OPAQUE MELODIES

Airing 10/29/2024 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA

Eartha Kitt ~ I Want to Be Evil
Little Tibia & the Fibias ~ The Mummy
Sonny Richard's "Panics" ~ The Voodoo Walk
The Weirdos ~ E.S.P.
The Graveyard Five ~ Marble Orchard
Lori Burton ~ Nightmare
Donovan ~ Wild Witch Lady
Timber Timbre ~ Curtains!?

David Sylvian ~ The Devil's Own
Sisters of Mercy ~ Colours
This Mortal Coil ~ Dreams Made Flesh
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus ~ Tales From Europe
Midnight Syndicate ~ Druids
Twin Temple ~ I'm Wicked

Tom Waits ~ Murder On the Red Barn
Lankum ~ Go Dig My Grave
John Carpenter ~ Challis Escape
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) ~ Lullaby
The Flamingos ~ Dream Girl

Myrkur ~ The Serpent
Occultation ~ All Hallow's Fire
Anna von Hausswolf ~ The Marble Eye
Swans ~ Blood and Honey
Grails ~ X-Contaminators
Xiu Xiu ~ Pahrump

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ~ The Creature
Snowman ~ Seance
Suicide ~ See You Around
Bauhaus ~ Stigmata Martyr
Lou Reed ~ The Bed
The Hilliard Ensemble ~ Isaias cecinit

The Caretaker ~ A relationship with the sublime
Zonal ~ No Investigation (ft. Moor Mother)
Yellow Swans ~ Sovereign
GAS ~ Narkopop 6
ANOHNI ~ I Never Stopped Loving You

Harry Choates ~ Devil In the Bayou

Aired 9/15/24 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock, in Morro Bay. Special 90s Edition!

1990
Brian Eno & John Cale ~ Lay My Love
Mazzy Star ~ Blue Flower
Fugazi ~ Brendan #1
Kitchens of Distinction ~ Drive That Fast
Galaxie 500 ~ Listen, The Show is Falling
Lou Reed & John Cale ~ Style It Takes

1993
Butthole Surfers ~ Who Was in My Room Last Night?
Swervedriver ~ Blowin' Cool
The Verve ~ Butterfly
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp ~ Brightness Falls
His Name Is Alive ~ Lemon Ocean
Hiroshi Yoshimura ~ Heart Land

1994
Portishead ~ It's a Fire
Beastie Boys ~ Ricky's Theme
Flying Saucer Attack ~ In the Light of Time
lovesliescrushing ~ youreyesimmaculate
Low ~ Slide
Jeff Buckley ~ Dream Brother

1996
Failure ~ Another Space Song
Tool ~ H.
John Parish & Polly Jean Harvey ~ Heela
Unwound ~ Corpse Pose
DJ Shadow ~ Changeling / Transmission 1
Alan Vega / Alex Chilton / Ben Vaughn ~ Do Not Do Not

1997
Acetone ~ All the Time
Morphine ~ Like Swimming
Stereolab ~ Miss Modular
Broadcast ~ The World Backwards
Yo La Tengo ~ Damage
Erykah Badu ~ Appletree

1999
Mary J. Blige ~ Deep Inside
Beth Orton ~ Couldn't Cause Me Harm
Fiona Apple ~ To Your Love
The Flaming Lips ~ The Gash
Jim O'Rourke ~ Ghost Ship in a Storm
Tom Waits ~ Cold Water

Mark Morrison ~ Return of the Mack (Acapella)

Aired 9/17/24 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Messthetics ~ Three Sisters (ft. James Brandon Lewis)
Mabe Fratti ~ Enfrente
L'Rain ~ New Year's UnResolution
Explosions in the Sky ~ The Fight
Hypnodrone Ensemble ~ Biglove

Sister Double Happiness ~ Sister Double Happiness
Shellac ~ I Don't Fear Hell
Winged Wheel ~ Smudged Textile
Gnod ~ Peace at Home
Jim White ~ Soft Material

The Beings ~ Happy to Be
Fly Pan Am ~ Distance Dealer
The Fall ~ Janet, Johnny + James
Karate ~ The Same Stars
Heaven And ~ When the Roll is Called

The Makers ~ Don't Challenge Me
Nana Caymmi ~ Pra Você
Jorge Ben ~ Errare Humanun Est
Mojave 3 ~ Love Songs on the Radio
The Royal Arctic Institute ~ Anosmia Suite
Ray Charles ~ Making Believe

Bobby Hutcherson ~ Head Start
The Claudia Quintet ~ I'm So Frickin' Cool (For Fritz Pauer)
Gordon Grdina / Mark Helias / Matthew Ship ~ Synapses
Kokotob ~ Korokoro
Kronos Quartet & Ron Carter ~ Brilliant Corners

The For Carnation ~ Tales (Live From the Crypt)
True Widow ~ Four Teeth
Tara Jane O'Neil ~ Blow
Bill Callahan ~ Faith/Void

Judy Collins ~ I Think It's Going to Rain Today

Aired 9/3/20204 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

"Blue" Gene Tyranny ~ Barn Fever (live)

Miles Davis ~ He Loved Him Madly

Pink Floyd ~ Echoes (live)

The Ecstasy of Gold ~ Twigs, Branches, and Rocks

Klaus Schulze ~ Floating

Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi ~ Washington, D.C.-T4V1

Aired 8/20/24 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA

Georges Ouedraogo ~ Rimbale
Yumi Hara ~ Orlyonok
OOIOO ~ ats
Non Band ~ Duncan Dancin'
Curlew ~ Rudders
Defunkt ~ In the Good Times

The The ~ Soul Mining
Linda Smith ~ I'll Never See You
Nourished By Time ~ Romance In Me
Animal Hospital ~ Awful Beast
Jane Weaver ~ Emotional Components

Oliver Nelson ~ Stolen Moments
Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones ~ Farmer's Song
Julian Lage ~ Serenade
Charles Brown ~ Driftin' Blues

Zoh Amba ~ The Drop and the Sea
Michael Cosmic ~ We Love You Malcolm X
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou ~ Minkou E So Non Main
Azymuth ~ Dear Limmertz

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin ~ Fyra
G.S. Schray ~ His Peculiar Livestreams
Cindy Lee ~ Diamond Jubilee
Tape ~ Gone Gone

Olof Dreijer ~ Coral
Jean Michel Jarre ~ Equinoxe Pt. 7
Kilchhofer ~ Trift

Bill Rieflin & Chris Connelly ~ Rondo

Aired 8/6/2024 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Tiger Bear Wolf ~ You Play Guitar
The Dirtbombs ~ Alleys of Your Mind
Butthole Surfers ~ Sea Ferring
Nocturnal Projections ~ In Purgatory
Dicks ~ Purple Haze
Bad Brains ~ Re-Ignition
Randy Holden ~ Fruits & Icebergs

U SCO ~ Abyssal Hymn
Fennesz ~ We Trigger the Sun
NYOS ~ Kuusi

Alice Coltrane ~ Leo (live)
Grant Green ~ Kicker

Sam Cooke ~ Chain Gang (live)
Billy Hawks ~ O'Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You)
Stevie Wonder ~ Ebony Eyes
Al-Dos Band ~ Dream Song
Faze-O ~ Riding High
Dam-Funk ~ Allies
Synthfreq ~ The Unknown

Yara Asmar ~ Come Back Later
Nico ~ My Only Child (demo)
Psarantonis ~ Taxidi
Carlos Paredes & Charlie Haden ~ Song for Ché
Eric Chenaux Trio ~ I've Always Said Love

Laraaji / Arji OceAnanda / Dallas Acid ~ Somewhere Here
King Crimson ~ The Sheltering Sky (live)
Arooj Aftab ~ Bolo Na
Bark Psychosis ~ 400 Winters

R.N.A. Organism ~ Yes, Every Africa Must Be Free Eternally

Aired 5/7/23 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

The Rolling Stones ~ Mona (I Need You Baby)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band ~ Harry Irene
Mary Margaret O'Hara ~ Body's in Trouble
Fiona Apple ~ Valentine
Bill Orcutt ~ Judith Reconsidered
Danny Thompson ~ Lovely Joan
Frank McCaffey ~ My Eileen

Doug Hream Blunt ~ Gentle Persuasion
Jane Jane Pollock ~ Mystic Lurch
The Pale Fountains ~ Unless
Judy Nylon ~ Dateline Miami
SM Corporation ~ Fire From Above
The Impossible Dreamers ~ Spin

Max Roach ~ Epistrophy
Vijay Iyer/Linda May Han Oh/Tyshawn Sorey ~ Maelstrom
John Zorn ~ Nocturnals
Mary Halvorson ~ Desiderata
Innercity Ensemble ~ Niedziela życia III

Sonny Sharrock ~ Black Woman
Sarah Murcia & Kamilya Jubran ~ Siwa
SOMA ~ Amrta
Mohammad Syfkhan ~ Do You Have a Lover or Not?
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble ~ Open Me

Nailah Hunter ~ Cloudbreath
Annelies Monseré ~ Sally Free and Easy
Sibylle Baier ~ I Lost Something in the Hills
David Thomas Broughton ~ Potential of Our Progeny
Os Mulheres Negras ~ Summertime
Magnolia Electric Co. ~ Little Sad Eyes

Kathryn Tickell ~ Border Widow's Lament
Joan Shelly ~ Pull Me Up One More Time
North Americans ~ Run Down
Jake Xerxes Fussell ~ Washington
House and Land ~ Home Over Yonder
Jenny Scheinman ~ Broken Pipeline
Sylvie Simmons ~ Life Goes Bad

Grateful Dead ~ Althea

Aired 4/16/2024 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Richard Thompson ~ Put It There Pal
Ryley Walker ~ Sweet Up and Down
Mary Timony ~ No Thirds
Gene Loves Jezebel ~ Stephen
90 Day Men ~ Saint Theresa in Ecstasy

Black Sabbath ~ Changes
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ~ Pipe Down!
Ndox Electrique ~ Indi Mewmi
New Age Doom & Tuvaband ~ Time Lost
Carlton Melton ~ Last Times

Rafael Toral ~ Your Goodbye
Jeremiah Chiu ~ Transparent Spheres
Oren Ambarchi ~ III
Joel Ross ~ nublues
Amaro Freitas ~ Sonho Ancestral

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru ~ Where Is the Highway of Thought?
Bill Dixon Orchestra ~ Voices
Charles Mingus ~ Prayer for Passive Resistance
Doug Carn ~ Time is Running Out

Jumping Back Slash ~ RZN for the SZN
Aiming for Enrike ~ Flat Beats
Forest Swords ~ End
Sofia Kourtesis ~ Madres
WaqWaq Kingdom ~ Shogyo Mujo
A Tribe Called Red ~ SOON (ft. Joseph Boyden)

Emilian Gatsov ~ Memories Sharp Dissolving
Evitceles ~ Cover My Face
Zonal ~ Debris
Skinny Puppy ~ Rivers
Liars ~ Nothing Is Ever Lost Or Can Be Lost My Science Friend
FACS ~ Slogan

Schnellertollermeier ~ Backyard Lipstick

Aired 4/2/2023 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Yume Bitsu ~ Song One
Jimi Hendrix ~ One Rainy Wish
Bardo Pond ~ Wank
Heron Oblivion ~ Seventeen Landscapes
The Ecstasy of Gold ~ Working Home

Can ~ Paris 73 Funf
Annette Peacock ~ A Loss of Consciousness
Magma ~ Soleil D'ork
Sun Ra & His Solar Myth Arkestra ~ Satellites Are Spinning

Relatively Clean Rivers ~ Hello Sunshine
Wet Tuna ~ Kinda Feelin' Good
Cerberus Shoal ~ Myrrh (loop)
Earth ~ Exaltation of Larks
Heather Leigh Murray ~ Days Without You

Lonker See ~ Hamza
Grails ~ Corridors of Power
Roy Montgomery ~ The Soul Quietens
Popol Vuh ~ Hüter der Schwelle
Amon Düül II ~ Yeti Talks To Yogi (Improvisation)
Gerycz / Powers / Rolin ~ Sun Rays

Sarah Louise ~ Rime
David Michael Moore ~ Heaven's Grind
Low ~ Always Trying to Work it Out
L'Rain ~ 5 to 8 Hours a Day (WWwaG)
ProjeKct 3 ~ Masque 8
Jesu ~ Dead Eyes

Toolshed ~ Love in Outer Space
Axis Sova ~ Best End (Of the World)
The Space Lady ~ All Shook Up
The Residents ~ Sinister Exaggerator
Melvins ~ Mary Lady Bobby Kins
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band ~ Kandy Korn

Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton ~ A Homesick Song

Aired 3/19/2023 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Ambitious Lovers ~ Love Overlap
M/A/R/R/S ~ Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)
Loop ~ Carry Me
Nadine Shah ~ Sad Lads Anonymous
Les Conches Velasques ~ Corrillo
Wasyl Emetz ~ Ukrainian Bandura

Gene Clark ~ Lady of the North
Kevin Ayers & The Whole World ~ May I?
Love ~ Stop the Music
The Jimmy Castor Bunch ~ Psyche
Blue Jeans ~ Moon Mist
Creation ~ How Does it Feel?
The Kinks ~ The Village Green Preservation Society

Fire! Orchestra ~ Echoes: To Gather It All. Once.
Mendoza Hoff Revels ~ Echolocation
Cautious Clay ~ Blue Lips (ft. Julian Lage)

Minnie Riperton ~ Les Fleur
Budos Band ~ Crimson Skies
Remi Kabaka ~ All Black Festival
Magic Carpet ~ Andalucia
Cécile McLorin Salvant ~ Fenestra
Neneh Cherry & The Thing ~ What Reason Could I Give (Carmen Villain remix)

Smith & Mudd ~ Hvala (version Idjut)
Simon Fisher Turner ~ Hope Swims
Arve Henriksen ~ Assembly
Disco Inferno ~ A Whole Wide World Ahead
The Utopia Strong ~ Shepherdess
Goldmund ~ As You Know

Danielle Boutet ~ Images
Drift ~ Red Lights
Elena Setién ~ Peculiar
ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT ~ The Sons and Daughters of Poor Eternal

Gloria Ann Taylor ~ Burning Eyes