Playlist - 31 October 2020

According to Roger Miller, possibly one of the most versatile singers and songwriters of our time:
- "It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it."
According to Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for Canadian band Rush:
- "The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect…So hard to earn, so easily burned".
Of course, they were both right.

8pm
Roger Miller    King of the road (rec. Nov 1964, released 1965) (single)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the Minute (acoustic) (2012/2020) (Pure Narcotic - Acoustic Session 2012)
Ben Craven & Tim Bennets    No specific harm (2020) (ProgAustralis Live)
The Ben Cameron Project    Tipping point Pt.1 (2014) (Tipping Point)
Martin Barre    Hammer (live) (2019) (Live In NY)
Projected Twin    Shark water (2010) (Earth To World)
9pm
Camel    Lunar sea / Skylines (live) (1978) (A Live Record)
The Nice    Brandenburger (1968) (single, Ars Longa Vita Brevis)
King Crimson    21st century schizoid man (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Jeff St John’s Copperwine    Fanciful flights of mind (1970) (Joint Effort)
Procol Harum    In the wee small hours of sixpence (1968) (single only, b-side, bonus track on Shine On Brightly)
Rush    The garden (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Mike Rudd    Lottery  (2015) (demo)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Cheering a world in the grip of COVID (or at least their followers and fans) - Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox sharing their most recent Sunday Lunch:

Shaun Holton, aka Projected Twin, with a solo performance in the USA:

Roger Miller performing a medley of his self-described "depressive jazz" for a studio audience who appear to be simultaneously appreciative and bemused. Roger introduces his band by having them introduced to each other, possibly the most trippy '60's artefact you'll see for a while:

Playlist - 24 October 2020

Tonight featuring new music from Sydney heavy bands Red Sea and Hemina, plus, from the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book, singer Jon Anderson (Yes and many other collaborations); French jazz pianist Jacques Loussier; and drummer, engineer and producer Gil 'The Rat' Matthews (nowadays running Aztec Records, a repository of formerly neglected classic Aussie music).

8pm
Spencer Davis Group    Keep on running (1966) (single)
Dream Theater    In the Presence of Enemies Part 1 (2007) (Systematic Chaos)
Dream Theater    Fall into the light (2019) (Distance Over Time)
Red Sea    The art of transcending (2018) (digital single)
Red Sea    Hurricane (2018) (digital single)
Domino    Crusader (2008) (Shadows And Dust)
Hemina    Neon (2020) (digital single)
Anubis    Hitchhiking to Byzantium (2018) (Different Stories)
9pm
Yes    Onward (live) (1996) (Keys To Ascension)
Anderson Stolt    Knowing… (2016) (Invention Of Knowledge)
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe    Quartet (1989) (Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe)
Jacques Loussier Trio    Debussy: Arabesque (2000) (Plays Debussy)
Jacques Loussier Trio    Prelude No.2 in C minor (live) (1965) (Play Bach aux Champs-Elysees)
Mondo Rock    State of the heart (1981) (Chemistry)
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 - please see the PBA-FM website for more information.

Playlist - 17 October 2020

Tonight's Seasons Of Change starts with a tribute to the late Tony Ryan, the ex-PBA-FM presenter who prepared and presented many editions of Your Classical Favourites for PBA-FM on Sunday mornings until 2014, as well as award-winning series including Park Friends - the tribute is a healthy serving of symphonic rock from The Moody Blues, whose music was much loved by Tony. Plus a song by the Swedish band Swan Sex, whose strange name fascinated Tony when he was reviewing an early playlist for Seasons Of Change. Those fun-loving Swedes strike again.

8pm
The Moody Blues    The dream  + Have you heard Pt.1 + The voyage + Have you heard Pt.2 (1969) (On The Threshold Of A Dream)
The Moody Blues    Legend of a mind (1968) (In Search Of The Lost Chord)
United Progressive Fraternity    Loss Anthem + What happens now? + Cruel time (2019) (Planetary Overload)
Swan Sex    The first and last in (2011) (The First And Last In)
Caravan    The show of our lives (1975) (Cunning Stunts)
9pm
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Absentee landlord 1840 + Blight 1845 + Winter 1847 + Eviction 1849 + Cork 1854 – the Voyage (1997) (In The Home Of My Ancestors)
Gandalf’s Fist    Supplies For The Festivities (2019) (The Clockwork Prologue)
Airbag    Machines And Men (Edit) (2020) (A Day At The Beach)
The Slow Light    Circumvolution (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind EP)
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 - please see the PBA-FM website for more information.

Playlist - 10 October 2020

Tonight exploring the outer limits of space-time (as befits World Space Week, which ends today); plus selections from the disparate musical legacies of Johnny Nash and Eddie Van Halen.

8pm
Johnny Nash    I can see clearly now (1972) (single)
Spectrum    Drifting (1971) (Part One)
Porcupine Tree    The moon touches your shoulder (1995) (The Sky Moves Sideways)
Pink Floyd    Astronomy Domine (1967) (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)
Rush    Countdown (1982) (Signals)
Litmus    Miles away (2009) (Aurora)
Hawkwind    Silver machine (1972) (single only / In Search Of Space, re-issue)
Cybotron    Black devil’s triangle (1980/2005) (Implosion)
Subaudible Hum    Science maketh the scientist (2006) (In Time For Spring, On Came The Snow)
9pm
Andy Salvanos    Mandelblomma (2018) (Solar Cycles)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    Tetrachromacy + Searching + The fourth colour (2017) (Polygondwanaland)
Airbag    Never coming home (2011) (All Rights Removed)
Ozric Tentacles    Atmosphear (1985) (Tantric Obstacles)
All India Radio   Untitled beginning + Evening star (2003/2020) (All India Radio)
Rocket Scientists    Stardust (1995) (Empire Music: The Art Rock Collection)
Van Halen    Jump (1984) (1984)
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 - please see the PBA-FM website for more information.

The late Johnny Nash, in 1977, and a fine song (which isn't about seeing clearly, or otherwise):

NASA Images

ESA Videos

For an interesting local perspective, Astroblogger.

Plus a good read (one of a few) about how once Australia had a nascent space capability, here in South Australia too. Here's another (which may require a hefty investment of time to plough through).

NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, on the ISS, performing a flute duet with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull:

Or alternatively just "float through the cosmos on a calm relaxing psychedelic journey" (61 minutes)...

Playlist - 3 October 2020

Tonight, turning the clock back 50 years to 1970, including a healthy selection of music from the so-called "head music" scene here in the various capital cities around Australia.

 8pm
Jethro Tull     The witches promise (January 1970) (single only  / 20 Years Of Jethro Tull)
Renaissance    Islands (single, January 1970) (Renaissance)
Van der Graaf Generator    Refugees (January 1970) (The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other)
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/ So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
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
Zoot    Flying (July 1970) (Just Zoot)
Samael Lilith    Nights in white satin (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?)
Affinity    Three sisters (1970) (Affinity)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (September 1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Beggar’s Opera    Poet and peasant (November 1970) (Act One)
Caravan    Hello Hello (October 1970) (If I Could Do It Again I’d Do It All Over You)
Tamam Shud     Take a walk on a foggy morn + Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (October 1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Emerson Lake and Palmer    Knife edge (November 1970) (Emerson Lake and Palmer)

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