30 August, 2014

Playlist - 30 August 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, Karnivool, Sympathy Orchestra and Unitopia plus a classic song from Flake. And it's happy birthday this weekend to artist Roger Dean (the creator of album covers for a generation of bands including Yes, Uriah Heep, Greenslade and more recently Australia's Ben Craven). Plus some early Jethro Tull as a tribute to the late Glen Cornick, their first - and always nimble - bass player.

8pm
Procol Harum    Kaleidoscope (1967) (Procol Harum)
Transatlantic    Into the blue (2014) (Kaleidoscope)
Unitopia    Genesis medley (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1 Smooth As Silk)
Karnivool    We are (2013) (Asymmetry)
Sympathy Orchestra    Famous five (2014) (Sword Machine)
9pm
Yes    Heart of the sunrise (1972) (Fragile)
Greenslade    Sundance (1973) (Greenslade)
Babe Ruth    The Mexican (1972) (First Base)
Ramases    Life child (1971) (Space Hymns)
Ben Craven    The conjurer + No specific harm + Solace + Nobody dies forever Part 2 (2011) (Great And Terrible Potions)
Ozric Tentacles    The aum shuffle (1985) (Tantric Obstacles)
10pm
Jethro Tull    Bouree (1969) (Stand Up)
Jethro Tull    To cry you a song (1970) (Benefit)
Jethro Tull    Inside (1970) (Benefit)
Kate Bush    Running up that hill (1985) (Hounds of Love)
Genesis    Home by the sea (live, 2007) (Live Over Europe 2007)
Marillion    Seasons end (1989) (Seasons End)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

23 August, 2014

Playlist - 23 August 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Zen Stella (Adelaide) and Sebastian Hardie and classic '70's Aussie prog rock from Indelible Murtceps, Lobby Loyde and Tully. And it's happy birthday this weekend to Tori Amos, French keyboard wizard Jean Michel Jarre and English keyboard wizard Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep).

8pm
Jethro Tull    Living in the past (1972) (Living In The Past)
Pink Floyd    Burning bridges (1972) (Obscured by Clouds)
Tully    Ice (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Haken    Down to Earth (2013) (The Mountain)
Ozric Tentacles    Shima koto (1994) (Arborescence)
Hawkwind    Paradox (1974) (The Hall Of The Mountain Grill)
Tori Amos    Seven sisters (2011) (Night Of The Hunter)
Tori Amos    Carry (2011) (Night Of The Hunter)
9pm
Jean Michel Jarre    Calypso Parts 1, 2 & 3 (1990) (Waiting For Cousteau)
Lobby Loyde    Return to ether (1976) (Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths Of Klimster)
Perfect Beings    Fictions (2014) (Perfect Beings)
Brimstone    Flapping lips at ankle height (2014) (Mannsverk)
Zen Stella    Deviate (2013) (Deviate EP / Progfest 2013)
10pm
Uriah Heep    Easy livin’ (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Uriah Heep    Rainbow demon (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Uriah Heep    Traveller in time (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Jade Warrior    A winter’s tale (1972) (Last Autumn’s Dream)
Al Di Meola    Elegant Gypsy Suite (1982) (Tour De Force – “Live”)
Sebastian Hardie    I remember (2012) (Blueprint)
Sebastian Hardie    Rosanna (1976) (The Four Moments)
The Bucket    I can’t help thinking of you (1968) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

16 August, 2014

Playlist - 16 August 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Caligula's Horse, Domino and an epic live recording from Adelaide's Unitopia, plus the ambient-folk tinged sounds of Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest. And it's happy birthday this weekend to Kevin Ayers, Colin Moulding (XTC) and Barry Hay (Golden Earring).

8pm
Nick Magnus    Time (2014) (N’Monix)
The Gift    Road runs on til morning (2014) (Land Of Shadows)
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest    Lovers (2007) (The Poet And The Priest)
Yes    Mind drive (1997) (Keys To Ascension 2)
Domino    Karislama + Caravan (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
9pm
Kevin Ayers    Blue (1976) (Yes We Have No Mananas)
Kevin Ayers    The oyster and the flying fish (1970)  (Shooting At The Moon)
Kevin Ayers    Whatevershebringswesing (1972) (Whatevershebringswesing)
Mike Oldfield    Incantations + Harmonia mundi + The other side + Empyrean + Musica universalis (2008) (Music Of The Spheres)
XTC    Fruit nut (1998) (Apple Venus)
Dukes Of Stratosfear    The Affiliated (1987) (Psionic Psunspot)
XTC    War dance (1992)  (Nonesuch)
Lobby Loyde & The Colored Balls    Metal feathers (1972) (Ball Power And More)
10pm
Golden Earring    Song of a devil’s servant (1969) (Eight Miles High)
Golden Earring    Big tree blue sea + Radar love (1973) (Moontan)
Unitopia    The garden (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Caligula’s Horse    Ephemera(2011) (Moments From Ephemeral City)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

09 August, 2014

Playlist - 9 August 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring classic '70's Aussie prog rock from Kahvas Jute, Spectrum and Tamam Shud. And it's happy birthday this weekend to singer Deborah Conway (Do Re Mi) and guitarist Tim Gaze (Kahvas Jute, Tamam Shud and Ariel, etc). And as today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Finnish author and illustrator Tove Jansson, some of her Moomins will be around the place - via the music of Swedish band Ritual.

8pm
The Nice    America (1968) (single / Nice Hits Nice Bits)
The Moody Blues    Legend of a mind (1968)  (In Search Of The Lost Chord)
Pink Floyd    Set the controls for the heart of the sun (1968) (A Saucerful Of Secrets)
Procol Harum    Shine on brightly (1968) (Shine On Brightly)
Ritual    Late in November + A dangerous journey (2007) (The Hemulic Voluntary Band)
9pm
Kahvas Jute    Twenty three (1970)  (Wide Open)
Tamam Shud    Heaven is closed (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)Kahvas Jute    Politician (live) (2005)  (Wide Open, bonus track on re-issue)
Camel    The sleeper + Rainbow’s end (1978) (Breathless)
Steven Wilson    Luminol (2012) (The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories))
Freedom To Glide    When the whistle blows (2013) (Rain)
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    Some good advice + I’ll be gone (live at Sunbury, 1972) (Milesago – reissue: bonus track)
Renaissance    Northern Lights (1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)

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02 August, 2014

Playlist - 2 August 2014

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and around the world, featuring recent music from Hibernal (Brisbane), classic '70's Aussie prog rock from Spectrum and Tamam Shud, plus the ambient-folk tinged sounds of Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest. And it's happy birthday this weekend to guitarist and eternal hippy Steve Hillage (Egg, Gong,System 7, etc) and Neal Morse (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, etc).

8pm
Over The Garden Wall    Firth of fifth (1995) (Suppers Ready: Another Serving From The Musical Box)
Hibernal    Replacements Part 1 + The city ebbs away + The restless man (instrumental) (2014) (Replacements / Replacements (instrumental))
The Enid    In the region of the summer stars (1976)  (In  The Region Of The Summer Stars)
Steeleye Span    Fighting for strangers (1976) (Rocket Cottage)
Spectrum    Superbody (1970) (Part One)
9pm
Spock’s Beard    Gibberish (1999) (Day For Night)
Transatlantic    Overture And Whirlwind (2009) (The Whirlwind)
Neal Morse    Weathering Sky (2012) (Momentum)
Kansas    Apercu (1974) (Kansas)
Echolyn    All ways the same + As the world (1995) (As The World)
Glass Hammer    Further on and further in (2002) (Lex Rex)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Tintagel (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
10pm
Steve Hillage    The glorious Om riff (1978) (Green)
ROVO & System 7    Hinotori (2013) (Phoenix Rising)
The Orb    Codes (2007) (The Dream)
Khan    Stargazers (1972) (Space Shanty)
Tamam Shud    Midday ‘til four + Bali waters (live, 1971) (Goolutionites And The Real People, bonus track)
The James Taylor Move    Still I can go on (1967)  (single only, Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Kevin Peek    In the time of (1982) (Life And Other Games)
Andy Salvanos    Dream recall (2011) (Dream Recall)