Playlist - 28 September 2019

Tonight, recent music from Aura Form (Adelaide, post-rock) and BaK (Sydney) plus, from the Birthday Book this week, the terrific Australian singer Wendy Saddington and Andy Ward (drummer with UK band Camel). It's also the 50th anniversary this week of the Beatles album Abbey Road, the record that helped inspire a multitude of prog rock bands to compose and record side-long suites. And a selection from the legacy of Geoff Gray, the long-time lead singer of the eclectic Sydney band Flake who passed away this week.

8pm
Flake Violet Jam Part A: Down in Rio + Violet Jam Part B: Quick reaction (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Flake Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother))
Wendy Saddington Looking through a window (1971) (single only)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Five people said I was crazy (live, 1971) (Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
BaK Us all (2019) (Painter)
Aura Form Secrets of the sun + Floating South (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
9pm
The Beatles Side 2 of Abbey Road (1969) (Abbey Road)
Camel Unevensong (1977) (Raindances)
Camel White rider (live) (1972/1992) (On The Road 1972)
The Parazone Wild dolphins (2019) (REC/PLAY)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Probably sometime late 1970, here is Wendy Saddington out front with Copperwine, recorded for the ABC TV show GTK:

Playlist - 21 September 2019

8pm
Robert Reed    Witchfinder General Theme (2016) (single)
The Mute Gods    Knuckleheads (2019) (Atheists And Believers)
Porcupine Tree    Chloroform (2006) (Futile)
Steve Hackett    Unquiet slumbers for the sleepers + In that quiet earth + Afterglow (live) (2014) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
Andy Salvanos    Lightwaves (2019) (digital single)
Altera Enigma    Enigmatic alteration (2006) (Alteration)
9pm
Procession    Listen (1968) (single only/ So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?)
Bulldog    Inner spring (1970) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Be not too hard (1974) (The Good Earth)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Joybringer (1973) (single only)
Renaissance    Let it grow (1973) (Ashes Are Burning)
Annie Haslam    Captive heart (1997) (Live Studio Concert Philadelphia 1997)
Locanda delle Fate    Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più (1977) (Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più)
Camel    Supertwister (1974) (Mirage)
Freedom To Glide   Broken road (2019) (Seed, advance track)
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.

A recent interview with Mick Rogers (Procession, Bulldog, Manfred Mann's Earth Band) :

Playlist - 14 September 2019

8pm
Eddie Rayner & ENZO: Stranger than Fiction    Titus + Spellbound + 129 + Edible flowers (live) (2014) (ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction - Live)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night + You don’t have to listen (1970) (Joint Effort)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident / Prognosis 3)
A Lonely Crowd    Tyranny of dissonance (2011) (User Hostile)
Aura Form     Walking through Fallout (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
9pm
Symphony X    The Divine Wings of Tragedy (1997) (The Divine Wings of Tragedy)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (1972) (Captain Beyond)
Captain Beyond    Everything’s a circle (1973) (Sufficiently Breathless)
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick Part 2 (1972) (Thick As A Brick)
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.

And if you want to see some of the ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction concert, selected footage from the concerts are available on Eddie Rayner's Youtube channel, including Spellbound:

Playlist - 7 September 2019

Tonight, on the first edition of Seasons Of Change for Spring 2019, classic music from Fraternity (Adelaide), Mackenzie Theory and Spectrum (both from Melbourne), and more recent music from Southern Empire (Adelaide); plus, from the Birthday Book, Marc Hunter (Dragon, NZ) and Roger Waters (Pink Floyd).

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
Southern Empire    How long (2016) (Southern Empire)
Spectrum    Fly without its wings (1972) (Milesago)
Dragon    Universal Radio (1974) (Universal Radio)
Dragon    Darkness (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
Dragon    Konkaroo (1978) (single from Greatest Hits Vol.1)
Dragon    Young years (1989) (Bondi Road)
9pm
Roger Waters    In the flesh + The happiest days of our lives + Another brick in the wall (live, USA) (2006) (In The Flesh)
Roger Waters    What god wants, Part 1 (1992) (Amused To Death)
Mackenzie Theory    O (1973) (Out Of The Blue)
Ozric Tentacles    Waldorfdub (2000) (Swirly Termination)
Rush    Dreamline (live) (1997) (Different Stages - Live)
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. 

For something different:

A photo essay of the early years of Dragon in New Zealand

And here is a remarkable live version of the song "Seasons of change" by the other group who recorded it (and indeed wrote it), Blackfeather: