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

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

Episode 58: Cloudburst Questing - West Coast Fog 12/3/22

Raindreaming, Kali &amp; Chandra, Primordial Processing, Grace &amp; 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.  

Raindreaming, Kali &amp; Chandra, Primordial Processing, Grace &amp; 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.

Episode 57: Invitation To Silence - West Coast Fog 5/12/22

Drift beneath the clouds, wend down windy roads, drift off to dreamy sounds from the past... Suzanne Doucet, Mako, New Age, Popol Vuh, Christian Bühner

Drift beneath the clouds, wend down windy roads, drift off to dreamy sounds from the past... Suzanne Doucet, Mako, New Age, Popol Vuh, Christian Bühner

Episode 56: Cloud Shroud - West Coast Fog 12/7/21

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. 

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.

Episode 55: Water Wandering - West Coast Fog 10/8/21

Here's another one from the sort of recent past...

Here's another one from the sort of recent past...

Episode 54: Walking Meditations - West Coast Fog 9/25/18

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

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

Episode 53: Womon's Work is Never Done - West Coast Fog 5/27/19

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.”

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.”

Episode 52: Seaward Son - An Afternoon with RIP Hayman - West Coast Fog 8/25/21 

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

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

Episode 51: A Sea of Sound Surrounds You - West Coast Fog 7/8/21

Hike a hill; traverse a trail; cross a creek; listen to '80s and '90s tapes on the move.

Episode 50: Bay Mountain Bliss - West Coast Fog 5/19/21

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.

Episode 49: Into Infinity - West Coast Fog 4/24/21

A 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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A 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.

West Coast Fog

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.

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.

West Coast Fog 10/29/19 - Music for People Who Hate Distractions

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.

West Coast Fog 6/11/19 - Toward the Sun's Eye

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.

West Coast Fog 11/12/19 - Music From the Coast and the Mountains

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

West Coast Fog 12/31/19 - Trans Pacificisms

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

West Coast Fog 9/3/19 -  Veils of Sky

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

West Coast Fog 10/1/19 - Catskill Zoning

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.

West Coast Fog 7/30/19 - Inner Wilderness

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...

West Coast Fog 9/17/19 - Upstate Escape

Circle

More Southwest journeyz with '80s and '90s visionary music from Santa Fe, Taos, Boulder, Sedona, and various vortices...

West Coast Fog 7/23/19 - Where the Circle Closes

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.

West Coast Fog 12/17/19 - Reese's Pieces

Lots of elevation gain this week. Look down on the into valleys; look up into cirques; listen to tapes from the '80s and '90s from Colorado, Berkeley, Mill Valley, Seattle, and (shrugs) Belgium?

West Coast Fog 8/27/19 - Talusisms

A special guest episode from our good friend Gone Beyond."The high deserts and mountains of Northern New Mexico have always attracted Spiritual Seekers, Outsiders, Loners and Healers," he tells us. Hear ambient, spiritual, experimental and new age sounds, "a culmination of 20 years digging throughout the most desolate and rural parts of Northern New Mexico, unearthing the eclectic music and diverse subculture from the '60s to the '80s."

West Coast Fog 7/2/19 - Gone Beyond's Dream Catchers Journey Vol. 1

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.

West Coast Fog 6/18/19 - Equinox Inflorescences

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.

West Coast Fog 7/9/19 - Tunnel Hum

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?

Winter Traces, Open Spaces - West Coast Fog 2/18/20 

Chuck Jonkey

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.

West Coast Fog 8/13/19 - Primitive Dreaming with Chuck Jonkey 

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.

Various Vortices - West Coast Fog 1/28/20 

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.

West Coast Fog 1/21/20 - Transverse Verses

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