OPAQUE MELODIES

Aired 12/6/2022 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay.

Mariah ~ Sora Ni Mau Maboroshi
Gang Gang Dance ~ Vacuum
The Dragons ~ Your Way Too
Moondog ~ Oasis
Andy Summers & Robert Fripp ~ Hardy Country
Khruangbin & Vieux Farka Touré ~ Ali Hala Abada

Joni Mitchell ~ Good Friend (demo)
Lou Reed ~ Warrior King
John Cale ~ Chorale
Lord Dog Bird ~ The Gift of Song in the Lion's Den
Big Thief ~ Not
Bill Callahan ~ Lily

Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka ~ Sudany
Matthew De Gennaro ~ Tranquility Blues
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra ~ Parable of Inclusion
East New York Ensemble de Music ~ Ti-Ti
Jimmy Giuffre 3 ~ Emphasis
Charlie Parker ~ This is Always

Duke Ellington ~ C Jam Blues
Eric Dolphy ~ Straight Up and Down
Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band ~ Kleopatra
Henry Mancini ~ Flamingo
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru ~ A Young Girl's Complaint

P!off? ~ Mein Walkman ist Kaputt
Godley & Creme ~ Submarine
The Comet Is Coming ~ Frequency of Feeling Expansion
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp ~ Darshana
Neu! ~ Neuschnee

Aidan Baker ~ The Ghosts of Building
Jakob ~ Malachite
The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus ~ Shadowlands
Dirty Three ~ Moon on the Land
Esben and The Witch ~ No Dog

Aoife Nessa Frances ~ Soft Lines

Aired 11/15/22 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay

Bill Orcutt ~ Seen From Above
Horse Lords ~ Mess Mend
Emeralds ~ Double Helix
Tones on Tail ~ Performance
ESG ~ Hold Me Right
Devo ~ Blockhead
Ui ~ Elettrodomestici
Tom Verlaine ~ Saucer Crash

Ride ~ Dreams Burn Down
Loop ~ Fermion
The Veldt ~ Soul in a Jar (Guitar Mix)
Sort Sol ~ Framelding
Congotronics International ~ Where's The One?
Morphine ~ Honey White

Senyawa ~ Kabau
Ignatz & De Stervende Honden ~ The Wrong Tree
La Hell Gang ~ Everywhere I Go
801 ~ Diamond Head
Killing Joke ~ You'll Never Get to Me

Sun Ra Arkestra ~ Somebody Else's Idea
Booker Little Quintet ~ We Speak
Hank Mobley ~ Smokin'
Annette Peacock ~ This Feel Within

Makaya McCraven ~ The Knew Untitled
Gordon Grdina / Mark Helias / Matthew Shipp ~ Trimeter
Thumbscrew ~ Multicolored Midnight
Chico Hamilton ~ Marcheta
Julian Lage ~ General Thunder
Jeff Parker ~ My Ideal

Nduduzo Makhathini ~ Nyonini Le?
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes ~ Footprints
Nikki Giovanni ~ The Life I Led
Pharoah Sanders ~ Colors
OZO ~ Pluto

Marisa Anderson ~ Surfacing

Aired 11/1/2022 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay

Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf ~ West of the Moon
Old Time Relijun ~ This Foundation Is Cracked
Grace Jones ~ Demolition Man
Experience Unlimited ~ Free Yourself
SEED Ensemble ~ Interplanetary Migration

The Verve ~ Butterfly
Dick Stusso ~ In Heaven
The Marvellos ~ Don't Play With My Heart
Otis Redding ~ Rock Me Baby
Ben Vaughn / Alan Vega / Alex Chilton ~ Fat City

This Mortal Coil ~ The Last Ray
Dif Juz ~ Heset
New Order ~ Age of Consent
Disco Inferno ~ At The End of the Line
Fugazi ~ Closed Caption (demo)

Hugh Masekela ~ A Person Is a Sometime Thing
Sade ~ Every Word
Solange ~ Scales
Dam-Funk ~ I Mean Well
Sun Araw / M. Geddes Gengras / The Congos ~ Invocation

Travis & Fripp ~ Curious Liquids
Hans-Joachim Roedelius ~ Mein Freund Farouk
Manual ~ Tourmaline
Rachika Nayer ~ Sleepless
Studio ~ Indo

Szun Waves ~ In The Moon House
Blacks' Myths ~ Redbone
Camp Smiley ~ Black Smoke White Sky
Polvo ~ Blues Is Loss
Fleetwood Mac ~ Without You

Charles Stepney ~ Denim Groove
Tino Contreras ~ Santo

Special 50th episode, an interview with The Campbell Brothers. Aired on 10/4/2022 at 97.3/107.9 The Rock

Donovan ~ Peregrine
Jethro Tull ~ Look Into the Sun

(segue music)
Rufus Harley ~ Bagpipe Blues
András Schiff ~ Bach: Goldberg Variations, Variatio 6
Miles Davis Quintet ~ Something I Dreamed Last Night
Beach Boys ~ Surfin' Safari
Eric Burden & The Animals ~ Winds of Change

(segue music)
Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Third Stone From the Sun
Procol Harum ~ Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band ~ My Human Gets Me Blues
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band ~ Old Fart at Play
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band ~ The Blimp (mousetrapreplica)
The Kinks ~ Sunny Afternoon

The Kinks ~ Shangri La
The Kinks ~ Australia
Ten Years After ~ Here They Come
Ten Years After ~ 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain

David Bowie ~ Panic In Detroit
David Bowie ~ Drive-In Saturday
Lou Reed ~ Heroin (live)
Tyrannosaurus Rex ~ She Was Born to Be My Unicorn (segue)
Lou Reed ~ I Love You, Suzanne

Brian Eno ~ The True Wheel
Brian Eno ~ No One Receiving
Peter Gabriel ~ Solsbury Hill
Peter Gabriel ~ Excuse Me

Talking Heads ~ The Great Curve
Ken Nordine ~ Flibberty Jib
John Mayall ~ Nature's Disappearing
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks ~ Caught in the Rain

Gil Scott-Heron ~ Whitey On the Moon
Captain Beefheart ~ Apes-Ma

(background music)
Les McCann ~ Beaux J. Poo Boo
Freddie Hubbard ~ Delphia

Aired 9/20/2022 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay.

Preacherman ~ Out of This World
Brian Jackson ~ Yada Yada
BadBadNotGood ~ In Your Eyes
Shuggie Otis ~ Island Letter
Syreeta ~ Cause We've Ended As Lovers
Gloria Ann Taylor ~ Jolene

Sugar Pie Desanto ~ Maybe You'll Be There
Billie Holiday ~ God Bless the Child
Jandek ~ Lavender
Songs:Ohia ~ Almost Was Good Enough
Cass McCombs ~ There Can Be Only One
Talking Heads ~ Take Me To the River (live)

Leonard Cohen ~ You Have Loved Enough
Ray Charles ~ Careless Love
Television Personalities ~ This Heart's Not Made of Stone
Swans ~ Can't Find My Way Home
Mark Lanegan ~ Imitations
Damien Jurado ~ This Time Next Year

Mary Lattimore ~ Silver Ladders
Black Bombaim & La La La Ressonance ~ Carpa
Bobby Lee ~ Listings
Trees ~ Lady Margaret
Gunn-Truscinski Duo ~ Ocean City

John Lee Hooker ~ Real Real Gone
Ava Mendoza ~ Sun Gun
PJ Harvey ~ Wang Dang Doodle
Chris Forsyth ~ Heaven For a Few
Television ~ The Dream's Dream

Trey Gunn Band ~ Sirrah (live)
Hieroglyphic Being; Sarathy Korwar; Shabaka Hutchings ~ Dimensions of Frequency & Vibrations
Aidan Baker; Simon Goff; Thor Harris ~ Canter
Me'Shell NdegéOcello ~ Sometimes It Snows in April
Broadcast ~ You Can Fall

Wendy Carlos ~ Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring

Aired 9/6/2022 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay.

Elephant Tree ~ Sails
Melvins ~ Civilized Worm
Crisis ~ Frustration
Savage Republic ~ Omonoia
Killing Joke ~ Requiem
Killing Joke ~ Complications

Genesis ~ Back in N.Y.C. (live)
Blondie ~ Ring of Fire (live)
Steelism ~ The Landlocked Surfer
Project Gemini ~ The Ritual '70
Cozy Cole ~ Topsy (Part II)
Grant Green ~ 'Tain't Nobody's Business if I Do

Tyshawn Sorey ~ Two Over One
Matthew Shipp ~ Void Equation
Gordon Grdina's Haram ~ Gold Streamed Down From Her Hair
Hedvig Mollestad ~ High Hair

Steve Reich ~ Music For Mallet Instruments
Gamelan Semar Pegulingan ~ Tabuh Gari
King Crimson ~ Band Jam Idea

Carmen Villain ~ Silueta
Elements ~ Spiral
Steve Roach ~ Twilight Heat
Sam Prekop ~ Approaching
Paul Schutze ~ The Tears of Eros

Out Hud ~ How Long
Christine & The Queens ~ Goya Soda
The Juan MacLean ~ Running Back to You
Sheila E. ~ Noon Rendezvous
Tina Turner ~ I Can't Stand the Rain

Anteloper ~ Delfin Rosado

Aired 8/16/2022 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay.

The Budos Band ~ Aphasia
Patti Smith ~ Space Monkey
The Damned ~ Smash It Up Parts 1-4
Lungfish ~ Hear the Children Sing
Califone ~ 2 Sisters Drunk on Each Other

Bobby Previte ~ Sometimes You Need an Airport
Steve Khan ~ Where's Mumphrey
Brandon Coleman ~ We Change (Part I)
Doug Hammond & David Durrah ~ Kai
William S. Fischer ~ Chains

Tumi Mogorosi ~ Wadada
Moor Mother ~ MEDITATION RAG
Carlos Niño & Friends ~ Actually
Shahbaz Hussain & Helen Anahita Wilson ~ Neeleshwar
Joe Zawinul ~ In a Silent Way

Kevin Ayers ~ Decadence (Early Mix)
M. Geddes Gengras ~ Give as Proportion
The Durutti Column ~ Rob Grey's Elegy
E.M.M.A. ~ Echo
Colin Fisher ~ Monadic Mirror
Dustin Wong ~ Cityscape Floated

Rain Tree Crow ~ Pocket Full of Change
Bark Psychosis ~ A Street Scene
Harold Budd ~ The Serpent (In Quicksand)
Brian Eno ~ There Were Bells
Beverly Glenn-Copeland ~ Slow Dance

Pan American ~ Harmony Conversion
Whisper Room ~ Lunokhod 4
Bill Callahan ~ Camels
Carlton Melton ~ Porch Dreams
Ry Cooder ~ She's Leaving the Bank

Lonnie Liston Smith ~ Night Flower

Aired 8/2/2022 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay

Kraftwerk ~ Computer Love
David Bowie ~ V-2 Schneider
Pylon ~ Beep
Trouble Funk ~ Trouble Funk Express
Rayon Laser ~ Funky Meteor

Junior Boys ~ The Equalizer
Majical Cloudz ~ Turns Turns Turns
Neneh Cherry ~ 422
Merchandise ~ Winter's Dream
Roxy Music ~ Take a Chance with Me

Satomimagae ~ Numa
Steven R. Smith ~ Scaffolds
The Magic I.D. ~ Children's Tale
Population II ~ Attraction

Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake ~ Planet E
Food ~ Mictyris
Get The Blessing ~ Corniche

Nduduzo Makhathini ~ Emlilweni
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society ~ 2128½
Asher Gamedze ~ Interregnum

Benedicte Maurseth ~ Heilo
Cheri Knight ~ Tips on Filmmaking
Mick Karn ~ Bones of Mud
The Messthetics ~ Pacifica

Gallon Drunk ~ Loving Alone
Vanishing Twin ~ Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life
Dummy ~ H.V.A.C.
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood ~ Some Velvet Morning
The Caretaker ~ The Loves of My Entire Life

Waylon Jennings ~ Old Five and Dimers (Like Me)

Part 2 of a special exploration of the blues. Aired 7/5/2022 on 97.3/107.9 The Rock in Morro Bay.

Zoot Horn Rollo ~ Cowboy Coffee
Free ~ I'll Be Creepin'
Muddy Waters ~ Mannish Boy
T-Model Ford ~ How Many More Years
Magic Sam ~ All Your Love
Lightnin' Hopkins ~ Let Me Play with Your Poodle

Washington Brown & Group ~ Lord, Lord, Shorty
Dobie Red & Group ~ Stewball
Lucious Curtis & Willie Ford ~ Stagolee
H. Joiner, A, Anderson & Group ~ Hallelu, Hallelu
Moses 'Clear Rock' Platt, James 'Iron Head' Baker & RD Allen ~ Go Down Old Hannah
Bessie Jones & The Georgia Island Singers ~ You Better Mind
Jelly Roll Morton ~ Winding Boy

Son House ~ Empire State Express
Robert Pete Williams ~ Late Night Boogie
Honeyboy Edwards ~ Eyes Full of Tears
Bukka White ~ Army Blues
Big Bill Broonzy ~ This Train (Bound for Glory)
Cul de Sac / John Fahey ~ Maggie Campbell Blues

T-Bone Walker ~ T-Bone Shuffle
Junior Wells ~ Lovey Dovey Lovey One
Big Maybelle ~ That's Life
Anna King ~ Night Time is the Right Time
Chester Lewis ~ Precious Lord
The Campbell Brothers ~ Nobody's Fault But Mine

Jimi Hendrix ~ Who Knows
Jimi Hendrix ~ Voodoo Chile Blues
Jimi Hendrix ~ Hear My Train a Comin' (acoustic)

Morphine ~ Like Swimming
Reverend Horton Heat ~ Loaded Gun
Mazzy Star ~ Flying Low
Sonny Sharrock ~ Blind Willy
James Blood Ulmer ~ The Evil One

Precious Bryant ~ When the Saints Go Marching In
Lillian Offitt ~ Will My Man Be Home Tonight?
Leroy Carr ~ Bad Luck All the Time
Bessie Smith ~ Gimme a Pigfoot
Ruth Brown ~ Oh What a Dream (live)
Sun Ra ~ Search Light Blues
Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach ~ Driva' Man

Endless Boogie ~ The Artemus Ward

Part 1 of a special exploration of the blues. Aired 6/21/2022

Captain Beefheart ~ Grow Fins
Johnny "Guitar" Watson ~ Don't Touch Me
Holly Golightly ~ Satan is His Name
CeDell Davis ~ Rock
Mississippi Fred McDowell ~ Kokomo Blues
Jack Rose ~ Kensington Blues

75 Dollar Bill ~ Tetuzi Akiyama
Otis Taylor ~ My Soul's in Louisiana
Slim Harpo ~ Wonderin' Blues
Booker T. Jones ~ Get Behind the Mule
Tom Waits ~ Cold Water

Glenn Jones ~ Blues For Tom Carter
Karen Dalton ~ It Hurts Me Too
Skip James ~ Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Robert Guitar Welch ~ Electric Chair Blues
Rev. Pearly Brown ~ If I Never See You Anymore

Leo Welch ~ Girl In the Holler
Junior Kimbrough ~ I Love Ya Baby
Willie McBlind ~ One Lucky Man
Satan and Adam ~ Sunshine in the Shade
R.L. Burnside ~ Goin' Down South

PJ Harvey ~ Victory
Dead Meadow ~ Heaven
Red Red Meat ~ Sulfur
Castanets ~ Pour It All and Pour It True
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions ~ On the Low

Ali Farka Touré ~ Fara
Boubacar Traoré ~ Badialo
Lobi Traoré ~ Dunya
Fatoumata Diawara ~ Kanou
Tinariwen ~ Aghregh Medin

The Staple Singers ~ Praying Time
Brother Theotis Taylor ~ I Have a Friend
Laura Rivers ~ That's Alright (Since My Soul Has Got a Seat Up in the Kingdom)
Isaac Haney & The Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir ~ At a Time Like This (Pt. 1)
Aretha Franklin ~ Cold, Cold Heart
Nina Simone ~ Ain't No Use

Magic Sam ~ Call Me if You Need Me
Little Junior's Blue Flames ~ Love Baby
Howlin' Wolf ~ How Many More Years

Thelonious Monk ~ Ask Me Now