Playlist - 13 June 2020

It's not every year that you celebrate your 75th birthday; so as that milestone approaches this Monday for the talented Aussie legend (and kiwi) Mike Rudd, it's fitting to dedicate the first half of tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change to a selection of music from Spectrum and Ariel.

8pm
Spectrum    I’ll be gone (1971) (single, alternate stereo version / bonus track on reissue of Part One)
Spectrum    Drifting (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    What the world needs (is a new pair of socks) (1971) (Milesago)
Spectrum    Untitled (1971) (Milesago)
Indelible Murtceps    Esmerelda (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Garden of the frenzied Cortinas (1974) (A Strange Fantastic Dream)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Spectrum    Star crazy (2008) (Breathing Space)
9pm
Uriah Heep    Paradise/The spell (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Yes    Roundabout (single version) (1972) (Fragile)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (1972) (Captain Beyond)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
The Nice    America (1968) (single)
Queen    The prophet’s song (1975) (A Night At The Opera)
Golden Earring    Radar love (1973) (Moontan)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)


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Should you have the time, you can immerse yourself in a 37 minute interview with Mike Rudd here:

...but you only have 32 minutes? Behold a fine (and well-recorded) set by Mike at the Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, Melbourne, December 2016:

...or witness a recent cameo with Madder Lake:

...and revisit the brief detour into electro-pop with W.H.Y. in 1983:

This isn't Queen, but this cover version by Dutch acapella group Rock4 is pretty amazing nonetheless, assisted by a little handy looping:

Playlist - 6 June 2020

8pm
Sweet    Love is like oxygen (1978) (Level Headed)
Sweet    Blockbuster (1973) (The Sweet)
Sweet    Ballroom blitz (1973) (single
Caligula’s Horse    Salt (2020) (Rise Radiant)
Kettlespider    Life (2017) (KETTLESPIDER)
Caligula’s Horse    Message to my girl (2020) (Rise Radiant, bonus track)
Toehider    Concerning Lix and Fairs (2020) (I Like It!)
Riverside    Under the pillow (2015) (Love, Fear And The Time Machine)
9pm
Tony Levin    Waters of Eden (2000) (Waters of Eden)
The Stick Men (The Crimson Projeckt)    Vroom vroom (live) (2014) (Live In Tokyo)
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe    Birthright (1989) (Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe)
Caravan    In the land of grey and pink (1971) (In The Land Of Grey And Pink)
Hatfield and the North    It didn’t matter anyway (1975) (The Rotters Club)
Camel    Breathless (1978) (Breathless)
Rush    Anagram (1989) (Presto)
Rush    Dreamline (1991) (Roll The Bones)
Anthony Phillips    Lucy will (1979) (Sides)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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An "animatic" video from Toehider:

Camel much more recently - in concerrt at the Royal Albert Hall:

Playlist - 30 May 2020

8pm
The Omnific    Objets de Vertu (2017) (Kismet)
Arcane    The malice (2009) (Chronicles Of The Waking Dream)
Caligula’s Horse    Water’s edge (2013) (The Tide, The Thief & River's End)
Drawn From Bees    Web of thieves (2014) (Web of thieves)
Drawn From Bees    All this time (2008) (The Boy And The Ocean)
Glasshouse    It burns (2005) (Nothing Comes Of Thinking)
The Slow Light    Dream sequence (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind)
Porcupine Tree    Gravity eyelids (live at XM Satellite Radio) (2002/2020) (XM)
9pm
Split Enz    Years go by (1984) (See Ya Round)
Neil Finn    The climber (2001) (One Nil)
Split Enz    Message to my girl (live, NZ, 1993) (Greatest Hits: Live)
Crowded House    Four seasons in one day (1992) (Woodface)
Transatlantic     My new world (live) (live, 2014) (KALIVEOSCOPE)
Freedom to Glide    Not a broken man (2013) (Rain)
Damanek    Skyboat (2018) (In Flight)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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A fair bit more from The Slow Light (Adelaide), c/- their own YT channel; their entire "Cinema Of The Mind" EP:

The Omnific (Melbourne):

From the UK, Freedom To Glide, and a newly released recording, "lockdown style":

Playlist - 23 May 2020

8pm
Toehider    Smash it out (2014) (What Kind Of Creature Am I?)
Southern Empire    Crossroads (2018) (Civilisation)
Anubis    Sirens + In shadows + Gone (2020) (Homeless)
Mushroom Giant    The Drake Equation (2015) (Painted Mantra)
9pm
Steve Hackett    Supper’s ready (2013) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
Threshold    Pilot in the sky of dreams (2007) (Dead Reckoning)
Threshold    Watchtower On The Moon (2014) (For The Journey)
Toehider    Good (2017) (Good)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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Toehider (Michael Mills and co.) with "Smash it out", live on stage in Europe. probably the busiest 2 minutes you'll see and hear for a quite a while:

Steve Hackett and band in 2019, performing a song from the Genesis album they were due to highlight this week on stage here in Adelaide:

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, 46 years earlier:

Playlist - 16 May 2020

Starting at 8pm with a recent release from The Slow Light (Adelaide) and then moving through a set of music featuring a throng of talented artists who all have their birthdays around this weekend, including Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Andy Latimer (Camel), the late Australian guitar legend Lobby Loyde, Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson, UK, Earthworks, etc), Brian Eno and Mike Oldfield.

8pm
The Slow Light    Clocks relapse + Cinema of the mind (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind)
Discipline    Canto IV (Limbo) (1997) (Unfolded Like Staircase)
King Crimson    In the court of the crimson king (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
David Bowie    Heroes (1977) (Heroes)
Camel    Ice (live) (1998) (Coming Of Age, Live)
9pm
The Wild Cherries    G.O.D (Guitar Overdose) (live on GTK, Jul 1970) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Lobby Loyde & Southern Electric    Fist of Is: a) At the Colosseum; b) The Fist Falls (1976)  (Obsecration)
Lobby Loyde & The Colored Balls    Metal feathers (1972) (Ball Power And More)
Bill Bruford’s Earthworks    Making a song and dance (1987) (Earthworks)
Yes    Five percent for nothing (1972) (Fragile)
Eno    Sombre reptiles + Little fishes + Golden hours (1975) (Another Green World)
801    Miss Shapiro (live) (1976) (801 Live)
Mike Oldfield    Incantations: Part 4 (excerpt) (1978) (Incantations)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Care of The Slow Light and their own Youtube channel, another fine piece from their recent debut EP:

In glorious black and white, Lobby Loyde and the Wild Cherries at ABC TV in 1970 for their GTK program, with a piece that at gigs was surely stretched out to the limits of human endurance for wah wah guitar effects and drum fills:

The merest flicker of a smile can almost be seen to cross the lips of Robert Fripp, as his band in Berlin performs a cover of the song that Fripp had recorded there with David Bowie, 40 years earlier:

Playlist - 9 May 2020

Starting tonight with selections from the musical legacy of Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers) and Florian Schneider (Kraftwerk), plus perhaps appropriately music from the recently reissued 1980 album by Adelaide electronic band Peak.

8pm
The Stranglers    Peaches (1977) (Rattus Norvegicus)
The Stranglers    Skin deep (1984) (Aural Sculpture)
Kraftwerk    Robots (1978) (Man Machine)
Peak    Nightmist + Ocean of dreams (1980) (EBONDÀZZAR)
Sebastian Hardie    Vuja de (2011) (Blueprint)
Sebastian Hardie    Rosanna (1975) (Four Moments)
Freedom To Glide    Broken road (2019) (Seed)
9pm
Sky    Where Opposites Meet (1979) (Sky)
Focus    Birth (1974) (Hamburger Concerto)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest    Tintagel + Silbury Hill (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Indelible Murtceps    In the bog (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
The Stranglers    Golden brown (1981) (La Folie)

 

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The sound of Adelaide band Peak recorded live in concert 1984, with an instrumental that appears on neither of their albums but could fit on both:

The very rare sight of an Australian band filmed in colour in the early 1970's: Mike, Bill and Murtceps at the TFM Ballroom: 

Playlist - 2 May 2020

Tonight featuring music from Australian guitarist Plini recording as "Halcyon" (Plini's name to be correctly pronounced to rhyme with "mini" or "skinny", according to the man himself), plus Misfits Of Sythia (Adelaide), A Lonely Crowd, Elysian Sea and Aragon (Melbourne)  and Karnivool (Perth).

8pm
Moon Safari    Constant bloom + Yasgur’s farm (2008) (Blomljud)
King Crimson    Sleepless (1984) (Three Of A Perfect Pair)
A Lonely Crowd    Adjustify (2011) (User Hostile)
Halcyon    Noodle (2011) (Pasture)
Elysian Sea    Sunrise + Joy of life + One world one spirit (2017) (The Four Elements)
Aragon    In a lifetime (2014) (single only)
Misfits Of Sythia    The tungsten hook (2014) (Automatonophilia)
9pm
Liquid Tension Experiment    Acid rain (1998) (Liquid Tension Experiment)
Rush    The camera eye (1981) (Moving Pictures)
Karnivool    The Caudal Lure (2009) (Sound Awake)
Karnivool    Nachash (2013) (Asymmetry)
Genesis    In the cage + Afterglow (live) (2007) (Live Over Europe 2007)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Karnivool, live, 2008:

Playlist - 25 April 2020

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits, this week with an Anzac Day special of music from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from the classic period of the early to mid '70's, including Bakery, Levi  Smith's Clefs, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully from Australia - and Dragon, Split Enz and Ticket from New Zealand.

8pm
Kahvas Jute    Steps of time (1971) (Wide Open)
Spectrum    Mumbles I wonder why (1971) (Part One)
Spectrum    Milesago (1972) (Milesago)
Tully    Loving is hard (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/t, bonus track on CD reissue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Empty monkey (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (single only, Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Bakery    Living with a memory (1971) (Momento)
9pm
Ticket    Awake (1972) (Awake)
Dragon    Going slow (1974) (Universal Radio)
Shona Laing    1905 (1972) (single only / Nature's Best - New Zealand’s Top 100 Songs Of All Time Vol.2)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Home sweet home (1979) (Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    I hope I never (1980) (True Colours)
Healing Force    Golden miles (1971/1994) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Flake    Dream if you can (1970) (How's Your Mother!)
Gavin O'Loghlen & Cotter's Bequest    Housesteads - Hadrian’s wall (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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From the forgotten years of Oz rock, The Shud, playing live on GTK (ABC TV) in 1971:

and Doug Parkinson In Focus, the same year, on Hit Scene (ABC TV)...

Playlist - 18 April 2020

Featuring an extended serving of Enz, Split Enz, as yesterday was the birthday of the redoubtable Noel Crombie, set designer, band stylist, percussionist and formidable player of the spoons....

8pm
Kettlespider    The climber + Anubis (2017) (Kettlespider)
Vita Voom    Infinity curtains (2020) (digital single)
Split Enz    Ninnie knees up (1984) (See Ya Round)
Split Enz    Dirty creature (1982) (Time And Tide)
Split Enz    Strait old line (live) (1993) (Greatest Hits Live!)
Tiger Moth Tales    The ballad of Longshanks John (2020) (A Visit to Zoetermeer)
Platypus    Rock balls / Destination unknown (1998) (When Pus Comes To Shove)
9pm
Hawkwind    City of lagoons (1976) (Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music)
Cybotron    Vulcan (live) (1976/2020) (Sunday Night At The Total Theatre)
The Merlin Bird    Rhyme to reason + Reason to rhyme (2003) (Rhyme To Reason)
Spock’s Beard    The bottom line (2003) (Feel Euphoria)
Gandalf’s Fist    Solar huntress (2019) (The Clockwork Prologue)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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Noel and the spoons and The Enz, in concert, 1977:

The amazing Peter Jones, aka Tiger Moth Tales:

Melboune band Kettlespider with one of the best songs they've done:

Playlist - 11 April 2020

Tonight, for Easter Saturday, the first hour features a feast of Aussie music, followed in the second hour by a complete live performance by Camel of their classic instrumental concept album "The Snow Goose".

8pm
Sebastian Hardie    Openings (1975) (The Four Moments)
Unitopia    Journey’s friend (2008) (The Garden)
Lacrymae    Handel’s Apocalypse (2009) (The Hallowed Design)
Rush    Totem (1996) (Test For Echo)
9pm
Camel (with London SO)    The Snow Goose (complete) (live, 1975) (A Live Record)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Here is the sight and sound of Perth band Lacrymae peforming "Handel's apocalypse" live, on what seems like a slightly congested stage:

A little more from Adelaide-based band Unitopia:

Camel live in 2014, with selections from The Snow Goose:

New from Marillion, a new recording of Easter:

 

Playlist - 4 April 2020

Starting tonight with a selection of songs from the legacy of the late Bill Withers; then continuing with a feast of music from artists mostly from Adelaide and interstate, all of whom make their music available on Bandcamp if you wish to hear more.

8pm
Bill Withers    Who is he? (1972) (Still Bill)
Bill Withers    Ain’t no sunshine (1971) (Just As I Am)
O’Yaba    Lean on me (1994) (One Foundation)
Anubis    The deepest wound + Technicolour Afterlife (2018) (Different Stories)
Canidae    Iron sky (2014) (Nowhere Else But Here, EP)
Hemina    With what I see (2019) (As We Know It)
Awaken Solace    The passing (2012) (In Nightfall’s Embrace)
Squeaker    The things that remain (2019) (Revel In Ashes)
9pm
Aragon    Rocking Horse (Act 2) (2018) (single only)
Porcupine Tree    Anesthetize (live) (2020) (Ilosaarirock)
Big Big Train    Pantheon (2019) (Grand Tour)
A Lonely Crowd    Blur (2014) (Transients)
Andy Salvanos    Free range eggs (2007) (Closer)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)
 

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Another cover of a Bill Withers song, by the terrific Renee Geyer:

 A little more from Adelaide's own Squeaker, recorded live last year:

Playlist - 28 March 2020

In these days of tour cancellations and hotel lockdowns due to the wide-ranging Coronavirus pandemic, gigs for musicians are few and far between, which effectively wipes out the income of many local and independent musicians and bands. One potential way of supporting musicans, if you are so inclined, is to stream and consider purchasing their music - a little investigation will generally reveal the many and varied mediums on which independent Aussie artists make their releases available (e.g. including, but not limited to, a page on Bandcamp).

It will also be Earth Hour tonight from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, so appropriate music for an hour of the evening with minimal electricity usage is featured from King Crimson and The Church.

8pm
The Ben Cameron Project    A cycle never ending (2016) (A Cycle Never Ending)
The Church    Under the milky way (1988) (Starfish)
King Crimson    Starless (live, recorded 1974; LP 1975) (USA)
Andy Salvanos    Lightwaves (2019) (Lightwaves, digital 3 song EP)
9pm
Drawn From Bees    Calling you out (2014) (Web Of Thieves, EP)
Drawn From Bees    Long tooth setting sun (2009) (And The Blind Shall lead The Way, mini-LP)
Drawn From Bees    Gravity (2017) (single only)
Aura Form     Galactic current + Alps sunrise + Walking through fallout (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
Ben Craven & The Section    Golden band (2014) (Dissected)
Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes    The Lost Doctrine Of Dr. Phyviater Raveningsley (2008) (Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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Sydney band Captain Kickarse and the Awesomes, from their own Youtube channel, recorded live, with the most menacing (and trippy) "Grapes" you will ever encounter...

Playlist - 21 March 2020

Starting tonight with a selection of music from the remarkable legacy of the late Australian jazz legend Don Burrows, who passed away at the end of last week.

8pm
Don Burrows Quintet with the Adelaide Connection    Basin street blues + Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (1985) (Making Whoopee)
Don Burrows Quintet with the Adelaide Connection    Please don't talk about me when I'm gone (1992) (Nice 'n' Easy)
Don Burrows Quintet with Orchestra    Whenever (1990) (Whenever)
Anubis    Reflective + Entitled + White Ashes (2020) (Homeless)
Aronora    Too late + The end (2009) (Aronora)
9pm
United Progressive Fraternity    Loss Anthem + What happens now? + Cruel time (2019) (Planetary Overload)
Tirill    Said the sun to the moon (2019) (Said The Sun To The Moon)
White Willow    In dim days (2017) (Future Hopes)
King Crimson    Thela Hun Ginjeet (Alternate mix – Steven Wilson) (1981 / 2011) (On And Off the Road (1981-1984): CD#1 Discipline)
King Crimson    Heartbeat (1982 / 2011) (On And Off the Road (1981-1984): CD#3 Beat)
Steven Wilson    Transience (single version) (2015) (Hand Cannot Erase)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)

 

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A mere snippet of Don Burrows, at El Rocco, Sydney, 1987:

 The Crimson troubadours, circa mid-1980's, recorded live in Japan:

Cometh the hour, cometh the band: The Packets, with a video filmed at some iconic South Australian locations including HQ, Hindley Street and the picturesque wine hub of McLaren Vale, and with a song that speaks to most of us at this time:

Playlist - 14 March 2020

Tonight, the live prog rock time machine ventures into the extremities of the late 1970's.

8pm
Dixie Dregs    Take it off the top (live) (1979/1997) (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Hawkwind    Motorway city (live) (1979) (Live 79)
Supertramp    Take the long way home (live) (1979/2010) (Breakfast In America reissue)
Jethro Tull    Minstrel in the gallery + Cross-eyed Mary (live) (1978) (Live: Bursting Out)
Eloy    Inside (live) (1978) (Live)
Steeleye Span    Montrose (live) (1978) (Live At Last)
9pm
Ariel    Illicit love + Hollywood (live) (1977/2013) (Ariel Aloha / Ariel Live In Concert)
Spectrum    Second coming (live) (2001) (Queenscliff Music Festival - Alive)
Spectrum    Sensible shoes (live) (2003) (Forever Music presents: Series One – Seasons Of Change)
Kansas    Mysteries and mayhem + Excerpt from Lamplight Symphony + The wall (live) (1978/2008) (Two For The Show, 30th Anniversary Reissue)
Genesis    Dance on a volcano + Los Endos (live) (1977) (Seconds Out)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

 

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Amongst some unlikely "live" artefacts from 40+ years ago:

Eloy (West Germany), 1977...

Kansas (USA), which combines a classic performance from 1978 of their Genesis/King Crimson/Yes-meets-arena-rock style with film which is so distorted that it is one Taurus pedal away from being a random light show...

The Dixie Dregs (also USA), at Montreux, 1978, as always featuring talented guitarist Steve Morse, nowadays with Deep Purple...

Always worth another look, the rare sight from 1977 of Australian band Cybotron in their natural habitat, the tech-heavy surroundings of an ABC TV show called Rocturnal...

And fellow Aussie band Sebastian Hardie, probably from 1975...

Playlist - 7 March 2020

Tonight, the live prog rock time machine continues backward at a rate of knots to the 1980's.

8pm
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (single edit) (2009) (The Incident)
Marillion    Assassing + Emerald lies (live,1984) (1985) (Real To Reel)
Rush    Mystic rhythms + Witch hunt (Part III of Fear) (live, 1986) (1989) (A Show Of Hands)
Hawkwind    Time we left + Heads (live, 1989) (1991) (Palace Springs)
GTR    You can still get through (live, 1986) (1997) (King Biscuit Flower Hour)
9pm
Genesis    Abacab + Behind the lines + Princess (live) (1982) (Three Sides Live)
Lobby Loyde & Sudden Electric    Sympathy in D + Gypsy in my soul (live) (1980/2006) (Live With Dubs)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

 

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Mike Rudd & Ariel Live At The Station Hotel in 1975:

From the epicentre of both the decade and the UK Prog scene, Marillion (with Fish) at the Marquee, 1985:

Playlist - 29 February 2020

Tonight, in the first and last episode of Seasons Of Change to be broadcast on February 29, we resume the time-travelling back through the years and a range of live recordings, this time from the 1990's.

8pm
Frank Zappa    Cosmik debris (1974) (Apostrophe('))
The Flower Kings    There is more to this world (live) (1999) (Alive On Planet Earth)
Grey Lady Down    Battlefields of counterpane (live) (1998) (The Time Of Our Lives)
Yes    Awaken (live) (1996) (Keys To Ascension)
9pm
Sebastian Hardie    Four Moments suite (live @ 1994 ProgFest) (1997) (Live in LA)
Rush    Dreamline + Animate (live) (1998) (Different Stages - Live)
Split Enz    Pioneer + Six months in a leaky boat (live) (1993) (Greatest Hits: Live)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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"Who you jivin' with that Cosmik Debris?" (a recording not, of course, from the 1990's):

  The ENZ in 1993:

Playlist - 22 February 2020

Tonight featuring some music after 9pm that you can hear at various times from now on to the next three months, with Fringe gigs scheduled soon by Acoustic Tull and Lather, then in May Steve Hackett will be playing Adelaide with his band. It's a good idea to keep an eye on the gig guides and keep tabs on the local and international artists who are playing Adelaide.

8pm
Southern Empire Goliath’s moon (2018) (Civilisation)
Wolverine The Bedlam Overture (2016) (Machina Viva)
Moon Safari Dance across the ocean + A sun of your own (2005) (A Doorway To Summer)
Unitopia More than a dream (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
9pm
Jethro Tull Serenade to a cuckoo (1969) (This Was)
Jethro Tull Velvet green (1977) (Songs From The Wood)
Jethro Tull Broadsword (1982) (Broadsword And The Beast)
Frank Zappa Excentrifugal forz + Apostrophe' (1974) (Apostrophe('))
Steve Hackett Dancing with the moonlit knight (live) (2013) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
Mario Millo Quest theme (1979) (Epic III)
Aronora   ReRun (2009) (Aronora)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Here is a little more Mario Millo from his own YT channel, performing some clssic Sebastian Hardie in 2016:

Frank:

Playlist - 15 February 2020

8pm
Steven Wilson    Arriving somewhere but not here (live) (2018) (Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall)
Anubis    Dead trees + Silent wandering ghosts (live) (2015) (Behind Our Eyes)
Ozric Tentacles    Og ha be (live) (1992) (Live Underslunky)
Porcupine Tree   Signify (live) (1997) (Coma Divine)
9pm
Southern Empire    Crossroads (live) (2016) (Live At HQ)
Moon Safari    A kid called panic (live) (2014) (Live In Mexico)
Projected Twin   Shark water (live) (2012) (digital single)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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SE at the launch for their first CD (FB link):

Sydney band Anubis recorded live in the Netherlands, 2018:

SW:and his band just being awesome, in Mexico during his first solo tour:

Playlist - 8 February 2020

Tonight, 2 hours chock-full with talent from across the Tasman, as Thursday 2 days ago was Waitangi Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the founding document of the nation of New Zealand. 180 years later, Australia still has nothing similar, we have a lot of catching up to do.

8pm
Look To Windward    Vad Åskan Sade (2010) (Fortune’s Haze)
Citizen Band    Julia (1978) (Citizen Band)
Space Waltz    Out on the streets (1975) (Space Waltz)
Split Enz    Walking down a road + Maybe (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Sweet dreams (1976) (Second Thoughts)
Dragon    Darkness (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind)
Dragon    Universal radio (1974) (Universal Radio)
Dragon    Wait until tomorrow (1976) (single only / Greatest Hits Vol.1) 
9pm
Eddie Rayner & ENZO    Albert of India + Voices + One step ahead + Stuff and nonsense (live) (2014) (ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction - Live)
Airlord    Out of the woods + Pictures in a puddle (1977) (Clockwork Revenge)
Ticket    Dream chant (1972) (Awake)
Split Enz    Message to my girl (live, NZ, 1993) (ExtravagENZa)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)


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ENZSO live in concert:

 Ticket Pt.1:

Ticket Pt.2:

Look To Windward:

Mother Goose - such a good band:

Playlist - 1 February 2020

Another all-Australian feast of music, this time from the early 1970's and centred around the "head music" scene in the various cities around Australia - featuring Fraternity, The James Taylor Move, Levi Smith's Clefs and The Masters Apprentices (Adelaide), Blackfeather, The Dave Miller Set, Jeff St John with Copperwine, Kahvas Jute, McPhee, Tamam Shud and Tully (Sydney), plus Company Caine, Healing Force and Spectrum (Melbourne).

8pm
Healing Force    Golden Miles (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Dave Miller Set    Mr Guy Fawkes (1969) (single only / Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
Dave Miller Set    No need to cry (1970) (single only / Psych Bites: Australian Acid Freakrock 1967-1974)
Blackfeather    Seasons of change + Mango’s theme (1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
Company Caine   Now I'm together (1972) (b-side of single / bonus track on A Product Of  A Broken Reality)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night (1970) (Joint Effort)
Spectrum    Superbody (1970) (Part One)
9pm
Kahvas Jute    Odyssey (1970) (Wide Open)
Levi Smith's Clefs    Lisa (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
The James Taylor Move    Still I can go on (1967) (single only, Peculiar Hole In The Sky)
McPhee    Indian rope man (1972) (McPhee)
The Masters Apprentices    Because I love you (1971) (Choice Cuts)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Tamam Shud    Goolutionites Theme Part 1 + Goolutionites Theme Part 2 (1970) (Goolutionites And The Real People)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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In an Australian TV studio, probably sometime in 1971, Healing Force with the late great Charlie Tumahai:

48 years ago almost to the day (29 to 31 January 1972). the Meadows Technicolour Fair was held at Meadows (SA), featuring a long list of local and interstate acts, particularly notable since it also coincided with the 1972 Sunbury Festival on the same weekend. Bands included Blackfeather, Fraternity, Spectrum and Tamam Shud:

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 - 18 January 2020

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: 1978

 ...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 2 hours. By 1978 most of the Aussie bands and performers from the "head music" scene of the early 70's had either split or were dormant (Tamam Shud, Tully, Madder Lake, CoCaine, Lobby Loyde, Fraternity, Bakery, etc) and newer bands like the Enz and Sebastian Hardie were between albums but Mike Rudd and Ariel released a 2nd LP of music from their farewell concert in Melbourne in 1977. There's also classic music from Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Rush, UK and Yes, plus a surprise hit single for Genesis and that concept album which was all over Adelaide radio in 1978, Jeff Wayne's "War Of The Worlds", complete with narration by Richard Burton (and dodgy 70's style film clip - recreation here)....

8pm
Kate Bush Moving (Feb 1978) (The Kick Inside)
Renaissance A song for all seasons (Mar 1978) (A Song For All Seasons)
Genesis Follow you follow me (Mar 1978) (And Then There Were Three)
UK In the dead of night (Mar 1978) (UK)
The Alan Parsons Project What goes up (May 1978) (Pyramid)
Steve Hillage The Glorious Om Riff (Apr 1978) (Green)
Jeff Wayne Forever Autumn (Jun 1978) (War Of The Worlds)
9pm
Ariel Island Fantasia (live) + We are indelible (live) (Aug 1978) (More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert, re-issue)
Yes On the silent wings of freedom (Sept 1978) (Tormato)
Camel Rainbow's end (Sept 1978) (Breathless)
Rush Circumstances (Oct 1978) (Hemispheres)
Emerson Lake & Palmer   Canario (Nov 1978) (Love Beach)
Mike Oldfield Incantations: Part 4 (excerpt) (Nov 1978) (Incantations / Elements: The Best Of)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum
Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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There's no publicly available footage from the farewell concert at the Dallas Brooks Hall in 1977 but here is Ariel live on GTK, ABC TV, in 1973:

This film clip with an excerpt from Mike Oldfield's Incantations was also familiar to ABC TV viewers during the 1980s, filling the recurring inconvenient 3 minute gaps before the hour or half hour:

Maple leaf rag:

Noone would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century...

Playlist - 11 January 2020

Tonight, a hefty serving of music from the Canadian band Rush, featuring the late Neil Peart who was the long-term drummer and lyricist for the band. Keeping it closer to home, there is also heavy sounds from Southern Empire (Adelaide) and Aronora (Melbourne).

8pm
Rush Anthem (1975) (Fly By Night)
Rush Bastille Day (1975) (Caress Of Steel)
Rush 2112 Overture / The temples of Syrinx (1976) (2112)
Rush Xanadu (1977) (A Farewell To Kings)
Rush La villa strangiato (1978) (Hemispheres)
Rush The spirit of radio (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Rush Limelight (1981) (Moving Pictures)
9pm
Rush Subdivisions (1982) (Signals)
Rush The enemy within (1984) (Grace Under Pressure)
Rush Big money (1985) (Power Windows)
Rush Time stand still (1987) (Hold Your Fire)
Rush Nobody’s hero (1993) (Counterparts)
Rush Ghost rider (2002) (Vapor Trails)
Rush The garden (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Aronora This is anywhere (2015) (Escapology)
10pm
Southern Empire Crossroads (2018) (Civilisation)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Through the 1970's...

...the 1980's...

...the 1990's...

...and on and on...

...the passage of time, indeed:

..."The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?" (Bob Dylan)

Playlist - 4 January 2020

Tonight, a brief selection from some new releases during 2019, including Andy Salvanos (Adelaide), Aragon (Melbourne), Hemina and Anubis (Sydney), Three Wise Monkeys (Blue Mountains) and Voyager (Perth), plus a salute to the late Neil Innes (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles and long-term musical collaborator with the Monty Python team).

8pm
Magic Pie    The man who had it all (2019) (Fragments Of The 5th Element)
Hemina    In technicolour (2019) (Night Echoes)
Freedom To Glide    The space between the lines + The only way? (2019) (Seed)
In Continuum    All that is (2019) (Acceleration Theory Part 2: Annihilation)
Three Wise Monkeys    Procrustes (2019) (advance track from Isolation EP)
Anubis    Dead trees (live at Loreley) (2019) (Lights Of Change: Live In Europe 2018)
Andy Salvanos    Lightwaves (2019) (digital 3 song EP)
9pm
Aragon    The meeting + The chant + The changeling (1995, 2019 re-issue) (Mouse)
Moon Letters    Sea battle (2019) (Until They Feel The Sun)
The Mute Gods   Iridium heart (2019) (Atheists & Believers)
Voyager    Brightstar (2019) (Colours In The Sun)
The Rutles   I must be in love + Let’s be natural (1978) (The Rutles)
Monty Python   Knights of the round table (1975) (Monty Python Sings)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From Rutland TV to you , Neil Innes:

Here is the sight and sound of some of these 2019 releases: