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WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

The New Abnormal

Jan 11, 2023 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM

Music

With ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ

Exploring multiple facets of jazz-adjacent prog-rock, edgy fusion, Canterbury, Zeuhl, Rock-In-Opposition, avant-prog, Rock Progressivo Italiano, world music, ambient, anything virtuosic.

🎈𓁝𓀤𓁜 🎈

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The New Abnormal
3:01 AM
Marta Mist - Godspeed, Little Doodle
Marta Mist Godspeed, Little Doodle N
Eyes Like Pools Sound In Silence 2022

"Mart Mist" are Gavin Miller & Sophie Green based in Leeds UK. Bandcamp

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3:03 AM
Jenny Hval - Buffy
Jenny Hval Buffy N
Buffy - Single 4AD 2022

Jenny Hval is from Oslo, Norway. Bandcamp

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3:06 AM
Set Break: over “The Glance Of A Glittering Stranger” by Bill Nelson
3:07 AM
Anthony Tan - Sublime Subliminal Sublimate
Anthony Tan Sublime Subliminal Sublimate N
Susurrus genseng 2022

Anthony Tan is an experimental composer, improvising pianist, and electronic musician based on Vancouver Island, Canada. Bandcamp

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3:19 AM
Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang - Tsirani Tsar
Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang Tsirani Tsar
Atmosphères ECM Records 2016

Tigran Hamasyan (born July 17, 1987) is an Armenian jazz pianist and composer. He plays mostly original compositions, which are strongly influenced by the Armenian folk tradition. At the age of three he began to play melodies on his family's piano, and he went to a music school from the age of six. As a young child, he dreamed of being a thrash metal guitarist.

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3:24 AM
Jan Bang - The God of Gradual Abdication
Jan Bang The God of Gradual Abdication
Uncommon Deities (feat. Sidsel Endresen & Arve Henriksen) Samadhisound LLC 2012

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Spoken word by David Sylvian, and released on his Samadhisound label.

3:29 AM
Set Break: over “Psalm 100” by Brian Blade
3:32 AM
Ken Nordine - Confessions of 349-18-5171
Ken Nordine Confessions of 349-18-5171
Word Jazz, Vol. 2 Geffen 1960

Ken Nordine (13 April 1920 – 16 February 2019) was an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many commercial advertisements and movie trailers. The supporting music is by The Fred Katz Group.

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He was indeed born in Cherokee Iowa. The population as of 2020 is still around 5000. There is still a mental health institute there. Besides that, I suspect much of the rest of the story is fantasy.

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3:39 AM
Kenny Wheeler, with Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette - Gnu Suite
Kenny Wheeler, with Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette Gnu Suite
Gnu High ECM Records 1976

Kenny Wheeker (1930-2014) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player, based in the UK since the 1950s.

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3:52 AM
Loren Stillman - Blind Date
Loren Stillman Blind Date
Blind Date Pirouet Records 2007

Jazz saxophonist, born 14 June 1980. Stillman studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the New School University.

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3:57 AM
Set Break: over “Lustra Na Suficie” by Valerio Tricoli
4:03 AM
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat - Ngejuk Memedi
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Chasing the Phantom - EP Black Truffle 2022

Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat are based in Ubud, Gianyar, Bali Indonesia. Seeking a wider path for expressing his approach to new music in gamalen, composer / musician Dewa Alit founded his own gamelan group in 2007, Gamelan Salukat, performing on a new set of instruments of Alit’s own tuning and design. (The typical slendro scale used by gamelan instruments is pentatonic. Dewa Alit's instruments use an 11-tone scale.)

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4:17 AM
Jon Hassell - New Gods
Jon Hassell New Gods
Maarifa Street Ndeya 2017

Jon Hassell (1937–2021) was an American trumpet player and composer. He was best known for developing the concept of "Fourth World" music, which describes a "unified primitive/futurist sound" combining elements of various world ethnic traditions with modern electronic techniques.

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4:24 AM
Steve Tibbetts - Glass Everywhere
Steve Tibbetts Glass Everywhere
A Man About a Horse ECM Records 2002

Steve Tibbetts (born 1954) is from Madison, Wisconsin. His music has been described as rock, jazz, ambient, experimental, and world music. Tibbetts refers to it as "postmodern neo-primitivism". He stated, "I go back and forth between the sampler and tape machine so much—looping, cutting, offsetting, and layering—that eventually I don't know where the sounds come from."

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The CD cover is a ceremonial burning of his old leather jacket.
4:28 AM
Set Break: over the looped ending of “Glass Everywhere”
4:30 AM
Elder - Merged in Dreams – Ne Plus Ultra
Elder Merged in Dreams – Ne Plus Ultra N
Innate Passage Stickman Records 2022

Heavy Psych / Stoner / Progressive Metal band from Massachusetts, formed in 2005.

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4:45 AM
Motorpsycho - She Left On the Sun Ship
Motorpsycho She Left On the Sun Ship
Little Lucid Moments Rune Grammofon 2008

Motorpsycho was founded in October 1989 in Trondheim, Norway.

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4:58 AM
Set Break: over “Revolving Globes” by Bill Nelson
5:00 AM
War - Slippin' into Darkness
War Slippin' into Darkness
All Day Music Avenue Records 1972

Funk group that started life in the early 1970s in Southern California.

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This is the original 7 minute version, not the FM radio edit.
5:07 AM
PNK FME - Dark Demons
PNK FME Dark Demons
Dark Demons - Single Independent 2018

PNK FME is Lachlan Turnock, based in Adelaide Australia.

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5:10 AM
Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness (11/11)
Van Der Graaf Generator Darkness (11/11)
The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other EMI Marketing 2005

Formed in the UK in 1967.

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5:18 AM
Sensations Fix - Darkside 1 & 3
Sensations Fix Darkside 1 & 3
Music Is Painting In the Air (1974-1977) RVNG INTL. 2012

The Sensations Fix group was based in a farm near Florence, and had more in common with the German progressive electronic scene than the rest of the Italian prog (RPI) field in the mid 1970s.

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5:20 AM
Sensations Fix - Darkside 2
Sensations Fix Darkside 2
Music Is Painting In the Air (1974-1977) RVNG INTL. 2012

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5:24 AM
McGill Manring Stevens - A Darkness Falls Upon Us
McGill Manring Stevens A Darkness Falls Upon Us
Controlled By Radar FREE ELECTRIC SOUND 2002

Scott McGill (guitar), Michael Manring (bass), Vic Stevens (drums).

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5:27 AM
David Sylvian - Darkest Dreaming
David Sylvian Darkest Dreaming
Dead Bees On a Cake Virgin Records 1999

On the whole, one of the least dark of David Sylvian's releases.

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5:31 AM
Paul Simon - The Rhythm of the Saints
Paul Simon The Rhythm of the Saints
The Rhythm of the Saints (Bonus Tracks Edition) Legacy Recordings 2010

Songs featuring Brazilian and African musicians, supporting Paul Simon's strong lyrics.

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'reach in the darkness'

5:35 AM
Set Break: over “Shadowland (Northfield”) by David Sylvian
5:39 AM
Screaming Headless Torsos - Dead Christmas Trees
Screaming Headless Torsos Dead Christmas Trees
Code Red Revolver Distribution Services 2014

David Fiuczynski's group, playing Rock, Jazz-Funk, Funk, Jazz Fusion, Punk Jazz since 1989.

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5:44 AM
Poil - Tronche à cul
Poil Tronche à cul
Dins o cuol Dur et Doux 2011

Poil is a French trio (bass/drums/keyboards), that know no limitations and prohibitions. Impressive and delirious, the trio combines raw madness and virtuosity. And they're needlessly vulgar; this track required many edits to allow airplay. The record's title (I think) is something like "in the ass", symbolized on its cover.

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5:51 AM
Miriodor - Boîte à Rebuts
Miriodor Boîte à Rebuts
Parade + Live At Nearfest Cuneiform Records 2005

Avant-prog band founded in Quebec in 1980, and still active.

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5:53 AM
Set Break: over “Brenner” by Mark Nauseef
5:55 AM
Mil Dolores Pequeños - Willie The Pimp
Mil Dolores Pequeños Willie The Pimp
Unmatched Tributo A Zappa Vol. 1 Hall Of Fame Records 1996

Avant-garde rock group from Spain.

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