DESERT ORACLE

EPISODE #026: FROM A DESERT TRAILER

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO OUTPOST PROJECTS CURATE JOSHUA TREE

Photo by Laura Crane.

Cold and windy on the High Desert. Maybe some rain out there. Broadcasting from a little old yellow trailer parked over by the cactus garden at Outpost Projects’ & Curate Joshua Tree’s FOUND! art show on March 17, 2018. It was a good way to evade the St. Patrick’s Troubles. Not only did our old friend (?) Brendan Maze drop by, but Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver was there with a pile of weird contraptions making weird sounds. They even put us on their artists’ website & gave us some wine, it was fantastic.

Cooked up live and served to you a week later: a real desert sack lunch. Enjoy in moderation.

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 #023: WINDBLOWN TRASH, BEAUTIFUL BILLBOARDS & OLD CAMP CADY

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DESERT ORACLE RADIOOur 23rd episode on the 23rd day of the month, what could be finer? We’re taking a trip out to Camp Cady on the Mojave River, whether we’re welcome or not, and regardless of what happened with Mr. Pantages. And what about those beautiful California Desert National Monuments billboards on the 62? Breanne Dusastre from the 29 Palms Inn tells us why wild desert is good for the critters and good for the High Desert economy.

Enjoy a cold wintry night with us, tonight at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM, or right now on your podcast-enabled machinery.

New soundscapes from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight: Highway 247 Hypnosis and Cooper’s Hawk, along with our usual sparse crowd of coyotes and ravens and riff-raff and this interesting track: The Inner Eye by rocavaco (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: Kirkoid, Javolenus, Rob Walker, Hector Thillet.

EPISODE #022: CAMPFIRE STORIES & CALIFORNIA CITY

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO

Join us at 10 p.m. tonight on KCDZ FM, that’s 107.7 on your FM dial or Z1077fm.com on your computerized device, for strange tales and other travel tips. This is our piece on the 50th anniversary of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, the important and very enjoyable book we discuss on this program. Someone is going to California City. What should they do? We have ideas about this. We have a lot of ideas. Hear a new track by RedBlueBlackSilver, who built an especially hypnotic soundscape for tonight’s program.

We do love to hear from you, so talk to us on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, if you want, or send a good old-fashioned hand-crafted e-mail to radio@desertoracle.com. Why you can even leave a review on your favorite podcasting service, if you are inspired to such action. Thanks for listening.

EPISODE #021: THE DESERT IN WINTER

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Yucca Man

An all-new episode, all about wintertime in the Mojave. We are not having much of a winter this year, but perhaps we will again. ALSO: How to summon Yucca Man. AND: The Desert Oracle Mailbag. NEW TRACK from RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, plus the usual ruckus with the coyotes and the wind and the ravens and the Other Things.

Listen live on the radio in the High Desert, 10 p.m. Fridays on KCDZ 107.7 FM, or stream the program live from get the podcast via your favorite podcast provider.

EPISODE #020: WHAT IS THE MOJAVE?

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DESERT ORACLE
What is it? Why are we always going on about it? Well here it is, Episode #020, take it. PLUS: Brendan Maze phones in, regarding the claims of labor violations at his High Desert online-fulfillment center. Enjoy three new tracks by Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver: “Occulation,” “Virgo Cluster,” and “Radio Galaxy.” We shall direct you, shortly, to a listenable directory of these tracks.

Also tonight, you’ll hear:

Listen live on the radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, or stream it live from the radio station at 10 p.m. Fridays, or get the podcast wherever you love to get your podcasts.

EPISODE #018: HIGH-DESERT HOLIDAYS & PROOF OF UFOS

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Desert Oracle
It’s our first annual holiday show, with plenty of Christmas cheer (more or less) from our studios in downtown Joshua Tree. Were you good this year? Well then maybe Santa will bring you Pentagon proof of UFOs and maybe Santa is an alien too, why not? Why not gather ’round the festive Joshua tree with all the colorful insects and whatever else is hidden in the dead needle-tipped branches and join us, this one last time before the new year? Why not??

We’ve got our friend and Pioneertown neighbor Jeremy Corbell of ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com aboard the Desert Oracle Combat Training Center and he has just come back from Skinwalker Ranch, again, and yes that is the very “Utah ranch” discussed in the shocking (?) New York Times reports of a UFO program within the Department of Defense, a program that also involved Nevada billionaire Robert Bigelow and a secret warehouse full of mystery. And our high-desert soundscape wizard RedBlueBlackSilver cooked up a special soundtrack called “Amber” for this haunted conversation. (more…)

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 #014: LIVE FROM THE ACE HOTEL IN PALM SPRINGS

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO LIVE
Well we went & did it: We recorded two episodes of DESERT ORACLE RADIO with a rowdy audience at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, California.

It’s our 14th episode. live on stage with Doc Daniels and his Mojave Phone Booth posse, Patient Seventeen director Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, and area businessman Brendan Maze discussing his Mojave Mindfulness Institute. Listen live in the High Desert on KCDZ 107.7 FM, or stream the program live from Z107.7 FM, or get the podcast at iTunes & Etc.

Sounds you’ll hear tonight include our theme music, by Pierre Langer, and:

Photo by @lscrane.

EPISODE #013: THE OLD WOMAN METEORITE & TROUBLE ON THE HAUNTED HAYRIDE

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO LIVE!
The lost episode, Lucky #13, has now been found. (Please ignore references to the Full Moon, which was last Friday night. But it’ll come around again, like everything.) Join us for tales of the Old Woman Meteorite and the mysterious warrior-priestesses & priests of the New World, along with a phone call from Brendan Maze, organizer of the Mojave Madness/Holy Harvest Halloween event a week or so back.

Don’t miss our very first live performance of DESERT ORACLE RADIO, at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in downtown Palm Springs. Free reserved seating (only a few seats remain!) is available here.

Sounds heard tonight include the usual desert scavengers recorded in the wild by your host and a new track, “Slumber,” from Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver, along with these mysterious sounds:

EPISODE #012: FROM MISSING HIKERS TO ‘MURDER SUICIDE’

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DESERT ORACLE RADIOWhen “missing tourists” become “murder-suicide,” a phone call with our old friend Doc Daniels of Mojave Phone Booth infamy, and the pleasing tale of “Walking George” Swain of Boron, California.

Tune in tonight at 10 p.m. tune: KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert. If you’re out of range, stream the broadcast live from Z107.7 FM. You can subscribe to the podcast, too: All the episodes. All the mystery.

Tonight we give a “shout out” to Mr. RedBlueBlackSilver, who creates soundscapes like the one we heard tonight, “Normalizer,” at his Joshua Tree lair. Other sounds you’ll hear tonight include the following:

And thanks to funnyfriendsofthefuture for the Desert Oracle Radio artwork! (And remember to get your free reserved-seating tickets for the Nov. 16 live DESERT ORACLE RADIO show in Palm Springs!)

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