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The Sonic Bloom

Aug 18, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Esoterica

tuesday again??

hi!

5:01 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
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5:06 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
5:08 PM		Kitty Wells Amigo's Guitar Kitty Wells 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Kitty Wells MCA Nashville 2002
5:12 PM		Preservation Hall Jazz Band St. James Infirmary Preservation Hall Jazz Band New Orleans, Vol. IV Sony Classical 1986 Narvin Kimball, vocals. "St. James Infirmary Blues" is a famous American jazz and blues standard. "Joe Primrose" was a pen name used by music publisher and promoter Irving Mills, who copyrighted the traditional folk melody in 1929. The song traces its roots back to an old English folk ballad called "The Unfortunate Lass" (wikipedia)
5:18 PM		CHIME OBLIVION NEIGHBORHOOD DOG CHIME OBLIVION N CHIME OBLIVION DEATHGOD CORP 2025 H.L. NELLY VOCALS (NAKED LIGHTS, FKA SMILEY) https://johndwyer.bandcamp.com/album/chime-oblivion
5:20 PM		Dave Dudley I'm Not Dreaming (feat. Fred Wray, Vernon Wray & Doug Wray) Dave Dudley On the Road (feat. Fred Wray, Vernon Wray & Doug Wray) (feat. Fred Wray, Vernon Wray & Doug Wray) Mountain Dew Records 2022
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5:26 PM		Eddy Current Suppression Ring Self Sabotage Eddy Current Suppression Ring N In Light of Recent Events Suppression Records 2026 From Melbourne, founded in 2003.
5:29 PM		Jeanines That's What You Say Jeanines N How Long Can It Last Slumberland Records LLC 2025
5:30 PM		Thomas Leer Saving Grace Thomas Leer The Cherry Red Records Singles Collection - Part 6 V/A Cherry Red Records 2010 Thomas Leer (born Thomas Wishart, 1953) is a pioneering Scottish electronic musician, producer, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his early DIY synth-pop experiments, his collaborative work with Robert Rental, and as one-half of the 1980s electropop duo Act with former Propaganda vocalist Claudia Brücken.
5:35 PM		Talulah Gosh Beatnik Boy Talulah Gosh Was It Just a Dream? Damaged Goods 2013
5:37 PM		The Go! Team Panther Dash The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike Memphis Industries Ltd 2004 The Go! Team are an English indie rock band from Brighton, East Sussex. The band initially began as a solo project conceived by Ian Parton.
5:40 PM		Shop Assistants All That Ever Mattered Shop Assistants Shop Assistants Anthology (1985-1986) Shop Assistants 1984 From Edinburgh, formed in 1984.
5:42 PM		Revolutionaries Round Five Revolutionaries I Came, I Saw, I Conquered Channel One 1996
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5:48 PM		The Budos Band Kudzu Vine The Budos Band N VII Diamond West Records 2025 https://www.thebudos.com/
5:51 PM		Nina Simone Ain't Got No (I Got Life) [From "Hair"] Nina Simone Sugar In My Bowl: The Very Best of Nina Simone 1967-1972 RCA Records Label 1998
5:53 PM		Buck Owens Tall Dark Stranger Buck Owens All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Curb Records 1992 The pioneer of the Bakersfield Sound!
5:56 PM		The Motorcycle Boy World Falls into Place The Motorcycle Boy Scarlet Chrysalis Records 1989 Founded in Edinburgh in 1989.
6:00 PM		Merle Haggard & The Strangers I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can Down Every Road 1962-1994 Capitol Nashville 1996
6:02 PM		Family Fodder It's 1965 (feat. Professor Zoom) Family Fodder It's 1965 (feat. Professor Zoom) - Single The state51 Conspiracy 2013 Formed around 1975. Line-up included Alig (John Pearce), Ian Hill, Dominique Levillain, Felix Fiedorowicz, Martin Frederix, Bazz Smith, Graham Painting, Mark Doffmann, Lynn Alice. Their music incorporated acoustic, soft rock, punk, new wave, reggae, dub, classical and chanson.
6:07 PM		Ralph Sutton California Here I Come (feat. Jon-Erik Kellso, Bill Allred, Antti Sarpila, Jack Lesberg & Gregor Beck) [Live] Echoes of Swing (feat. Jon-Erik Kellso, Bill Allred, Antti Sarpila, Jack Lesberg & Gregor Beck) [Live] nagel heyer records 1996 January 7, 1924 by M. Witmark & Sons, New York. Song written in part by Al Jolson, with Bud DaSylva and Joseph Meyer.
6:08 PM		Satan's Pilgrims Buggin' Out Satan's Pilgrims Siniestro Sp Records 2017
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6:22 PM		King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Alien Metal King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard R N Alien Metal 2026 Going out to Jon!
6:26 PM		Wax Chattels Cede Wax Chattels Clot Captured Tracks 2020 From Auckland.
6:28 PM		Codeine Washed Up Codeine The White Birch Sub Pop 1994
6:33 PM		Shearling Believe Me (Dust) Shearling N Don't Look at Me the Way a Dog Might Look at Your Leg 2026 Written by Alexander Kent. Shearling are from L.A.
6:37 PM		OutKast Prototype OutKast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Arista/Legacy 2003
6:43 PM		Japan Theremin Old School Sakura sakura Japan Theremin Old School Renaissance and Evolution Mandarin Records 2021 Music director Masami Takeuchi is a japanese theremin player, coach. In 1993, Masami moved to Russia to learn to play theremin, under the guidance of Lydia Kavina. He taught more than 800 people in Japan. (bandcamp)
6:47 PM		Lacrima Christi Vano malcontento (Remastered 2020 by Stenox) Lacrima Christi Vano Malcontento (Remastered 2020 by Stenox) Lacrima Christi 2021 Obscure 1980s Italian post-punk/new wave project named Lacrima Christi from the Treviso area.
6:51 PM		Lothar and the Hand People Machines (Live) Lothar and the Hand People Machines (Live) - Single Modern Harmonic 2020 Band from Denver founded in the1960s. Active 1965-70.
6:52 PM		Lothar and the Hand People Today Is Only Yesterday's Tomorrow (Live) Machines: Amherst 1969 (Live) Modern Harmonic 2020
6:56 PM		Silver Apples Seagreen Serenades Silver Apples Silver Apples Geffen 1968 Founded in the East Village in the 60s.
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7:05 PM		James Rado, Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore & Hair Ensemble The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In) Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway 1988
7:08 PM		Monty Sunshine Algiers Strut Monty Sunshine The Full Monty Sunshine Vol. 2 Upbeat Jazz 2005 Algiers Strut" is a classic traditional New Orleans jazz march written in 1946 by trumpet and cornet player Kid Thomas Valentine. The tune honors Algiers, Louisiana, a neighborhood across the Mississippi River from New Orleans where Valentine famously formed and based his musical career.
7:13 PM		Sandy Bull Memphis, Tennessee Sandy Bull Vanguard Visionaries: Sandy Bull Vanguard Records 2007 Alexander "Sandy" Bull (February 25, 1941 – April 11, 2001) was an American folk musician and composer. Bull was an accomplished player of many stringed instruments, including guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, and oud.
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7:28 PM		Mort Garson Symphony for a Spider Plant Mother Earth's Plantasia Sacred Bones Records 1975
7:30 PM		Mort Garson Boardwalk Carnival Mort Garson Black Eye Sacred Bones Records 1970
7:32 PM		swing slow, Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi Western Bolero Swing Slow medium 1996
7:35 PM		Gonn Death of an Angel Gonn don't Need Your Lovin' - Single Dirty Water Records 2010 GONN is a 1960s American garage rock band from Keokuk, Iowa whose signature song is "Blackout of Gretely". Although releasing only two singles in 1966-67, the band also recorded numerous other tracks that have been collected on three retrospective albums.
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7:41 PM		highfield Vows and Visions Highfield N A New Relationship To Sound 1507227 Records DK 2025 From Philly!
7:43 PM		Erykah Badu & The Alchemist Witch Doctor Erykah Badu N Sorry, we don't have an album title yet ... 2026
7:45 PM		MF DOOM & FloFilz Coco Mango (FloFilz Remix) [Instrumental] Coco Mango (FloFilz Remix) [Instrumental] - Single Redefinition Records 2020
7:47 PM		Chet Atkins Honolulu Blue Chet Atkins Street Dreams Columbia Nashville 1986
7:49 PM		Joe Maphis Flying Fingers (with Larry Collins) [with Larry Collins] Joe Maphis Fire On the Strings Columbia/Legacy 1956
7:51 PM		Floyd Cramer Our Last Goodbye Floyd Cramer 20 Greatest Hits Step One Records 2007
7:54 PM		Charlie Rich The Most Beautiful Girl Charlie Rich Behind Closed Doors (Expanded Edition) Epic/Legacy 1973
7:57 PM		Wynn Stewart Wishful Thinking Wynn Stewart Country Greats Perform Their Favorites (RED) Hickory Records (2009 Deal) 2011
7:59 PM		Mort Garson Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant Mort Garson Mother Earth's Plantasia Sacred Bones Records 1975

Chat is archived.

hey!

HAY!!!

Hay! Andrew:)

Hey! Off 2 nice show!

Thanks, Jon!

Shop Assistants!!!!! <3

yes! Hey Rob

This song still makes me cry

and hey Esoterica!

awww i get it

and the next song after this on the original album "you send shivers down my spine and it happens every time"

a nice reggae break

oh yeah

on both counts

howdeeeeeeeee

howdy!! jimbooooo

A request for King Gizzard and Lizzard Wizard...

sure thing, jon

They play NYC this week. Can't make it coz working

oh sweet!

RIP Alex Taylor

yes, rob rip

https://wearecult.rocks/alex-taylor-an-appreciation

ty Eso. I read that appreciation a couple of weeks ago right after Dana K played "Fixed Grin" (the song on the original album right after the one you played)

:-( I'm still sad about Alex T's passing and the long delay in the word getting out

yeah it is sad. glad you saw that appreciation.

My spidey sense told me there was surf music out there

aha! carlos, you are not wrong

Awesome! Love Buck Owen's and Merle! Best DJ

me, too!

aw thx

Bonjour et bon été, Madame Esoterica et à tous! Merci et enchanté toujours, DJE !

Aw I.P.! Thanks so much

That first chord sounded like I Don't Like Mondas.

oh wow, mike yeah

wouldn't have thought that but now that you say i will listen again.

Thought the exact same thing Mike T! Thought it was a play on Esoterica referencing her San Diego childhood where the song is derived from.

wow

that was such a horrible incident

I remember when it happened, but forgot exactly where.

yeah i think it was chula vista in san diego county

Another San Diego song..mojo Nixon..tank man blues

boomtown rats, yeah

Was in high school then, it made an impression on us all.

for sure

With a name like Lothar, it's gotta be good.

Lothar were pretty big in the New York area, Allison Steele on WNEW FM used to play "standing on the moon" regularly so we all could get stoned to it

Silver apples got their name from the poem by Keats, " The golden apples of the Sun, the silver apples of the Moon..."

Ray Bradbury copped the title for one of his short story collections from the same poem

@sean… I remember Alison Steele would work overnights right before Stern and there there would always be some back-and-forth between both of them

When are Jeanines gonna play in NJ? I know they've played with the NJ bands Shampoo and Lightheaded.

"Though I am old with wanderingThrough hollow lands and hilly lands,I will find out where she has gone,And kiss her lips and take her hands;And walk among long dappled grass,And pluck till time and times are done,The silver apples of the moon,The golden apples of the sun."

Carlos

Carlos I knew her from the '70s mostly I was out of the area by the early '80s. Wnew had some great disc jockeys

hey sean, oh yeah

hey david, idk

it'd be cool to see them.

keats, beautiful, sean

Thanks for the background during dinner..still listening but doing lawn work soon

sure thing! carlos, thx for listening!

@David & @Esoterica, the Jeanines bandcamp page says they are playing in New York in about a month: Sep 19 Purgatory New York (NYC), NY

DJ JON ALIEN METAL SOLOMON

oh nice, rob. thx!

ha, mats!

Hey Esoterica, great show

idk purgatory in nyc, rob. need to explore.

Lothar and the Hand People!

howdy zach, thx!

I don't know it either, Esoterica. Hopefully it is heavenly

Lothar and the Hand of Doom Peoples

No, no. Thank you

Yup, I’m still here Esoterica. Not doing yard work, hanging on the porch with the dog.

oh yeah

July 20! Moonlanding day

yes!

Was it an industry plant?

idk?

Chlorophytum comosum

popular perennial from South Africa.

thx!

I believe Lothar became a hand surgeon.

Mort !

wow, mike t., true?

oh yeah, mats

Hello @Esoterica - In the back announce about sandy bull song you mentioned another song “narrator speaking to a long distance operator some girl name Marie” could you please let me know what song you were talking about?

Memphis, Tennessee by Chuck Berry

Hi Gautham!

No not true, but wish it were.

right haha

Thanks @ Esoterica..

Diane Keaton declined to disrobe in the Broadway production of "Hair", yet took it all off 35 years later in the movie "Something's Gotta Give".

:) Gautham

ha david, interesting trivia fact

Thanks Esoterica! I'll be listening to most of your show each week, and will try to contribute to the chat (schedule permitting). Great accompaniment to afternoon work today.

Sweet, Mike! Thanks!

Thanks, everyone

Thank you, Esoterica!

We enjoyed your show tonight

thx, rob!

new erykah!

a snippet

NOT a complaint ... this Charlie Rich song is not a song I would ever expect to hear on WPRB

and thank you for playing it!

ha! That's me, you never know what I will play - a little nostalgic for me.

have a great night