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)

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Playlist - 19 February 2022

Since the first edition of Seasons Of Change went to air in February 2012, a heap of interesting music has been recorded and released by bands and artists from overseas and back home here in Australia. Tonight, a tiny but diverse selection of music from that period.

8pm
Rush    The garden (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
The Flower Kings    For those about to drown (2012) (Banks Of Eden)
Steven Wilson    Watchmaker (2013) (The Raven That Refused To Sing)
Solar Soma    So much for style (2013) (So Much For Style)
Karnivool    Nachash (2013) (Assymetry)
Voyager    Breaking down (2014) (V)
Andy Salvanos    Transform (2016) (Transform)
9pm
Riverside    Caterpillar and the barbed wire (2015) (Love, Fear And The Time Machine)
Arcane    Keeping stone: Water awake (2015) (Known/Learned)
Big Big Train    Folklore (2016)  (Folklore)
Gandalf’s Fist    Victims of the light (2016) (The Clockwork Fable)
Southern Empire    Forest fire (2016) (Southern Empire)
Deckchair Poets    Elephants, not ivory (2013) (Who Needs Pyjamas?)

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Playlist - 29 May 2021

 8pm
The Omnific    Wax & wane (2021) (Escapades)
Fates Warning    Monument (live) (1998) (Still Life)
Queensryche    Silent lucidity (1991) (Empire)
Solar Soma    Lunchbox monster (2013) (So Much For Style)
Transience    Blood (Dexter theme cover) (2013) (single)
Unitopia    The way the waters are moving (2011) (A Flower Full Of Stars – A Tribute To The Flower Kings)
Unitopia    Unitopia (2017) (The Dream Complete)
Damanek    Oil over Arabia (2017) (On Track)
Aurora    A million worlds (2016) (Sister Of The Sun)
9pm
Procol Harum    A salty dog (1969) (A Salty Dog)
Procol Harum    The emperor’s new clothes (2003) (The Well’s On Fire)
Gavin Harrison & O5RIC    Circles (2015) (Cheating The Polygraph)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident)
Split Enz    I walk away (1984) (See Ya Round)
Finn    Niwhai (1995) (Finn)
Split Enz    Message to my girl (live, NZ, 1993) (ExtravagENZa / Greatest Hits: Live)
Cream    Deserted cities of the heart (1968) (Wheels Of Fire)
Tommy Emmanuel    The Big Swell (1993) (The Journey)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

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Playlist - 25 January 2020

Recent music from around Australia, including Unitopia, Southern Empire,  Solar Soma, Quiet Child and Peak (Adelaide), Anubis, Sebastian Hardie and Three Wise Monkeys (Sydney), Arcane, Ben Craven and Drawn From Bees (Brisbane) plus Aronora and Mushroom Giant (Melbourne) and as always rounding out the night with Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum and his surf-grunge instrumental cover of Seasons of Change...

Next week, turning the clock back to the early 1970's with classic Aussie sounds from Fraternity, Kahvas Jute, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully, amongst others.

8pm
Sebastian Hardie I remember (2012) (Blueprint)
Unitopia Don’t give up love (2008) (The Garden)
Southern Empire Dreams and machines (2016) (Southern Empire)
Arcane Asylum: Acolyte Zero (2009) (Chronicles Of The Waking Dream)
Three Wise Monkeys Svengali (2020) (Isolation EP)
Aronora Vote 1: Anything (instrumental) + Fake escape (2015) (Escapology)
9pm
Mushroom Giant Graven image (2006) (single only)
Quiet Child Hotel shade (2013) (The Coming Storm)
Andy Salvanos   Mosaik (2018) (Solar Cycles)
Peak Gorilla gas (2018) (Slizdexics Untie)
Anubis Fool’s gold (2018) (Different Stories)
Solar Soma Crackd (2013) (So Much For Style)
Drawn From Bees Kindness (2018) (single only)
Ben Craven Great divide (2016) (The Single Edits)
Ariel   Rock ‘n roll scars (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus track)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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The band Aronora is dormant for now but you may be just as interested in what Ben Cameron has been doing  more recently with his Project:

Playlist - 28 December 2019

It's the last edition of Seasons Of Change for 2019 and also for the decade. It is also Proclamation Day here in South Australia, the anniversary of the day in 1836 when the state of South Australia was proclaimed and established as a province, at a cermony by the old gum tree at Glenelg, so:
- from 8pm, a selection of fine music from some of the South Australian artists who have never been far away from Saturday nights; then
- from 9pm, a selection from the musical legacy of some of the talented performers who passed away during the last 12 months, including Chris Wilson, Leo De Castro (Friends, Johnny Rocco Band, etc) Geoff Gray (Flake), Dr John, Ginger Baker (Cream, Blind Faith, etc) and the marvellous Jacques Loussier.

Next week's edition of Seasons Of Change will feature a selection of music released during the last 12 months.

8pm
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Sevenhill 1873 Johann Pallhuder SJ + Stephenston 1875 The Speculator’s waltz + Knockaruna Quorn 1879 The Farmers + Pichi Richi 1879 The Railways (2006) (Land Of The Vast Horizon)
Andy Salvanos    Solar cycles (2018) (Solar Cycles)
Southern Empire    Hold (2016) (Southern Empire)
Solar Soma    Islands (2013) (So Much For Style)
Unitopia    More than a dream (2005) (More Than A Dream)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
9pm
Chris Wilson    Born under a bad sign (live) (1992) (Alimony Blues CD single)
Chris Wilson    Wolves (1992) (Landlocked)
Friends    Freedom train (1972) (single only / Leo de Castro & Friends)
Flake    Violet Jam Part A: Down in Rio (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Dr John    Right place wrong time (1973/1995) (In The Right Place)
Cream    White room (1968) (Wheels Of Fire)
Jacques Loussier    Prelude No.1 (1959) (Play Bach No.1)
Midnight Oil    Short memory (1982) (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1)
Midnight Oil    River runs red (1990) (Blue Sky Mining)

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 And here's a little more from...

Dr John

Chris Wilson

Leo de Castro (with Friends, broadcast May 1973)

A mere snippet of Jacques in 1975...

and Jacques again in 2004...

Playlist - 16 June 2018

8pm
Rush    Subdivisions (1982) (Signals)
IQ    Awake & nervous (1983) (Tales From The Lush Attic)
Yes    Tempus fugit (1980) (Drama)
Colosseum    Valentyne suite (1969) (Valentyne Suite)
Jack Bruce    Theme from an imaginary western (1969) (Songs For A Tailor)
Solar Soma    Islands (2013) (So Much For Style)
9pm
Spectrum    I’ll be gone (1971) (single, alternate stereo version / bonus track on reissue of Part One)
Spectrum    What the world needs (is a new pair of socks) (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Men in Grey Raincoats (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Ariel    Jamaican farewell (live) (1977) (More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live, 2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Marillion    Beautiful (1995) (Afraid Of Sunlight)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 24 February 2018

Tonight a trippy show of all-Australian talent, with the obvious exception of King Crimson and those talented Swedes, Moon Safari: Southern Empire (Adelaide), Unitopia (Adelaide), A Lonely Crowd (Melbourne), Drawn From Bees (Brisbane), King Gizzard... (Melbourne), Projected Twin (aka "Earth Meet World" aka Shaun Holton, Adelaide) and Solar Soma (Adelaide).

8pm
Southern Empire    The bridge that binds (2016) (Southern Empire)
Unitopia    Justify (2005) (MoreThan A Dream)
Moon Safari    Red white blues (2013) (Himlabecken Vol.1)
Andy Salvanos    Juggler's song (2007) (Closer)
9pm
A Lonely Crowd    Taken over (2016) (Devil In The Detail)
A Lonely Crowd    Glass eyes (2011) (User Hostile)
King Crimson    People (1995) (Thrak)
Drawn From Bees    These philistines (2017) (And The Blind Shall Lead The Way)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard    The fourth colour (2017) (Polygondwanaland)
Projected Twin*    Take me to your leader (2011) (single)
Projected Twin*    You threw the stone (2013) (Earth Vs. World)
Solar Soma    Cracked (2013) (So Much For Style)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)
* aka Earth Meet World / Shaun Holton.

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Playlist - 23 November 2013

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits from Australia and overseas, including recent new music from Adelaide bands Projected Twin, Solar Soma and Unitopia, and more from a recently re-issued classic recording from Australian band Blackfeather. New music from The Flower Kings (Sweden) and Ayreon (The Netherlands). And it's happy birthday to drummer Bev Bevan  (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra).

8pm
Procol Harum    A salty dog (1969) (A Salty Dog)
Yes    Close to the edge (1973) (Close To The Edge)
Beardfish    Sunrise (2007) (Sleeping In Traffic Part One)
Nektar    New day dawning (1973) (Sounds Like This)
The Move    Don’t make my baby blue (1970) (Shazam)
Electric Light Orchestra    Do ya (1976) (A New World Record)
Electric Light Orchestra    Sweet talkin’ woman (1977) (Out Of The Blue)
9pm
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Projected Twin    Pain of a promise (2013) (Earth Vs. World)
Solar Soma    Islands (2013) (So Much For Style)
Muse    Ruled by secrecy (2003) (Absolution)
The Flower Kings    Desolation road (2013) (Desolation Rose)
Ayreon    Progressive waves (2013) (The Theory Of Everything)
10pm
Blackfeather    Seasons of change Part 1 + Mango’s Theme Part 2 (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Renaissance    Mother Russia + Ashes are burning (live, 1975) (Live At The Carnegie Hall)
Urtekk    Euphonics (2013) (Urtekk EP)