West Coast Fog

With Iasos's untimely passing this one goes back on top. It's from 2019 and has been unavailable for a while now. Thank you Iasos for sharing your love, your magical music and visions, and for being such a bounteous channel between worlds.    

Join 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. 

Meditate inside a primordial sea cave in a secluded cove off the coast of California while listening to ethereal music from the Bay Area, the Swiss Alps, and beyond. Tapes and records from the '80s and '90s.

Ascend into the clouds; explore rugged ridges; and peer down onto creation to the sounds of the past.

Raindreaming, Kali & Chandra, Primordial Processing, Grace & Kayla, Thought Forms Reality, Picture Music... These sounds, these folks, these tapes... They're all here with us this week wafting up from a boulder-strewn creekbed in Central California.  

An evening thunderstorm and an hour of meditative sounds from the Mojave Desert, the Bay Area, and beyond. Gold Country and Old Country, each zone special. All selections from cassette tapes from the '80s and '90s, perfectly paired with heavenly refreshment. 

We're re-upping some past episodes. Here's an all female fave from a couple years ago. 

Come with WCF as we revisit our visit with legendary Captain RIP Hayman. To paraphrase a little, he says, “My work is tangible spirit based on the awareness of sound, mingling meditation, mystery, humor, and human response. I seek the unheard… I do this because it is the most real and imagined, detached and involved, earthy and ethereal way I can live and never know what will be next.”

Paddle around some island coves while listening music made only by women from tapes and a couple CDs, early '80s up to late '90s. 

The stage is set for a spiritual Spring sojourn in the foothills. We listen to devotional joy on cassettes from the '80s and '90s, Germany, India, and California.

Trek up to an abandoned fire lookout in a snowstorm while listening to select meditative cuts from '80s and '90s tapes out of Hungary, Los Angeles, Oregon, Colorado, Los Gatos, and San Francisco.

Ski up and down snow-covered cinder cones in California's high desert and in your MIND. Hear sublime stringy soundtracks from mostly '80s and '90s tapes.

Climb up, slide down. Creep along the dragon's back and motivate with a soothing soundtrack of tapes and records from Sausalito, Nevada City, Idyllwild, Berkeley, and more.

Celebrate the season with Pagan Carols, Crystal Spirit, Blossoms in the Snow, Inner Christmas, Carols in the Caves and other Saturnalian festivities! All '80s and '90s cassettes. God jul!

Join West Coast Fog by the fireside as we listen to primordial preconsciousness from '80s and '90s tapes and CDs. Awaken happiness within in just one cozy hour.

Join us for a day on the dock, taking in jaunty brigantines and playful pinnipeds, while listening to '70s to '90s cassettes of bubble tubes, mini harp, Buchla Thunder, bell bowls, and ssssea sssounds.

From afloat to ashore, we share this episode from a sandy island beach. Hear lots of incredible and forgotten healing and spiritual music made by women from '80s and '90s tapes and CDs. 

Calling from a coastal bluff, West Coast Fog gets into some seaside synths, ecology odes, contemporary sinfonias, and more. All from '80s to '90s tapes this week. 

Join us as we broadcast from a sloop moored in a tranquil cove in San Francisco Bay. Hear aquatic sounds and stories from '80s and '90s cassette tapes.

Experience the humidity and bird sounds on a Southern California evening and hear vintage tapes from France, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Berkeley, Willits, and Nevada City.

In which Naval history, cycling routes, and avant garde recordings become entwined. Rover, Glen Neff, Charlemagne Palestine, Samonas, Richard Gerevich among others... Mill Valley, Cal Arts, S-town, and Deutschland, das ganze Leben lang...

High Sierra lake eskape with a cassette boombox and meditative and spiritual '80s and '90s tapes from Tom Mandel, Martin & Scott, Ron Lloyd, Jai Josefs, John York, George Tortorelli, and Ivan Trilha...

Last fummer we visited Garry Kvistad at the Woodstock Chimes headquarters in the Hudson Valley. Listen to selections from his 1990 cassette tape and hear sounds from his incredible collection of musical instruments. 

In which West Coast Fog and a dog venture into the depths of a remote canyon; wade through a boulder-strewn stream; encounter wildlife; and get be-nighted all the while listening to older music that felt appropriate at the time on a Sports Walkman. 

Hear attuned pop sounds plus healing and devotional music from the '70s up to the new millennium, from cassettes and even a record this week. Catch wafting sounds from the past, lingering above Massachusetts, Palo Alto, Seattle, Eugene, Canada, and Redondo Beach.

At long last the Beverly Ritz story. Jazzy sounds from Rustic Canyon, Seattle, and the Oregon and Northern California coast in the '80s and '90s. Hear the stories of hungry sea lions, baby seals, and jetty cats told in song. Meow!

Follow West Coast Fog up to the snowline and down to the cascades. Escape aurically to the past histories of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Central Park, Boulder, Tulsa, and beyond. Almost all '80s tapes this time. 

Shelter at home with West Coast Fog and listen to '80s and '90s music while staring out the window. Peaceful pipings from Laurie, Deb, Yatri, Buddy, the Jameses, Pushkar, Albert, and Don, and then one not peaceful one from Charlie Nothing.

Recorded just before we all went inside. We look at Karma's paintings and listen to music from the Crystal Rainbows LP, the elusive Growth Ring, Aeolius, Peter Van Riper, Henry Warwick, Sri Chinmoy, Stillife, Peter Stenshoel, and New Age. Stay healthy everyone!

Self-propelled snow seeking soundtracks from John Singer, Uma Silbey, Elizabeth Rhoades, Edward Christmas, Vasudeva, Andrea Centazzo, Antonio Russek, The Circle, Michael Masley, and John Wager-Schneider. 1980-(gulp)2006?

We're back in the Southwest again by Guruji's grace. Journey home with us under Gaia's shadow, swirling serpentinely in the desert knight. Hear uplifting and this-wordly music from '80s and '90s tapes plus two CDs and one rare vinyls. 

Sit with us in the shadow of Pinery Mountain listening to '80s and '90s tapes in a Subaru. Hear Alif, Dallas Smith, James Hardman, Real Reiki Music folks, Perfect-ness on a Space Base, Flute Music for Tai-Chi, Drahcir Ztiworoh, Melissa Morgan and stuff like that.

Journey from San Francisco to Kamchatka hearing music from both and all in between. Plus healing, protective, and otherwordly musicks of all vintages.

Finally the Reese Williams episode from when we visited with him back in September in upstate NY. Hear all about his tape experiments in the late '70s in Berkeley, his Tanam art book press in the early '80s, and his healing and digital experimentation work up until NOW. 

Listen to spatial music from the top of a coastal mountain with Martin, Arden, Tom, Julie, David and Rudy, Harold, Peter, and also another David. See/hear what it was like back then/up there.

Nearly forgotten ‘70s to ‘90s tracks from Mt. Shasta, Northridge, West Los Angeles, Alpine, Piru, and beyond.Lou, Alicia, Raymond, Livy, Peter, Yogi John, “Rain,” Swami Satyam… the gang’s all here.

On this week's show hear denizens of the Hudson Valley doont heir thing. Eerily ‘70s and into the ‘80s. Some California connections obviously. 

Meet us at the ruins of an old gristmill by the falls of the kill. Yep, we're in upstate New York this week to visit some California expats. Also we're listening to tapes and CDs from the prime 1982 to 1993 era. Hear Brad from the Valley, Richard from Marin, some Brazilian meditators and Japanese sannyasins, plus...

Look up and listen to '80s and '90s tapes and LPs from Michael, Buddy, Ken & Jeff, Marina, Elliot, David, Don, Loren, and Rudiger. Visit Valencia, San Francisco, Hawaii, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, and elsewhere. 

Remember when we visited with adventurer/composer/musician/filmmaker Chuck Jonkey a while back? Well here's a more in depth visit with an adventurer who transforms his experiences exploring primitive worlds into sound and instrument experimentation.

Explore the past this week in San Francisco, Westwood Village, Ashland, Mountain View, and even New York City. Gurdjieff meditations, Digi-sax, sound poems, and Stickmen. 1977 to 1997.

On this week's West Coast Fog we hear about composer Bonnie Barnett and her Hums, a series of durational interactive voice meditations that began in the early '80s and still happen. Much thanks to Bonnie for sharing with us. 

Join Michael, Johnny, Warren, Cheri, Phillip, Anna, Roberto, Haeyon, and me as we perch on rocks and look down over chaparral-covered hillsides listening to Western States music from '79 to '99, Los Angeles to Olympia.

Journey through the American Southwest with West Coast Fog. Experience energy vortexes, Spring snow flurries, and ancient echoes from Arizona and New Mexico. Old Sounds with new ears.