30 January, 2016

Playlist - 30 January 2016


Tonight, Seasons Of Change continues last weeks selection of Aussie prog and prog-related music - the mix is eclectic to say the least, ranging from instrumental jazz-rock fusion (Indaba) to cookie monster meets Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (Virgin Black) and solo Chapman Stick (Andy Salvanos) as well as established artists more often heard on Seasons Of Change (Sebastian Hardie., Unitopia, etc).

8pm
Unitopia    Not human anymore + Tesla (2010) (Artificial)
Quiet Child    Cannonfire march + In out (2013) (The Coming Storm)
Three Wise Monkeys    Spider fingers (2013) (Perihelion)
Anubis    Disinfected and abused (2009) (230503)
9pm
Virgin Black    The winter’s ash (2008) (Requiem - Fortissimo)
Like Leaves    Fruit (2011) (Like Leaves)
Andy Salvanos    The premonition (2011)  (Dream Recall)
Indaba    All rivers long for the sea (2000) (Something Serious)
Sympathy Orchestra    Wire (2014) (Sword Machine)
Spectrum    Fiddling fool (1971) (Part One)
10pm
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Kahvas Jute    Parade of fools (1970)  (Wide Open)
Blackfeather    The Rat (Suite): Main Title / The Trap / Spanish Blues / Blazwaorden (Land Of Dreams) / Finale (The Rat) (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Rainbow Theatre    Fantasy of horses (1976) (Fantasy Of Horses)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974)

23 January, 2016

Playlist - 23 January 2016

Australia Day is coming up this Tuesday - so it's likely there'll be great Australian music all over your radio this week, from one end of the dial to the other, and that's as it should be.
But there's probably only one place you'll hear classic progressive rock from legendary bands such as Company Caine, Lobby Loyde, Mackenzie Theory, Rainbow Theatre, Sebastian Hardie, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully, plus great music from more recent releases by A Lonely Crowd, Ben Craven, Caligula's Horse, Montresor, Myriad, The Lammas Tide, Three Wide Monkeys, Transience and Adelaide's own Unitopia: that's Seasons Of Change - all-Australian, this Saturday night, from 8pm until 11pm.

8pm
Ben Craven    The conjurer + No specific harm + Solace (2011) (Great And Terrible Potions)
A Lonely Crowd    Seeing stars (2011) (Transients)
Montresor    Medusa (2011) (Daybreak)
Myriad    Reminded (2013) (Quietitude)
The Lammas Tide    In tangerine (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
The Lammas Tide    The Devil’s stone (2011) (High Tide)
Transience    Chimera (2013) (Transience EP)
9pm
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Sebastian Hardie    Another string (2012) (Blueprint)
Sebastian Hardie    Peaceful (1976) (The Windchase)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/track / bonus track on re-issue of Goolutionites…)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
10pm
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Rainbow Theatre    The Armada (suite) (1975) (The Armada)
Cybotron    Arrakis (1976) (Cybotron)
Lobby Loyde    Relgon hall (Home of Lord Nezim) (1976/2006) (Beyond Morgia: The Labyrinths of Klimster)
Mackenzie Theory    Extra-terrestrial boogie (1973) (Out Of The Blue)
Company Caine    The last scene (1971) (A Product Of A Broken Reality)
Three Wise Monkeys    Waxer (2010) (The Red Album)

16 January, 2016

Playlist - 16 January 2016

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: 1971
 ...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 3 hours. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from Blackfeather, Company Caine, Flake, Healing Force, Kahvas Jute, Lotus, Spectrum, Tully and Tymepiece..

8pm
 Lotus    Lotus 1 (I’ll be gone) (Jan 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Spectrum    I’ll be gone (Jan 1971) (single)
Kahvas Jute    Vikings (Jan 1971)  (Wide Open)
Steeleye Span    The blacksmith (Feb 1971) (Please To See The King)
Yes    I’ve seen all good people (Feb 1971) (The Yes Album)
Tymepiece    Shake off (Feb 1971) (Sweet Release)
Spectrum    Drifting (Mar 1971) (Part One)
Blackfeather    At the mountains of madness (Apr 1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Procol Harum    Song for a dreamer (Apr 1971) (Broken Barricades)
9pm
Tully    I feel the sun + Sea of joy part 2 (Jun 1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Emerson Lake and Palmer    Bitches crystal (Jun 1971) (Tarkus)
Healing Force    The gully (July 1971) (single only, B-side to “Golden miles” / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (July 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Gentle Giant    Wreck (Jul 1971) (Acquiring The Taste)
Mahavishnu Orchestra    Vital transformation (Aug 1971) (The Inner Mounting Flame)
Ramases    Life child (Aug 1971) (Space Hymns)
Curved Air    Back street luv (Sept 1971) (Second Album)
Focus    Focus II (Oct 1971) (Moving Waves)
10pm
Pink Floyd    One of these days (Oct 1971) (Meddle)
Hawkwind    Master of the universe (Oct 1971) (In Search Of Space)
Egg    Contrasong (Jan 1971) (The Polite Force)
Genesis    Fountain of Salmacis (Nov 1971) (Nursery Cryme)
Flake    Under the silent tree (Nov 1971) (single only, bonus track on re-issue of How’s Your Mother)
Van der graaf Generator    Man Erg (Oct 1971) (Pawn Hearts)
Company Caine    Trixie Stonewall’s Wayward Home For Young Women (Nov 1971) (A Product Of A Broken Reality)
David Bowie    Life on Mars (Dec 1971) (Hunky Dory)

09 January, 2016

Playlist - 9 January 2016

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: 1970
 ...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 3 hours. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from Doug Parkinson In Focus, Flake, Jeff St John, Levi Smith's Clefs, Tamam Shud, Tully and Zoot.

8pm
Renaissance    Islands (single, January 1970) (Renaissance)
Van der Graaf Generator    Refugees (January 1970) (The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other)
Egg    Fugue in D minor (March 1970) (Egg)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Relief from a lighted doorway (March 1970) (Empty Monkey)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (March 1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet    Crimson ships (April 1970) (single only)
King Crimson    Cat food (May 1970) (In The Wake Of Poseidon)
Quatermass    Black sheep of the family (May 1970) (Quatermass)
Yes    Time and a word (June 1970) (Time And A Word)
9pm
Uriah Heep    Come away, Melinda (June 1970) (Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble)
Quintessence    Sea of immortality (1970)  (Quintessence)
Atomic Rooster    Tomorrow night (single, July 1970) (Death Walks Behind You)
Tully    You realise you realise (July 1970) (Tully)
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot / Zoot Locker)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (rec. 1970) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Flake    Wheel’s on fire (1970) (single, bonus track on reissue of How’s Your Mother)
Hawkwind    Hurry on sundown (August 1970) (Hawkwind)
The Moody Blues    Question (August 1970) (A Question Of Balance)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970) (single only, Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Beggar’s Opera    Poet and peasant (1970) (Act One)
10pm
Pink Floyd    If (October 1970)  (Atom Heart Mother)
Tamam Shud    Stand in the sunlight + Take a walk on a foggy morn + Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (October 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Genesis    The knife (October 1970) (Trespass)
Pete Brown & Piblokto!    Aeroplane head woman (November 1970) (Thousands On A Raft)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer    The barbarian (November 1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Curved Air    It happened today (November 1970) (Air Conditioning)
Zoot    Eleanor Rigby (December 1970) (single only / Zoot Locker)

01 January, 2016

Playlist - 2 January 2016

For the first edition of "Seasons Of Change" for 2016, to paraphrase the title of a very early Pink Floyd song, we...

SET THE CONTROLS FOR: 1972
 ...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 3 hours. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from Bakery, Indelible Murtceps, The Master's Apprentices, McPhee, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully; and, from across the Tasman, the heavy psych band Ticket.

8pm
The Easybeats    Friday on my mind (1966) (single only)
Hawkwind    Motorhead (1975) (Warrior On The Edge Of Time, reissue)
Motorhead    Ace of spades (1980) (Ace Of Spades)
Spectrum    Trust me (single version) (Jan 1972) (Milesago)
The Master’s Apprentices    Melodies of St. Kilda/Southern Cross + Thyme to rhyme (Jan 1972) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick (radio edit) (Mar 1972) (Thick As A Brick)
Curved Air    Phantasmagoria (Apr 1972) (Phantasmagoria)
Procol Harum    Conquistador (live) (Apr 1972) (Live In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra)
Caravan    Aristocracy (May 1972) (Waterloo Lily)
Uriah Heep    The wizard (May 1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Tamam Shud    Bali waters (May 1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/track)
9pm
McPhee    Indian rope man (1972) (McPhee)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (single only, May 1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Hawkwind    Silver machine (Jun 1972) (single only)
Pink Floyd    Wots...Uh, the deal (Jun 1972)  (Obscured By Clouds)
Wishbone Ash    Blowin’ free (single, July 1972) (Argus)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (Jul 1972) (Captain Beyond)
Emerson Lake and Palmer    From the beginning  (single, Aug 1972) (Trilogy)
Banco    Danza deigrandi rettili (1972) (Darwin)
Tully    Ice (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
10pm
Bakery    Living with a memory (Aug 1972) (Momento)
Yes    Siberian khatru (Sept 1972) (Close To The Edge)
Genesis    Can utility and the coastliners (Oct 1972) (Foxtrot)
Focus    Sylvia (Nov 1972) (Focus III)
Kevin Ayers    Stranger in blue suede shoes (Nov 1972) (Whatevershebringswesing)
The Moody Blues    Isn’t life strange (Nov 1972) (Seventh Sojourn)
Ticket    Dream chant (May 1972) (Awake)