Chat is archived.

hi!

Hi ESO, Ghana England World Cup on the TV, sound muted and audio set to WBRB.

sweet

hi IConJon!

Sup y'all

yo, Sammy!

How it going DJ Esoterica

things are good, how's by you, Sammy?

Same hear UwU

hey now. really liking the ian hunter.

sweet, dale! glad you like

and hi...

Hey Eso, and fellow chatsters!

Hey there, Inspector!

Can't believe it's Tuesday again, already, wizzen by...

yup

well I did fill in on Thursday for lizbot

Yes you did i was listening!

Howdy Esoterica and everyone

:) @inspector

nice acoustic set!

Howdy, Rob!

Just passed the halfway mark of 66 on my way to the big 70. And it just goes, goes and goes...

Now you are getting me hungry for crab. when is the official season again? @rob

yes, you did! Happy bday, inspector!

Had a half lb. Of King Crab on the boardwalk at seaside for $88.50 no frills

wow! and? was it good?

Thank You and remembering! 🤩

Was scrimpy and not to seasoned old bay lacking

bummer!

Go to The Crabs Claw in Lavallette for snow crab pot only 50 bucks and worth it!

Esoterica, I don't know when the official crab season is ... I don't eat crabs anymore

oh ok

Rob, my parents live in Cherstertown supposedly crab capital of MD.?

Hi Inspector C, I keep my sailboat in Rock Hall. Chestertown is one of my favorite places to stop by.

Nice place to retire to. We go to Annapolis often also cool little town. I'm an urban dweller!

is the ram's head still hoppin'?

Yup seen many shows there. Saw Dr. John right before he passed.

nice!

I was there about 24 yrs ago haha

We stay at this little diner right in town! Lot of stairs to get to the rooms!

The Great Dust Bowl!

oh yes!!

The Grapes of Wrath!

what a great book and film!

Those labor camps people have no idea

But we'd rather swing and sway with Sammy Kay! 🤩

let's go!

Yes!!!

waza. Soundin good, DJ!

hey mats!

stankface to this numba :)

oh. yes you and me both haha it is great

wuz reading Roger Daltrey's memoir, holy guacamole it is hilarious

Still checking on crab season sans the stank face 😛

haha

LOL, Inspector

dayum DJ ya took me right back to NJ, 1980, with this song. Great stuff.

bromadrosis (fz?)

BROMADROSIS

Thank You!

thanks mats - glad to do it

and inspector!:)

Thank You for bringing us Joy on Tuesday afternoon again! (Manfred Manns Earhband "JoyBringer" wink wink nod nod 👀

ha! you are more than welcome!

Hello Esoterica & chat!

howdy Amy!

Eels and Dale Crover. Nice!!

@Inspector Callahan, Manfred Mann's Earth Band's "Joybringer" is wonderful!

DJ, I saw NMN Mr In Between on yer setlist. Lol! Nice one. Love those hooligans.

Sure is and appropriate for this lovely afternoon! And what great chatters we have!

yaaaa, mats:)

I love this piece

were you the one who suggested NomeansNo last week, mats?

aw thx Amy...

this is a long one

guilty as charged, twas I

It's a great one

yes! I gave you a call out earlier when I played it thinking was you

@mats

awwwwwww thank ye, DJ. I have been listening but got distracted by a carnival in town Lol

at least tell me you got deep fried oreos

St.Gregory's in the Square is having one amongst many carnivals 🤡

where is that

Hamilton Square Mercerville NJ my hometown

that is right! I know that church

I got married there (first time) in 86 full Catholic service

Cool!

It was at the time...

right

sorry that sounded like a weird response from me. is the church pretty - never been inside

That AMT track was wonderful!

Wife #2's family wanted the same thing there fifteen years later but the Pope said no!

agree, rob

Oh its a beautiful church! My first wife's father probably paid for most of it

Anyway im done! Back to the music!

alrighty then!

carnival in Chester, NJ this weekend. deep fried everything

yum

I dig a corndog

deepfried stick o' butter, some carnies sell

That sounds a heart attack on a stick

paraquat, did i hear right?

Inside wording I thought i heard

hmm

😞 sorry

Heard "Mr. In-Between" during the drive home...thought it might have a connection with the Aussie TV series of the same name.

all good, inspector, I am just confused lol

See!

hey mike!

been here all set great stuff dj esoterica!

thanks, michael!

Hiya!

howdy!

Been listening for the duration, just quiet.

all good!!

appreciate you listening!

Youppi!

Love this Roxy!

I recall you do!!:)

Mike T, nomeansno did it first! Their final and super dark album All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt, 2006!

Oh.

Mike T but I love aussie cinema! Wuz watchin Mad Max 1979 last night.

I like the new mad max films too as well as the old ones.

like fury road

That was Roxy Music?? Sounded like something from early King Crimson. I seem to recall Fripp saying Ferry auditioned for KC, but it was mutually agreed to be a poor match.

interesting fact, mike

didn't know that

In-Between" is great,, and I think it was based on a movie.

The lead actor is very charismatic, makes you root for an evil man, who does have some scruples though.

Thanx for the curation and show, DJ E! Truly esoteric, kept me guessin.

thanks, mats!

Mike T, that sound like an antihero, as they say! Sounds intriguing.

Yes, a hit man who tries to be a good family man.

And, if you watch the entire series, the last shot is hilarious. Won't give it away, but a wall gets broke.

aw, ty for the shoutout Esoterica! We enjoyed your show tonight as always

sure thing, rob!

Thanks for the rad tunes Eso, as always.

Thx, Mike!

thanks, everyone!:)

see ya Tuesday!