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A Short Journey Into Now

Sometimes with all of the changes going on in our lives we need a breath of fresh air. That is what we are offering this week as we present an episode of all new music. With the current trends in progressive rock and the growing body of talented musicians out there in progland, it's often very hard to keep up with it all. Take a listen and be temporarily in the know.

Coming soon, a guide to our favorites from 2017.

A Short Trip Into Now

• Govt Mule- Silent Scream
• Yes- Fly From Here (Return Trip)
• Spock's Beard- To Breathe Another Day
• Karibow- The Impermanence of Sound
• Bomber Goggles- Building
• Bomber Goggles- The World We Really Want
• Kino- Temple Tudor
• Riversea- Drowning in Vertigo
• Jonathan Wilson- Over the Midnight
• Adam Holzman- A House is not a Motel
• I Am th Manic Whale- The Man With Many Faces
• Robert Reed- Theme from Doctor Who (Robert Reed Mix)
• Marco Ragni- Waiting on the Threshold
• The Aaron Clift Experiment- Dream Within a Dream
• A Perfect Circle- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

A Trip back to 2007

This time around, in our beautiful turn back time machine, we look at the year 2007. Yes we will finally reach 2017 before Summer lol. 

Prog of 2017

• Singularity- Smile
• Magic Pie- Trick of the Mind
• Circa- Information Overload
• Beardfish- Roulette
• Hiromi- Time Control, or Controlled by Time
• Jordan Rudess- Sound CHaser
• Manning- Lost in Play
• Quantum Fantay- March of the Buffelario
• Pienapple Thief- West Winds
• Saga- Corkentellis
• Galahad- I Could Be God
• Rush- The Main Monkey Business
• Planet X- Quantum Factor
• Fair to Midland- A Seafarer's Knot
• The Bad Plus- Tom Sawyer
• Big Big Train- PIck Up if You're There
• Tangent- The Music That Died Alone
• Little Atlas- Symbiosis
• Fish- Openwater
• Riverside- Ultimate Trip
• Porcupine Tree- Way Out of Here
• Porcupine Tree- What Happens Now?

Easter with Soundscape

Well, we are a few days late getting this thing out, but the music is still just as good. We start with a healthy dose of Sunday morning prog, then build up to some new stuff and heavier material. This was a brief respite from our slow cascading review of years gone by, but next week we will again plumb the depths, investigating the year 2007. 

There are a few glitches here, a couple of spaces of dead air, but bear with it. Your patience at these moments will pay off. 

Anyway, happy spring and keep moving forward!

• Van Morrison- Into the Mystic
• Genesis- Stagnation
• Willowglass- The Dream Harbour
• Jethro Tull- Life is a Long Song
• Anthony Phillips- April
• Big Big Train- Brooklands
• RPWL- Sunday Morning
• Marillion- Easter
• Moon Safari- Methusala's Children
• Steve Hackett- Hands of the Priestess Pt 1
• Yes- And You And I
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer- From the Beginning
• Kino- Radio Voltaire
• Dukes of the Orient- Give Another Reason
• Unitopia- Suffocation>Artificial World
• Unitopia- Gone in the Blink of an Eye
• Billy Sherwood- Wake Up Call
• Michael Crimson- Seashell Eyes
• Premiata Forneria Marconi- Chocolate Kings
• Kansas- The Voyage of Eight Eighteen
• Spiral Key- Possesive
• Ostura- The Room
• Sons of Apollo- Coming Home
• Steven Wilson- Luminol
• Rush- Entre Nous
• Mike & The Mechanics- The Best is Yet to Come
• Bjon Riis- Coming Home

 

Prog in 1997

Yes 1997 was a good year for progressive rock. We did not play it all, and that is a bit sad, but with so many offerings it was almost impossible to pare it down to anything sensible. Nevertheless, I made a go of it. 

Next time we travel through time we will be seeing the music of 2007. That may be next episode, it may not. We also have a request from Brandon to do a Beatleesque show, and we would like to bring our friends Mike and Liz back for something a little more spontaneous. We will spin the wheel and see what happens. Nevertheless, we will be back in 2 weeks.

1997

• Jayhawks- The Man Who Loved Life
• After Crying- Panem et Circenses
• Timothy Pure- Through the Fountains Eye>When Vices Collide
• Final Conflict- Stop
• Tiles- Cactus Valley
• Vanden Plas- Rainmaker
• The Night Watch- The Theme>The Fisherman
• Big Big Train- The Shipping Forecast
• Magellan- Walk Fast, Look Worried
• Lands End- Love Through the Winter and Blood in the Summer
• Ozric Tentacles- Curious Corn
• Depeche Mode- Sister of Night
• Phish- Mike's Song
• Porcupine Tree- Up the Downstair
• Styx- Snowblind
• David Bowie- Dead Man Walking
• Foo Fighters- Everlong
• Fish- What Colour is God?
• Royal Hunt- Tearing Down the World
• Marillion- This Strange Engine
• Fish- Sunsets on Empire
• Marillion- The Leavers (way out of place, but I am kind of hooked on this song)

Soundscape 2.65 Journey back to 1987

This time around we explore the year 1987 as we ramp up to the best of 2017. Prog was not much of an overflowing cup in 1987 but what there was you will find here. Despite the lack of prog, I remember 1987 well and as this show will make clear, there was a lot of good music emerging at the time. 1987 is not quite the death throes of new wave but perhaps the luster lost some of its shine, while other bands remained true to their vision. At any rate, there is something here for all fans of music.

Best of 1987:

• Fleetwood Mac- Tango in the Night
• Soundscape Theme
• Oingo Boingo- Pain
• Bellaphon- Vent Du Midi
• Celalte Cuvinte- La Ceas Tirziu
• Violeta De Outono- Sombras Flutuantes
• Robbie Robertson- Somewhere Down the Crazy River
• NRG- Masques
• Haze- The Vice
• Deyss- Vision in the Dark
• Jethro Tull- Farm on the Freeway
• Tony MacAlpine- Tears of Sahara
• Outer Limits- Antipodean
• Yes- Shoot High, Aim Low
• Elton John- Tonight
• David Sylvian- When Poets Dreamed of Angels
• Sting- Fragile
• U2- Bullet the Blue Sky
• David Bowie- Glass Spider
• Rush- Time Stand Still
• The Alan Parsons Project- Standing on Higher Ground
• Pink Floyd- Sorrow
• Marillion- White Russian
• Marillion- Sugar Mice

Back to 2018

• After the Fall- Therreal McCoy
• Naxatras- Land of Infinite Time
• Kayak- La Peregrina

Closing

• Roger Waters- Four Minutes> The Tide is Turning (After Live Aid)
• Pink Floyd- On the Turning Away

Soundscape 2.64 Journey Through 1977

Last year we began a new tradition. Not only would we look back at the year, but we would go back decades before in order to carve a swath through prog development. We are doing this again this year. We start with a review of 1977. It was incredibly hard to pick favorites, and for the most part I daresay we brought more of the obscure out of the year, but we uncovered hidden gems, and offered a taste of the music that was being released in 1977. 

Journey Through 1977

• Klauss Schulze- Stardancer
• Klaatu- Around the Universe in Eighty Days
• England- (Introducing) Three Piece Suite
• Maneige- La Fin De L'Histoire
• Utopia- Singring and the Glass Guitar (An Electrfied Fairy Tale)
• Modry Efekt- Vysoka Stolicka, Dlhy Popol
• Grobschnitt- Severity Town
• Happy the Man- On Time As a Helix of Precious Laughs
• Triumvirat- Vesuvius 79 A. D.
• Circus- Movin' On
• Iceberg- Magic
• Colesseum- Fighting Talk
• Ragnarok- Dagarnas Skum (Foam of the Day)
• Emerson, Lake, Palmer- C'Est La Vie
• Jethro Tull- Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
• Electric Light Orchestra- Night in the City
• STyx- Castle Walls
• Kansas Closet Chronicles
• Peter Gabriel- Down the Dulce Vita
• Alan Parsons Project- I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
• Yes- Turn of the Century
• Pink Floyd- Sheep
• Rush- Cygnus X-1 (Book One the Voyage)
• Supertramp- Fool's Overture

2.63 Christmas in Soundscape

Hey guys,

Christmas has come and gone, but here at Soundscape we are helping you extend the holiday by providing you with even more Christmas music. (Like a cat who meant to fall off the table and then starts cleaning themselves- I have stuck the landing). What we have here for you is a mostly Christmas oriented show that we did on Christmas eve. We hope your holiday season was merry and bright.

Later this week we will post an archive show, and then we will return on the 21st with our Best of 1977 retrospective. The goal is to ramp up to the best of 2017 a decade at a time. The next 4 episodes will be history shows. 

Soundscape 2.63 Christmas in Soundscape

• Anderson Ponty Band- Wonderous Stories
• Jordan Rudess- The Christmas Song
• Karfagen- Spirit of Revelation
• Pink Floyd- Shine on You Crazy Diamond to the Galaxy
• Kaipa- On the Edge of New Horizons
• Jethro Tull- Ring Out Solstice Bells
• Journey- Destiny
• Cosmograf- A Festive Ghost
• Gandalf's Fist- Winter's Mourning
• Panzerballet- Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer
• Timothy Pure- Island of Misfit Toys
• Barock Project- A Winter's Night
• ELP- I Believe in Father Christmas
• Tiger Moth Tales- Winter Maker
• The Moody Blues- December Snow
• Big Big Train- Merry Christmas
• Tiger Moth Tales- Big Big Train Medley>More Fool Me
• Luna Rossa- Christmastime
• Colin Tench Project- Now Get on Your Way

This show aired before the death of our dear friend Colin Tench. We will take some time in the next episode to memorialize him. It was a shock to lose Colin and we are sorry to say goodbye. 

Soundscape archive- A Star Wars Christmas Celebration

This is episode 2.26 so I believe it is a 2 years ago Christmas episode. That happened during the release of The Force Awakens. It may not be the best Star Wars episode we have done...that may even be somewhere in the future, but it at least ties our holidays together.

Happy Sithmas!

Woody & Suzi

Soundscape 2.62 Happy Progsgiving

I initally started with a set of music that was about being thankful, but that was not the prog I was thankful for. So instead I opted for a theme that was full of upbeat messages and tunes. I wanted the antithesis of the bleeding heart angst show we did last time around. I think you will find that we sculpted a pretty incredible mix of music, complete with some newer pieces to insure we are keeping our feet in the future and the past. So this Thanksgiving, I am thankful for all the amazing musicians who direct our attention into the musical crags and peaks of the soundscape. I am also thankful for the listeners here who heave been with us for 12 years or have just started the journey. In the midst of all this thankfulness, I am thankful to be working my way to fatherhood, and of course I am thankful for Suzi who suports me in this crazy life journey. 

Next time around, we will have a library episode inspired by Isaac Asimov. I am really looking forward to that research, though to be honest, I think I have only ever read short stories and The Robots of Dawn. Well, if you have suggestions please send them to soundscape@progrock.com We will gladly accept your input.

Happy Progsgiving

• Barock Project- Happy To See You
• C.S. Brown- Soundscape Theme
• Heliopolis- New Frontier
• Jono- The One to Blame
• Muse- Map of the Problematique
• Box of Shamans- The Search
• Presto Ballet- Easy Tomorrow
• Downes Braide Association- Prelude> Skyscraper Souls
• Moon Safari- Crossed the Rubicon
• Karmakanic- Turn it Up
• Frost*- NIce Day For It
• Rush- The Analog Kid
• Saga- Spin it Again
• Pandora- Second Home by the Sea
• Nexus- Un Cristal Bajo El Agua
• Franck Carducci- A Brief Tale of Time
• Mickey Hart- Big Bad Wolf
• Yes- Everydays
• My Morning Jacket- Dondante
• Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie- In My World
• Silhouette- The Flow
• I and Thou- Speak
• Satellite- Repaint the Sky
• Quantum Fantay- Astral Projection
• La Bocca Della Verita- Avenoth
• Von Hertzen Brothers- The Destitute
• Preacher- Vision
• Downes Braide Association- Tomorrow
• Gentle Giant- Think of Me With Kindness

Soundscape 2.61 On the Verge

Its a simple enough theme, yours truly succumbs to a weakness that is portrayed throught the guise of the song. As your humble DJ and Soundscape propeitor is on the verge of turning 50, having a child, stressed out from work, and getting ready for a presentationm the music herein mirrors that mood. Angst, anxiety, dread, fear and frustration, all are laid bare in this rather autobiographical moment. Nevertheless, the prog must flow and if you care to dip into the pool, its not as dark as it may sound and it does have a happy ending of sorts.

More to come in the next episode. Send perfect album sides to soundscape@progrock.com

• David Gilmour- Time>Breathe
• C.S. Brown- Soundscape Theme
• Fromuz- Influence of Time
• Riverside- Driven to Destruction
• Pain of Salvation- Stress
• Carptree- Pressure
• Siddhartha- Nervous Brealdown
• Big Big Train- Master of Time
• The Moody Blues- Nervous
• Von Hertzen Brothers- Who Are You?
• Cairo- Searching
• Foxtrot Zulu- Seven Men
• Mindgames- The Benefit of Anxiety
• Wobbler- Fermented Hours
• Beyond the Bridge- The Call
• Dream Theater- Lost Not Forgotten
• Ken Nordine- Aging Young Rebel
• Dead Heroes Club- Stranger in the Looking Glass
• Kansas- Miracles Out of Nowhere
• King Crimson- Starless
• Tiger Moth Tales- Hygge
• Big Big Train- Transit of Venus Across the Sun