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Mar 1, 2024 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 |
| Esperanza Spalding formwela 2 Triangle Suite 2021 Esperanza Spalding (bassist and vocalist born in Portland in 1984) is joined here by Ganavya Doraiswamy |
7:09 AM |
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7:10 AM |
| muva of Earth Meditation: align with Nature's Intelligence (feat. Sirius B) N align with Nature's Intelligence Brownswood Recordings 2023 muva of Earth is based in London UK, and plays a spiritual jazz in the tradition of Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra. https://muvaofearth.bandcamp.com/ |
7:15 AM |
| Morpheus Spanish Water For a Second Bacillus 2012 The German jazz rock band Morpheus has origins going back to 1971 with jazz fusion band Opossum. Some members wanted to take the music in a free jazz direction, and others wanted to go more towards rock. So Opossum split up, and the jazz rockers formed Morpheus. Their debut LP was in 1976, and this second release was first issued in 2002. |
7:28 AM |
| Gandalf Foreign Landscape Journey to an Imaginary Land WEA 1980 Gandalf is Heinz Strobl, a multi-instrumentalist born in Austria in 1952. "Journey to an Imaginary Land" is his debut from 1980. His first four releases have a bit of a prog rock edge, but later releases are in a more New Age direction. |
7:39 AM |
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7:42 AM |
| Jon Hassell Dreaming Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. One) Ndeya 2018 Jon Hassell (1937-2021) is the creator of a style of music he described as Fourth World, a unique hybrid of music both ancient and digital, composed and improvised, Eastern and Western. https://jonhassell.bandcamp.com/ |
7:48 AM |
| Kissem Every Time N Homesick 2024 Kissem is Rosie Simpkins. |
7:52 AM |
| Laurent De Schepper Trio Mytikas Into Olymp Karlrecords 2017 Jazz and electronic quartet from Leipzig Germany. https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/into-olymp |
8:00 AM |
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8:02 AM |
| Planeta Imaginario The Sea...And Later the Sun.. And the Reflection (El Mar. i llavors sortí el sol... i el reflexe) Optical Delusions Cuneiform Records 2011 Originally formed in 1999, Planeta Imaginario is a Spanish band from the region of Catalonia: their style is oriented toward the jazz trend of prog rock, with Canterbury as well as psychedelic touches and chamber adornments. https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/optical-delusions-2 |
8:15 AM |
| Magic Bus Tucan Pyramid Magic Bus Back to the Garden 2019 Magic Bus were formed in 2010 in Totnes, Devon, UK. They are a band that freely admits that they think they are still producing music of the psychedelic era of the 1960s and early 1970s. Their sounds blends British Canterbury with west coast psychedelia. https://magicbus2.bandcamp.com/ |
8:20 AM |
| Cuprum Urnový Háj Brahma Višnu Šiva Cuprum 2014 Cuprum is from the Czech Republic, so they play "Prague Rock". This is their second, and latest, release. |
8:26 AM |
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8:29 AM |
| Pal Thowsen P.T. No Time For Time Zarepta 1977 Pål Thowsen is a Norwegian jazz drummer, born 15 July 1955 in Lillestrøm. He is joined on this release by core ECM musicians from Norway, including another drummer. |
8:37 AM |
| Karaba Der Inder Pheremon Crumble Wax Kryptox 2020 Instrumental jam psychedelic band from Munich established in 2014, featuring influences from Embryo, Missus Beastly, Pink Floyd, Amon Düül 2 and others. https://karaba-band.bandcamp.com/ |
8:42 AM |
| Ozric Tentacles Eternal Wheel Erpland Snapper Classics 2003 Mostly instrumental progressive/space/psychedelic rock band founded in 1983 in Somerset England. They fuse jazz rock, hard rock and acid rock with influences from world music. |
8:51 AM |
| Darren Kearns Is That You Hal? Optimal Being Atmosphere 1983 Darren Kearns is a Philadelphia area musician. |
9:01 AM |
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9:04 AM |
| Poil Trouille cosmique Dins o cuol Dur et Doux 2011 Poil is a French trio (bass/drums/keyboards), that know no limitations and prohibitions. Impressive and delirious, the trio combines raw madness and virtuosity. The record's title (I think) is something like "in the ass", symbolized on its cover. https://poil.bandcamp.com/ |
9:14 AM |
| Kolkhöze Printanium Ssen Soupape Kolkhöznitsa D'autres Cordes Records 2008 Kolkhöze Printanium is a French experimental rock quintet, launched in mid 2000s with prismatic soundscapes mixed with jazz, classic, contemporary, pop, progressive rock, or alternative rock. And despite all of that, they managed to release this CD. |
9:20 AM |
| a.P.A.t.T. The Great Attractor We POSTMUSIC, 9x9, Dur et Doux 2023 From Liverpool / northwest UK, a.P.A.t.T. (the meaning and pronunciation of which remains speculative, but might just be 'Ape Hat') have been baffling audiences since 2002. They are inspired by various experimental, avant-garde and progressive rock musics. |
9:28 AM |
| Athanor Les Normes Vos Cités Sont Des Tombeaux Le Chêne Creux 2013 Athenor is a French Zeuhl / RIO / avant-prog band. Just one release that I am aware of. https://athanor.bandcamp.com/album/vos-cit-s-sont-des-tombeaux |
9:34 AM |
| Mike Keneally & Marcelo Radulovich Stick It on Pong / Abrasions / Sleep Dragon N Bask Titicacaman Records 2023 Marcelo Radulovich is an audio/visual artist from Chile residing in the U.S.
Mike Keneally is a guitarist and former Zappa band stunt guitarist. |
9:40 AM |
| Art Zoyd Tat d'urgence Les espaces inquiets - Phase IV In-possible records 1987 Art Zoyd, founded in Valenciennes, France in 1969, centered around composer and classically-trained violinist Gérard Hourbette and bassist Thierry Zaboitzeff. With each successive album, the rock aspect of their material slowly gave way to a blend of zeuhl and classical music, developing ever tenser and darker climates. |
9:54 AM |
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9:58 AM |
| The Thurston Lava Tube The Idiot Bastard Son The Poodle Collector Cordelia Records 2013 Group from Leicester, England whose genre is self-described as "psychedelic, experimental surf". https://thurstonlavatube.bandcamp.com/album/the-po... |