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WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

The New Abnormal

Aug 28, 2021 3:00 AM – 6:00 AM

With ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ

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The New Abnormal
3:01 AM
David Sylvian - Shadowland (Northfield)
David Sylvian Shadowland (Northfield)
God Man - EP Virgin Records 1999

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EP associated with Sylvian's "Dead Bees On A Cake" release.

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David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez (during the happy years)

3:04 AM
Steve Tibbetts - Chandoha
Steve Tibbetts Chandoha
A Man About a Horse ECM Records 2002

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3:12 AM
Emre Saltık - Dede Sultan
Emre Saltık Dede Sultan
Yıkılsın Sebebim DOĞAN MÜZİK YAPIM 2000

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3:16 AM
Sloth & Turtle - Toys
Sloth & Turtle Toys
Sloth & Turtle - EP Sloth & Turtle 2018
3:19 AM
Plini - Wombat Astronaut (Beyond the Burrow)
Plini Wombat Astronaut (Beyond the Burrow)
The End of Everything - Single Plini 2015

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Plini Roessler-Holgate from Sydney Australia. His main genre influences are Instrumental rock and progressive metal, but incorporates djent, jazz and post rock realms. All his music is self-released.

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3:23 AM
Marc Copland - Another Place (feat. John Abercrombie, Drew Gress & Billy Hart)
Marc Copland Another Place (feat. John Abercrombie, Drew Gress & Billy Hart)
Another Place (feat. John Abercrombie, Drew Gress & Billy Hart) Pirouet Records 2008

Post bop jazz pianist who began as a saxophonist. He was born on 27 May 1948 in Philadelphia.

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3:36 AM
Eberhard Weber - T. On a White Horse
Eberhard Weber T. On a White Horse
The Following Morning ECM Records 1977

Jazz double bassist and composer, born 22 January 1940 in Stuttgart, Germany. As a bass player, he is known for his highly distinctive tone and phrasing. Weber's compositions blend chamber jazz, European classical music, minimalism and ambient music, and typify the ECM sound.

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custom upright electric bass
3:46 AM
Ethtronic - Nils' Chill
Ethtronic Nils' Chill
Modalities Ethtronic 2010

Ethtronic is led by Paul Schauert

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3:54 AM
Michael Brook - Preparation
Michael Brook Preparation
Albino Alligator 4AD 1997

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4:00 AM
Arkham - Eve's Eventful Day (Part 3)
Arkham Eve's Eventful Day (Part 3)
Arkham Cuneiform 2002

Arkham are an early 70's prog band that featured keyboard player Jean-Luc Manderlier who would later join Magma, drummer Daniel Denis who would also move on to Magma as well as Univers Zero, and bassist Patrick Cogneaux. This all-instrumental trio (keyboards, bass and drums) never actually recorded any official album, although tapes of their many shows and rehearsals between 1970-72 resulted in the compilation of this CD, released in 2002. The sound is more Canterbury than proto-RIO.

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4:05 AM
Egg - Wring out the Ground Loosely Now
Egg Wring out the Ground Loosely Now
The Civil Surface Virgin 1974

Band formed in 1969 by Dave Stewart (organ), Mont Campbell(bass/vocals) and Clive Brooks (drums), after the disbanding of their previous band Uriel when Steve Hillage left for college.

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For reasons I don't understand, Uriel's recordings were later issued under the name Arzachel.


4:13 AM
The New Tony Williams Lifetime - Lady Jane
The New Tony Williams Lifetime Lady Jane
Million Dollar Legs Columbia 1976

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My confusion in identifying this LP was because it was released by "The New Tony Williams Lifetime".

4:17 AM
Bombay Dub Orchestra - The Berber of Seville
Bombay Dub Orchestra The Berber of Seville
Bombay Dub Orchestra Six Degrees Travel Series 2006

The Bombay Dub Orchestra is a project by UK based producer and composer Garry Hughes and classical composer Andrew T. Mackay. It combines global influences as diverse as electronica, ambient, western classical, Indian classical, and Arabic.

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4:21 AM
Khaled - Kebou
Khaled Kebou
N'Ssi N'Ssi Universal Music Division Capitol Music France 1993

Khaled Hadj Ibrahim (خالد حاج ابراهيم), Algerian rai singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist, born 29 February 1960 in Oran, Algeria.

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This track features bassist Bernard Paganotti (Magma).

4:30 AM
Magma - Köhntark (Live 1975) [Remastered]
Magma Köhntark (Live 1975) [Remastered]
Live (Remastered) Seventh records 1975

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Founded by Christian Vander in Paris, France in 1969, disbanded in 1983. Magma created its own influential subgenre of prog rock, called 'Zeuhl'. The band doesn't clearly fit in any other progressive subgenre, though avant-prog might be a good fit. "Zeuhl" is typified by swirling riffs in odd time signatures, theatrical choir arrangements (in their own made-up language), heavy and distorted pulsing bass guitar, bombastic and minimalistic (sometimes both at the same time), dark and brooding, adventurous and angelic, jazzy or classical. http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=11

5:02 AM
Brand X - Why Should I Lend You Mine (When You've Broken Your's off Already)
Brand X Why Should I Lend You Mine (When You've Broken Your's off Already)
Morrocan Roll Charisma Catalogue 1977

Founded in London, England in 1975, hiatus from 1980-1992, disbanded in 1999. Brand X is one the most well-known British groups of the seventies jazz/rock fusion scene. The original line-up of the band was formed by drummer Phil Collins of Genesis with John Goodsall (formerly of Atomic Rooster) on guitar, Robin Lumley on keyboards and Percy Jones on bass.

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L-R: Lumley, Goodsall, Jones, Collins
5:13 AM
Electric Masada - Lilin
Electric Masada Lilin
At the Mountain of Madness - Live In Europe Tzadik 2005

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Electric Masada is one of John Zorn's more recent Masada units, a true downtown supergroup formed in the mid 2000's to combine raw power and manic speed, an improvisational edge and lyricism. One of the most astonishing ensembles led by Zorn in this period.

5:27 AM
Calypso King & The Soul Investigators - Ma-Gee
Calypso King & The Soul Investigators Ma-Gee
Soul Strike! Soul Fire 2001

WPRB listeners have all been conditioned to panic every time we hear this song; the signal that something has gone terribly wrong - again.

So I thought I'd use the song as the foundation for a mashup, attempting to undo some of that negative conditioning. (And, I'll admit, also to jolt you all a little bit. 😉)

5:29 AM
Screaming Headless Torsos - Graffiti Cemetary
Screaming Headless Torsos Graffiti Cemetary
1995 FuzeLicious Morsels 1995

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Dean Bowman (voice), Fima Ephron (bass), Jojo Mayer (drums), David Fiuczynski (guitar)

5:36 AM
Art Metal - Round Metal Hat
Art Metal Round Metal Hat
VYAKHYAN-KAR Bardo 2008

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5:41 AM
Animals As Leaders - Weightless
Animals As Leaders Weightless
Weightless Prosthetic 2011

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Instrumental progressive metal band from Washington, DC, led by Tosin Abasi.

5:50 AM
Brian Blade Fellowship - Variations of a Bloodline: From the Same Blood / Fellowship (Like Brothers) / Mustangs (Class of 1988)
Brian Blade Fellowship Variations of a Bloodline: From the Same Blood / Fellowship (Like Brothers) / Mustangs (Class of 1988)
Perceptual Blue Note Records 2000

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