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The Sonic Bloom

Jan 26, 2022 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

With Esoterica

filling in for Captain Ahab

I will play everything from Thelonious Monk to Sabbath! Join me. Note Captain Ahab's new time (starting next week) is Tuesday 5-8 p.m.! 3 hours of Desert Cruising!

3:00 PM		Lalo Schifrin Main Title Lalo Schifrin Dirty Harry (The Original Score) Aleph Records 1971
3:02 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:08 PM		Thee Oh Sees Contraption/Soul Desert Thee Oh Sees Carrion Crawler / The Dream In The Red 2011
3:12 PM		The Challengers Out of Limits (LP Version) The Challengers Lloyd Thaxton Goes Surfing With the Challengers Rhino/Warner Records 2005
3:14 PM		Belzebong Bong Thrower Belzebong Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves Belzebong 2016 Polish stoner metal. yay!
3:24 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:28 PM		Black Sabbath The Wizard Black Sabbath Black Sabbath Rhino/Warner Records 1970
3:33 PM		Alice Cooper Unfinished Sweet Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies Rhino/Warner Records 1973
3:36 PM		Spiral Shades Illuminati Spiral Shades Hypnosis Sessions RidingEasy Records 2014 A guy out of Norway and a guy from India meet on the 'net and form a band!
3:44 PM		Blue Öyster Cult 7 Screaming Diz-Busters Blue Öyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation Columbia 1973
3:50 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:55 PM		Spelljammer Lake Spelljammer N Abyssal Trip RidingEasy Records 2021
4:00 PM		REZN Optic Echo (Audiotree Live Version) REZN Rezn on Audiotree Live - EP Audiotree Music 2020
4:07 PM		Total Punk Records Gebrannte Amore N V: Live at the Gas Station Fighting Jackpot Records 2021 Elvis Presley cover from a band named Heavy Metal, which is not heavy nor metal...
4:11 PM		The Hated Words Come Back The Hated N Words Come Back - Single Numero Group 2021 Release of an old emo band from DC
4:12 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:15 PM		Mulatu Astatke Yegelle Tezeta Mulatu Astatke Broken Flowers (Music from the Motion Picture) Decca Soundtracks 2005
4:18 PM		L'infonie J'ai perdu 15 cents dans le nez froid d'un ange bronzé L'infonie Volume 3 Mucho Gusto 1970
4:21 PM		Biting Tongues Compressor Biting Tongues Compressed (The Factory Recordings 1984-1987) LTM Publishing 1983
4:25 PM		Thelonious Monk Round Lights Thelonious Monk Thelonious Alone In San Francisco Craft Recordings 2020
4:29 PM		Wire Sand in My Joints (2006 Remastered Version) Wire Chairs Missing The state51 Conspiracy 2006
4:32 PM		Faun Fables Sleepwalker Faun Fables Mother Twilight Drag City Records 2004
4:35 PM		Aldous Harding Lawn Aldous Harding N Warm Chris 4AD 2022
4:38 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:42 PM		Gerry Rafferty Right Down the Line Gerry Rafferty City to City Parlophone UK 1978
4:46 PM		Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood Summer Wine Nancy & Lee Boots Enterprises, Inc. 2006 Released in 1968 on Reprise.
4:52 PM		Can She Brings the Rain (From "Bottom - Ein grosser Graublauer") Can Soundtracks (Remastered) Mute 2011 Released in 1970.
4:56 PM		Arthur Lee Everybody's Gotta Live Arthur Lee Vindicator A&M 1972

Chat is archived.

hello!

Hello Eso

hi bri! how are you?

Hi, DJ Captain Esoterica!

woohoo! bonus Bloom!

hey there, mr. m! alas, i am no captain, unless you want me to steer you astray haha

Hi!

hi there, kevin!

hey, andrew!

Doing well. How are you Eso?

i am well, thx for asking!

oops! i was wrong! i was in a fantasy of three hours of ahab

Oh ya i mean 5-8pm

All over the place. Utility DJ!

No i typed wrong . Phone tiny keyboards

oh ok! bri! 5-8!

hey there, corage mike!

i do my best! lol

I mean I don't know anything ha.. schedule not showing yet.

Tigers need a goalie?

actually, yes, tuesday 5-8 p.m. for captain ahab.

woot! confirmed

corage mike, i want to respond to your tigers comment but my brain is so dense, give me more info haha

Nice! We're not far from Ahab land here

right!

Nice start to the show! Cheers, DJ Esoterica!

cheers to you, mr. m!

and thanks:)

As you are filling in here, are you available if the Tigers need a goalie???

yes! now i get it. thx, mr. m, you are my interpreter

i am johnny on the spot

"Polish stoner metal" by Belzebong. WHERE ELSE could you possibly have such sonic delights bloom in your stereo speakers? On WPRB, clearly ... thank you thank you thank you!

the yellow jackets need a goalie :)

Oh Sees, Frankie and the Witch Fingers & King Gizzard sometimes tread on the same sonic areas. In a good way! Not always but sometimes they are so close

hi richard! thanks for listening and stopping by

haha mark!

Belzebong sounds like they may have bowed at the altar of Melvins

totally on both counts, bri.

hello, mark!

That fuzz! 'Specially the fuzz bass

hello mrM & all other weds bloomies!

Kinda just want to sit inside all the fuzz

Low end humming the desk at work. Little speaker really kicks

Lol my brethren!

In place of Captain Ahab…Ensign Esoterica?

Hey Eso--you're a regular DJ chameleon!

Belzebong !! 👍

Love that name, Belzebong

I'm up for any band with "bong" in the name

The first version of “Out of Limits” I ever heard was from Agent Orange. I loved the tune so much that I requested it from FCC when they performed live on WPRB in 1984. They never played it before, but they improvised it! (FCC was a hardcore band featuring my schoolmates, including WPRB dj Krishna Jain.)

Classic Sab

you me, too, matthew! haha

Ooooohhh Yesss! CRANKS VOLUME!

Geezer!

🧙‍♀️

hi, david! cool story

hey dude!

Tony!

oh yeah

hi, li maria! me, too:)

I'm not sure I actually believe this but...more metal harmonica?

Whew

hey jon! yes, tis me, eso!

what whew, bri!

The stream dropped for a second......

you make me nervous. i don;t want glitch music

yikes

we good?

Oh yeah, it was just a brief glitch

Geezer has spoken

The mighty low end is strong with us today

Henry Rollins has spoken eloquently about the dopeness of Black Sab's rhythm section

totally dope

Unfinished Alice Sweet Alice Cooper

Mentioned b4 but those 70s AC lp covers... fold out wallet with bills on this (and Donovan! Not fold out tho ha) . And the lift up desk on School's Out. Getting their surf on here

Speaking of outer limits

totally, bri!

glen buxton and michael bruce on this with gibson sgs

nice!

dick wagner and steve hunter on this album as well

they played with lou red

LOU REED

Ya that Rock n Roll Animal Lou lineup w the mach 2 Cooper band guys. Wow

Norwegian-Indian doom

yes, matthew! love that folks can collab and connect through the internet, although i am sure they met to lay down tracks

Whew

nooo

what

freaking me out with the whew

lol

Tiny blip out of silence again. All ok

ok thx, i like your feedback though. now i know whew is bad haha. my adrenaline shoots up haha

Hello Sonic Hedgehog and Amy "Bloom" Rose 💠🌸

We've been through far worse. Jerry G last week... what a trooper

hi ossy

Ossy Osbourne !

I'll be driving around doing chores and listening on car radio. Thanks!

B.O.C. !

sure thing, kevin!

thx for stopping by:)

This is the best!

ossy, thx for the nickname:)

creative!

The early "black & white" LPs... said it before but those lps.. just good ol 70s rnr

oh yeah, corage mike, agreed

yeah, bri:)

Jack hammers and chainsaws!

That riff, the bass! Red and Black attack!

yeah!

Follow the smoke to the riff-filled lands

🔥⭐💠🤎 to all!

Speaking of Thee Oh Sees and Frankie & the Witch Fingers, both groups’ music videos have claymation by Joshua Bruce. I still think of Josh as the little kiddie who hung around the collectibles store owned by his dad “Red Bank Rob” Bruce. The AMC’s “Comic Book Men” personality and former Shrapnel roadie was found dead in a storage unit on New Year’s Eve. I don’t think I ever would have met Mike Hunchback if he hadn’t worked at Robert Bruce’s store.

Damn, crazy Red Bank lore

oh cool, david. i will check out those vids

Childhood nickname, Matthew! People also called me the football player, Osi Umenyiora and even assumed we're related, lmao

Ya most of those guys, they became the solo Alice Cooper backup band. After the "Alice Cooper as a band name " era

Sweden loves its stoner rock

I think ... Nightmare is the start of Alice as a solo act

nice, thanks, bri. love that they played on rock and roll animal too. thc for pointing that out

totally, matthew!

More of that LOW END FUZZ A

I think Swedes are slightly happier than Norwegians

Give @Brian some o' dat low end fuzz

i love knausgard my struggle books (i have only read the first two books so far)

Ha tell a Norwegian or a Swede oh aren't you both basically the same? And wait for the humor to ensue

yes depressing norwegian lit

Norway has great black metal, but Sweden has its homegrown stoner rock

Dungen (DOON-yen) is a great Swedish band ya.

And let's not forget Goat for wacky, happy Swedes

oh yes, bri!

Yah you betcha

And ABBA, heavy AF

Graveyard is the Swedish band sorry.

Gravedigger is the monster truck

REZN out of Chicago, neither Swedish nor Norwegian

They caint fool me, it's resin

haha matthew, when my son was little, my brother got him the gravedigger toy and it played la grange

lol matthew

Grave ( space ) Digger i found in my searches is a German metal band. Never heard. But that name had to be out there. More that once no doubt

I hear Sweden’s Hellacopters are back together again. Before their hiatus, their last record’s B-side was a cover version of “Baby Come” by New Jersey’s The Insomniacs!

Nice

weird green river cover

Snotty Elvis

i was going to play green river and switched... haha

album cover remained

I like this

The Green River killer

oooohh scary

He was a bad boi

yes

Shpel yammer maybe... if they do similar to German

Monk coming up! Nice. Love these Ethiopiques

I heard “Gebrannte Amore” three days ago on that other NJ music station I listen to! I thought it odd that a band on “Total Punk” Records would call themselves “Heavy Metal”.

THIS IS NEW JERSEY’S ONLY RADIO STATION

me, too, bri

true, mr. m!

First time I heard this was indeed the Broken Flowers film.

and david, agreed! don't quite understand the name

Cheers anyway to David Shortell ! Ha !

oh yeah, bri! any euphoria fans out there? I will play something i heard on the new season

DJ Esoterica is doing GREAT by DJ Captain Ahab! Biggest CHEERS to you!

The only time I strayed from wprb is when Dean Ween was recently DJing on the Bard College radio station

cool, matthew. what did he play of note?

I haven't heard the new Heavy Metal in full but all their other LPs are really enjoyable. Also, kudos to them for snagging https://heavymetal.bandcamp.com.

I lost 15 cents in the cold nose of a bronze angel is that?

thanks, mr. m!!

Lol

Good afternoon Esoterica and all in the chat!

thanks, jon, for directing our attention to their bandcamp

Shoutout to DJ Captain Ahab, hope you are having funz with all the learnin and thinkin!! See ya Tuesday 5pm!

hi, ambrose!

nice, international man, bri! thx

Hello, Ambrose Hughes!

Holly Golightly played at Asbury Lanes nearly the same time that “Broken Flowers” was in theaters. I don’t know if the movie created any audiences for her tour though.

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY 💖

oh yes! like them

As Dan R pointed out yesterday, the band known as W W W has a tricky clever Bandcamp url

What is the URL? I know (from looking into it) that Bandcamp prefixes have to be more than three characters in length...

MULATU ASTATKE ❤️‍🔥

Delayed Reaction 👎😩

Howdy Mr. M💀

It is... wvvw.bandcamp.com... look closely

It's hard to google "www bandcamp"

Not for nothing, DJ DanRuccia has been on fire today

The ol' V V for W

That's very good.

Being aware of the band name Alvvays made my eyes able to get it

http://vvvvvv.bandcamp.com is taken!

There's some weirdo band here in NC that does something similar, but I can't remember what they are off the top of my head

DIIV?

My eyes start to just see Charlie Brown's shirt (sad about that voice actor)

First time I saw THE VVITCH it threw me off

Great movie

love that movie

No spoilers

it involves a vvitch

Lol

what happened to the charlie brown voice actor?

There is also a pretty amazing goat in it, too

(Boat sinks Sir Malcolm Trent...)

darn it all to H3CK

That goat was the most difficult cast member, had a real case of Opp. Defiant Disorder

Ya I heard it was real baaaaaaaad

Faun Fables! Excellent!

this song rn af

I have some goat friends down the road. Talk to them often when we go for walks.

more on this band: http://www.faunfables.com/

I thought it was Yoshiko Sai at first, by her lovely yodeling

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” voice actor Peter Robbins killed himself at age 65, Esoterica.

Ya this Faun Fables is great. Thanks for the info

oh thanks, david. when was this?

I had them for a house concert a couple years ago. Hoping to have them again if the pandemic stops pandemiccing...

David Shortlell - Omg, what!? 😧

yeah, bri, i like it's creepy kooky vibe

Recent. Fam just announced

💔

I’m cry

me, too. that seems young for that program was so long aggo

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/peter-robbins-dead-voice-charlie-brown-peanuts-1235081380/

Need a suicide prevention psa and link in chat ASAP

yes true

Regina King's son also recently passed by suicide last week, :(

nami.org has resources

i know, ossy! i feel for her family

Aldous Harding has some good stuff

take me away from all this death

Yeah, and I think it's her only child, Esoterica

During the 1992 presidential race, Bill Clinton told an MTV reporter that he liked Thelonious Monk. Allegedly, the interviewer afterwards asked a cohort who “The Loneliest Monk” was. I’m not sure I believe that story, but it’s amusing!

this is a pick-me-up song for sure

Smooth….

Gerry Rafferty and soundtracks. Turns up in many places. Living on....

I've never heard so much shit in all my life! Sailor Ripley, you get me some music now! I mean it!

haha

L0LZ

wait is this yacht rock?!

Your the captain.

right-o

It’s a hidden gem is what it is

hi fr1day!

you and i are in alignment

Hold your ears Nash... beware of Mr Blond

Nancy and Lee!

Yes!

It’s been over 30 years since I saw “Wild at Heart” in a theater. I haven’t from Powermad since!

Think I'm gonna have to put this on ye olde record player once I turn off my work computer for the day in a little bit

It’s a great soundtrack, David Shortell

oh i love wild at heart!

i am a lynch fan for sure!

My fav flick!

Final Seven Mins?! I’m cry again 😭

Oh yeah!

Ohhh man it’s Wednesday! Great show !

Adieu, DJ E!

@Esoterica, that was the posh English Nancy

Good time Eso! Well done

adieu!

Ciao!

yes i was trying to be posh! you know i wanted to be an actor when i was little...

DJ Esoterica! Many thanks! Stay AWESOME! Kind regards to you!

thanks, mr. m!

kind regards to you!

ciao, ossy!

thanks, bri! have a good night everyone

thx, corage mike!:)

I still haven’t seen David Lynch’s last film (from 2006!) “Inland Empire”. Three hours is tough to sit through.

@Esoterica, I got the feeling you might have and you could still😊

yes! i was just thinking that! why not, ambrose!

@Esoterica, I'll be looking for your name in lights!

alright, ambrose lol!

david, i haven't either!

Arthur Lee ❤

i love this song!

arthur lee = love

Haha yep!😉

Have a good evening Eso and all--catch you tomorrow

aw thanks, you, too,. Li Maria!

Thanks for the great songs Esoterica!

c u manana

aw thanks, amrbose! appreicate

bye all!