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#114: A MILLION TREES A BURNIN’

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AMBOY CALIFORNIA NEON ROY'S DESERT ORACLE

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It’s our show before Christmas
And all through the cabin
Not a creature is breathin’
Because of the stabbin’

We pay a visit to Amboy, and to the burnt forest of Joshua trees at Cima Dome, Mojave National Preserve. That’s right, it’s Episode #114. Get in.

DESERT ORACLE, VOL. 1: Our new book is available everywhere, please enjoy responsibly. (SORRY IT’S BACKORDERED AT BOOKSHOP.ORG, WE’VE ALERTED THE AUTHORITIES.)

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen on the FM radio, from Amboy to Zzyzx (Fridays at 10 p.m. on Z 107.7 FM), or streaming from Z1077FM.com or streaming via Tune In or get the free podcast.


COMMUNIQUÉ #100: NIGHT HAS FALLEN ON THE DESERT

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO

(Listen loud, and AFTER DARK.)

From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and an uncomfortable visit from Brendan Maze, local businessman, and new sounds from RedBlueBlackSilver. Thanks to everybody who supports the show on Patreon. Just click below to support our desert institute:

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EPISODE #027: IN THE NIGHT ON AMBOY ROAD

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Sure is nice to get on the road and get out of town. So we’ve heard, anyway. Let’s get in one of these cars and head out to the Mojave Wilderness, a night drive. Never know what’ll happen out here.

In this second episode from the little desert trailer, we have RedBlueBlackSilver on the scene, in the Outpost Project JT yeller trailer, during the recent Curate Joshua Tree’s “FOUND!” show. You’re going to hear some friendly desert conversation with Aili Schmeltz and Emily Silver from the aforementioned ventures, along with strange tales from the Salton Sea with Steven Biller, who is the author of this new piece in Palm Springs Life magazine about the curious phenomenon of DESERT ORACLE.

Listen to the show right here on Art19, subscribe on your favorite podcast system, or tune in tonight in the High Desert, 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, every Friday night.

EPISODE #016: SCRAP-METAL ROCKETS & THE FLAT EARTH

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flat-earth-rocket-personPhoto by Laura Crane.

We are back in the Desert Oracle studio high atop Antenna Hill, with a new episode all about that crackpot parked off the highway near Amboy while he tries to launch a steam-powered rocket 1,800 feet high to … prove the Earth is flat?

Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and the High Desert, or stream live at 10 p.m. California time at Z1077FM.com or subscribe and listen on your favorite podcast system. And come to our Desert Oracle Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs next week, Thursday Dec. 7 at 7 p.m., everybody’s welcome, free to attend. (Camp bar on hand, plus get a 10% room discount if you’re staying the night: Just say “CAMPFIRE” when you make your reservation!)

New ambient tracks tonight from Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver—”Ellipse” and “Sighting”—with additional sounds from:

EPISODE #007: CHARLES MANSON AT BARKER RANCH & OTHER RAVEN STORIES

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PINE CITY

Have you heard the one about Charles Manson “growing up in Amboy”? Or maybe the one about Charles Manson “killing a lot of his victims at Amboy Crater.” We’ve heard these stories, and they’re nonsense. But the true story of the Manson Family in the California Desert is as strange and threatening as the world can get.

We also talk to some ravens, because somebody has got to do it.

Get the episode on iTunes & other such podcast-delivery systems, or listen live on the radio in Joshua Tree and the Mojave High Desert, 10 o’clock Friday nights.

Sounds and music heard on this broadcast include:

EPISODE #004: GHOST LIGHTS & THE GRASSHOPPER MOUSE

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Tonight at (or around?) 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and the High Desert: Spook lights on Amboy Road, the conversion of Saul by blinding desert lights over the highway, and recordings of the pilots and tower staff from the night of October 7, 1965, when a dozen UFOs bedeviled Edwards Air Force Base for nearly five hours. (You can hear the entire recording at the Internet Archive, as provided by the U.S. Air Force.)

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Our theme music was composed by Pierre Gerwig Langer, and musical ambience in this episode included the following recordings: