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The Sonic Bloom
Oct 27, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Music
With Esoterica
folky, punky, poppy, jangly, post-punky, and psychedelic goodness of the musical variety coming out of your speakers courtesy of moi. oh yeah, and occasional show tunes.
Happy Halloween!
I am playing cold wave, darkwave, and synth along with some murder ballads and poems. Sppppoooookkkkyyyy
| 7:15 PM |
| Cabaret Voltaire A Touch of Evil Cabaret Voltaire Red Mecca Mute 1981
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| 7:10 PM |
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| 7:04 PM |
| Clock DVA Sound Mirror Clock DVA Buried Dreams Interfisch Records 1989 Apparently still going! From Sheffield, UK.
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| 6:57 PM |
| Alfred Noyes The Highwayman The Highwayman The Highwayman - Single The Digital Gramophone 2014 I think this recording is from 1929. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alfred-noyes
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| 6:54 PM |
| The Dubliners Weila Waila The Dubliners Murder Ballads V/A Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2021
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| 6:50 PM |
| Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Where the Wild Roses Grow (2011 - Remaster) Murder Ballads (2011 - Remaster) Mute, a BMG Company 1996
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| 6:48 PM |
| Nelson Olmsted Annabel Lee Tales of Terror Saland Publishing 2008 Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem.
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| 6:43 PM |
| Judy Collins Pretty Polly Judy Collins Who Knows Where the Time Goes Rhino 1967
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| 6:40 PM |
| The Louvin Brothers Knoxville Girl (Remastered) The Louvin Brothers Knoxville Girl (Remastered) - Single Bacci Bros Records 2012 this is based on a 19th century. Irish ballad the Wexford Girl.
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| 6:35 PM |
| Eddie Noack Psycho Eddie Noack Psycho - The K-Ark and Allstar Recordings K-Ark1962-1969 Bear Family Records GmbH 1967 This is not based on a specific murder ballad, but creepy (from wiki): Songwriter Leon Payne wrote "Psycho" in 1968 after conversations with his steel guitar player, Jackie White, about real-life mass murderers and violent killers—specifically Richard Speck.
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| 6:29 PM |
| Bal Paré Die Idioten Bal Paré Hamburg Paris Catania Bal Parè 1982 From Hamburg and formed in 1981. https://minimalwave.com/artists/artist/bal-pare/
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| 6:26 PM |
| Love and Rockets Inside the Outside Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven Beggars Banquet 1985
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| 6:20 PM |
| Eleven Pond Watching Trees (Bedroom Mix) Eleven Pond Watching Trees - Single Angular Recording Corporation 2012 Eleven Pond formed in 1986, released one postpunk/ synth pop/ darkwave LP titled 'Bas Relief' and recorded songs for a second LP titled 'Assemblage'. The band breaks up in 1987, the masters were shelved. https://elevenpond.bandcamp.com
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| 6:16 PM |
| Nagamatzu Ionesco Nagamatzu Sacred Islands of the Mad Dark Entries Records 1985 From Norwich, UK.
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| 6:10 PM |
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| 5:57 PM |
| Perturbator, Johannes Persson & Final Light The Fall of a Giant Perturbator, Johannes Persson & Final Light Final Light SIVIANA, RED CRK AB 2022
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| 5:53 PM |
| Stereo Somewhere In the Night Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics, Vol. 1 V/A Angular Recording Corporation 2010 From France! https://mw-stereo.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-in-the-night
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| 5:48 PM |
| Kirlian Camera Edges (Dance Version) Kirlian Camera Edges - Single Italian Records 1984 The project was founded in Parma in 1979 by Angelo Bergamini and was a pioneering act of the Italian synthpop scene.
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| 5:44 PM |
| Second Decay Grateful Vision Second Decay La Decadence Electronique Second Decay 1991 German electronic darkwave pioneers, Second Decay were formed by Christian Purwien and Andreas Sippel in 1987 https://www.darkentriesrecords.com/bands/second-decay/
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| 5:38 PM |
| Clan of Xymox A Day Clan of Xymox Clan of Xymox 4AD 1985 Dutch band!
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| 5:35 PM |
| Bette Davis I've Written a Letter To Daddy Miss Bette Davis DRG Records 1975 From What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056687/?_ssoLoop=1
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| 5:33 PM |
| Georgette Gimme Gimme Georgette Gimme Gimme - Single Label Étiquette 2021
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| 5:30 PM |
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| 5:23 PM |
| FIT Siegel Wayne County Stomp FIT Siegel Soul Jazz Records presents Cold Wave #1 V/A Soul Jazz Records 2021 https://fitsound.bandcamp.com
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| 5:17 PM |
| Carcass Identity Reflexion Ocean Carcass Identity Soul Jazz Records presents Cold Wave #1 Soul Jazz Records 2021 From Belgium! https://phasegroup.bandcamp.com/album/carcass-identity
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| 5:13 PM |
| Dissemblance Capture Dissemblance Soul Jazz Records presents Cold Wave #1 Soul Jazz Records 2021 Soul Jazz Records new ‘Cold Wave’ is a new collection of current electronic artists who have all been shaped by the early European cold wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s.
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| 5:07 PM |
| Goblin Suspiria Suspiria (40th Anniversary) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] Cinevox Record 2017 From 1977 - horror film directed by Dario Argento.
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| 5:02 PM |
| Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 2004
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| 5:01 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
| Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2021
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