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)

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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))

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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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