Playlist - 30 November 2019

8pm
The Sports You ain’t home yet (1978) (Reckless)
Kate Ceberano & Wendy Matthews Stringer (theme) (1988) (You’ve Always Got The Blues - Stringer s/t)
Grace Knight Don’t know much about love (1990) (Come In Spinner s/t)
Teramaze Delusions of grandeur (2015) (Her Halo)
Kettlespider The kettle spider (2010) (demo)
Roger Glover and Guests The feast + Love is all (1974) (The Butterfly Ball)
Deep Purple Perfect strangers (1984) (Perfect Strangers)
9pm
Martin Barre A song for Jeffrey + Teacher (live, Oct 2018) (2019) (Live In NY)
Jethro Tull Thick as a brick (live, 1978) (1997) (Thick As A Brick, bonus track)
The Lammas Tide The Devil’s stone (2011) (High Tide)
Kevin Ayers The owl (1977) (single only)
Caravan Cthulhu (1973) (For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night)
Hawkwind The psychedelic warlords (Disappear in smoke) + Winds of change (1974) (The Hall Of The Mountain Grill)
Three Wise Monkeys Procrustes (2020) (advance track from Isolation EP)
Martin Armiger I love my car (1975 / 2014) (Pure Shit s/t / When the sun sets over Carlton, comp.)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Here is the sound of the late Martin Armiger recorded in 1977 with the Melbourne band The Toads:

Playlist - 23 November 2019

This week on Seasons Of Change, classic songs from Spectrum and Ariel and more recent music from UPF and Mushroom Giant; plus, amongst a heap of other new and classic sounds, just a bit more from Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre who is now playing solo.

8pm
Spectrum    The Sideways Saga (1971) (Milesago)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Ariel    Jamaican farewell (live) (1977) (More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert)
United Progressive Fraternity    Travelling man (The story of ESHU) (2014) (Fall In Love With The World)
Ozric Tentacles    Trees of eternity (1985) (Tantric Obstacles)
9pm
Nektar    A tab in the ocean (1972) (A Tab In The Ocean)
Moon Safari    Doorway (2005/2012) (A Doorway To Summer)
Mushroom Giant    Primaudial soup (2015) (Painted Mantra)
Renaissance    Northern lights (live, Japan, 2001) (In The Land Of The Rising Sun)
Martin Barre    Cry you a song (live, Oct 2018) (2019) (Live In NY)
Rush    The Spirit of Radio (live) (1998) (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.

If you are in the mood for a 24 minute video clip, then this is for you and a fine piece of work too, c/- UPF:

Plus, six days before Martin Barre brings his 50 Years Of Jethro Tull show to Adelaide, here's a bit more of Martin Barre playing live, Martin obviously following the adage that whatever your business is, the secret to success is to first get good people on your team:

Playlist - 16 November 2019

This Saturday evening, recent(ish) music from 3WM (Blue Mountains) and Southern Empire (Adelaide). In the Birthday Book this weekend - kiwi Eddie Rayner (Split Enz and other collaborations since), Australian jazz legend John Sangster and Martin Barre (Jethro Tull). And don't forget about the Open Day at PBA-FM starting from 11am, Wiltshire St, Salisbury.

8pm
Three Wise Monkeys Acheron (2015) (Hear No Evil, comp. / orig. Pseudomonarchia Daemonum EP, 2016)
Southern Empire   Cries for the lonely (2018) (Civilisation)
Eddie Rayner & ENZO   Albert of India (live) (2014) (ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction - Live)
Split Enz   Walking down a road (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz   Pioneer + Six months in a leaky boat (live, NZ, 1993) (Greatest Hits: Live)
Freedom To Glide   Trough of war (2016) (Fall)
9pm
John Sangster   The beautiful pea green boat + The Dong with a luminous nose (1980/2008) (Uttered Nonsense)
John Sangster   A day in the life (1968) (The Joker Is Wild / Back On The Street Again)
Camel   Nimrodel/The procession/The white rider (1974) (Mirage)
Jethro Tull Fire at midnight (1977) (Songs From the Wood)
Martin Barre   Back to steel (live, 2018) (2019) (Live In NY)
Jethro Tull   Sealion (1974) (Warchild)
ENZSO   Voices (1996) (ENZSO)

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 phrase "beautiful music" gets thrown around so wildly that it has lost much meaning; but from 1980, here is Eddie Rayner and the Enz and one of their most beautiful songs:

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.

Arriving via an "eddy" in the space-time continuum, from 2009, two Finns and Professor  Rayner; the reformed Enz live in Melbourne at the "Sound Relief" concert:

And from Freedom To Glide:

Playlist - 9 November 2019

8pm
Martin Barre Hammer + Thick as a brick (live, Oct 2018) (2019) (Live In NY)
The Lammas Tide Hudson Line (2011) (High Tide)
The Lammas Tide The murky deep (2012) (Partridge Farm, single)
The Lammas Tide Child of Avalon (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
Awaken Solace Temptress of the desert eye (2012) (In Nightfall’s Embrace)
Domino My opiate (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest Dun Trodden – Glenelg Scotland - Broch (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
9pm
Emerson Lake & Palmer Lucky man (1970) (Emerson Lake & Palmer)
King Crimson 21st century schizoid man (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Greg Lake The court of the crimson king (live, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Nov 5 1981) (2015) (London ’81 Live)
Tiger Moth Tales Don’t let go, feels alright (2014) (Cocoon)
Deeexpus Memo (2011) (King Of Number 33)
Spectrum   Trust me (single edit) (1971) (Milesago)
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 Perth band The Lammas Tide, here is the promo video for the "Partridge farm" single, 2012:

And from closer to home, the terrific Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest in a montage of concert footage from the year 2000:

Playlist - 2 November 2019

8pm
Yes Machine messiah (1980) (Drama)
Yes Love will find a way (1987) (Big Generator)
Virgil Donati The winds of war (2016) (The Dawn Of Time)
Planet X 2116 (2000) (Universe)
Steven Wilson Nowhere now (2017) (To The Bone)
No-Man True North (edit) (2008) (Schoolyard Ghosts)
Porcupine Tree I drive the hearse (2009) (The Incident)
Porcupine Tree   Stranger by the minute (1999) (Stupid Dream)
9pm
The Nice America (1968) (single / Nice Hits Nice Bits)
Emerson Lake & Palmer Intro + Hoedown (live) (1974) (Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends…)
Emerson, Lake & Powell Touch and go (1986) (Emerson Lake & Powell)
Keith Emerson Nighthawks (Main Title Theme) (1981) (Nighthawks s/track)
Ben Craven Golden band + Revenge of Dr Komodo (2017) (The Single Edits)
Mushroom Giant Chrysalis (2018) (digital single only)
Spectrum   Drifting (1971) (Part One)
Andy Salvanos Running water (2007)  (Closer)
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 hitting the Australian charts in 1990 with Southern Sons to progressive metal in the US with Planet X and now his orchestral fusion album The Dawn Of Time, here is a chat with drummer and composer Virgil Donati:

And Mushroom Giant, recorded live with their new song "Chrysalis":