Playlist - 12 August 2023

Your eyes are not deceiving you...

This weekend, at 8pm on Saturday night, there will be a one-off edition of Seasons Of Change, that's leading up to the last ever edition of Seattle & Beyond on PBA-FM with Wardy at 10pm that night. 

There will be a heap of new, Australian music - after all, some time has elapsed since Seasons Of Change last went to air in April this year. New music from here in Adelaide from United Progressive Fraternity and from Matt Goodluck; and of course new releases are due soon from two prominent Adelaide bands which have released songs via social media for promotional purposes. Plus tributes to two talented musicians who passed away in the last few days - Robbie Robertson (gutarist and songwriter with The Band) and David LaFlamme (violinist, lead singer and songwriter with pyschedelic late '60's / early '70's US band It's A Beautiful Day).

8pm
Robbie Robertson    Golden feather (1994) (Music For The Native Americans)
Robbie Robertson    Skinwalker (1994) (Music For The Native Americans)
The Band    The night they drove old Dixie down (1969) (The Band)
It’s A Beautiful Day    White bird (1969)  (It’s A Beautiful Day)
It’s A Beautiful Day    Hot summer day (1971) (Live In San Francisco)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Real meanie (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo, lyrics by Bill Putt)
9pm
United Progressive Fraternity    Love never leaves us (2023) (Planetary Overload, Part 2 - Hope)
United Progressive Fraternity    The answer (2023) (Planetary Overload, Part 2 - Hope)
Preview: new albums which are pending release by Adelaide bands Unitopia and Southern Empire
- Unitopia    Mania (a snippet only) (2023) (Seven Chambers)
- Southern Empire    Hold on to me (another snippet only) (2023) (Another World)
Hemina    Strike four (single version) (2023) (Romancing The Ether)
Andy Salvanos    Remembrance (2012) (Reunion)
Matt Goodluck    Emergent (2023) (Inner Cosmos)
Queensryche    Resistance (1990) (Empire)
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 week marks 10 years since the death of Bill Putt, the long-time collaborator with the Aussie music legend Mike Rudd (Spectrum, Ariel and many other projects and collaborations) - in Mike's own words earlier this week:

• "Bill Putt (or Bilge Pump as Harvey James dubbed him) has been gone for a decade already. 'Jeebers’ as he'd say. For anybody lucky enough to be in his orbit, his acts of kindness, his story-telling, his love of kids and his nutty sense of humour are as legendary as the man himself. He'll be remembered fondly by many for years to come."

Music with pictures...

In advance of their imminent new album, "Seven Chambers", Adelaide band Unitopia has released a couple of videos for songs taken from that album (in an earlier time, these may have taken the form of a "single") - here is one:

Meanwhile, in advance of their imminent new album, "Another World", Adelaide band Southern Empire has also released a video for a song from that album, featuring their new singer Shaun Holton (aka Projected Twin):

And Matt Goodluck has also somehow found time in a doubtless busy schedule to compile a couple of videos to accompany music from his new album - here is one of them:

Epilogue

The program Seasons Of Change has (for now) completed it's run on PBA-FM 89.7, Adelaide's Northern Voice.

I (David) would like to thank all of you who have, over the years, tuned in at 8pm on a Saturday night.

Special thanks to you if you made contact through social media, and especially if you rang through to PBA-FM at any time while the program was going to air, whether you gave feedback or just said Hi.

Most presenters you hear on Australian community radio are volunteering their time to keep their local station on the air; they prepare and present programs consistent with their stations licence, the requirements of the assigned shift (day and time) and the overall principles under which community radio operates here in Australia. This is not necessarily a small task. It is a pleasure indeed at any time to receive feedback and suggestions and I thank all of you who took the time to do this.

I would also like to thank PBA-FM who in February 2012 graciously assigned the shift of 8pm to 11pm to me for a potential program based around the music genre of "progressive rock". The "potential" program of course took on a life of it's own, and from the start adopted a specific aim to give airtime to Australian music past and present, focussing on the various styles and sub-genres of "progressive rock"...

For those of you who like statistics, here are just a few (I will probably add more later):

• The Total Number of weeks on air: 585
• The Total Number of songs: 10,293
• The Number of Australian artists featured: 287
• The % and total time of songs that were from Australian artists (understated due to rounding error): 27,948 hours. That is at least 33% of total program time

Please continue to support community radio in general and your local station PBA-FM in particular. If you have a look at the station website (pbafm.org.au), you will find a diverse range of listening on the schedule - including community access programs, multicultural programs and specialist music programs. As one of our station IDs used to say, there really is "something for everyone" on PBA-FM.

By the way I will intermittently keep updating the Gigs (Future and Past) page with details of upcoming gigs of interest here and interstate, the ones I know about anyway so please keep an eye on it. Gigs (Future and Past) was updated as recently as 14 Jan 2024.

Thank you again - David.

EDIT: In case you are wondering, here is the original montage of rather beautiful Aussie prog rock album covers (classic and recent) which I created for use within the PBA-FM website (as per the screenshot above, where some of them are obscured by necessity):

ANOTHER EDIT: "Behind the scenes", to assist with program planning each week, I kept an Excel file of all the music which went to air. The size of that Excel file of course ballooned quickly over 11 years... Taken from that file, here is a list of the 30 most frequently played artists over the entire run of Seasons Of Change - it should be no surprise that Australian music is highly represented and in particular artists from the state of South Australia; the support of Australian artists past and present is a key reason why community radio exists here in Australia.

And in closing...a special mention for Ben Rogers' Instrumental Asylum, "a power trio delivering twanging reverb-drenched surf-rock instrumentals" - Ben and his band are decidedly non-Prog but their blistering instrumental recording of the classic Aussie song "Seasons of change" was played almost 210 times at the end of most editions of the show (starting from the date that the length of the show was shortened from 3 hours to 2 hours). If you are in Melbourne, check out their FB page for gigs as they arise. From 2012, here it is again in it's full and complete glory with the trio joined by guest drummer Al Kash with a drum solo (Al also played on the original recording of that song by Blackfeather in 1970):

Playlist - 8 April 2023

Starting off this final Saturday night with tributes to a couple of talented musicians who passed away during the week; Ray Shulman (of influential UK prog rock pioneers Gentle Giant) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (Yellow Magic Orchestra and subsequently many other projects including movie soundtracks) as well as Alan "Taff" Freeman of the German-based band Nektar.  

Then continuing for the rest of the evening with another feast of music from Adelaide-based artists, past and present, including: Cotter's Bequest, Unitopia, Southern Empire, Double Handed, Like Leaves and Adelaide's master of the Chapman Stick, Andy Salvanos.

8pm
Ryuichi Sakamoto (& David Sylvian)    Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II - Returning To The Womb) (1991) (Heartbeat)
Ryuichi Sakamoto    The Last Emperor (Theme) (1992) (The Last Emperor OST)
Nektar    Listen (1977) (Magic Is  A Child)
Gentle Giant    Funny ways (live, 1975) (King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents…)
Gentle Giant    Cogs in cogs (1974) (The Power And The Glory)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Cloghans (1997) (In The Home Of My Ancestors)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Silbury Hill – Wiltshire – Earth Works (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Kapunda 1856 The Cornish Miners (2006) (Land Of The Vast Horizon)
9pm
Unitopia    The great reward (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Southern Empire    Hold (live) (2017) (Southern Empire Live At HQ 22 May 2016)
Double Handed    Sit still (2009) (A Book Of Back Pages)
Like Leaves    Fruit (2011) (Like Leaves)
Andy Salvanos    The unknown (2016) (Transform)
Genesis    Fading lights (1991) (We Can’t Dance)
Rush    Spirit of radio (1980) (Permanent Waves)

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.

Music with pictures:

The remarkable British band Gentle Giant recorded live in concert in 1975, featuring the late Ray Shulman on bass - and quite a few other instruments too including violin and guitar, and of course those trademark GG vocal harmonies:

From the land of the maple leaf, that band Rush, over 40 years ago (1979, 1980):

And, after a generous run of about 583 Saturday evenings, the time is up for our brief weekly window into the musical world of progressive rock, from around the world and - most importantly - right here in Australia...Thank you for listening and for supporting your local radio station, PBA-FM

Playlist - 1 April 2023

Starting tonight with a tribute to the late lyricist Keith Reid, best known for providing the lyrics for almost every song by Procol Harum (and numerous other songs including "You're the voice" by John Farnham); then continuing for the rest of the evening with a banquet of music from Adelaide-based artists, past and present.

8pm
Procol Harum    An old English Dream (2003) (The Well’s On Fire)
Procol Harum    Typewriter torment (1975) (Procol’s Ninth)
The Noteworthys    A whiter shade of pale (full) [The Lost Verses} (2018) (digital single)
Levi Smith's Clefs    You can’t do that (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Fraternity    Seasons of change (1971, single version) (Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    Question (1971) (B-side of single “Why did it have to be me?” / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    You have a god (1971) (Livestock / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Sound    Lemon patch (2020) (Listen)
9pm
Unitopia    Slow down (2006/2017) (More Than A Dream - The Dream Complete)
Southern Empire    Hold (2016) (Southern Empire)
Solar Soma    Two headed dog (2013) (So Much For Style)
Projected Twin    Circle of two (2010) (Earth To World)
The Slow Light    Cinema of the mind (live) (2020) (Live At Ghostnote Studios)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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.

Playlist - 25 March 2023

Starting with prog metal sounds from Australia and from overseas, followed by a much more subdued Hour 2.

8pm
Anim8    Jethro (2010) (Anim8)
Dream Theater    This is the life (2011) (A Dramatic Turn Of Events)
Anim8    The freeway (2010) (Anim8)
Haken    Invasion (2020) (Virus)
Andy Salvanos    To be like stars (2016) (Transform)
Domino    My opiate (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Red Sea    Caravan (2016) (Battlescar)
Focus    Anonymus (1970) (In And Out Of Focus)
9pm
Windchase    Forward we ride / Horsemen to infinity (1978) (Symphinity)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2012) (Blueprint)
Caravan    The love in your eye (2002) (Live At Fairfield Halls - 1974)
Camel    Ice (live) (1998) (Coming Of Age - Live)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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 Gurus...definitely not prog rock and they are also recorded live at another radio station (which shall remain nameless), but good music is good music... especially when it includes the first live performance of the "Dodge" tune...

Playlist - 18 March 2023

Tonight starting with some tracks featuring the late Robin Lumley (member of British jazz rock group Brand X and many other collaborations; and also, incidentally, the second cousin of actress Joanna Lumley). The second hour starts with music from a couple of the country's most trippy bands.

8pm
Brand X    Nuclear burn (1976) (Unorthodox Behaviour)
Brand X    Disco suicide (1977) (Moroccan Roll)
Brand X    Touch wood (1976) (Unorthodox Behaviour)
Dave Gilmour    Echoes (live( (2006) (Live In Gdansk)
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    Astronomy domine (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
9pm
Pond    Don’t look at the sun (or you’ll go blind) (live) (2019) (Sessions)
Pond    Man it feels like space again (live) (2019) (Sessions)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Ontology (2020) (K.G.)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Intrasport (2020) (K.G.)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Oddlife (2020) (K.G.)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Honey (2020) (K.G.)
Sean Timms    Planet Earth Suite (2008) (The Gargoyle and Other Stories)
Southern Empire    Dreams and machines (2016) (Southern Empire)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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.

Music with pictures:

This is really nicely done... But it's such a pity that Nick Mason's SOS aren't playing "Echoes" (or anything else) here in Adelaide during their time in Australia, September this year...

From 1979, British jazz rock fusion group Brand X featuring the late Robin Lumley behind a bank of keyboards. And Phil Collins too, of course, behind the drumset and with a remarkable head of hair at the time:

Playlist - 11 March 2023

Tonight, starting with a selection from the legacy of Wayne Shorter (sax player with Miles Davis and of course Weather Report). Also, something to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of that "prism" album back in March 1973.

Plus a couple of tracks from the recent re-issue of the one album by the short-lived early 1970's Aussie supergroup Fanny Adams - renowned singer Doug Parkinson fronting a band chock-full of talent.  From Milesago: "On paper, it looked like a dream team, with four of Australasia's best musicians combining in a 'supergroup' and intent on conquering the world. Given the talent involved, this should have been a great group who did grand things, but, as so often happened in OzRock, the reality proved to be drastically different..."

8pm
Weather Report    Birdland (1977) (Heavy Weather)
Miles Davis    E.S.P. (1965) (E.S.P.)
Weather Report    Elegant people (1976) (Black Market)
Unitopia    Tears from the garden (2020) (The Garden, remaster)
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Fanny Adams    Yesterday was today (1970 / 2023 re-issue) (Fanny Adams)
Fanny Adams    You don’t bother me (1970 / 2023 re-issue) (Fanny Adams)
9pm
Pink Floyd    Money (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd    Us and them (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd    Any colour you like (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd    Brain damage (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
Pink Floyd    Eclipse (live, Empire Pool 1974) (2011) (Dark Side Of The Moon, Experience Edition)
The Nest Itself    From peaks to pittance (2011) (2011 EP)
Montresor    Supersonic (2015) (Entelechy)
Billy Bragg    Waiting for the great leap forward (2014) (Live At The Union Chapel)

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.

Music with pictures: 

A tune from Adelaide band Unitopia, recently released on their Bandcamp page ahead of further releases:

Plus a live performance from 49 years ago:

and Billy, who speaks at least as well as he writes and sings...

Playlist - 4 March 2023

Tonight, another program of two parts: from Zappa to the (perhaps) Zappa-esque from the 1970's, a time by which his influence had already blossomed on other musicians around the world.

8pm
The Mothers Of Invention    Wowie zowie (1966) (Freak Out!)
The Mothers Of Invention    Call any vegetable (1967) (Absolutely Free)
The Mothers Of Invention    Who needs the peace corps (1968) (We’re Only In It For The Money)
The Mothers Of Invention    Dog breath, In the year of the plague (1969) (Uncle Meat)
Frank Zappa    Willie The Pimp (1969) (Hot Rats)
The Mothers Of Invention    Holiday in Berlin, Full-blown (1970) (Burnt Weeny Sandwich)
Frank Zappa    Eat that question (1972) (The Grand Wazoo)
Frank Zappa    Cosmik debris (1974) (Apostrophe)
9pm
Spectrum    Superbody (1971) (Part One)
Ariel    Neo-Existentialist Greens / Medicine Man / Letter song (1974) (Rock & Roll Scars / The Jellabad Mutant)
Daddy Cool    Make your stash (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band    Wangarratta Wahine (1974) (Wangaratta Wahine)
Company Caine    Go see the gypsy (1971) (A Product of a Broken Reality)
Rainbow Theatre    Caption for the city night life (1976) (Fantasy Of Horses)
The Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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.

Music with pictures...

A later line-up of Spectrum with an (at the time) again-bearded Mike Rudd recorded in an ABC TV studio:

and Spectrum from the early 70's with a version of the Ross Wilson song which they included on their first album:

The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, in 1971, filmed in colour and "at" speed (not "on" speed):

Company Caine and an intriguing "promo clip" from 1971:

Playlist - 25 February 2023

Tonight featuring almost an hour of all-Australian prog metal and general heaviness after 9 o'clock.

8pm
Yogi Lang     No decoder (2010) (No Decoder)
Yogi Lang    A better place for me (2010) (No Decoder)
RWPL    Sunday morning (2002) (Trying To Kiss The Sun)
Queen    The prophet’s song (1975) (A Night At The Opera)
Buffalo    Sunrise (come my way) (1972) (Volcanic Rock)
Rush    2112 (1976) (2112)
9pm
Lucid Planet    Organic hard drive (2020) (Lucid Planet II)
Red Sea    The One (2020) (Sanguine)
Teramaze    An ordinary dream (2015) (Her Halo)
Three Wise Monkeys    Procrustes (2019) (Isolation)
Lacrymae    Theorem (2009) (The Hallowed Design)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)
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 may (or may not) be any Frank Zappa on tonight's show, but here is something from the interwebs ahead of tomorrow night's Fringe gig by Lather, Adelaide's own Zappa tribute band - "Hey, what kind of a guru are you anyway? Don't you waste your time on me...":

Playlist - 18 February 2023

8pm
Rush    Grand designs (1985) (Power Windows)
Porcupine Tree    Four chords that made a million (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
Porcupine Tree    The rest will flow (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the minute (live in studio, 2010) (2020) (Pure Narcotic – Acoustic Session 2012)
Steven Wilson    The raven that refused to sing (2013) (The Raven That Refused To Sing)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident)
Steven Wilson    Sound of muzak (live, 2018) (2018) (Home Invasion in concert at the Royal Albert Hall)
Steven Wilson    Personal shopper (2020) (The Future Bites)
9pm
Emily Barker    The woman who planted trees (2020) (A Dark Murmuration Of Words)
Spectrum    Jenwah (2011) (Breathing Space As Well)
Spectrum    Xavier Rudd is not my son (2011) (Breathing Space Too)
Spectrum    Star crazy (2008) (Breathing Space)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live, 2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Ariel    Rock ‘n roll scars (live, 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus track)
Spectrum    What the world needs is a new pair of socks (1971) (Milesago)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo)
Doug Parkinson    Do not go gentle (words by Dylan Thomas) (1974) (Stone OST)
Hoodoo Gurus    Get out of Dodge (2022) (Chariot Of The Gods)

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 in case you were ever wondering, the Policies Guidelines and Constitution for PBA-FM, Adelaide's Northern Voice, as occasionally cited on air.

Music with pictures...

For the new (non-prog rock) playout track planned for 9:55pm, for the foreseeable future, for Seasons Of Change, our weekly expedition into the musical world of progressive rock from Australia and elsewhere...

The happy chappies from Canada, Rush, with Grand Designs, live:

Is 9 hours and 44 minutes of compiled Frank Zappa interviews a bit over the top? You be the judge!

Too late for Burns Night, but still...

Playlist - 11 February 2023

Tonight starting with tributes to two very different musical personalities this week - Burt Bacharach (whose well-known compositions could themselves be heard for hours and hours) and Phil Spalding, a widely travelled bass player perhaps best known here on Saturday nights as a member of GTR, the "supergroup" formed by guitarists Steve Howe (ex-Yes) and Steve Hackett (ex-Genesis) and also as an occasional collaborator with Mike Oldfield. Plus a couple of songs you would have heard from Geoff Tate and his band last night at The Gov.

8pm
Elvis Costello    Toledo (1998) (Painted From Memory)
McCoy Tyner    (There's) Always something there to remind me (1997) (What the World Needs Now: The Music of Burt Bacharach)
Joe Cocker    Need your love so bad (1997) (Across From Midnight)
GTR    Reach out (never say no) (live, 1986) (1997) (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Tubular World    Tubular Bells Part One (2019) (Tubular World)
9pm
Queensryche    Best I can (1990) (Empire)
Queensryche    Empire (1990) (Empire)
Dyssidia    Arrival (2020) (Costly Signals)
The Omnific    Posterity (2021) (Escapades)
All India Radio    Distance 3 (Outtake) (2022) (Lost Songs From Infinity)
The Pagan Love Cult    Hats off to Hoffmann (2017) (The Last Of The Long Lost Hippies)
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.

Music with pictures:

Now this is an extraordinarily trippy video...from The Pagan Love Cult (of Nimbin, or thereabouts), filmed at the release of their album (2017, or thereabouts)...

From Adelaide band Dyssida, a "guitar and bass playthrough" of tonight's heavy track:

Playlist - 4 February 2023

Tonight, with Waitangi Day coming up this Monday 6th February, a feast of music past and present from New Zealand, followed by an hour of mostly Aussie music from the early 1970's with just a brief interlude into the music of US progressive metal band Queensryche ahead of the gig this week in Adelaide of their ex-lead singer Geoff Tate.

8pm
Pencarrow    New light (2020) (Growth In The Absence Of Light)
Pencarrow    Portrait of my inner frailty (2020) (Growth In The Absence Of Light)
Pencarrow    Twins paradox (live) (2022) (Live At San Fran)
Look To Windward    Aqua Marina (2019) (In Fantasy)
Ragnarok    The Volsung (1976) (Nooks)
Dragon    Scented gardens for the blind (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind)
Split Enz    History never repeats (live, NZ, 1993) (Greatest Hits: Live)
9pm
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Dave Miller Set    Mr Guy Fawkes (1969) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Dave Miller Set    No need to cry (1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974)
Queensryche    Resistance (1990) (Empire)
Queensryche    Silent lucidity (1990) (Empire)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Lisa (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night (1970) (Joint Effort)
The James Taylor Move    Still I can go on (1967) (single only, Peculiar Hole In The Sky)

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.

Playlist - 28 January 2023

Recent music from around Australia, including The Slow Light, Peak, Unitopia, Southern Empire and Projected Twin (here in Adelaide), Em Burrows, formerly of The Lammas Tide (Perth), All India Radio and Kilbey Kennedy (Hobart), Quandary (Brisbane), plus Toehider and King Gizzard (Melbourne). And last Wednesday (the day before Australia Day) was also the anniversary of the birth of the bard, Robert Burns.

8pm
The Slow Light    Twin Earth – Part IV (2023) (Sessions)
The Slow Light    Liminal (2022) (Limiinal)
Em Burrows    Timeline (2016) (Solitary Sounds, EP)
Web Rumors (Em Burrows)    Cruel sister (2022) (single)
Eddi Reader    Love is like a red, red rose (2008) (The Songs Of Robert Burns)
Peak    Where's Floyd? (2018) (Slizdexics Untie)
Urtekk    Euphonics (2013) (Urtekk)
9pm
Unitopia    Lives go round (Sean’s re-work) (2017) (More Than A Dream: The Dream Complete)
Southern Empire    Forest fire (2016) (Southern Empire)
Projected Twin    Earth to world (live in studio) (2021) (Earth To World : Live From Lauda Studios)
All India Radio    Wolves of Orion (2022) (The Generator Of All Infinity)
Kilbey Kennedy    Halfway (2021) (Jupiter 13)
Quandary    Waiting for change (2010) (Ready To Fail)
Toehider    The hoarder (single version) (2022) (I Have Little to No Memory Of These Memories)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Exploding suns (2022) (Changes)

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 Brisbane band Quandary, FB post circa 2010. "Prog is certainly a serious business" and drummer Geoff Irish was it seems guilty as charged...

Playlist - 21 January 2023

Tonight, the prog rock musical clock is again re-calibrated, this time to the year 2003. As with last week's expedition back to 1993, the musical results can best be described as eclectic... Plus a detour away from the world of prog rock to pay tribute to the late Renee Geyer and David Crosby.

For the next two weeks (28 January and 4 February), Seasons Of Change will be dedicated 100% to prog rock bands and recordings from Australia.

8pm
OSI    ShutDOWN (February 2003) (Office Of Strategic Influence)
Opeth    Windowpane (April 2003) (Damnation)
Saga    Marathon (April 2003) (Marathon)
The Mars Volta    eriatarka (April 2003) (Deloused In The Crematorium)
Renee Geyer    Difficult woman (2009) (Difficult Woman)
Renee Geyer    A man’s man’s world (2013) (Swing)
The Byrds    Chimes of freedom (1965) (Tambourine Man)
9pm
Aragon    In the name of god (2004) (The Angel’s Tear)
The Church    Song in space (October 2003) (Forget Yourself)
Spock’s Beard    The bottom line (July 2003) (Feel Euphoria)
The Flower Kings    Circus Brimstone (live) (November 1993) (Meet The Flower Kings – A Live Recording)
Anekdoten    The war is over (June 2003) (Gravity)
Renee Geyer    Sweet love (1975) (I Give You (Sweet Love))

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.

Playlist - 14 January 2023

Last Saturday, Seasons Of Change turned the clock back 40 years to 1983, which is also the year when PBA-FM, aka 5PBA, started broadcasting from Salisbury to the wider Adelaide area. Keep an eye on the PBA-FM Facebook page for more updates on the 40th anniversary celebrations as they come to hand.

Tonight, the prog rock musical clock is again re-calibrated, this time to the year 1993, with musical results best described as eclectic...

8pm
The Jeff Beck Group    I ain’t superstitious (1968) (Truth)
Roger Waters    What god wants, Part 1 (1992) (Amused To Death)
Genesis    Driving the last spike (live) (January 1993) (Genesis Live: The Way We Walk – The Longs)
Ozric Tentacles    Jurassic shift (April 1993) (Jurassic Shift)
Enchant     Mae dae (August 1993) (Blueprint Of The World)
Split Enz     Pioneer (live, March 1993) (2005) (Extravagenza)
Split Enz     Six months in a leaky boat (live, March 1993) (2005) (Extravagenza)
9pm
Aragon    Rocking Horse (Act 1) (1993) (Rocking Horse And Other Short Stories From The Past)
Rush    Cut to the chase (October 1993) (Counterparts)
Jethro Tull    Crew nights (November 1993) (Nightcap)
Pendragon    Nostradamus (Stargazing) (November 1993) (The Window Of Life)
W.H.Y.    Woman of steel (1983) (single only)

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Music with pictures (not necessarily from 1993):

New, rather nice, live, recording from French band Esthesis:

 The Enz on their 1993 reunion tour of New Zealand:

Aussie band Aragon with a 20 minute promo video for their 20 minute song Rocking Horse (Act 1). With the re-release of their album The Angel's Tear last month (December 2022), I think the band have now completed the not insignificant task of re-issuing all six of their (virtually unobtainable) albums (originally released between 1988 and 2004) on their Bandcamp page:

Camel recorded live with their beautiful instrumental "Ice" - this did not make it to air tonight, making way for some music featuring the late Jeff Beck):

From 2018, a fine cover by The London Symphonia of Pink Floyd which is unlikely to ever be heard on Seasons Of Change; only because it is remarkably difficult to obtain in either physical or digital form 😢:

Oh, and:

The last minute inclusion tonight at 9:55pm of a song by Mike Rudd and W.H.Y. from 1983 which missed out last Saturday night (and for which an unlikely promo video has survived):

Playlist - 7 January 2023

Tonight, Seasons Of Change turns the clock back 40 years to 1983, which is also the year when PBA-FM, aka 5PBA, started broadcasting from Salisbury to the wider Adelaide area. Keep an eye on the PBA-FM Facebook page for more updates on the 40th anniversary celebrations as they come to hand.

As 1983 was a transition year for the world of progressive rock, with many established bands either disbanded or sitting the year out, it's an eclectic selection but still features good music from established bands (Yes, Genesis) and new talent (Marillion, IQ). The music tonight is bookend-ed for the months of January and December by albums from the Anglo-Australian classical-rock instrumental group Sky, featuring two expat Aussie guitarists - John Williams and Kevin Peek.

8pm
Sky    Sahara (live) (January 1983) (Sky 5 Live)
Marillion    The web (March 1983) (Script For A Jester’s Tear)
Pink Floyd    Two suns in the sunset (March 1983) (The Final Cut)
Barclay James Harvest    Ring of changes (May 1983) (Ring Of Changes)
Mike Oldfield    Shadow on the wall (May 1983) (Crises)
Asia     True colours (August 1983) (Alpha)
The Moody Blues    Blue world (August 1983) (The Present)
9pm
IQ    Awake and nervous (September 1983) (Tales From The Lush Attic)
Genesis    Home by the sea (October 1983) (Genesis)
Genesis    Second home by the sea (October 1983) (Genesis)
Anthony Phillips    The women were watching (October 1983) (Invisible Men)
Split Enz    Two of a kind (March 1983) (B-side to the Next Exit single / All Fired Up: The Lost Treasures Of Australian Music)
Yes    Cinema (November 1983) (90125)
Yes    Leave it (November 1983) (90125)
Jon & Vangelis    He is sailing (May 1983) (Private Collection)
Sky    Fayre (December 1983) (Cadmium)

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