25 July, 2014

Playlist - 26 July 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Ben Craven (Brisbane) and classic '70's Aussie prog rock from Sebastian Hardie, plus a serving from the ASO Plays Pink Floyd concerts in 2006. There's also some arboreal music just for National Tree Day tomorrow. And it's happy birthday this weekend to Roger Taylor (Queen).

8pm
Wooly Wolstenholme    Through a storm + Hebden bridge (2005) (Grim)
Barclay James Harvest    Poor man’s Moody Blues (live) (1978) (Live Tapes)
Ben Craven    Great & terrible potions (2011) (Great & Terrible Potions)
Ben Craven & The Section    Golden band (2014) (Dissected)
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (1975) (The Four Moments / Four Moments Of The Windchase)
9pm
Procol Harum    The Worm and the tree (1977) (Something Magic)
Rush    The Trees (1978) (Hemispheres)
Jethro Tull    Bends like a willow (1999) (Dot Com)
Mother Gong    I am a tree (1989) (The Owl And The Tree)
Robert Reed    Sanctuary (2014) (Sanctuary)
Magenta    Gluttony (2004 / 2009 remix) (Seven)
10pm
Queen    A kind of magic (1986) (A Kind Of Magic)
Queen    Seven seas of Rhye (1974) (Queen II)
Cap (Consorzio Acqua Potabile)    Soli sull'Olimpo (1998 / 2014) (Robin Delle Stelle)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra    Shine on you crazy diamond (live, 2006) (ASO Plays Pink Floyd)
Ozric Tentacles    Spiralmind (1999) (Waterfall Cities)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

18 July, 2014

Playlist - 19 July 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Adelaide's Unitopia and Melbourne instrumental band Kettlespider, plus classic music from Tully. And it's happy birthday this weekend to singer Russell Allen (Symphony X), John Lodge (The Moody Blues) and two Brians - Brian May (Queen) and Brian Auger (wizard keyboardist perhaps best known for his duet with Julie Driscoll on a cover of Bob Dylan's song "This wheel's on fire"). Plus a little poetry from Robbie Burns (218 years after his death in July 1796).

8pm
Jethro Tull    Bouree (1969) (Stand Up)
Porcupine Tree    Fear of a blank planet + Sleep together (2007) (Fear of a Blank Planet)
The Moody Blues    Tuesday afternoon (1968) (single, Days Of Future Past)
Justin Hayward & John Lodge    You (1975) (Blue Jays)
The Moody Blues    Gemini dream (1981) (Long Distance Voyager)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 + Brother sun + Sea of joy Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Circles (1978) (Watch)
9pm
Queen    Hammer to fall (1984) (The Works)
Queen    ‘39 (live) (1979) (Live Killers)
Brian May    Back to the light (1993) (Back To The Light)
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity    This wheel’s on fire (1968) (single)
Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express    Freedom jazz dance (1972) (Second Wind)
Unitopia    Yes medley (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1)
Unitopia    Tesla (2010) (Artificial)
10pm
Symphony X    The accolade (1997) (Divine Wings Of Tragedy)
Symphony X    Prelude + Evolution + Fallen + Transcendence (segue) (2000) (V: The New Mythology Suite)
Focus    Hocus Pocus Medley (live) (1973/2004) (A History Of Progressive Rock)
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)
Kettlespider    The kettle spider (2010) (demo)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

12 July, 2014

Playlist - 12 July 2014

This week, another serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Sydney band Anubis and Adelaide's Sympathy Orchestra, plus classic music from Blackfeather, Spectrum and Samael Lilith. And it's happy birthday to guitarist John Petrucci (Dream Theater).

8pm
Ozric Tentacles    Jurassic shift (live, 2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Pink Floyd    Stay (1972) (Obscured by Clouds)
Mostly Autumn    Dressed in voices (2014) (Dressed In Voices)
The Flower Kings    Desolation road (2013) (Desolation Rose)
Anubis    Collapse (live) (2012) (A King With No Crown, single)
Anubis    Hitchhiking to Byzantium (2014) (Hitchhiking To Byzantium)
9pm
Dream Theater    The enemy inside (2013) (Dream Theater)
Liquid Tension Experiment    Hourglass (1999) (Liquid Tension Experiment 2)
Dream Theater    Under a glass moon (1992) (Images And Words)
Blackfeather    At the mountains of madness + On this day that I die (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Spectrum    Trust me (1972) (Milesago)
Focus    Birth (1974) (Hamburger Concerto)
Egg    Wring out the ground (loosely now) (1974) (The Civil Service)
10pm
Pink Floyd    Raving and drooling (live, Wembley, 1974) (Wish You Were Were, Experience Edition)
The Alan Parsons Project    Ammonia avenue (1984) (Ammonia Avenue)
Ozric Tentacles    Tidal Convergence (live, 2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Slapp Happy    Dawn (1974) (Casablanca Moon)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Sympathy Orchestra    Upstart (2014) (Sword Machine)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

05 July, 2014

Playlist - 5 July 2014

This week, as an antidote to the rather heavy musical offerings from last Saturday evening, the Seasons Of Change jukebox makes a temporary return with an evening of old-school prog rock drawn from a very representative "top ten" list of progressive rock albums, starting with (the rather gothic) VDGG at #10 and ending with (the quite predictable) Yes at #1.

8pm
The Crimson Projekct    Dinosaur (2014) (Live In Tokyo)
Van der graaf Generator    Sleepwalkers (1975) (Godbluff)
Pink Floyd    Sheep (1977) (Animals)
King Crimson    Starless (1974) (Red)
Pink Floyd    Time  (1973) (The Dark Side Of The Moon)
9pm
King Crimson    21st century schizoid man + I talk to the wind (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Genesis    Supper’s ready (1972) (Foxtrot)
Pink Floyd    Wish you were here + Shine on you crazy diamond (Part Two) (1975) (Wish You Were Here)
10pm
Genesis    Dancing with the moonlit knight (1973) (Selling England By The Pound)
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick Part 1 (1972) (Thick As A Brick)
Yes    And you and I (1972) (Close To The Edge)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)