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The Sonic Bloom

Mar 4, 2021 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Esoterica

Spinning tunes, chatting with folks.

I Think Like Midnight

Chatting with Andrew Chalfen at noon. Sneak peak of I Think Like Midnight's newest offering to be released on Bandcamp tomorrow, Friday, 3/5!

12:08 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin 1972 Parlophone UK 2001
12:15 PM		andrew chalfen interview andrew chalfen interview andrew chalfen interview 2021
12:30 PM		I Think Like Midnight nautical twilight i think like midnight N Interim Contingent s/r 2021
12:34 PM		I Think Like Midnight Kit Lambert Begins To Dream i think like midnight N Interim Contingent 2021 2021
12:42 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:45 PM		I Think Like Midnight Raincoat I Think Like Midnight N Interim Contingent 2021 2021
12:47 PM		I Think Like Midnight Scruff Response I Think Like Midnight N Interim Contingent 2021 2021
12:52 PM		I Think Like Midnight Head Illuminator I Think Like Midnight N Interim Contingent 2021 2021
12:57 PM		I Think Like Midnight Circadian I Think Like Midnight N Interim Contingent 2021 2021
1:03 PM		I Think Like Midnight Deep Feelers I Think Like Midnight N Interim Contingent 2021 2021
1:11 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:13 PM		Kiln Plum Hax Kiln Astral Welder
1:16 PM		Kiln Open Field Kiln Astral Welder
1:20 PM		The Wishniaks Thirteen The Wishniaks Not the Singer but the Songs: An Alex Chilton Tribute 1991
1:22 PM		Lazy Salon Pure Gradient Lazy Salon Lazy Salon LZY_SLN 2020
1:26 PM		Pell Mell Nothing Lies Still Long Pell Mell Interstate DGC 1995
1:34 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:36 PM		The Ventures Slaughter On 10th Avenue The Ventures The Ventures Greatest Hits
1:38 PM		Silver Chapter Morpha Too Big Star Not The Singer But The Songs: An Alex Chilton Tribute
1:43 PM		Camino Sound Schadenfreude Camino Sound N Western Excuses
1:49 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:51 PM		The Neon Boys That's All I Know (Right Now) Richard Hell The Richard Hell Story (Remastered) 2005
1:53 PM		Dim Stars Monkey Richard Hell The Richard Hell Story (Remastered) 2005
2:00 PM		I Think Like Midnight Reef I Think Like Midnight N Interim Contingent 2021 2021
2:02 PM		I Think Like Midnight Future Melt I Think Like Midnight N Interim Contingent
2:10 PM		Marshall Crenshaw Crying, Waiting, Hoping Marshall Crenshaw La Bamba (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Rhino/Slash 1987
2:12 PM		Joe Jackson Fools In Love Joe Jackson Look Sharp! (Bonus Track Version) A&M 1979
2:16 PM		Roxy Music Bitter Sweet Roxy Music Country Life EG Records 1999
2:21 PM		Lena Horne Come Runnin' Lena Horne Stormy Weather
2:27 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:28 PM		The Duprees You Belong to Me The Duprees You Belong to Me
2:30 PM		Patti Smith Kimberly Patti Smith Horses Arista/Legacy 1975
2:34 PM		Faust Piano Piece Faust Faust IV 1973
2:40 PM		Psychic TV L.A. Psychic TV Pagan Day Sacred Bones Records / Dais Records 2017
2:43 PM		Screaming Females Black Moon Screaming Females All At Once
2:48 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:51 PM		Charlie Feathers Defrost Your Heart Charlie Feathers Defrost Your Heart / A Wedding Gown of White - Single
2:54 PM		Woody Guthrie The Sinking of the Reuben James Woody Guthrie This Land Is Your Land: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1
3:00 PM		Michiyo Yagi Rouge Michiyo Yagi Rough Guide to Avant-Garde Japan World Music Network 2014

Chat is archived.

hey guys!

sorry a little late

Hey

hi stevie p

Howdy dje and all!

not the most authentic Clint imitation:)

it made my day

hey the dude!

I used to work at a brewery in Philly suburbs and I think like midnight has played there, they're a lot fun fun! Joe Jack has played some solo sets there as well

man, you're tough critic, mark:)

Hello Eso & chatters ! One o my fave parts of the week

Sadly it closed due to covid, the venue part any way not the whole brewery

that is awesome, dude, and hi, bri!

Hey DJ Esoterica & fellow Sonic Bloomers *waves*

waves, christine!

one of my fave times of the week, too, bri!:)

no bags of white powder stories today! haha

but there may be an allusion to flutes and codpieces.

if anyone is near jenkintown the art exhibit is a must / not much time to view it !

it sounds great! and he is giving a talk on the 13th at 10 am

Ventures! Pell Mell is the good ol Jon Solomon Concert Calendar...haha beat me to it

i think you have to register

yup, bri! haha

maybe i'll play the ventures

hope u register for ur b-day / it’s obv a zoom

oh cool! maybe?

but you go to seethe show in person

checking in, hey all !

howdy tom!

yes art exhibit only one week left & it’s really interesting/ recommend highly !

cool, has an homage to elliot smith??

Greetings bloomers

Esoterica is he strumming the guitar while talking?

yes 4 great pieces r homages include Elliott Smith really gotta see :)

greetings, jerry! yes he is

awesome, mark.

Is he gonna do a tune for us?

unfortunately not:)

Man the guitar is coming through nice and clear

Yeah, bummer! Next time

Find it funny hearing Joe Jack on keys instead of guitar

Glad to know i am not the only one not being able to speak complete sentences any longer

you and me both!

yeah i will have them live in the studio sometime, fingers crossed.

i agree, dude, re: keys

Do you think that is the lack of social interaction from this pandmic?

me not being articulate? yes...

do you think?

Same i gotta bust outta this funk

@dude what brewery did they use to play ?

bye jerry!! thanks for checking in:) take cre

take care

Idk if I could ever do the uhh complete sentences thing ..

Hey Tom. Yes Eso Ventures always welcome.

dude, i was curious, too. what brewery

which tune, bri?

But yeah Mark, the brewery was called Round Guys in Lansdale, their venue was called the underground

Im not leaving just saying i gotta bust out if my anti social funk 😂

Cant get rid if me that easy ‼️

haha! oh good, jerry

Oh and dje, there ya go, it's a solid brewery!

If anyone's interested, the venue did an interview with the whole band too

thanks I’m gonna check out at some point / especially w weather getting nicer

Round Guys make some good brew. Tom might agree too

Thanks Brian, I'd concur! It's quirky but they have some winners for sure, I used to brew and do the canning but mainly bartended, got laid off last March

Oh I would love the Live Japan 65 "Walk Don't Run, Perfidia, Lullaby of the Leaves ". That is most bang for Ventures buck

That medley

Slaughter on 10th Avenue also great.

All their beers are song titles/music related so that's fun to figure out too. And for sure mark, they have a lot of patio space too for nice weather/covid

yes he and the other exhibiting artist will b giving online talk

or just check ur oblique strategy card daily :)

wait, bri, mick ronson??

Ventures did it first. Mick covered it

oh wow!!!

see, thanks for that! I learn so much from y'all

Or at least Ventures most associated with thay instrumental. No doubt Mick R liked their version

cool

Heard Tom Petty & HBs do a great version of it too on an FM broadcast from the Warfield in San Francisco. Some grea shows

wow that is something i need to check out

this music all being released tomorrow? Its pretty great

yes!

bandcamp friday

Strange moments in the Ventures huge discography. New Testament Lp they do weird faux psych Whole Lotta Love that is comical but doesn't quite work.

that is funny, bri. like andrew said, try stuff and see what flies

Yes!

and proceeds split mostly go artists on fridays?still trying to figure out these new distribution methods

i feel ike bandcamp fridays proceeds go mostly to bands? i am not exactly sure

Bri Yes, on the Round Guys. really missing playing music at brewpubs during this pandemic, never played at Round Guys though

there's a band touring under the name The Ventures or at least there was in last 10 years. But no orig members save drummer Mel Taylor's son Leon who took over the throne in late 90s after Mel passed. So it's a tribute band . 1 orig guy alive still Don Wilson rhythm gtr extraordinaire. But he retired

it’s kinda crazy the way art & music etc being sold now / see that grimes sold $6 million in Digital art & video 2 days ago

That NFT thing.

interesting, bri. and crazy, mark!

haha NFT? Please translate for the old gal

Still have to read more on that thing (non fungible token or something like that)

I just read about it this am

ok got it

and thanks...

I think it is like a bitcoin analog but it can store information/ music/art along with the value of token ?

ha alright.

the whole nft thing is so new and incredibly crazy ! Check out the guardian article about grimes to get some idea how it works / bidding wars etc & it uses a ton of electricity/ green house gas

how you all digging I think like midnight?

fantastic sound !

Sounds like some serious privileged stuff of those on major label with marketing, etc.

hi friday!

you mean grimes?

digging

hey everyone. And yeah

Meanwhile our favorites scrape for percentages on individual physical sales.

true

yeah I’d like to hear Andrews take on it given he’s in both the music & art world

Liking the ITLM Esoterica great different sounds from song to song

Love the Hiss

i get up around 5:30 and ususally go to bed around 1am

5:30am

730am - 100 am are my open hours 🌛☀️

17 year cicadaS to emerge again this year :)

And Tom I miss going to brewery shows! Keep us posted on far away guys - and yeah digging all of it as always

Naps are always in play

totally , jerry!

mark, the end times?

me, too, friday, love the hiss

@selectta rip bunny wailer

Yes mark another rough week for us reggae heads

oh yes, jerry

Bunny wailer saturday incoming

Yeah too many tribute shows lately Jerry

aw yes, true, but jerry you do the tribute justice:)

Thanks E your the best

funny online story about dylan getting hon degree at princeton in 70 & getting drowned out by cicadas / he wrote song about it :)

Lovely

🦗

thanks, jerry:) you are too

crazy, mark!

the wishinaks doing big star? bri? lovely

Yes

Paint it Jersey you devils!

😚

it looks like that brood is due to emerge this year on their 17 year cycle

i agree. i don't know if that was Andrew on vocals, though, but it is his band

I got to hang and chat with Alex Chilton for a few minutes once at the upstairs bar at JC Dobbs. My friend Ken was interviewing him

cicada uprising 2021!

whoa, tom. what was that like?

haha hope they don’t interrupt anyone’s already disrupted sleep cycles :)

wow, jerry, cicadas! btw, i started watching Small Axe (the series) about an immigrant community in London...lots of great ska

i think it is on amazon

john boyega just won the golden globe for his acting in the show

the cicadas remind me of the crickets at the end of eno : great pretender:)

yes

Did you get to the lovers rock episode esoterica?

*Milkmen stomp!

yes, ookla!!!

hi!

:) :)

refresh my memory, jerry?

lovers rock episode?

In the small axe features

he was kind of keep to himself guy wasn't real chatty,

@selectsa I heard that highly recommended/ I assume u rec

will I Think Like Midnight be doing any live shows this year? Their website only has shows from 2020

The first three episodes are vey eye opening for people who are not aware of the prolofic predjudice in london in the 1970s

Very close to an Authentic jamaican presentation as can be expected

Thank you Eso!

absolutely!!

yes, jerry!

on kinda similar theme to that poly styrene documentary comes out tomorrow/ x ray specs

ookla, not any planned as of yet

Lovers rock episode shows house parties known as blues dances with big soundsytem. Blacks and jamaicans were not alloeed in clubs so they would hold their own parties

Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes is worth at a watch. It's a BBC thing

Yes thats good too ookla but more music related the other shows have a social awareness while using the music as the soundtrack to life

haven't seen it yet, jerry! interesting! I only watched half of the first episode

Jerry: is Inna De Yard (2019) any good?

Lovin the vibe & sound today / where do u guys find these pieces ?!

thx! i do some digging. andrew was helpful

Camino sound tune is 🔥

Dont know if i saw that ookla

Whoa and their from nj ?

haha yes conflicted on if i should harbor those feelings :)

Esoterica is ready willing and able!!

yes

#confused, mark

:)?

damn, mark, you were right about the spelling of smyth!! haha

schadenfreude in a messed up / pandemic world :(

haha remember now McEnroe wife :)

and speaking of 70s dudes - iggy released his cover of sunshine Superman yesterday!

Sneak peak teasers 🤣

afraid of lyrics...haha never know wit Watt

yargh i need to pick up some tampee, walk the dogs and hit the Peloton. good day all! *car listening enabled*

nice! thx for popping in, ookla:)

i can’t see these guys playing a brewpub/ more in a gallery setting/ it’s fantastic

agreed, mark

i had to google tampee

now added to my vocabulary

haha mine, too

Hahaha same, rare I hear a new one!

lol dude

Peter Tosh included that synonym in Legalize it :)

cool, jimbeaux, and hello! welcome!

tampee AFTER Peloton...you'll get pulled over by the virtual bike cops

Haha just saw it began w peter tosh/ love the roxy b-sides- could listen all day

hell-yo E-SO!

me, too! mark and haha yes tampee post-peloton

on the tampee note / love the prb station ID : holden caulfield - william holden wake-n-bake :)

Loved how casual it was, and yeah that's a great one mark, from aqua teen hunger force, I think that's Paton Oswald's voice

haha yes

Or patton oswalt sorry

love oswalt, sad story about his wife

haha dude now I’m gonna have to find it

where the exec asst to fact check for u ? Thom York was vocalist for vrnus in furs film band :)

thanks!!!

haha Mark! NOW we're even. It is spelled Thom Yorke, with an e

NP / the lyrics on this one :)

Smyth and Yorke

haha unlike u i don’t have an exec asst / which chatter was assigned the task ?

right-o. haha

Great Patti tune

i agree. once i saw a free at noon at xpn with all these women covering patti smith tunes. awesome,

mark, i thought dude or mr. m was exec asst

i'm just the receptionist

you're right!

please, stevie, take a message!

please hold

haha / where is that mrM when u need him ;)

Fleetwood Mac "Albatross" would be a nice instrumental for this or other show

agreed on that amazing the sound difference of peter green fleetwood to rumours

oh cool idea bri

great show thanks for introducing us to i think like midnight/ it’ll b a fantastic late nite relisten / remember the art exhibit @ aac !

will do, thx!!! mark:).

thanks for all who stopped by!

another great show. thanks, dje!

maybe i'll get to albatross next week:)

Woody! This was a fun show. Good contrasts w vocal & instrumentals of all types. See y'all

great show as always

Similar to melody of Wildwood Flower here

Aka I'll Twine mid the Ringlets going back earlier. Recurring melody

thanks, a:)

i meant all!! i appreciate all of you!

This RG AG Japan is awesome

yes i agree! i thihnk i will ply more next week. bye for now!!!

be safe! take care...