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The New Abnormal

Feb 3, 2023 7:00 AM – 10:00 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.

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7:01 AM		Bombay Dub Orchestra Spiral 3 Cities Six Degrees Travel Series 2008 The Bombay Dub Orchestra is a project by UK based producer and composer Garry Hughes and classical composer Andrew T. Mackay. It combines global influences with electronica, ambient, western classical, Indian classical, with an Indian film orchestra.
7:09 AM		Set Break: over “Light Yellow Willow” by Dehai Liu
7:11 AM		Banco de Gaia Echoes Memories, Dreams, Reflections Disco Gecko Recordings 2012 Banco De Gaia [World Bank] began as a solo project of Toby Marks producing a variety of dance and chill-out music often featuring tribal samples.
7:33 AM		Nguyên Lê 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) Purple - Celebrating Jimi Hendrix ACT Music 2002 French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry, born 14 January 1959 in Paris. This release is all reimagined covers of Hendrix tunes.
7:39 AM		Set Break: over “Co Ban Van” by Nguyen Vinh Bao Ensemble
7:43 AM		Paul Schauert Hasselless (A Tribute to Jon Hassell) single s/r 2022 Paul Schauert is from Detroit, Michigan. He is a percussionist, composer, scholar, educator combining jazz, ambient and experimental sensibilities with African influences. Major artistic inspirations include: Nils Petter Molvaer, Jon Hassell, Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela... Bandcamp This was composed and produced shortly after Jon Hassell passed away on June 26, 2021.
7:52 AM		Jambinai Until My Wings Turn To Ashes N Apparition - EP Bella Union 2022 Jambinai (잠비나이) are a South Korean post-rock band formed in Seoul in 2009. Bandcamp
8:01 AM		OOIOO walk for "345" minutes, while saying "Ah Yeah!" with a "Mountain Book" in one hand, until a shower of light pours down nijimusi Thrill Jockey Records 2020 OOIOO is a Japanese avant-rock band, founded in 1995. Bandcamp
8:10 AM		Set Break: over “Visitation” by Nils Petter Molvær
8:11 AM		Circles Around The Sun Ticket to Helix NGC 7293 Let It Wander Rhino 2018 American band sometimes referred to as CATS. Gained fame as a mystery band whose music was playing during the Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well's intermissions.
8:31 AM		Steve Hillage Aftaglid Fish Rising (Remastered) Virgin Catalogue 2006 Steve Hillage is a guitarist born in the UK in 1951. Member of Uriel/Arzachel, Khan and Gong. "Fish Rising" is his first solo LP, with several members of Gong, as well as Canterbury keyboardist Dave Stewart.
8:46 AM		Shylock Ile de fièvre Ile de fièvre CBS 1978 Shylock is a French, instrumental progressive rock band from Nice that were active in the early to mid 1970's. Their very French style also had notable King Crimson influences. Guitarist Frédéric L'Épée later played in Philharmonie.
8:58 AM		Set Break: over “Deliquesce” by Naut Humon
9:01 AM		Bregent L'intersection Partir pour ailleurs ProgQuébec 1979 Another obscure group from the fertile Quebec prog scene of the 1970s. The group "Brégent" is sometimes listed as "Dionne - Bregent". "Pour Partir Ailleurs" (for going elsewhere) is their 2nd.
9:07 AM		Mediabanda Godzilla Maquinarias Aconcagua Records 2021 Chilean progressive rock, jazz fusion and contemporary music band. Active since 2000.
9:12 AM		Poil Ultima Ratio Regum - Chopin Etude 12 Op 25 L’ire des papes s/r 2008 Poil were formed as an experimental rock trio in 2005, a psychotic chamber jazz outfit run by disgruntled classically trained concert escapees with an axe to grind. "L'ire Des Papes" is their debut album. Bandcamp
9:18 AM		Set Break: over “Rift” by Jeff Greinke
9:21 AM		BESIDES Ich Bin Wieder Da! Bystanders Fundacja B-Side 2020 "Besides" is a post rock, alternative rock band from Brzeszcze, Poland. Bandcamp On June 14th 1940, at 10:13, a train with 728 people departed from the Tarnów station. The same day, the train arrived at Auschwitz and people became numbers. From that moment on thousands of trains were bringing victims. The 20th century’s apocalypse was accomplished. There is no escape from history.
9:29 AM		Chimp Spanner At the Dream's Edge At the Dream's Edge 2648571 Records DK 2022 Chimp Spanner (monkey wrench!) is a one-man prog-metal band: Paul Antonio Ortiz, from Essex, UK. Bandcamp
9:33 AM		Exivious Waves of Thought Exivious Exivious 2009 Dutch prog-metal band formed in 1997. Their music is more like jazz fusion in a metal format. They disbanded in 2017, each member pursuing other musical projects.
9:39 AM		Negura Bunget Dedesuptul Om code666 2006 Negurã Bunget was founded in Timișoara, Romania in 1995, splintered in 2009, disbanded in 2017. Negurã Bunget means, "black foggy forest" in archaic Romanian. Their music blends progressive black metal with dark ambient.
9:46 AM		Plini Inhale Handmade Cities Plini 2016 Plini is a guitarist and composer based in Sydney, Australia. His main genre influences are instrumental rock and progressive metal. Bandcamp
9:51 AM		Set Break: over “Helicopter” by Cliff Martinez, from “Traffic”
9:53 AM		Hans Annéllsson King Kong One More Time for the World Annellssongs 1999 Gunnar Peter "Hans" Annellsson is from Sweden.

Chat is archived.

𓁝 We begin our broadcast day. 𓁜

Welcome to the chat.

Good morning, sir.

ᵷuᴉuɹoɯ poo⅁

Lovely starting track

Thanks. Bombay Dub Orchestra have a good vibe

Good beachside music

You might think for a second that this is 103.3 FM HD2 "it's hot".

if only they played Bombay Dub Orchestra...

I forgot about that whole HD2 situation. I liked tuning in every now and then with my old car

UPDATE: The New Abnormal is no longer on the rebroadcast schedule. Adjustments had to be made.

The first edition of the Spring 2023 schedule had me in there, but that had to be removed due to time constraints.

It's going to be Dan Ruccia and Cap'n Ahab over 4 hours.

Ah gotcha, I just assumed your show got Techno-ified because of an error

CAPTAIN AHAB >:)

Since Music With Space runs until 2:00 a.m., we had a 4 hour block to fill; impossible with the 3 hour show.

You're hearing Echoes...

Oh BOY I can't wait for weekly 4 hour early bird special live episodes of The New Abnormal with LIVE and open chatrooms!

but not with John Diliberto

Exactly!

Floyd Echoes intro "pings" is my ringtone

At least he is thriving after the takeover of XPN

Doesn't the 'ping' get sometimes lost in the ambient noise of surrounding life?

Barbarians at the gate....

I mean to say, don't you miss calls?

No, that ping is instantly recognized. Even at lo volume

And uh... "calls"? What are those? Ha. If it isn't from 1 of 3 people .... it's spam (and spam spam and eggs... And bacon)

I remember being mildly excited when i trimmed that Echoes bit in Audacity & put it on the phone... then "oh yeah" moment hit. I never get calls anymore. I made my wife Herbie H's beer bottle Watermelon Man intro ringtone. She gets calls still. Still fun to hear

bloody vikings...

This is wonderful tho. 1 person? Very cool

The "waste freakout middle zone" section especially

I was going to say... This piece is very Floydian... Floyd meets Amon Tobin it sounds like to me

The wonderful " Meddle" lp from just before Dark Side into 70s huge fame. A great album all through

Yeah, one the first LPs I bought with my meager allowance. Had to save for months.

Cooooooool

Space journey

Good morning, Space Cowboy. Welcome.

They were not into space travel and the 4 members at this point were not into psychedelic drugs at all. More of a "couple beers at the studio cafeteria" kinda band but.. public perceptions are weird. They just liked creating some big sounds in the studio w the toys at the time

I thought I recognize this aha

Echoes...!

Echoes......

Pink Floyd certainly made some great 'proto-space music', with that VCS3 synth.

I̴̛̱̎̽̈́̊͐̌̆͘͝t̶̯̹̰̣̼̼̳̊̂̽̆'̷̤͇̾͛͆̋̃͋͘͝s̴͂͜ ̴͎̪̲̭̗̈́͑͂̆̓̓̚ͅĄ̸̧̜̥̗̈́b̷̧̢̟̟̦͎̺̪̟̅̓̈́̅̊͠ǹ̶̢̜̦̳̻̝̭̜̣͔̺͋̈́͂̌͘o̴̢̢͍̹̯͑̿̓̈́̉̂͆̈́̌̕̕͜͜͝r̸̡̝̠͈̜͉̻̼̎̌̄̂̃̃̐͌̑m̷̖̭͍̳̫̺͕̹̞̼͌̂͊̀͑ä̵͓̬͉̗̘͎̳̩́̿̔̈́̀͆͠ļ̵̦͍̹͚͈̘̬̪̹̠̄̍͜ ̶̙̐̑́̏͂́́͘t̸̡̢̹̗͎͚͇̟̫̝̙̀̋̅̉̀ì̵̛̥͔͋̑̃̑̋́͗̂̂ͅm̶͎̪̣͇͔̈̒̍͋̂̚͝͠͝e̸̝̪̽̾̐̏͋̌̔̑̆̀!̸̨̢̨̜͈̥̖̗̲̖̳̮̇̀̅̓̎͛͘͝

I think it's cool that they are the reverse of their stereotype ...still a space journey

Good morning ǝʌɐꓷ & sɹǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ

¡ ǝuᴉʇsᴉɹɥꓛ ' noʎ oʇ sᵷuᴉʇǝǝɹ⅁

Hey, Stevie p

Mornin Christine, Space Cowboy, Brian D, and Stevie

top o the marnin to ya TA

Hendrix!

yessir

reimagined

@ǝʌɐꓷ I don't have to leave for that pesky brekkie mtg until 830. And I'll be able to continue listening in the car

ʎoqʍoϽ ǝɔɐdS & 'Ԁ ǝıʌǝʇS 'ʎpu∀⊥ 'uɐıɹq 'ǝɹnɔsqO ǝɥʇ ǝʌɐᗡ ƃuıuɹoɯ pooƃ

.... the machine that they built... From a great lp of Jimi's and my fave climactic moment of that lp

Alright, Stevie p. Have a good day!

Did your show always start at 6 AM?

No. We start at 7:00

Yesterday was a glitch in the system.

Whew.

this new schedule, man. it's messin with my head

Don't worry, you'll get used to it just when we change to the summer schedule.

Saw this song deconstructed very well by a crazy local duo "Instant Death" . Dave D from Ween on bass and the late Scott Byrne on drums. B4 everyone had 2 person bass n drum duos. Classic moment

DJ Pup just played a new release by Jon Hassell (which I must immediately obtain).

So happy DJ Pup is back on the radio circulation this season.

Yeah, he is one of my favorite DJs, always enjoy Pup's shows

Morning DTO......glad you are still here with this new schedule. Always a treat

Thanks, Lance G. Glad to hear you are able to listen and enjoy this show

Bow and koto

good morning, Rofflestomp. Did you get your question from yesterday answered?

Good morning Roffle and Lance G

Hi!

I left it on the back burner.

Good morning. Really enjoying Jambinai!

Good morning, Lee C. Welcome. Glad you are enjoying.

I was wondering what was played at approx 6:20 yesteeeerday morning, or if it was just last weeks show.

It was both. At 6:20 yesterday (7:20 last week) it would have been Léa Sen "I Feel Like I'm Blue"

But the song was awesome, with a female singer.

Yes to both

You can confirm on YouTube

Thank you! I will deep dive that group for sure.

A few minutes later was another awesome song with a female singer: Sidi "Lemon Haze"

For Lea Sen: https://leasen.bandcamp.com

Both worth a 30x monocular.

I really love it when a song knocks me out of bed. And not for the first time during your show. lol

What a title that OOIOO song has!

Good morning, Rob. "Ah Yeah" It's fun title for sure.

Just tuning in, this song title is as wild as the music!

OOIOO is a wild group, uh huh. Good morning, Andy Wing

Morning all!

Good morning Andy W, Rob from MA, and Lee C!

Oooh it's DTO and OOIOO!

Another coolone

There's just something about Japanese culture, their take on avant garde films and progressive music.

First hour hit my slightly ailing flesh like dayquil, thx DtO-OIOO

I try to slip in cool music sometimes 😉

Deirdre! orz

Yoshimi from BOREDOMS 💥💥💥

Boredoms, Acid Mothers Temple, Boris, etc.

Hi all, this is walking sideways in Tokyo music for certain.

Digging' that oh oh aye oh oh.

Hey, jimboo

Great stuff DJ Dave the obscure

I was at those Chicago grateful Dead shows

Good morning, Mok like an Egyptian. Another great name

Mornin Mokgyptian

Speed Racer owned a Mok 5.

Circles around the Sun have a great set on tiny desk YouTube thing

Plug in those lava lamps!

Dusting off the blacklight...

I think they bill themselves as instrumental disco space rock

Not hearing much disco in this

Cut out the cut time.Works for me.

Yeeeeaaaaah

¡N uɐᴉɹꓭ 'sᵷui̩ʇǝǝɹ⅁

Fire up the fiber lamp.

Roll out the blacklight posters

Columbian

nam senut rellik

Thanks, Brian N. Have you caught this show before?

Morning all! Off for a morning walk in the cold wind

Back-words are the new for-words

Bundle up, Rob from MD!

I can't believe this is still the same piece of music

103.3 is the only station I listen to

Sounds like a plan. Nice sky this morning.

I'm moving to ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ Mobile Unit. Great show, ǝʌɐꓷ! I'll have my ears on in the car.

So long, Stevie p. Have a good day

@Brian N., as do I

Consider it done! Tomorrow morning I'm going to be co-leading a birding trip in an open area. 13 degrees at sunrise! Fortunately it doesn't start until 9 am.

Thanks! Later for you, cupcakes!

Awesome groove. Loving this shit

Sensible Rob, That crack of dawn silliness is over-rated.

More grooves on the way

Same here Brian N, this is literally the only radio station that I ever listened to anymore. In fact it's probably the only way that I listen to music in general anymore

Rob from NJ here since Rob from MD heading out

Thanks for tapping in, Rob F

Two Hillage tunes in 24 hours!

Yeah, DJ Esoterica played from Side A yesterday.

Im with you TAndy. Cheers!

After becoming habituated to the music on WPRB, reg'lar commercial radio is just infuriating.

And deeply disappointing.

I can't do commercial radio. Drove the invention of 8 tracks I presume.

Sup Rob from NJ

Good morning

spaced out today

Metal coming up after 9:30

What kind of metal? Some sludge perhaps? 👁️👁️

Black metal and math metal and jazz metal

Aha!

A staff and a writing wand.

Very heavy indeed. I was just on Flex's chat last night saying that Djent is probably the closest to metal you'd go on the show. But as you say, you have many gears. Something alone those lines 😇

He is not wrong. I dabble in metal. Metal adjacent I guess

I used to be able to listen to Flex, but now I sleep through it on the Spring schedule 😞

Hello, DJ DaveTheObscure! 💟

💜 ¡ ʇuǝʇuoɔɭɐꓪ ɹꓪ noʎ oʇ sᵷuᴉʇǝǝɹ⅁

Good morning sir

Hey, TAndy

Greetings and Salutations to Erybody!

Took me a while to find this on vinyl. It was out of print for a while.

@-ᎷяM, is it even dawn there yet?

Excited to see dj deirdre dionysiac! HI!

One more hour, Rofflestomp!

@ AndyWing, yeah, sadly some great stuff is rare and super expensive

Good morning, MrM 💀 How are things on the West Siiiiiiiiiiiiidddeee?

Franco Falsini's "Naso Fredo" was another one.

Pretty much all of Sensations Fix as well

Or sometimes they get a quick and quiet rerelease, and I miss it, and it's immediately 'out of stock'.

Vinyl Magic did some CD reissues a while back.

Good morning, Christine! Nearly perf, of course! A few days we’ll hit 72° again. Will I turn on the air conditioner?? Oh bother. How are things in your neighborhood, Boo??

Are they available at Wayside?

I haven't been to Waysides site in a while. I used to religiously scour their print catalog back page section. That's where I found a number of out of print rarities.

Their online site is easily searchable

Final boss theme

They still have their 'super blowout' sale, heavy discounts

I think Shylock in 1978 predated video game bosses.

Hahaha

This is ridiculously good

and its over

AUGH

Delayed Reaction… EURYTHMICS ❤️ … DAVE•STEWART ❤️

No, MrM, not that one

Things are good here, MrM 💀. But I bet you would find the air too chilly for your skeleton at the moment.

🤣😇🤗

Oh shit I missed Deirdre and Jimboo, yo!

Who??

Christine! Don’t get frostbite! 🥶

We have these things over here called gloves and coats, MrM. We'll be OK! 🧤

What?! Fashion/Tan CoverOvers?!? 😱

Greetings and good morning

Tan?...what is that?

Good morning, Silver! Welcome!

I seriously don’t know L0LZ

Who called?

Thanks i like the music you guys use!

Heya Silver

That is our sole mission.

Bleach boned.

Heya

Cheers, Silver!

Cheers!

@Silver, how long have you been listening to WPRB?

About since the start of december.

You found the right station.

Fresh EARS!

Good morning, Silver 🐇

God morning

Rob from Maryland, blown back inside after my walk

@Silver, are you in the FM broadcast range, or do you listen online?

Do they have gloves and coats where you come from Silver?

Hahaha

Hey MrM, Chile is west siiidddeee, too

WestSiiidddeee REPRESENT!

Great album art, too!

Outta WestSiiidddeee

As Brian D points out, Poil looks like they are a "couple beers at the studio cafeteria" kinda band.

Hi Rob; did you see any birds?

POIL 💙💙💙

Loving this piano work.

Birds Aren’t REAL

Classical training, Andy W

They ARE

Chinese spy balloons are real, lol.

No, i saw it on 60 Mins

😤😤😡😡🤬😡😠🤬😮‍💨😥😭

Also not real… TAndy.

This is Poil's debut, and got increasingly unhinged over the past several years - in a good way

Fun timez. I’m thoroughly enjoying all these nice selections! Thank you, DJ DaveTheObscure!

Hi Christine, I saw a cold robin and some juncos on my walk just now. They were totally real, MrM

Thanks for checking in, MrM.

A robin? Does that mean spring is coming?

Thanks for the music Dave

Roffle, the crack of dawn is a good strategy *yawn* for May and summertime *zzzz* birding because birds are up and singing before sunrise even if *reaches for third coffee* we humans aren't.

Slate-colored juncos, @Rob? They are such cute snow birds.

Thanks for hanging out with us in the chat, Brain N.

Spring equinox in 45 days, 7 hours. Not that anyone's counting.

It's all good

Dave, spring is coming, but robins are found year round in my area and yours too. In February they are usually not in people's yards though. These might be early migrants heading back to Quebec or Ontario

If I'm not real then I must be AI

Legendary tune right here

Very Stable Diffusion?

Christine, yes, Slate-colored Juncos (which are now considered as part of the Dark-eyed Junco species). There's a flock that ranges over a wide area in my neighborhood, and I don't see them on every walk.

And they are cute!

My daffodils and tiger lilys have been up for 2 weeks now.

@Rob, the birds singing at the crack of dawn is often a lullaby for me. :)

Metal coming up soon. More than just djent

But yeah lots of djent

what a beautiful song

Good morning Matthew R. A sad theme, but beautiful

good morning Dave. yes indeed 😔😔

Ooh this is REALLY good

These last 2 go nicely together

Holy shit.

@Roffle, 🛌 🛌

djent

🐒🔧

@Rob F, the band Besides has elements of metal

prog jazz fusion metal

WHAT. I didn't even notice that transition. And that stanky proggy bass and reverb oh my lord this is too much

love these djent, prog metal, prog jazz

🙏

Seriously this track is super top shelf material. It has everything that I love

Exivious is the shit

Right now I'm that gif of the emoji making a sad face with it's hands up and turning to dust

Even Flex would approve of this one

Oh hell YEAH

The calm after the storm

or just the eye of a hurricane ?

It is windy

Dystopian

Another track I'm loving, keep it coming

That keyboard 😳

Dystopian is the subtext of The New Abnormal

DJ DaveTheObscure! TopNotch Selections! Appreciate you! Many thanks! Big cheers! Kind regards to you, Sir! 💟💀

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

Thanks MrM, for joining us today 💜

Archaic Romanian indeed. Thanks ǝʌɐꓷ!

The New Abnormal is a constant in a volatile, uncertain world. Thank you, ǝɹnɔsqO ǝɥʇ ǝʌɐᗡ! 😶‍🌫️

Plini on tour. Playing in San Diego end of April. I was thinking of going to visit my daughter and see. Still tbd

Thank you for the show Dave! A most EXCELLENT one today.

⌛ That’s it for "ፖዚɚ ቢⱸሡ ꬂꙎꝴፁꝵጢⲀረ” for today. Thanks for listening, and participating in the chat. Stay tuned to ‘PRB for Isadora, and her new show! She hasn't been on since May!

Another great show! And apparently you’ll never run out of Zappa covers.

Thanks Dave!

Always more Zappa covers! Than ks for dropping by, Bud. I hope I played some unfamiliar things for you

"oh good"

,pooᵷ ɥO,

I remembered it's Bandcamp Friday today. There goes $133.

I need to check out more “Besides”

Great for the hour I could tune in. Happy weekend!

Thanks, Brian D

🌔🌔🌔

🐄

Thanks everyone, I'll be on Sangeet tomorrow

💟💀