West Coast Fog
Summary: A weekly audio tour of the forgotten West, visiting obscure moments in musical and cultural history along the way. Each week special. Host Erik Bluhm was the editor of Great God Pan magazine (“the Champion of Californiana”) through the ‘90s and West Coast Fog may be seen as an aural extension of that venture.
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Broadcasted live from the Left Bank bookstore, or where it used to be in 1935. Stillife, Marnie Jones, Sarah Benson, Molly Scott, and Lily Nye, John Heussenstamm, Jim West, Monolith, Marimba Quest... '78 to '00
Ssstill high, ssstill in the sssnow, ssstill on ssskis. Oxnard, Pearblossom, Santa Monica, Mexico City, Oakland, Santa Barbara, Petaluma, British Columbia. Passt sssounds from '67 to '08. Beauregard Ajax, Steve Roach, Adrian Marcator, Donald Swearingen, Damien Rose, Joel Andrews, Javier Alvarez, Cloud Chamber, Darrell DeVore, Sharon Wiener, Turkantam.
Historical sssounds and effects from up high. Mexico City, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, San Jose, Los Angeles... 1976-1995, broadcasted with skis on. Jorge Reyes, Joseph Ashton, Toby Lurie, New Age, Nicole Campau, Wounds...
Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose, Sausalito, Sonoma, Vancouver, San Diego, Taos... music and words from '74-'98. Nicole Campau, Darrell DeVore, Paul Vangelisti, Robert Turman, Susan Frykberg, Pygmy Unit, to name a few.
Music for pipedreams, Venusian auroras, and Lemurian sunrises. Xolotl, Ian Tamblyn, Steve Kindler, Paul Lloyd Warner, Rene Aubry... Marin County, Waimea Bay, Woodstock, Boulder Creek, Mendocino... here and then from '81 to '93
This week's episode is an extended version of our visit with Iasos up north a few months ago. More music, more stories, more blisssssss
On our way up to visit in Fort Bragg we listen to historical compositions and discuss coastal Russians from the 1800s; dreamtime didjeridoos; and hear from Daniel Able, Michael Masley, Echo System, David Vosh, Jack Deckard, Todd Barton, Toby Lurie, Janie Rezner, Harry Polkinhorn, Marina La Palma, Susan Rawcliffe, Octavia Neptune, Ivor Darreg, and Doradus. Deep Californiana and Oregoniana...
From the Gold Country to the chaparral hills of Los Angeles, from cloistered estates in Mt. Washington to the foggy Northwest, it's all here for you in vintage sound on this week's West Coast Fog. Daniel Able, E.J. Gold, Eloise Klein Healy, Nada Shakti, Richard Crandell, Gover Dhan, Conrad Praetzel, Self Realization Fellowship, Dan Lauter...
Climb around in a canyon in the rain with West Coast Fog and hear about some big floods in the San Gabriel Mountains while listening to '80s and '90s music and words from Susan Berman, Keope, Ivor Darreg, Sharon Wiener, Melissa Morgan, John McPhee, Richard Waters, Michel Redolfi, Polyhymnia...
Tag along as we visit the oldest Spanish land grant in California. Hear the echoes through thick-walled adobe. Witness pitched battles on horseback. Listen to experimental music off cassettes. Peter Dodge, Secret Path, David B, Doty, Funharm, Polyhymnia, Bhagavan Das, Jeff Defty.
First Fog of the New Year! Come along as we poke around a million year old salt lake and listen to Keope, Tony Selvage, Bill Horwitz, Mossy Davidson, Good Gaia's Opti Mysticism, Bob Mills, Jeff Defty, Levi Chen, George Cromarty. '80s and '90s explor-oceans from San Diego, Malibu, Alaska, Oregon, Burbank, and Pacific Grove.
Delve into fleeting airscapes from the past, late '70s to '90s spirit-Thule gems from the West Coast mostly and ghostly. Oregon, Oakland, the Valley, S.F., Novato, and even France by accident.
Moist music for moss making. '60s to '90s tape and vinyl journeys on keys, clarinets, pipas, chins, celery, and maybe one guitar. From all around the worldcountry but locally Westwood, Marin, Topanga, and my backyard. Chris Wind, Gardner & Gayle, Patrick H. Murphy, Cyrille Verdeaux, Bernard Xolotl, Jean-Philippe Rykiel, David Bagsby, Alison Knowles, Echo System, Lui Tsun-Yuen...
Get near the atmosphere with this week's Fog. Tubes of wood and metal, words and computers. Hear '70s to '90s recordings from Oregon, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Palo Alto. Daniel Crommie, Bob Mills, David Gilden, Nick Rowe, Al Gromer Khan, Larry Wendt, Ernest Robson, Autumnfair, Jamie Haggerty, Larry Kucharz, Michael McNabb...
What makes this episode of West Coast Fog so special is the specialness of specialists Douglas Mcgowan (of Yoga Records) and John Wyatt, bringing some of their favorite music from Eugene, Oregon, Carmel Valley, Larkspur, and beyond. Pretty much mostly from cassettes. Karma Moffett, Ted Lucas, Elinore Wallace, Summer Madness, Daniel, Sophia, Frank Perry, Suze Milleman, Blue Harvest, Mark May, Walter McVeigh...
