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The New Abnormal

Apr 15, 2022 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

With ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ

Have a Good Friday

7:01 AM		The Khac Chi Ensemble Spring Is Coming Moonlight In Vietnam New Rounder 1997 The ensemble are Ho Khac Chi and Hoang Ngoc Bich, and were based in Vancouver at the time of the release.
7:03 AM		Set Break: over “林衝夜奔” by Zhong Guo 中国民樂精華篇
7:04 AM		Treasury of Puppies Bränna, känna N Mitt stora nu Discreet Music 2022 https://treasuryofpuppies.bandcamp.com Out of Gothenburg, Sweden. This is the neat little dog with the dainty walk that looks like a lamb and can fight like a demon.
7:09 AM		Bill Nelson Love's First Kiss A Catalogue Of Obsessions Cocteau Records 1984 Bill Nelson is a British musician, painter and photographer. Born 18 December 1948 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire (England) he is best known as the founder of Be Bop Deluxe (1972-1978), although he is also a prolific and accomplished solo artist in his own right.
7:10 AM		Drum & Lace Plantae N Natura Past Inside the Present 2022 Drum & Lace is Sofia Hultquist, who composes for film, fashion and other media.
7:15 AM		Ashra Fourth Movement Walkin' The Desert Magnum Music Group 1989 Ashra were formerly known as Ash Ra Tempel, but shortened when reduced to the solo project of Manuel Göttsching, Berlin school guitarist.
7:29 AM		Set Break: over “Darkside 2” by Sensations Fix
7:33 AM		Man Wu, Abel Domingues & Stuart Dempster Hangzhou Blues: Shanghai Blues Man Wu: From a Distance - Pipa Music Naxos 2003 Wu Man (1963, Hangzhou, Zhejiang) is a Chinese pipa and ruan player and composer. She is an exponent of the Pudong School of pipa playing. Wu Man studied music at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. This track features an electric pipa with wahwah pedal.
7:39 AM		Flower-Corsano Duo The Ship That Sailed on Dry Land N The Halcyon VHF 2022 Percussionist Chris Corsano and guitarist Michael Flower
7:57 AM		Set Break: over “La Cagaste” by Cliff Martinez, from the 'Traffic' soundtrack
8:01 AM		Mychael Danna Aphrodisiac Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love Mychael Danna 2007 Mychael Danna is a Canadian composer, born 20 September 1958 in Winnipeg. Composes a lot for films.
8:03 AM		Matmos Cobra Wages Shuffle / Off! Schable w gurę! N Regards/Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer Thrill Jockey Records 2022 Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore. M. C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances.
8:08 AM		Jean-Michel Jarre Ethnicolor II Zoolook Sony Music Catalog 2015 Jean-Michel Jarre (24 August 1948, Lyon, France) is a French composer of electronic music. Son of Maurice Jarre, a composer of film music.
8:11 AM		K. Leimer Wajang Kulit Imposed Order / Imposed Absence (Remastered + Expanded) Palace Of Lights 2018 K. Leimer is an American electronic musician from Seattle, Washington. Active since the 1970s, he took a hiatus from 1983-2002. (This was originally issued in 1983.)
8:14 AM		Nils Petter Molvær Kingfish Castle Buoyancy OKEH 2016 Composer, producer and trumpet player. He was born in 1960 in Sula, Norway. Plays smoky jazz with the Jon Hassell style of trumpet playing.
8:18 AM		Ketil Bjørnstad The Mother The Sea II ECM Records 1998 Norwegian pianist, composer and author, born 25 April 1952 in Oslo.
8:22 AM		Set Break: over “Hängengeblieben” by Freundliche Kreisel
8:25 AM		The Hu Wolf Totem Wolf Totem - Single Eleven Seven Music 2019 The Hu is a Mongolian folk rock and heavy metal band formed in 2016, using traditional Mongolian instrumentation, and Mongolian throat singing.
8:30 AM		Wardruna Kvitravn Kvitravn - First Flight of the White Raven By Norse Music 2021 Wardruna is a Norwegian music group formed in 2003, with some ex-members of black metal group Gorgoroth. They are dedicated to creating musical renditions of Norse cultural and esoteric traditions, and make significant use of Nordic historical and traditional instruments.
8:36 AM		VAK Budo (final third) Budo Soleil Zeuhl 2018 https://vak-prog.bandcamp.com Zeuhl band from France
8:45 AM		Lama Gyurme Six Syllable Mantra Of The White Lotus Lord Rain Of Blessings: Vajra Chants (Real World Gold) Real World Records 2000 Lama Gyurme (born in 1948), is a Buddhist Bhutanese Lama and musician. He has lived in France since 1974, and he is the director of the Kagyu-Dzong center in Paris.
8:52 AM		Edgar Froese Upland Aqua Virgin Records 1974 Edgar Froese (1944-2015) was a core member of Tangerine Dream (most popular group of the Berlin school of electronic music).
8:59 AM		Set Break: over ”Doc Con Xa” by Phạm Văn Tỵ
9:03 AM		Stephan Thelen Mercury Transit Fractal Guitar 2 Moonjune 2021 US musician, composer, producer and mathematician based in Zürich, Switzerland. Core member of SonAr. https://stephanthelen.bandcamp.com
9:15 AM		Caravan L’auberge Du Sanglier For Girls Who Grow Plump In the Night Deram 1973 UK Progressive rock band from Canterbury, Kent. formed in January 1968. One of the original (and most successful) bands representing the so-called "Canterbury scene". The New Abnormal will feature two 3-hour shows surveying the Canterbury Scene groups during May.
9:25 AM		Set Break: over “Chelsea Hotel Room 625 (Vision's Fugitives Alt Mix)” by Sensations Fix
9:27 AM		An Laurence 安媛 Elischa Kaminer — Chants d'amour: interlude N Almost Touching People Places 2022 https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alm... To be released on May 2oth. Montreal-based performer.
9:30 AM		Jan Bang The God of Black Holes Uncommon Deities (feat. Sidsel Endresen & Arve Henriksen) Samadhisound LLC 2012 Short descriptions of peculiar gods, narrated by David Sylvian.
9:33 AM		This Mortal Coil I Must Have Been Blind (Remastered) Filigree & Shadow (Remastered) 4AD 2011 This Mortal Coil was a 4AD "supergroup" of sorts that recorded three albums and a few other tracks between 1983 and 1991.
9:37 AM		This Mortal Coil A Heart of Glass Filigree & Shadow (Remastered) 4AD 2011 The only official members of the project were 4AD label head Ivo Watts-Russell and producer John Frye.
9:40 AM		Värttinä Ompa Tietty Tietyssäni Värttinä Värttinä 1987 Finnish group with a unique roots-based vocal/instrumental style. Founded in 1983, this is from their self-released debut, and sounds a bit different than their later work. (Värttinä means "spindle", illustrated on the cover.)
9:44 AM		Michael Stearns Ancient Leaves Collected Ambient & Textural Works (1977-1987) Hearts of Space Records 1996 Michael Stearns is a multi-genre music composer and soundtrack designer/producer. This is from his first or second release, originally self-released in 1977. (The full composition "Ancient Leaves" is over 20 minutes long.)
9:48 AM		Set Break: over “Mandala (Closing)” by Peter Michael Hamel
9:51 AM		Tabu Ley Rochereau Bania Irene Muzina Tamasha Corporation Limited 2010 Pascal-Emmanuel Sinamoyi Tabu was an African rumba singer-songwriter and politician from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, born 13 November 1940 and died 30 November 2013. He pioneered soukous and internationalized his music by mixing elements of Congolese folk music with Cuban, Caribbean, and Latin American rumba. He's the father of at least 68 children, possibly up to 102! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_Ley_Rochereau

Chat is archived.

We begin our broadcast day.

Greetings and Salutations!

Good Friday Morning to you, DJ DaveTheObscure!

Greetings, Mr. M. I hope your night is still pleasant.

Screeeeeeaming online

Good morning, Christine. I see your alarm worked this morning.

Morning, DTO 😶‍🌫️ & MrM 💀!

Good morning Christine and DTO and MrM aka worst timeout warden ever (this cell has no mint under the pillow)

Good morning. Happy Friday

Good morning, TAndy and Brian D.

Good morning to you too Brian

Psyched for Membership Drive shenanigans, and have a couple ideas. Also a certain station's newsletter/schedule arrived in the mail yesterday that contained an interesting image...

Morning, TAndy & Brian

BAM

Exactly, TAndy.

Tip top of the morning to yall!

here we all are again in the wprb chat :)

Morning, Guelo!

Good morning, Guelo.

well tase my rent, it's Friday again, loved the treasury of puppies, good morning

Thanks, kentman. That was was new to the station a few weeks ago.

Good morning Guelo and Kentman

Very nice start to the show! Cheers, DJ DaveTheObscure!

I am honored that you are awake to appreciate it, Mr. M.

I'm going to be a Berlin school guitarist this September :D. This is a beautiful track! very nice for the morning

I thought you all might enjoy it.

This electric pipa rocks!

Wu Man! She rocks

And this is the only such track on that CD. I was surprised to hear it.

totally rocks.

I have been searching for more, but her work is generally acoustic and more traditional.

Got that middle of Marquee Moon bird chirps sound

Wow, this percussion! (Chris Corsano)

those songs blended together so nicely, I didnt even notice

Thanks, Guelo. I was attempting exactly that.

Good morning one and all. I love the impressionistic kingfisher on The Halcyon cover. It fits with the music

Good morning, Rob. Yes, a birder like you should notice that.

That track was an absolute journey

Good morning Rob!

BAM

good morning folks

Good morning, Chef.

Good morning, Fleetwood Mok. Another perfect name change!

Good morning Mok and Chef. Chef, we love your art for the station!

The design is a perfect analogy for the station!

where can we view said art?

It was shown in the recent WPRB mailing.

ahhh i need to check my mailbox

One side has the calendar, the other shows the terrific design.

i like the art on the hoodie from last drive

You'll like this new one at lest as well.

The pledge page is updated too to give us a preview of his art and the bonuses for the spring drive already

And also some very exciting news in the mail newsletter

G'morning Chef 🍳

haha I love it!! Chef even included himself it seems

Congratulations to you @Chef! I just got the WPRB mailing and I saw a certain artwork.

Oh this Mongolian track is beyond sick

A perfect pairing of throat singing and heavy metal.

its like Mad Max meets Crocodile Dundee

Mad Moks?

;)

Beyond Thunderdome

I watched all 4 mad max movies last weekend so it is fresh in my mind

I have yet to watch thunderdome. But I'm very happy to have been able to sing the fourth movie in the theater as the most proper experience it should be

mmm the 4th is more like a rock concert

Thunderdome is all over the place with Tina Turner etc

Master Blaster runs Bartertown.

hahahah

say it louder!!!

It was probably one of my favorite movie theater experiences. Up there with Jackass 3D and One Piece: Stampede

heard good things about One Piece. Never sat down and tried it.

Watching it is fun and becomes a chore due to pacing issues. Reading it is solidly enjoyable but ya miss out on some great music

Escaflowne, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop are probably my tops

Easy for me to say though since I've been a fan forever. At 1000+ chapters/episodes it's just worse the more you wait LOL. I feel for newer Dr. Who fans too, over 800 episodes... Yeesh

sounds like DBZ

EVA 💙. Space Cowboy 💙💙

DTO I'm so happy you're airing this VAK track again. This is still probably my favorite Zeuhl song ever

This is the last third of an epic track. I played the first 2/3 a couple of months ago. I don't think I ever aired this portion. But it does echo themes from the first 2/3. But, yeah, I am impressed by this new Zeuhl band.

Very dark indeed.

Time for some Zeuhl gruel 🥣

fresh out the ocean

I mean, shower 🧼 thanks for the swell soundtrack! @DJ DaveTheObscure!

I remember being blown away when you aired the first two parts of the song during that show! This definitely sounds like something I'd hear in a film noir

MrM are you a Fishman?

🧜‍♂️ 👎 🧛🏻‍♂️ 👍

Also, not from the family of Hal

Good morning Dave. Nice to hear more VAK, I'd bookmarked it last time you played it and then forgot all about it

😨😰

Hal Fishman 🤣🤩👻 R.I.P.

Good morning everyone else as well! Even MrM!

Good morning, DSM.

This guy rn af

Good morning DSM. I'm still locked up.

yikes good luck TAndy

I plan on aggressively clanging a metal cup on the bars of my timeout cell when I wake up later this evening.

could try hunger strike too if that doesn't work

Froese on a Friday morning, aint nothing wrong with that

Impossible. I'm on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it

Thelen is another bookmark I need to remember to go back to.

His solo work escaped my attention until earlier this year.

I think Jerry plays him from time to time.

He has for sure.

Good morning DSM 🍩

I think Readie did at least once as well.

This is just a small taste: The New Abnormal will feature two 3-hour shows surveying the Canterbury Scene groups during May.

Good morning Christine! Hope you are doing well!

Nice, I look forward to the Canterbury survey

I can't wait for that, Dave.

This voice 🥰💙💙💙

Another advance received by WPRB!

Looking forward to the C.S. next month @DTO. Thanks for always programming such exemplary shows.

I'm glad that there are folks out there that are able to listen and appreciate.

I have to head out now; thank you @DTO! Nice to hang in the chat; take care everyone 👋

Have a good day Christine!

Cheers, Christine!!

Thanks for dropping in, Christine.

Have a good one Christine!

Good morning Dave. Don't think I've ever heard Varttina before but that was awfully cool.

Hey, Bud. Värttinä gets a fair amount of airplay on WPRB, but they underwent a lot of lineup changes and usually have a trio of female lead singers.

THIS MORTAL COIL ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

🧯 I am convinced that 4AD should be pronounced "fraidy".

Ha! 4AD ❤️‍🔥🔥

Interesting, I must have heard them then, just didn't recognize the different sound.

another seamless new abnormal production, thanks dave the obscure

I agree and concur with kentman!

🙏 Thanks, kentman. Thanks, Mr. Hilarious Pants.

DJ DaveTheObscure! Haha! Many thanks and big cheers and kind regards to you!

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Ears!

Thanks for the show Dave, some lovely selections today.

Thanks DTO, have a great day everyone!

Thanks for staying awake, TAndy.

Thanks, DSM.

Another fine show, for sure. Looking forward to the Canterbury specials!

Thanks for dropping in, Bud.

I love those interlocking melodies and rhythms of Soukous.

good stuff. thx Dave

Thanks, Mok.

🏈🎂🍳🌽🐈‍⬛🧯🧻🏴‍☠️

!!!!

see ya Frank Zappa!!

🙀

See you all next week during our pledge drive!