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The New Abnormal
Jan 23, 2026 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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| 9:52 AM |
| Pneu Intelligence Supérieure N Get Old Or Die Tryin Head records 2025 Pneu is a math rock group from Tours, France, inspired by the post-hardcore scene which gives them a heavy sound.
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| 9:47 AM |
| Yowie Toni Cryptooology SKiN GRAFT 2004
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| 9:43 AM |
| We Used to Cut the Grass Shep's Encounter We Used to Cut the Grass #2 WKRM The Kream 2025 Experimental band from New Jersey, with major inspiration from Zappa. https://weusedtocutthegrass.bandcamp.com/ 
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| 9:38 AM |
| 1980 Amicalement Votre 1980 Trendkill Recordings 2007 "1980" is a math rock / jazz rock band from France. So far, they only have this one release from 2007.
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| 9:36 AM |
| Tigrova Mast Derviš pogo Tigrova Mast s/r 2005 Tigrova Mast is from Zagreb, Croatia. https://tigrovamast.bandcamp.com/album/tigrova-mast
This is their debut
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| 9:29 AM |
| Exivious Entrust Liminal Season of Mist 2013 Prog Metal band, founded in Tilburg, Netherlands in 1997 - Disbanded in 2017. More of a jazz fusion band with metal element mixed in.
https://exivious.bandcamp.com/album/liminal
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| 9:20 AM |
| NeBeLNeST Blackmail Nova Express Cuneiform Records 2002 NeBeLNeST formed in 1997, and is a high-energy mix of multiple styles of progressive rock, blending a prog-metal influenced drums and bass with psychedelic guitar and symphonic keyboards.
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nova-express
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| 9:13 AM |
| Troot Axe for the Frozen Sea Within Constance and the Waiting Troot 2018 The core of "TROOT" is pianist Tim Root, from Seattle. Along with other musicians, TROOT presents avant-prog music. https://troot.bandcamp.com/album/constance-and-the-waiting
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| 9:08 AM |
| Cheer-Accident Star Vehicle (4 Flats) Here Comes the Sunset SKiN GRAFT Records 2022 Originally formed in 1981 by Chicago-based pianist and drummer Thymme Jones, Cheer-Accident has maintained an impressively eclectic approach to music-making throughout their lengthy career, releasing a slew of albums that range in style from noise rock to avant-prog to pop.
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| 9:03 AM |
| Yugen Overmurmur Mirrors Altrock Productions 2012 Italian band, solidly in the Rock In Opposition tradition, with Paolo Botta.
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| 9:00 AM |
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| 8:52 AM |
| Kudsi Erguner Twins Islam Blues ACT Music 2001 Kudsi Erguner comes from a family of Turkish musicians. He now lives and works in Paris as musician (Ney-flute), composer, musicologist, and teacher. On this release, he has assembled various traditional Turkish and multi-national jazz musicians.
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| 8:33 AM |
| Piirpauke Haridz Segjah Live in Europe 1982 Kerberos 1983 Founded in Finland in 1974 and still active, Piirpauke was an early pioneer in the world music scene, fusing Finnish folk with Latin, Caribbean, Arabic and Asian elements.
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| 8:29 AM |
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| 8:25 AM |
| Happy the Man Steaming Pipes Crafty Hands Invasion Merch 1976 Happy The Man was a symphonic prog band that came out of rural Virginia and moved to Washington D.C. where they signed to Arista and released two classic albums, eventually breaking up at the very end of the 70's.
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| 8:19 AM |
| Van Der Graaf Generator House With No Door (Remastered 2021) H To He, Who Am The Only One (Deluxe) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1970 Formed in the UK, active 1967-1978, with vocals by Peter Hammill. 
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| 8:06 AM |
| Polyphony Juggernaut Without Introduction Start Entertainments Limited 1971 Polyphony was a prog-psych band from Virginia, Managed to record this one LP and then disappeared.
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| 8:03 AM |
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| 7:55 AM |
| Ralph Towner Beneath an Evening Sky Old Friends, New Friends - EP ECM Records 1979 Ralph Towner (guitars) is joined by Kenny Wheeler (trumpet & flugelhorn), David Darling (cello), Eddie Gomez (bass) and Michael Di Pasqua (drums).
This song has David Darling - one of the "old friends", having played with Ralph Towner in the Winter Consort for many years. |
| 7:50 AM |
| John Abercrombie & Ralph Towner Parasol Sargasso Sea ECM Records 1976 John Abercrombie is a jazz guitarist born in 1944 in Port Chester, NY - died in 2017 in Cortland, NY. Both have a large catalog on ECM.
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| 7:44 AM |
| Gary Burton & Ralph Towner Icarus Matchbook ECM Records 1975 Ralph Towner (guitars), Gary Burton (vibraharp)
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| 7:38 AM |
| Ralph Towner, Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber & Jon Christensen Drifting Petals Solstice ECM Records 1975 Ralph Towner (guitar, piano), Jan "120%" Garbarek (sax, flute), Eberhard Weber (bass, cello), Jon Christensen (percussion).
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| 7:28 AM |
| Oregon Tide Pool Winter Light Vanguard Records 1973 American jazz and world music group formed in 1971 by Ralph Towner (guitars, piano), Paul McCandless (wind instruments), Glen Moore (bass), and Collin Walcott (sitar, tabla).
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| 7:25 AM |
Set Break:
Thank you, Ralph Towner (1 March 1940 – 18 January 2026)
Ralph Towner was born in 1940 in Chehalis Washington into a musical family. His mother was a piano teacher and his father was a trumpet player. He began his career a a conservatory-trained classical pianist, attending the University of Oregon from 1958-1963. He also studied classical guitar at the Vienna Academy of Music. He joined Paul Winter's "Consort" ensemble in the late 1960's, Members of that group left in 1970 to form "Oregon". He recorded mostly for ECM. | |
| 7:20 AM |
| Kwartet Wojciecha Gogolewskiego Poranna Kołysanka Skok Nr 8 GAD Records 2019 Polish jazz fusion band (1973-1977).
Unfortunately, just one release, recorded in 1976. |
| 7:14 AM |
| Rob Mazurek Flamingos Dancing on the Rings of Saturn Calma Gente Submarine Records 2010 Rob Mazurek (trumpet, cornet, flute, etc.) was born in Jersey City NJ in 1966. he moved to Chicago as a pre-teen and was part of the "Chicago Underground Orchestra".
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| 7:06 AM |
| Terje Rypdal Rainbow Terje Rypdal ECM Records 1971 Norwegian guitarist, born 1947, and longtime fixture at ECM Records. This is one of his earliest releases.
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| 7:05 AM |
| Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill Morning Beams N Dreaming In Gamelan Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill 2025 Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill are Canadian multi-instrumentalists and composers.
https://brennanmcneill.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-in-gamelan
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