Epidose 28 - Death To Ming!

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.  I've never been myself, but horology is an abiding interest.  At the intersection of sciences between horology and botany, we find the dandelion clock, which the French call pissenlit.  The English name also stems from French, dents de lion; the lion's teeth.  Two lions killed and ate 135 Kenyan railway workers, over a nine-month period in 1898.  It is posited that they may have been suffering from extremely bad toothache.

Listen Now.

I have never killed and eaten any lions.  I'm far too busy - mostly listening to folk song recordings from the early 1950s:

• Sir John Betjeman - The Arrest Of Oscar Wilde At The Cadogan Hotel
• Trans Am - Mr. Simmons
• Rick Potts - Sausage In A Bottle
• LAShTAL - Ballata No. 7
• Wallace House - I'm Seventeen Cum Sunday
• Sadistic Mika Band - Nanika Ga Um
• Jo'Burg Hawk - War Talk

You can email me at gcuesoterica@gmail.com.  You won't, of course.  But you can.

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Epidose 27 - The Underwater Pig

Scooping out great fistfuls of hogflesh: argument over who gets the choicest meat; me wants the bellymeat, no no no me wants the headmeat...  Delicately flick the pointed tip of one's tongue into the vacant snout to slurp at the cool jelly up there.  It is not true that we are three meals away from barbarism; we are there already.

Listen Now.

Why not instead feast your auricles on these nourishing plats du jour:

• Linda McCartney - The Light Comes From Within
• Les Ouaiscécool - Les Cités d'Or
• The Sisterhood Of Convoluted Thinkers - The New Style Poetry
• Sun City Girls - El Mirage
• Hala Strana - Burh
• Multiphonic Ensemble - Fret

When the porker's picked down to its puckered bones, the prickling curly tail may yet prove invaluable as a toothpick. I do so love reading your emails.  One day I may publish a compendium of the best.  It will be a slender tome indeed. gcuesoterica@gmail.com.

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Epidose 26 - Influentia!

So many layers of cryptic meaning envelop this week's Epidose that I feel frankly giddy just imagining the possibility of thinking about it.

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You are intelligent creatures, at least so I'm given to understand, so you'll have no problem in whittling out the obdurate reality lurking behind these gauzy fairy-sprinkles of discombobulating glamour.

• Wire - I Am The Fly
• Richard Thompson - Shaky Nancy
• Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt - Flies
• A Life Once Lost - Prepare Yourself For What Is About To Come
• Syd Barrett - Wolfpack
• Thee Headcoats - Sex And Lies

Did you locate the hidden hobgoblin? Very astute -- award yourself a blancmange, and forward your research paper to the department of esoteric studies: gcuesoterica@gmail.com.

Twenty minutes. No refunds.

Epidose 25 - GCU Yule Thank Me Later

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away. Andrew Ridgely's transplant unit hijinks on Boxing Day notwithstanding, we are pleased as plum duff to present this somewhat delayed selection box of seasonally-flavoured musical monstrosities for your consideration:

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Everyone enjoys Christmas music, don't they? Especially after Christmas Day itself, and really especially late in December, when it's been literally unavoidable for the better part of a month already? Here:

• The Troll - A Winter's Song
• Yuji Nomi - Nichijouppoi Christmas
• Coldcut - Coldcut's Christmas Break
• The Sonics - Don't Believe In Christmas
• Ice Cube - Put It In Ya Egg Nog
• Strangelette - Carol Of Cosmic Bells
• Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree's On Fire
• John Fahey - White Christmas

Holler your appreciation for these good works to the floating angel on high whose wings beat triplets against four-time: gcuesoterica@gmail.com.

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Epidose 24 - Mildred & Patty

A year and a day ago, the first Epidose of Esoteric Music Lounge careened forth, lurching and uncontrollable, like a jellied emission coughed quivering from the clot-flecked and mucous lungs of a verminous shoulder-whisperer, its uncertain trajectory revealing little portent of the steamrollering cosmic uberforce it would shortly become.

Join us in a double-sized bumper birthday celebration, for a nostalgic look back at some of the choicest, chewiest, and least-most-wince-inducing cuts as served up for your very pleasure over the past three-hundred-sixty-odd days.

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In this Epidose, pay careful attention to the subtle interplay of trapstep, chutney, grindcore and eurotrance influences:

• The Doonicans - Drunken Pretender
• Frente! - Horrible
• Clair Obscur - K. G.
• Law Holt - Coins For You
• The Walker Brothers - Shutout
• Foetus Party - Joyeux Crack
• Edwin Birdsong - It Ain't No Fun Being A Welfare Recipient
• Ewan MacColl - Carlton Weaver
• Dave Burland - Haul Away For Rosie
• Pisces - Motley Mary Ann
• Brothomstates - Qtio
• Mighty Sparrow - Goaty
• Admiral Fallow - Subbuteo

Twenty minutes, times two. No refunds.

Epidose 23 - Flod In The Bunket

Imagine building an enormous sandwich packed full with all the world's rugs. That would take some serious eating. How big would one's mouth have to be to munch the ultimate rug sandwich? Pretty big mouth, I'm saying.  Spreading alternate layers of mayonnaise and mustard upon each rug before lifting the next carefully into place.

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Not all rugs are equal in size. It would be instructive to order them with the largest at the base. The modern world needs more wonders: behold, the Great Rug Pile of Prestonpans.

• Galoshins - The 4th Chord
• Raik's Progress - Sewer Rat Love Chant
• Los Marauders - Hell Will Come High Water
• Meredith Monk - I Don't Know
• Children Of Sunshine - Harmony
• XXYYXX ft Anneka - Overdone
• Eggs - Saturday's Cool

Concerned for the precarious sanity of your increasingly erratic podcast provider? Whisper sweet nothings into his gnarly orifice at gcuesoterica@gmail.com.

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Epidose 22 - Ruff Duck

A foul wind blew from the west, and deathly silence fell across the land. Winter fell.  The ground hardened, crusted over with ice sheets as hard as granite. Our hearts needs must become as the speckled lights of a hundred million tiny candles each kept sheltered and nourished through neverending night.

Listen Now.

It's Britpop Memorial Day down on Jollity Farm, and the bells ring wide with the mellow tinkling sounds of:

• Manic Street Preachers - IfWhiteAmericaToldTheTruthForOneDayItsWorldWouldFallApart
• Mission Of Burma - Weatherbox
• Passenger Of Sh*t - Suck Worms Out My Farting C**t
• Alice Donut - What?
• Luke Haines - I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
• Jarvis Cocker - Running The World

Do not suffer the flame to be extinguished! It will be twenty long years before the wheel turns again. Whisper sweet words to gcuesoterica@gmail.com where the silence lies deeper than any root.

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