PRX - Pieces for Tone: Esoteric

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When we quit obsessing, things fall into place. Esoteric is opener Alon Farber on sax with Dave Douglas trumpet (they couldn’t have done this witho...

Bought by Raven Radio, KRZA, KJZX-Austin, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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Join Montana Public Radio's Michael Marsolek on a musical trip around the world. No passport needed!

Bought by KAMU and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
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A traditional Panamanian dance interpretation Puerto Rican-style by Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe opens, intensity builds with the Geoff Keezer/Joe...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WKAR and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 6
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This episode we’re heavy on tropical rhythms, especially Brazilian. Canhoto da Paraiba doesn’t care about fame, just guitar. Reflective substantive...

Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Here's where we meet the bend in the river. Our 1st hour stuck with very similar music styles. Now we reach the apex where the styles change but th...

Bought by WOUB and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 2
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Faux live broadcast from a New Orleans music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:55:13
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Songs sung by women named "Barbara." Short fund drive announcements that are tied into the music. The boring, droning, repetitive ones were cut...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:42:52
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From the renaissance of Americana culture, 1950 to 1970s when we were searching for a uniquely American musical identity in the 20th century that c...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:46
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Songs you've never heard about teenagers (including Molly and Trudy) by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:45
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Our 2nd hour continues with more great new music from both emerging and established indie artists including Joss Stone and Nathan Thompson. We also...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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Another live show, another drink and dash on the bar tab. Then I had to hide out from the police so I went to the radio station and did the 3am to...

  • Added: May 23, 2015
  • Length: 05:58:03
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Yeah, sure there are thousands of songs that mention jukeboxes but you don't care to count them nor listen to them. No, you're more specialized. ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:42
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John Sebastian talks with Jake Feinberg about his mentors and teachers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London. One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
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Interview with rhythm guitar player from the Grateful Dead. Ranges from stories about The Reverend Gary Davis to Garcia's addictions.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:49
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... because there's more to art than "hits" played over and over and over again.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:38
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Music you've never heard from musicians you've never heard of from the golden age of American music, the 1950s to the 1970s. We feature the non-hi...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:54:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Music that's better than my grammar.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 02:48:08
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Music from the 1950s to the 1970s that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. An era when musicians reached across the separation ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:43:51
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Who would have thought that jail would be so much like a nightclub? All the OPP needs is the addition of music to its patron's drinking, drugging ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:50:26
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More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A faux live broadcast from somewhere in New Orleans as only you've imagined it.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:00:47
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The 1970's version of Funkadelic is typically credited for pioneering the role of a black band playing rock and roll. However, in the 1950s and 60...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:24:17
  • Purchases: 1
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" presented in esoteric themes and highlighted with interstitial sound clips from the t...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:53:25
Caption: Mardi Gras festival on another planet
The 40 year old Star Trek episode, The Return of the Archons, features a society that celebrates a Mardi Gras festival and is lead by a guy named ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Welcome to Camp Neo-Econ 101 featuring Terran's interviews with Investment Counselor, Catherine Austin Fitts, Altered Statesman, Terence McKenna, ...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2009
  • Length: 01:01:11