Episodes
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
From the Coronal Wastes
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Hello my friends,
Soundscape returns in your hour of need. We know that many of you are having to avoid social gatherings, and you are likely looking for a voice to broadcast across the wasteland. An oasis of musical exploration and bliss in the virtual fields is what we are offering. I needed some rock and roll healing, and this set of music is here to offer that to the rest of you as well. While sometimes the set goes a little darker than I wanted, it is still a massive pile of awesome riffs, hooks, and intrigue and I believe you listeners will feel the excitement that a guitar chord can provide. So get your rock on and party with the progsters at Soundscape!
- Touchstone- Hear Me
- Styx- Put Me On
- Uriah Heep- Wake the Sleeper
- Black Swan- Long Road to Nowhere
- The Dear Hunter- The Revival
- Yes- The Gift of Love
- The Samurai of Prog- The Bicycle Ride
- Bjorn Riis- You and Me
- Kevin Gilbert- Joytown
- Cheeto’s Magazine- Ready to Rumble
- Thank You Scientist- Chromology
- Pigeons Playing Ping Pong- Avalanche
- Particle- Losing It
- Steven Wilson- Index
- The Who- All This Music Must Fade
- Flying Colors- Last Train Home
- David Cross- Upshift
- Yogi Lang- Don’t Confuse Life with a Thought
- Pure Reason Revolution- New Obsession
- Revolution Saints- It’s Not the End (It’s Just the Beginning)
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer- Fanfare for the Common Man
- Jim Peterik & World Stage- Winds of Change
- Squackett- Sea of Smiles
- In Continuum- All That Is
- Wetton/Downes- Finger on the Trigger
- Dennis DeYoung- East of Midnight
- Steven Wilson- Personal Shopper
- The Mute Gods- One Day
- Red Zone Rider- Cloud of Dreams
- Pattern-Seeking Animals- Orphans of the Universe
- Bruce Soord- You Hear the Voices
- Till Death Do Us Part- Monster
- Queensryche- Eyes of a Stranger
- Ozzy Osbourne- Ordinary Man
- Timbuk 3- The Future’s So Bright, Gotta Wear Shades
Monday Jan 13, 2020
New Years Resolutions 2020 edition
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
Happy New Year to all of our Soundscape listeners. We threw some curveballs last year with reduction of shows, and talk of a new project. The fact is, its all in gestation and I am not yet sure what direction things will take. I know as I contemplate the very real possibility of closing down Soundscape- a show that has been running off and on for 16 years, I get wistful and don't want to let go. I have made incredible lifelong friends through Soundscape, and I have discovered countless songs and albums that have impacted my life. So, as we wait for the new to be born, I make a small commitment to the stalwart listeners who have flow with us so many years- Soundscape will not go away for a while, but you will see a reduction in episodes as a whole. The new project, is still a dream waiting to be born and I have the feeling that it will be worth the gnashing of teeth and anxiety it is causing me.
In the meantime, we have put together a show about musical resolutions. That said, this is not the right show to start your Soundscape voyages. If for some reason this is your first episode, this is not the place to start. On that fateful Sunday the powers of the random universe conspired against us, The show broke into about 15 parts and they are now all stitched back together, but there are gaps that are obvious in the midst of some really great music. So unless you are among the chosen, turn back and find an older episode.
New Years Resolutions 2020 Edition
- Bjorn Riis- Where Are You Now
- Van Halen- Right Now (sadly a subpar recording of this epic Van Hagar song)
- Karmakanic- Turn It Up
- HFMC- Everything Can Change
- Pattern-Seeking Animals- No Burden Left to Carry
- Barock Project- A New Tomorrow
- Riverside- Discard Your Fear
- Franck Carducci- Love is the Answer
- Rush- Hope
- Julian Lennon- Someday
- Argent- Hold Your Head Up
- Porcupine Tree- Sleep Together
- D Project- Find Your Sun
- Pink Floyd- On the Turning Away
- Spock's Beard- At the End of the Day
- Marillion- This Strange Engine
- The Flower Kings- The Truth Will Set You Free
- Yes- Give Love Each Day
- The Producers- Waiting for the Right Time
- Genesis- It's Gonna Get Better
- Slut- Hope
- Dream Theater- Surrounded
- Big Big Train- Telling the Bees
- Fleesh- Mission
- Presto Ballet- Your Alive
- Robert Plant- I Believe
- Public Symphony- Touch
- Toy Matinee- We Always Come Home
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Too Late its 2008
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
With all of the ongoing projects and work I am doing, I have been slow in getting this podcast out. For that, I apologize. However, it's just as good today as it was when we made it. This episode is almost entirely music from the year 2008. That was a good year for Soundscape and for music as a whole and we hope that this episode will help you see that. We opened the show with "Find Your Way Back" from Jefferson Starship. I think this is more of a statement about being gone for a while and needing to find our way back to the good ship Soundscape. Honestly, dear listeners, we have not abandoned ship, but we have been on multiple away missions. What's to come at this point is uncertain. There is still a plan to launch a new podcast, but also to keep Soundscape around for new missions. So for those who are perhaps grieving the loss of Soundscape, know that we are not planning on abandoning it, just that it will come around much less frequently once our new show starts.
That should be enough ambiguity to keep you all coming back. Here is the setlist for this show: Enjoy!
Too Late it's 2008:
- Jefferson Starship- Find Your Way Back
- Willowglass- The Maythorne Grass
- Simon Says- As the River Runs
- My Morning Jacket- Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt2
- Ayreon- The Fifth Extinction
- Steven Wilson- No Twilight Within the Courts of the Sun
- DeeExpus- Greed
- Opeth- Porcelain Heart
- The D Project- Closer to my Soul/Closer to my Heaven
- It Bites- The Wind that Shakes the Barley
- Fromuz- Crashmind
- Rewiring Genesis- The Carpet Crawlers
- Asia- Sleeping Giant/No Way Back/Reprise
- Riverside- The Curtain Falls
- Spock's Beard- The Slow Crash Landing Man
- Rush- Main Monkey Business
- David Gilmour- Take a Breath
- Muse- Supermassive Black Hole
- Porcupine Tree- Trains
- Moon Safari- Bluebells
- Frost*- Experiments in Mass Appeal
- The Tangent- Not as Good as the Book
- Pineapple Thief- Different World
- RPWL- Masters of War
- Karmakanic- Send a Message from the Heart
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Travels in the Tapestry
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
In our opening, we talk about traveling the sonic tapestries; a turn of phrase that sounded pretty good at the time. Anyway, we don't usually talk about the meaning behind this cryptic phrase so I figured lets name this episode with that name. When I am in a state of flow, creating a setlist for Soundscape, sometimes something magical happens and I feel the presence of a theme, or a world being created or called out of the background. I actually only intended this episode to be a short jaunt into some new music, but it turned out that the muse had a higher calling. So, I will let you piece together your own meanings here, but for me, a story played out that was meaningful. I hope it is for you as well.
Next time around, we will have a proper theme.
Happy travels:
Travels in the Tapestry
- ELO Pt2- Hello, Hello>Honest Men
- Styx- These are the Times
- Pattern Seeking Animals- Orphans of the Universe
- Farmhouse Odyssey- Out of the Fog
- Moon Safari- To Sail Beyond the Sunset
- The Flower Kings- Black Flag
- Bjorn Riis- Stormwatch
- Anathema- The Storm Before the Calm
- Bruce Soord and Jonas Renske- Flows Through You
- Thank You Scientist- Shatner's Lament>Anchor
- Built to Spill- Cortez the Killer
- Porcupine Tree- The Sky Moves Sideways
- Billy Sherwood et al- Where We Belong
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Plunging into 1988
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Soundscape returns....at least for the moment. Big changes are afoot in the Soundscape studios. We are going to be closing down the Soundscape podcast, in favor of something new. While the new does not yet have a clear form, the notion I have is to provide a much more in depth discussion of theme and music and expand the discussion part of the podcast. Some may feel that this is not a fix that Soundscape needs. We have been running this podcast very close to 15 years now I believe. That is a long time to do something like this. There is a new thing hoping to be born, but to properly midwife it into this reality (out of the realm of dreams and numinous forms), I will have to put all of my attention on the project. Soundscape has reached its transition day. Carousel will happen later this year and Soundscape will cast off its earthly form and go back to the ethereal realm from which it came. I hope you will all appreciate our new direction. In the meantime, we have not run our course just yet. I believe we still have some episodes in us. We will properly close out Soundscape by continuing our series of yearly reviews, running a few key theme shows, and finally an all out blow out bash to celebrate our run and the people who have been on this adventure with us. To that end, herein is contained the most recent of our podcasts, a romp through some of the music of 1998.
Plunging into 1998
- Motorpsycho- Psychonaut
- CS Brown- Soundscape Theme
- Kansas- Miracles Out of Nowhere
- Mark Hollis- Inside Looking Out
- Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- Trane to Conamarra
- Abraxas- Czakramy
- Phish- Limb by Limb
- Symphony X- Through the Looking Glass
- Chroma Key- Mouse
- Bruford Levin Upper Extremities- Cracking the Midnight Glass
- Air- New Star in the Sky
- Threshold- Goodbye Mother Earth
- Pain of Salvation- Black Hills
- Gypsy Kings- Hotel California
- Marillion- Three Minute Boy
- Widespread Panic- Porch Song
- Steve Hackett- Shadow of the Hierophant>Los Endos
- Rush- Cygnus X-1
- Phish- Divided Sky
- Spock's Beard- The Good Don't Last
- Nightwish- Walking in the Air
- Liquid Tension Experiment- Kindred Spirits
- Gov't Mule- Larger than Life
- Arena- Hanging Tree
- Page/Plant- Shining in the Light
- Eloy- Paralysed Civilization
- Ayreon- Amazing Flight
- Colin Bass- Goodbye to Albion
Sunday Jun 09, 2019
Soundscape 2.87 Spontaneous Findings
Sunday Jun 09, 2019
Sunday Jun 09, 2019
As the summer starts up, a number of changes are developing. While I did not expect to go on hiatus prior to this episode, I was aware that developing our normally well crafted themes was coming to a close for a little while. So instead, as we closed out the month of May, I decided to simply play a patch of things that were piquing my interest. Many of the songs you will hear on this episode were new to me at the time and we are all discovering these pieces at the same time. I hope you will enjoy the journey.
We are taking a break from Soundscape for most of the summer. We have a number of projects that are under way including moving. We also have several weekends where we will be out of town, so it just made sense. Soundscape, while perhaps not the most consistent show, has been running for well over 10 years now. Its time to let things rest for a moment. Most likely we will be back in full swing in the near future. Much love to you all and keep on progging on.
- Uriah Heep- Return to Fantasy
- Box of Frogs- Back Where I Started
- Pattern Seeking Animals- No Burden Left to Carry
- Michael Crimson- The Dungeon
- Thank You Scientist- Terraformer
- Jim Peterik & World Stage- Proof of Heaven (feat Dennis DeYoung)
- The Samurai of Prog- Castle Blue Dream
- Haken- Falling Back to Earth
- The Windmill- A Day in the Hero's Life
- Big Big Train- Voyager
- Bjorn Riis- Stormwatch
- IZZ- 42
- Deckchair Poets- Part Two
- The Samurai of Prog- Bicycle Ride
- Tiger Moth Tales- Hundred Acre Wood
- Jon Anderson- Twice in a Lifetime
- Alan Parsons- One Note Symphony
- Last Flight to Pluto- The Kings are Dead
- Clinic- New Equations (at the Copacabana)
- The Claypool Lennon Delirium- Blood and Rockets
- A Perfect Circle- By and Down by the River
- Queensryche- Bent
- Sweet Oblivion- True Colors
- Dream Theater- At Wit's End
- Last in Line- Sword from the Stone
- Red Zone Rider- There's a Knowing
- Black Mountain- High Rise
- Think Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Monday May 13, 2019
Soundscape 2.86 Blast Off
Monday May 13, 2019
Monday May 13, 2019
Previously on Soundscape, we discovered that we are not alone, so the prog prophecy tells us. So this time, we leave this bedraggled rock and seek a more appropriate venue for our musical visions. Along the way, we come face to face with some damn fine tunes, and even a short diversion through a perfect album side. It's time for us to BLAST OFF! Please join us on this excursion.
Blast Off
- Red Bazar- Rocky Bone Runway
- Rush- Countdown
- Yuka & Chronoship- Cutting Gravity
- The Neal Morse Band- The Great Adventure
- Quantum Fantay- Journey from Earth
- Cosmograf- Beautiful Treadmill
- Styx- Radio Silence
- Pyramidal- Visions of an Astral Journey
- Lonely Robot- Airloack
- D Project- The End
- Amgala Temple- Moon Palace
- William Shatner- Walking on the Moon
- Cosmograf- Goodbye to All Illusions
- RPWL- Give Birth to the Sun
The Perfect Album Side from Scott Oliver
- DeeExpus- Marty and the Magic Moose
- Pure Reason Revolution- The Bright Ambassadors of Morning
- American Hollow- Say, Is it Really True?
- Hawkwind- Sonic Attack
- Amplifier- Trading Dark Matter on The Stock Exchange
- Roxy Music- More Than This
The Journey Continues
- Vespero- Flight of the Leutenant
- CS Brown- Lunar Superia
- The Far Meadow- Foreign Land
- Journey- Venus
- Presto Ballet- Earthbound
- Stereokimono- Space Surfer
- Public Service Broadcasting- Go!
- Alan Parsons- Apollo
- Rush- Earthshine
- Marco Ragni- Keep Dreaming
Thursday May 09, 2019
Soundscape 2.85 This is England
Thursday May 09, 2019
Thursday May 09, 2019
After returning from an amazing journey across the pond to the Motherland, we were ripe for a musical trek through the streets and vistas of London. Our expedition was inspiring but tragic, wonderful and woeful, but for you the listener, we offer a tapestry of sounds that may make you either homesick or want to take a trip of your own. There is lots to discover here and I hope that you will enjoy your time as we stroll the streets of England.
This is England
- Beatles- Strawberry Fields Forever
- The Tangent- Lost in London
What's New
- Grand Tour- Clocks that Tick (But Never Tock)
- The Mute Gods- Sonic Boom
- Bjorn Riis- Icarus
Back to London
- Big Big Train- London Song
- Genesis- Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
- Jonathan Wilson- Trafalgar Square
- It Bites- This is England
Live in London
- David Gilmour- Castellorizon
- Steven Wilson- No Part of Me
- Big Big Train- Victoria Brickwork
- Porcupine Tree- London
London Life
- The Who- Blue, Red and Grey
- John Wesley- Waiting for the Sun
- Procol Harum- A Souvenir of London
- Marillion- Easter
- Marillion- Fugazi
- David Gilmour- Breakthrough
- Supertramp- Crime of the Century
- Orchestra- Over London Skies
More of the new stuff
- Cosmograf- The Smoke and the Flame
- Oak- Claire De Lune
- John Holden- Tears from the Sun
- The Claypool Lennon Delirium- Amethyst Realm
- Alan Parsons- Sometimes
- Rob Cottingham- Find Me
Goodbye
- The Tangent- Lost in London 25 Years Later
- The Beatles- Don't Let Me Down
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Finding 1988
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
I'm not sure about your experience, but when I look back on the music of 1988, there are not very many things that have stood the test of time. However, that is not to say that 1988 did not offer some good music. This episode is another in our time machine series. Here we return to 1988 in hopes of finding the best or most meaningful music in that year.
Time Machine: 1988
Opener
- Steve Hackett- Troubled Spirits
- Jethro Tull- The Chateau D'isaster Tapes
What's New
- Karfagen- Dragon Island
- Steve Hackett- Under the Eye of the Sun
- Soen- Lunacy
- Todd Rundgren, John Wesley, & Tony Kaye- Roundabout
Back to 1988
- Talking Heads- (Nothing But) Flowers
- King's X- Far, Far Away
- Talk Talk- Desire
- Robert Plant- Ship of Fools
- Church- Under the Milky Way
- Metallica- One
- Voivod- Brain Scan
- Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
- Crimson Glory- In Dark Places
- Cinderella- Long Cold Winter
A Live Set
- Yes- Hold On
- 3- Talkin Bout
- Pink Floyd- Sorrow
- Marillion- White Russian
Returning Home
- Mike + The Mechanics- Out of the Blue
- Red Hot Chili Peppers- Pink as Floyd
- Cheeto's Magazine- Outflow
- Motorpsycho- Psychotzar
- Lonely Robot- Ancient Ascendant
- Tim Bowness- Ghostlike
- The Mute Gods- Atheists & Believers
- Queensryche- Bent
- Dream Theater- Fall into Light
- Blue Oyster Cult- Magna of Illusion>Blue Oyster Cult
- Alan Parsons- Miracle
- Chris Squire- Comfortably Numb
Monday Mar 11, 2019
We Are Not Alone
Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
As you may all know, I am a huge geek. I love every aspect of science fiction. One of the cornerstones of good science fiction is the first contact story, From Arthur Clarke, to Carl Sagan the story has been played around in every media format of science fiction. It opens the door to the most challenging questions; How do we reconcile with being neighbors? How do we present ourselves? Are these others friendly or coercive? Do they want to be friends? Are they even aware of us at all? More importantly the first contact story stands as a ready critique of our ways of dealing with the 'other'. Do we adopt a colonial attitude? Are we welcoming? Are we the enemy? So many great questions and the beautiful answer is that since we have yet to encounter this moment, we have no clue. We have a body of speculative literature and media to help us explore this question. And that is a beautiful thing!
So here we are, at the corners of progressive rock and science fiction once again perusing what makes our genre of music so damned intriguing. We have gathered together a number of songs that will help us explore what our music has to say about this most important of topics. Check it out:
We Are Not Alone
We begin with a rather simple premise. We are listening for contact. The inclusion of a more political piece from Marillion here is meant to indicate the state of our world. The mess we find ourselves in. This is also true of the Neal Morse piece. The idea was to help identify that these are the reasons we might look to the skies. Perhaps some new wisdom could be brought down to earth and we would learn that all of this trauma and terror we inflict upon one another is unnecessary. Or at the very least, we might learn that there are bigger problems for us to manage, and perhaps what we need is a good ole invasion to bring our sorry asses together because our little ego bound attitudes are in fact tearing this world apart.
- Seti- Listening to the Sky
- Marillion- El Dorado Suite
- The Neal Morse Band- Welcome to the World
- Magenta- Man and Machine Suite
- Adrian Belew- Looking for a UFO
- Man or Astro-man?- Alien Visitors
- Bigelf- Alien Frequency
- Billy Thorpe- Children of the Sun
- Amplifier- UFOs
- Zebra- Who's Behind the Door?
- Visitors- Flatwoods Story
- Flaming Lips- UFO Story
- Tool- Rosetta Stoned
- Simon Collins- Keep it Dark
- Pallas- The Alien Messiah
- John Williams- The Conversation
- Styx- Come Sail Away
- Manning- Antares
- Radiohead- Subterranean Homesick Alien
- A Perfect Circle- So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
- RPWL- A New World
- Sound of Contact- Mobius Slip
- Steve Hackett- Watcher of the Skies
- In Continuum- Crash Landing
- Porcupine Tree- Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before it is Recycled
- Ben Craven- Spy in the Sky Pt 3
- Neil Young- After the Gold Rush
- David Bowie- Starman
- William Shatner- War of the Worlds