Wow babbling my baw baw baw bum bum From W be easy Chicago and PRX, this is soundions. I'm Jim De Regattis.

And I'm Greg Kot. This week we'll share some of our favorite new music that's flying

under the radar. From the UK Cosmic Jazz Group, The Comet is coming to the school-age rock band, Kingdom of Birds.

We've got new music you need to hear. And we'll talk with the rock band X, X, X, and get a special live performance from the group.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions. You're listening to

You're listening to Sound Opinions and later in the show we're going to have an exclusive performance from one of our favorite bands X-Hex.

But first it's time for another round of Barry Treasures which Jim we look forward to this segment every few weeks on the show because it gives

us a chance to showcase some records that we weren't able to get to in the previous shows,

maybe not getting as much mainstream attention as they should.

We're going to correct that today.

Yeah, stuff that's flying under the radar.

I don't know how you do it.

I always have a file folder on my desktop.

You know, and I've got, I don't know, know twenty thirty contenders every time we do this show

i want to focus on a band out of the u k the comet is coming it's one of

multiple bands that the uh... leader in the band saxophone of Shabaca Hutchings is involved in.

Hutchings is making a real name for himself on the new jazz scene.

He's blending elements of funk and soul and science fiction soundscape music into his soundscapes on as a jazz

musician, psychedelia as well. People are talking about the the Common

is Coming Project is sort of like, you know, here's the latest

air to Sun Ra, you know, the theme of space travel is really big, the whole notion of exploring

new worlds, this whole idea of science fiction

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