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The New Abnormal
Mar 29, 2024 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Music
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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 |
| Ganavya forgive me my N forgive me my - Single Native Rebel 2023 Ganavya Doraiswamy is a vocalist, multi instrumentalist and composer, born in New York but raised in Tamil Nadu, India. She has degrees in theater, psychology, and ethnomusicology. https://www.ganavya.com/home "Ganavya creates a lush twine out of American and South Asian traditions" - New York Times. Ganavya is holding a "Yazh", an arched harp instrument used in Tamil music. The instrument has gut strings that run from a curved ebony neck to a boat or trough-shaped resonator. The opening is covered with skin for a soundboard. |
7:06 AM |
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7:09 AM |
| Lars Danielsson Makro Mélange Bleu (with Bugge Wesseltoft + Nils Petter Molvaer) ACT Music 2006 Lars Danielsson is a Swedish jazz bassist born in 1958. |
7:15 AM |
| Dhafer Youssef Eleventh Stone Divine Shadows Jazzland 2006 Composer, singer and oud player, born 1967 in Teboulba, Tunisia. His grandfather was a muezzin. He developed an interest in jazz at an early age and clandestinely listened to it during his education at a Qur'anic school. But he calls the radio "the most important school" for him. |
7:21 AM |
| Dhafer Youssef Ivresse Divine Divine Shadows Jazzland 2006 He left Tunisia to start a jazz career and has lived in Europe since 1990, usually in Paris or Vienna. |
7:26 AM |
| Steve Tibbetts Chandoha A Man About a Horse ECM Records 2002 Steve Tibbetts (born 1954) is from Madison, Wisconsin. His music has been described as rock, jazz, ambient, experimental, and world music. Tibbetts refers to it as "postmodern neo-primitivism". He stated, "I go back and forth between the sampler and tape machine so much—looping, cutting, offsetting, and layering—that eventually I don't know where the sounds come from." |
7:31 AM |
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songs relating to Greek mythology
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7:36 AM |
| David Bedford The Sirens The Odyssey Virgin 1976 David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both pop and classical music. His brother Steuart Bedford is a conductor. This track features Mike Oldfield on guitar.. The Sirens are human-like beings with alluring voices, first appearing in Homer's Odyssey. |
7:46 AM |
| David Sylvian Orpheus Secrets of the Beehive (Reissue) [Remastered] EMI Marketing 2003 Born 23 February 1958 in Lewisham England. This is his 4th release after Japan disbanded. Orpheus was a legendary poet and musician, with the ability to charm all living things with his music. He allegedly also descended into the underworld to recover his dead wife Eurydice. |
7:50 AM |
| Genesis The Fountain of Salmacis (2007 Stereo Mix) Nursery Cryme (2007 Stereo Mix) Rhino Atlantic 1971 This is the 3rd LP from Genesis. Salmacis was a nymph in Greek mythology. She was rejected by Hermaphroditus (son of Hermes and Aphrodite), so appealed to the gods to let them be together. The gods answered by fusing them into a deity with both make and female parts. |
7:58 AM |
| Cream Tales of Brave Ulysses Disraeli Gears Polydor Records 1967 Cream was a British rock band (1966-1968) with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce. Disraeli Gears is their 2nd LP. Odysseus (and the Latin variant Ulysses) is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca, and the hero in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey". |
8:00 AM |
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Music inspired by Frank Herbert's 1965 sci-fi novel DUNE
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8:04 AM |
| Toto Prologue Dune Universal Records 1984 The Prologue from the soudtrack to David Lynch's "Dune". |
8:06 AM |
| Hans Zimmer Lisan al Gaib N Dune: Part Two (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) WaterTower Music 2024 From Dune - Part 2, directed by Denis Villeneuve. |
8:12 AM |
| David J. Nichols Shai-Hulud (Sandworms of Arrakis) Arrakis Awakening: Music Inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune Rural Wolf Records 2019 David J. Nichols is an indie rock artist and a composer for film, television, and video games from Tacoma, Washington. https://davidjnichols.bandcamp.com/album/arrakis-awakening-music-inspired-by-frank-herberts-dune
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8:15 AM |
| Ultraphauna Little Maker N No No No No Ultraphauna 2023 Ultraphauna is an multinational group of art-rock veterans. https://ultraphauna.bandcamp.com/album/no-no-no-no |
8:22 AM |
| Zaalen Tallis Dune Dune - Single Zvt Music 2021 Zaalen Tallis is from Perth, Australia. He composes music for films, documentaries, animation, video games, web series, web sites, books, graphic novels & comics. https://zaalentallis.bandcamp.com/ |
8:25 AM |
| Grimes Shadout Mapes Geidi Primes Arbutus Records 2010 Grimes is the multimedia project of Canadian artist Claire Boucher |
8:30 AM |
| Toto The Box Dune Universal Records 1984 Q: What's in the box? A: Pain |
8:32 AM |
| Kurt Stenzel Time and Space Jodorowski's Dune In 1974, Alexandro Jodorowsky made an attempt to film "Dune". The film brought on an eccentric cast, and was envisioned to last 10-14 hours. They originally wanted a soundtrack by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henry Cow and Magma, but settled on Pink Floyd. The effort failed, but there is a 2013 documentary "Jodorowsky's Dune" about the whole expensive mess. |
8:35 AM |
| Richard Pinhas Sur le theme de Bene Gesserit VII Chronolyse Bureau B 2018 Guitarist for the French group Heldon released this solo effort in 1978, all with Dune titles. |
8:39 AM |
| Turbo Knight House Harkonnen (feat. Sunesis) Navigators 706386 Records DK 2019 Turbo Knight is Antti Huurinainen from Finland. |
8:43 AM |
| Stéphane Picq, Philippe Ulrich Arrakeen Palace Dune PC OST 1992 Music composed for a "Dune" PC-DOS video game (based on David Lynch's 1984 film). |
8:49 AM |
| Bernard Szajner Shaï Hulud Z (aka Bernard Szajner) Presents Visions of Dune InFiné 1979 French electronic and visual artist, born in France in 1944. He first made his name as a lighting and visual effects designer for artists like Magma, Gong, Stomu Yamash'ta and The Who. Originally released as a pseudonym "Zed" Visions of Dune in 1979. |
8:53 AM |
| Klaus Schulze Dune Dune - Single Brain 1979 An excerpt from Klaus Schulz's 11th release. His "Dune" composition is 30 minutes long, and fills side A. |
8:57 AM |
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9:04 AM |
| Le Grand Sbam Dins o sbam Vaisseau monde Dur et Doux 2019 Le Grand Sbam is an avant-prog group from France, and includes 3 members of the group PoiL. This is their debut. https://legrandsbam.bandcamp.com/album/vaisseau-monde-2 |
9:11 AM |
| Evohê K'a 77-81 Musea 2020 Founded in 1974, Evohé was a Zeuhl band whose music is characterized by a sense of contrasts, a rejection of ease, the use of complex bars and, above all, an intense energy. They recorded a single demo in 1981 (No. 1) that wasn't officially released until 2018. Musea released this 2-disc compilation in 2020. |
9:29 AM |
| Simon Steensland Der Klang Von ''Musik'' Fat Again Altrock 2009 Simon Steensland is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist (drums, percussion, keyboards, wind instruments, etc.) and composer in the avant-prog field. |
9:45 AM |
| Aksak Maboul C’est Charl (feat. Veronique Vincent) Figures Crammed Discs 2020 Aksak Maboul (Belgium) The band formed in 1977 by Crammed Discs founder Marc Hollander and his musical partner Vincent Kenis. The aesthetics of Aksak Maboul include deconstructing and fusing many different genres, from rock, jazz, and electronics to fake African, Balkan & minimal music. They were around 1977-1980, then reformed as “The Honeymoon Killers” in 2014. Aksak Maboul suddenly became active again after 2020. |
9:51 AM |
| miRthkon Zhagunk Vehicle Altrock 2009 miRthkon is an avant-rock group based in Oakland, California. Besides their own releases, they also have songs featured in the video games Guitar Hero Van Halen ("QXP-13 Space Modulator") and Tap Tap Revenge ("Banana").
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9:56 AM |
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9:58 AM |
| The Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra Montana Z.E.R.O. - Tolerance Cordelia Records 2016 The Zãþþã Éårlý Rênáissánçê Ørçhêstrå is based in the Seattle area and
was formed in 2012 as a result of a joke and a challenge between two old
Squirrels. |