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The New Abnormal

May 26, 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		Bhajan Bhoy Abshaku...The Ecstatic Truth (for Werner Herzog) N To Love is to Love (Vol. 2) Feeding Tube 2023 Bhajan Bhoy is Ajay Saggar, based in the Netherlands. Bandcamp
7:07 AM		Set Break: over “Ardent Hands (Part 3 of 4 - Pieces For Imaginary Strings)” by Bill Nelson
7:08 AM		Hector Zazou To A Reason Sahara Blue Made To Measure 1992 Hector Zazou was a prolific French composer, musician and producer. Born on 11 July 1948, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, as Pierre Job. Died on 8 September 2008 in Paris, France. Zazou worked, produced and collaborated with an international array of recording artists since 1976, making eclectic and accessible world music fusions. (On this record, David Sylvian was identified as "Mr. X")
7:15 AM		After Crying A Gadarai Megszállott Megalázottak És Megszomorítottak Quint 2013 "After Crying" were founded in Budapest in 1986. The are one of the bands from the rich Hungarian prog scene that create extremely complex and moody music. There is a huge variety of styles in their music among their extensive discography.
7:33 AM		Set Break: over “Ande” by Steve Tibbetts And Knut Hamre
7:34 AM		Firýuza Край Родной (Native Land) Фирюза Мелодия 1979 Firyuza (Фирюза) was a Turkmenian ethnic/prog/jazz/fusion instrumental band, founded in 1979 in USSR. They only made this one record.
7:44 AM		Energit Soumrak Mini Jazz Klub 06 - Single SUPRAPHON a.s. 1976 Energit was founded in the Czech Republic in 1972. Soon after its inception, the band was banned from playing live, due to allegedly provocative lyrics. They were under pressure from the government, resulting in the emigration of two of its members. New members took the band into a more jazz fusion direction.
7:50 AM		Robotobibok 54 kw Nawyki Przyrody Vytvornia OM 2004 Robotobibok (a blend of two Polish words for robot and skiver) was formed in 1998 in Wrocław, Poland. Their music combines modern electronic music with the energy of improvised jazz.
7:57 AM		absurdcus Teketoria Theory the Öutlet 1600294 Records DK 2019 "absurdcus" is a solo project by Transylvanian (Romania) bass player/multi-instrumentalist Laszlo Demeter. His first self released solo album, ''theÖutlet'' is a compilation of tunes ranging from 2003 to 2011. Bandcamp
8:00 AM		Set Break: over “A Sun Lingering Disease” by Trance To The Sun
8:03 AM		Nucleus Taranaki Elastic Rock UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1970 Pioneering jazz-rock, progressive, psychedelic band from Britain, led by Ian Carr. The band existed from 1969 to 1989. Karl Jenkins and John Marshall would join Soft Machine later.
8:05 AM		Nucleus Twisted Track Elastic Rock UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1970 this is their debut LP
8:10 AM		The Muffins Not Alone Open City Cuneiform 1994 Maryland prog rock/jazz band from the 1970's and early 80's noted for work with Fred Frith. originally issued in 1985
8:23 AM		Gilgamesh Lady and Friend Arriving Twice Cuneiform Records 2000 Gilgamesh is part of the Canterbury scene, but on the jazzier side.
8:27 AM		Zopp Amor Fati N Dominion Flat Circle Records 2022 "Zopp" is mainly multi-instrumentalist Ryan Stevenson from Nottingham England. Bandcamp "Dominion" is the sophomore release, and remains firmly in the "Canterbury" style.
8:29 AM		Michael Mantler The Insect God The Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories Watt 1976 Michael Mantler was born in Vienna, Austria in 1943. He studied trumpet and musicology at the Academy of Music, Vienna University and the Berklee School of Music. In 1964 he moved to New York, and began playing trumpet with Cecil Taylor. His music is often dark and moody, and lives in the grey area between jazz, classical, rock and avant-garde.
8:34 AM		Set Break: over “Test Loop I” by Robert Fripp & Brian Eno
8:38 AM		Lizards Exist 58 Lizards Exist s/r 2014 "Lizards Exist" is a Psychedelic/Space Rock band founded in 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia. Bandcamp So far, they have just this one release.
8:47 AM		Sloche C'pas Fin Du Monde J'un Oeil RCA Victor 1975 Sloche (=slush) was a progressive rock/fusion band from Québec 1971-1976, one of those incredible bands from Quebec progressive explosion of the mid-70's that sadly only managed two albums. This is their debut.
8:55 AM		Mediabanda El Largo Camino Hacia la Superación de la Estupidéz Entre la Inseguridad y el Ego CHT MUSIK 2003 MediaBanda was formed in the year 2000 in Santiago de Chile by saxophonist and composer Cristián Crisosto. The music is eclectic and energetic, nourished by several styles such as rock, jazz, funk, pop, latin american fusion and contemporary music, among others. Cristian Crisosto's main influences have been Frank Zappa and the European Rock In Opposition movement. He cites also Weather Report, Return to Forever, Magma, King Crimson, Hermeto Pascoal, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk as influences.
9:00 AM		Set Break: over “Fortune Teller Coda” by Sensations Fix
9:03 AM		Steve Hillage Searching for the Spark (Live) Live Herald (Remastered) Virgin Catalogue 2007 Steve Hillage was born in 1951 in London. He was the guitarist in Uriel (Arzachel), Khan, and Gong. Besides producing others, he is part of the ambient/techno duo System 7 with his longtime partner Miquette Giraudy.
9:14 AM		Pekka Pohjola Space Waltz Space Waltz (2010 Remaster) Pohjola Records 1985 Jussi Pekka Pohjola (1952-2008) was a bassist from Helsinki Finland.
9:22 AM		Set Break: over “Sub-electronic” by Roberto Cacciapaglia
9:24 AM		Super Rail Band de Bamako Kongo Sigui Kongo sigui Indigo 2003 Rail Band de Bamako or Super Rail Band is a Malian band founded in 1970.
9:30 AM		toe The Latest Number Our Latest Number - EP Topshelf Records 2018 toe is a Japanese post-rock/math rock band formed at the end of 2000. Bandcamp
9:35 AM		Sensations Fix Cold Nose Story Music Is Painting In the Air (1974-1977) RVNG INTL. 2012 Italian space rock group Sensations' Fix was founded in Florence in 1974, and disbanded in 1979. Although Italian, the band is not classified as Rock Progressivo Italiano, since they are closer to the Krautrock style, with almost entirely instrumental, groove-oriented atmospheric music, and minimal singing in English.
9:39 AM		Loga Ramin Torkian Through the Veil (Az Paradeh) Mehraab Terrestrial Lane Productions Inc 2012 Loga Ramin Torkian is an Iranian-born multi-instrumentalist, Middle Eastern lutist, composer, co-founder of the groups Axiom of Choice and Niyaz. The vocalist here is Khosro Ansari.
9:43 AM		Dhafer Youssef Ondes of Chakras (feat. Rakesh Chaurasia, Nguyên Lê, Marcus Miller, Adriano Tenorio DD & Vinnie Colaiuta) N Street of Minarets Back Beat Edition 2023 Dhafer Youssef (ظافر يوسف; born 19 November 1967) is a Tunisian composer, singer and oud player. He developed an interest in jazz at an early age and clandestinely listened to it during his education at a Qur'anic school. He later left Tunisia to start a jazz career and has lived in Europe since 1990, usually in Paris or Vienna. 🗣 🔊 But the memories of the daily calls to prayer broadcast from the minarets still resonate within him. 🕌
9:49 AM		Set Break: over “La Cagaste” by Cliff Martinez, from “Traffic”
9:52 AM		The Wrong Object Mr Green Genes - King Kong Zappa Jawaka Off 2018 The Wrong Object is a Nu-Jazz ensemble from Belgium with wide ranging influences (Canterbury, Aka Moon, Mingus, Béla Bartok, and Zappa). Bandcamp

Chat is archived.

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Good morning, Sir.

Good morning.

Good morning

Hello Stevie p

Good morning, Stevie.

morning. 'for werner herzog...' hope you have some popul vuh in the crates too!

Good morning all!

Good morning, Dale and Parr!

@ Dale - no Popol Vuh today. That would have been the smart choice though

Hello Parrscream

is ajay just a guitarist? sounds like klaus schulze with lot's of keyboard.

ǝlɐꓷ 'ᵷuᴉuɹoɯ poo⅁

I see that you have a VERY exciting show on Saturday that I'll be asleep for! Very interesting concept though, I'll hope my wifi doesn't crap out so I can record it. I WILL make sure to make time to listen to it

Bhajan Bhoy (Ajay) plays almost all the instruments - with guests on wind instruments and vocals.

@ TAndy, yes, Rock from the Eastern Bloc.

Too much to choose from, so I naturally leaned towards prog rock.

Probably could have done all metal, or punk. But you know me...

Some of the pieces that would fit on Saturday are being aired today.

For example, this one: After Crying, from Hungary.

I'm pretty Hungary myself, thanks.

Exclusive bonus material, nice

Good morning Rob F. Yes, I found so much great material, but had to exclude the long tracks for Saturday's show because they muscled out too many others. I want to give representation to as many countries as I can on Saturday.

I was impressed by this Firýuza. They issued this one great LP and vanished.

˙˙˙pooƃ ɥO

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¡ ǝuᴉʇsᴉɹɥꓛ `ᵷuᴉuɹoɯ pooᵷ ɥO

Morning DTO 😶‍🌫️ & all!

Good morning, Rob F and Christine.

konnichiwa

Good morinng Peppermok

🦁 ʞoꓪ ƃuıuɹoɯ ןןıɥϽ

Lovely day for an oil change 😎

Cool track🤘

New Fishbone EP out today. It's great 👍

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Good morning all

WPRB: 2️⃣ good 2️⃣ ignore

Tower of Power in town tonight

Wish I had the bandwidth to go.

Hello, DJ DaveTheObscure 💟

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Greetings and Salutations, Everyone!

💜 ¡ ʇuǝʇuoɔɭɐꓪ ɹꓪ noʎ oʇ sᵷuᴉʇǝǝɹ⅁

Good dark AM to you, MrM 💀 Boo 👻!

Hava Nagila

I wonder what happened to my two alarms?! I took “stuff” for a big headache and don’t know what happened an hour ago???

I'm havin' a cuppa tea instead

I'm down with some decaf jasmine ☕

🫖 I've got some iced breakfast tea here

MrM, that sounds like an alien abduction. Are you able to sit in a chair comfortably?

If I abducted someone, where did I put em and what does my comfortable chair have to do with it!?! 👽

AHAHAHAHA

Good morning, MrSir.

ChristineBoo 👻 Hi 👋❣️

SirTAndy, what’s good?!

This blue sky and sun 😎

amazing

This is probably the proggiest prog I've heard in some time

I honestly luv to eat muffin

So I've listening to WPRB much of the week. Has anyone yet heard this FM signal disruption that we've been warning about? I have not.

And the weather has been optimal for outdoor repair work.

💀 Not Applicable

@TAndy, proggy prog is some of the best prog.

I don’t think the work starts until June for some reason

Supply chain issues?

I haven't noticed any interruption aside from a few extremely short periods of static

I haven't heard any instances of the transmitter being doing, but I listen on FM only about 15% of the time, mostly in the car.

*down*

By static I mean sounds more like someone is moving my antenna then audio completely gone

>:)

Yoohoo

Woohoo!

Good morning, Guelo.

Mornin G

The Insect God was also a book by Edward Gorey.

Yes, he wrote the lyrics for the LP

Good morning! It’s my bday

Again?

I was hoping it wasn't a coincidence! 🖤 ❤️

Lizards exist...birds do not

Awww Hellz Yeeaahh

Birds Aren’t Real!

Guelo! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎂🎁🎉

EDWARD GOREY 💚🖤💚

Happy birthday Miles Davis

Happy birthday Levon Helm

Liking these Lizards

Re: the transmitter. If you need somebody to replace the light bulb on top, I'm your man. I've always wanted to do that.

on top of the antenna

Lizards Exist had a promising start, but have not released anything in almost 10 years.

Lazy Lizards

always just sunning themselves...

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Well, they *are* lazy, by their own admission. 🦎 💤

it was probably cold and all the music they worked on was too slow to release

Happy Birthday, Guelo! 🎂 🎉 🥂

Oh shit yeah HBD GUELO

ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ﾉ"

Guelo, give up the deets on the berfday dessert!?!

Yeah what's the 411

Happy birthday

🎂⁉️ 🥧⁉️ 🍩⁉️ 3️⃣⁉️

I’ll take door #3

Take the cannoli.....

I hope for multiple options. That’s my kind of party. 🍪🍩🎂🧁🥮🍮🥧🍨🍦

Was going to say this Sloche is good. Moved on to Mediabanda

Yeah, they kinda blended together

Great segue

JAM 🗣️📣🦈

TopNotch HOUR! 💜

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Oh, Prog CANADA, eh?! 🎸🇨🇦❣️

I can already tell this is gonna be a massive jam

Soory

Nothing to be soory abooot!

Hosers

TimHortons

TAndy called it. massive jam

Loving this perpetual-motion rhythm

Nice Noises

T'anks, MrM.

TomHanks to you, DJ DaveTheObscure

You know, T.Hanks very much, Sir

Pretty INTRO 💞

Prettiness is what we're all about here on The New Abnormal 😉

Bamako Super Rail Band 💚 💛 ❤️

TopShelf, indeed

VIVA L’ ITALIA 🇮🇹

This is lovely

Loveliness is what we're all about here on The New Abnormal 😉

I snickered very quietly

But srsly Sensations Fix made some great music

Snickering is what we're all about here on The New Abnormal 😉

Ahaha

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About to hit the road. Thanks for the great music!

Thanks for hanging out with us this morning, Rob F. Drive safe.

Cheers, Rob F!

Final Fifteen Mins?!

Went so fast today 🤡😭🥸

Because you blacked out for the first hour?

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Cheers and have a great weekend alll

This is excellent. Have a good day, Rob.

Take care of that skull, MrM 💀💥

Thanks, ChristineBoo I think I’ll go back to sleep

I guess you really DON'T want to party then.

Another top-notch show in the books, DTO. Thank you! Thank you for clueing me into the existence of the Hapless Child album; I will be checking that out.

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I pop out at parties and am unpoopular.

Great show, as per usual, ǝʌɐꓷ!

DJ DaveTheObscure! Another impressive two hours! I am sorry to have missed out on the first hour. Where’d the rewind button ⏪?!? Hope to catch ya tomorrow! Many thanks and big cheers and kind regards to you, Sir! 💟💀

⌛ That’s it for "ፖዚɚ ቢⱸሡ ꬂꙎꝴፁꝵጢⲀረ” for today. Thanks for listening, and participating in the chat. Stay tuned to ‘PRB for Isadora (I think).

I bet it will be a substitute DJ

It's that kind of week, yeah

Maybe Abe got a head start?

Run ABE!

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Tha l you, Dave! A great show S always, didn't realize the time

I'm keeping those typos.

See youse tomorrow, 4-6 pm EDT

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

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