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The New Abnormal
Apr 28, 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.
📀 The New Cosmic Abnormal Mosh 💰

7:01 AM |
![]() | Santana Spring Manifestations (Sound Effects) Borboletta Columbia 1974 The LP was released with a metallic foil cover. |
7:01 AM |
![]() | Santana Canto de los Flores Borboletta Columbia 1974 |
7:05 AM |
Set Break:
over “Opium” by Bill Nelson
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7:07 AM |
![]() | Surya Botofasina Everyone's Children (feat. Mia Doi Todd) Everyone's Children Spiritmuse Records 2022
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7:11 AM |
![]() | Oiapok OisoLün 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 |
7:14 AM |
![]() | Léa Sen Golden Years Modern Love V/A BBE Music 2021 23 year old producer & artist from Paris, France, living in London. Bandcamp "Modern Love" is a compilation of some interesting covers of David Bowie songs. |
7:16 AM |
![]() | barnacle boi Let Go. Let Go. - Single barnacle boi 2018 Enigmatic barnacle boi Bandcamp |
7:19 AM |
![]() | L'Rain I V Fatigue Mexican Summer 2021 L'Rain, is a Brooklyn-raised vocalist, songwriter, experimentalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and expert tape manipulator. Bandcamp |
7:22 AM |
Set Break:
over “Kelele” by Marc Anderson
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7:28 AM |
![]() | Soft Machine Dada Was Here The Soft Machine, Vol. 2 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2009 With Robert Wyatt still singing (here in Spanish) and standing! |
7:32 AM |
![]() | Henry Cow Extract from "With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star" Leg End RER Megacorp 1973 The Henry Cow emoji: 🧦 One of the founding bands of "Rock In Opposition", with ties to the Canterbury scene. |
7:35 AM |
![]() | Homunculus Res La spia Andiamo in giro di notte e ci consumiamo nel fuoco AMS 2020 Progressive rock band from Palermo, Italy. Their style is closer to Canterbury than Rock Progressivo Italiano. Bandcamp |
7:40 AM |
| Moving Gelatine Plates Cauchemar The World Of Genius Hans Replica Records 1972 French progressive rock and fusion band from the early 1970's. They were strongly influenced by Canterbury bands like Soft Machine and Caravan, and are often compared to the Dutch band Supersister. |
7:44 AM |
Set Break:
over “Roman Twilight” by Brian Eno
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7:47 AM |
![]() | The Grapes On the Farm High or Low Earwise Records 2021 The Grapes were a jam band and southern rock band from Atlanta, who performed from 1986 to 1997. In the early years, they were a Grateful Dead cover band (named "The Grapeful Head" until the lawyers found out). Later they composed their own songs, and they used to trade opening slots with Widespread Panic at each band's local home venue. Unfortunately, and not for lack of talent, the Grapes didn't catch on like Widespread Panic. |
7:53 AM |
![]() | The Derek Trucks Band Already Free (Live) Roadsongs (Live) Masterworks 2010 Born in 1979 in Jacksonville Florida, Derek Trucks is a guitar prodigy. He is the nephew of the late Butch Trucks, drummer for the Allman Brothers. |
7:58 AM |
![]() | Widespread Panic E On A G Live In The Classic City II, MM MapleMusic Recordings 2010 Widespread Panic is from Athens, Georgia, blending Southern rock, blues-rock, progressive rock, funk and hard rock genres. |
8:04 AM |
Set Break:
over “Bioscape II” by Heavenly Music Corporation
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8:10 AM |
![]() | Terje Rypdal Over Birkerot Odyssey ECM Records 1975 Norwegian jazz guitarist, longtime fixture at ECM records. |
8:14 AM |
![]() | Gary Burton Unfinished Sympathy Ring (with Eberhard Weber) ECM Records 1974 Having been self-taught on the vibraphone, Burton developed a style of four-mallet chording as an alternative to the usual two-mallets. |
8:18 AM |
![]() | Sonar Tunnel Drive (feat. David Torn) Tranceportation, Vol. 1 (feat. David Torn) RareNoiseRecords 2019 Sonar, from Switzerland, blend instrumental systemic jazz with math-rock. Joined here by David Torn. Bandcamp |
8:25 AM |
| King Crimson Discipline Discipline E.G./Warner Bros. 1981 This incarnation of the group (1981-1984) featured (left to right) Adrian Belew (guitar, vocals), Robert Fripp (lead guitar), Bill Bruford (percussion), and Tony Levin (chapman stick, bass). |
8:30 AM |
Set Break:
over “Data Haiku” by Datacide
Be true to your ℨ𝔢𝔲𝔥𝔩 🌋 | |
8:36 AM |
| Minimum Vital Üdü Wüdü Hur! (Hommage À La Musique De Christian Vander) V/A Soleil Zeuhl 2009 French progressive rock band established in the early 1980s by the Payssan brothers. They perform here a cover of the Magma song |
8:41 AM |
| Scherzoo Three Dimensional Disorder 04 Soleil Mutant 2018 Scherzoo was founded in Lyon, France in 2005. They are a fusion band fronted by multi-instrumentalist Francois Thollot, and influenced by RIO, Zeuhl and Canterbury styles. |
8:46 AM |
![]() | One Shot Nosh Partitas Dark Shot Le Triton 2008 One Shot was founded by Magma members James MacGaw (guitarist in Magma 1998-2021) & Emmanuel Borghi (keyboardist in Magma 1990-2009). James MacGaw died on 8 March 2021, age 52. Bandcamp |
8:52 AM |
| Eskaton Attente Ardeur Musique Post Atomique 1980 Eskaton is a French progressive rock/Zeuhl band. Founded in 1970, disbanded in 1985. Eskaton took Magma "Kohntarkosz" influences, mixed in prog, lots of electronics and increasingly elements of cold wave. This unique concoction, fronted by two female vocalists, made for a distinctive Zeuhl sound. |
8:58 AM |
Set Break:
over “Panggrahita” by Paguyuban Karawitan Suko Raras
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9:07 AM |
![]() | Allan Holdsworth Three Sheets to the Wind Road Games - EP Rhino/Warner Records 1983 Allan Holdsworth (1946-2017) was an influential fusion guitarist. His incredibly fast legato style inspired many imitators. |
9:11 AM |
![]() | Brand X Voidarama Do They Hurt? Charisma Catalogue 1989 Jazz Fusion band active from 1975 to 1980, 1992 to 1999 & since 2015. Notable members include Genesis drummer & vocalist Phil Collins, guitarist John Goodsall, bassist Percy Jones, and the late Robin Lumley on keyboards. |
9:16 AM |
![]() | Hiromi Softly As In A Morning Sunrise Hiromi's Sonicbloom: Beyond Standard Telarc 2021 Hiromi Uehara (上原ひろみ) is a Japanese jazz composer and pianist, blending musical genres such as jazz, progressive rock, classical and fusion. After being a jingle writer for a few years for Japanese companies such as Nissan, she enrolled to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she was mentored by Ahmad Jamal. |
9:23 AM |
![]() | Resavoir Escalator (feat. Sen Morimoto) Resavoir International Anthem Recording Co. 2019 Jazz group from Chicago led by Will Miller. (song edited for airplay) |
9:27 AM |
Set Break:
over “Weird Caravan” by Klaus Schulze
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9:32 AM |
![]() | Steve Tibbetts Ur Yr ECM Records 1988 This is from Steve Tibbetts' second LP: "Yr". It is his most accessible, melodic, accomplished and complex with a lot of studio work, including multiple layers of electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, dobro, and percussion. |
9:37 AM |
| Steve Tibbetts Here Come The Sphexes Yr ECM Records 1988 |
9:41 AM |
![]() | Steve Tibbetts Ten Years Yr ECM Records 1988 |
9:48 AM |
Set Break:
over “Eclipse of Faith” by Djam Karet
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9:51 AM |
![]() | PFM Premiata Forneria Marconi Il Banchetto Per un amico - EP RCA Records Label 1972 PFM was one of the most successful bands from the Rock Progressivo Italiano scene in the early 1970s. Still active, but their musical direction has changed quite a bit since their heyday. |


















































































