OPAQUE MELODIES

Aired 2/3/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Elijah Minnelli ~ Watercraft Apologist
Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengras / The Congos ~ Thanks and Praise
Elijah Jamal Asani ~ one ear to the land ,,, the other to each whisper of a cloud
Will Mason Quartet ~ Hymn
Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons ~ Tachyons Flux From The Cosmic Blueprints (Live)
 
Steven R. Smith ~ Portico Tiles
The Pilot Ships ~ Fun
The Comsat Angels ~ Our Secret
His Name Is Alive ~ I Thought I Saw
Do Make Say Think ~ Do
 
U.K. Subs ~ Anti Warfare
Germs ~ Lions Share
The Mentally Ill ~ Tumor Boy (Basement Sessions)
Interference ~ "Excerpt #1" Version 2
Ike Yard ~ Motiv
Bruise Blood ~ The Pressure
Muzak ~ The Happy Song
 
Synthfreq ~ Sunrise
Erykah Badu ~ Gone Baby, Don't Be Long
Maylee Todd ~ No Other
Pole ~ Grauer Sand
Helado Negro ~ Echo Tricks Me
Jamila Woods ~ Good News
Mei Semones ~ Donguri
 
Babytalk ~ Keep On Move (original mix)
Decius ~ Walking In The Heat (feat. Lias Saoudi & Al White)
MICROCORPS ~ FOLDED
Rien Virgule ~ Lenteur des montagnes
Tangerine Dream ~ Truth and Fiction
 
Jeremy Dower ~ Double Transgression
Jamie Saft ~ Catenary
Kamasi Washington ~ Together
Cola Boyy ~ Walk Again
Donna McGhee ~ Make It Last Forever (single version)
Grace Jones ~ I've Done It Again
 
Branko Mataja (ft. Michael Parenti) ~ Tamo Daleko

Aired 1/20/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Wilderness ~ Marginal Over
The Sound ~ Burning Part of Me
Clan of Xymox ~ 7th Time
Smerz ~ But I Do
CV Vision ~ A Memory
David Bowie ~ Waiting For The Man (live)
 
Issy Pop & The Stooges ~ Shake Appeal
Death ~ You're a Prisoner
Hammered Hulls ~ Needlepoint Tiger
Faraquet ~ Carefully Planned
Ganser ~ Projector
Soccer Team ~ All the Walkers Home
Tall Dwarfs ~ Crush
 
Mary Lou Williams ~ Just An Idea
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson ~ We'll Be Together Again (Live)
Masada Quintet ft. Joe Lovano ~ Serakel
Jaimie Branch ~ Bolinko Bass
 
Scree ~ White Roses
Japancakes ~ Tracing New Maps
Goon ~ In The Early Autumn
Animal Hospital ~ Fuselage
Doug Scharin & Joe Goldring ~ Out Of Worship
 
Mammy ~ Mizu No Naka No Himitsu
james K ~ Lung Slide
Jeremiah Chiu ~ Seawater Swell
Jatoma ~ Dust in Wong
Nikolaienko & Arthur Mine ~ Troglodytes
Matmos ~ Changing States
 
Ella Hanshaw ~ One More Hill
Andrew Weathers Ensemble ~ You Are Powerful and We Are Taking Over
Laura Cannell ~ Battle Hymns
Haress ~ King David
Milkweed ~ How Conchobor was Begotten
Milkweed ~ Téte Brec, the Twinkling Hoard

Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza ~ Pungmul Forecast

Aired 2/6/2026 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Television ~ Ain't That Nothin' (live)
Minor Threat ~ Cashing In
The Slits ~ Spend, Spend, Spend
The Fall ~ Who Makes The Nazis?
Black Eyes ~ Under the Waves
Matt Johnson ~ Delirious
 
Animal, Surrender! ~ King Panic
SML ~ Moving Walkway
Makaya McCraven ~ The Beat Up
Damon Locks ~ Click
Melvin Gibbs ~ Gullah Jack Style
African Head Charge ~ God Willing
 
2025 FAVS
more eaze & claire rousay ~ the applebees outside kalamazoo, michigan
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills ~ What Is Wrong With You?
Linda May Han Oh ~ Paperbirds
Los Pirañas ~ Los pendencieros del Latin
Tortoise ~ Night Gan
Nourished by Time ~ When The War Is Over
 
2025 FAVS
SUMAC & Moor Mother ~ Scene 3
Hedvig Mollestad Trio ~ Apocalypse Slow
Theon Cross ~ Play to Win
The Budos Band ~ Overlander
 
Anthony Braxton ~ Comp. 23 H
Charles Mingus ~ Open Letter To Duke
Stan Getz & Bob Brookmeyer ~ Spring Is Here
Duke Ellington ~ Polly
Lisa Ullén / Elsa Bergman / Anna Lund ~ Circle Of Security
 
The Necks ~ Circle Of Security
Hiroyuki Onogawa ~ Memory of the Water

Amon Düül II ~ Excessive Spray

Aired 11/18/2025 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Etta James ~ All the Way Down
K. Frimpong & his Cubano Fiestas ~ Yaw Barima
Bitchin Bajas ~ Reno
Dun-Dun Band ~ No. 1
 
Joseba Irazoki ~ Hor Chesire Hotel
Liam Grant ~ Palmyra
Raphael Rogiński ~ Lyre
The Horse Flies ~ Who Throwed Lye on My Dog
Miguel Noya ~ Tactil
 
Cate Le Bon ~ Mothers of Riches
GOON ~ This Morning Six Rabbits Were Born
Felt ~ Primitive Painters
No-Man ~ Hard Shoulder (Bonus Track)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow ~ So bloody, so tight
Soon ~ Minimal

Miles Davis ~ Trevere
Jack DeJohnette ~ The Rock Thing
Jack DeJohnette ~ India
Jack DeJohnette ~ Jongo
Jack DeJohnette / Danilo Perez / John Patitucci ~ Cobilla
 
Cécile McLorin Salvant ~ What Does Blue Mean To You?
Led Bib ~ Dawn Chorus
Zoh Amba ~ Seaside
Abhorrent Expanse ~ Crystal Proliferation in Subharmonic Space
Tortoise ~ Promenade À Deux
Califone ~ antenna mountain death blanket
 
Raymond Haddad ~ Angels Drone
Lori Goldston ~ Wave From Heaven
Jackie-O Motherfucker ~ Valley of Fire
Aaron Dooley ~ Funeral of Fireflies
Brian Eno ~ Spider and I
 
Eric Satie ~ Veritables Préludes Flasques

Aired 10/29/2025 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

The Birthday Party ~ Nick The Stripper (live)
Los Sleepers ~ Zombie
Los Holys ~ Campo de Vampiros
The Abstracts ~ Nightmare
The Sonics ~ The Witch
The Ebb-Tides ~ Seance
The Kinks ~ Wicked Annabella
Black Sabbath ~ Black Sabbath
 
Judas Priest ~ Night Crawler
Misfits ~ Night of the Living Dead
Cramps ~ What's Behind the Mask
The Ghastly Ones ~ Surfin' Spook
Ralph Nielsen & The Chancellors ~ Scream
Bloodrock ~ D.O.A.
Fields of the Nephilim ~ Moonchild
 
Ennio Morricone ~ Humanity (Part II)
Tangerine Dream ~ Sign In The Dark
Tim Krog ~ Fast Tracks
Fabio Frizzi ~ Sequence 8
Fabio Frizzi ~ Justice From The Past
Goblin ~ Jennifer (End Titles)
 
Harry Bromley Davenport ~ Xtro
Kyrystof Komeda ~ Fearless Vampire Killers
Jay Chattaway ~ Maniac's Theme (Main Titles)
Stelvio Cipriani ~ Una Notte Pericolosa
Chuck Cirino ~ Track 03
Riz Ortolani ~ Massacre of the Troupe
Christopher Young ~ Brought On By Night
Barbra Streisand ~ Love Theme (extended)
 
SWANS
Butcher
All Lined Up
Hypogirl (live)
Killing for Company
Amnesia
Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey
 
Diamanda Galás ~ Let Us Praise the Masters of Slow Death
Lucrecia Dalt ~ No Death No Danger
The Casket Girls ~ The Visitor
Zombi ~ First Flower
Meshuggah ~ Black Cathedral
Tibetan Buddhists of Bhutan ~ supplication to the buddhas
Sibylle Baier ~ The End
 
Vincent Price ~ From Prometheus Unbound (Percy Shelly)

Aired 10/21/2025 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Thomas Dinger ~ Für Dich (bureau b Edit)
The Soft Pink Truth ~ Wanna Know
Junior Boys ~ Yes II
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills ~ Taka
Nourished by Time ~ It's Time
Chicago Underground Duo ~ Hyperglyph
 
Linda May Han Oh ~ Noise Machinery (ft Ambrose Akinmusire & Tyshawn Sorey)
Jakob Dreyer ~ J-Song
Bill Evans Trio ~ But Beautiful (ft Stan Getz)
Tino Contreras ~ El Hombre Del Brazo De Oro
Nicole Mitchell ~ Awakening
 
Cass McCombs ~ A Girl Named Dogie
Gwenifer Raymond ~ Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark
No-Neck Blues Band ~ Live Your Myth in Grease
Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart ~ Torture Never Stops (Bongo Fury Outtake)
 
Adrian Sherwood ~ Spaghetti Best Western
Cul de Sac ~ Far Off, the Fabulous Iron Serpent Whistles
Steven R. Smith ~ One Rung Ladder
Aksak Maboul ~ I Viaggi Formano La Gioventu (Truc Turc)
Deus ~ Nine threads
Dinah Washington ~ Soft Winds
 
Good Night & Good Morning ~ Japanese Thread
Nine Inch Nails ~ The Way Out Is Through
No Joy ~ My Crud Princess
Paul Schutze ~ The Falls
Cabaret Voltaire ~ Sly Doubt
Blankfor.ms ~ A Fleet Of Celebrants
 
Titanic ~ Escarbo dimensiones
Shaki Tavi ~ Foam
Sanam ~ Sayl Damei
Beat ~ Industry (Live in Los Angeles 2024)
Concretism ~ Telex Ghosts

Sylvia Plath ~ November Graveyard

Aired 09/16/2025 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA

Bush Tetras ~ It's So Weird
Lijadu Sisters ~ Amebo
Burning Spear ~ We Are Free
Good Breed ~ Heights
Tidian Kone & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo ~ Djanfa Magni
Keith Kanga ~ Butterfly (Version Two)

Rites Of Spring ~ By Design
Fugazi ~ Bulldog Front
Fugazi ~ Last Chance For A Slow Dance
Fugazi ~ Fell, Destroyed
Fugazi ~ Target
Fugazi ~ Guilford Fall
Fugazi ~ Life And Limb
Fugazi ~ Nightshop
 
Ludus ~ I Can't Swim, I Have Nightmares
Ginger Baker Trio ~ When We Go
Wayne Shorter ~ Tom Thumb
Willem Breuker Kollektief ~ Anabelle
Wes Montgomery ~ Here's That Rainy Day
 
Sade ~ The Sweetest Gift
Acetone ~ Every Kiss
Califone ~ Lakewater / Parachutes
Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn ~ Path to the Peak
Steve Gunn ~ Slow Singers On The Hill
Lori Vambe ~ Goin Home Boogie (One)
 
Water Damage ~ Reel EEE
Danielle Boutet ~ Nevada
 
Arthur Verocai ~ Velho Parente
The Pop Group ~ She Is Beyond Good And Evil Dub
Demsey and Dover ~ Little Car of Mine
Concept Nine ~ When
The New Dawn ~ Slave of Desire
The Junkyard Angels ~ I'm Ready
Nina Simone ~ Day and Night
90 Day Men ~ We Blame Chicago

Aired 9/3/2025 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA

Don Caballero  ~ Fire Back About Your New Baby's Sex
Editrix ~ Flesh Debt
Xmal Deutschland ~ Blut Ist Liebe
Saâda Bonaire ~ The Facts
Tones On Tail ~ You, the Night, and the Music
Tropical Fuck Storm ~ Joe Meek Will Inherit the Earth

BLACK SABBATH
Paranoid (live)
Sweet Leaf (live)
Planet Caravan
Killing Yourself to Live
Symptom of the Universe

Uncle Wiggly ~ Irresponsible Pants
Horsegirl ~ In Twos
Appliance ~ Violins
Gwenno ~ Hireth
Omertà ~ La chambre de la fumée et des fleurs
Karlowy Vary ~ Get It On
T. Rex ~ Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles
 
Theon Cross ~ We Go Again
Scanner & Neil Leonard ~ Aerospace Millions
James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel ~ Sunbeam Path
Cole Pulice & Nat Harvie ~ dream days
 
Simeon ten Holt ~ Sections 31-40
Willem Nyland ~ 337.A3
Tim Hecker ~ Morning (Piano Version)
Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka ~ Stars on the ground
Brìghde Chaimbeul ~ A' Chailleach
 
Lee "Scratch" Perry ~ Jungle Roots Dub
Francis Bebey ~ Kikadi Gromo
Yasuaki Shimizu ~ Yume Dewa
Fever Ray ~ Shiver (Radical Romantics Session)
Teeth of the Sea ~ Apollo
Zomes ~ Dance At The Spring

Black Sabbath ~ Orchid

Aired 8/19/2025 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA.

Talking Heads ~ Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) (live)
Preoccupations ~ Focus
Moin ~ See (ft. Sophia Al-Maia)
Happy Go Licky ~ Twist and Shout
Alex Chilton ~ Hey! Little Child
Johnny Thunders ~ Great Big Kiss
 
Jeffery Alexander & Heavy Lidders ~ Star Power
Gong ~ Foghat Digs Holes In Space
Skyjoggers ~ Newtonin Kanuuna
Trey Gunn Band ~ Sirrah
 
Oh No ~ Carnival
Tackhead ~ Ticking Time Bomb
Rare Essence ~ Body moves
Broken Glass ~ Rather You Than Me
The Undisputed Truth ~ (Unite The World)  Friendship Train
Oneness of Juju ~ West Wind
 
Weldon Irvine ~ What's Goin' On?
Cinematic Orchestra ~ Flite
Yara Asmar ~ Are These Your Hands? Would You Like Them Back?
William Parker ~ Malcolm's Smile
Toolshed ~ I Rooster
Wau Wau Collectif ~ Salamaleikoum
 
Bell Biv DiVoe ~ When Will I See You Smile Again
Grace Jones ~ Corporate Cannibal
Techno Animal ~ Monoscopic
Dälek ~ Isolated Stare
The Bug ~ Vertical (Never See You Again)
 
Joane Hétu ~ Elle n'a pas de mot
Felt ~ 13 Book Of Swords
Sandro Perri ~ Impossible Spaces
Eric Chenaux Trio ~ Hello Eyes
"Blue" Gene Tyranny ~ Sunrise Or Sunset In Texas
Béla Bartók ~ Sonata for 2 pianos & 2 percussion
 
The Shelltones ~ Blue Castaway

Aired 7/15/2025 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay, CA

Brainstorm  ~ Journey To The Light
Urszula Dudziak ~ Kasia's Dance
Donald Byrd ~ Sister Love
Budos Band ~ The Strigoi
The Royal Arctic Institute ~ Sailor Goes Swimming

Moondog ~ I'm This, I'm That
Jim Hall Trio ~ Thanks For The Memory
Ben Lamar Gay ~ there, inside the morning glory
Beat Circus ~ Big Top Suite Pt 2 : Clowns
Crimson Jazz Trio ~ Pictures Of A City
Jack Ackerman ~ Love Has Conquered Man

Donna McGhee ~ It Ain't No Big Thing
Deon Estus ~ Spell
Terence Trent d'Arby ~ Wishing Well (Extended Version)
Talking Heads ~ Moon Rocks
Colourbox ~ Tarantula (7" first version)
Yfory ~ Chwaer Pwy?

Neptunian Maximalism ~ At Dawn: Raag Bairagi: Vilambit Laya Alaap
Flower Travellin' Band ~ That's All
Causa Sui ~ Silver In The Gathering Light
13th Floor Elevators ~ Baby Blue

Mike Cooper ~ THE SARONG TAILORS SONG
Tarwater ~ To Moauf
Pauline Anna Strom ~ Bonsai Terrace
Ditto ~ Bush
Gareth Hardwick ~ Last Heights
Takami Hasegawa ~ Koneko To Watashi
Mort Garson ~ Zoos Of The World

Jlin ~ Summon
SUMAC & Moor Mother ~ Scene 4
Chelsea Wolfe ~ Tunnel Lights
Eartheater ~ Crushing
Jon Hassell ~ Gift of Fire
Miguel Angel Noya ~ Wayou I
Jan Kadereit & Gamelan Salukat ~ Áshira - Sun and Fire
 
Teo Macero (ft. John Cassavetes) ~ Faces