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The New Abnormal
Jun 16, 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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7:02 AM |
| Terje Rypdal Dine And Dance To The Music Of The Waves Unfinished Highballs ECM 2012 Released as part of a 3-CD box set along 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. |
7:12 AM |
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7:16 AM |
| Paguyuban Karawitan Suko Raras Randhu Kenter Pangkur Segara Kidul Dasa Studio Javanese Gamelan |
7:24 AM |
![]() | Steve Tibbetts Hellbound Train The Fall of Us All ECM Records 1994 One of the more active of Tibbetts' releases. |
7:30 AM |
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7:37 AM |
![]() | Cymande Dove Cymande Partisan Records / Liberator Music 1972 Formed 1971 in London, England featuring musicians from Guyana, Jamaica and Saint Vincent. The name Cymande is based on a calypso word for dove. They play a style of music that they call Nyah-Rock: a mixture of funk, soul, reggae and African rhythms. Bandcamp |
7:47 AM |
![]() | Santana Mother Africa Welcome Columbia/Legacy 1973 Rock group from San Francisco, led by guitarist Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán. |
7:53 AM |
![]() | Maisha Osiris There Is a Place Brownswood Recordings 2018 Maisha is a London based ensemble led by drummer Jake Long playing original music inspired by the sounds of artists such as Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, fused with West African and Afro Beat Rhythms. Bandcamp |
8:01 AM |
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8:03 AM |
![]() | Léa Sen Hellcat N You of Now, Pt. 2 - EP Partisan Records 2023
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8:05 AM |
| Bill Nelson The Chinese Nightingale The Summer of God's Piano Cocteau Records 1984 Bill Nelson is best known as the founder of Be Bop Deluxe (1972-1978), although he is also a prolific and accomplished solo artist in his own right. Bandcamp |
8:06 AM |
![]() | Blithe Field Magic Spell N Grits Kissed 774355 Records DK2 2023
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8:10 AM |
![]() | Jaga Jazzist Reminders The Stix Ninja Tune 2003
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8:17 AM |
![]() | Papir Tuesday #1 Stundum El Paraiso 2011
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8:32 AM |
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8:35 AM |
![]() | Jean-Louis Bucchi Aqua funk Sunflower JLB 1978 Jean-Louis Buccchi is a keyboardist associated with prog jazz-rock and Zeuhl, associated with early Magma members Yochk'o Seffer and Jannik Top in his fusion group "Speed Limit". He spent 12 years at the Conservatory of Versailles. |
8:40 AM |
| Serge Bringolf Plus II Vision Omega Studio 1981 Serge Bringolf is a French drummer and composer. Bringolf's music is often characterized as jazz-rock, similar to early Zao, but is also comfortably placed within the Zeuhl genre. |
8:48 AM |
![]() | Gösta Berlings Saga 354 Glue Works (10th Anniversary Edition) Icosahedron Music 2021 Gösta Berlings Saga, from near Stockhom Sweden, has become known for their dark and unique instrumental progressive rock. Bandcamp |
8:55 AM |
![]() | the cellar and point White Cylinder (B) Ambit Cuneiform Records 2014 The Cellar and Point is an American "garage-chamber'" septet from New York City. The group's music draws from jazz, contemporary classical music, post-rock, electronica, and ambient music. |
8:59 AM |
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9:04 AM |
| Hatfield And The North Daves Intro/Take Your Pick Hatwise Choice Hatfield and the North 2005 A Canterbury scene supergroup. This CD is a self release of archival recordings. The 2 songs aired today are from a London concert recorded in March 1975. |
9:15 AM |
![]() | Soft Machine Fourteen Hour Dream Hidden Details Dyad Records 2018 Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966, named after the novel The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. This CD recorded in 2017, with 3/4 of the main lineup: John Etheridge (guitars), Roy Babbington (bass), John Marshall (drums), and the young Theo Travis (saxophone).
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9:22 AM |
![]() | Panzerpappa Kantonesisk Kanotur Koralrevens Klagesang Schmell 2006 Panzerpappa (a name with no special meaning) was formed in Oslo Norway in 1997. They play an avant-prog in the light-hearted style of Samla Mammas Manna. |
9:31 AM |
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9:36 AM |
![]() | Richard Pinhas Greenland Iceland Bureau B 2022 Richard Pinhas (the French Fripp) was born in 1951, and founded Heldon in 1974. Iceland was originally issued in 1979. |
9:44 AM |
| Yeti Interstellar Bi-Plane Progday 2001 V/A Proglodite 2002 Avant-rock band from the USA, performing a blend of Zeuhl, with contemporary classical references and angular rock dissonance in the vein of King Crimson and Univers Zero. After their leader keyboardist Doug Ferguson died in 2003, their style became more stoner/metal. |
9:56 AM |
![]() | The Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra Lemme Take You to Der Strand Bläther Cordelia Records 2020
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10:00 AM |
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