Podcasts about Omen

Stream/Buy: fanlink.tv/GR378 Sisko Electrofanatik's Record Label, Gain Records, Welcomes Robert Da Capo with his debut EP: "Omens & Demons". 2 Tracker EP including a remix by Filth & Pleasure. Robert Da Capo is a techno DJ and producer who has solidified his presence in the electronic music scene. Formerly releasing under the alias Robbie P (UK), he has had several releases chart in the Beatport Techno Peak Time/Driving Top 100, including an EP that peaked at 7th place. His latest track, Martian, on Replicate Records, is currently charting in the Beatport Techno Hype Chart, while his Dream Control remix has landed in the Techno Top 100 releases. With tracks on respected labels such as BLOK and Replicate Records, Robert Da Capo continues to push boundaries with his evolving sound. He also has a scheduled release on Reload Black Label in 2025, further cementing his trajectory in the techno scene. ©️ 2025 Gain Records | Gain Plus www.gainrecords.com #SuperTechno #WeAreWhatWePlay #Dreamtechno

Stream/Buy: fanlink.tv/GR378 Sisko Electrofanatik's Record Label, Gain Records, Welcomes Robert Da Capo with his debut EP: "Omens & Demons". 2 Tracker EP including a remix by Filth & Pleasure. Robert Da Capo is a techno DJ and producer who has solidified his presence in the electronic music scene. Formerly releasing under the alias Robbie P (UK), he has had several releases chart in the Beatport Techno Peak Time/Driving Top 100, including an EP that peaked at 7th place. His latest track, Martian, on Replicate Records, is currently charting in the Beatport Techno Hype Chart, while his Dream Control remix has landed in the Techno Top 100 releases. With tracks on respected labels such as BLOK and Replicate Records, Robert Da Capo continues to push boundaries with his evolving sound. He also has a scheduled release on Reload Black Label in 2025, further cementing his trajectory in the techno scene. ©️ 2025 Gain Records | Gain Plus www.gainrecords.com #SuperTechno #WeAreWhatWePlay #Dreamtechno

Stream/Buy: fanlink.tv/GR378 Sisko Electrofanatik's Record Label, Gain Records, Welcomes Robert Da Capo with his debut EP: "Omens & Demons". 2 Tracker EP including a remix by Filth & Pleasure. Robert Da Capo is a techno DJ and producer who has solidified his presence in the electronic music scene. Formerly releasing under the alias Robbie P (UK), he has had several releases chart in the Beatport Techno Peak Time/Driving Top 100, including an EP that peaked at 7th place. His latest track, Martian, on Replicate Records, is currently charting in the Beatport Techno Hype Chart, while his Dream Control remix has landed in the Techno Top 100 releases. With tracks on respected labels such as BLOK and Replicate Records, Robert Da Capo continues to push boundaries with his evolving sound. He also has a scheduled release on Reload Black Label in 2025, further cementing his trajectory in the techno scene. ©️ 2025 Gain Records | Gain Plus www.gainrecords.com #SuperTechno #WeAreWhatWePlay #Dreamtechno

"He must DIE, Mr. Thorn!"Join the Horror Bulls for 1976's The Omen.Support the showPumpkin Demon by WinnieTheMoog.Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6866-pumpkin-demonLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In this week's episode, we're going over to the gorgeous Wales for the hounds of the wild hunt, the Cŵn Annwn! How do these monsters link to Arthurian legend? How can you tell them apart from other hellhounds? Find out this week!Send us a textSupport the showYou can find us on: Myth Monsters Website Spotify Apple Podcasts GoodPods Amazon Music Social media: Twitter BlueSky Instagram Facebook TikTok

On this episode Michael is joined by Cait Dohmeier, a horror fan who studied theology, to discuss Richard Donner's The Omen. The post Shame List Picture Show S9E7 – THE OMEN feat. Cait Dohmeier appeared first on Cinepunx.

THE BOXER'S OMEN / MO (1983) Hay películas que desafían la lógica, que cruzan la línea entre lo absurdo y lo sagrado, entre lo grotesco y lo sublime. Películas que parecen haber sido concebidas en un delirio febril... y sin embargo, ahí están. Hoy, en este episodio, nos sumergimos en una de las joyas más extrañas, extremas y fascinantes del cine de culto oriental: The Boxer's Omen. Producida por los legendarios estudios Shaw Brothers en 1983, esta cinta hongkonesa no es solo una película: es una experiencia sensorial cargada de misticismo budista, venganza, magia negra, monjes guerreros, cadáveres flotantes, insectos viscosos, hechicería, y escenas que no se borran fácilmente de la memoria. Te invitamos a abrir esa caja A cruzar la puerta del templo. Y a enfrentar el destino que aguarda en lo más profundo de The Boxer's Omen. En esta ocasión dos mienbros de nuestro equipo se enfrentan por primera vez con el secreto más profundo de The Boxer's Omen. Sesión Videoclub nos permite viajar en el tiempo y disfrutar de aquellos días en los que nos reuníamos con amigos para ver películas de videoclub. Equipo Maniático: Albert San (Mr. Maniático), Naila Knight, Miguel y Montse Vela. Saludos Maniáticos!!!!!! Intro Musical SINOIA CAVES “1983 Main Titles” Album Beyond the Black Rainbow (2014) Intro Musical SESIÓN VIDEOCLUB PUBLIC IMAGE LTD “Order of death” Album This is what you want This is what you Get (1985) "Kinda Bonkers" by Animal Collective Mortal Kombat - Annihilation Score by George S. Clinton Outro Musical "Viper Smoke" by Taman Shud

Valerie June was raised in Humboldt, Tennessee, just north of Jackson, and though she now spends a good deal of time in New York, she still has a place in Humboldt that's been passed down through her family. In 2018, Valerie was inducted into the Humboldt Hall of Fame, which she calls one of her greatest honors, and she often returns there to write music and reconnect with family. In 2021, the last time she was on Biscuits & Jam, Valerie was nominated for a Grammy for “Call Me a Fool,” which she recorded with the legendary Memphis singer Carla Thomas, and since then she's published a children's book called Somebody to Love and an interactive journal called Light Beams. She's toured with artists such as Dave Matthews and Tyler Childers, appeared at all sorts of festivals, and now she's got a fantastic new album out called Owls, Omens and Oracles, the title of which was inspired by a trip back home. Sid talks to Valerie about her experience with homelessness as a teenager, what it was like to meet and work with Mavis Staples, and her connection to her great-grandmother Bessie. For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Biscuits & Jam is produced by: Sid Evans - Editor-in-Chief, Southern Living Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Michael Onufrak - Audio Engineer & Editor/Producer Jeremiah Lee McVay - Producer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Comedians Clare O'Kane, Alex Ptak, and Jeremy Kaplowitz explore the mysterious land of Quora.com to answer life's questions. This week's questions include: What do psychopaths think of dark empaths?   Can the dead feel cremation?   If a demon gifts me something, is that bad? I have been gifted many things from a demon and I am fearful those gifts allow the demon to be tied to me.   --- Listen to Cameron's podcast @ https://www.youtube.com/PodcastAboutList Get even more Quorators when you support the show @ patreon.com/quorators Send quoras and qommunicate on our discord discord.gg/7pPYuKuYCr Watch the show @ youtube.com/@quorators

La banda francesa Weird Omen visita nuestro país entre los días 15 y 24 de mayo. Si quieres ganar una entrada para su concierto en Madrid el viernes 16 de mayo escribe a: bienvenidoalosnoventa@gmail.com con tu nombre y apellidos. Fecha límite el jueves a media noche! SUERTE! + info - https://linktr.ee/b90podcast Espacio patrocinado por: Próxima Estación Okinawa, AlberStorm, estebansantosjuanesbosch, Achtungivoox, jvcliment, Jaume Solivelles, Dreifor, Javier Alcalde, jmgomez, Jorge - Chisco Fernández Sainz - Ana Isabel Miguélez Domínguez - Pablo Carrasco Santos - Iñigo Albizu - Rachael - utxi73 - Jorge Sánchez - Naïa - Dani GO - kharhan - garageinc78 - Juan Carlos Acero Linares - Jaime Cruz Flórez - DOMINGO SANTABÁRBARA - faeminoandtired - Jose Manuel Valera - Ivan Castro - Javi Portas - Belén Vaca - Ana FM - tueresgeorge - boldano - Eduardo Mayordomo Muñoz - Barrax de Pump - PDR - Fernando - QUIROGEA - J. Gutiérrez - Gabriel Vicente - Carlos Conseglieri - Miguel - Isabel Luengo - Franc Puerto - screaming - HugoBR - angelmedano - Vicente DC - Alvaro Gomez Marin - Alvaro Perez - Sergio Serrano - Antuan Clamarán - Isranet - Paco Gandia - ok_pablopg - Crisele - David Reig - Wasabi Segovia - Dani RM - Fernando Masero - María Garrido - RafaGP - Macu Chaleka - laura - davidgonsan - Juan Carlos Mazas - Rosa Rivas - Bassman Mugre - SrLara - Próxima Estación Okinawa - Barullo - Francisco Javier Indignado Hin - Unai Elordui - carmenlimbostar - Piri - Miguel Ángel Tinte - Jon Perez Nubla - Raul Sánchez - Nuria Sonabé - Pere Pasqual - Juanmi - JulMorGon - blinddogs - JM MORENTE - Alfonso Moya - Rubio Carbón - LaRubiaProducciones - cesmunsal - Marcos - jocio - Norberto Blanquer Solar - Tolo Sent - Carmen Ventura - Jordi y varias personas anónimas.

Mais um episódio de Confia no Doc, onde Maru Karv entrevista profissionais da saúde. E hoje, Dr. João Brunhara veio responder suas dúvidas sobre ejaculação precoce. Vem de play!

Happy Mother's Day!  Make sure you water your plants on stable ladders, avoid unnecessary globe-trotting, and check your kid for birthmarks before tuning in to our coverage of the poster-child for being child-free by choice in 1976's The Omen.***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide, infanticide, religion Follow us on Instagram at @thewhorrorspodcastEmail us at thewhorrorspodcast@gmail.comArtwork by Gabrielle Fatula (gabrielle@gabriellefatula.com)Music: Epic Industrial Music Trailer by SeverMusicProdStandard Music License Sources: Balanzategui, Jessica. “The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s.” The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 35–66. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv80cc7v.5. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.Berlatsky, Noah. “Hell Is for Children: The Revolutionary Politics of ‘The Omen'”. https://wearethemutants.com/2020/10/30/hell-is-for-children-the-revolutionary-politics-of-the-omen/ The Omen (1976) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omen Nosferatu (2024) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/  

✨ Was, wenn dein größter Schatz genau dort liegt, wo du ihn nie vermutet hast?In dieser Folge sprechen wir über „Der Alchimist“ von Paulo Coelho – ein Buch, das viele lieben, manche hassen und niemand ganz vergisst.

On commence avec du calmement avec du folk rock, en passant par de l'indie, de la pop, du néosoul, du new oldschool, de l'afrobeat et de l'EDM hyperpop.  Sakay Ottawa - Mocak ki cowerimitin (Ni wactenimakan) Valerie June - Love Me Any Ole Way (Owls, Omens and Oracles) Bayta - Fonds Tranquille (Personne après nous) Cold Specks - Cold Goodbye (Light for the Midnight) Maria Somerville - Spring (Luster) Emma-Jean Thackray - Stay (Weirdo) Laraw Meilleure qu'avant ft. Grand Eugène (J'ai quitté le Heartbreak Club Salin - Painted Lady (Rammana) Mamalarky - Won't Give Up (Hex Key) sunnbrella - bloodline (gutter angel)  Magi Merlin - BOOTY (A Weird Little Dog) Raz Fresco & Futurewave - Mortal Kombat ft. The 6th Letter (Stadium Lo Champions) Marina Sena - Doçura ft. Çantamarta (Coisas Naturais) High Klassified - Honeymoon ft. Chilla (Ravaru) Towo - Courage (Second Souffle) Sherelle - DON'T WANT U (WITH A VENGEANCE) Jane remover - Fadeoutz (Revengeseekerz)

Paste Magazine calls Valerie June "casually masterful, deceptively mellow." Her latest album Owls, Omens and Oracles is a celebration of joy and positivity in the face of adversity. June joined us for a conversation recently, and recorded an exclusive bonus track in WNYC's studio five. So today, we present Valerie June's cover of Lightnin' Thomas's 'The Life I Used To Live.'  June will play The Town Hall on May 6.

MUSIC Incubus have titled their ninth album Something in the Water. The family of late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finish and release the only album Jordison's band Vimic recorded, Open Your Omen. Vimic released four singles in 2016 and 2017 but never completed the full album.   Is Diddy innocent because he was WASTED when he horrifically abused people both physically and sexually?  That's what his defense hopes to argue.   Happy birthday to Willie Nelson, who turns 92 today. He just put out his 77th solo album this week, so he's still rockin' even in his 90's.  Some people would have you think otherwise though.      TV The trial for the 2016 armed robbery of Kim Kardashian in Paris began on Monday, with ten defendants—dubbed the "grandpa robbers" due to their ages—facing charges including armed robbery and kidnapping, NBC News reports.      Mercedes' much-discussed Formula One driver change is the focus of The Seat, a documentary set for release on Netflix next month.   Andor alert … Episodes 4, 5, and 6 of the Star Wars series Andor will be released on Disney+ at 8p tonight, which has fans of the series freaking out. The reaction to the first three episodes was overwhelmingly positive, with some critics calling it "a masterpiece" and "Star Wars at its best." And it's become the highest rated Star Wars project on Rotten Tomatoes in the 48-year history of the franchise  Tiffani Thiessen is partnering with Chili's to debut a specialty cocktail — one that's '90s themed. Kristen Wiig tops a list of the funniest female "Saturday Night Live" alumni.   AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MUSIC Incubus have titled their ninth album Something in the Water. The family of late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison has launched a Kickstarter campaign to finish and release the only album Jordison's band Vimic recorded, Open Your Omen. Vimic released four singles in 2016 and 2017 but never completed the full album.   Is Diddy innocent because he was WASTED when he horrifically abused people both physically and sexually?  That's what his defense hopes to argue.   Happy birthday to Willie Nelson, who turns 92 today. He just put out his 77th solo album this week, so he's still rockin' even in his 90's.  Some people would have you think otherwise though.      TV The trial for the 2016 armed robbery of Kim Kardashian in Paris began on Monday, with ten defendants—dubbed the "grandpa robbers" due to their ages—facing charges including armed robbery and kidnapping, NBC News reports.      Mercedes' much-discussed Formula One driver change is the focus of The Seat, a documentary set for release on Netflix next month.   Andor alert … Episodes 4, 5, and 6 of the Star Wars series Andor will be released on Disney+ at 8p tonight, which has fans of the series freaking out. The reaction to the first three episodes was overwhelmingly positive, with some critics calling it "a masterpiece" and "Star Wars at its best." And it's become the highest rated Star Wars project on Rotten Tomatoes in the 48-year history of the franchise  Tiffani Thiessen is partnering with Chili's to debut a specialty cocktail — one that's '90s themed. Kristen Wiig tops a list of the funniest female "Saturday Night Live" alumni.   AND THAT IS YOUR CRAP ON CELEBRITIES! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us a textWhen New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio, he loses his memory and the only way he can reclaim what he's lost is by listening to stories about his life from a vulgar radio show. On Episode 665 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the film The Actor from director Duke Johnson! We also talk about all the ways you can eat an Uncrustable, the realization that you're not who you were supposed to be, and everything we have planned for the upcoming momentous 666th episode! So grab your VHS of My Demon Lover, write down all your thoughts so you don't forget them, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Felissa Rose, Sleepaway Camp, The Last Sleepover, Lisa Wilcox, Slaughter High, Sam Adams, Spanish version of Dracula, Cannibal Ferox, My Demon Lover, Scream 2, Creepshow 3, David Hess, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eric Balfour, Melinda Clark, Return of the Living Dead Part III, Peter Jason, Ghosts of Mars, Arachnophobia, Planet Terror, Red State, Richard Donner, Goonies, The Omen, Alejandro Cruz, Blue Demon, William Castle, The Tingler, House on Haunted Hill, Rosemary's Baby, all the ways you can eat an Uncrustable, Scott Valentine, McCormick Spices, Christina Applegate, House II: The Second Story, RIP Lar Park-Lincoln, Highway to Heaven, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Shawn Lewis, Grindhouse Releasing, 7 Doors of Death, Fabio Frizzi, Rotten Cotton, Chunkblow Apocalypse, Zombi, Eibon Press, The Actor, Duke Johnson, Andre Holland, amnesia, Memento, movies shot on a soundstage, dream logic, self-awareness, learning you're not who you're supposed to be, Total Recall, Anything Goes, Cole Porter, Memory, Geddy Lee, William Shakespeare, the new album from Knowman, Alienated, The Wicker Man, May Day, Episode 666, The Number of the Beast, Retroactivate, Total Unrecall, and Thesplaining Your Life.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

This week on Terror Talk Podcast, we're diving into the deep end of horror fandom absurdity—yep, we're reading and ROASTING 1-star reviews of some of our favorite horror films: Hellraiser, Slumber Party Massacre, The Host, The Omen, and the silent classic Nosferatu.From the emotionally complex to the cult classics, these films deserve more respect—and we're here to give it to them. Join us as we laugh (and cry) through reviews that simply say “Nah,” “Boring,” or the now-iconic “Nah, bro.” Spoiler alert: we disagree with every single one.If you love horror and hate bad takes, this one's for you.Featured Films in This Episode:Hellraiser (1987)Slumber Party Massacre (1982)The Host (2006)The Omen (1976)Nosferatu (1922)Got a hilariously bad horror review? Send it our way! Comment on your favorite horror hot take—or the 1-star review that made you scream (for all the wrong reasons).1-star horror movie reviews, funny horror reviews, Hellraiser movie review, Slumber Party Massacre commentary, Nosferatu fan opinions, underrated horror movies, cult horror classics, horror movie fan podcast, horror films misunderstood, horror movie roasting podcast Follow & Connect with Us: Instagram: @terrortalkpodcastYouTube: TerrorTalk Podcast Facebook: Halloween All Year Long TikTok: @dark.psychology.girlsMusic Credit:All music featured in this episode is by Mannequin Uprising – check them out for eerie, cinematic horror vibes that perfectly set the tone.#TerrorTalkPodcast #HorrorMoviePodcast #HorrorCommunity #CultHorror #HorrorFansUnite #SpookySeasonAllYear #MovieRoast #HorrorLaughs#HellraiserReview #Nosferatu1922 #SlumberPartyMassacre #TheHost2006 #TheOmen1976 #1StarReviews #HorrorHotTakes #BadMovieTakes #UnderratedHorror

Check out Carlos' shop! https://otamerch.shop/ Each week we aim to bring together the biggest events in Vtubing and talk about what's been going on. Stop by, hang out, and let's catch up with us! Join this discord : https://discord.gg/wFMcTGHWGJ Follow here for updates: https://twitter.com/SuperChatsPod Shorts over here: https://www.tiktok.com/@superchatspod 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:05 Kiara's Spring Concert 00:13:05 We Have MERCH! 00:16:45 Nimi's New Model 00:20:22 Bijou vs The World 00:29:42 Michi's Anniversary Concert 00:38:23 Gura's Graduating 01:04:14 Is Hololive Cooked? 01:09:12 Shondo is Back 01:12:48 Megaladon's Medical Hiatus 01:13:48 Hololive Rust Collab 01:17:52 Hakka's New Outfit 01:22:59 Poko's New Outfit 01:23:24 Brave Groups' Channels Remonetized 01:24:46 PixelLink's Twitter Resurrected? 01:26:21 Peo Got Her Silver Play Button 01:27:14 VCard Updates 01:37:16 Casurr's New Model Soon 01:38:02 Gura's song Ash Again 01:40:25 Hakka's song Omen of Crows 01:43:38 Idol Wildfyre's song Trailblazer 01:45:20 Kanna covered Take Control 01:46:59 Raeyei and Octavio covered Naimononedari 01:48:40 Gura and Mumei Room Review 01:52:34 Mercy Played Izuna and Waxed Her Legs 01:55:08 Lyco Lianna Ate Her Own Foot 01:59:24 Weekly Alicja Update 02:04:02 Bits and Bobs of Other Streams 02:05:42 Community and Shilling 02:11:36 Birfdays

Reb & Minderz continue Squared Circle Expo Month with a chat with “Mr. International” Jake Omen… PLUS, Stand & Deliver and Wrestlemania reactions, Who's Whoopin' Who, and much more!   JTR Podcast Network Merchandise www.prowrestlingtees.com/jtrpod www.brainbustertees.com/jtr   JTR SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook Jumping The Rail Independent Shootout JTR Podcast Network   TikTok JTR Podcast Network   Instagram/Threads JTR Podcast Network   Patreon -patreon.com/JTRPodcastNetwork

Grab your sacred daggers and prepare to fight off some hell hounds because we are rising from the eternal sea to get biblical on Richard Donner's THE OMEN, starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. It's all for you, Chatterers!

Till startet etwas angetrunken in die Folge, Moritz – wie versprochen – stilecht im Morgenmantel ... ob das ein gutes Omen ist? Wir glauben: ja :) Diese Folge hat alles: Shopping-Erlebnisse, heimliche Bundespräsidenten und einen Deeptalk zum Thema Männlichkeit. Denn das Patriarchat ist wie der Frühling – wenn man es einmal gesehen hat, kann man es nicht mehr übersehen. Und fragt euch gern: Wie wirkt toxische Männlichkeit auf euch? Wie schafft man es, sich im gesunden Maß abzugrenzen und trotzdem sensibel zu bleiben? So oder so: Versucht es. „falsch, aber lustig“ mit Christoph Fritz, Teresa Reichelt & Yorick Thiede: https://youtu.be/pYupaq68_BY Released by rbb media.

Our Kindred have really been going through it and of course their troubles don't end just yet... Go check out our wonderful friends over at the 5 GM's in a Trench Coat Podcast, the amazing, Crit Award winning, narrative driven actual play show! https://www.5gmsinatrenchcoat.com/Support our players: Alana aka Cassian - https://spectralcraft.ca/ Chad aka Antonio - https://twitch.tv/chad8472 Lee aka Iris - https://linktr.ee/beeghostyy Raven aka Jaeson - https://www.twitch.tv/raven_tree7 Valencia aka Demetrienne - https://www.twitch.tv/ultravalencia and for their book - https://a.co/d/9AxCdH8 Music: The Embrace and Bloody Castle by Ivan Duch (https://ivanduch.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paste Magazine calls Valerie June "casually masterful, deceptively mellow." Her latest album Owls, Omens and Oracles is a celebration of joy and positivity in the face of adversity. June performs live in WNYC's studio five, and will play The Town Hall on May 6.

Valerie June's journey to what we might call ‘cult stardom' hasn't been easy. “I was cleaning houses while playing bars & clubs at night. And I had a vision that I would not make it - my music wouldn't reach its audience through regular means - it would reach its audience through musicians. My friends would help me. I'm a musician's musician”. Working through a talented community of musicians that has included Booker T Jones, Brandi Carlile and none other than Mavis Staples, eventually brought Valerie June together with her own audience. For her new project, June works with Blind Boys of Alabama, Norah Jones, DJ Cavem Moetavation and M Ward, supremo guitarist and producer of new album Owls, Omens and Oracles. I wanted to get her view of her own music, because the music business loves to put artists in lanes, boxes and pigeon holes. How on earth did an eclectic artist like June slip through the cracks? Her music has been described by others as an amalgam of soul, gospel, Appalachian folk, bluegrass, country, spiritual pop, African blues and my own favourite…cosmic rock. How does she describe her music in response to this assessment? With a joyful guffaw and an emphatic reaction: “I'm a singer-songwriter. I follow the songs, whatever they want to be is what I do. I'm kinda like their servant. All those names related to the music - I used to get attached to those and now I don't ”.In Jeff Tweedy's entertaining memoir World Within a Song, the author, singer songwriter and Wilco frontman says: “Taking something old and making it sound modern is nothing new”. And yet obsessing over your references, but melding them into something that is uniquely you is one of the key themes for artists of longevity. Both concepts are critical to June's work.“I do commune with the ancestors. I know I'm standing on the shoulders of many who came before me. I feel them beside me as I'm talking now. I'm not doing this by myself. I wanted to understand my people through music, and I got there through studying the blues”. Most songs come to me as voices. I'll try this instrument and be like “no, not that one…like Goldilocks. I try many different instruments to connect that voice to what it wants. Then, I found a team of people to listen to and understand”. If Valerie June really is the Goldilocks of songcraft, the results are indeed nourishing.Support the showGet more related content at: https://www.songsommelier.com/

This episode is a bit long--we are talking about the last elements of the reign of Takara Hime, the fall of Baekje, and the attempt to restore the kingdom, which culminated in the Battle of Hakusukinoe, aka the Battle of Baekgang.  For more, check out our blog at https://sengokudaimyo.com/podcast/episode-124 Rough Transcript Welcome to Sengoku Daimyo's Chronicles of Japan.  My name is Joshua and this is Episode 124:  The Battle of Haku-suki-no-e. Echi no Takutsu looked out from where he stood on the deck of his ship.  The horizon seemed to bob up and down, but he knew that was just an illusion caused by the waves.  And upon those waves, hundreds of Yamato ships floated, ready to do battle.  As a veteran of this and other wars, Takutsu was used to surveying flotillas of ships, and yet, none of his years of experience had quite had this kind of impact upon him.  Yamato's ally, Baekje, had fallen in battle to the combined might of the Tang and Silla forces, and now they were assisting a band of rebels who were trying to once again restore their kingdom.  Silla was, of course, an all too common adversary for the Yamato court, but the Tang: now that was another matter. The Tang dynasty had only grown in the four and a half decades since it was founded.  They had destroyed their enemies and continued to expand.  They had defeated the Gokturks and expanded into the heart of Eurasia. Even in cases like Goguryeo, who had so far managed to hold out against their attacks, it was clear that they had an effect.  The Tang dynasty was the superpower of its day, and for whatever airs Yamato may have put on, they were still a backwater in comparison. And yet, on this day, that backwater seemed, by all rights, to have the upper hand.  In response to the destruction of Baekje, Yamato had marshalled all of their forces.  Their boats greatly outnumbered those of their opponents, and if they could defeat the Tang navy, then they could make landfall and connect with the remaining Baekje forces attempting to restore their kingdom.  And so here they were, at the mouth of the Baengma River, also known as the Baekgang, or, in Japanese, the Haku-suki-no-e.  The Tang forces were bottled up, and the greater Yamato forces seemed poised to take them out.   The only problem was that the river mouth narrowed quickly, so that only a few ships could attack at any given time.  Still, with overwhelming numbers, Echi no Takutsu and his fellow soldiers expected that they would still be able to overcome their enemies and place their allies back in control of their territory. With confidence in their victory, the Yamato ships sailed forward, prepared to crush their enemies, and restore Baekje…   Greetings, everyone, and welcome back.  As you may have figured out we are still in the later half of the 7th century.  During the last episode we talked about the embassy to the Tang dynasty court that got delayed—placed under house arrest for a year—because the Tang dynasty was conducting their special military operations over on the Korean peninsula.  That was in the year 660.  Specifically, the Tang were working in conjunction with Silla to destroy the Kingdom of Baekje, and they even returned to the Tang capital with prisoners, including the royal family and many high-ranking nobles.  That they didn't want the ambassadors leaving, and presumably informing Baekje on their way back, would seem to speak to the strong ties between Baekje and Yamato.  After all, several times in the Nihon Shoki we have seen where the Baekje royal line was endangered and a prince that had been living at the Yamato court was brought across the strait with Yamato support to place them back on the throne. This episode, we are going to look a little closer at what happened on the peninsula and what happened when news of the event reached the Yamato court.  This would culminate in one of the most famous naval battles in east Asia—certainly one of the most famous in Japanese history.  It is recorded in records from various sides, so unlike many of the raids on Silla, and other conflicts on the peninsula, we have multiple accounts documenting it, and if the Japanese account is to be believed than it may have been among the largest naval conflicts in the world at that time. So let me take you through what the Chronicles have to say up until the battle and then we can talk about what happened and a little bit about what it would mean for Yamato in the years to come. We'll start a bit before the conflict, while Baekje was still going strong.  The Chronicles are filled with portents and omens, and of course, they already knew what had happened.  Still, let's talk about some of what they mentioned leading up to the battle, as well as some of the remaining accounts demonstrating the cross-strait exchanges. We'll start in 655, the year after Takara Hime had assumed the throne, being given the name Saimei Tennou by the Chroniclers.  On the first day of the 5th month we are told that a “man of Tang” was seen riding a dragon in the sky.  He is described as wearing a broad hat of blue—or green—oiled cloth.  He rode fast from the peak of Mt. Katsuraki and disappeared on Mt. Ikoma.  At noon he galloped over the pines of Sumiyoshi and disappeared into the west. This is obviously a fantastical story, but let's talk about what we can.  It is hard not to see in this some of the importance that the Tang dynasty would play in this reign, especially given the fact that this occurred in the first year after Takara hime had ascended the throne.  It would seem to have been meant here as an omen.  I have not seen specific comments about this, though I'm sure someone has looked into it.  But for me, I am struck by the fact this person was, first and foremost, identifiable as Tang, likely meaning because of his clothing.  And he was riding a dragon.  Dragons were known in Japan, but not quite as popular in folklore as they are shown to be on the mainland.  The Dragon was the imperial symbol of the Tang and other dynasties.  Japan had its own stories of dragon kings and other such things, but in this case I can't imagine that the connection with the imperial throne would be ignored. The hat is also interesting.  The color is listed as “blue” though Aston translates this as “green”.  The term “aoi” was used for any color on the spectrum from blue to green.  In fact, it is still the case that the “green” light on a Japanese traffic signal is still referred to as “blue”.  There were more specific colors, but the word “midori” would have been more like a specific word, like “teal”, “cerulean”, or “aquamarine”, rather than a core color like we would use blue, yellow, or, in this case, green.  The fact that it was made of oiled stuff suggests to me that it was waterproofed.  It is noted specifically with the character for “kasa”, which typically refers to a wide brimmed hat used to keep the rain off. I suspect that in this case it was the kind of hat that we often see on Tang dynasty figurines of riders.  They often have a tall, wide-brimmed hat, often with drape of sheer fabric around the edge.  This kind of hat would eventually be popular in Japan amongst traveling noblewomen, as it helped keep them out of the sun and away from the bugs and, well, it also acted as a barrier between the them and the rest of the world.  The versions seen on the Tang figurines are usually somewhat short, probably just enough to obscure the face, and may have helped to cut down on glare.  These often aren't obviously oiled, but that certainly could have been the case, and that may have been another method of protecting travelers from anything that nature could throw at them. It does seem a very particular image. The course of the rider is somewhat interesting.  From Katsuraki, on the southwestern edge of the Nara basin, north to Mt. Ikoma.  Then west to Sumiyoshi and off to the far west—in other words, back to the Tang dynasty.  Sumiyoshi is also of particular interest. The pines of Sumiyoshi are a particular poetic trope, or utamakura.  They help to conjure famous imagery of a place, and so it is hardly surprising that they would be found in this context.  In this case I suspect that is the main reason they are mentioned.  However, Sumiyoshi also has its own importance.  Sumiyoshi was once on the seashore, and Sumiyoshi was a common shrine for travelers to pray at for safe travels.  In fact, there are Sumiyoshi shrines across the archipelago that all are tied back to the Sumiyoshi in the modern Ohosaka area, and they often found near the shore as places where travelers could pray for safe passage before they headed off on the sea. And so it would make sense that the rider would head off over Sumiyoshi and to the west, much as the various ambassadors would travel off to the west. There may be more to it, but I suspect that this was either referencing the growing links between Yamato and the Tang, or perhaps simply referring to the various kentoushi—the ambassadors who crossed the seas to the Tang court and brought back so much to the archipelago. The next obvious omen seems to come in 657.  In this case it was a white fox seen in the land of Iwami.  It was mentioned in the same record as when ambassadors Adzumi no Tsuratari and Tsu no Kutsuma came back from the Western Seas via Baekje.  It isn't clear that the two are connected, though.  Perhaps there is something I'm missing.  It is notable that this seems to be the only mention of Iwami that I could find, at least doing a quick search for the characters in the electronic version of the text.  Iwami is the land to the west of Izumo, on the western end of modern Shimane prefecture, and the western end of the San'in-do, along the northern edge of western Honshu.  It is a mountainous region on the edge of the Japan Sea, the Nihonkai. We've talked about many of the other accounts after that, until the following year, 658.  We have a note about a south-pointing chariot, which we'll discuss in a later episode, but that was clearly another connection to continental technologies.  After that we have an account from Izumo.  Huge numbers of dead fish were washing ashore, up to three feet, or roughly a meter, deep.  The fish were apparently the size of a pufferfish, with beaks like a sparrow and thorny scales, several inches long.  I wonder if, by the description, they could be referring to triggerfish or parrotfish, which are found in the Japan Sea.  Fish kills, or mass die-offs, are unfortunate events that occasionally happen for a variety of reasons.  The most common is actually asphyxiation—algae blooms or other such events that eat up the oxygen, causing fish to die off in an area.  Fish kills might also happen because of disease, undersea quakes, and other factors.  Of course, to anyone in Izumo, this would have been a terribly random event.  I can't tell whether or not it was an omen, but it certainly could have been.  If so, I doubt it would have been a very good one. The strange fish that were brought up were called “sparrow fish” by the locals.  They believed they were sparrows that had gone to the ocean and turned into fish. Immediately after that, in the Chronicle, we get a somewhat odd entry in that it seems out of place.  We are told that Baekje had sent to Japan requesting aid.  Tang and Silla had teamed up and captured King Wicha, his queen, and the heir to the throne.  It is probably notable that this is written as “one book says”.  Also, recall that dates were still somewhat problematic at this time.  They were based on the regnal years of the monarch or the dates according to the sexagesimal cycle, either of which could have been off, particularly at this time, in different sources.  I suspect that the fact that they mention it as “one book says” indicates that even the compilers of the Nihon Shoki weren't quite sure that this was in the right spot, but it was an account of what did eventually happen—just not until two years later.  This position is bolstered by the fact that the next account talks about how Azumi no Muarji no Tsuratari had returned from what was apparently another trip to the Western Seas and Baekje, just a year after the previous.  Again, this could be the same expedition, with accounts misplacing the dates, or with dates according to when he left and others when he arrived back.  Still, it brings us yet another omen. Apparently, around this point, Baekje had been successful against Silla.  This is a good reminder that Baekje was not exactly an innocent bystander in everything that had happened.  King Wicha was rather famous in his own day, seen as a paragon of courage, largely because he was taking the fight to Silla, often allying with Goguryeo to block Silla from their access to the Tang and others.  Silla, who had been adopting Tang culture and style, and even claimed some distant descent from ethnic Han immigrants during the time of the Han commandries on the peninsula, were still able to forge close ties with the Tang, who seemed to preference them over Baekje and Goguryeo.  This may have been part of the general diplomatic game of the Middle Kingdom going back to the Han times, where they would often look to ally with those states beyond the immediate border states, so that those on their immediate border would have to defend themselves on two fronts.  This was likely more aimed at Goguryeo than Baekje, at least initially, but the alliance meant that Baekje, whom the Tang regularly chastised for their actions against Silla, was also in the crosshairs. However, up through 658, it seems Baekje's actions were largely successful.  Both the Baekje and Silla annals mention attacks by Baekje against the country of Silla in the following year, which otherwise correlate with the record in the Nihon Shoki.  Here we should remember that the author of the Samguk Sagi, which preserved these records, was writing centuries later, and had a clear pro-Silla bias.  There are several years missing from the Baekje annals at this time, but the idea that Baekje was attacking Silla is hardly controversial.  In the Silla Annals, in 659,  we also get word that Silla sent envoys to the Tang court protesting Baekje's aggression and asking the Tang court for aid.  Aid that would soon come, unbeknownst to others—even Silla wasn't quite sure until they showed up. And this is likely why the Nihon Shoki records a strange incident in Baekje, where a horse, of its own accord, started circling the Golden Hall of a Buddhist temple in the Baekje capital, continuing day and night, and stopping only to graze.  In some regions, walking around a sacred temple or stupa was considered a particular form of prayer, and perhaps the horse knew something and was trying to make merit.  In the text we are told explicitly what this meant:  the downfall of Baekje was nigh, and it would fall in the coming year, 660.  In a similar fashion, the Baekje annals, and the Samguk Yusa, likely pulling from the same sources, go through a series of omens, from birds to fish, to various ghosts, all saying that Baekje was about to fall.  The annals at this point paint Wicha as consumed with the material world and debauchery, likely a largely later indictment to add a moral explanation to the events that would soon occur. In Yamato, there were other omens as well.  Things were not entirely well in the Yamato capital.  Remember, this was Takara Hime's second reign, and her son was fully grown, himself, so she was no spring chicken.  On the 13th day of the 7th month of the year 659, she had the ministers expound the Urabon sutra in all the temples in Asuka and had a requital made to the ancestors for 7 generations.  We are also told that in that same year, the Miyatsuko of Izumo was made to repair the Itsuki god's shrine.  I have to wonder if these were to help make merit, or were just regular occurrences, but we are also told that fox bit at the head of a creeper that a man was carrying and ran off with it, and a dog found a dead man's hand and forearm and dropped them at Ifuya shrine.  The chroniclers claim these omens were not about Baekje, but rather about Takara Hime herself—claiming that she was not long for this world. It is good to remember that it is only now that we can look back and see where things were leading.  At the time, nobody really knew what the future held, and business went on as normal.  The omens and portents were all well and good, but they are being interpreted after the fact.  There is no indication that people were telling Takara Hime that her time was about to come.  This is illustrated by the fact that there are plenty of regular accounts in here as well.  We have a few episodes that actually reference the “shiguma”—the polar bear or the brown bear—and Gogureyo.  The first is of Goguryeo merchants—likely part of an embassy—trying to sell a shiguma fur in the local markets for 60 pounds of floss silk, a price that was apparently laughable, as the market commissioner turned them down.  And here I'll digress briefly because this is rather a remarkable entry, even though it seems like almost nothing, because it demonstrates something we rarely see but often suspect.  For all that the ambassadors to various courts were performing their diplomatic functions, they were also there to trade.  This is part of how they funded the journey.  They would bring some goods for the court and the sovereign, of course, and hopefully get as much or more in return.  But they would also trade in the local markets.  This is probably part of what the embassy to the Tang was doing when they made landfall and then stayed put for a month or so.  I suspect they were working with the local government to ship off the tribute, but also availing themselves of the local markets.  You didn't necessarily exchange currency, but you would sell your trade goods and that would likely help fund the embassy for the time they were in the country, at least for anything the host nation didn't provide. It is also interesting that we talk of a market commissioner.  We've mentioned markets before, and their existence is likely more than just a random assortment of shops with goods to sell.  They were overseen by local officials, and they would have been regulated to some extent by the larger state, probably with taxes and other goods making their way up to the government.  I don't know that we have a clear idea of what it looked like until later, and so an entry like this just gives us a little hint at what was going on in the day to day administration of the entire country. Continuing with the shiguma theme, apparently a painter named Komaro—a Japanese name, but he's described as a “Goguryeo” painter, which could mean that he trained in Goguryeo, or came from there and changed his name.  It is also possible, I supposed, that he was simply trained in the Goguryeo style.  Anyway, he was apparently quite successful because he entertained guests from his own uji—his own surname—and so borrowed 70 official shiguma skins for them to sit on.  Apparently this was a garish display that left the guests astonished and ashamed to even be part of the event, so they went away. So sitting on fur rugs was apparently not a thing to do—or perhaps just not that many.  But I would note that he apparently borrowed them from the government—they were “official” after all.  So what was the government doing with them?  They were probably tribute from the Emishi in the north, or perhaps just the result of regular trade.  And Komaro must have had some pull to be able to request them for his own private use.  Unfortunately, I don't have any further details, so we are left to guess at most of the rest. But we do continue on with the Goguryeo theme in the following year, the first month of 660, with envoys from Goguryeo arriving in Tsukushi.  They likely had no idea that while they were in Yamato, big changes were about to take place back on the peninsula.  It would take them four months to get to Naniwa, arriving on the 8th day of the 5th month.  They couldn't have known everything that was happening on the peninsula, behind them. And that's because it was in the third month of tha year that Tang Gaozong commanded Su Dingfang, along with Kim Inmun and Liu Boying, to take 130,000 land and see troops to subdue Baekje.  They landed at Teongmul islands, west of Baekje, and, word having reached their court, the King of Silla sent the renowned general Kim Yusin in charge of a force of 50,000 troops to lend their support.  Kim Yusin was a veteran of fighting between Baekje and Silla, and he had already face the enemy on the battlefield, but now he had the aid of the Tang troops. King Wicha had heard of their advance, and asked his court for advice.  One suggestion was to try to crush the Tang soldiers as soon as they came ashore—force them to stay on their boats and destroy them before they could get on land and organized.  Another suggested that the Tang army, for all its size, was built for speed and a decisive victory.  If Baekje could simply harry them long enough, it would wear them down, and they would have to return.  They could then turn their sights on Silla, an enemy they knew how to deal with. One noble, Heungsu, who had been out of favor in the court, and even exiled at one point, offered his advice—that they should fortify the Baek river and Tanhyeon Pass, so that they could not approach.  It would be a near suicidal task, but brave soldiers could defend those narrow points against larger forces, since they would be forced to engage with fewer forces at a time.  Heungsu was ridiculed, however, and his ideas were abandoned. Instead, they devised a scheme whereby they would let the Tang ships enter the river, until they could only go two abreast, and then they would attack them from the shore and destroy them.  Likewise, at the pass, rather than fortifying it, as suggested, they would wait in ambush until the Tang forces could not maneuver, and they would then destroy them as well.  This seemed like a plan, and it was given to the general Kyebaek to carry out. At first, it looked like it would work.  General Kyebaek took five thousand soldiers to Hwangsan as soon as the heard that the Silla soldiers were advancing through the pass.  They engaged the Silla forces four separate times, defeating Silla each time.  However, every assault took its toll.  The five thousand troops could not prevail against a force 10 times their size, and eventually they were wiped out, along with general Kyebaek.  Without opposition, the Silla forces met up with the Tang, and the two armies joined forces.  They actually were able to use the mountainous terrain, which otherwise would have been used to keep them out, to their own advantage.  Eventually they were able to advance on the capital.  The Baekje forces fought to exhaustion, but they were outmatched by the Tang-Silla alliance.  Eventually, they marched on the city, and King Wicha knew that they would be defeated. Four years before this, an official had spoken up against King Wicha, and had been thrown in prison, where he died, emaciated.  However, before he died he offered advice that if an enemy were ever to come, the army should be deployed to the passes and to the upstream banks of the rivers, and that no enemy should be allowed to pass those points.  Looking at the enemy at his gates, King Wicha regretted that he had not listened to that advice.  He grabbed his son and fled to the northern border of Baekje while Su Tingfang and the combined forces besieged the capital.  He sought refuge at Ungjin fortress, in modern Kongju.  This all happened in the 7th lunar month of the year 660. With King Wicha fled, along with the crown prince, his second son, T'ae, declared himself king and led the defense of the city.  However, several others of King Wicha's sons looked at this and were afraid that it now didn't matter what happened.  If T'ae defended the city, then they would be next on his hit list, as they were clearly his rivals to power, and if the Tang defeated them, well, it didn't look good, either.  So they and their retainers all fled the city as well.  This sparked a mass exodus as other citizens tried to do the same, and T'ae could not stop them.  Eventually, the forces weakened, Su Tingfang took the city and raised the Tang banners.  T'ae opened the gates and pleaded for his life.  When King Wicha heard all of this, he knew there was no escape.  He and his sons surrendered themselves and the fortresses to the Tang-Silla alliance.  He and his sons, and many of his people, were taken captive and taken back to the Tang court, where the Yamato ambassadors saw them being paraded around. Now the king may have been captured, but Baekje was not completely subdued.  A few of the remaining citizens held out hope that they could gather their forces and kick out the Tang and Silla and take back their country.  They knew that, although most of the royal family was captured there was still one more:  Prince Pung.  Prince Pung, as you may recall from previous episodes, was residing in Yamato, a royal hostage—or perhaps more of a restrained guest.  The rebels acknowledged him as their king and sent word to Yamato asking that he come back, along with reinforcements, and retake the kingdom.  In the meantime, they gathered and fought as they could, wearing down the Tang and Silla forces.  The rebels, after all, knew the land, and the invaders were still reliant on their supply lines.  This situation persisted for several years. Back in Yamato, in the 5th month of 660, they still were likely unaware of what had happened on the peninsula.  There was no social media to alert them to the dangers, and it would still be a few months before the Baekje capital actually fell.  They were busy entertaining the envoys from Goguryeo, or preparing 100 raised seats an one hundred kesa, or Buddhist vestments, for a Benevolent King ritual.  They were focused on their wars in the north, with the Mishihase, which they had been successful in Praising Abe no Hirafu for his successful campaign.  There is one record that says that in the 5th month people started carrying weapons around with them for no good reason, because they had heard of the destruction of Baekje, but that hadn't actually happened yet, so this is likely out of place—possibly by a couple of years. There is a note about the destruction of Baekje in the 7th month, but that is from the “Records of the reigns of Japan” or Nihon Seiki, a work that is no longer extant that was apparently written by a Goguryeo priest, who noted Baekje's destruction in his history, but this was probably not exactly information available to Yamato at the time.  And no, I don't want to gloss over the fact that we are given another source that was likely being used by the Chroniclers.  I want to delve into the fact that this was by a Goguryeo priest, known in Japanese as Doken.  I want to talk about how this work pops up throughout the reigns of Saimei, Tenchi, and apparently even in the Fujiwara Kaden.  It seems like he was close to Nakatomi no Kamatari and the Fujiwara house, which probably explains how he had access to the events mentioned and why his work was known.  However, I don't really have time for all of that because we are trying to focus on what was happening with Baekje and what was happening Yamato at the time. And in Yamato it wasn't until the 9th month that word finally arrived via a Buddhist novice named “Kakchyong”, according to Aston.  He carried word of the defeat, but also word that Kwisil Poksin had taken up arms and was leading a rebellion against Tang and Silla control.    The royal city, which some records say had fallen in mere days, was once more under Baekje control, according to the word that reached Yamato.  It does seem that Poksin held it for a time, but they weren't able to set in for any kind of prolonged fight in any one spot.  It seems that the fighting was going back and forth, and the rebels were remaining on the move while fighting actions against the invading forces.  Poksin had apparently captured some of the enemy troops, though, and sent them to Yamato, possibly as tribute and payment for future reinforcements, and possibly to demonstrate their victories. And if that was the case, it seemed to have worked.  Takara Hime agreed to help Baekje.  She agreed to send troops, commanding them to go from a hundred directions and meet up in Sateok—likely meaning that this was an emergency deployment and rather than everyone gathering in Kyushu and heading over together, they were getting there as fast as they could, however they could, to try and come to Baekje's aid.  She also released Prince Pung to return as well, and basically named him the King of Baekje herself.  As for Takara Hime and the main force, they moved first to Naniwa and gathered there.  She was considering going on to Tsukushi and then traveling with the bulk of the navy from there. Omens were also coming in, and it wasn't good.  In the province of Suruga, they built a boat, but apparently, overnight, the bow and stern switched places, which the Chroniclers saw as a bad omen.  And then there were a swarm of insects reported in Shinano as coming from a westerly direction.  Another bad sign, especially given that Tang and Silla were both west of Yamato. Although they started preparing in the 9th month of 660, it took them until the first month of 661 to have the royal ship ready to go.  It is likely that much of what was happening was not just a waiting navy putting to sea, but rather there were emergency build orders to build or repair ships and make them ready for the crossing and eventual attack.  The royal ship made its through the Seto Inland Sea, past Bizen, the nearer part of ancient Kibi, and on to Iyo, on Shikoku.  They seem to have had a few setbacks in their journey, and it wasn't until the 5th month that they reached the Asakura palace, though to be in Chikuzen, in Tsukushi, aka northern Kyushu.  The month before, Poksin had written and asked to wait upon the prince, which I suspect was a polite way of asking when the reinforcements would finally arrive. Unfortunately, at Asakura, disaster struck.  The Chroniclers claim this was because they had cleared sacred trees in order to make room for the palace and the kami were none to pleased.  The palace itself was demolished and several notable people, including the Grand Treasurer, took ill and died.  Not a great start to things.  It was here that they met up with the envoys coming back from Chang'an who no doubt told them about their house arrest and everything else.  On top of this, we are told that in the 6th month Prince Ise, of whom little more is given, died, and then, a little more than a month later, he was followed by the sovereign herself: Takara Hime. I suspect that Prince Ise may have been one of Takara Hime's sons, possibly in line for the throne, otherwise, why make mention of his death.  However, Takara's passing would have no doubt thrown the war plans into disarray.  It is quite likely that she wasn't actually the one doing most of the heavy lifting—in all likely that was her son, Prince Naka no Oe, who was handling a lot of that.  But still, the death of the sovereign just before you head off to war, was not great.  They had to send a funeral procession back to Naniwa and Asuka.  Prince Naka no Oe accompanied it as far as the Iwase Palace, but didn't go all the way back.  As the procession headed for Naniwa, he composed a poem: Longing as I do For a sight of thee Now that I have arrived here, Even thus do I long Desirous of a sight of thee! Prince Naka no Oe had just lost his sovereign and his mother, and he was now fully in charge of the armada headed to try and relieve Baekje.  He would have to continue the plans while Takara Hime's remains headed back to Asuka.  The funeral procession arrived in the 10th month, and her body was put in temporary interment for at Asuka-gahara as 9 days of mourning began.  Her son, however, would continue to mourn from afar.  He put on white clothing—a symbol of purity and associated with funerals and death, at least in Buddhist tradition. He had no time, though.  By the 8th month, Prince Naka no Oe was sending Adzumi no Hirafu no Omi and Kawabe no Momoye no Omi, as generals of the Front Division, while Abe no Hirafu no Omi and Mononobe no Muraji no Kuma took up the mantle of generals of the rear division.  They sent men, along with arms and grain to help relieve the Baekje forces. After sending the initial forces to make way, in the 9th month he conferred a cap of woven stuff on Prince Pung, indicating his high rank in the Yamato court, and gave to him as a wife, the sister of a high ranking court official.  He then sent him off, with the help of Sawi no Muraji no Ajimasa and Hada no Miyatsuko no Takutsu, along with 5,000 troops to escort him back.  They made it to Baekje and were able to meet up with Poksin and their forces. On the Korean peninsula, one of the strategic objectives of the Tang was to create a foothold on the peninsula so that they could finally take out the Kingdom of Goguryeo.  That year was particularly cold, and apparently Tang forces tried to invade Goguryeo again, attacking with siege weapons and other war machines.  The Goguryeo soldiers fought valiantly, but appear to have reached a stalemate. In 662, some of the Yamato material started appearing for Poksin.  It included 100,000 arrows, 500 kin of raw silk, 1000 kin of floss silk, 1000 tan of cloth, 1000 hides of leather, and 3000 koku, or over 15,000 bushels, of seed rice.  The next month, he sent another 300 tan of silk to the king.  The Silk may not make much sense, but it would have likely been a form of currency that they could use to purchase other goods, and it could be used for clothing.  The leather may have even been useful for armor and other accoutrements.   But mostly, this was probably economic aid, outside of the 100,000 arrows.  That same month, the 3rd month of 662, the Tang-Silla alliance was trying to body Goguryeo,  and Goguryeo reached out for aid.  Yamato troops were reportedly sent to help, and the attacks against Goguryeo were blunted.  This really was, now, the Goguryeo-Baekje-Yamato alliance against the Tang-Silla alliance. Poksin and the rebels had holed up in a place called Chuyu, which they were using as their base of operations.  King Pung had arrived, and Poksin was officially made his Minister, but they decided to move out from Chuyu.  It was fine for defense, but the land was not fertile, and they wanted to establish a base where they apparently had more resources, so they found Phisyeong, with rivers to the north and west, and large earthworks to the south and east.  It had fertile land for growing crops, which could then feed the army. However, one of the veterans pointed out the Phisyeong was less than a day's march from their enemies' encampment, and it would be a simple nights march and the army could be at their doorstep.  Chuyu, for all it was not the most appealing place, was much more defensible.  In the end, though, they decided that they would move the capital to Phisyeong. In the 2nd month of the following year, in 663, Silla troops were ravaging southern Baekje, setting fire to the land, possibly trying to starve out any resistance. Sure enough, they moved in close to Phisyeong, and King Pung and his troops realized they were in danger, and moved back to the defensive position of Chuyu.  In the following month, the Yamato and Baekje forces began to take the fight to Silla.  They advanced on Silla territory with 27,000 troops.  They took some cities and fortresses. As all of this was going on, King Pung was beginning to wonder about Poksin and his loyalties.  After all, Poksin had been running things before Pung showed up, and why wouldn't he think he could run things just fine without Pung once this was all over?  He had raised the soldiers, right?  So who would they be loyal to?  Would they be loyal to Pung, who barely knew Baekje, having lived for so long in Yamato.  Or would they be loyal to Poksin, who had rallied them together at the brink of defeat? And so in the 6th month he conferred with his other ministers.  Now it isn't stated in the text, but I suspect that his other ministers were Baekje nobles, and Poksin, well, there really isn't much indication that he had started this out as a man of high station.  They all agreed that Poksin should be dealt with, and so Pung had Poksin taken into custody and beheaded. Now I don't know if it needs to be said, but putting your own top general to death in the middle of a war is not exactly the best thing for morale.  Silla heard about it, and made plans to attack, hoping to catch Baekje offguard.  Baekje heard about it, and they also knew that about 10,000 reinforcements were supposed to be arriving soon from Yamato.  Those were reinforcements that could turn the tide of any fight.  They just needed to make it up the Baek river, known in Japanese as the Haku-suki-no-e. The Silla and Tang troops surrounded the fortress of Chuyu, and Baekje desperately needed the reinforcements from Yamato.  The Tang navy had 170 ships sitting at the mouth of the Baek River, ready to prevent any reinforcements from getting in.  On the 17th day of the 8th month, according to the Nihon Shoki, the first ships of the Yamato fleet arrived, but they could make no headway against the Tang forces.  Based on other records, it appears that the Yamato fleet swelled to more than 400 ships, well over twice the size of the defending Tang navy.  They attacked at least four separate times, but despite their smaller size, the Tang ships had the advantage of the terrain, using the narrowing at the river, and they also had superior tactics.  Although the Yamato soldiers fought ferociously, they couldn't move the Tang fleet. Speaking of fighting, let's talk about what it meant.  There were no cannons or anything like that.  It is likely that the projectile weapons of the day were arrows, and based on the ship designs, it was likely that ships would need to get close and grapple with each other so that soldiers could actually do the fighting.  In this way, ships were like floating battlefields.  If you could burn the ships, then that was something, but fire would also be a danger to your own wooden vessel.  And so it is likely that ships would have to engage with each other and effectively let the other side grapple if you wanted to fight, unless you just wanted to exchange arrows. After being repulsed four times, ten days after they had first engaged, the Tang vessels finally counterattacked.  They were able to swarm out and envelope the right and left flanks or the Yamato ships.  Four hundred ships were burned and sent to the bottom of the sea.  The Yamato forces were unable to break through the blockade and had to turn around.  The Battle of Haku-suki-no-e was a total defeat, and only ten days later, Chuyu fell.  King Pung was able to escape, fleeing to Goguryeo, but the writing was on the wall: The Kingdom of Baekje would never be reconstituted.  The Yamato forces departed the continent and headed back to the archipelago.  They met up at Honye on the 24th day of the 9th month and started out for the archipelago on the following day, eventually returning to Yamato, along with some of the Baekje nobles and ministers who had fled with them. The results of this defeat were resounding.  The battle of Haku-suki-no-e, known in Korean as the Battle of Baekgang, or the Battle of the Baek River, would change the political landscape.  The Tang-Silla alliance would eventually continue to pressure Goguryeo, and the dictator, Yeong Gaesomun, would die three years later, in 666.  He had held out against Tang and Silla, but with his death, there was a moment of chaos as an internal struggle broke out in the Goguryeo court.  The divisions this caused weakened the country, which fell to the Tang-Silla alliance in 667. With both Goguryeo and Baekje gone, suddenly Silla was now the country on the Tang empire's borders.  Without their shared enemies, there was not longer an alliance between the two, and Silla would push back against the Tang.  The Tang held out on the peninsula for another decade, but without Silla support, it became too costly to continually ship supplies to the troops.  Silla was eventually able to force the Tang forces off of the peninsula, and thus began the period on the Korean peninsula known as Unified Silla, where Silla ruled all of the what is now north and south Korea. In the archipelago, in the aftermath of their ally's defeat, there was worry in the Yamato court.  They were afraid that the Tang empire would come after them, next, and they began building fortresses from Tsukushi all the way along Kyushu and the Seto Inland sea area.  These are peninsular style fortresses, often using earthworks and walls that were built up around the tops of mountains, using the terrain.  A large earthwork was put up between the coast and the Dazaifu, in case Tang troops landed in Hakata bay.  Today, many of these earthworks still exist.  Some were even repurposed for gun emplacements in the lead up to what would become World War II, as they were still highly defensible positions. The feared invasion never came, and the fortresses would eventually be abandoned, but they are still a testament to just how seriously Yamato took this threat. Next up, we'll take a look at Naka no Oe's reign.  Naka no Oe is known in the Chronicles as Tenchi Tennou, the sovereign of Heavenly Wisdom.  We'll talk about that some more as we get into his time on the throne.  Since 645 he had been a force in the Yamato court, but he had not taken the throne at a younger age.  Now, however, his power seemed secure.  He took the throne upon his mother's death, and we'll talk about that and more in future episodes. Until then, thank you once again for listening and for all of your support. If you like what we are doing, please tell your friends and feel free to rate us wherever you listen to podcasts.  If you feel the need to do more, and want to help us keep this going, we have information about how you can donate on Patreon or through our KoFi site, ko-fi.com/sengokudaimyo, or find the links over at our main website,  SengokuDaimyo.com/Podcast, where we will have some more discussion on topics from this episode. 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Welcome to Tuesday's OTB Breakfast Bite, your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast. On this morning's show, James Tracy joined Ger and Colm to look back at Leinster's annihilation of Glasgow Warriors in the Champions Cup last Friday.And is Rory McIlroy's long awaited major success a good omen for Leo Cullen's side in Europe this season?Everton have completely turned their fortunes under the tenure of David Moyes. One of the first things the Scot did was install Republic of Ireland defender Jake O'Brien in to the team.The Corkman has excelled at right-back and played Ireland's last game with Bulgaria in central defence. He joined Ger and Colm to look back on the season so far.And today's Bite begins with James Tracy recalling the rollercoaster of emotions we all went through whilst watching McIlroy complete his coveted Grand Slam.Catch Off The Ball Breakfast LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off The Ball Breakfast and get the podcast on the Off The Ball app. SUBSCRIBE at OffTheBall.com/join

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Welcome to Tuesday's OTB Breakfast Bite, your FREE bitesize taster of this morning's full Off The Ball Breakfast. On this morning's show, James Tracy joined Ger and Colm to look back at Leinster's annihilation of Glasgow Warriors in the Champions Cup last Friday.And is Rory McIlroy's long awaited major success a good omen for Leo Cullen's side in Europe this season?Everton have completely turned their fortunes under the tenure of David Moyes. One of the first things the Scot did was install Republic of Ireland defender Jake O'Brien in to the team.The Corkman has excelled at right-back and played Ireland's last game with Bulgaria in central defence. He joined Ger and Colm to look back on the season so far.And today's Bite begins with James Tracy recalling the rollercoaster of emotions we all went through whilst watching McIlroy complete his coveted Grand Slam.Catch Off The Ball Breakfast LIVE weekday mornings from 7:30am or just search for Off The Ball Breakfast and get the podcast on the Off The Ball app. SUBSCRIBE at OffTheBall.com/join

In this episode, we get to meet singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer Valerie June. Here, Valerie and I go deep into her brand new record, Owls, Omens, and Oracles, including the themes, production, and writing of these genre-defying songs. We touch on music history, including Appalachian and Delta folk music, as well as the concept of being positive or optimistic in times like these. Valerie spoke with a candid warmth and was a real open book, and I think you'll enjoy this talk if you like any of her work, but also if you just want to listen to a really good talk about life, art, philosophy, history, and the like. Be transported with her like I was. Thank you for listening. 

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Weird Omen, trío francés en inusual formato de guitarra, batería y saxo barítono. Su nuevo disco, “Blood”, es una descarga sin tregua de garage high energy absolutamente incandescente. Estarán de gira en el mes de mayo. Suenan también novedades de Jim Jones All Stars, Hives o el primer álbum de The Untamed Youth en 27 años.Playlist;WEIRD OMEN “Middle class”WEIRD OMEN “All wrong”WEIRD OMEN “I can stand it”JIM JONES ALL STARS “Goin higher”THE HIVES “Enough is enough”THE DICTATORS “It’s alright”THE DUSTAPHONICS “La chica rockarolla”THE UNTAMED YOUTH “Git up and go”THE WATERBOYS “Live in the moment baby”DEAN WAREHAM “Dear Betty baby”GEOFF PALMER “Teenage memories”THE SPEEDWAYS “Now that I know how”MING CITY ROCKERS “I wanna find a way so I don’t feel like me, ever again”SKEGSS “So excited”THE PINE HILL HAINTS “Drinking with the prince”Escuchar audio

Bon Iver returns. Valerie June branches out. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Erin Wolf of Radio Milwaukee's 88Nine to the show for a quick run-through of the best new albums out April 11.Featured albums:• Bon Iver, 'SABLE, fABLE'• Valerie June, 'Owls, Omens, and Oracles'• Gerald Clayton, 'Ones & Twos'• Real Lies, 'We Will Annihilate Our Enemies' (out April 16)• Kills Birds, 'Crave' EPCheck out our long list of albums out April 11 and stream our New Music Friday sampler playlist of more than 70 songs at npr.org/music.Credits• Host: Stephen Thompson• Guest: Erin Wolf, Radio Milwakee's 88Nine• Producer: Simon Rentner• Editor: Otis Hart• Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed• Vice President, Music & Visuals: Keith JenkinsLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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We're back...again...as usual! We catch up with Guts and crew in the ongoing battle with Father Mozgus - now with 100% more angel wings than ever before! Enjoy!

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The tension rises as the coterie attempts to pull off their big heist at the Silver Dollar. Will Adon get away from Burrows? Can Niles face off the pit boss alone? Can Mal get them into the safe before the cops arrive? CAST Amanda as Jackie Santana (Banu Hakim) Eli as Niles (Caitiff) Lev as Mal (Lasombra) Zakiya as Sybil Geier (Gangrel) Sergio as John Burrows (Ravnos) Vince as Raguel (Salubri) Caleb Miller as The Storyteller --

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Would it be a mistake for the Giants to draft a QB? ESPN NFL Analyst Damien "The Omen" Woody joins to discuss that and more. Also, Recpeck It or Check It. Plus, I'm Over It! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Would it be a mistake for the Giants to draft a QB? ESPN NFL Analyst Damien "The Omen" Woody joins to discuss that and more. Also, Recpeck It or Check It. Plus, I'm Over It! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Would it be a mistake for the Giants to draft a QB? ESPN NFL Analyst Damien "The Omen" Woody joins to discuss that and more. Also, Recpeck It or Check It. Plus, I'm Over It! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Would it be a mistake for the Giants to draft a QB? ESPN NFL Analyst Damien "The Omen" Woody joins to discuss that and more. Also, Recpeck It or Check It. Plus, I'm Over It! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From a mysterious pillow salesman who sensed her mother's pregnancy, to the terrifying owl invasion on their ranch, Brenda's tales of shadowy figures prove she's been attracting supernatural attention from the start. Hear how she and her family navigated unexplained footsteps, ghostly hands gripping at night, and the bizarre sighting of a headless creature on a lonely backroad.  If you have a real ghost story or supernatural event to report, please write into our show or call 1-855-853-4802! If you like the show, please help keep us on the air and support the show by becoming a Premium Subscriber. Subscribe here: http://www.ghostpodcast.com/?page_id=118 or at or at http://www.patreon.com/realghoststories