Get near the atmosphere with this week's Fog. Tubes of wood and metal, words and computers. Hear '70s to '90s recordings from Oregon, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Palo Alto. Daniel Crommie, Bob Mills, David Gilden, Nick Rowe, Al Gromer Khan, Larry Wendt, Ernest Robson, Autumnfair, Jamie Haggerty, Larry Kucharz, Michael McNabb...

What makes this episode of West Coast Fog so special is the specialness of specialists Douglas Mcgowan (of Yoga Records) and John Wyatt, bringing some of their favorite music from Eugene, Oregon, Carmel Valley, Larkspur, and beyond. Pretty much mostly from cassettes. Karma Moffett, Ted Lucas, Elinore Wallace, Summer Madness, Daniel, Sophia, Frank Perry, Suze Milleman, Blue Harvest, Mark May, Walter McVeigh...

Join us as we venture into the exotic world of 4th World visionary Chuck Jonkey. Hear selections from his early tapes and listen to him demonstrate and explain his unusual musical instruments. Plus stuff off early '90s cassettes from Radha and Friends, Nonexisted Feelings Restoration, Daniel Crommie, and Avatar.

Live from a Skyforest. Sonic spirituality above sea level. Tapes and LPs from the West, '70s to '90s.
Siddha, the Collective Star, Daniel Crommie, 17 Pygmies, Rick Sharp and on and on...

Forgotten sounds on tape and vinyl from Sonoma, Malibu, and New Mexico. Chuck Jonkey, Michael Ross, Matt Baldwin, Clifford Marshall Van Buren, Ian Tamblyn, Joan La Barbara, Lawrence Ball, Robert Slap, Suzanne Ghiglia, Bob Grawi.

What went on musically on the West Coast and slightly inland. Hear LPs, tapes, and CDs from the late '70s to the late '90s by Peter Kardas, Ann Holmes, Ian Tamblyn, Philip Perkins, Many Axes, Hildegard Westerkamp, and Frederick Lesseman...

In which we venture to Death Valley. Hear emigrant tales of yore. Explore shifting dunes and learn of flora and fauna both real and imagined. Hear music and words from cassettes by Cosmic Indian, Jackalope, Desert Sun, Ingram Marshall, John C. Van Dyke, Frederick Lesemann, First Flight, Antonio Zepeda, and Richard Burmer...

Experience a California Fall thunderstorm. See the lightning illuminate the marine layer. Listen to the sounds of thunder and bygone recordings from Marnie, Tom Recchion, Jessica Williams, Uma, John Mackay, Dave Clark & Walter Drake, Bray Ghiglia, Larry Wendt, and Kevin Kip Setchko.

In which we talk to Iasos about Mt. Shasta and riotous recording sessions with elementals. Plus hear Oregonians, Californians, and citizens of the Old Worlde.... Peter Kardas, the Eugene Electronic Music Collective, Ellen Zweig, and Pan himself!

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.