25 April, 2014

Playlist - 26 April 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, starting with an hour of music from Australia and New Zealand, including the enigmatic NZ band Airlord. And it's happy birthday to Derek Dick, better known as "Fish" (lead singer of the '80's UK prog rock revivalists Marillion).

8pm
Spectrum    What the world needs is a new pair of socks (1971) (Milesago)
Tommy Emmanuel    Up from down under (1987) (Up From Down Under)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Second Thoughts)
Airlord    Pictures in a puddle + Out of the woods (1977) (Clockwork Revenge)
Sebastian Hardie    I wish (2012) (Blueprint)
Windchase    Forward we ride / Horsemen to infinity (1978) (Symphinity)
9pm
Yes    The gates of delirium (1974) (Relayer)
Karnataka    The serpent and the sea (edit) (2010) (The Gathering Light)
Marillion    Script for a jester’s tear (1983) (Script For A Jester’s Tear)
Marillion    For the record (1987) (Clutching At Straws)
Marillion    Market square heroes (live, 1984) (Real To Reel)
10pm
Motorpsycho    Cloudwalker (a darker blue) (2014) (Behind The Sun)
Edison’s Children    The seventh sign (2014) (The Final Breath Before November)
Rush    Xanadu (live, 1978) (Different Stages - Live)
Rush    Presto (1989) (Presto)
La De Das    See my baby tonight (1971) (single only / Boogie! Australian Blues R&B And Heavy Rock From The ‘70’s)
Daddy Cool    Daddy rocks off (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock'nRoll: Teenage Heaven)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

18 April, 2014

Playlist - 19 April 2014 (Easter Saturday)

For Easter Saturday, a special show featuring Camel recorded live in concert with a performance of their instrumental concept album "The Snow Goose".  And it's happy birthday this weekend to Steve Gray (keyboardist with classical-rock fusion group Sky), Rod Morgenstein (drummer with The Dregs/The Dixie Dregs/Platypus) and Mike Portnoy (drummer with Dream Theater and a score of disparate side projects including Transatlantic and OSI).

8pm
Yes    I’ve seen all good people (1970) (The Yes Album)
Unitopia    Easter (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1)
Andy Salvanos    Lost days (2011) (Dream Recall)
Renaissance    She is love + Northern lights (1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Sky    Hello (1982) (Sky 4)
Sky    Caldando (1985) (The Great Balloon Race)
Yes    And you and I (1972) (Close To The Edge)
9pm
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric (feat. Mandu)    Dreamtide (1976)  (Obsecration)
Mandu    Captain voyager + Darlin’ + We ran across the sky (1974) (To The Shores Of His Heaven)
The Dregs    Kat food (1981) (Unsung Heroes)
Platypus    Chimes (1998) (When Pus Comes To Shove)
Liquid Trio Experiment    Hawaiian funk (2007) (Liquid Trio Experiment)
Dream Theater    Disappear (2002) (Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence)
10pm
G. Wayne Thomas    The morning of the earth (1972) (The Morning Of The Earth)
Camel    The Snow Goose (live, 1975) (A Live Record)
Sympathy Orchestra    Wire (2014) (Sword Machine)

11 April, 2014

Playlist - 12 April 2014

53 years ago, on the 12th of April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to complete an orbit of the Earth.  The United Nations has proclaimed the 12th day of April to be the International Day Of Human Space Flight, and so, in tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change, there's a healthy serving of space-rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, including classic Australian recordings from Cybotron, Lobby Loyde and Spectrum. There's also a little more this week from the reissued classical rock album by Rainbow Theatre. And it's happy birthday this week to the terrific Sonja Kristina (singer with the band Curved Air). You may wish to check out some of the great pictures, news and information on the NASA website while you're listening.

8pm
David Bowie    Space oddity (1969) (David Bowie)
Pink Floyd    Astronomy Domine (1967) (Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)
Spectrum    Drifting (1970) (Part One)
Rush    Countdown (1982) (Signals)
Porcupine Tree    Moonloop (1997) (The Sky Moves Sideways)
Lobby Loyde    Hymenoptera’s revenge (1976) (Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths Of Klimster)
9pm
Nektar    Journey to the centre of the eye - Side 1 (1971) (Journey To The Centre Of The Eye)
Ibliss    High life (1972) (Supernova)
Sonya Kristina    Colder than a rose (1980) (Sonja Kristina)
Curved Air    Screw (1971) (Air Conditioning)
Amplifier    Interstellar (2010) (Octopus)
10pm
Rainbow Theatre    The Armada (suite) (1975) (The Armada)
Hawkwind    Down through the night (live) (1973) (Space Ritual)
Litmus    You are here (2004) (You Are Here)
Cybotron    Black devil’s triangle (1980) (Implosion)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

05 April, 2014

Playlist - 5 April 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, including recent music from Adelaide (Hawkai, Sympathy Orchestra) and from interstate (Ben Craven, Myriad and Mushroom Giant), plus classic recordings from 1975 (Sebastian Hardie and the experimental "classical rock" group Rainbow Theatre). And it's happy birthday to David LaFlamme, leader of the classic US band It's A Beautiful Day.

8pm
Myriad    Reminded (2013) (Quietitude)
The Flower Kings    Last minute on earth (2001) (The Rainmaker)
Yes    Perpetual change (1971)  (The Yes Album)
Yes    The man you always wanted me to be (2011) (Fly From Here)
Hawkai    Invisible man (2012) (Prey)
Ben Craven & The Section    Golden band (2014) (Dissected)
Andy Salvanos    Mind your matter (2007) (Closer)
9pm
Rainbow Theatre    Petworth House (1975) (The Armada)
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (1975) (The Four Moments / Four Moments Of The Windchase)
Ozric Tentacles    Neurochasm (1995) (Become The Other)
Kate Bush    Moving + The saxophone song (1978) (The Kick Inside)
The Alan Parsons Project    What goes up + The eagle will ride again (1978) (Pyramid)
It’s A Beautiful Day    White bird (1969)  (It’s A Beautiful Day)
Roger Hodgson    Breakfast in America + The Logical song (live, 2010) (Classics Live)
10pm
Mushroom Giant    Aesong (2012) (The Drake Equation EP)
Porcupine Tree    Russia on ice/The pills I’m taking (live, 2010) (2013) (Octane Twisted)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the minute (1999) (Stupid Dream)
Beardfish    Tightrope (2011) (Mammoth)
Sympathy Orchestra    Mystic peanut (2014) (Sword Machine)

A little more information about Rainbow Theatre, including an interview with Julian Browning.