Playlist - 30 November 2019

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

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

Playlist - 23 November 2019

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

8pm
Spectrum    The Sideways Saga (1971) (Milesago)
Ariel    Rock & roll scars (1975) (Rock & Roll Scars)
Ariel    Jamaican farewell (live) (1977) (More From Before / Ariel Live In Concert)
United Progressive Fraternity    Travelling man (The story of ESHU) (2014) (Fall In Love With The World)
Ozric Tentacles    Trees of eternity (1985) (Tantric Obstacles)
9pm
Nektar    A tab in the ocean (1972) (A Tab In The Ocean)
Moon Safari    Doorway (2005/2012) (A Doorway To Summer)
Mushroom Giant    Primaudial soup (2015) (Painted Mantra)
Renaissance    Northern lights (live, Japan, 2001) (In The Land Of The Rising Sun)
Martin Barre    Cry you a song (live, Oct 2018) (2019) (Live In NY)
Rush    The Spirit of Radio (live) (1998) (Different Stages - Live)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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

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

Playlist - 16 November 2019

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

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

Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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

If you want to see some of the ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction concert, selected footage from the concerts are available on Eddie Rayner's Youtube channel.

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

And from Freedom To Glide:

Playlist - 9 November 2019

8pm
Martin Barre Hammer + Thick as a brick (live, Oct 2018) (2019) (Live In NY)
The Lammas Tide Hudson Line (2011) (High Tide)
The Lammas Tide The murky deep (2012) (Partridge Farm, single)
The Lammas Tide Child of Avalon (2014) (Barefoot Electric)
Awaken Solace Temptress of the desert eye (2012) (In Nightfall’s Embrace)
Domino My opiate (2013) (Where the Desert Meets The Sea)
Gavin O’Loghlen & Cotter’s Bequest Dun Trodden – Glenelg Scotland - Broch (1998) (My Mother’s Country)
9pm
Emerson Lake & Palmer Lucky man (1970) (Emerson Lake & Palmer)
King Crimson 21st century schizoid man (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Greg Lake The court of the crimson king (live, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Nov 5 1981) (2015) (London ’81 Live)
Tiger Moth Tales Don’t let go, feels alright (2014) (Cocoon)
Deeexpus Memo (2011) (King Of Number 33)
Spectrum   Trust me (single edit) (1971) (Milesago)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From Perth band The Lammas Tide, here is the promo video for the "Partridge farm" single, 2012:

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

Playlist - 2 November 2019

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

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From hitting the Australian charts in 1990 with Southern Sons to progressive metal in the US with Planet X and now his orchestral fusion album The Dawn Of Time, here is a chat with drummer and composer Virgil Donati:

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

Playlist - 26 October 2019

8pm
Windchase Forward we ride / Horsemen to infinity (1978) (Symphinity)
Sebastian Hardie   Art of life (2012) (Blueprint)
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs   Most people I know (1972) (single only, The Complete Havoc Singles 1971-1973)
Gil Matthews Gil’s thing (1971) (single only, The Complete Havoc Singles 1971-1973)
Cybotron   Eureka (Guitar version) (1980)  (Implosion, bonus track)
Jacques Loussier   Chorale No.1 (live) (1965) (Play Bach aux Champs-Elysees)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer   Knife Edge (1970) (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
9pm
Anderson & Stolt   Knowing (2016) (Invention Of Knowledge)
Kitaro   Agreement (1992) (Dream)
Yes   South side of the sky (1972) (Fragile)
Liquid Tension Experiment   914 (1999) (Liquid Tension Experiment 2)
Thank You Scientist   Everyday ghosts (2019) (Terraformer)
Ash   Midnight witch (1971) (single only / The Complete Havoc Singles 1971-1973)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum   Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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In his own words, 12 minutes with the ridiculously talented drummer, guitarist, engineer and producer Gil Matthews in a sometimes eye-popping conversation about his times playing jazz with Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, playing live and in the studio with Billy Thorpe, Mondo Rock, mishaps while on tour in the USA and that gig with The Aztecs at the Sydney Opera House:

Melbourne-based heavy band Ash in 1971 with their second single "Midnight Witch", written by Doug Ford of The Masters Apprentices, and featuring drummer David Pellici, later a member of the Little River Band:

Playlist - 19 October 2019

8pm
Genesis    Watcher of the skies (1972) (Foxtrot)
King Crimson    In the court of the crimson king (1969) (In The Court Of The Crimson King)
Porcupine Tree    Four chords that made a million (2000) (Lightbulb Sun)
The Mute Gods    Feed the troll (2017) (Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me)
Porcupine Tree    Cheating the polygraph (live, 2007) (2010) (Atlanta)
Teramaze    Her halo (2015) (Her Halo)
Ozric Tentacles    Rubbing shoulders with the absolute (2015) (Technicians Of The Sacred)
Andy Salvanos    Free range eggs (2007) (Closer)
9pm
Procol Harum    A rum tale (1973) (Grand Hotel)
Procol Harum    An old English Dream (2003) (The Well’s On Fire)
Procol Harum    A whiter shade of pale (1967) (single only)
Procol Harum    Fellow Travellers (2003) (The Well’s On Fire)
Aragon    Brave new world + The stage door – the switch + The cross (1995) (Mouse)
Madden & Harris   The wind at eve (1975) (Fools Paradise)
Zoot    I’m only sleeping (live on GTK, Mar 1971) (1994) (The GTK Tapes Vol.1)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From 1971, Zoot live in the studio on ABC TV (GTK) with their cover of a Beatles song (no, not Eleanor Rigby), featuring both some heavy riffing and some fine three-part harmony vocals:

Playlist - 12 October 2019

After an initial selection from the musical legacy of the late and talented, but mercurial, Ginger Baker, the rest of tonight's edition of Seasons Of Change stays pretty much around the late 1960's and some of the trippy music which both pre-dated and co-existed with the progressive rock scene normally heard on Seasons Of Change...

8pm
Cream Sweet wine (Live, 1966) (BBC Sessions)
Cream Tales of brave Ulysses (1967) (Disraeli Gears)
Cream White room (1968) (Wheels Of Fire)
Hawkwind Levitation (1980) (Levitation)
Procol Harum In the wee small hours of sixpence (1968) (single only, bonus track on Shine On Brightly)
Fleetwood Mac World in harmony (live, Boston, 1970) (The Blues Collection)
Jefferson Airplane White rabbit (1967) (Surrealistic Pillow)
Gandalf Can you travel in the dark alone (1968) (Gandalf)
Ginger Baker Mektoub (1990) (Middle Passage)
Egg Fugue in D minor (1970) (Egg)
9pm
Tully Sea of joy (Part 1) (1971) (Sea Of Joy)
Levi Smith's Clefs Lisa (1970) (Empty Monkey)
Tamam Shud Bali waters (1972) (Morning Of The Earth film s/track)
Kahvas Jute Ascend (1970) (Wide Open)
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity Season of the witch (1967) (Open)
Jeff St John & Copperwine Can’t find my way home (1970) (Joint Effort)
Sherbet Crimson ships (1970) (single only / So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star Vol..2)
The Zombies Hung on a dream (1968) (Odyssey & Oracle)
The Byrds Chimes of freedom (1965) (Mr. Tambourine Man)
Fraternity Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974)

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There's not a lot of footage of Ginger Baker's brief tenure during 1980/1981 with veteran UK space-rock band Hawkwind, but here is nearly six minutes of a rather grainy promo for Hawkwind with Ginger and the title track from the "Levitation" album:

Plus just a brief glimpse of Barrie Mcaskill with Levi Smiths Clefs (by then Sydney-based, ex-Adelaide) hamming it up in an ABC TV studio, probably in 1969:

Playlist - 5 October 2019

For the 400th edition of Seasons Of Change, it's almost business as usual except that some of the featured music is from some more recent bands that haven't had a guernsey until now. The start of Bach-tober is also marked with the souped-up version of J.S. Bach's Toccata from the band Sky, which featured two Australian guitarists (John Willams and Kevin Peek) and unexpectedly hit the top of the charts in several countries in 1980.

8pm
Shadow Gallery    Destination unknown (2001) (Legacy)
Southern Empire    The bridge that binds (2016) (Southern Empire)
Magellan    Estadium Nacional (1994) (Impending Ascension)
Sky    Toccata (1980) (Sky 2)
9pm
Yes    Endless dream: Silent spring/Talk/Endless dream (1994) (Talk)
Wolverine    Nemesis (2016) (Machina Viva)
RWPL    Tell me why (2002) (Trying To Kiss the Sun)
Projected Twin    Earth to world (2010) (Earth To World)

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 Here's a little more Southern Empire with a promo video for another song from their first album in 2016:

Playlist - 28 September 2019

Tonight, recent music from Aura Form (Adelaide, post-rock) and BaK (Sydney) plus, from the Birthday Book this week, the terrific Australian singer Wendy Saddington and Andy Ward (drummer with UK band Camel). It's also the 50th anniversary this week of the Beatles album Abbey Road, the record that helped inspire a multitude of prog rock bands to compose and record side-long suites. And a selection from the legacy of Geoff Gray, the long-time lead singer of the eclectic Sydney band Flake who passed away this week.

8pm
Flake Violet Jam Part A: Down in Rio + Violet Jam Part B: Quick reaction (1971) (How’s Your Mother)
Flake Under the silent tree (1971) (How’s Your Mother))
Wendy Saddington Looking through a window (1971) (single only)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Five people said I was crazy (live, 1971) (Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine Live)
BaK Us all (2019) (Painter)
Aura Form Secrets of the sun + Floating South (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
9pm
The Beatles Side 2 of Abbey Road (1969) (Abbey Road)
Camel Unevensong (1977) (Raindances)
Camel White rider (live) (1972/1992) (On The Road 1972)
The Parazone Wild dolphins (2019) (REC/PLAY)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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Probably sometime late 1970, here is Wendy Saddington out front with Copperwine, recorded for the ABC TV show GTK:

Playlist - 21 September 2019

8pm
Robert Reed    Witchfinder General Theme (2016) (single)
The Mute Gods    Knuckleheads (2019) (Atheists And Believers)
Porcupine Tree    Chloroform (2006) (Futile)
Steve Hackett    Unquiet slumbers for the sleepers + In that quiet earth + Afterglow (live) (2014) (Genesis Revisited: Live At Hammersmith)
Andy Salvanos    Lightwaves (2019) (digital single)
Altera Enigma    Enigmatic alteration (2006) (Alteration)
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    Be not too hard (1974) (The Good Earth)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band    Joybringer (1973) (single only)
Renaissance    Let it grow (1973) (Ashes Are Burning)
Annie Haslam    Captive heart (1997) (Live Studio Concert Philadelphia 1997)
Locanda delle Fate    Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più (1977) (Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più)
Camel    Supertwister (1974) (Mirage)
Freedom To Glide   Broken road (2019) (Seed, advance track)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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A recent interview with Mick Rogers (Procession, Bulldog, Manfred Mann's Earth Band) :

Playlist - 14 September 2019

8pm
Eddie Rayner & ENZO: Stranger than Fiction    Titus + Spellbound + 129 + Edible flowers (live) (2014) (ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction - Live)
Jeff St John & Copperwine    Any orange night + You don’t have to listen (1970) (Joint Effort)
Porcupine Tree    Time flies (2009) (The Incident / Prognosis 3)
A Lonely Crowd    Tyranny of dissonance (2011) (User Hostile)
Aura Form     Walking through Fallout (2016) (Vesica Pisces)
9pm
Symphony X    The Divine Wings of Tragedy (1997) (The Divine Wings of Tragedy)
Captain Beyond    Dancing madly backwards (on a sea of air) (1972) (Captain Beyond)
Captain Beyond    Everything’s a circle (1973) (Sufficiently Breathless)
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick Part 2 (1972) (Thick As A Brick)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

And if you want to see some of the ENZO - Stranger Than Fiction concert, selected footage from the concerts are available on Eddie Rayner's Youtube channel, including Spellbound:

Playlist - 7 September 2019

Tonight, on the first edition of Seasons Of Change for Spring 2019, classic music from Fraternity (Adelaide), Mackenzie Theory and Spectrum (both from Melbourne), and more recent music from Southern Empire (Adelaide); plus, from the Birthday Book, Marc Hunter (Dragon, NZ) and Roger Waters (Pink Floyd).

8pm
Fraternity    Seasons of Change (1971) (single only / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
Southern Empire    How long (2016) (Southern Empire)
Spectrum    Fly without its wings (1972) (Milesago)
Dragon    Universal Radio (1974) (Universal Radio)
Dragon    Darkness (1975) (Scented Gardens For The Blind / Golden Miles: Australian Progressive Rock 1969 - 1974, compilation)
Dragon    Konkaroo (1978) (single from Greatest Hits Vol.1)
Dragon    Young years (1989) (Bondi Road)
9pm
Roger Waters    In the flesh + The happiest days of our lives + Another brick in the wall (live, USA) (2006) (In The Flesh)
Roger Waters    What god wants, Part 1 (1992) (Amused To Death)
Mackenzie Theory    O (1973) (Out Of The Blue)
Ozric Tentacles    Waldorfdub (2000) (Swirly Termination)
Rush    Dreamline (live) (1997) (Different Stages - Live)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information. 

For something different:

A photo essay of the early years of Dragon in New Zealand

And here is a remarkable live version of the song "Seasons of change" by the other group who recorded it (and indeed wrote it), Blackfeather:

Playlist - 31 August 2019

Tonight, turning the clock back to the early 1970's and another expedition into the Australian "head music" scene, with live recordings from Ariel, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Company Caine, Madder Lake and Spectrum/Murtceps (Melbourne), plus Buffalo and Tamam Shud (Sydney) and the eclectic Hungarian/Australian jazz-rock group Syrius featuring the legendary Jackie Orszáczky.

8pm
Tamam Shud    Midday ‘til four + Bali waters + Being absolutely free (live, Dec 1971) (Goolutionites And The Real People, bonus tracks)
Wendy Saddington & The Copperwine   Tomorrow never knows (live, Jan 1971) (Wendy Saddington & Copperwine Live) 
Indelible Murtceps    We are indelible (live, Sunbury, Jan 1972) (Warts Up Your Nose, bonus track)
Spectrum    I'll be gone (live, Sunbury, Jan 1972) (Milesago, bonus track)
Company Caine    Hey George + Now I’m together (live at Mulwala Festival, Apr 1972) (Dr Chop, bonus tracks)
Madder Lake    Down the river (live, Sunbury, Jan 1973) (Sunbury 1973)
9pm
Madder Lake    Bumper bar song + When is a mouse (live at Garrison, Jun 1973) (Still Point, bonus tracks)
Buffalo    Shylock (live, 1973) (Volcanic Rock, bonus track)
Ariel    Rock ‘n roll scars + I can’t say what I mean (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Rock n Roll Scars, bonus tracks)
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band    Out in the suburbs + Malcolm the prefect + Roll that reefer (live, Dec 1975) (A-Reefer-Derci / Wangaratta Wahini, bonus tracks)
Syrius   GTK Theme / Strawberry fields forever (live, GTK, 1971) (The GTK Tapes Vol.2)

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The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band in action on ABC TV (Countdown) in 1975:

...and a few years earlier with a perhaps bemused but enthusiastic interviewer on ABC TV's GTK:

Playlist - 24 August 2019

Starting with a selection of Rush, inspired by the world-wide screening of Cinema Strangiato (aka the “Inaugural Theatrical Fan Indulgence”) during the week; plus recent music from Three Wise Monkeys (Sydney), Arcane (Brisbane) and Ben Craven (Brisbane) recorded live, plus classic Spectrum (Melbourne); and from the Birthday Book, Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep), Jean Michel Jarre and Keith Moon (The Who).

8pm
Rush    The anarchist (2012) (Clockwork Angels)
Rush    Subdivisions (1982) (Signals)
Rush    The Spirit of Radio (1980) (Permanent Waves)
Three Wise Monkeys    Cyber Terrorist (2015) (False Flag)
United Progressive Fraternity    Loss Anthem & One More (2019) (Planetary Overload)
Ben Craven (with William Shatner)    Spy in the sky Part 3 (live, 2016) (2017) (First Chance To Hear)
Ben Craven    Last chance to hear Parts 1 & 2 (live, 2016) (2017) (First Chance To Hear)
Arcane    Keeping stone: Water awake (2015) (Known/Learned)
9pm
Uriah Heep    Tales (1972) (The Magician’s Birthday)
Uriah Heep    Circle of hands (1972) (Demons And Wizards)
Jean Michel Jarre    Arpegiator + Equinoxe Part 4 (live) (1982) (The Concerts In China)
The Who    Baby don’t you do it (1971) (Who’s Next, bonus track)
Spectrum    Trust me (single edit) (1971) (Milesago)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

Here's just a little more from 3WM from the "False Flag" album:

Playlist - 17 August 2019

Tonight, a selection from the ambitious 1995 concept album Mouse by the Melbourne band Aragon, which has just been re-issued in a digital-only form; plus, from the Birthday Book, music featuring Kevin Ayers, Colin Moulding (XTC) and Barry Hay (Golden Earring).

8pm
Lifesigns    Telephone (2013) (Lifesigns)
Marillion    Beautiful (1995) (Afraid Of Sunlight)
Aragon    The dark + A private matter + Waiting on a life + The gate + End of the Line Part 1 + End of the Line Part 2 (1995 / 2019 re-issue) (Mouse)
White Willow    Now in these fairly lands (1995 / 2013 re-issue) (Ignis Fatuus)
XTC    The smartest monkeys (1992) (Nonesuch)
Dukes Of Stratosfear    The Affiliated (1987) (Psionic Psumspot / The Dukes Of Stratosfear: An Anthology)
XTC    In another life (2000) (Wasp Star)
XTC    Down a peg (demo) (CD single, The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead)
9pm
Kevin Ayers    Blue (1976) (Yes We Have No Mananas)
Kevin Ayers    Whatevershebringswesing (1972) (Whatevershebringswesing)
Golden Earring    Song of a devil’s servant (1969) (Eight Miles High)
Golden Earring    Radar love (1973) (Moontan)
Anubis    The deepest wound + Technicolour Afterlife (2018) (Different Stories)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)


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Here's a little more of Melbourne neo-prog band Aragon recorded live in 1989, with an embryonic version of a song later on the Mouse album:

Playlist - 10 August 2019

Tonight, a flashback to the Adelaide gig by the UK band Haken, who finished their night with a 20 minute song as an encore; plus music from the latest release by Sydney band Hemina, and from the Birthday Book, Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Tove Jansson (creator of the Moomintroll novels and stories) and talented Aussie singer Deborah Conway (Do Re Mi and solo).

8pm
Haken    Crystallised (2014) (Restoration EP)
Jethro Tull    Living in the past (1972) (Living In The Past)
Jethro Tull    Aqualung (1972) (Aqualung)
Jethro Tull    Dot com (1999) (Dot Com)
Hemina    In technicolour (2019) (Night Echoes)
9pm
Ritual    A dangerous journey (2007) (The Hemulic Voluntary Band)
Do Re Mi    Man overboard (1985) (Domestic Harmony)
Deborah Conway    Consider This (1993) (Bitch Epic)
Deborah Conway    Parabasis (live, 1994) (Epic Theatre)
Subaudible Hum       Science maketh the scientist (2006) (In Time For Spring, On Came The Snow)

Seasons Of Change thanks the sponsors of your local radio station PBA-FM and encourages you to support them too - see the PBA-FM website for more information.

A look at the life of Tove Jansson:

Playlist - 3 August 2019

8pm
The Celibate Rifles   Spirits (1995) (Spaceman In A Satin Spacesuit)
Frankenfido Purple shuffle (2019) (digital single)
Frankenfido Watcher on the wall (2019) (digital single)
Southern Empire Hold (2017) (Live At HQ)
Rush Cygnus X-1 (1977) (A Farewell To Kings)
Rush Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres (1978) (Hemispheres)
9pm
Marillion Waterhole (Expresso Bongo) + Lords of the Backstage + Blind Curve + Childhoods End? + White Feather (1985) (Misplaced Childhood)
Sebastian Hardie Another string (2011) (Blueprint)
Klaus Schulze Some velvet phasing (1974) (Blackdance)
Magic Pie   The man who had it all (2019) (Fragments Of The 5th Element)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From Brisbane band Frankenfido, the promotional video for "Purple shuffle":

Playlist - 27 July 2019

8pm
Jethro Tull    Part of the machine (1988) (20 Years Of Jethro Tull)   
Jethro Tull    Thick as a brick Part 1 (1972) (Thick As A Brick)   
Drawn From Bees    Half of it (2014) (Web Of Thieves)   
Drawn From Bees    Say what you mean (2009) (The Sky Is Falling)   
Drawn From Bees    Stand against the storm (2011) (Cautionary Tales for the Lionhearted) 
Damanek    The crossing (2018) (In Flight)
9pm
Genesis   Follow you follow me (1978) (And Then There Were Three)
Genesis   Invisible touch (1988) (Invisible Touch)   
Mario Millo & Men From Mars    Horsemen To Symphinity (live, 1999) (2000) (Symphinity, bonus track on 1978 Windchase album re-issue)    
Ben Craven    Great divide (2016) (The Singles Edits)   
Madden & Harris    Wishes (1975)  (Fools Paradise)
Groundhogs    Garden (1970) (Thank Christ For The Bomb)   
Groundhogs    Earth is not room enough (1972) (Who Will Save The World? The Mighty Groundhogs!)
Quiet Child   The great fade (2018) (Clara)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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From 1974, the enigmatic Madden & Harris performing on the ABC TV GTK show:

Playlist - 20 July 2019

A spacey vibe tonight, to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. From the Seasons Of Change Birthday Book, John Lodge (The Moody Blues), plus a Song From The Wood on the eve of the 2nd gig by Acoustic Tull here in Adelaide this coming Friday evening, as part of the Adelaide Guitar Festival.

8pm
Hawkwind    Silver machine (1972) (single only / In Search Of Space, re-issue)
Pink Floyd    Astronomy Domine (1967) (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)
Spectrum    Drifting (1970) (Part One)
Three Wise Monkeys    Conundrum (2015) (False Flag)
Porcupine Tree    Moonloop (1995) (The Sky Moves Sideways)
Rush    Countdown (1982) (Signals)
Camel    Lunar sea (1976) (Moonmadness)
9pm
Moon Safari    Moonwalk (2008) (Blomljud)
Ian MacFarlane    A mountain of swords + Summits in the mist + Seeds in the dust II (1987/2018 re-issue) (Planetarium)
The Moody Blues    Isn’t life strange (1972) (Seventh Sojourn)
Jethro Tull    Velvet green (1977) (Songs From the Wood)
Cybotron    Black devil’s triangle (1980/2005) (Implosion)
Ben Rogers Instrumental Asylum    Seasons of change (2007) (Reverb Rehab)

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With more keyboards than you can shake a stick at, here is Australian electronic group Cybotron and a track from their 1976 self-titled album: