Edward Abbey

#087: RETURN OF THE WILD THINGS

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wildlife bears return to Yosemite
An all-new quarantine episode of Desert Oracle Radio from our secure desert compound, where we are noting the return of the wildlife, the blue skies, the clear air, the happy songbirds, and all the springtime joys of a time when the people have chosen to stay mostly at home, for the sake of human society. New & classic soundscapes by our own RedBlueBlackSilver. Listen on the radio tonight, Z107.7 FM in the High Desert, two episodes back-to-back, 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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#052: SERMON FOR MILEY CYRUS

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10 p.m. on your High-Desert radio, Z 107.7 FM, it’s a new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. A special sermon, available to all but really for one person, one rich & famous person who climbed up into a Joshua tree and probably killed it.

Great new music tonight by RedBlueBlackSilver tonight. Click that link for more music, plus all the information about our April 27 “mini festival” at the Joshua Tree Astronomy Arts Theater.

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EPISODE #022: CAMPFIRE STORIES & CALIFORNIA CITY

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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.

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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?

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

EPISODE #008: THE GHOST WORLD OF DEATH VALLEY JCT & OTHER TALES

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IN THIS EPISODE, we take a weird road trip to Death Valley Junction, meeting astronauts, film crews, Czech composers, so-called comedians and other odd characters along the way.

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Music and sounds heard in this episode include: