West Coast Fog
115 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsA weekly audio tour of the forgotten West, visiting obscure moments in musical and cultural history along the way.
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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Episodes
West Coast Fog 12/18/18 - Fleeting Airscapes
December 19, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBDelve 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.
West Coast Fog 12/11/18 - Music to Grow Moss By
December 12, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBMoist 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...
West Coast Fog 12/4/18 - Wind Borne
December 05, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBGet 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...
West Coast Fog 11/27/18 - w/ Douglas Mcgowan and John Wyatt
November 30, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBWhat 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...
West Coast Fog 11/20/18 - New Worlds of Chuck Jonkey
November 21, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 110 MBJoin us as we venture into the exotic world of 4th World visionary Chuck Jonkey. Hear selections from his early tapes and listen to him demonstrate and explain his unusual musical instruments. Plus stuff off early '90s cassettes from Radha and Friends, Nonexisted Feelings Restoration, Daniel Crommie, and Avatar.
West Coast Fog 11/13/18 - On the Rim of the World
November 15, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBLive from a Skyforest. Sonic spirituality above sea level. Tapes and LPs from the West, '70s to '90s. Siddha, the Collective Star, Daniel Crommie, 17 Pygmies, Rick Sharp and on and on...
West Coast Fog 11/6/18 - From a Fern Grotto
November 07, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBForgotten sounds on tape and vinyl from Sonoma, Malibu, and New Mexico. Chuck Jonkey, Michael Ross, Matt Baldwin, Clifford Marshall Van Buren, Ian Tamblyn, Joan La Barbara, Lawrence Ball, Robert Slap, Suzanne Ghiglia, Bob Grawi.
West Coast Fog 10/30/18 - Night Garden Scenes
October 31, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBWhat went on musically on the West Coast and slightly inland. Hear LPs, tapes, and CDs from the late '70s to the late '90s by Peter Kardas, Ann Holmes, Ian Tamblyn, Philip Perkins, Many Axes, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Frederick Lesseman...
West Coast Fog 10/23/18 - Shifting Sands
October 24, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn which we venture to Death Valley. Hear emigrant tales of yore. Explore shifting dunes and learn of flora and fauna both real and imagined. Hear music and words from cassettes by Cosmic Indian, Jackalope, Desert Sun, Ingram Marshall, John C. Van Dyke, Frederick Lesemann, First Flight, Antonio Zepeda, and Richard Burmer...
West Coast Fog 10/16/18 - Octember Thunderstorm
October 17, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBExperience a California Fall thunderstorm. See the lightning illuminate the marine layer. Listen to the sounds of thunder and bygone recordings from Marnie, Tom Recchion, Jessica Williams, Uma, John Mackay, Dave Clark & Walter Drake, Bray Ghiglia, Larry Wendt, and Kevin Kip Setchko.
West Coast Fog 10/9/18 - A Chat With Iasos
October 10, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 115 MBIn which we talk to Iasos about Mt. Shasta and riotous recording sessions with elementals. Plus hear Oregonians, Californians, and citizens of the Old Worlde.... Peter Kardas, the Eugene Electronic Music Collective, Ellen Zweig, and Pan himself!
West Coast Fog 10/2/18 - Terminal Island Tales
October 03, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 89.2 MBJoin West Coast Fog on a jaunt to the one-time Bora Bora of L.A. County where we'll reminisce and jam '80s and '90s LPs and tapes from Kwaku Dadey, Levi Chen, Lou Harrison, Jagad Guru Chris Butler, Terry Garthwaite, Sam Hammill, Robert Dick & Steve Gorn, Loren Nerrell, and Heart Master Da Free John and talk about John Fante, Japanese submarines, rattlesnakes, and Deadman's Island.
West Coast Fog 9/25/18 - Walking Meditations
September 26, 2018 22:48 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBIn the first episode of our new 1-hour format, join West Coast Fog on a hike to a secluded campsite in the San Gabriel Mountains. Hear nearly forgotten or at least long-time unheard music from Linda Allen, Brooke Medicine Eagle, Shastina Free, Drew Lesso, David Behrman and George Lewis, Scott Fraser, the Bells of Arco Santi, and Jessica Williams. All '80s and '90s tapes.
West Coast Fog 9/18/18
September 19, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 212 MBBroadcasted live from a hilltop in Mendocino. Synth frontiersmen, Women's wordsmithery, Spiritual wellness pop-chants... all West Coast... all '80s and '90s... all Bliss...
West Coast Fog 9/11/18
September 12, 2018 00:00 - 2 hours - 230 MBJourney from down here all the way up to B.C. and back on this episode of West Coast Fog. Memories for miles... Broadcasting live from a not-so-ancient grove in Altadena. Hear lots of "grown up" mind expanding stuff off tapes from the '80s and '90s.