Playlist - 31 August 2013

This week, Seasons Of Change says goodbye to Winter with another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. New music from Adelaide band Quiet Child, classic songs from Sebastian Hardie (with their 1976 epic Windchase) and from Lobby Loyde. After 9pm, the sounds of Europe circa 1974 with music from The Netherlands (Focus) and Italy (PFM).

8pm
Genesis    Watcher of the skies (1972) (Foxtrot)
Tony Banks    From the undertow (1979) (A Curious Feeling)
Steve Hackett    Tigermoth (1979) (Spectral Mornings)
Anthony Phillips    Collections / Sleepfall: The geese fly west (1977) (The Geese And The Ghost)
Quiet Child    Dawn brings warmth + I’ve found some poison (2013) (The Coming Storm)
Lana Lane    Escher’s Staircase (1996) (Curious Goods)
Lobby Loyde & The Colored Balls    Metal feathers (1972)  (The Best Of Ball Power And More)
9pm
Focus    Hamburger concerto (1974) (Hamburger Concerto)
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM)    Four holes in the ground (1974) (The World Became The World)
Sebastian Hardie    Windchase (1976) (Windchase / Four Moments Of The Windchase)
10pm
Dream Theater    As I am (2003) (Train Of Thought)
Liquid Tension Experiment    Kindred Spirits (1998) (Liquid Tension Experiment)
Rush    Half the world (1996) (Test For Echo)
Caligula’s Horse    Silence (2011) (Moments from Ephemeral City)
Curved Air    Propositions (live, 1975) (Curved Air Live)
Curved Air    Vivaldi (1971) (Air Conditioning)
Marillion    Seasons end (1989) (Seasons End)
Tommy Emmanuel    The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey)

Playlist - 24 August 2013

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. New music from Adelaide bands Quiet Child and Unitopia, as well as classic songs from Healing Force in 1971. And it's happy birthday also to two very different keyboard "wizards" - Jean Michel Jarre and Ken Hensley from Uriah Heep.
 
8pm
Camel    Chord change (1976) (Moonmadness)
Quiet Child    Conditions + The coming storm (2013) (The Coming Storm)
Unitopia    Yes medley (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1: Smooth As Silk)
Yes    Long distance runaround – The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus) (1972) (Fragile)
Ozric Tentacles    Dance of the loomi (1994) (Arborescence)
9pm
Jean Michel Jarre    Calypso + Calypso Part 2 + Calypso Part 3 (1990) (Waiting For Cousteau)
Days Between Stations    In utero / Visionary (2013) (In Extremis)
Blue Oyster Cult    Don’t fear the reaper (1976) (Agents of Fortune)
Kate Bush    Song of Solomon (1993)  (The Red Shoes)
Rush    Marathon (1985) (Power Windows)
10pm
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974)
Healing Force    My boogie (1971 / 1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Uriah Heep    Easy livin’ + Rainbow demon (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Wishbone Ash    The king will come + Strange affair + Blowin’ free (live, 1992) (The Ash Live In Chicago)
Unitopia    To one in paradise (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1: Smooth As Silk)
Tommy Emmanuel    The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey)

Playlist - 17 August 2013

This week, another healthy serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. Some great recent music by Adelaide's Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest from their 2006 "progressive rock/folk" concept album about emigration to South Australia in the 19th Century, as well as classic songs from Tully, Spectrum and Lobby Loyde. Recent archaeological digging has unearthed possibly the world's first "rock opera" from 1968: "S.F. Sorrow" by The Pretty Things.  And it's happy birthday to the late Kevin Ayers, Colin Moulding (the "other" songwriter in XTC) and Barry Hay (the singer with legendary Dutch group Golden Earring who - incredibly - have been rocking out around Europe and elsewhere since 1961).

8pm
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 + Brother sun + Sea of joy Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy - reissue)
Spectrum    But that’s alright (1971) (Milesago)
The Pretty Things    SF Sorrow is born + The journey + I see you + Well of destiny (1968) (SF Sorrow)
Soft Machine    Love makes sweet music (1967)  (single only, bonus track on re-issue of  The Soft Machine)
Kevin Ayers    The owl (1977) (single only)
Kevin Ayers    Blue (1976) (Yes We Have No Mananas)
Golden Earring    Big tree blue sea (1974) (Moontan)
9pm
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Port Adelaide 1854 The Arrival + The Peramangh – Time there was… + Kapunda 1856 The Cornish miners (2006) (Land Of The Vast Horizon)
Loreena McKennitt    The Bonny Swans (1994)  (The Mask and the Mirror)
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric    Obsecration Parts A to D: A) Play My Guitar, B) Obligato, C) Continuation D) Legato (1976)  (Obsecration)
Andy Salvanos    Free range eggs (2007) (Closer)
10pm
XTC    My bird performs (1992)  (Nonesuch)
Dukes Of Stratosfear    The Affiliated (1987) (Psionic Psumspot / The Dukes Of Stratosfear: An Anthology)
XTC    Standing in for Joe (2000) (Wasp Star)
Ozric Tentacles    Waldorfdub (2000) (Swirly Termination)
Porcupine Tree    Waiting Phase One + Waiting Phase Two + The sky moves sideways (live, 1997) (Coma Divine – Recorded Live In Rome)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the minute (1999) (Stupid Dream)
Tommy Emmanuel    The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey)

Playlist - 10 August 2013

This week, just in time for National Science Week, another healthy serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. It's happy birthday to Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and to the unpredictable Australian singer Deborah Conway.  And there's as much of the late Bill Putt (Spectrum) that can be fitted into 3 hours.

8pm
Spectrum    I’ll be gone (1971) (single only, stereo version / Part One - reissue: bonus track)
Spectrum    Love’s my bag (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose / Ghosts: Post-Terminal Reflection)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Rush    Natural science (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Ian Anderson    The secret language of birds (2000) (Secret Language of Birds)
Jethro Tull    Living in the past (1972) (Living In The Past)
Jethro Tull    Dot com (1999) (Dot Com)
Steeleye Span    Thomas the Rhymer (1974) (Now We Are Six)
9pm
Dream Theater    The Count of Tuscany (2009) (Black Clouds and Silver Linings)
Sebastian Hardie    I wish (2012) (Blueprint)
The Dark Ales    Best intentions (2012)  (Edges Of The Day)
Camel    Echoes (1978) (Breathless)
The Windmill    Not alone (2013) (The Continuation)
 10pm
Do Re Mi    Man overboard (1985) (Domestic Harmony)
Deborah Conway    Consider This (1993) (Bitch Epic)
Deborah Conway    White roses (live, 1994) (Epic Theatre)
Deborah Conway    It doesn’t work that way (2004) (Summertown)
Spectrum    I’ll be gone + Some good advice (live at Sunbury, 1972) (Milesago – reissue: bonus tracks)
SubAudible Hum    Science maketh the scientist (2006) ( In Time For Spring, On Came The Snow)
Tommy Emmanuel    The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey)

Playlist - 3 August 2013

This week, another healthy serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas. Some great recent Australian music from Karnivool and Domino as well as classic songs from Flake and The Valentines. It's happy birthday to the eternal hippy Steve Hillage and Neal Morse (of the US prog rock revival band Spock's Beard). And of course some JJ Cale.

8pm
Big Big Train    The first rebreather + Uncle Jack Winchester from St Giles Hill (2012) (English Electric Part One)
Khan    Space shanty (1972) (Space Shanty)
Gong    I never glid before (1973) (Angel’s Egg)
Steve Hillage    Hurdy gurdy man (1976) (“L”)
System 7    Miracle (1991) (System 7)
The Wishing Tree    Hollow Hills (2009) (Ostara)
9pm
Karnivool    Deadman (2009)  (Sound Awake)
Andy Salvanos    Happy song (2011) (Dream Recall)
Domino    Karislama + Caravan (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Second Thoughts)
Finn    Last day of June (1995) (Finn)
Flake    Wheel’s on fire (1970) (How’s Your Mother)
The Valentines    Peculiar hole in the sky (1968) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
10pm
Neal Morse    Father of forgiveness (2004) (One)
Spock’s Beard    All on a Sunday (2000) (V)
Flying Colors    Everything changes (2012) (Flying Colors)
JJ Cale    After midnight + Call me the breeze + The sensitive kind + Money talks + Mama don’t + Magnolia (live - 1993, 1994, 1996) (JJ Cale Live)
Tommy Emmanuel    The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey)