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The New Abnormal

Mar 7, 2023 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

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.

Subbing for Wired Academic 𓀆

8:00 PM		Canvas Solaris Extrasolar Biosignature Chromosphere 2975495 Records DK 2021 Progressive tech metal from Statesboro GA. Bandcamp
8:10 PM		Set Break: over “Expérience 7” by Miriodor
8:13 PM		Sithu Aye Solstice I self released 2013 Sithu Maung Maung Aye was born on 26 June 1990 in Glasgow, UK, and plays a progressive metal similar to Plini and Animals As Leaders. All of his material is self released. Bandcamp This EP was shared with Plini.
8:18 PM		Chimp Spanner The Mirror 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
8:26 PM		Jonas Hellborg & Art Metal Round Metal Hat VYAKHYAN-KAR Bardo 2007 Jonas Hellborg (bass), Matthias IA Eklundh (guitar), Selvaganesh (percussion). Is it jazz? Is it metal? Does it matter?
8:31 PM		Set Break: over “The Snake And The Lotus (The Pond)” 🐍&🪷 by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
8:34 PM		Birds and Buildings Secret Crevice Multipurpose Trap Emkog 2013 Founded by Dan Britton (of Cerebus Effect & Deluge Grander) in Maryland USA in 2008. They blend various prog styles. This is their second (and probably final) release. Bandcamp 🦉🦆𓄿🐓𓅓🦅𓅛🕊️𓅠🦜 & 🏬🏭🏫🏪🏩🏨🏦🏥🏤🏣🏢
8:39 PM		Sleepytime Gorilla Museum The Donkey-Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion Of Natural History Web of Mimicry 2004 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum was an American experimental rock band, formed in 1999 in Oakland, California. The band fused classical, industrial, and art-rock themes throughout their music. They were known to perform elaborate routines on stage, and manufactured many of their own instruments. 🦍
8:46 PM		Anekdoten This Far from the Sky Nucleus Virta 1995 Progressive heavy rock band founded in Borlänge, Sweden in 1991. Their music is associated with the tradition of 1970s progressive rock music, especially King Crimson.
8:55 PM		NeBeLNeST Stimpy Bar Nova Express Cuneiform Records 2002 NeBeLNeST formed in 1997, and is a high-energy mix of multiple styles of progressive rock, blending a prog-metal influenced drums and bass with psychedelic guitar and symphonic keyboards. Bandcamp
9:00 PM		Set Break: over “Gongs” by Roberto Cacciapaglia
9:03 PM		Änglagård Snardom Viljans Öga Anglagard Records 2012 Änglagård is a symphonic prog band founded in 1991 in Stockholm, disbanded in 1994, and then active again since 2008. Bandcamp
9:19 PM		Jean-Claude Buire, Philippe Bussonnet, Laurent Imperato Riff Fantom BBI Soleil Zeuhl 2008 Recorded in 1996 but unreleased until 2008, this intense guitar-based trio consists of Magma member and One Shot alumnus Philippe Bussonnet (bass), drummer Jean-Claude Buire, and XAAL founder Laurent Imperato on guitars. Zeuhl adjacent heavy prog.
9:29 PM		Set Break: over “After The Air Raid” by Zevious
9:32 PM		McGill Manring Stevens Footprints What We Do Free Electric Sound 2006 Guitarist Scott McGill, joined forces with bassist Michael Manring and drummer-percussionist Vic Stevens. performing jazz standards, wildly reinterpreted. Footprints is a Wayne Shorter composition
9:37 PM		Weather Report Port of Entry (Live) Live and Unreleased Columbia/Legacy 2002 Weather Report was a jazz fusion band founded by Wayne Shorter with Joe Zawinul.
9:43 PM		Weather Report Non-Stop Home Sweetnighter Columbia/Legacy 1973
9:47 PM		Set Break: over “Kick My Ass In The Morning” by Cliff Martinez, from the Narc soundtrack
9:50 PM		Terje Rypdal To Be Continued To Be Continued ECM Records 1981 Trio of Terje Rypdal (guitars), Miroslav Vitous (bass) and Jack DeJohnette (drums).
9:59 PM		Sonar Red Shift (feat. David Torn) Vortex (feat. David Torn) RareNoiseRecords 2018 Instrumental systemic jazz meets math-rock type band from Switzerland. Bandcamp This release features David Torn on guitars.
10:09 PM		Michael Brook DarkerRoom RockPaperScissors Canadian Rational 2006 This release features orchestral and choral ensembles from Sofia Bulgaria. The narration here is by Richard Burton, from Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood". "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
10:15 PM		Sean Malone Big Sky Wanting Cortlandt Free Electric Sound 2007 Sean Malone from Delran NJ (12 April 1970 - 9 December 2020) played fretless bass guitar and Chapman Stick with Gordian Knot and Cynic.
10:21 PM		Sloth & Turtle Hex Sloth & Turtle - EP Sloth & Turtle 2018 🦥 & 🐢 Bandcamp Sloth & Turtle are a math rock group from Santa Rosa California.
10:24 PM		COVET glimmer effloresce Triple Crown Records 2018 Another math rock group, but from San Fransisco, led by classically trained Yvette Young. A former art teacher, she created the cover art for their CDs. Bandcamp They will be performing in Philadelphia on Friday April 28th at Brooklyn Bowl on Canal St.
10:27 PM		Set Break: over “Sur le theme de Bene Gesserit VII” by Richard Pinhas
10:32 PM		Photay with Carlos Niño Quartet Improvisation 053021 N More Offerings International Anthem 2023
10:40 PM		Meshuggah In Death - Is Death (edited) Catch Thirty Three Atomic Fire 2005 Swedish progressive metal band formed in 1987. The group's name comes from Hebrew and Yiddish and means 'crazy'.
10:45 PM		Trey Gunn One Thousand Years: Second Traverse Raw Power First World Records 1999 In addition to his 14 solo recordings, ten-string touch-guitarist Trey Gunn has toured and/or recorded with King Crimson, David Sylvian, Vernon Reid, Brian Eno, Azam Ali, Puscifer, John Paul Jones, Robert Fripp & David Hykes. Bandcamp
10:55 PM		Kiji Suedo Hosek VI N Hosek Hobbes 2023 Osaka based producer.
10:56 PM		Set Break: over “Strangelands (From Sherriff Era)” by Sensations Fix How would you rate your experience with this radio show?
10:57 PM		Brain Blade Fellowship Trembling Perceptual Blue Note 1999 Jazz group led by Brian Blade, drummer, composer, singer/songwriter and session musician, born 25 July 1970 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Mama's baby is trembling...

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HELLO

Hi, DJ DaveTheObscure 💜

Hello, -𐁕Ʀ ᮋ₳𖼘𐐣𐤈ꛘ₮ⵟᜬ𐠙-☠️, thanks for joining us 💟

Last time I had a proper evening time slot was subbing for Lizbot - in the beforetime.

Interesting! This is a nice time for me! 5pmEST would be Perf.

I was thinking of Wednesdays...😉 I'm sure that wouldn't upset anyone

This weekend is Daylight Saving Time

Keep thinking about it. Ain’t nobody givin up Wednesday.

I’m busy this weekend

Not even for DTO? 🥺

Not for nothin

we have tonight 💟💜

I feel a Broadway tune coming on...

Which one? I was thinking BOB SEGER ❤️

Nighttime New Abnormal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello DTO, MrM

who needs tomorrow

Good evening DSM.

Hi, DSM

@MrM; There's a place for us, somewhere a place for us...

Wholey Jebus! L0LZ!

There's your show tune

Yes. BABS, right?

WSS

Oh. She wasn’t in that haha

MrM! West Siiiiiidddddeeeeee! 🤟

HeyOoo 🤘

One of us! One of us!

Freaks!

Proud to be one

I ams what I ams and that's all that I ams.

Good evening all

I ike this NeBeLNeST

Good evening, Rob F. Glad you are able to tune in

Missed the prog-metal beginning. Forgot you were on

Oh well. I'm not called Dave The Obscure for no reason

"Who?"

I honestly luv screaming online

Then you'll need to use all CAPS

Dave

not here

lol everytime

What the heck? Who let DTO out after dark???

It was all wired academic's idea!

shoutout to dj wired academic! 🎉

¡ xnɐǝqɯi̩ꓩ xnɐǝ⅄

All the Friday morning feels 🌄

jimboo, It is honestly sort of messing with me to hear The New Abnormal on a Tuesday night. I keep feeling like it's Friday Morning

Please tell me you're hosting Sangeet this week for a TRIFECTA!

Sorry, next Sangeet will be on the 25th of this month.

@DSM, this is the time slot I feel would suit my music better.

Oh well...I like that Sangeet has multiple hosts! Should be more themed shows that deejays rotate thru for unique perspectives.

this PRETTY

There's a little bit of that on the spring schedule, where DJ's share a time slot and switch off week to week.

I would have initially agreed with you Dave, but after all these Friday mornings with TNA, I have been conditioned to take my zeuhl with my bfast gruel

Änglagård can be pretty, for sure

Friday show starts out easy to wake up and then gets us going for Friday

Tonight's show goes in reverse. Starting heavy, and ending with ambient adjacent material. Even ambient Meshuggah!

Nice

Prog-a-bye babeee in the zeuhltops😴

Down will come baby 😾

This bbi

A lost recording unearthed by Soleil Zeuhl

What a find

This is cool

There's the melody

Yeah, they didn't lose the melody entirely. I'll air their version of Nefertiti on Friday

Joe Zawinul lookin' like a hardened 80's NYC police detective in that photo

😹 so true

WAYNE SHORTER ♥️ 🎷 🎶🎵❣️

Look forward to more

@MrM, didn't you know you loved Wayne Shorter?

I didn’t know until I knew. It’s new to me, ya know??

I remember the first time I heard… just kidding

Actually I played weather report for my daughter when she was like 16 or so and she loved it

I played Magma for my kids. They did not like it

They're going to smother me in my sleep for all the 'music' I inflicted on them. "This is for the Zeuhl, old man!"

Hey hey. Just got out of a concert, gonna enjoy this third hour of Abnormality during the drive home.

She likes Frank Zappa too

Hey, TAndy! How was the show?

My boy likes Zappa.

Hey TAndy

The girl likes Morglbl.

Really good. Soft Blue Shimmer opened and Softcult headlined. Gonna hit the road now, see yall later

BCNU

DJ DaveTheObscure, did MrM inspire a station I.D. tonight?!? Asking for a friend.

I forget.

Either today or Friday.

I guess it’ll be a surprise for us all 💟

It is a very appropriate Station ID 💜

Keeping ears open for MrM station ID tonight or Friday. My money is on I honestly love to eat cake quote

Whatchu talkin bout DSM? You’ve never heard it?!

oh, it's not a premier?

But I guess I haven't!

I remember now, it's going to air on Friday, after 9:30, so MrM has a chance to be awake.

I never want that ID to be wasted

WONDROUS! I’ll be there! Cheers, DJ DaveTheObscure!

🙏 Happy to provide excellent customer service for our valued clients. 😬

Nice vibes going

Thanks, Rob

Covet is one of the more gentle and expressive of the math rock groups

WestSiiidddeee All NOOIIGGHHHTTT!

Lovely

quite relaxing

some field recordings mixed in by Carlos Niño

This blissful side of Meshuggah 😌

Pure MOODS 💕💞💕

That Sean Malone piece from earlier was completely excellent

Sad that Sean Malone died so young

Final Nine Mins?!? I’m sniffle 😢

Push that emotion down 😡

I’m stifle 😶

better

I could get used to this on Tuesday night, but still like Friday am

Thanks Dave!!

Thanks DTO!

DJ DaveTheObscure, great Bonus Show! Many thanks and big cheers and kind regards and happy day and best wishes and enjoy life! 💟💀

My pleasure and honor folks. Thanks for keeping me company this evening.

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

Thank you DTO! See ya Friday morning

🙏🫥