West Coast Fog

With Iasos's untimely passing this one goes back on top. It's from 2019 and has been unavailable for a while now. Thank you Iasos for sharing your love, your magical music and visions, and for being such a bounteous channel between worlds.    

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. 

Meditate inside a primordial sea cave in a secluded cove off the coast of California while listening to ethereal music from the Bay Area, the Swiss Alps, and beyond. Tapes and records from the '80s and '90s.

Ascend into the clouds; explore rugged ridges; and peer down onto creation to the sounds of the past.

Raindreaming, Kali & Chandra, Primordial Processing, Grace & Kayla, Thought Forms Reality, Picture Music... These sounds, these folks, these tapes... They're all here with us this week wafting up from a boulder-strewn creekbed in Central California.  

An evening thunderstorm and an hour of meditative sounds from the Mojave Desert, the Bay Area, and beyond. Gold Country and Old Country, each zone special. All selections from cassette tapes from the '80s and '90s, perfectly paired with heavenly refreshment. 

We're re-upping some past episodes. Here's an all female fave from a couple years ago. 

Come with WCF as we revisit our visit with legendary Captain RIP Hayman. To paraphrase a little, he says, “My work is tangible spirit based on the awareness of sound, mingling meditation, mystery, humor, and human response. I seek the unheard… I do this because it is the most real and imagined, detached and involved, earthy and ethereal way I can live and never know what will be next.”

Paddle around some island coves while listening music made only by women from tapes and a couple CDs, early '80s up to late '90s. 

The stage is set for a spiritual Spring sojourn in the foothills. We listen to devotional joy on cassettes from the '80s and '90s, Germany, India, and California.

Trek up to an abandoned fire lookout in a snowstorm while listening to select meditative cuts from '80s and '90s tapes out of Hungary, Los Angeles, Oregon, Colorado, Los Gatos, and San Francisco.

Ski up and down snow-covered cinder cones in California's high desert and in your MIND. Hear sublime stringy soundtracks from mostly '80s and '90s tapes.

Climb up, slide down. Creep along the dragon's back and motivate with a soothing soundtrack of tapes and records from Sausalito, Nevada City, Idyllwild, Berkeley, and more.

Celebrate the season with Pagan Carols, Crystal Spirit, Blossoms in the Snow, Inner Christmas, Carols in the Caves and other Saturnalian festivities! All '80s and '90s cassettes. God jul!

Join West Coast Fog by the fireside as we listen to primordial preconsciousness from '80s and '90s tapes and CDs. Awaken happiness within in just one cozy hour.

Join us for a day on the dock, taking in jaunty brigantines and playful pinnipeds, while listening to '70s to '90s cassettes of bubble tubes, mini harp, Buchla Thunder, bell bowls, and ssssea sssounds.

From afloat to ashore, we share this episode from a sandy island beach. Hear lots of incredible and forgotten healing and spiritual music made by women from '80s and '90s tapes and CDs. 

Calling from a coastal bluff, West Coast Fog gets into some seaside synths, ecology odes, contemporary sinfonias, and more. All from '80s to '90s tapes this week. 

Join us as we broadcast from a sloop moored in a tranquil cove in San Francisco Bay. Hear aquatic sounds and stories from '80s and '90s cassette tapes.

Experience the humidity and bird sounds on a Southern California evening and hear vintage tapes from France, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Berkeley, Willits, and Nevada City.

In which Naval history, cycling routes, and avant garde recordings become entwined. Rover, Glen Neff, Charlemagne Palestine, Samonas, Richard Gerevich among others... Mill Valley, Cal Arts, S-town, and Deutschland, das ganze Leben lang...

High Sierra lake eskape with a cassette boombox and meditative and spiritual '80s and '90s tapes from Tom Mandel, Martin & Scott, Ron Lloyd, Jai Josefs, John York, George Tortorelli, and Ivan Trilha...

Last fummer we visited Garry Kvistad at the Woodstock Chimes headquarters in the Hudson Valley. Listen to selections from his 1990 cassette tape and hear sounds from his incredible collection of musical instruments. 

In which West Coast Fog and a dog venture into the depths of a remote canyon; wade through a boulder-strewn stream; encounter wildlife; and get be-nighted all the while listening to older music that felt appropriate at the time on a Sports Walkman. 

Hear attuned pop sounds plus healing and devotional music from the '70s up to the new millennium, from cassettes and even a record this week. Catch wafting sounds from the past, lingering above Massachusetts, Palo Alto, Seattle, Eugene, Canada, and Redondo Beach.