27 July, 2013

Playlist - 27 July 2013

This week, another healthy serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. Some great recent Australian music from Unitopia, Ben Craven and The Dark Ales as well as another classic song from Spectrum. And it's happy birthday to Roger Taylor (Queen), the late Richard Wright (Pink Floyd) and Steve Morse (talented guitarist with The Dregs and many other bands including, currently, Deep Purple).

8pm
Ben Craven    No specific harm (2011) (Great and Terrible Potions)
Pink Floyd    Summer ‘68 (1970) (Atom Heart Mother)
Pink Floyd    Us and them (1973) (Dark Side Of The Moon)
Ozric Tentacles    A gift of wings (1990)  (Erpland)
Lana Lane    Sheltering sorrow (2007) (Red Planet Boulevard)
Queen    A kind of magic (1986) (A Kind Of Magic)
9pm
Atomic Rooster    Tomorrow night (1970) (Death Walks Behind You)
Spectrum    What the world needs is a new pair of socks (1971) (Milesago)
Renaissance    Northern Lights (1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Unitopia    Reflections + The power of three + Rule of 3’s (2010) (Artificial)
The Dark Ales    Holding Patterns (2012)  (Edges Of The Day)
Deborah Conway    Today I am a daisy (1993) (Bitch Epic)
Karnivool    Themata (2004)  (Themata)
Karnivool    All I know (2009)  (Sound Awake)
10pm
Deep Purple    Vavoom: Ted the mechanic (1996) (Purpendicular)
Steve Morse    Modoc (1989)  (High Tension Wires)
The Dregs    Cruise control (1981) (Unsung Heroes)
Dave Gilmour (feat. Richard Wright)    Echoes (live, 2006) (Live In Gdansk)
Zoot    Flying (1970) (Just Zoot / Zoot Locker)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Zoot    Eleanor Rigby (1970) (single only / Zoot Locker)
Tommy Emmanuel   The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey)

19 July, 2013

Playlist - 20 July 2013

This week, another healthy serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. Some great recent Australian music from The Break, Captain K and Sebastian Hardie as well as a classic from Adelaide band The James Taylor Move in 1967. And there's a brace of birthdays - Singer Russell Allen (Symphony X), Brian May (Queen) and John Lodge (a key songwriter with the Moody Blues). And of course some music in honour of The Bard, Robert Burns.

8pm
Eddi Reader    My love is like a red red rose (2003) (The Songs Of Robert Burns)
Southerly Gaels    Carls o’ Dysart & De’ils awa Exciseman (1996) (Twa Corbies & A Lark)
Symphony X    Paradise lost (2007) (Paradise Lost)
The Moody Blues    Isn’t life strange (1972) (Seventh Sojourn)
Justin Hayward & John Lodge    Maybe (1975) (Blue Jays)
Todd Rundgren    Birthday cards (1970) (Runt)
Todd Rundgren    Can we still be friends (1978) (Hermit Of Mink Hollow)
Queen    Hammer to fall (1984) (The Works)
9pm
The Break    Majestic kelp + Whatever dumb courage (2013) (Space Farm)
Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes    Always on your person (2008) (Falsimiles From The Facts Machine / Bird's Robe Records Sampler 2012)
Andy Salvanos    Radiant (2011) (Dream Recall)
Sebastian Hardie    Four Moments suite: Glories Shall Be Released/Dawn of Our Sun/Journey Through Our Dreams/Everything Is Real (1975) (Four Moments / Four Moments Of The Windchase)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)
The James Taylor Move    Magic eyes + Still I can go on (1967)  (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
10pm
Sanguine Hum    From the ground up (2013) (The Weight Of The World)
Von Hertzen Brothers    Insomniac (2013) (Nine Lives)
Vienna Circle    Ballad of night (2013) (Silhouette Moon)
Symphony X    Divine wings of tragedy (live) (2001) (Live On The Edge Of Forever)
Eddi Reader    Comin' through the rye + Ye banks and braes o’ Bonnie Doon (2008) (The Songs Of Robert Burns, re-issue)
Tommy Emmanuel   The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey)

12 July, 2013

Playlist - 13 July 2013

This week, another healthy serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. Some great recent Australian music from Breaking Orbit, Kettlespider and Over Unity. The archaeological spadework this week has uncovered the English jazz-rock fusion band Affinity, featuring the terrific singer Linda Hoyle. And it's happy birthday this weekend to John Petrucci, the guitarist from the much loved and much reviled US "progressive metal" band Dream Theater.

8pm
Dream Theater    Endless sacrifice (2003) (Train Of Thought)
Liquid Tension Experiment    State of grace (1998) (Liquid Tension Experiment)
Dream Theater    On the backs of angels (2011) (A Dramatic Turn Of Events)
Ozric Tentacles    Yog-Bar-Og (1994) (Arborescence)
Hawkwind    The golden void + Motorhead (1975) (Warrior On The Edge Of Time)
Affinity    Three sisters (1970) (Affinity)
9pm
Breaking Orbit    Echoes + Conscious self + My direction (2012) (Time Traveller)
Kettlespider    The kettle spider (2010) (demo only)
Kettlespider    Comatose (2012) (Avadante)
Over Unity    Near (2011) (Collide the Space)
10pm
Wisdom Of Crowds     Frozen north (2013) (Wisdom Of Crowds)
Frank Carducci     Alice’s eerie dream (2013) (Oddity)
Vespero    Red pitfalls (2013) (Droga)
The Flower Kings    In the eyes of the world + Stardust We Are: Part Three (live) (Japan, 1999) (Alive On Planet Earth)
Tommy Emmanuel    The Big Swell + Amy (1993) (The Journey)

05 July, 2013

Playlist - 6 July 2013

It's the first program for the second hafl of the year 2013 - as we did in January, Seasons of Change turns back the clock forty years to 1973 with a diverse range of music from that year, including Oz classics from Madder Lake, Ariel and Mackenzie Theory as well as a heap of other music that missed out from the first 1973 program back in January.

8pm
Rick Wakeman    Ann Boylen (Jan 1973) (The Six Wives Of Henry VIII)
Electric Light Orchestra    Roll over Beethoven (Feb 1973) (ELO 2)
Procol Harum    Grand hotel (Mar 1973) (Grand Hotel)
King Crimson     Easy money (alternative take) (1973/2012) (Larks Tongues In Aspic / LTIA 40th Anniversary Edition Box set)
Pink Floyd    Any colour you like+ Brain damage + Eclipse (Mar 1973) (The Dark Side Of The Moon)
Madder Lake    Goodbye lollipop (Apr 1973)  (Still Point)
Friends    Bird on a wire (live) (Apr 1973)  (Sunbury 1973)
9pm
Steeleye Span    Cam ye ofer frae France (Apr 1973) (Parcel of Rogues)
Led Zeppelin    D’yer Mak’er (Apr 1973) (Houses Of The Holy)
Curved Air    U.H.F. (Apr 1973) (Air Cut)
Mike Oldfield    Tubular bells (single version) (May 1973) (Tubular Bells)
Steely Dan    Showbiz kids (July 1973) (Countdown To Ecstasy)
Golden Earring    Radar love (July 1973) (Moontan)
Gryphon    The unquiet grave (Aug 1973) (Gryphon)
Mackenzie Theory    Out of the blue (July 1973) (Out Of The Blue)
10pm
Buffalo    Intro: Pound of flesh / Shylock (August 1973) (Volcanic Rock)
Ariel    Worm turning blues (Dec 1973) (A Strange Fantastic Dream / Boogie! Australian blues, R&B, and heavy rock from the '70s)
Genesis    Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (Oct 1973) (Selling England By The Pound)
Renaissance    Carpet of the sun (Oct 1973) (Ashes Are Burning)
Emerson Lake & Palmer    Jerusalem (Nov 1973) (Brain Salad Surgery)
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs    Going back home (live) (Apr 1973)  (Sunbury 1973)
Tommy Emmanuel    The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey