Playlist - 25 January 2020

Recent music from around Australia, including Unitopia, Southern Empire,  Solar Soma, Quiet Child and Peak (Adelaide), Anubis, Sebastian Hardie and Three Wise Monkeys (Sydney), Arcane, Ben Craven and Drawn From Bees (Brisbane) plus Aronora and Mushroom Giant (Melbourne) and as always rounding out the night with Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum and his surf-grunge instrumental cover of Seasons of Change...

Next week, turning the clock back to the early 1970's with classic Aussie sounds from Fraternity, Kahvas Jute, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully, amongst others.

8pm
Sebastian Hardie I remember (2012) (Blueprint)
Unitopia Don’t give up love (2008) (The Garden)
Southern Empire Dreams and machines (2016) (Southern Empire)
Arcane Asylum: Acolyte Zero (2009) (Chronicles Of The Waking Dream)
Three Wise Monkeys Svengali (2020) (Isolation EP)
Aronora Vote 1: Anything (instrumental) + Fake escape (2015) (Escapology)
9pm
Mushroom Giant Graven image (2006) (single only)
Quiet Child Hotel shade (2013) (The Coming Storm)
Andy Salvanos   Mosaik (2018) (Solar Cycles)
Peak Gorilla gas (2018) (Slizdexics Untie)
Anubis Fool’s gold (2018) (Different Stories)
Solar Soma Crackd (2013) (So Much For Style)
Drawn From Bees Kindness (2018) (single only)
Ben Craven Great divide (2016) (The Single Edits)
Ariel   Rock ‘n roll scars (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus 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.

The band Aronora is dormant for now but you may be just as interested in what Ben Cameron has been doing  more recently with his Project:

Playlist - 18 January 2020

For tonight's Summer edition of "Seasons Of Change", to paraphrase the title of a very early Pink Floyd song, we...

SET THE CONTROLS FOR: 1978

 ...encountering the usual diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, or at least as much as can fit into 2 hours. By 1978 most of the Aussie bands and performers from the "head music" scene of the early 70's had either split or were dormant (Tamam Shud, Tully, Madder Lake, CoCaine, Lobby Loyde, Fraternity, Bakery, etc) and newer bands like the Enz and Sebastian Hardie were between albums but Mike Rudd and Ariel released a 2nd LP of music from their farewell concert in Melbourne in 1977. There's also classic music from Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Rush, UK and Yes, plus a surprise hit single for Genesis and that concept album which was all over Adelaide radio in 1978, Jeff Wayne's "War Of The Worlds", complete with narration by Richard Burton (and dodgy 70's style film clip - recreation here)....

8pm
Kate Bush Moving (Feb 1978) (The Kick Inside)
Renaissance A song for all seasons (Mar 1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Genesis Follow you follow me (Mar 1978) (And Then There Were Three)
UK In the dead of night (Mar 1978) (UK)
The Alan Parsons Project What goes up (May 1978) (Pyramid)
Steve Hillage The Glorious Om Riff (Apr 1978) (Green)
Jeff Wayne Forever Autumn (Jun 1978) (War Of The Worlds)
9pm
Ariel Island Fantasia (live) + We are indelible (live) (Aug 1978) (More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert, re-issue)
Yes On the silent wings of freedom (Sept 1978) (Tormato)
Camel Rainbow's end (Sept 1978) (Breathless)
Rush Circumstances (Oct 1978) (Hemispheres)
Emerson Lake & Palmer   Canario (Nov 1978) (Love Beach)
Mike Oldfield Incantations: Part 4 (excerpt) (Nov 1978) (Incantations / Elements: The Best Of)
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.

There's no publicly available footage from the farewell concert at the Dallas Brooks Hall in 1977 but here is Ariel live on GTK, ABC TV, in 1973:

This film clip with an excerpt from Mike Oldfield's Incantations was also familiar to ABC TV viewers during the 1980s, filling the recurring inconvenient 3 minute gaps before the hour or half hour:

Maple leaf rag:

Noone would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century...

Playlist - 11 January 2020

Tonight, a hefty serving of music from the Canadian band Rush, featuring the late Neil Peart who was the long-term drummer and lyricist for the band. Keeping it closer to home, there is also heavy sounds from Southern Empire (Adelaide) and Aronora (Melbourne).

8pm
Rush Anthem (1975) (Fly By Night)
Rush Bastille Day (1975) (Caress Of Steel)
Rush 2112 Overture / The temples of Syrinx (1976) (2112)
Rush Xanadu (1977) (A Farewell To Kings)
Rush La villa strangiato (1978) (Hemispheres)
Rush The spirit of radio (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Rush Limelight (1981) (Moving Pictures)
9pm
Rush Subdivisions (1982) (Signals)
Rush The enemy within (1984) (Grace Under Pressure)
Rush Big money (1985) (Power Windows)
Rush Time stand still (1987) (Hold Your Fire)
Rush Nobody’s hero (1993) (Counterparts)
Rush Ghost rider (2002) (Vapor Trails)
Rush The garden (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Aronora This is anywhere (2015) (Escapology)
10pm
Southern Empire Crossroads (2018) (Civilisation)
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.

Through the 1970's...

...the 1980's...

...the 1990's...

...and on and on...

...the passage of time, indeed:

..."The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?" (Bob Dylan)

Playlist - 4 January 2020

Tonight, a brief selection from some new releases during 2019, including Andy Salvanos (Adelaide), Aragon (Melbourne), Hemina and Anubis (Sydney), Three Wise Monkeys (Blue Mountains) and Voyager (Perth), plus a salute to the late Neil Innes (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles and long-term musical collaborator with the Monty Python team).

8pm
Magic Pie    The man who had it all (2019) (Fragments Of The 5th Element)
Hemina    In technicolour (2019) (Night Echoes)
Freedom To Glide    The space between the lines + The only way? (2019) (Seed)
In Continuum    All that is (2019) (Acceleration Theory Part 2: Annihilation)
Three Wise Monkeys    Procrustes (2019) (advance track from Isolation EP)
Anubis    Dead trees (live at Loreley) (2019) (Lights Of Change: Live In Europe 2018)
Andy Salvanos    Lightwaves (2019) (digital 3 song EP)
9pm
Aragon    The meeting + The chant + The changeling (1995, 2019 re-issue) (Mouse)
Moon Letters    Sea battle (2019) (Until They Feel The Sun)
The Mute Gods   Iridium heart (2019) (Atheists & Believers)
Voyager    Brightstar (2019) (Colours In The Sun)
The Rutles   I must be in love + Let’s be natural (1978) (The Rutles)
Monty Python   Knights of the round table (1975) (Monty Python Sings)
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.

From Rutland TV to you , Neil Innes:

Here is the sight and sound of some of these 2019 releases: