A tarnished brass key, a small locked box, a sequence of magical numbers, a charmless old block building in the desert. It is here that we visit in the night, keeping our distance, looking for sustenance. It is here we receive your offerings of words and other treasure. All we mean is this: Tonight’s show is all about the letters from you, letters from our listening community, letters and their replies.
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An all-new quarantine episode of Desert Oracle Radio from our secure desert compound, where we are noting the return of the wildlife, the blue skies, the clear air, the happy songbirds, and all the springtime joys of a time when the people have chosen to stay mostly at home, for the sake of human society. New & classic soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen on the radio tonight, Z107.7 FM in the High Desert, two episodes back-to-back, 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.
We’ve all been dreaming a lot more than usual, or so it seems. But what happens when we all begin dreaming the same dream? #086: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET, a new 28-minute episode, with a new soundscape track by RedBlueBlackSilver. Sounds best on the radio at night but you can listen now, because it goes well with a rainy desert day, too.
Hey did you hear we’re going to open up the country again for May Day! We’ll try, anyway. Try to get it going on Beltane Eve. Jason P. Woodbury joins us for another interesting tale about music made here in the American Desert, this time regarding longtime Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who wrote a number of interesting lyrics about the legends and geography of the Southwest.
Arthur Magazine, mentioned by Jason in this episode, was an important and influential music/culture nationally distributed magazine edited by Joshua Tree’s own Jay Babcock. The blog archives are well worth perusing!
Hear the show on terrestrial radio station KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree on Friday nights from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Want the show on YOUR community radio station? We are distributed by PRX, and available to radio stations wherever they are. Pre-order Desert Oracle Vol. I,, if you’d like!
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Please don’t come to Joshua Tree and the Mojave High Desert. Everything is closed and you aren’t welcome right now. Enjoy the desert via podcast and radio! From deep within our desert bunker, it’s a brand-new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. Tarence Ray from the Trillbillies joins us in the second half. Soundscapes are new tonight, too, by RedBlueBlackSilver.
When times are strange, shall we gather in the desert? Well that depends. It depends on whether you’re bringing the Invisible Friend. This is Episode #082, with eerie new soundscapes tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver.
Not only a new episode 10 p.m. tonight on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, but an hourlong episode: “The Other Room,” in which we engage in the sort of late-night desert-talk-radio conversation that we need & you need: Intuition, LSD, Carl Jung, the “Conscious Life” expo, gods and monsters, desert ley lines, etc. Our guest is the New Mexico/New York/Los Angeles author and journalistAnna Merlan, who reports from the Land of the Weird.
New musical atmospheres tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks especially to our patrons. And that’s all we’ve got to say about it. The podcast went out a little early (?!). Sedona is a character in this episode.
