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The New Abnormal

Mar 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		Tony Grey No More Struggle Unknown Angels Obliqsound 2010 Bass player and composer, born 25 March 1975 in Newcastle, England.
7:06 AM		Björk Undo Vespertine Alda Music 2001 Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born 21 November 1965 in Reykjavik.
7:12 AM		Set Break: over “Sub-electronic” by Roberto Cacciapaglia
7:14 AM		Ozric Tentacles Dance Of The Loomi Arborescence Snapper Classics 1994 English progressive/space/psychedelic rock band founded in 1983 in Somerset. They fuse jazz rock, hard rock and acid rock with influences from world music. Arborescence is their ~12th release.
7:19 AM		Karsh Kale Empty Hands (Bill Laswell Mix) Redesign: Realize Remixed Six Degrees Travel Series 2002 Born in England in 1974 and raised in the USA, Karsh Kale is a pioneer of the Asian Underground, fusing elements of Indian music with electronic and dance. He rose to prominence with Tabla Beat Science, and has collaborated with Midival Punditz and Anoushka Shankar, Norah Jones, Sting, Yoko Ono, and Herbie Hancock.
7:26 AM		MYSTXRIVL Dreamin Dreamin - Single MYSTXRIVL 2022 Can't say much about "MYSTXRIVL". Another mysterious artist who's all over social media (which I am not), but has no clear identity. Bandcamp
7:30 AM		Set Break: over “Al’Azan” by Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais
7:33 AM		Dhafer Youssef Street of Minarets (feat. Ambrose Akinmusire, Nguyên Lê, Dave Holland, Adriano Tenorio DD & Vinnie Colaiuta) N Street of Minarets Back Beat Edition 2023 New release by Dhafer Youssef, ud player and stellar vocalist from Tunisia.
7:41 AM		John Abercrombie Quartet Arcade Arcade ECM Records 1979 L-R: George Mraz, John Abercrombie, Richard Beirach, Peter Donald Triple rainbow! All the way! Oh my god! What does it mean?!
7:51 AM		Chad Wackerman Quiet Life Forty Reasons CMP Records 1991 Jazz, jazz fusion and rock drummer (born 25 March 1960 in Long Beach, California). Best known for his work as a drummer and percussionist in Frank Zappa's band from 1981 to 1988.
7:57 AM		Brain Blade Fellowship If You See Lurah Brain Blade Fellowship Blue Note 1998 Jazz group led by Brian Blade, drummer, composer, singer/songwriter and session musician, born 25 July 1970 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
8:01 AM		Set Break: over “Melancholia” by Bill Nelson
8:04 AM		Emergency Group Inspection of Cruelty Part 1 N Inspection of Cruelty s/r 2023 Brooklyn based freejazzrockfusionjamband. Bandcamp
8:28 AM		Langendorf United Bismillah N Yeahno Yowouw Land Sing a Song Fighter 2023 Led by saxophonist Lina Langendorf out of Sweden, Ethio-jazz with heavy doses of Afrobeat. Bandcamp
8:36 AM	$Eténèsh\Le Tigre (des platanes) - Nèy-nèy wèlèba$	Eténèsh\Le Tigre (des platanes) Nèy-nèy wèlèba Zeraf! Buda Musique 2007 Led by Ethiopian singer Etenesh Wassie, the group features a quartet of French musicians.
8:41 AM		Set Break: over “December” by Ketil Bjørnstad, from The Sea II
8:44 AM		Oiapok Summer 19 N OisoLün Orignal Music Records 2023 Unconventional new French group that draws its inspiration from progressive rock, 70’s funk, film soundtracks and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Bandcamp prog harp!
8:51 AM		cos Reine de la vallée Viva boma Musea 1976 Cos is a prog rock group from Belgium, often classified with the Canterbury scene.
8:55 AM		Terje Rypdal Bright Lights - Big City Unfinished Highballs ECM 2012 Released with a reissue of the complete "Odyssey" album, "Unfinished Highballs" is a recently unearthed 1976 radio recording that documents the Norwegian guitarist’s work for his Odyssey quartet and the Swedish Radio Jazz Group. A total surprise even to me, a Terje Rypdal completist.
9:00 AM		Set Break: over “Cloud Swell” by Jeff Greinke
9:05 AM		Greco Bastián Zidane Racist N With A Little Hell From My Friends Independent 2022 "Greco Bastián" is a mexican Avant/Prog composer born in Acapulco city, where he began to play Progressive Rock with his band Cobalto Circus. More of a composer than musician, he recruited many of his idols from the Avant-Prog and Zeuhl fields to play some of his compositions. "Zidane Racist" features guitarist Pierre Vervloesem (X-Legged Sally), bassist Matt Lebofsky (Secret Chiefs 3), and bassist Emmett Elvin (Guapo), among others. Bandcamp
9:12 AM		Zach Phillips Heaven a Smile (feat. Jennifer Herrema, Ma Clément & Raphaël Desmarets) Feed A Pigeon, Breed A Rat La Loi 2021 Zach Phillips is a songwriter and bandleader from New York City. Not a baseball player. Bandcamp
9:14 AM		Phlox Monokkel Talu MKDK 2009 Phlox is a avant jazz rock group from Estonia, around since 1999. Bandcamp
9:22 AM		Zao Zohar Shekina Musea 1975 "Zao" is a French fusion super-group, formed in 1971 by two early members of Magma: François "Faton" Cahen and Jeff "Yochk'o" Seffer, and featuring many others from the 1970's prog and fusion fields. Zao took the Magma "Zeuhl" brand of fusion into a jazz direction.
9:32 AM		Set Break: over “Acudreaming” by Sensations Fix
9:35 AM		Zopp Toxicity N Dominion Flat Circle Records 2023 "Zopp" is mainly multi-instrumentalist Ryan Stevenson from Nottingham England. Bandcamp "Dominion" is the sophomore release (from last month), and remains firmly in the "Canterbury" style. slightly edited for airplay
9:49 AM		Wobbler Five Rooms Dwellers of the Deep Karisma Records 2020 Wobbler is a Norwegian symphonic progressive rock band founded in 1999. Bandcamp
9:58 AM		Set Break: over “Mysterium” by Bill Nelson
9:59 AM		Jon Poole Oh No What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? s/r 1994 oh please.... 🤮

Chat is archived.

It’s “Ŧዣℇ ᮜꏹ𐤔 ᚣⰟ𐰥ᏅԄጨⰎࠋ” on uoʇǝɔui̩ɹꓒ ꓭꓤꓒꓟ

Good morning, sir. Sangeet before your show, how nice.

Howdeeeeeee

YEOOOOOO

I couldn't have asked for a better transition

Hello, DJ DaveTheObscure! 💜

Good morning, Jimboo

hoo

Oh look who's here 💟 good morning, MrM!

¿oɥM

We are like a bunch of black Friday shoppers waiting for ProgMart to open

Good morning, Christine.

Good morning everyone, early today.

Hi and haha, jimboo!

plenty prog on store this morning.

new stuff and obscure stuff

Hope there's a Zeuhl Light Special in aisle 3 today

same, jummoo

Ty;o, keping it.

Hey, TAndy

some Zeuhl adjacent after 9:00

ahoy hoy mrm

The TYPOS 🤣

and new Canterbury after 9:30

Surely you spoil us, Mr. Obscure!

Hi, Christine! How u doin, Boo 👻⁉️

it is my sole mission, and the measure of my worth

I am Jummoo, the new movie by Harmony Korine

BJÖRK ❤️‍🔥 nice start to the show!

🫖 ☕️ 🎶 Björk 🇮🇸 💙 ❤️

Morning DTO 😶‍🌫️, TAndy 🤖, Jimboo 🍅, and MrM 💀 👻 boo

beep boop.

Vespertine is 22 years old; shoo.

HELL YEAH, love Oz.

Good morning everybody

Good morning, Stevie p

mornin

Too late this week for paying tribute to the late great Wayne Shorter 🎷. I hope Jerry Gordon had time to put a tribute together for this afternoon.

This wouldn't be out of place in a Progressive Trance DJ set at all. Loving this.

I'll be sure to do something next week - probably not an entire 3 hour show, though.

@TAndy, yes the Ozric Tentacles have elements of Trance for sure.

and it's over

Cool transition. :)

That was some sad news yesterday. I see Jerry Gordon will be focusing on Wayne Shorter today.

🙏 Thanks, Rofflestomp. Good morning.

Hardly even noticed the transition, good stuff.

Good morning good peoples ☕🍩

That's good, Christine. I'm afraid I could not do justice to the great man.

Hi ǝʌɐꓷ! Good mornings all around.

Good morning, DSM

I agree, Dave. At least speaking in the older "pure" Trance that existed a long time ago. Good morning Roffle and DSM

@DSM, do you play bass by any chance?

@Christine No doubt that Dan B will also have a tribute of some form for him.

I bet you're right, TAndy

Speaking of basses, I am not a bass player per say, but I had to send an acoustic back to Fender in January because of a lamination issue. Arg!

@ Rofflestomp, it's very nerve-racking when delicate items are shipped.

@DTO, sometimes! Bass was the first instrument I got into, but I'm def not on the current "bass scene" or anything

Agreed.

REALLY nice surprise hearing you play MYSTXRIVL, felt like I was listening to an old Plastician podcast.

The first bass I played was a tuba. :)

The way I see them chuck packages around makes me sick

I see UPS on the shipping order and I break a sweat..

You should see how Amazon treats its parcels too

Or the merch before it's even ordered

Have to let an isturment warm up for a couple of days in the box before opening because it was previously frozen.

TAndy, was that Amazon employee… YOU?!

*Instrument*

:^)

Nice New Noises

Cool how Dhafer is playing his voice like an instrument rather than singing

Brand new Dhafer Youssef! And his voice is spectacular. Maybe a 5 octave range?

dat slap bass

5 octave wowza, that must feel so incredible to be able to produce all that just from within your body

Tremendous.

Hits those high notes

As-Salaam-Alaikum

Fantastic. I love the picture with the PA cones too. Smart.

Sup Mok

🌈🌈🌈

Wa alaykumu s-salam, Mok.

Friday 🍺

🍻 Sláinte!

tis March. My Irish neighbor is already gearing up to party

Begorra!

Saints preserve us

BAM HELLO

Hey Chef!

Chok dee Mok! 🍻

And Chef!

Colcannon!

'ey Chef!

Muddy-ass Irish mussels

BAM

Summer music, can't wait for the heat

That guitar was worth it's weight in Holdsworths.

Oh shit it is Holdsworth!

tis Holdsworth on guitar. And Jimmy Johnson on bass

Sweet!

I often like Holdsworth's work with others better than his solo work

dat transition _O_

I am the same on that. I thought I.O.U. was not what it could have been sort of.

This song sounds like a very serious episode of Cheers

where nobody knows your name?

Exactly

and they're never glad you came?

A bizarro World Cheers if you will

Good morning Obscures

Good morning!

Good morning, Rob F

Great first hour. Like the jazz mini set

Oh sweet a long one

~24 minute jam

That's like two Bath Boys in a row

not on my watch

LOL Christine !

I’m so filthy tho yo

We know you're a big fan, DTO 🛁

Now enjoying the extended jazz set

This is great. Does sound like that some Miles stuff

if Miles was passed out somewhere

I still think it's funny that Mike played Bath Boy twice during one show last year.

Truly, a pinnacle of WPRB excellence.

oh good

Mike is a Legend.

I understand that Miles often passed out on a couch. :)

Which show date was the BathBoy✖️2️⃣❓🧐

you were busy that day

busy telling Mike to play Bath Boy again

LOL

You ALREADY know!

I forget my own birthday

Happy Bday Roffle, it could be today!

This reminds me of a spacey dark star

I chortled out loud at DSM

LOL . True!DSM

heheheh

True, Mok

And a smidge of Keef Hartley

The background beat sounds a bit like Prisencolinensinainciusol

by Adriano Celentano

There are two versions of the Prisencolinensinainciusol video, and both are fantastic

Good morning everyone

Good mornin, Rob from MD

DSM, I love them both.

Prisencolinensinainciusol, alright

Alright!

Good morning, Dave The Obscure (host)

I think I prefer the B&W version, produced for a TV show, I think

Good morning Rob!

howdy Rob and Stevie P

hate jazz; too many notes

Stevie, that's the version I prefer. Unfortunately my family had returned to the states from Italy before it was aired so I didn't see it until about a decade ago

Good morning TAndy and DSM

Morning, Rob 🦉 Did you spot any burrowing owls?

@Rob... 1970s?

Agree, the B&W is my fave as well

Stevie P, heck yeah! I am 65, and lived in Italy for a couple of years in the early 80s

I spent about a year in Naples and Gaeta in the 70s, in two six-month chunks, when I was in the navy

How was the pizza?

76 and 78. I love Italy and would go back in a second.

Christine, no, the Bürrøwing Owls had flown the coop

Now that you mention it, I don't think I ever had pizza there. Canneloni was my go-to local dish in Naples

Stevie P, my father was stationed in Naples for two years ending in mid-1974 when I was in high school

*and he was in the Navy

Small world!

This is fun! Going to have to check them out.

Have to detune early unfortunately. Thanks for wonderful morning music tho Dave. Have a great weekend everyone!

Thanks for hanging out with us, DSM

Good morning, Lee C.

Go easy DSM

Mornin Lee!

Coincidentally, DSM, I'm looking a windows server log DeviceSetupManager, aka, DSM

Morning TAndy! Mornin' chat!

FYI, it appears I will be subbing this Tuesday evening, 8:00-11:00 p.m.

Lots of cool stuff in this track

and its over

That was a smooth transition

Hell yeah double dose of abnormality

THIS right here

Thoroughly enjoying all these swell selections! Cheers, DJ DaveTheObscure! 💟

💜 Glad you are able to be awake during these early hours

Screeeeaming online, always

I was waiting for that

yes yes always

Peas 🇳🇴 Norway

Easy peasy

MmmmmmmmmMMMMMMM!!! Delicious Zeuhl!!

Sort of. Zeuhl adjacent

Already loving this one.

Mm... Zuul Jazz

Jazzeuhl ⁉️

2 great sounds that sound good together

jazZeuhl❗️

trademark that

jazZeuhl™️ 🖤💀

Now put together that band

another one? so many bands

🥣 Zowie

He's got that fuzzed out Canterbury keyboard

feels like I havent caught a new abnormal in so long! Hurray. Greetings !

Good morning, Guelo. Welcome back

Yo G

Ooh, album cover 🌀

very vanGoghy

don’t trademark that 👻

This track is awesome. Love hearing this from 2023!

I'll be airing other tracks in the coming weeks

filling in for dj wired academic? 🧐

@DJ DaveTheObscure?

I will be, yes, this Tuesday 8-11 pm

very nice! hope to catch it!

Wait, shit. Just realized I won't be joining that fill in, concert I'm going to.

it's at a more convenient time for sure

Concert is better

I've saved up all the music TAndy doesn't like, and will air them on Tuesday

DJ DaveTheObscure, many thanks for another finely curated radio program! Appreciate all your excellent efforts! Big cheers and kind regards to you! 💟💀

Thanks for the kind words, MrM, and for joining us in the chat

Great show as usual. Heard the whole thing. Have a great weekend everyone!

@ ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ (host) Another great show. I offer thanks at the altar of your Canterbury Cathedral of prog-rock ...

Thank you Dave!!

Wobbler would have fit in nicely with the set of "Yes Clones".

Hey, Richard from Rocky Hill, thanks for dropping in.

I've consumed enough zeuhl gruel and Canterbury creme eggs for one week

@TAndy, I think you missed Nikhil's show on Monday. Loads of Zeuhl and Canterbury

TY, DTO ✨️

Thanks, Brian D. Have a good weekend

Thanks for the melody

Good show, ǝʌɐꓷ!

🙏🫥 thanks, folks

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

Unfortunately I did Dave. My sleep earlier this week was spoiled so I missed out on the early morning shows :(

crying and weeping and sobbing

Uh oh, spilling over past 10:00

r a r e

🖼🖍🧑‍🎤🎨🎭🏴‍☠️ oops threw the artist too!

It was that extra underwriter this morning

ouch

zoinks