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The New Abnormal
Mar 27, 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.
🐍 X 𓆏 = 𐤎𐒣𐤄 Ŋ𐐩𑄊 ᮟⰫꪧ𐐦🜆₼₳Ŀ
the snog
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| Masahiro Takahashi Queen West Butterfly N In Another Telephone Explosion Records 2026 Masahiro Takahashi (髙橋 政宏) was born in Japan, now based in Toronto Canada. "In Another" was released last week.  https://masahirotakahashi.bandcamp.com/album/in-another
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| 7:07 AM |
| Triple Blind Song for Zayn N Cold Walk s/r 2026 Triple Blind was formed in Brooklyn during 2019. https://tripleblind.bandcamp.com/album/cold-walk
Released a month ago.
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| 7:14 AM |
| Herbie Hancock Quasar Crossings Rhino/Warner Records 1971 Herbie Hancock, a child prodigy, was longtime keyboard player with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis' bands. "Crossings" is the followup to the 1971 "Mwandishi" LP.
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| 7:21 AM |
| John Abercrombie Quartet Madagascar Abercrombie Quartet ECM Records 1979 L-R: George Mraz, John Abercrombie, Richard Beirach, Peter Donald
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| 7:31 AM |
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| 7:32 AM |
| Kokoroko Uman KOKOROKO - EP Brownswood Recordings 2019 Kokoroko are a young, London based Afrobeat 8-Piece band led by trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey. Inspired by Fela Kuti, Ebo Taylor, Tony Allen and the sounds that come out of West Africa.https://kokoroko.bandcamp.com/album/kokoroko
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| 7:37 AM |
| Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus Experience Ambassa Lemdi R To Know Without Knowing Agogo Records 2020 Mulatu Astatke is one of the most influential musicans from Ethiopia. After studying abroad, he blended Ethiopian traditional music with Latin-jazz to create a unique hybrid he called “Ethio-jazz”.  https://mulatuastatkeblackjesusexperience.bandcamp.com/album/to-know-without-knowing Black Jesus Experience is based in Melbourne Australia. |
| 7:43 AM |
| The Shaolin Afronauts Kibo Journey Through Time - Single Freestyle Records 2011 The Shaolin Afronauts are an Adelaide-based instrumental afrobeat band that is styled after Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band and Sun Ra. Their music incorporates elements of avant-garde jazz, soul and traditional African and Cuban percussive rhythms.
https://theshaolinafronauts.bandcamp.com/ This is their debut single.  |
| 7:49 AM |
| Aka Moon & Baba Sissolo & Black Machine Aka Tele / Notre Époque Culture Griot Cypres 2009
Belgian avant-garde jazz band formed in the early 90s. A trio at their core, they bring in many guest musicians. Their sound is a mixture of jazz, rock, world music, avant-garde, and they integrate various different African, Indian, Maghrebian, Cuban, Arab, Afro-Amercican and European traditions in their music. They collaborated here with Baba Sissoko, a Mailan musician and vocalist. |
| 7:56 AM |
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| 7:59 AM |
| Ciro Vitiello Airbus, 2021 N notes from the air STROOM 2026 Ciro Vitiello is from Italy
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| 8:03 AM |
| Markus Reuter featuring SONAR and Tobias Reber Condition V Falling for Ascension Ronin Rhythm Records 2017 Markus Reuter is a prolific German guitarist born in 1972. Besides his collaborations, he creates loop-based ambient/abstract works using his touch-guitar.
SONAR, from Switzerland, blend instrumental systemic jazz with math-rock. https://markusreuter.bandcamp.com/album/falling-for-ascension  |
| 8:11 AM |
| Vespero Silence Breath Echo Rito VMS 2007 "Веспер" is a Russian psychedelic/space rock band formed in early 2003 in Astrakhan, South Russia. https://vespero.bandcamp.com/music
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| 8:19 AM |
| Steve Tibbetts Everywhere, Pt. 4 Close ECM Records 2025 The Minneapolis based guitarist and composer is known for his original sound which combines elements of jazz, rock, and world music. This is his latest recording, after 7 years.
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| 8:26 AM |
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| 8:30 AM |
| PFM Premiata Forneria Marconi Appena Un Pò Per un amico - EP RCA Records Label 1971 PFM was one of the most successful bands from the Rock Progressivo Italiano scene in the early 1970s. Still active, but their musical direction has changed quite a bit since their heyday.
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| 8:38 AM |
| Sloche J'un Oeil J'un œil Dream On Music 1975 Sloche 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. The band's name comes from the word used in Quebec for wet snow (slush).
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| 8:43 AM |
| Tom PENAGUIN Housefly Leg Tom Penaguin àMARXE 2024 Penaguin is a multi-instrumentalist from Brittany, France. He started doing song covers on YouTube before moving on the playing guitar with psychedelic and metal bands. This self titled debut was recorded on vintage equipment and is solidly in the Canterbury tradition, with influences from Egg and National Health.
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| 8:56 AM |
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| 9:01 AM |
| Frank Zappa The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue (Live) The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (Live) Frank Zappa Catalog 2012 It’s hard to overstate the influence Frank Zappa had on the avant-prog field; he was the first to blend avant-garde elements with rock and jazz. Zappa’s music rejected the notion of strict genre divisions in favor of a more fluid vision of art.
 The release is so titled because this 1987-88 touring group performed in Europe and the East coast, but disbanded before audiences in the South, Midwest and West got a chance to hear them. |
| 9:10 AM |
| Jono El Grande Ballet Morbido In a Dozen Tiny Movements Neo Dada Rune Grammofon 2009 Norwegian avant-prog group led by Jon Andreas Håtun, born in 1973. Influences include early Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, King Crimson, Henry Cow, Igor Stravinsky, etc, while adding splices from both pop and film soundtracks.
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| 9:18 AM |
| Birds and Buildings Secret Crevice Multipurpose Trap Emkog 2013 Founded by Dan Britton (of Cerebus Effect & Deluge Grander) in Maryland USA in 2008. They blend various prog styles. This is their second (and probably final) release. https://birdsandbuildings.bandcamp.com/album/multipurpose-trap
🦉🦆𓄿🐓𓅓🦅𓅛🕊️𓅠🦜 & 🏬🏭🏫🏪🏩🏨🏦🏥🏤🏣🏢 |
| 9:24 AM |
| Höyry-Kone Terva-Antti Ku Häihin Lähti Huono Parturi Ad Perpetuam Memoriam 1997 Höyry-Kone (steam engine) was founded in Helsinki, Finland in 1991 - disbanded in 2003. Huono Parturi = bad barber
"Terva-Antti Ku went to the wedding" |
| 9:29 AM |
| Mats/Morgan Band Asaw X The Music or the Money? Cuneiform Records 1996 Swedish drummer Morgan Ågran and keyboardist Mats Öberg teamed up for experimental fusion with major inspiration from Zappa.  |
| 9:31 AM |
| McGill Manring Stevens Cash from Chaos Controlled By Radar FREE ELECTRIC SOUND 2002 Scott McGill (guitar), Michael Manring (bass), Vic Stevens (drums).
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| 9:36 AM |
| NeBeLNeST Station 9 Zepto Cuneiform Records 2006 French band 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.
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| 9:40 AM |
| Happy Family Overdrive Locomotive Toscco Cuneiform Records 1997 Happy Family is an instrumental progressive rock/fusion/Zeuhl band from Tokyo, formed in 1987.
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| 9:46 AM |
| Kolkhöze Printanium Part (B) 1 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.
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| 9:51 AM |
| Ruins Schvostess Pallaschtom SKiN GRAFT 1999 "Ruins" formed in Japan in 1985. They combine the raw energy of hardcore punk with progressive rock's flair and musicianship. There have been several line ups so far, featuring drummer / vocalist / main composer Yoshida Tatsuya. https://ruins.bandcamp.com/album/pallaschtom
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| 9:52 AM |
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| 9:57 AM |
| Marco Pacassoni Group Peaches en Regalia Frank & Ruth Esordisco 2018 Led by Italian vibraphonist Marco Pacassoni, born in 1981 in Fano.
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