Playlist - 29 December 2018

For the final edition of Seasons Of Change for 2018, an eclectic 2 hours of live recordings drawn from the diverse corners of the musical world of progressive rock - starting with almost a full hour of quality music from Australian bands, old and new, all recorded live: Southern Empire (Adelaide), Anubis (Sydney), Sebastian Hardie (Sydney), Indelible Murtceps (Melbourne) and Tamam Shud (Sydney). Happy New Year!

8pm
Moon Safari    Crossed the Rubicon (live) (2014) (Live In Mexico)
Southern Empire    Forest fire (live, 2017) (2018) (Live At HQ)
Anubis    Silent wandering ghosts (live, 2014) (2015) (Behind Our Eyes)
Sebastian Hardie    Windchase (conclusion) (live, 1994) (1997) (Live in L.A. - Progfest 1994)
Tamam Shud    Stand in the sunlight + Shakin’ out the stones (live) (2007) (Noosa Rain)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (live, 1972) (Warts Up Your Nose, bonus track on reissue)
9pm
Ozric Tentacles    Vita voom (live) (2007) (Sunrise Festival)
Haken    The Architect (live) (2018) (L-1VE)
Genesis    Dance on a volcano + Los Endos (live) (1977) (Seconds Out)
Kate Bush    Cloudbursting (live) (2016) (Before The Dawn - Live)
Roger Hodgson    Give a little bit + Breakfast in America + The Logical song + Take the long way home + Dreamer (live) (2010) (Classics Live)

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Excuse me just one moment while I...offer this brief clip of Mike Rudd and the Indelible Murtceps from 1972...

Playlist - 22 December 2018

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, with the emphasis on music for the festive season, including a selection of Jethro Tull recorded live at St Bride's Church (London) in 2008.

8pm
Toehider     Under the mistletoe (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Jethro Tull     Holly herald (2003) (The Christmas Album)
Steeleye Span     The holly and the ivy (1972) (single only, B-side to Gaudete)
Mike Oldfield     In dulce jubilo (1975) (single only)
Loreena McKennitt     Seeds of love (1995) (A Winter Garden)
Unitopia     The garden (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Freedom to Glide     Stolen souls (Dec 2014) (digital single)
Toehider     Carol of the bells (Choral) + Carol of the bells (Rock) (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
9pm
Jethro Tull Christmas concert at St Brides:

• Jethro Tull    Weathercock (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Reading: Rev George Pitcher / Choir    Introduction/What cheer (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Jethro Tull    A Christmas song + Living In These Hard Times (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Reading: Ian Anderson    Marmion (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Jethro Tull    Jack in the green + A winter snowscape (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
• Jethro Tull / choir / Jethro Tull    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)

Sky   Troika (1983) (Cadmium)
Emma Horwood       Noel Nouvelet + Angels we have heard on high (2010) (Angel Song: A Christmas Blessing)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

It's only Christmas once a year, but every day is Ugly Jumper Day for bass player Herbie Flowers when he's playing with instrumental classical-rock band Sky, which featured two Australian guitarists - John Williams (classical guitar) and Kevin Peek (electric guitar):

And now something a little more subdued from the talented Adelaide harpist and singer Emma Horwood:

Playlist - 15 December 2018

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, spending some time with some of the more interesting releases from 2018, including homegrown Adelaide talent Southern Empire, Peak and Andy Salvanos plus Aragon and Circadian Pulse from interstate. There's also selections from the musical legacy of talented singer Jeff St John, Mike Harrison (Spooky Tooth), Ray Thomas (The Moody Blues) and Hugh McDowell (long-serving cello-player with ELO).

8pm
Southern Empire    Crossroads (2018) (Civilisation)
Peak    Gorilla gas (2018) (Slizdexics Untie)
Aragon    Changes (1993/2018) (Rocking Horse And Other Short Stories From The Past)
Circadian Pulse    Suspended (2018) (Elements Of Existence)
Andy Salvanos    Nightcliff (2018) (Solar Cycles)
9pm
Damanek    Ragusa (2018) (In Flight)
Big Big Train    The transit of Venus across the sun (live) (2018) (Merchants Of Light)
Sons Of Apollo    Lost in oblivion (2018) (Psychotic Symphony)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort / So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
Spooky Tooth     Better by you, better than me (1969) (Spooky 2)
The Moody Blues    Legend of a mind (1968) (In Search Of The Lost Chord)
Electric Light Orchestra     Poker (1975) (Face The Music)
Pink Floyd    Keep talking (1987) (The Division Bell)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

This playlist is also on the AMRAP radiopages.info site: http://5pba.radiopages.info/seasons-of-change.

If you would like more from Melbourne band Circadian Pulse, here they are (via their own Youtube channel) performing live in 2012 with their song "Hourglass":

Plus more from...

Jeff St John and the ID (still stuck in what looks like a storeroom at Channel 7)

Mike Harrison with Spooky Tooth

Ray Thomas with The Moodies

Playlist - 8 December 2018

8pm
Genesis    A trick of the tail (1976) (A Trick Of The Tail)
Unitopia    Still here (2005/2018) (More Than A Dream: The Dream Complete)
Magic Pie    Trick of the trade (2015) (King For A Day)
Ozric Tentacles    The domes of G’Bal (1989) (Pungent Effulgent)
Sh’mantra    Sweat of the sun, tears of the moon (2001) (Formula Orange)
Amplifier    White Horses At Sea ((2011) (The Octopus)
Andy Salvanos    Long black lunch (2007) (Closer)
Gentle Giant    Cogs in cogs (1974) (The Power And The Glory)
Gentle Giant    Wreck (1971) (Acquiring The Taste)
9pm
Renaissance    Sounds of the sea (1972) (Prologue)
Emerson Lake and Palmer    The endless enigma Part 1 + Fugue + The endless enigma Part 2 (1972) (Trilogy)
Aragon    Ghosts (studio) (1993) (Rocking Horse And Other Short Stories From The Past)
Aragon    The chant (1992) (The Meeting)
The Doors    People are strange (1967) (Strange Days)
The Doors    Break on through to the other side (1967) (The Doors)
Jimmy Smith    St Louis Blues (1964) (The Cat)
Spectrum    Play a song that I know (1972) (Milesago)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

This playlist is also on the AMRAP radiopages.info site: http://5pba.radiopages.info/seasons-of-change.

Here's Mike Rudd and Spectrum in teh studio of an Adelaide TV station, playing miming accompanying a song that we indeed know, from Mike's own Youtube channel which has plenty of other interesting viewing and listening:

 

Playlist - 1 December 2018

8pm
Robert Wyatt    Shipbuilding (1982) (single only / Different Every Time)
Arcane    Keeping Stone: Water Awake (2015) (Known/Learned)
Caligula’s Horse    Silence (2011) (Moments From Ephemeral City)
Haken    1985 (live) (2018) (L-1VE)
Haken    The cockroach king (2013) (The Mountain) (the endlessly entertaining promo video can be found here)
Arabs In Aspic    De dødes tjern (2018) (single only)
Anders Buaas    The witches of Finnmark (2013) (The Witches Of Finnmark)
9pm
Peak    Bousti (2018) (Slizdexics Untie)
Andy Salvanos    Solar cycles (2018) (Solar Cycles)
Steven Wilson    Luminol (2012) (The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Caravan    Place of my own (1968) (Caravan)
Freedom To Glide    Seize The Day - Left Side Of The Brain (2015) (Single only)
Drawn From Bees    Kindness (2018) (single only)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

This playlist is also on the AMRAP radiopages.info site: http://5pba.radiopages.info/seasons-of-change

C-Horse performing live in 2018, in their home town of Brisbane, starting off with an unlikely burst of prose from Jim Grey with "Inertia", for a well-informed audience: