Playlist - 24 April 2021

This week, another diverse serving of prog rock and anything else that fits, this week with an Anzac Day weekend special of music from Australia and New Zealand, mostly from the classic period of the early to mid '70's, including Jeff St John, Kahvas Jute, Spectrum, Tamam Shud and Tully from Australia - and Dragon, Split Enz and Ticket from New Zealand. Plus music featuring the Australian classical guitarist John Williams (Sky), who will be celebrating his 80th birthday today.

8pm
Kahvas Jute    Steps of time (1971) (Wide Open)
McPhee    The wrong time (1971) (McPhee)
Spectrum    Mumbles I wonder why (1971) (Part One)
Tully    Loving is hard (1972) (Loving Is Hard)
Tully    Sea of joy Part 1 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Tamam Shud    Sea the swells (1972) (Morning Of The Earth s/t, bonus on CD reissue of Goolutionites And The Real People)
The Break    Majestic kelp (2013) (Space Farm)
Tully    Sea of joy part 2 (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Jeff St John’s Copperwine    Fanciful flights of mind (1970) (Joint Effort)
9pm
John Williams    Sarabande (1971) (Changes)
Sky    Where Opposites Meet (1979) (Sky)
Ticket    Awake (1972) (Awake)
Dragon    Going slow (1974) (Universal Radio)
Split Enz    Home sweet home (1979) (Beginning Of The Enz)
Split Enz    Stranger than fiction (1975) (Mental Notes)

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Playlist - 17 April 2021

Tonight featuring music from a very early album by the NZ band Dragon, during their prog-rock period; plus, from the Birthday Book, music featuring Noel Crombie (Split Enz, Schnell Fenster and others), Peter Garret (Midnight Oil) and Lee Kerslake (The Gods, Uriah Heep, Living Loud and many others)

8pm
Uriah Heep    Poet’s justice (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
The Mute Gods    Atheists and believers (2019) (Atheists And Believers)
Mostly Autumn    Tennyson mansion (2012) (The Ghost Moon Orchestra)
Split Enz    Strait old line (live) (1993) (Greatest Hits Live!)
Split Enz    Dirty creature (1982) (Time And Tide)
Schnell Fenster    Buried alive (1990) (OK Alright a Huh Oh Yeah )
Split Enz    Maybe (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Shark attack (live, NZ, 1993) (Greatest Hits: Live)
Sound    Shudafar (Adelaide, late 90’s / 2020) (Listen)
9pm
Dragon    Vermillion cellars (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind)
Dragon    La gash lagoon (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind)
Dragon    Sunburst (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind)
Rush    The big money (1985) (Power Windows)
Midnight Oil    Bullroarer (1987) (Diesel And Dust)
Midnight Oil    Stars of Warburton (live, Brisbane, 1990) (1992) (Scream In Blue)
Yes    Siberian khatru (1972) (Close To The Edge)

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The Enz, yeah:

 

Neil and Noel being grilled mercilessly in 1983...

What a difference 12 months makes - Dragon on ABC TV in 1976:

Playlist - 10 April 2021

8pm
Big Big Train    The Second Brightest Star (2017) (The Second Brightest Star)
Freedom To Glide    The right within the wrong (2019) (Seed)
Hawkwind    Farenheit 451 (1982) (Choose Your Masques)
Projected Twin    Post secret (live in studio) (2021) (Earth To World : Live From Lauda Studio)
Urtekk    Euphonics (2013) (Urtekk EP)
Toehider    How much for that dragon tooth? (2020) (I Like It!)
Vangelis    Starstuff (2016) (Rosetta)
Andy Salvanos    Transform (2016) (Transform)
9pm
The Masters Apprentices    The lesson so listen (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Love is (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Melodies of St Kilda (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Southern cross (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
The Masters Apprentices    Thyme to rhyme (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Yes    Starship Trooper (1971) (The Yes Album)
GTR    When the heart rules the mind (1986) (Live King Biscuit Flower Hour)
The Phil Collins Big Band    Los Endos Suite (1998/2019) (A Hot Night In Paris)

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 0% prog rock, but 100% fun - volksmusic from Bavaria, Germany, to Adelaide via Youtube - DeSchoWieda "feat. Fred and Richard" - I'm Too Sexy (Auf da Bierbank): 

The band's YouTube channel features some original gems too such as this one (German lyrics):

Playlist - 3 April 2021

8pm
Transatlantic    The world we used to know (2021) (The Absolute Universe: Forevermore, Extended Version)
Steven Wilson    Arriving somewhere but not here (live) (2018) (Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall)
Karnivool    New day (2009) (Sound Awake)
Karnivool    Deadman (2009) (Sound Awake)
Unitopia    Easter (2013) (Covered Mirror Vol.1)
9pm
Camel    The Snow Goose (live, 1975) (A Live Record)
The Lammas Tide    In tangerine (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
The Lammas Tide    When all is said and done (2014) (Barefoot Electric)

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Karnivool with a track from "Sound Awake", almost exactly 10 years ago.

The national "Decade Of Sound Awake" tour of course, which had already been postponed from 2020,  has now been cancelled due to COVID (except for the two Fremantle dates back in March) and so the Adelaide concert by Karnivool which was scheduled for last Saturday night didn't happen...

There's something in the water over in Perth, it seems - "psychedelic folk rock" from The Lammas Tide:

There are some promo videos currently floating around for the latest Transatlantic album, but this live performance of Transatlantic's ludicrously long, single-song, album from 2010 may be better value...

Playlist - 27 March 2021

8pm
IQ    Frequency (2009) (Frequency)
Marillion    Asylum satellite #1 (2008) (Happiness Is The Road)
Sound    Five (Adelaide, late 90’s / 2020) (Listen)
United Progressive Fraternity    What happens now? (2019) (Planetary Overload Part 1)
Mike Rudd    Lottery (2015) (demo, lyrics by Bill Putt)
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (1972) (Warts Up Your Nose)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Spectrum    Silicon Valley (2009) (Breathing Space Too)
9pm
Tony Banks    From the undertow (1979) (A Curious Feeling)
Genesis    In the cage (incl. Cinema Show & Duke’s Travels) (live) (2007) (Live Over Europe 2007)
Genesis    Afterglow (live) (2007) (Live Over Europe 2007)
Aragon    Surface tension (1997 / 2020) (Mr Angel)
Aragon    Here in my heart (1997 / 2020) (Mr Angel)
Rush    Jacob's ladder (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Andy Salvanos    Song for Ulrike and Hubert (2021) (digital single)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Mike Rudd, Bill Putt and Spectrum with "Silicon valley", here in Adelaide in 2010:

Mike, cunningly disguised behind a full beard, with Bill and The Heaters, in a TV studio, from early in the 1980's...

Playlist - 20 March 2021

Starting tonight with a selection from the work of Doug Parkinson, who passed away this week. Also, songs from Fraternity and Spectrum, which you might have heard if you attended the Fraternity 50th aniversary  concert at Thebarton Theatre on Thursday night. And, from the Birthday Book, Phil Judd (Split Enz), Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), Carl Palmer (ELP, Asia) and J.S. Bach all celebrate their birthdays this weekend.

8pm
The Alpha Experiment (feat. Doug Parkinson)    Everything must change (2013) (Close Encounter)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Purple curtains (1970) (single only, Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Dear Prudence (1969) (single)
Roger Hodgson    Take the long way home (live, 2010) (Classics Live)
Roger Hodgson    Give me love, give me life (1984) (Eye Of The Storm)
Chris Cameron    Relentless (2019) (Relentless EP)
Emily Barker    Where have the sparrows gone? (2020) (A Dark Murmuration)
9pm
Frank Zappa    I’m the slime (1973) (Overnite Sensation)
Phil Judd    Sooner or later (1982) (Private Lives)
Split Enz    Sweet dreams (1976) (Second Thoughts)
Fraternity    Grand Canyon Suites (1971) (Livestock / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    Hemming’s farm (1972) (Flaming Galah / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Spectrum    Make your stash (1970) (Part One)
The Nice    Brandenburger (1968) (single, Ars Longa Vita Brevis)
Emerson Lake & Palmer    Tank (1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Do not go gentle (1971 on GTK, ABC TV / 1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)

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Playlist - 13 March 2021

8pm
The Lammas Tide    Lady Godiva (2011) (High Tide)
Solar Soma    Islands (2013) (So Much For Style)
Like Leaves    Mercy sound (2011) (Like Leaves)
McPhee    Indian rope man (1972) (McPhee)
Wendy Saddington    Looking through a window (1971) (single only, bonus track on reissue of Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
Red Sea    Caravan (2016) (Battlescar)
Awaken Solace    Moonlight’s wake (2012) (In Nightfall’s Embrace)
A Lonely Crowd    Status anxiety (2011) (User Hostile)
A Lonely Crowd    Misunderestimated (2011) (User Hostile)
9pm
Renaissance    Song of Scheherazade (1975) (Scheherazade And Other Stories)
Curved Air    Metamorphosis (1973) (Air Cut)
Magenta    Sloth (live) (2018) (We Are Seven : Live 2018)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 6 March 2021

8pm
Kettlespider    Anubis (2017) (Kettlespider)
The Omific    Final tree (2019) (The Mind’s Eye)
Aurora    Quirk of fate (2016) (Sister Of The Sun)
Madder Lake    Salmon Song (1973) (Still Point)
Madder Lake    On my way to heaven (1973) (Still Point)
Split Enz    Spellbound (1974) (The Beginning Of The Enz)
Mushroom Giant    Chrysalis (2018) (single only)
Spectrum    Drifting (1971) (Part 1)
Frank Zappa    Cosmik debris (1974) (Apostrophe)
9pm
Procol Harum    Wreck of the Hesperus (1969) (A Salty Dog)
Procol Harum    Weisselklenzenacht (The Signature) (2003) (The Well’s On Fire)
Procol Harum    Pilgrim’s progress (1969) (A Salty Dog)
Symphony X    Candlelight fantasia (1997) (Divine Wings Of Tragedy)
Symphony X    Serpent’s kiss (2007) (Paradise Lost)
David Gilmour    In any tongue (2015) (Rattle That Lock)
David Gilmour    High hopes (live) (2008) (Live In Gdansk)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 27 February 2021

8pm
Rush    The spirit of radio (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Karnivool    Change (2009) (Sound Awake)
Dyssidia    Hope’s remorseful retreat (2020) (Costly Signals)
Emily Barker    Return me (2020) (A Dark Murmuration Of Words)
Emily Barker    The woman who planted trees (2020) (A Dark Murmuration Of Words)
Moon Safari    Mega moon (2012) (Himlabacken Volume 1)
Frank Zappa    Excentrifugal force (1974) (Apostrophe)
Frank Zappa    Apostrophe (1974) (Apostrophe)
9pm
Golden Earring    Twilight zone (1982) (Cut)
Golden Earring    Big tree blue sea (1970) (Golden Earring)
Golden Earring    Radar love (1973) (Moontan)
Steven Wilson    Personal shopper (2021) (The Future Bites)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009/2020) (Acoustic Radio Session 2009)
Overview Effect    Purify (2016) (Fault Lines)
The Packets    Surrounded by dickheads (2019) (Bad People)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 20 February 2021

Starting tonight with a feast of music from the Masters and their final album, famously recorded far from home in Abbey Road, London. Plus...songs from ELO which feature the late Louis Clark, conductor, arranger and keyboardist, new music from Steven Wilson and, from the Birthday Book, music featuring drummer Pierre van der Linden (Focus) and guitarist Andy Powell (Wishbone Ash).

8pm
Masters Apprentices    Answer lies beyond (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Masters Apprentices    Beneath the sun (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Masters Apprentices    Games we play 1 (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Masters Apprentices    Games we play 2 (1971) (A Toast To Panama Red)
Steven Wilson    12 things I forgot (2020) (The Future Bites)
Steven Wilson (feat. Ninet Tayeb)    Routine (2015) (Hand Cannot Erase)
Porcupine Tree    Piano Lessons (1998) (stupid dream)
Electric Light Orchestra    Eldorado medley (1974) (Eldorado)
9pm
Focus    Focus II (1971) (Moving Waves)
Focus    All hens on deck (2012) (X)
Wishbone Ash    Sometime world (1972) (Argus)
Wishbone Ash    Keeper of the light (live, 1992) (The Ash Live In Chicago)
Sympathy Orchestra    Upstart (2014) (Sword Machine)
Three Wise Monkeys    Spider fingers (2013) (Perihelion)
Southern Empire    Goliath’s moon (2018) (Civilisation)
Electric Light Orchestra    Shangri La (1976) (A New World Record)

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Playlist - 13 February 2021

Departing briefly from the world of prog rock with 3 songs which each feature the talents of singer, songwriter and talented musican Dave 'The Bloke' Ovendon, who passed away this week: a founding member of bush band Bullamakanka, previously with The 69er's, the Richard Clapton band and others. The diversity continues with selections from the musical legacy of jazz-rock fusion legend Chick Corea, and from Adelaide post-rock soundscapes from Aura Form and "neo-classical" group Little Cloud. From the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book comes music featuring expat Bob Daisley (Kahvas Jute, Blizzard of Ozz, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Uriah Heep and many others), Peter Gabriel (Genesis and solo), Steve Hackett (Genesis and solo) and Mic Conway (Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band).

8pm
Bullamakanka    (The bunyip from) Hooligan’s creek (single)
The 69’ers    Harry Rag (1971) (The 69’ers Album)
Richard Clapton    Girls on the avenue (1975) (Girls On The Avenue)
Return To Forever    Duel of the jester and the tyrant Part I and Part II (1976) (Romantic Warrior)
Chick Corea & Return To Forever    Captain Marvel (1973) (Light As A Feather)
Chick Corea Akoustic Band    Spain (1989) (Chick Corea Akoustic Band)
Aura Form    Galactic current (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
Little Cloud    Asinine (2020) (This Is Here)
9pm
Peter Gabriel    Solsbury Hill (1977) (Peter Gabriel)
Genesis    The return of the giant hogweed (live,1973) (Genesis Live)
Genesis    Entangled (1976) (A Trick Of The Tail)
Steve Hackett    Tubehead (2009) (Out Of The Tunnel’s Mouth)
Kahvas Jute    Parade of fools (1970)  (Wide Open)
Kahvas Jute    Ascend (live, 2005) (1970)  (Wide Open, bonus track)
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band    Down undergroundsville (1974) (b-side of Hernando’s Hideaway / bonus track on reissue of Wangaratta Wahini)
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band    Jug band music ( 1974) (Wangaratta Wahine)

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Playlist - 6 February 2021

Starting tonight with selections from the recently released 3CD box set of music from Adelaide-based band Fraternity; plus, after 9pm, a feast of music from New Zealand artists (because today is Waitangi Day). And from the Birthday Book, trippy music from the UK space-rock scene featuring guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton (Hawkwind) and keyboardist Tim Blake (Gong, Hawkwind, solo) as well as Roye Albrighton (Nektar).

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of change (single version) (1971/2021) (Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    Raglan’s folly (1971/2021) (Livestock / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Fraternity    Jupiter’s landscape (1971/2021) (Livestock / Seasons Of Change: The Complete Recordings 1970-1974)
Unitopia    Justify (2005) (More Than A Dream)
Projected Twin    Circle of two (feat. Solar Soma) (2010) (Earth To World)
Hawkwind    The fifth second of forever (1980) (Levitation)
Hawkwind    Dust of time (1980) (Levitation)
9pm
Split Enz    Walking down a road (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Maybe (1975) (Mental Notes)
Split Enz    Message to my girl (live, NZ, 1993) (ExtravagENZa)
Eddie Rayner & ENZO    Stuff and nonsense (live) (2014) (ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction - Live)
Dragon    Universal radio (1974) (Universal Radio)
Phil Judd    Dream ’n’ away (1983) (Private Lives)
Ticket    Dream chant (1972) (Awake)
Nektar    New day dawning (1973) (Sounds Like This)
Finn    Niwhai (1995) (Finn)

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If you have 10 minutes to spare, you may choose invest that time on this recent live-in-the-studio performance of (part of) the first Projected Twin album "Earth To World", by Shaun Holton and friends via FB: Cat Johns, Chris Lau, Simon Lee, Cam Blokland and Luke Whelan:

From 1985, Hawkwind with HLL back in the fold and in fine form on lead guitar:

From 1974, a true artefact with Roye Albrighton and Nektar "live" with the edited version of RTF:

 

Playlist - 30 January 2021

Tonight, another all-Australian selection of music from the very early 1970's, featuring some of the eclectic bands which apeared exactly 50 years ago at the Myponga Music Festival over the Australia Day weekend (Saturday 30 Jan 1971 to Monday 1st Feb 1971): Daddy Cool, Spectrum, Fanny Adams, Company Caine, Sons Of The Vegetal Mother (an alter ego of Daddy Cool), Jeff St John, Wendy Saddington and Healing Force.

8pm
Daddy Cool    Teenage blues (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
Daddy Cool    Make your stash (1972) (Sex, Dope, Rock n Roll: Teenage Heaven)
Daddy Cool    Come back again (1971) (Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!)
Spectrum    Launching place Part 1 (1970) (Part One, bonus track on CD re-issue)
Spectrum    Superbody (1970) (Part One)
Fanny Adams    Ain’t no lovin’ left (1970) (Fanny Adams)
Company Caine    The day Superman got busted (1971) (A Product of a Broken Reality)
Sons Of The Vegetal Mother    Love is the law (1970) (Garden Party EP)
Sons Of The Vegetal Mother    Make it begin (1970) (Garden Party EP)
9pm
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Cloud nine (1970) (Joint Effort)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine    Tomorrow never knows (live) (1971) (Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
Buffalo    Intro: Pound of flesh (1973) (Volcanic Rock)
Buffalo    Shylock (1973) (Volcanic Rock)
Flake    Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Flake    Breadalbane (1974) (B-side of single / Psych Bites: Australian Acid Freakrock 1969-1974)
Healing Force    Erection (1973) (Live At Sunbury)

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Here is the briefest of brief glimpses at the Myponga "progressive pop music" festival, c/- Youtube (Channel 7 and the Grape Organisation):

By 1974, the band Flake bore little resemblance to most earlier line-ups, with none of the members of the 1969 group remaining and only Billy Russell remained from the lineup which had played at Myponga. Guitarists Billy Russell and John Taylor were joined by three new members all previously with the group Blackfeather: singer Neale Johns as well as Jim Penson (drums), Warren Ward (bass). There aren't many photos around of that line-up except for this one:

From exactly 50 years ago, c/- Wikipedia, the acts and times for the 1971 Myponga Music Festival; the list of bands is remarkable for the fact that the Sunbury festival was also being held over the same weekend.   

Playist - 23 January 2021

An all-Australian show ahead of Australia Day this coming Tuesday. Next week's show will also be all-Australian, but will be turning the clock back to the early '70's and some of the eclectic music being performed and recorded here in Australia at the time including the diverse "head music" scene. Tonight focuses on recent releases and re-releases plus a classic from the later 1970's.

8pm
Arcane    Instinct (2015) (Known/Learned)
The Slow Light    Circumvolution (live) (2020) (Live At Ghostnote Studios)
Emily Barker    Strange weather (2020) (A Dark Murmuration Of Words)
Southern Empire    Cries for the lonely (2018) (Civilisation)
Red Sea    The art of transcending (2018) (digital single)
Kypo    Bluethoven - a Blues over Beethoven Cadence (2020) (Bluethoven EP)
9pm
Sebastian Hardie    Four Moments suite: Glories Shall Be Released - Dawn of Our Sun - Journey Through Our Dreams - Everything Is Real (1975) (four moments)
Unitopia    The Outsider (2017) (More Than A Dream: The Dream Complete)
Drawn From Bees    Kindness (2018) (single only)
Aragon    Mr Angel (1997 / 2020) (Mr Angel)

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Playlist - 16 January 2021

For tonight's Summer edition of "Seasons Of Change", to paraphrase the title of a very early Pink Floyd song, we for a final time...

SET THE CONTROLS FOR: 1971

 ...exactly 50 years ago, 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. Amidst some classics and oddities from a crowded few months of releases at the end of 1971, this includes classic Australian music from the wondrously named Chook, Company Caine, Flake, Long Grass (Adelaide), Melissa, Tamam Shud and The Wild Cherries. In particular featuring selections from the Spectrum album Milesago which was a milestone release here in Australia - just the second "popular double album ever released in this country (the first was Doug Ashdown's Age of Mouse in 1970)".

8pm
Spectrum    What the world needs is a new pair of socks + Untitled + The Sideways Saga (Dec 1971) (Milesago)
Melissa    Getting through (Oct 1971) (Midnight Trampoline)
Focus    Focus II (Oct 1971) (Moving Waves)
Syrius    GTK Theme / Strawberry fields forever (live on GTK, Sept 1971) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.2)
Chook    Cold feet (1971) (single, A-side / The Complete Havoc Singles 1971:1973)
Pink Floyd    A pillow of winds (Oct 1971) (Meddle)
Long Grass    Anywhere you wanna go (1971) (single, B-side of “Sunshine to burn / Psych Bites: Australian Acid Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
9pm
Genesis    Fountain of Salmacis (Nov 1971) (Nursery Cryme)
Yes    Roundabout (single, Nov 1971) (Fragile)
Emerson Lake & Palmer    Nut rocker (Nov 1971) (Pictures At An Exhibition)
The Wild Cherries    I’m the sea (stop killing me) (Nov 1971) (single / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Flake    Under the silent tree (Nov 1971) (single / How's Your Mother?)
Led Zeppelin    The battle of Evermore (Nov 1971) (Led Zeppelin IV)
Company Caine    Trixie Stonewall’s Wayward Home For Young Women (Nov 1971) (A Product Of A Broken Reality)
Tamam Shud    Bali waters (live, Dec 1971) (Goolutionites And The Real People, bonus track)
David Bowie    Changes (Dec 1971) (Hunky Dory)

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Playlist - 9 January 2021

For tonight's Summer edition of "Seasons Of Change", to paraphrase the title of a very early Pink Floyd song, we again...

SET THE CONTROLS FOR: 1971

 ...exactly 50 years ago, 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. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from Ash, Bakery, Blackfeather, Doug Parkinson In Focus, Healing Force, Pirana, Tamam Shud, Tully and (last but not least) Zoot.

8pm
Zoot    The freak (Apr 1971) (B-side of Evil Child single, follow-up to Elenaor Rigby  / Zoot Locker)
Pirana     Here it comes again (May 1971) (Pirana II/Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Tully    I feel the sun & Sea of joy part 2 (Jun 1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Pirana    Gassin’ / GTK Theme (live on GTK, Apr 1971) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Tamam Shud    GTK Theme / America (live on GTK, Apr 1971) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Blackfeather    Tomorrow never knows (live on GTK, Mar 1971) (1994) (At The Mountains Of Madness, bonus track on reissue)
Bakery    Dying in the dark (July 1971) (Single only, Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Ash    Midnight witch  / Warrant (1971) (A-side & B-side of single / The Complete Havoc Singles 1971-1973)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (Jul 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Healing Force    The gully (Jul 1971) (single only, B-side to “Golden miles” / Psych Bites: Australian Freakrock 1967-1974 Vol.1)
9pm
The Moody Blues    The story in your eyes (Jul 1971) (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour)
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    Everdance (Sept 1971) (Second Album)
Van der graaf Generator    Man Erg (Oct 1971) (Pawn Hearts)
Hawkwind    Master of the universe (Oct 1971) (In Search Of Space)
Doug Parkinson In Focus    Do not go gentle (Dylan Thomas) (live on GTK, Aug 1971) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)

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Playlist - 2 January 2021

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

 ...exactly 50 years ago, 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. Amidst some classics and oddities, this includes classic Australian music from Blackfeather, Fraternity, Kahvas Jute, Lotus, Spectrum and The Master's Apprentices.

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, bonus track on re-issue of Part 1)
Kahvas Jute    Vikings (Jan 1971)  (Wide Open)
Barclay James Harvest    Mocking bird (Feb 1971) (Once Again)
Steeleye Span    The blacksmith (Feb 1971) (Please To See The King)
Yes    I’ve seen all good people (Feb 1971) (The Yes Album)
Spectrum    Drifting (Mar 1971) (Part One)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (Mar 1971) (Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Jethro Tull    Locomotive breath (Mar 1971 ) (Aqualung )
The Groundhogs    Cherry red (1971) (Split)
9pm
Procol Harum    Song for a dreamer (Apr 1971) (Broken Barricades)
Blackfeather    Seasons of change (Part 1) (Apr 1971) (At The Mountains Of Madness)
The Doors    Riders on the storm (Apr 1971) (LA Woman)
Caravan    Nine feet underground (Apr 1971) (In The Land Of Grey And Pink)
The Master’s Apprentices    Because I love you (April 1971) (Choice Cuts)

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Playlist - 26 December 2020

Tonight, a diverse feast of music as released in the course of the last twelve months.

8pm
The Slow Light    Cinema of the mind (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind)
Dyssidia    Hope’s remorseful retreat (2020) (Costly Signals)
Tiger Moth Tales    Still alive (2020) (Still Alive / A Visit To Rockfield)
Ben Craven & Tim Bennets    Your move & Wurm (live) (2020) (Prog Australis)
Three Wise Monkeys    Svengali (2020) (Isolation EP)
Moonshot    Worlds of yesterday (2020) (Worlds Of Yesterday, A Retrospective 1971-1992)
Caligula's Horse    Salt (2020) (Rise Radiant)
Emily Barker    Machine (solo a capella) (2020) (digital single)
9pm
Wobbler    Five rooms (2020) (Dwellers Of The Deep)
Peak    Nightmist (1980/2020) (EBONDÀZZAR)
Anubis    Home from Home (live, 2020) (2020) (digital single)
Red Sea    Shadow of a man (2020) (Sanguine)
Toehider    Concerning Lix and Fairs (2020) (I Like It!)
Ken Hensley’s Live Fire    Circle of hands (live) (2013) (Live!)
Rush    Afterimage (1984) (Grace Under Pressure)

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From Adelaide's Dyssidia and a promotional video for their 2020 album (featuring some cookie monster moments):

and Emily Barker:

 And from the musical legacy of Ken Hensley (Heep) and Neil Peart (Rush):

Playlist - 19 December 2020

Featuring the traditional Christmas concert by Jethro Tull from St Brides Church in London plus a selection of other festive tunes including songs by Australian performers Unitopia, Toehider and Emma Horwood.

8pm
Toehider    Under the mistletoe (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
Loreena McKennitt    Seeds of love (1995) (A Winter Garden)
Martin Barre    Thick as a brick (2014) (Order Of Play)
Unitopia    The garden (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
I Am The Manic Whale    Run with the fox (2020) (Christmas Selection Box)
Toehider    Carol of the bells – Choral + Carol of the bells – Rock (2009) (Under The Mistletoe EP / 12 EPs in 12 Months, The Last Six)
9pm
Jethro Tull    Weathercock + Introduction/What cheer + A Christmas song + Living In These Hard Times + Marmion + Jack in the green + Another Christmas song + A winter snowscape + God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Thick As A Brick (live, 2008) (Christmas At St Brides 2008)
Emma Horwood    Noel nouvelet (2010) (Angel Song: A Christmas Blessing)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Playlist - 12 December 2020

8pm
The Crimson Projekct    Elephant talk (live) (2014) (Live In Tokyo)
Martin Barre    Steel monkey + Nothing to say (live, 2018) (2019) (Live In NY)
Unitopia    Justify (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Kahvas Jute    Ascend + Ascension + Parade of fools + She's so hard to shake (live) (2005) (Wide Open, bonus tracks)
9pm
Transatlantic    Medley: All of the above / Stranger in your soul (live) (2014) (KaLIVEascope)
Haken    Atlas stone + Cockroach king (live, 2017) (2018) (L-1VE)
Moon Safari    Heartland (live) (2014) (Live In Mexico)

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The re-united Kahvas Jute in 2005:

And way back when, in an ABC TV studio for the GTK program:

Sixteen thousand km away from home, Adelaide band Unitopia recorded live in Amsterdam, 2011:

Playlist - 5 December 2020

8pm
Steven Wilson    Permanating (live) (2018) (Home Invasion: In Concert At The Royal AlbertHall)
Porcupine Tree    Anesthetize (live, 2008) (2020) (IndigO2)
Anubis    Dead trees + Silent wandering ghosts (live, 2014) (2015) (Behind Our Eyes)
Red Sea    The One (2020) (Sanguine)
Lacrymae    The forgotten (2009) (The Hallowed Design)
9pm
The Ben Cameron Project    A cycle never ending (live) (2016) (LondonTwentySixteen)
The Flower Kings    Humanizzimo (live, 2003) (Meet The Flower Kings

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Playlist - 28 November 2020

This is assuming that the lockdown in Adelaide will be lifted by 28 November...

8pm
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    One of these days (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
Tiger Moth Tales    Golden (2020) (Still Alive / A Visit To Rockfield)
Tiger Moth Tales    Story tellers (2015) (Story Tellers Part 1)
The Slow Light    Dream sequence (2020) (Cinema Of The Mind)
Arcane    Fading (2009) (Chronicles Of The Waking Dream)
Anim8    Embrya (2010) (Anim8)
Urtekk    Patterns (2015) (DM-3 Project)
9pm
Magnum    Kingdom of madness (1978) (Kingdom Of Madness)
Marillion    That time of night (1987) (Clutching At Straws)
Van der Graaf Generator    Scorched earth (1975) (Godbluff)
Joseph Stevenson    Dream Theater – A Symphonic Suite (2018) (Dream Theater – A Symphonic Suite)
Renaissance    Things I don’t understand (live) (2011) (Tour 2011 Live In Concert: Turn Of The Cards & Scheherazade)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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45 minutes of Renaissance performing live (in 1983, not 2011) with a line-up featuring drummer Gavin Harrison, later to be a key member of Porcupine Tree:

This is great, from Adelaide band The Slow Light:

And trippiness from Urtekk:

Playlist - 21 November 2020 (COVID lockdown edition)

Due to the COVID lockdown, at this stage, a past edition of Seasons Of Change is being rebroadcast tonight.

Tonight, Seasons Of Change ransacks the prog rock jukebox for an eclectic selection of singles - featuring both hits and misses...

Source:  Gizmodo.com -"This was a jukebox in 1948"

8pm
Procol Harum    A whiter shade of pale (May 1967) (single only)
The Nice    America (Jun 1968) (single)
The Moody Blues    Nights in white satin (Nov 1967) (Days Of Future Passed)
Spectrum     I’ll be gone (Jan 1971) (single, full length stereo version / Part One, bonus track)
Kahvas Jute    Free (Jan 1971)  (Wide Open)
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (March 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969:1974)
Healing Force    Golden Miles (July 1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969:1974)
Curved Air    Back street luv (Jul 1971) (Second Album)
Spectrum    Trust me (single version) (Jun 1971) (Milesago)
Company Caine    Trixie Stonewall’s Wayward Home For Young Women (single, Sept 1971) (A Product Of A Broken Reality)
Yes    Roundabout (single version) (Jan 1972) (Fragile)
Focus    Sylvia (Dec 1972) (Focus III)
9pm
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Joybringer (Aug 1973) (single only)
Buffalo    Sunrise (come my way) (single version)  (Aug 1973) (Volcanic Rock)
Genesis    I know what I like (in your wardrobe) (Oct 1973) (Selling England By The Pound)
Roxy Music    Street life (Nov  1973) (Stranded)
Supertramp    Dreamer (Dec 1974) (Crime Of The Century)
Sebastian Hardie    Rosanna (Aug 1975) (Four Moments)
Rainbow Theatre    Petworth House (1975) (The Armada)
Kansas    Carry on wayward son (Jan 1977) (Leftoverture)
Kate Bush    Wuthering Heights (Jan 1978) (The Kick Inside)

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During the current COVID lockdown, if you have time on your hands, please take the time to:

- enjoy the varied musical mix and pre-recorded programs still being brought to you on PBA-FM by our automation system.

- have a look at the PBA-FM website, if you haven't already, and find out more about the many and varied shows usually available every week on your local station - including, but not limited to: great local and independent music on Max Radio (Tuesday 9pm and Saturday 10pm); Adelaide's best 70's request show, Living In The 70's (Wednesday afternoon), electronic sounds with Somewhere Down There (Thursday 9pm), K-pop and more on Saturday Hot Pot (Saturday afternoon) and Adelaide's best and longest running nostalgia program, Thanks For The Memory (Monday 9pm); plus, away from the world of music, two of the jewels of PBA-FM programming - Words Out Loud, the show where everyone has a story and you can take the "5 word challenge" (fortnightly, Tuesday morning) and The Kitchen Table where you'll find interesting guests and the best conversation (Wednesday 1:30pm).

Of course, there's heaps more - just check out the station website at https://www.pbafm.org.au/ and browse the schedule to find out more.

Playlist - 14 November 2020

Tonight featuring selections from the musical legacies of two Aussie musicians: Bones Hillman (Midnight Oil) and Jac Kreemers (Madder Lake).

8pm
Midnight Oil    Shakers and movers (1990) (Blue Sky Mining)
Midnight Oil    Feeding frenzy (1993) (Earth And Sun And Moon)
Midnight Oil    Beds are burning (live) (1992) (Scream in Blue Live)
Neil Murray    Is nothing gonna change (1993) (These Hands)
Freedom To Glide    Rain (Part 1) + Anywhere Else But Here + Path Of Reason (May 2012) (Rain EP)
Freedom To Glide    Stolen souls (Dec 2014) (digital single)
Madder Lake    Mother ship (1974) (Butterfly Farm)
9pm
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets    Interstellar overdrive (live) + Astronomy domine (live) + Lucifer Sam (live) (2019) (Live At The Roundhouse)
Pink Floyd    Wots…Uh, the deal (1972) (Obscured By Clouds)
Aragon    Rocking Horse (Act 2) (2018) (single only)
Voyager    Saccharine dream (2019) (Colours In The Sun)
Midnight Oil    Gadigal land (2020) (Gadigal Land)

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The late Bones Hillman with the Oils live in 2017, at the Domain:

 

And from a very different time and place - Melbourne, circa 1973 - a hairy Jac Kreemers on drums with the other equally hairy members of Madder Lake; in an ABC TV studio with their best known song, which was usually stretched out into a jam of at least twice the length when playing live:

Playlist - 7 November 2020

Incluidng a heap of Heep in tribute to Ken Hensley, fine keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter for UK band Uriah Heep who passed away this week

8pm
Procol Harum    In held twas I (live, 1971) (Live In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra)
Uriah Heep    Tales (1972) (The Magician’s Birthday)
Uriah Heep    Rainbow demon (single edit) (1972) (Demons And Wizards)
Ken Hensley’s Live Fire    Circle of hands (live) (2013) (Live!)
Anim8    Sputnik (2010) (Anim8)
Caligula’s Horse    Autumn (2020) (Rise Radiant)
9pm
Steve Hackett    Firth of Fifth (live) + Dancing with the moonlit knight (live) (2019) (Genesis Revisited Band & Orchestra: Live At the Royal Festival Hall)
Southern Empire    Hold (2016) (Southern Empire)
Emily Barker    Return me + The woman who planted trees (2020) (A Dark Murmuration Of Words)
Junior    (Jacarandas in) November (2010) (The Fibro Majestic)

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Ken Hensley and band playing a Heep classic in 2005:

A brief glimpse of Alex Deegan of ANIM8 (Melbourne) at AUDW 2003:

Can a mellow song from Adelaide band Junior counterbalance what we are seeing and hear over the airwaves at the moment? Probably not, but here it is anyway:

Steve Hackett, who was due to play Adelaide this year, performing here "with band and orchestra":

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)

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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)

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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)

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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 join an odyssey into the cosmos with one of the great scientific communicators of out time...

Cosmos - A Spacetime Odyssey

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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Playlist - 26 September 2020

Starting with Uriah Heep circa 1972 with their long-time drummer Lee Kerslake, who passed away this week; plus classic music from Levi Smith's Clefs (Adelaide) and more recent recordings from Unitopia (Adelaide) and Sebastian Hardie (Sydney); as well as newly released songs from expat singer Emily Barker (now based in the UK). From the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book, Wendy Saddington (Melbourne).

8pm
Uriah Heep    Poet’s justice (1972) (Demons and Wizards)
Uriah Heep    Blind eye + The magician’s birthday (1972) (The Magician’s Birthday)
Levi Smith's Clefs    You can’t do that (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine    Five people said I was crazy (live, 1971) (Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
Emily Barker    Where have the sparrows gone? (2020) (A Dark Murmuration of Words)
9pm
Sebastian Hardie    Four Moments suite (live) (1997) (Live in LA)
Unitopia    More than a dream (live) (2011) (One Night In Europe)
Camel    Wait (live) (1984) (Pressure Points – Live In Concert)
Camel    Fingertips (1984) (Stationary Traveller)
Emily Barker    The woman who planted trees (2020) (A Dark Murmuration of Words)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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The Levi Smith's Clefs, fronted by Barrie McAskill, flailing dramatically at their instruments to accompany one of their more concise songs, "Road runner", for the ABC TV show Hit Scene:

From Emily Barker (originally from Bridgetown, WA):

Playlist - 19 September 2020

8pm
Porcupine Tree    Radioactive toy (1992) (On the Sunday Of Life)
Porcupine Tree    Stranger by the minute (1999) (Stupid Dream)
Porcupine Tree    Four chords that made a million (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
Porcupine Tree    Lazarus (2005) (Deadwing)
Porcupine Tree    Way out of here (2007)  (Fear Of A Blank Planet)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident)
Steven Wilson    The raven that refused to sing (2013) (The Raven That Refused To Sing)
Steven Wilson    Permanating (2017) (To The Bone)
9pm
Procession    Listen (1968) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star?)
Bulldog    Inner spring (1970) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    I’ll be gone (1974) (The Good Earth)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Joybringer (1973) (single only)
Toehider    Moon and moron + Bats aren’t birds (2020) (I Like it!)
Kansas    Lamplight symphony (1974) (Song For America)
Kansas    Carry on wayward son (live) (1978/2008) (Two For The Show)
Captain Kickarse & The Awesomes    Pogonophobe (2015) (Grim Repercussions)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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A little more chaos from the latest Toehider, the appropriately titled "Go full bore":

SW, Exhibit A - The raven that refused to sing, "It’s a very simple song, again about loss and mortality":

SW, Exhibit B - Permanating, "I'm very proud of the video for Permanating. As soon as I wrote this song I had it in mind that Bollywood dancing would be the perfect accompaniment, such a joyous form of dance for what is probably the most joyous pop song I have ever come up with. I hope it will put a smile on your face as it does for me.":

Kerry Livgren (to right of stage) with Proto-Kaw, the re-formation of an early line-up of Kansas:

The curio of the week - from 48 years ago, Mick Rogers with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, playing Sydney, with the keyboard wizard initially on percussion, and covering the classic Chain song Black and blue (it was also included on their album Messin', 1972):

Playlist - 12 September 2020

Starting this week with a Rushfest for the first hour, working backward through 32 years of music from 2007 - as today (Saturday) would have been the 68th birthday of the late Neil Peart, who passed away in January this year. 

8pm
Rush    Headlong flight (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Rush    One little victory (2002) (Vapor Trails)
Rush    Double agent (1993) (Counterparts)
Rush    Presto (1989) (Presto)
Rush    Middletown dreams (1985) (Power Windows)
Rush    Witch hunt (Part III of Fear) (1981) (Moving Pictures)
Rush    Circumstances (1978) (Hemispheres)
Rush    A farewell to kings (1977) (A Farewell To Kings)
Rush    Fly by night (1975) (Fly By Night)
9pm
Southern Empire    Cries for the lonely (2018) (Civilisation)
Sean Timms    Excerpts from Bodyjackers (2008) (The Gargoyle And Other Stories: The Orchestral Music of Sean Timms)
Ben Craven    Great divide + No specific harm (2016) (The Singles Edits)
The Omnific    Moonstruck (2019) (The Mind’s Eye)
The Omnific    10am (2016) (Sonorous)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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An array of moving pictures...from tubular bells, taurus pedals and kaftans in 1977...

...a duet with Aimee Mann in 1987, along with state-of-the-art video effects...

..."leaving it alone" in 1997...

...ploughing the grunge furrow on stage in 2007...

...the hours tick away, time is still the infinite jest...

Playlist - 5 September 2020

The first hour features a quartet of Aussie heavy bands (Circadian Pulse and Vanishing Point from Melbourne, Domino and Red Sea from Sydney), after which the second hour is loaded from the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book as Roger Waters, Freddie Mercury and the late, talented Daryl Cotton (Zoot) all have birthdays during this weekend.

8pm
Circadian Pulse    Transcending evolution (2018) (Elements Of Existence)
Vanishing Point    Walls of silence (2014) (Distant Is The Sun)
Transatlantic    Black as the sky (2014) (Kaleidoscope)
Roine Stolt’s The Flower King    Next to a hurricane (2018) (Manifesto Of An Alchemist)
The Flower Kings    Stardust We Are – Part Three (live) (Japan, 1999) (Alive On Planet Earth)
Domino    My opiate (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Red Sea    Caravan (2016) (Battlescar)
9pm
Roger Waters    Dogs (2000) (In The Flesh - Live)
Queen    Somebody to love (1976) (A Day At The Races)
Queen    Killer queen (1974) (Sheer Heart Attack)
Queen    It’s a hard life (1984) (The Works)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (live on GTK, Mar 1971) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Zoot    Flying (1970) (Just Zoot / Zoot Locker)
Zoot    Eleanor Rigby (1970) (single only / Zoot Locker)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Sound and motion from Red Sea (who have new music due for release soon):

...and, from an increasingly distant time, Daryl Cotton with Zoot in an ABC TV studio for GTK, of course well after they had burned the infamous pink suits:

Roine and Transatlantic, with a fine, live version of "Black as the sky":