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WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

The New Abnormal

Aug 7, 2026 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

With ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡

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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The New Abnormal
7:02 AM
Ship Says Om & Emma Lucia - Water Prayer
Ship Says Om & Emma Lucia Water Prayer N
Djuphjärtad - EP Native Cat 2026

Ship Says Om is the ambient/vocal project of Jenny Gillespie Mason.

https://shipsaysom.bandcamp.com/album/djuphj-rtad-ep

Djuphjärtad (deep-hearted)

7:05 AM
Set Break: 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣 𓆣
7:06 AM
Bear Bones, Lay Low & Lazlo Umbreit - Star
Bear Bones, Lay Low & Lazlo Umbreit Star N
Tales From The Source Discrepant 2026
7:11 AM
Laurie Anderson - Looking for you, Walking and Falling
Laurie Anderson Looking for you, Walking and Falling
United States Live Rhino/Warner Records 1984
Laurie Anderson (born in 1947, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA) is an American performance artist and composer.
7:14 AM
Laurie Anderson - Private Property
Laurie Anderson Private Property
United States Live Rhino/Warner Records 1984
7:17 AM
Bhajan Bhoy - Eliane's Conch
Bhajan Bhoy Eliane's Conch
To Love is to Love (Vol. 2) Feeding Tube 2023
Bhajan Bhoy is Ajay Saggar, a multi-instrumentalist based in the Netherlands.

https://bhajanbhoy.bandcamp.com/

7:25 AM
Set Break: ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ ʚĭɞ
7:28 AM
Baldruin - Was Ist Das  ¿
Baldruin Was Ist Das ¿ N
Experimentelle Welt 1 V/A Billo 2026
"Experimentelle Welt 1" is the first one in a series of experimental music compilations on Billo. German artists are featured.

https://billotontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/experimentelle-welt-1

7:31 AM
Peter Michael Hamel - Dorian Dervishes
Peter Michael Hamel Dorian Dervishes
Hamel: Bardo Kuckuck Schallplatten 1981
German composer and musician (primarily keyboards), born in 1947 in Munich, Germany. Was part of the group Between in the 1970's. Then he kind of fell between the cracks in the minimalist scene, never getting the same attention as Terry Riley or Steve Reich.
7:52 AM
Hoavi - After a Day of Silence
Hoavi After a Day of Silence N
Architectonics Peak Oil 2026

Hoavi is Russian producer Kirill Vasin. On 'architectonics', he draws from his lifelong appreciation of Indonesian gamelan music.

https://peakoil.bandcamp.com/album/architectonics

7:57 AM
Set Break: 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼 𓇼
8:00 AM
Gong - A P.H.P.'s Advice (Remastered 2018)
Gong A P.H.P.'s Advice (Remastered 2018)
You (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1974
Psychedelic rock band formed by Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth in France in 1969. Gong became pioneers of a new brand of psychedelia/space-rock/trip-rock - with a conceptual ethos involving aliens and alternative realities. Wikipedia
8:02 AM
Gentle Giant - Cogs in Cogs
Gentle Giant Cogs in Cogs
The Power and the Glory Alucard 1974

Gentle Giant was an eclectic progressive rock band formed in 1970 in London, UK- Disbanded in 1980.

8:05 AM
Et Cetera - Newton avait raison
Et Cetera Newton avait raison
Et cetera UNIDISC MUSIC INC. 1976

Formed in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, disbanded also in 1976. Favorably compared to Gentle Giant. Just one LP released.

8:10 AM
Happy the Man - Partly the State
Happy the Man Partly the State
Beginnings Cuneiform Records 1990

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. "Beginnings" collects previously unreleased material recorded 1974-75 before their 1st LP.

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/beginnings

8:19 AM
Latte E Miele - Aquile e scoiattoli
Latte E Miele Aquile e scoiattoli
Aquile e scoiattoli AkarmaRecords 1976

Italian progressive rock/symphonic rock band from Genoa that was originally formed as a trio in 1971 and expanded to four members in 1976.

8:22 AM
Echolyn - A Little Nonsense
Echolyn A Little Nonsense
Suffocating the Bloom Velveteen Records 1992

Symphonic progressive rock band founded in 1989 in the Philadelphia area.

https://echolyn.bandcamp.com/

8:28 AM
Set Break: ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹ ↹
8:30 AM
Toshida Tatsuya + Eiko Ishibashi - As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still
Toshida Tatsuya + Eiko Ishibashi As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still
Slip Beneath the Distant Tree 2007

Ishibashi Eiko is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and improvising drummer and pianist.Yoshida Tatsuya is a prominent Japanese avant-garde/jazz/experimental drummer, composer, producer & sound engineer, associated with Zeuhl bands like Ruins and Koenjihyakkei. (This is a cover of song by early Soft Machine while Robert Wyatt was still a member.)

8:33 AM
Jakko M. Jakszyk - Nirvana For Mice
Jakko M. Jakszyk Nirvana For Mice
The Bruised Romantic Glee Club Panegyric 2009
Jakko M. Jakszyk is a guitarist and vocalist, and lead singer for King Crimson since 2013. He also has strong connections with the Canterbury scene.

This is a cover of a song by Henry Cow.

8:38 AM
Camel - Unevensong
Camel Unevensong
Rain Dances (Expanded Edition) UMC-Decca 1976
English progressive rock group formed in 1971. "Raindances", with Richard Sinclair, is their most 'Canterbury' sounding of their otherwise symphonic prog releases.
8:44 AM
Zopp - Zero
Zopp Zero
Zopp 3928125 Records DK 2020

Zopp is modern Canterbury music played mainly by multi instrumentalist Ryan Stevenson. 🫖 🦂 https://zopp.bandcamp.com/album/zopp-2

8:48 AM
Tom PENAGUIN - Aborted Long Piece No2
Tom PENAGUIN Aborted Long Piece No2
Tom Penaguin àMARXE 2024

Tom 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.

https://amarxe.bandcamp.com/album/tom-penaguin

8:52 AM
Bruford - If You Can't Stand The Heat...
Bruford If You Can't Stand The Heat...
Feels Good to Me Winterfold 1978
Jazzrock band led by prog drummer Bill Bruford. With Allan Holdsworth on guitar, Dave Stewart on keyboards, and Jeff Berlin on bass.
8:55 AM
Set Break: 𒁏 𒁏 𒁏 𒁏

Dᶦffiᶜuₗt Lᵢsᵗeₙiⁿg Hᵒuᵣ

9:00 AM
VAK - Periscopy
VAK Periscopy
Aedividea s/r 2014

VAK is a modern Zeuhl group from France.

https://vak-prog.bandcamp.com/album/aedividea

9:10 AM
Eskaton - Eskaton
Eskaton Eskaton
4 Visions Soleil Zeuhl 2010
Eskaton is a French progressive rock/Zeuhl band. Founded in 1970, disbanded in 1985. Eskaton took Magma "Kohntarkosz" influences, mixed in prog, lots of electronics and increasingly elements of cold wave. This unique concoction, fronted by two female vocalists, made for a distinctive Zeuhl sound.

https://soleilzeuhl.bandcamp.com/album/4-visions

9:20 AM
Vojdi - Skopski Merak
Vojdi Skopski Merak
Kompost Zemiačky records 2024

Vojdi is from Slovakia. https://vojdi.bandcamp.com/

9:24 AM
Droid - Eat Everything (feat. Amir Ziv, Jordan McLean, Adam Holzman & Tim Lefebvre)
Droid Eat Everything (feat. Amir Ziv, Jordan McLean, Adam Holzman & Tim Lefebvre) N
CHARGE (feat. Amir Ziv, Tim Lefebvre, Jordan McLean & Adam Holzman) System Dialing Records 2026

Avant-jazzy dubstep.

9:27 AM
MERMORT - デマゴゴスの絶滅
MERMORT デマゴゴスの絶滅
2nd demo s/r 2012

Mermort is an experimental prog hardcore band from Tokyo.

"The album is made mainly in varying tempos because the capitalistic world has become overly rational, and the album is attempting to refute society's turn toward pragmatism."

The title means "extinction of the demagogues"

9:36 AM
WYXZ - Tilted Acre
WYXZ Tilted Acre
YIY 2019

Wyxz is a project that plays demanding, through-composed math rock combined with avant-garde progressive rock, sound collage, and free improvisation, with self-taught composer/drummer/guitarist Ben Coniguliaro and his brother Quinn and the virtuosic guitarist Matt Hollenberg.

https://wyxz.bandcamp.com/

9:39 AM
Utopianisti - Zwaáakh
Utopianisti Zwaáakh
Brutopianisti Utopianisti 2017

While Finish band Utopiainisti's style can range from mostly instrumental, energetic jazz-rock / eclectic prog with occasional leaps towards Balkan gypsy music, tango, avant-garde, or latin, this "Brutopianisti" is math-infused speed metal.

https://utopianisti.bandcamp.com/album/brutopianisti

9:40 AM
Trioscapes - From the Earth to the Moon
Trioscapes From the Earth to the Moon
Digital Dream Sequence Metal Blade Records 2014

Progressive metal / jazz fusion group based in Greensboro, North Carolina.

https://trioscapes.bandcamp.com/album/digital-dream-sequence

9:49 AM
The Sick Boy Method - No News is Good News
The Sick Boy Method No News is Good News
For Karyn Sauna Suit Recordings 2021

The Sick Boy Method describe their music as "entry-level prog". They mix progressive rock, metal, punk, hardcore, math and ambient sounds. I think they are from the USA.

https://thesickboymethod.bandcamp.com/

9:52 AM
Set Break: ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉ ͡◉
9:58 AM
The Z3 - Absolutely Free
The Z3 Absolutely Free
Zappanale 24 Bad Doberan Germany Muffin Records Productions 2014

The Z3 is a Zappa cover band from New Haven, CT.

The "Zappnale" is an annual festival in the eastern German city of Bad Doberan. First held in 1990, the year after the Berlin Wall fell. Zappa's music was regarded with suspicion by the Stasi. They were also sued by the Zappa Family Trust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappanale

https://thez3.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-zappanale-24-bad-doberan-germany