Joshua Tree

EPISODE #028: COYOTES IN SPRINGTIME

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DESERT ORACLE RADIO

It’s springtime and the High Desert is very busy—not just with visitors taking Instagram pictures, but with the creatures, the creatures waking up and crawling out and feeling frisky, as they say.

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. And you’ll hear some new tracks tonight from RedBlueBlackSilver: Echo Canyon and Badwater, along with some of Telescope Peak because that one always goes nice with DESERT ORACLE RADIO.

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 #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 #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 #019: PARALLEL DIMENSIONS & THE DESERT COMMUNITY NEWS ROUNDUP

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DESERT ORACLE RADIOUpon further consideration, the Pentagon UFO office’s involvement at Skinwalker Ranch is at least twice as weird as originally reported. Who is watching what, or vice versa? Also: Our occasional desert-community news-reading service. Listen live on the real-life radio in the High Desert: KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, or stream it online, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and Google Play and Podbay and the rest: DESERT ORACLE RADIO.

Two new tracks by Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver will be heard on tonight’s program——”Comet Tail” and “Project Blue Book”——along with the following Kojak kind of sounds to soothe your nerves on a nervous desert highway:

EPISODE #017: THE FIRE STORM, AND HOW TO KIDNAP YOURSELF

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KATE MCCABE
Is the entirety of California a desert now? Bone-dry air, howling Santa Ana winds, brutal fire-storms. People go mad in this kind of weather, even without a wildfire bearing down upon them. Also: We pay a visit to Hi-Desert artist & filmmaker Kate McCabe at her Kidnap Yourself HQ on Yucca Mesa. (You can see new artworks by Kate McCabe & hear her spin records at the Querma de Joshua Tree event on Saturday night at the JT Retreat Center.)

Sounds you’ll hear tonight include field recordings of desert critters & barking dogs, our theme music by Pierre Langer, and three new pieces by Joshua Tree’s RedBlueBlackSilver: “Three Ghosts At the Apple Valley Inn,” “Ursa Major,” and “Cassini.” Also: “Heaven & Hell” by Donnie Drost (c) copyright 2010 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Gurdonark.

Subscribe to the podcast where-ever you do such things … try Stitcher, or iTunes, or TuneIn. And stream the program live on Friday nights at 10 p.m., or BETTER YET be in the Mojave on a cold December night and tune in on the FM radio, KCDZ 107.7 FM around and across the High Desert.

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 #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 #009: THE CASA GRANDE DOMES & JACK PARSONS MAKING MAGICK IN THE MOJAVE

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DESERT ORACLE PODCAST
We are back with the ninth episode of DESERT ORACLE RADIO, just as the first signs of Fall arrive in the Mojave High Desert. Tonight we sing the praises of the Cassini mission to Saturn, spend some time with the ghost of JPL founder Jack Parsons out in the Mojave where he completed his “Babalon Working” ritual, and visit with our friend Jason P. Woodbury—who has an interesting tale about the mysterious Casa Grande Domes in Arizona. (He also has a fine article on the subject in the upcoming issue of DESERT ORACLE, the pocket-sized field guide to the strange American desert.

Desert Oracle RadioJason P. Woodbury talking about the mystery of the Casa Grande Domes.

Sounds in this episode include wild animals, your host’s creaking wooden chair, diesel trucks, and the following musical/ambient recordings:

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