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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Nearly forgotten ‘70s to ‘90s tracks from Mt. Shasta, Northridge, West Los Angeles, Alpine, Piru, and beyond. Lou, Alicia, Raymond, Livy, Peter, Yogi John, “Rain,” Swami Satyam… the gang’s all here.
On this week's show hear denizens of the Hudson Valley doont heir thing. Eerily ‘70s and into the ‘80s. Some California connections obviously.
Meet us at the ruins of an old gristmill by the falls of the kill. Yep, we're in upstate New York this week to visit some California expats. Also we're listening to tapes and CDs from the prime 1982 to 1993 era. Hear Brad from the Valley, Richard from Marin, some Brazilian meditators and Japanese sannyasins, plus...
Look up and listen to '80s and '90s tapes and LPs from Michael, Buddy, Ken & Jeff, Marina, Elliot, David, Don, Loren, and Rudiger. Visit Valencia, San Francisco, Hawaii, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, and elsewhere.
Lots of elevation gain this week. Look down on the into valleys; look up into cirques; listen to tapes from the '80s and '90s from Colorado, Berkeley, Mill Valley, Seattle, and (shrugs) Belgium?
Remember when we visited with adventurer/composer/musician/filmmaker Chuck Jonkey a while back? Well here's a more in depth visit with an adventurer who transforms his experiences exploring primitive worlds into sound and instrument experimentation.
Explore the past this week in San Francisco, Westwood Village, Ashland, Mountain View, and even New York City. Gurdjieff meditations, Digi-sax, sound poems, and Stickmen. 1977 to 1997.
More Southwest journeyz with '80s and '90s visionary music from Santa Fe, Taos, Boulder, Sedona, and various vortices...
On this week's West Coast Fog we hear about composer Bonnie Barnett and her Hums, a series of durational interactive voice meditations that began in the early '80s and still happen. Much thanks to Bonnie for sharing with us.
A special guest episode from our good friend Gone Beyond."The high deserts and mountains of Northern New Mexico have always attracted Spiritual Seekers, Outsiders, Loners and Healers," he tells us. Hear ambient, spiritual, experimental and new age sounds, "a culmination of 20 years digging throughout the most desolate and rural parts of Northern New Mexico, unearthing the eclectic music and diverse subculture from the '60s to the '80s."
Join Michael, Johnny, Warren, Cheri, Phillip, Anna, Roberto, Haeyon, and me as we perch on rocks and look down over chaparral-covered hillsides listening to Western States music from '79 to '99, Los Angeles to Olympia.
Journey through the American Southwest with West Coast Fog. Experience energy vortexes, Spring snow flurries, and ancient echoes from Arizona and New Mexico. Old Sounds with new ears.
This week we hear more from the female past in Texas, Victorville, San Jose, Marin, Monterey Park, Hacienda Heights, and Los Angeles. Marcey, Deb, Janie, Nicole, Alquimia, Nancy, Cecelia, Ann, and Barbara. Join us!
Mountain and plain, city and sand, women's sounds and voices from all over, 1980 to 2006... Elodie, Suzanne, Roberta, Anna, Alicia, Susan, Wendy, Susan, Lisa, and Christina...
Pollination special with soundtrack from the past. Berkeley, New Mexico, Los Angeles, Seattle, and even Australia and NY. Heavenscent, Larry Solomon, Eugen Bowen, Harold Budd, Chakra City, Tony Lewis, Glen Neff, RIP Hayman, Warren Burt.