PRX - Pieces for Tone: Esoteric

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Morning is our mantra except for mambo made by Moody, Johnny Nocturne's band jumps to an interlude. In the beginning instruments imitated voices, b...

Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 8
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Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 43:00
Caption: a photo from the box
Over 25 years ago curators Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral went to an estate sale in Illinois. Jerri says they stumbled upon a shoebox that would cha...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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Mose Allison shouts out the Hacksaw handle, heavyweights Oscar Peterson and Art Blakey, who probably never played together, take turns on our stage...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WVBI-LP, WYAP, KCMJ Community Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Richard Hadlock
Host, Richard Hadlock devotes an entire program to the Blues featuring creative guitarists including the late BB King and Leadbelly among others.

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 57:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Richard Hadlock
San Francisco's legendary club, the Black Hawk located at Turk and Hyde street presented a who's who of Jazz luminaries from Dizzy Gillespie, to Bi...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:10
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This week we explore the concept of a concept album including the album's conception and how the music is thematically conceived. When does a conc...

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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We as a culture and as humans spend a lot of time with technology, all focused on the newest, latest and most updated this, that and the other. We ...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
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Come usher in Part VII of Sometimes a Saint & Sometimes A Sinner. We’ll tread between the two worlds with a rich collection of old spirituals, murd...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:56:18
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The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 17:18
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Buddy Montgomery leads a reunion which inspires a batch of above average lady singers and then substantive rhythms. A long comfortable cushion of ...

Bought by WKAR, WOUB, KPVL, WYAP, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:55
  • Purchases: 6
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Legendary blues kick into hard funk. Experience freedom in dance, musing and introspection. We'll pay tribute to a recently departed clarinet mas...

Bought by WKAR, WOUB, WVBI-LP, WYAP, and KVRZ


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 5
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Back in the groove

Bought by KWMR, KKWE Niijii Radio, KKRN, WLPR , WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Tribute to a couple drummers we lost in July, Frankie Dunlop & Idris Muhammad. We'll hear recordings of one with Thelonious Monk, the other drummi...

Bought by WYAP and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 2
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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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Free, audio book excerpts. To elevate the decorative arts in the early 20th century, women were encouraged to participate in the creation of beauti...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
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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
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First half of the show focuses on the rarely heard New Orleans R&B songs and artists of the early 1950s. Rick Coleman who authored the definitive ...

  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:48:17
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The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Veering off the beaten path.

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KEOS and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
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A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:10:23
Caption: JFK-Listening In
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney with politics: past, present and future; John Cale, Adele, Neil Young & The Rolling Stones with...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2012
  • Length: 57:58
Caption: We're Only In It For The Money-intended cover, Credit: collage by Cal Schenkel
Deep Under

Bought by KHNS, KWMR, KSJD, KKRN, KEOS and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
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A little something for everyone.

Bought by KEOS, KMXT, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 9